Introduction

Brunel are urgently looking to recruit a Senior Well Site Geologist with specific relevant experience in the oil & gas industry. This 12-month contract position, with potential to extend, is to work for a leading Operator and you will work a 28/28 schedule, mainly on rig offshore in Namibia.

What are you going to do 

Responsibilities:

Real time geological surveillance and interpretation, integrated to drilling:

- Monitor and interpret cuttings, mud gas, LWD/MWD, and wireline data in real time

- Identify formation tops, lithology changes, and hydrocarbon shows

- Correlate actual geology with pre-drill models and seismic prognosis

- Detect abnormal pressures, faults, and drilling hazards (e.g. overpressure, instability, lost circulation, gas kicks)

- Guide trajectory adjustments to stay within target reservoir zones

- Call phase TD and well TD when geologically stablished. Recommend for casing setting depths.

- Call coring point.

- Optimise rate of penetration vs geology and real time acquisition sampling rate compliance for logs.

Anticipation and supervision (equipment, personnel, activity, NPT) of services companies and operations under geoscience perimeter.

- Mud logging

- Wire line and LWD

- Coring

- Perform Audits, anticipate needs, follow up.

- Execute the corresponding acquisitions programs related to each.

- Ensure the data quality, completeness and integration.

- Samples handling and shipping (gas, cutting, mud, cores, rotary side wall cores, fluids samples from Wire line and DST, etc)

Essential skills and knowledge

Essential Requirements:

- GEOSCIENCE diploma: BTS (BAC+2) geology orientation or higher (with relevant experience in Operations Geology)

- Subsurface Geology for Operations Geologist and Well Site Geologist certificate from I.F.P (INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROL)

- Minimum 10 years in the position of senior well site geologist

- Specific industry software: GRAVITAS, Gemstone, SQMT

- Strong geology fundamentals: Sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural geology

- BOSIET, including EBS (emergency breathing system)

- Offshore medical certificate

- Language: English: Advanced-Proficient, mandatory.

What we offer 

- Position: Senior Well Site Geologist

- Location: Offshore Namibia

- Contract Duration: 12 months, with potential renewal

- Rotation: 28 days on / 28 days off

- Start Date: Expected by September 2026

- Daily Rate: Competitive net daily rate in USD

- Work Environment: Offshore rig with a leading oil & gas Operator

Closing: 26 July 2026

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Vacancy reference: TR-290852

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Corporate recruiter

Lea Mander

+44 161 885 2130

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