Operations Geologist
Location: Maputo, Mozambique (Rotational)Contract Type: 12-Month Contract Position (Possible Renewal)
Rotation: 4 weeks on, 4 weeks off (7 days worked per week, 12 hours per day)
Target Start Date: ASAP
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise geological operations of a rig for exploration, appraisal, and development wells on a daily basis.
- Oversee well preparation, operations and acquisition program follow-up, coordination and supervision of contracted services and performances, real-time data QA/QC, and basic real-time petrophysical interpretation and post-well analysis.
- Actively contribute to well preparation processes, including document preparation and coordination with other teams, especially for preliminary/prognosis pore pressure profiles and data acquisition programs.
- Ensure strict application and respect of HSE rules and procedures, participate in safety systems, and report all incidents, accidents, or potentially dangerous situations observed.
- Maintain updated HSE and medical certificates and complete all required HSE trainings.
- Participate in safety culture development within the operational team onshore and offshore.
- Contribute to the implementation, integration, and interpretation of real-time detection techniques for operational safety.
- Co-organize risk assessments, pre-job meetings, and review procedures, especially for specific operations.
- Collect and share safety alerts, incidents, and accident reports from offshore crews and service companies.
- Conduct HSE and technical annual visits/audits on service companies' units (offshore) and bases (onshore).
- Supervise geological operations for one rig, occasionally two, from office and occasionally onsite.
- Prepare, follow up, and perform post-well studies/reports of complex wells, including HP/HT wells and those with narrow drilling windows.
- Work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural context, ensuring strict containment of acquisition costs through good preparation and flawless execution.
Requirements
- Education: Master's degree or equivalent (Level 7).
- Experience: At least 3-5 years in operations geology, with at least 2 years as a wellsite geologist. Deep offshore drilling experience, including HPHT and complex wells, required.
- Technical Skills:
- Well/pad planning
- High-level real-time monitoring of operations
- Formation evaluation and interpretation
- Advanced geosteering capability
- Pore pressure and geomechanics understanding
- Robust data acquisition planning for LWD, wireline, and sampling programs
- High-quality geological reporting
- Operational risk and uncertainty management
- Technical oversight of service companies
- Digital systems competence
- REX elaboration and communication
- Behavioural Competencies:
- Clear and authoritative communication
- High situational awareness
- Decisive judgement under uncertainty
- Cross-disciplinary coordination
- Analytical problem solving
- Effective stakeholder management
- Adaptability to operational changes
- Time management
- Supportive coaching mindset
- Proactivity
- Language Skills: Fluent in English (French and Portuguese are an advantage).
- Certification: Certification degree in the supervision of Operations Geology as per relevant requirements.
- Specific Knowledge:
- Wireline logging physics and use
- Logging while drilling physics and use (open hole and cased hole)
- Mudlogging physics and use
- Pore pressure principles and estimation
- Deep offshore drilling technologies
- Petrophysical formation evaluation
- Contract management and invoicing