Operations / Wellsite Geologist III
Duration: 12 months
Location: Spring, TX
Rotation: 5/40
Position Overview
This opportunity is suited to an experienced Operations / Wellsite Geologist supporting the planning and execution of exploration, appraisal, and development wells. The Operations / Wellsite Geologist will work in a technically demanding environment focused on well planning, pressure prediction, site investigation, and drilling surveillance. This position offers involvement across the full well lifecycle, with close coordination alongside geoscience, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, and wells teams. Role is based onsite in Houston, with occasional travel to onshore or offshore rig locations.
Role Context
This role sits within the energy sector, supporting drilling activity across exploration, appraisal, and development well programs. The working environment is primarily office-based at a major Houston campus, with infrequent visits to rig locations that may be onshore or offshore. The position operates within an integrated asset team environment and involves collaboration with subsurface and wells disciplines during planning and execution phases.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the planning and execution of wells, including well planning, surveillance, and delivery of geological objectives.
- Develop key well planning deliverables such as tophole prognosis, pore pressure prediction, and input to well design.
- Coordinate with wells engineers, petrophysicists, and geoscience teams to align geological evaluation and operational requirements.
- Prepare geological programs, formation evaluation plans, communication protocols, and supporting documentation for well execution.
- Contribute to casing seat selection, total depth selection protocols, coring programs, and formation evaluation design.
- Provide technical oversight and support to wellsite geological personnel and associated service providers to ensure high-quality data acquisition.
- Review geological data, wellsite information, logs, and drilling results to support operational decisions during drilling and logging activities.
- Assist with geosteering, wireline logging, coring operations, and wellsite-based geological activities where required.
- Maintain quality control, storage, and archival of relevant electronic and physical geological data.
- Compile final well reports and present technical findings, reviews, and lessons learned to subsurface and wells teams.
Qualifications & Experience
- BS/MS in Geology from a recognized institution
- Experience as an Operations / Wellsite Geologist III or in a comparable Operations Geologist role.
- Strong understanding of integrated pore pressure prediction and pressure surveillance.
- Strong understanding of site investigation, including shallow drilling hazards evaluation and riserless drilling geohazards.
- Experience with onshore and offshore drilling, including platform or deviated wells and associated evaluation technologies.
- Experience with mud logging, cuttings description, image log interpretation, lithology correlation, and well path interpretation.
- Experience with directional drilling, well planning, depth control measurements, and conventional coring operations.
- Strong written and spoken English, with effective organizational, coordination, and collaborative skills.
- Flexibility to support operational coverage outside standard business hours when required.
- Experience using azimuthal ultra-deep resistivity for geosteering highly directional or deviated wells.
- Experience with managed pressure drilling and its impact on geological data collection.
- Experience in production drilling environments, structural geology application, and integration into 3D geological models.
- Familiarity with Operations Geology software packages such as Geologix and Gravitas.
- Current offshore survival or safety certifications where relevant to project activity.
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