Senior Development Geologist

Wood

Wood is currently sourcing for a strong> Senior Development Geologist/strong> (Local National) to strengthen our team in Basra Iraq on 5 days on 2 days off rotation. This is a full-time onsite position based in Basra, Iraq./p>

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strong> u>The role/u> /strong> /p>

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Development Geologist to join our Iraq Business Unit./p>

strong>Our Clients and Projects /strong> /p>

strong>Designing the future. Transforming the world. /strong> /p>

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions. /p>

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region./p>

strong> u>What we can offer/u> /strong> /p>

• strong>Meaningful and interesting projects/strong> Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• strong>Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion/strong>; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• strong>Competitive salary/strong> with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• strong>Medical Insurance: /strong>Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• strong>Commitment to continued professional development;/strong> development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• strong>Global connections/strong>: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• strong>Long Service Award: /strong>Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

strong>Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:/strong> /p>

• Coordinate multi-functional teams in developing and maintaining drilling rig schedule on a weekly basis to generate well paths consistent with contractual drilling specifications to achieve wellbore objectives.
• Lead for annual new wells placement programme and 5-yr planning
• Preparation of pre-drill documents including detailed drillwell prognosis charts and formation evaluation program.
• Conduct detailed real-time log correlations of actively drilling deviated and horizontal wells to ensure stratigraphic intervals are properly identified and well trajectories are adjusted as needed.
• Liaison between well-site geologists and office team at all stages of drilling projects. Attend drilling rig calls and meetings.
• Ensure all aspects of well-site geological operations are properly undertaken to ensure drillwell objectives are safely met.
• Provide rig tendering contract preparation with formation evaluation comments.
• Ensure geological well data are compiled in a timely manner, properly distributed, and placed in appropriate digital well files.
• Geologic model interrogation, integration of various geologic and surveillance data, in support of ongoing drill well, workover planning and new well candidate revalidation.
• Modify structural modeling by seismic & well interpretation in support of Geologic Model building, drilling opportunity identification and drillwell planning (post-drilling analysis based on actual drilling result, surface mapping updating, attribute analysis updating, fault mapping updating, geobody extraction, QC on new acquired seismic data interpretation, etc.)
• Prepare new well and special workover post analysis.
• Contribute to future appraisal and data acquisition planning for undeveloped reservoirs (drilling locations, major uncertainties, data requirements)
• Core proposal and analysis in geology and attribute updating.
• Mentor Iraq staff on Geologic concepts, geophysics and geomodel interrogation
• Support water injection analysis and injection optimization discussion from geological ideas.
• Provide geological/seismic maps for new well completion proposal discussion and other development activities