Senior Geologist-011835 -Petrofac job opening
Description
Petrofac is the largest UK-listed service provider to the international oil and gas industry, employing more than 18,000 employees around the world. We have more than 30 years’ experience and a track record of several hundred projects spanning the oil and gas value chain: subsurface, asset management, field development, engineering, construction, operations, maintenance and training. Present in 31 countries and representing more than 80 nationalities, we work to achieve our vision: to become world's most admired oilfield service company.
Launched in 2011, Petrofac's Integrated Energy Services (IES) division harnesses Petrofac's broad range of capabilities to provide integrated services to oil & gas resource holders. IES works with customers to develop their resources either through the development of new fields or by enhancing production from mature reservoirs. The IES offering is characterised by commercial flexibility that ensures alignment with customers combined with differentiated execution strategies that deliver enhanced value.
Malaysia is a fast growing operational centre for Petrofac in the Asia Pacific region. With more than 1000 employees in country, our team is now responsible for more than US$2 billion of offshore projects. We will continue to draw on our resources and capability in order to support PETRONAS in the development of the country’s oil and gas resources.
Please note only Malaysian nationals will be considered for this role.
Main accountabilities:
- Maintain the flow of data between Partners and Petronas.
- Provide support to the well placement decision making process.
- Ensure all well specific data is prepared, filed and distributed in a timely manner.
- Ensure quality control and analyse all geological data, including geophysical, sedimentological, petrological and incorporate these data into integrated interpretations.
- Conduct structural interpretation by interfacing with project geophysicist.
- Evaluate hydrocarbon potential and generate prospects in exploration block.
- Identify geological setting of the reservoir rock and construct geological model.
- Perform sedimentologic and / or other geologic studies and integrate results into multi-disciplinary field reservoir descriptions and liaise with other engineering disciplines.
- Recommend new geological studies and support all aspects of development activities.
Primary Duties
- To steer and encourage staff to find innovative ideas and solutions to allow aggressive pursuit of exploration, appraisal, and development opportunities and actively drive conversion of prospect, lead, and discovered hydrocarbon volumes into proven reserves.
- Recommends to management development/appraisal/exploration objectives in pursuit of adding resource base within the acreage and recommends all necessary resources (manpower, geoscience tools & service agreements) are in place to achieve the development/appraisal/exploration objectives.
- Prepare and update an inventory of exploration, appraisal and development scope.
- Responsible for the technical quality of all Kuala Lumpur based exploration to development geological interpretations, geological modelling, and operational geology throughout the PM-304 asset, you will be expected to develop value added data acquisition plan to improve reservoir understanding and manage the subsurface risk.
- Plan and co-ordinate development and near field exploration geological-geophysical studies within the Asset. This may include semi-regional data analyses as it applies to near and in-field drilling opportunities.
- Plan and co-ordinate geological modelling over the PM-304 asset, including liaison with other geoscience disciplines and reservoir engineers to ensure consistency of data and knowledge.
- Ensure technical quality control over geological output; maintain technical standards, monitor, recommend and apply best practices.
- Ensure a comprehensive geoscience understanding is passed to reservoir engineering and ensure input, approaches and assumptions used in dynamic models and reservoir engineering database are consistent.
- Participate in cross-asset Peer and Technical Reviews as required.
- Contribute as required to Asset Documentation.
- Strictly adhere to Corporate and Departmental HSE policies & guidelines.
- Provide technical endorsement for geoscience related HSE critical activities.
- Mentoring & developing young Malaysian staff will be an integral part of job
Key skills, knowledge and experience required:
- Degree in Geology or equivalent.
- Minimum 10 years relevant practical experience.
- Sound knowledge of petrophysics and strong interpretation skills of wire line logs.
- Sound knowledge of RMS/Petrel, Geoframe or other G & G software.
- Be self-motivated to accomplish world-class results.
- Have a sufficiently broad experience base to be able to exercise independent thought and decision making.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Be computer literate.
- Have a strong written and verbal command of English.
This position is open for Malaysians only.