Senior Geologist, Reservoir

Job description / Role

About the Company

ADNOC is one of the world's leading energy producers and a primary catalyst for the growth and diversification of the United Arab Emirates. Our diverse family of more than 50,000 employees is made up of over 100 different nationalities. People from different backgrounds, with unique perspectives and wide-ranging skillsets, share a collective responsibility: to enable and accelerate progress, both here in the UAE and across the globe. Here at ADNOC, we go beyond business as usual. We do things differently, challenge convention, and embrace new ways of thinking. This is what defines and differentiates us. By working together every day, we're bringing energy to life.

About the Job

Participates in geological activities in assigned fields. Accountable for the acquisition and interpretation of accurate geological data and construction of conceptual geological models to ensure accurate numerical reservoir simulation, calculation of recoverable hydrocarbon in place, and optimization of field development and reservoir management programs.

Key Accountabilities (Part 1)

Job Specific Accountabilities

• Carries out complex analysis and interpretation of geological field data using advanced modelling techniques to provide input for the compilation and development of well proposals. Updates high-quality static reservoir models of carbonate reservoirs fully integrated with input from geophysics, petrophysics, and reservoir engineering through milestone processes.
• Provides regional structural geology and restoration in a variety of tectonic episodes at basin, field, and reservoir scales, including but not limited to the integration with reservoir geomechanics, sedimentology, and stratigraphy studies.
• Performs geological studies evaluation, combining petrophysical data, facies and core description, core data, borehole image logs, well correlation, and pressure data leading to the construction of 3D static geological models and ensures the studies integration.
• Designs and plans complex studies to identify new prospects and hydrocarbon systems, develops new play concepts, and qualified models of the subsurface. Studies include but are not limited to stratigraphic, lithofacies identification, diagenesis understanding, porosity and permeability distribution, and hydrocarbon saturation studies to characterize the reservoir.
• Responsible for integrating geological and other well/seismic data and advises on formation depth, geometries of geo-bodies, geometrical relationships, form, and shape of carbonate deposits.
• Supervises and participates in geological reservoir studies aimed at constructing and/or improving geological models including 3D static models and ensures models accuracy.
• Provides discipline-specific technical advice and guidance to meet data gathering issues and required support by other disciplines team members as required.
• Ensures contractors' compliance with contract terms and schedules by monitoring progress and performance through regular activity reports and ensures technical integrity.
• Reviews and prepares study progress reports and ensures adherence to company and professional standards and procedures established for such studies.
• Contributes to well proposals/prognosis for new wells and updates geological models based on well results. Analyzes and recommends solutions on any issues raised during drilling operations by integrating geological information.
• Determines the hydrocarbon volumes in place with associated uncertainty ranges in the reserves and GIIP review whilst ensuring that all static subsurface uncertainties identified by other disciplines are properly represented and integrated.

Key Accountabilities (Part 2)

Generic Accountabilities

Supervision

• Plan, supervise, and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
• Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective section objectives.

Budgets

• Provide input for preparation of the section/department budgets, assist in the implementation of the approved budget, and work plans to deliver section objectives.
• Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Implement approved section/department policies, processes, systems, standards, and procedures to support execution of the section's/department work programs in line with company and international standards.

Performance Management

• Contribute to the achievement of the approved performance objectives for the department/section in line with the company performance framework.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
• Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with ISO standards to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

Key Accountabilities (Part 3)

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability

• Comply with the ADNOC Onshore/ADNOC HSE procedure requirements.
• Report all incidents and occupational illnesses to the line supervisor.
• If aware of any unsafe practice or condition, or if in any doubt about the safety of any situation, immediately consult their line supervisor.
• Carry out the emergency responsibilities in line with the respective roles as per the emergency organization.
• Be familiar with the ADNOC HSE Recognition and Accountability Framework requirements. Comply with all applicable HSE requirements at all times. Exercise the STOP Work Authority bestowed if any unsafe act or situation puts you or your colleagues at risk.

Reports

• Provide inputs to prepare section MIS and progress reports for company management.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in geology or equivalent.

Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills

• 8 years of experience in reservoir geology and geomodelling.

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.