Unconventional Development & Production Geoscientist

Job Title:

Unconventional Development & Production Geoscientist Duration: 1 year (possibility of extension)

Schedule:

5/40

Location:

Spring, TX This opportunity sits within a major oil and gas environment focused on unconventional reservoir development, subsurface interpretation, and development optimisation. The role will support multidisciplinary decision‑making by integrating seismic, well, geological, geochemical, pressure, production, and completion data to improve well placement, recovery, and long‑term asset value. This position offers exposure to field‑scale and development‑scale geological modelling, resource evaluation, and well planning in a technically complex upstream setting.

Master’s degree or equivalent advanced degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline

• Significant oil and gas geoscience experience with unconventional reservoir development exposure
• Experience integrating subsurface interpretation with drilling, completions, reservoir engineering, and production data
• Experience supporting resource assessment, development planning, and inventory ranking within unconventional assets
• Experience building and maintaining regional, field‑scale, and development‑scale geological models

• Strong capability in sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural interpretation, petrophysics, reservoir characterization, geological modelling, and resource evaluation
• Proficiency in seismic interpretation, well correlation, mapping, volumetric assessment, uncertainty analysis, and well‑development planning
• Strong understanding of unconventional reservoir geomechanics, hydraulic‑fracture behaviour, pressure depletion, well interference, and completion‑performance relationships
• Ability to integrate seismic, well‑log, core, geological, geochemical, pressure, production, and completion data into a coherent reservoir interpretation
• Ability to identify landing zones, well trajectories, lateral lengths, spacing, stacking patterns, and development sequencing
• Ability to support geosteering, offset‑well analysis, pre‑drill prognosis preparation, operational risk assessment, and post‑well evaluation
• Ability to perform probabilistic resource assessments, uncertainty analysis, risking, development scenario evaluation, and inventory ranking
• Strong analytical, collaboration, technical‑assurance, presentation, and stakeholder‑management skills
• Ability to make practical recommendations from incomplete or uncertain datasets while clearly distinguishing observations, interpretations, assumptions, and risks
• Right to work in the USA

• 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, fibre‑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 optimisation
• Demonstrated success improving landing‑zone selection, well spacing, inventory quality, recovery, or development economics through integrated geoscience analysis

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