Senior Petrophysicist

Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare, supervise and quality control cost-effective logging and coring programs and ensure best working practices (state of the art) techniques are applied.
• Quality Control petrophysical data to ensure that data are correctly processed and presented in a suitable format by contractor companies for in-house interpretation.
• Conduct or quality control petrophysical interpretations using computer software applications (workstation and PC based), to quantify the petrophysical characteristics of the reservoirs and to improve knowledge of the reservoirs and to quantify reserves estimates and reservoir performance.
• Construct, maintain and update petrophysical models.
• Undertake petrophysical data analysis and interpretations of open hole and cased hole data on wells and fields.
• Contribute to the setup of saturation height models, including estimations for fluid contacts and free-water- levels
• Identify and appraise main uncertainties of petrophysical content in reservoir models and mitigate their associated risks to business projects and relevant decisions by addressing them with appropriate appraisal measures.
• Support petrophysical log and core data evaluations by incorporating relevant reservoir-geology content.
• Characterize and delineate petrophysical facies types and assess their relation to litho-types as well as sedimentological facies.
• Effective correlations of well and generation of cross sections.
• Quantify formation and fluid properties - lithology, porosity, hydrocarbon and water saturations, net sand/pay, net-to-gross, permeability, fluid type, and fluid viscosity, etc
• Work with geologists, engineers and geological technician to develop core, log and fluid relationships for input into geological and reservoir models.
• Participate in peer reviews, and contribute to management and joint venture partner meetings
• Engaging with the JV partners and local regulatory body regarding data acquisition programs and guidelines, at the planning stage and operationally
• Participate in peer reviews and contribute to management and joint venture partner meetings.
• Coach and mentor junior petrophysicists in line with the established OER technical Career Progression Plan for Petrophysicist

Skills and Competencies

• Core and Fluid Analysis        
• Knowledge of industry and business
• Mud, Mud logging and Invasion       
• Well site / Production Operation
• LWD Operations      
• Awareness of production system optimization
• Electromagnetics     
• Acoustic, Porosity, Saturation & Permeability Analysis            
• Statistics and Numerical Techniques 
• Multi-well interpretation      
• Correlation/Cross-section     
• Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis & Risk Management   
• Well Modelling & Performance         
• Basics of Well Delivery Operation and Well Evaluation           
• Awareness of Field development planning     
• Communication
• Attention to detail 
• Planning and Organising 
• Presentation 
• Leadership
• Team-work 

Qualification

• Minimum of first degree in Geology, Geophysicist or any related field
• Masters in Science or MBA will be an added advantage
• NAPE, NMGS, SPE or any related professional membership is an added advantage 
• Professional membership e.g. Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientist (COMEG) is an added advantage
• Minimum of ten (10) years reservoir management experience with an operating company or specialist service company