Development & Production Geoscientist; Unconventional

Job Overview

Responsible for integrating subsurface data to characterize unconventional reservoirs, assess resource quality and distribution, and optimize well placement and development plans. The role works within a multidisciplinary team to translate geological uncertainty into actionable development decisions that improve recovery, capital efficiency, and long-term asset value.

Responsibilities

• Integrate seismic, well-log, core, geological, geochemical, pressure, production, and completion data to build a coherent understanding of the reservoir and surrounding strati graphic framework.
• Assess resource quality and producibility, including organic richness and maturity, hydrocarbon charge, mineralogy, porosity, permeability, fluid saturation, pore pressure, geomechanical properties, natural fractures, and reservoir continuity.
• Define and map reservoir-quality trends, landing-zone fairways, development constraints, and technically recoverable resource distributions.
• Construct and maintain regional, field-scale, and development-scale geological models that capture strati graphic architecture, structural complexity, reservoir heterogeneity, and key uncertainties.
• Identify and recommend optimal landing zones, well trajectories, lateral lengths, spacing, stacking patterns, and development sequencing.
• Support well planning and execution through geosteering, offset-well analysis, pre-drill prognosis preparation, operational risk assessment, and post-well evaluation.
• Integrate geological interpretation with completion design and production performance to identify the subsurface controls on well productivity and decline behavior.
• Evaluate parent-child well interactions, pressure depletion, frac barriers, interwell communication, and the potential for bypassed or stranded resource.
• Perform volumetric and probabilistic resource assessments, uncertainty analysis, risking, development scenario evaluation, and inventory ranking.
• Provide subsurface input to business plans, reserves and resource evaluations, investment decisions, acreage assessments, and development optimization studies.
• Mentor junior geoscientists and communicate technical conclusions, uncertainties, and recommendations clearly to technical teams, leadership, and business stakeholders.

Skills and Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent advanced degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline.
• 10 + years of oil and gas geoscience experience, including significant unconventional reservoir development experience.
• Strong capability in sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural interpretation, petrophysics, reservoir characterization, geological modelling, and resource evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience integrating subsurface interpretation with drilling, completions, reservoir engineering, and production data.
• Proficiency in seismic interpretation, well correlation, mapping, volumetric assessment, uncertainty analysis, and well-development planning.
• Sound understanding of unconventional reservoir geomechanics, hydraulic-fracture behavior, pressure depletion, well interference, and completion-performance relationships.
• Ability to make practical recommendations from incomplete or uncertain datasets and clearly distinguish observations, interpretations, assumptions, and risks.
• Strong analytical, collaboration, technical-assurance, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Right to work in the USA

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Development experience in shale oil, tight oil, shale gas, or liquids-rich unconventional plays.
• Experience progressing an asset from resource appraisal and pilot development through full-field manufacturing-scale execution.
• Working knowledge of horizontal drilling, geosteering, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing, microseismic interpretation, fiber-optic diagnostics, pressure-interference testing, and production surveillance.
• Experience with static modelling, integrated subsurface workflows, machine-assisted interpretation, and analysis of large well and production datasets.
• Familiarity with geological and reservoir software used for interpretation, modelling, well planning, and development optimization.
• Demonstrated success improving landing-zone selection, well spacing, inventory quality, recovery, or development economics through integrated geoscience analysis.

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