Exploration Geoscientist

Job reference

1283069

Location

Spring, Texas, United States

Sector

Energy - Oil & Gas

Function

Geoscience

Employment type

Contract

Date published

November 6, 2026

Job Title: Exploration Geoscientist

Duration: 1 year (possibility of extension)

Schedule: 5/40

Location: Spring, TX

This opportunity offers the chance to lead integrated regional evaluations, play analysis, and prospect identification across frontier, emerging, and mature petroleum basins within a major upstream and energy products environment. The role combines geology, geophysics, geochemistry, basin modelling, petrophysics, and commercial analysis to support portfolio and investment decisions. This position will have a high level of technical impact through seismic interpretation, prospect maturation, uncertainty assessment, and multidisciplinary technical leadership.

Required Education:

• Master’s degree or equivalent advanced degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of oil and gas exploration experience, including regional interpretation, play analysis, and prospect maturation
• Experience identifying leads and prospects, constructing maps, performing depth conversion, estimating prospective resources, and assessing geological chance of success
• Experience integrating seismic, well, geological, geochemical, and potential-fields data at basin, play, and prospect scales
• Experience building probabilistic volumetric models, evaluating uncertainty ranges, and comparing opportunities using risked resource, economic value, strategic fit, data quality, and commercial-access considerations
• Experience leading multidisciplinary reviews, providing technical assurance, mentoring geoscientists, and communicating exploration concepts, risks, uncertainties, and value propositions to technical and investment stakeholders
• Right to work in the USA

Required Skills:

• Strong expertise in seismic interpretation, structural geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, petroleum systems analysis, and basin evolution
• Ability to develop regional structural and stratigraphic frameworks and reconstruct basin evolution using seismic, well, outcrop, gravity and magnetic, geochemical, stratigraphic, and production data
• Capability to define gross depositional environments and evaluate source, reservoir, seal, overburden, trap, charge, and timing relationships
• Ability to generate, mature, and rank leads and prospects through seismic interpretation, depth conversion, seismic attribute analysis, well correlation, analog assessment, and petroleum system integration
• Working knowledge of probabilistic volumetrics, risking, decision analysis, exploration economics, and portfolio ranking
• Ability to test multiple geological hypotheses while clearly separating observations, assumptions, interpretations, and uncertainties
• Strong technical judgement, project leadership, technical writing, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience evaluating frontier or underexplored basins, emerging plays, and mature-basin near-field opportunities
• Expertise in clastic and/or carbonate depositional systems and conventional petroleum systems
• Experience with seismic stratigraphy, seismic attributes, velocity modelling, depth uncertainty, amplitude interpretation, basin modelling, and source-to-sink analysis
• Familiarity with Petrel, Kingdom, PetroMod, ArcGIS, Spotfire, Power BI, Python, or equivalent tools
• Experience with regional 2D and 3D seismic datasets, gravity and magnetic data, play-fairway mapping, common-risk segment mapping, and yet-to-find analysis
• Knowledge of SPE Petroleum Resources Management System principles for prospective-resource classification and reporting
• Experience supporting licensing rounds, acreage capture, bid evaluations, joint-venture reviews, farm-in decisions, and exploration portfolio management
• Demonstrated technical leadership through peer reviews, prospect-assurance panels, mentoring, publications, conference presentations, or recognised subject-matter expertise

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