Geologist

The Geologist is responsible for assisting in delivery of safe, efficient, and reliable products and services to our customers. The job consults with operations groups as needed to support the area of expertise and identifies opportunities for continuous improvement of product and service delivery and formally communicates findings. The Geologist actively participates in promoting new technology and services offerings and supports the PL in risk management and applying lessons learned to improve job design and execution as related to the area of expertise. They provide real-time support to operations as required.

• Provide technical support in the area of expertise throughout the Sales and Product and Service Delivery process.
• Assist as required with the development of technical job designs for PLs.
• Assist with identifying areas where new and cost effective techniques can be applied.
• Explore opportunities for value-added products and services.
• Consult with Design/Technical Engineer role as required to optimize the technical design.
• Assist in real-time incident response, recovery, and investigation as related to the area of expertise.
• Assist in evaluating technical viability and overall appraisal of tenders as related to the area of expertise.
• Remain current on new technologies.
• Maintain customer visibility through active participation in professional society activities and calls for papers.
• Understand the competition’s technical offering.
• Participate in external technical societies and communities.
• Contribute, write and review technical publications.
• Engage with local universities, Customer institutes and research organizations.
• Carbonate facies and diagenesis integration: Build high‑resolution stratigraphic frameworks and facies models for platform, ramp, reef, and basin carbonates; integrate core, thin sections, image logs, and seismic attributes to capture diagenetic overprint (dolomitization, cementation, dissolution) on porosity and permeability.
• Fracture & vug characterization: Interpret FMI/FMS image logs to identify fractures, vugs, and depositional features, LWD azimuthal resistivity, borehole televiewer, and outcrop analogs to describe fracture intensity, orientation, and connectivity, and vuggy/karst porosity; translate into DFN/dual‑porosity models and flow units.
• Dual‑porosity/dual‑permeability modeling: Construct and history‑match carbonate reservoir models (matrix + fracture/vug systems) at pattern and field scale; assess fracture–matrix interaction and scale‑dependent sweep efficiency for FDP scenarios.
• Rock typing & flow‑unit mapping: Develop carbonate rock types (e.g., Lucia/Rosetta schemes), link SCAL/Cap‑P/Rel‑P/NMR to electrofacies; propagate flow units through the static model to improve well placement and wellbore architecture.
• Seismic for carbonates: Use spectral decomposition, inversion (AI/impedance), and geomorphology attributes to delineate reef build‑ups, shoals, karst surfaces, unconformities; integrate VSP/checkshots for reliable carbonate velocity models and depth conversion.
• Well placement & drilling in carbonates: Optimize horizontals and multilateral wells to target connected vugs/fractures while minimizing lost circulation/karst hazards; design geosteering markers tied to facies and image logs; collaborate on drilling fluids and LCM strategies.
• Uncertainty & decision support: Quantify heterogeneity/diagenesis uncertainty; produce scenario‑based reserves and FDP sensitivities focused on connectivity and sweep risk in fractured/vuggy systems.
• Deep carbonate expertise: 10–15+ years working on platform/reef/ramp carbonates in development settings, including mature field optimization and FDP execution.
• Carbonate sedimentology & diagenesis: Proven core description and petrography (thin section, SEM, cathodoluminescence) to classify porosity types (intergranular, intercrystalline, moldic, vuggy) and their diagenetic controls; ability to tie rock fabrics to petrophysical behavior.
• Fracture systems: Demonstrated experience building DFN models and implementing dual‑porosity/dual‑permeability simulations; integration of image logs and outcrop analogs into static and dynamic models.
• Rock typing & SCAL: Hands‑on SCAL program design and interpretation in carbonates (wettability, MICP, capillary pressure, relative permeability, carbonate‑specific brine/rock interactions), and construction of robust rock‑typing frameworks for modeling.
• Drilling & completion in carbonates: Track record mitigating lost circulation/karst, designing acid stimulation (matrix/frac), and tailoring completions for fracture‑dominated flow; familiarity with geomechanics in weak/heterogeneous carbonate rocks.