First Recruitment Group
Senior Petrophysicist
Aberdeen City
Posted about 17 hours ago
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Senior Petrophysicist
Aberdeen – hybrid working
Job Details
- 3 Month Contract until the end of the year – Possible further work
- Inside IR35 – PAYE only
- This opportunity can be full time or part time (3 days per week)
- Subsurface department
Purpose of Role
A Senior Petrophysicist is required to work for an Oil & Gas operator based in Aberdeen on a 3 month contract basis. The role is based in Aberdeen and a 3 day week will also be considered.
As the Senior Petrophysicist, you will:
- Provide operational and study-based petrophysical support to well and asset teams and Explorationists
- Be a key resource in well planning and execution teams including rapid petrophysical interpretation for key decisions
- Deliver reference curves
- Cover all UK operated wells, also Partner Operated and non-UK work as required
Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence
- Real time petrophysical analysis of Op / Partner Op wells for key decision-making and management briefing
- Undertake small (several well) to large-scale (Field/Regional level) petrophysical studies to extent and timescale requested by customers
- Input into formation evaluation programs including use of current or new technologies, as part of well planning team
- Compile and QC all petrophysical well results and data (notably FWR and final composite log) and satisfy defined OGA data requirements
- Maintain strong links to industry to ensure current best practices
- Mentor and support junior Petrophysicists and other members of subsurface community
- Interprets the fundamentals of petrophysics and log analysis including core data interpretation, open hole well log analysis and interpretation of petrophysical and core analysis
- Integrate technical information from reservoir characterisation and geomodelling, sedimentary petrology and sedimentology, along with subsurface mapping and volumetric calculations, and interprets sedimentological information, petrographic analyses and petrophysical evaluation to establish rock quality
- Any other reasonable duty as per instruction by your manager
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Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.
- Degree preferred in Geology, Petrophysics, Geophysics, Petroleum Engineering, or other Engineering discipline
- Fully developed technical skill set
- Expertise in corporate standard Techlog software
- Experience of log interpretation gained as a geologist or through a service organisation, preferably a major wireline or LWD company
- Experience of well interventions and production logging operations
- Expert in basic and advanced petrophysical interpretation. Able to produce rush CPIs
- Good current knowledge of FE tools (wireline, LWD, coring) and their applications
- Good knowledge SCAL (Special Core Analysis)
- Up-to-date knowledge of LWD, wireline and other technology
- Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team
- Puts forward own views credibly and persuasively, linking communications with desired outcomes
- Listens actively while guiding others towards positive communication outcomes, considering other perspectives
- Looks for opportunities to develop others, providing constructive and timely feedback to support development
- Invests time in coaching others
- Takes accountability for the success of both their own and others' projects, considering and integrating a wide range of information and views in making decisions. Recognises the importance of framing and strong multi-disciplinary narratives
- Works to build trust with a multi-disciplinary team, proactively finds opportunities to assist others and provide guidance, promotes a teamwork-based collaborative approach
- Uses own and others expertise to achieve results, can coordinate teams while collaborating with others outside the team, engages and motivates others, works strategically and communicates the bigger picture to others
- Adapts easily to change and views change as a catalyst for success
- Anticipates sources of conflict and takes steps to prevent these, looking beyond their own relationships when thinking about how to prevent conflict
- Solves complex problems by balancing different needs, displaying creativity and considering innovative approaches when solving problems while looking for business efficiencies in their solutions
- Consistently completes tasks on time and to a high standard, taking responsibility for both personal and collective goals
- Promotes company Core Values and works actively to create and sustain a positive culture that embodies those values
- Awareness of company HSEQ Policies and Business Management System (BMS)
- Awareness of company Values & Business Principles
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