Deepwater Development & Production Geoscientist

Job Title: Deepwater Development & Production Geoscientist Duration: 1 year (possibility of extension) Schedule: 5/40 Location: Spring, TX This opportunity offers a senior-level subsurface role supporting field development, reservoir management, and production optimisation within a deepwater environment. The position focuses on integrating seismic interpretation, well logs, pressure and production data, and reservoir surveillance to support high-quality technical and commercial decisions across the producing asset lifecycle. This company operates across upstream, refining, chemicals, specialty products, and lower-emissions energy initiatives, providing a technically complex setting with broad business relevance. Required Education: Master’s degree or equivalent advanced degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline Required Experience: 10+ years of oil and gas industry experience with significant involvement in field development, reservoir management, or production operations Experience identifying and maturing infill drilling, sidetrack, recompletion, and production-optimisation opportunities Experience working across multidisciplinary subsurface studies and supporting decision-making through the producing-asset lifecycle Experience monitoring asset performance, investigating production underperformance, and recommending surveillance or intervention activities Right to work in the USA Required Skills: Strong understanding of reservoir geology, seismic interpretation, petrophysics, structural geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geological modelling Ability to integrate static geological interpretations with pressure, production, well-test, fluid, and reservoir-engineering data Working knowledge of volumetrics, reserves and resources classification, uncertainty analysis, reservoir simulation, production forecasting, and economic evaluation Ability to define well objectives and target ranges, assess subsurface risks, support well placement, and evaluate post-well results Strong technical judgement and the ability to make recommendations from incomplete or conflicting data Effective project leadership, stakeholder engagement, technical writing, and presentation skills Ability to mentor team members, provide technical assurance, and influence multidisciplinary and leadership decisions Preferred Qualifications: Experience with mature-field redevelopment, surveillance planning, waterflood or gas-injection management, enhanced recovery, and late-life asset optimisation Experience supporting well planning, geosteering, drilling operations, formation evaluation, and post-well reviews Knowledge of static-to-dynamic model integration, history matching, development-scenario evaluation, and probabilistic forecasting Familiarity with reserves booking and reporting under systems such as the SPE Petroleum Resources Management System and applicable regulatory requirements Proficiency with applications such as Petrel, Geolog, Eclipse, INTERSECT, Spotfire, Power BI, Python, MATLab or equivalent tools Experience working with deepwater, conventional clastic, carbonate, fractured, unconventional, or mature producing assets Demonstrated leadership of integrated subsurface studies, partner reviews, investment decisions, or field-development planning Recognised technical leadership through mentoring, peer reviews, publications, conference presentations, or subject-matter-expert responsibilities #LI-AP5