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.

Required Education:

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

Required Experience:

• 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

Required Skills:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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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