Principal Geoscientist

**Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.**

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs and planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

**_ Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?_**

**JOB TITLE: PRINCIPAL GEOSCIENTIST**

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Responsible for performing all duties with due regard to the health and safety of themselves, others and of the environment in which they are undertaken.
- Provide G&G support for reservoir description and static modelling, ensuring that models stay current and up-to-date with latest seismic interpretation and well tops.
- Provide high-quality geological input for development projects and ongoing field operations.
- Review and verify legacy reservoir data and models.
- Provide technical recommendations on how future reservoir modelling will be carried out.
- Manage reservoir geological and seismic studies conducted by consultants and third-party contractors.
- Work closely with reservoir engineers to ensure reservoir models are fit for purpose and to evaluate development options, including infill drilling and changes in exploitation strategy or recovery mechanisms.
- Collaborate within a multidisciplinary subsurface team to assess incremental production and reserve the potential of identified opportunities.
- Generate drilling prospects, plan wells, and evaluate well results.
- Provide reservoir and subsurface data for the annual field report and reserve reporting process.
- Identify key risks and uncertainties associated with development options, quantify their impact, and provide input for comprehensive risk assessment and mitigation actions.
- Mobilize to client’s office or drilling site, when appropriate, abroad or in country, to support team and activities.
- Work with and provide mentor support to personnel as part of Technical Services Contract requirements.
- Supervised subsurface-based design projects for well abandonment.
- Generate plumbing diagrams for well abandonment. Propose cap rocks for plugging and revise / update pressure plots
- Collaborate with Drilling and Decommissioning team to identify well-abandoned risks and opportunities
- Fit for purpose and up-to-date static reservoir models.
- Prepare detailed well plans for infill drilling and support the end-of-well reporting process.
- Concise reports for all studies and maintain organised records of input and interpreted data.

**ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS**:

- Degree-qualified or with significant experience working in the oil and gas industry or similar industry in a similar position.
- Must be able to demonstrate continuing personal and professional development. Professional membership, as applicable, is supported.
- Strong drive to learn and develop own abilities and be able to work independently but seek guidance when needed.
- Strong personal values and willing to take clear personal accountability for actions.
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication and presentation skills. This requires the ability to articulate in a clear, concise, and constructive manner at the appropriate level for the intended audience.
- Produces work of accurate and presentable quality in the appropriate formats.
- Good organizational skills, SMART working methods and can demonstrate personal effectiveness in previous roles.
- Comfortable working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and various parts of the organization and service lines.
- Self-motivated and able to deliver in a goal-oriented working environment.
- Excellent technical background in petroleum geology
- Excellent knowledge of geomodelling and ability to build and use geological models.
- Working knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of production engineering and well-serviced.
- Knowledge of sand face and upper completion design; sand control (e.g. OHGP); cased and perforated; standard, artificial lift completions, etc.
- Knowledge of well-intervention equipment and well-service operations.
- Able to produce high-quality written work and formal presentations that match the identified requirements.
- Ability to communicate formally and informall