Senior Well Site Geologist
Namibia
/ $ 1000 - 2000 per day
Experience: > 10 years
Conventional Energy
Namibia
/ $ 1000 - 2000 per day
Experience: > 10 years
Conventional Energy
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.
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 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.
- 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
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