Operations Geologist

Role Title: Operations Geologist

Role Synopsis: The Operations Geologist ensures that all wells are drilled safely, comply with regulations, and meet defined objectives efficiently. This role requires collaboration and effective communication across Subsurface and Wells teams to align with the Statement of Requirements (SOR) and the New Wells Common Process.

Key Accountabilities:

Well Planning:

• Focus on HSSE and influence compliance standards for Safety and Operational Risks.
• Support well planning activities and construct relevant NWD documents consistent with BP’s Wells Common Process.
• Assist in creating key documents, participating in meetings, and making decisions (WID, NDS meetings, well option selection, operational decision trees, and finalizing the data acquisition program).
• Create pre-drill risk registers and ensure mitigation and contingency plans for all geological risks.
• Construct the SOR document, ensuring well objectives, data acquisition, and relevant overburden characterization elements are included.
• Ensure appropriate resourcing of well-site geologists both onshore and offshore through active engagement with suppliers.
• Integrate well planning and operational activities through strong collaboration with key stakeholders, NWD, and Wells leadership.
• Lead the construction of the GOP, ensuring all relevant information is included.
• Manage contractor performance for key wellsite services, including mudlogging, wireline/LWD, wellsite PPFG, and geological services.

Geological Operations:

• Lead daily NWD/subsurface operations meetings with rig-based subsurface entities (WSG, BioStrat, ML, LWD).
• Represent NWD/subsurface at the morning Wells rig call.
• Present material on NDS and expected geology in subsurface hole section previews and reviews.
• Participate in LWOP and CWOP exercises, ensuring early engagement of specialty vendors.
• Provide support to the wellsite geologist through daily and as-needed ops calls, providing up-to-date information and offset data.
• Help interpret and select formation tops, casing, and core points per SOR and appropriate decision trees.
• Ensure efficient delivery of the data acquisition program and data quality per agreed terms, and secure all sensitive subsurface data and well results.
• Engage all subsurface vendors to provide data and support as outlined in the GOP and Well Plan document.
• Collaborate between Subsurface and Wells to ensure all well objectives are delivered safely and efficiently.
• Ensure co-owners receive all required data and updates, acting as the SPA for co-owner communication and information dissemination.
• Support the operations petrophysicist in QC of data acquisition programs and procedures.

Post Well:

• Support successful EOW Report completion, ensuring it meets the expectations of the New Wells Common Process.
• Finalize and electronically capture all data in the corporate regional data store, and distribute hard copies to stakeholders.
• Support after-action reviews with service providers and liaise with geological contractor personnel to provide QA/QC of all subsurface data and reports, completing the scorecard.
• Capture and document all post-well key learnings in PWR and share in appropriate NWD venues.
• Support root cause analysis for any NPT event related to subsurface operations (Orange category) and distribute learnings through appropriate venues and stakeholders.
• Support the formal development of national staff through learning sessions/workshops for both well-site and operations geology staff.

Experience and Job Requirements:

• University Degree in Geology or a related subject.
• 8 to 15+ years of relevant industry experience, primarily in a geological operations environment.
• Essential experience in well planning and operations geology, well-site geology. Knowledge of drilling operations, pore pressure, and mudlogging is desirable.
• Proficiency in geological, seismic, and petrophysical log interpretation and workstation skills; experience with Petrel and TechLog is highly desirable.
• Experience with deep water Gulf of Mexico exploration and development wells is highly desirable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative team-first mentality, self-motivated, with a strong ability to integrate across disciplines.

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