Geologist I

Job Title: Production Geologist
Department: Subsurface
Location: Basra, Iraq
Work Pattern: 14/14 rotation or 21/21 Rotation
No of Positions: 4

Role Synopsis:

• This is an opportunity for a motivated experienced individual to join a fast-paced and exciting Reservoir Management Team (RMT) a core division of the wider Subsurface helping to deliver 1.4 mmbod whilst simultaneously contributing to a sustainable future for and the people of Iraq.
• This is a rotational role in the Reservoir Management Team (RMT) in Iraq with the mission to provide high‑quality geological support to deliver robust static reservoir description to support reservoir management, field development and appraisal activities, optimize overall reservoir performance and help deliver short and long-term production targets.
• The ideal candidate integrates across multidisciplinary teams to interpret reservoir data (static reservoir description, dynamic surveillance and production data) to provide technical recommendation, inform business decisions, and mature value‑adding well‑work and new‑well opportunities. Can clearly describe and communicate key subsurface uncertainty, risks and opportunities to other disciplines, and understands the impact of their work upon the business. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Support New Well Delivery (NWD) and Wellwork wedges through integration of surveillance and reservoir performance.
• Identify new well target and well work options, build and maintain target hoppers, support planning, execution and post activity reviews.
• Acts as a coach and mentor, to develop the skills of more junior staff.
• Continuously review and integrate new surveillance data and well performance to underpin an integrated view of sweep and remaining Hydrocarbons.
• Seeks to unlock new opportunities and reduce uncertainty and risk, through tangible actionable, and measurable studies and surveillance.
• Cross-disciplinary integration of data (static reservoir description, dynamic surveillance and production data) – from field start up to end of production.
• Describe and communicate key subsurface uncertainty, risks and opportunities to other disciplines and in a way that makes them clear and easy to understand.
• Perform technical reservoir studies to deepen our subsurface understanding of the field.
• Single point of accountability (SPA) for reservoir management processes including:
• Responsible for providing individual technical contribution and delivery of work, while also leading a team to meet more expansive objectives.
• Ensuring their team understands and follows the approved process.
• Providing feedback for efficiency improvements or issues with current process.
• Improving existing processes and Creation/delivery of new workflow processes under the guidance of Senior reservoir management team members
• Provide technical support to other teams when required through deep integration.
• Personal technical work delivery with an ability to work independently and deliver high quality subsurface outputs under time constraints

Technical Criteria & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Geology or Geoscience from a recognised institution.
  • Master’s degree in Geology or Geoscience from a recognised institution is advantage.
• 7+ years of experience in production geology working within a multi-disciplinary subsurface team focused on reservoir management activities.
• Experience in both clastic and carbonate reservoir systems.
• An in-depth understanding of key reservoir management processes and how they impact the wider business.
• An in-depth understanding of risk management processes.
• High proficiency with Petrel or similar Petrotechnical applications for risk assessment, volume calculations and rate estimations.
• Knowledge of open and cased hole petrophysical data acquisition, analysis, core-log integration in clastic and carbonate Reservoirs and the integration of resulting products.
• Knowledge of dynamic data, its collection and interpretation, and how it is integrated into the subsurface description.
• Experience with well planning and well site exposure, including experience with Horizontal wells, completions, and stimulations.
• Model building experience at a range of scales, from simple conceptual models to full field simulations.
• Knowledge of seismic processing and interpretation, and the integration of resulting products

Leadership and project management Experience:

• Experience working in and co-ordinate multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
• Project management experience, ensuring actions are appropriately captured and tracked by their team, and that their team understand their priorities and meets their deadlines.
• Experience of leading by example, ensuring team and deliverables are well integrated through interaction with and support to other disciplines.
• Experience of quality assurance of their teams work and providing regular feedback within their team.
• Experience coaching more Junior members (both technical Geology and workflow guidance).
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) with an ability to communicate information and evaluations in a clear and concise manner, in English.
• Experience creating coherent material and present at key meetings including to non-subsurface disciplines.
• High proficiency with Microsoft suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).

If you find this position matching your skills & if you would like to apply for the role please drop your CVs on sayali.kothmire@nesfircroft.com

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