Senior Geoscientist

Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

Subsurface

Job Description:

The Eagle Ford Development Geoscientist is a member of the Eagle Ford Development team within BPX Energy supporting a multi-rig program.

Role Synopsis:

The ideal candidate has a minimum of 7 years of industry experience, preferably in the Eagle Ford, including operations, development/evaluation planning, well planning, detailed mapping, petrophysics, and play assessment.

Key Accountabilities:

• Resource progression by identifying optimization opportunities and appraisal strategies that increase hydrocarbon reserves and production output.
• Support of surveillance data acquisition planning/execution/interpretation to include assessment of new technology and cost-efficient data acquisition to de-risk appraisal and development plans while maximizing return on investment.
• Development planning in support of multi-rig program including subsurface attribute mapping, oil and gas portfolio high grading, well placement/target zone recommendations, and competitor well performance assessment.
• Execution of geological operations including communicating with third-party geo-steerers, mudlogging vendors, rig personnel, and drilling personnel; integration of geological and geophysical data; supporting correlation of drilling events with subsurface anomalies/features.
• Well planning to include pre-spud assessment with geo-hazards identification and mitigation, offset drilling events correlation, subsurface anomaly flagging, target window protocol, survey frequency protocol, data acquisition program, and tool failure protocol.
• Assessment of drilling and completions performance by integrating geological, geophysical, geochemical, and geomechanical characterization to understand performance drivers and ensure repeatability of successful results.

Requirements:

• Master of Science in Geology or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years industry experience in unconventional reservoirs.
• Advanced mapping skills/interpretation, play assessment, evaluation planning, petrophysics interpretation, exploration, data analytics, project management, operational execution.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and analyze complex issues, make data-based decisions, and using analytics where possible, to identify alternatives and select an appropriate course of action to achieve desired outcome.
• Operations and/or geosteering experience preferable.
• Familiarity with reservoir, drilling, and completions engineering.

Desirable Criteria:

• Eagle Ford experience preferred but not required.
• Training or hands-on experience in data visualization software (Power BI preferred).
• Training or hands-on experience with database web applications (Enverus preferred).
• Training or hands-on experience in data analytics.

Benefits:

• Access to health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Flexible working schedule.
• Paid time off policy.
• Discretionary annual bonus program.
• Long-term incentive program.
• Generous 401K matching program.

Travel Requirement:

Negligible travel should be expected with this role.

Skills:

• Basin resource evaluation.
• CO2 utilisation and storage.
• Core acquisition and analysis.
• Cost-conscious decision-making.
• Data acquisition strategy.
• Data Management.
• Depositional framework.
• Fluid Properties.
• Fluid sampling and analysis.
• Geodesy and coordinate integrity.
• Geohazard Assessment.
• Geomechanical analysis.
• Integrated Well Delivery.
• Petroleum Systems Analysis.
• Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description.
• Petrophysical Seismic Lithology and Fluid Prediction.
• Petrophysical Static Reservoir Description.
• PPFG detection.
• Research and development.
• Reservoir geomechanics.
• Reservoir quality.
• Resource, Reserves Estimation and Storage Volume Assessment.
• Seismic Analysis.
• Seismic Interpretation.

Equal Opportunities Employer:

BPX Energy is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status, or disability status.