Operations Geologist I
Qatar, Doha
Fulltime: 60 hrs a week
Experience: > 10 Years
Conventional Energy
Introduction
- Responsible for safely maximizing the well potential from each well drilled. Delivered by efficient planning, high quality operations support and building and maintain a highly skilled and motivated team.
- Coordinate the geological operations planning and safe delivery of up to 35-40 new wells and re-drill work overs per year across three to five rigs.
- Responsible for the well SOR process co-owned with Drilling and Wells entity
- Coordinate the activities of the team for fluid functioning between operational follow-up and well preparation schedule (drilling sequence)
- Ensures quality of all tasks under the responsibility of the team
- Ensures that the team has a long-term view of upcoming wells and the needs of the different reservoirs in terms of data.
- Supports BOD check to ensure optimal well design
- Ensures the temporary work of New Well Delivery Manager during his absence.
- Optimize WSG and OPS geologist staffing levels to match operations
- Regular contacts with services companies (mudlogging, Coring, LWD and wireline logging)
- Track PVA (pre-drill well design changes, data acquisition, realized wells, static results etc.) for phase 2 and 3 developments.
What are you going to do
- HSE
- Demonstrates personal commitment to the HSE Policy.
- Maintains awareness of and ensures compliance with all relevant Statutory and Company HSE standards.
- Actively participates in Company safety awareness and initiative schemes.
- Ensures BOSIET and all required certifications for operation geology execution are valid.
- Operation Geology safety matters
- Well Planning Activities
- Is responsible for the detailed well planning from BOD to handover
- Ensures timely production of the Well Statement of Requirements (CP-NOC-009) and the detailed data acquisition programs to ensure optimized well planning.
- Supports Growth and RESM teams in assessing opportunities, providing operational input
- Participates in Drilling Sequence reviews and validation in coordination with other entities involved.
- For development infill wells gathers from the Well Excellence team Pore Pressure Predictions and the integrated up-to-date Pressure Conditioning Plan. Integrates in pressure diagram the frac pressure prediction when elaborated by Drilling & Wells Entity
- Supports Well Excellence in the post well review providing the static and operation view
- Activity performance, reporting and supervision
- Coordinates geological operations activities ensuring their pertinence, efficient implementation and quality, whilst optimizing costs to provide a timely completion of work to an acceptable technical standard.
- Ensures contract release orders for relevant services are issued, monitor service quality, conduct technical approval of invoices and compiles data acquisition costs.
- Ensure regular contact with Services Companies (Mud logging, LWD, Wireline, coring). Leads the preparation of Services Quality Meetings and drafts associated reports.
- Together with the New Wells Delivery Manager, proposes and implements relevant KPI’s for the OGP entity.
- Quality Control of deliverables, final reporting
- Ensures Final Geological Reports are issued in accordance with defined timelines and Quality.
- Ensures updating of geological operations lessons learnt and that Return on Experience (REX) are performed.
- Ensure Post well review is carried out in detail
- State of The Art implementation of operations
- Justifies technical analysis and recommendations regarding formation evaluation data acquisition, integrates/challenges/synthesizes multidisciplinary requirements into COMPANY documents (WSOR, Geological Programs, Final Geological Report, LCD Report);
- Train/coaches/mentors junior Operations Geologists, and wellsite geologists;
- Ensures that technical audits at the wellsite are performed, attend key HSE and pre-job briefings. Assist with critical operations
- Positively represent COMPANY with external agencies at senior levels
Essential skills and knowledge
- 15 years’ experience within a Subsurface organization
- Minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree, and preferably Master’s degree (in a Geoscience / RE / PE subject)
- In-depth understanding of NOC processes and entities
- Strong people leader with project management skills
- Cross-functional subsurface knowledge
- Ability to influence and challenge senior level peers and stakeholders
- Ability to communicate and engage at senior shareholder and board level
What we offer
- Salary:
- Day Rate in USD (All Inclusive)
- Work Schedule:
- 12 Hours / Day
- 28 Days On / 28 Days Off
- Duration:
- 31-Dec-2027, with possible extension
- Location:
- Qatar, Offshore
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