Senior Geologist - Tulsa, United States - NextEra Energy

Description

Trinity Operating, LLC is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from onshore properties within the U.S. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, we are a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Our focus is to maintain high operations of explorations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Are you interested in delivering clean-burning natural gas to customers? Join our world-class team today

Position Specific Description

This role supports the Oklahoma asset in delineating and ranking opportunities and drilling locations from a geologic perspective. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in mapping and assimilating multi-disciplinary data to optimize asset development.

Job description and daily duties:

• Perform geologic interpretation and mapping, including resource-specific, structural and/or various isopach maps, cross-sections, and production maps.

• Construct geologic structure and stratigraphic maps

• Construct maps of field and reservoir data, such as production information by formation

• Interprets geologic data using Geographix (preferred), Petrel or Kingdom software.

• Develop geologic interpretations and models from cuttings and cores

• Generate digital presentations for meetings for management.

• Responsible for formulating and recommending plans for development of oil and gas assets

• Develops geoprogs and assists with directional planning of horizontal wells.

• Maintain a geologic database (tops, net pay counts, etc.), and to generate base and contour maps from well and seismic data.

• Utilize public data sources as well as proprietary and purchased data sets to fully inform a geologic opinion on economic locations to drill and determine through resource and fluid phase mapping how much and what type of hydrocarbon will be produced. This includes but is not limited to academic papers, industry investor presentations, input from Petrophysicist and geomechanics SMEs, core data, log libraries, state regulatory agencies, geosteering, etc.

• Must exhibit good inter-team communication: defining buy areas for the land team, creating reservoir maps based on type curves from the reservoir engineer, working with drilling to place laterals in the optimum landing zone and trouble shoot drilling issues, and assisting completions engineers on geo hazards and rock quality along the lateral to optimize frac designs.

• Basic knowledge of petrophysical modelling and how to incorporate it into geologic interpretations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.S. and M.S. degree in geology with over 15 years of experience in using interpretation software (such as GeoGraphix, Petra, Kingdom or similar commercial software),

• Has experience applying facies modeling, sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, and petrophysical analysis for the purpose of defining the character and distribution of petroleum producing lithologies.

• Has extensive experience in the ranking of prospective areas and formulate an exploration strategy based on basin analysis, risk assessment, ultimate potential, and economic analysis.

• Has extensive skill in assimilating complex inter-disciplinary data (geological, geophysical, basin wide framework, structural setting, stratigraphy, thermal maturity, core and cutting, Microseismic data), to generate high-quality oil and gas leads and prospects.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• Understanding of resource and reserve estimation methods for oil and natural gas deposits.

• Ability to integrate geologic and geophysical data in areas of undrilled or undeveloped locations, to produce high-quality oil and gas prospects or plays.

• Ability to evaluate oil and gas fields for the purpose of field management and development, in Woodford, SCOOP/STACK, Barnett, and Eagle Ford.

Ability to evaluate oil and gas proposals and agreements for merit, technical feasibility, and relevance to program goals to the royalty owner.

• Familiar with well log analysis programs

Job Overview

This position is an integral part of a team to identify and evaluate hydrocarbon zones of interest for development by Trinity Operating (NextEra Gas Infrastructure). The primary focus will be on established unconventional plays onshore in the US. Employees in this role will assist in the drilling of multi-unit Horizontal and vertical wells by integrating petrophysical analysis from well log and core data with regional trends and performance history.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Works as a member of an integrated team with reservoir engineers, technical specialists, deal generation and operations
• Applies familiarity with basic and advanced logging tools to conduct basic petrophysical analysis
• Builds type curves for new plays
• Generates structure, isopach and net pay maps
• Supports reserves determination and economic evaluations
• Has knowledge of drilling/completion and well operations
• Mentors less experienced team members and interns
• Conducts all activities in line with NextEra values
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Other
Organization: Trinity Operating (USG), LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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