WTS Energy
WTS Energy provides recruitment and manpower services for the global oil and gas and energy industries. We supply engineers and consultants to our clients’ projects and operations and perform employment outsourcing services such as workforce management in oil and gas regions around the world. WTS Energy operates globally with offices in 14 countries and is operational in over 50 countries.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Geoscientist
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type: Permanent
Job Purpose
- The Senior Geoscientist will be an active member of the Subsurface team. The candidate is expected to deliver timely, high quality geological analysis and interpretation to Company’s development operations; in line with the overall technical strategy and goals, while maintaining high professional standards.
Responsibilities and Key Objectives
- Seismic Interpretation, characterization, and mapping of faults & fractures at reservoir levels. Generating and utilizing seismic attributes for better characterization of fractures, faults, and other structural, stratigraphic, and sedimentary features.
- Interpret geophysical and geological data, use geologic concepts, and integrate information from variety of geologic disciplines to develop leads, locate new exploration targets, estimate volumes and recommend drillable prospects.
- QC, analyse and integrate geological, geophysical and production data to develop existing fields, identify upside potential and recommend optimal well placement for field development.
- Integrate large amounts of geological, petrophysical and geophysical data to generate static models for input into reservoir simulation, reserves estimation and development planning.
- Perform detailed reservoir characterization using advanced geological analyses to support characterization & field development, platform evaluation and well planning/ drilling operations.
- Maintain beneficial and positive relationship with government regulatory and third-party contractor service providers when necessary.
- Support Subsurface related regulatory and compliance efforts where needed.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced subsurface and support staff as required.
- Provide subsurface input for design of field development plans.
- Work with drilling and reservoir engineering teams to generate well designs, evaluate, and review target location and logging requirements based on well objectives.
- Participate in exploration and development drilling operations.
- Work on new ventures in emerging areas including performing geophysical studies.
Educational Qualifications
- University Degree in Geology or Geophysics – B.Sc. / Master’s Degree in Geosciences is an added advantage.
- Must have 8 – 12 years of relevant experience
- Good proficiency with MS office suite – Excel/PowerPoint/Word
- Designated team player who is able to collaborate with other team members and proffer solutions.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail.
- Self-motivation and strong interpersonal skills
- Highly flexible – the ability to adapt to new project challenges and work practices.
- Demonstrable technical expertise, in particular, significant experience in seismic interpretation, development of structural and stratigraphic models using well and seismic data and integrating with reservoir information.
- Proficient in the use of workstation-based software (G&G applications and databases). Proficiency in Petrel is preferred.
- Should have good understanding of production geology, including interpretation of fluid, test and pressure data.
- Should have a good understanding of wellsite and operations geology.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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