Senior Planning Geologist

NES Fircroft are delighted to present a brand new role for a Senior Planning Geologist based in Esbjerg, Denmark for a 12 month contract to work for one of the biggest Oil & Energy Operators in the market.

This role is paid on a daily competitive rate.

For more information, please see below:

SCOPE OF WORK:

• Contribute to the delivery of maximum value from new exploration, appraisal and development wells through robust application of referential guidelines, preparation of operational geology strategies for well execution, maintenance and update of local geosteering and subsurface well delivery lessons learned.
• Preparation, follow-up and perform post well studies/reports of Exploration, Appraisal and Development complex, deviated and horizontal wells.
• Ensure a timely preparation of the WSOR process, including the well data acquisition program.

HSE:

• Contributes actively to the development of the safety culture within the operational team
• Responsible for the proper respect of all safety procedures and orders applicable to all service companies personnel under his supervision
• Contributes to the safety of operations through efficient implementation, integration and interpretation of real time detection techniques
• Co-organizing risk assessments, pre-job meetings, prepare and review procedures especially regarding specific operations
• Collect and share all safety alerts, incidents and/or accidents reports issued by offshore crews and service companies
• Conduct, with help of SUB HSE coordinator, HSE & Technical annual visits/audits on service companies units (offshore) and bases (onshore).

PLANNING OF GEOLOGICAL OPERATIONS:

• Participating actively in the preparation and redaction of all related documents (WSOR, well proposals...) in coordination with other Assets (G&G, Drilling...) especially for the well data acquisition programs and geostoping + geosteering strategies
• Provide operations geology input to the identification and planning of reservoir & infill well opportunities
• Prepare subsurface well delivery planning and execution in accordance with referential requirements
• Prepare maintain, update and deliver local geosteering guidelines / lessons learned documentation for new TEPDK wells
• Provide operations geology input to well trajectory planning, detailed well design, geomechanics studies
• Provide input to integrated reviews of offset well hazards and previous lessons learned as required.
• Identify and justify data acquisition requirements required to inform geosteering decisions during well execution.

EXECUTION OF GEOLOGICAL OPERATIONS:

• Provide high level support to the responsible operations geologist and operations petrophycisist – as needed. Partake in well operations in a supervised role only – no active duty of any kind.

BACKGROUND/QUALIFICATION/EXPERIENCE:
Formal education: Minimum BSc - Geology

• Professional experience: More than 15 years of relevant experience; exposure to long horizontal well geosteering desirable
• Requires strong interpersonal skills with historical operational/well delivery/well planning experience, recognising and adapting to integration requirements with 2G&R peers, experience with operational communication/decision interfaces
• Communication skills: Strong spoken, written and presentation capability.
• Relationship builder
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High degree of competence with Petrel
• Fully autonomous in well preparation (WSOR) process

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