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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Process of your application

Application process & contact

We will now begin examining your application: We will take a close look at your application documents and ask you for additional information if necessary. If your qualifications match our requirements, we will invite you to meet us for the first time.

Project discussion with our customer

If the introductory meeting goes well for you and us, we will arrange a meeting with the customer who has the perfect project for you. This gives you the opportunity to find out more about the customer and the project.

The decision

If you enjoyed the project discussion and the customer is also convinced of your expertise, we will ask you the final and decisive question: Do you want to get started at Brunel?

Introductory conversation with Brunel

In an introductory meeting, we would like to find out more about your interests, ambitions and professional developments. At the same time, we report on working at Brunel and provide information about all career opportunities and prospects.

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