Exploration Manager

Position Description:

An Exploration Manager role to provide key technical leadership to the SE Asian Exploration team. In this role you will proactively identify, evaluate and recommend New Venture Exploration opportunities to grow the business. Located in the SE Asian office, your primary responsibility will be to provide technical oversight for a small team of geoscientists together with managing budgets, directing work and ensuring quality. You have a strong geological and geophysical background. In addition to performing a supervisory function you will also be responsible for undertaking your own technical project work. This will include: Petroleum Systems analysis, play and prospect generation, geological/geophysical mapping, providing recommendations for drilling locations, developing well evaluation programs and evaluating drilling results.

Key responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:

• Assisting with building and maintaining a SE Asian based G&G team

• Providing leadership to a small team of geologists, geophysicists & reservoir engineers

• Developing, managing and executing work-plans and budgets

• Basin analysis evaluations

• Identification and evaluation of New Venture Exploration opportunities

• Data room evaluations

• Play and prospect generation through application of a Petroleum Systems approach

• Interpreting well and seismic data

• Developing and recommending well locations and evaluation programs

• Preparing recommendations and documentation in support of drilling and evaluation programs

• Implementing project plans and schedules in a timely manner

• Ensuring that a culture of strong and effective team-work exists

• Providing timely and effective reporting to the South East Asia Exploration and Subsurface Manager

• Interfacing with partners and government authorities   

Qualifications/Experience:

The following skills, qualifications and experience are required:

• A B.Sc./M.Sc. degree in the Geosciences

• APPEGA "Professional Geologist" designation or eligibility for same

• A minimum of 15 years' experience in international offshore field development and exploration, with at least 8 years working in SE Asia

• A minimum of 10 years' experience in New Venture exploration

• Preference will be given to expatriates currently working in SE Asia

• SE Asian work experience and knowledge with a strong networking and contact base within the SE Asian petroleum industry

• Strong command of the English language, with good oral and written communication skills

• Sound knowledge of both geology and geophysics with a focus on international exploration and offshore field developments

• Understanding of depositional systems, including both clastic and carbonate systems

• Ability to apply Petroleum Systems concepts is required

• Sound knowledge of geology and geophysics, with a focus on marine depositional systems, including lacustrine, shallow and deepwater environments, projects, data and mapping

• Proven prospect generator and mapping experience with an ability to develop and integrate into regional geological models

• Sound knowledge in facies identification and descriptions from core, cutting and petrophysical data

• Working knowledge of basin modeling and source rocks would be an asset

• Thorough understanding of well data/well log interpretation

• 3D and 2D seismic interpretation skills

• Ability to provide seismic interpretation and workstation capability

• Proficiency in a range of geoscience software including Kingdom, Openworks, Geographix or equivalents

• Strong leadership and management ingenuity with superior organizational skills

• Excellent organizational and planning and multi-tasking skills to set and exceed established goals, schedules, and deadlines, often under tight time lines and with shifting priorities

• Proven ability to work in a team environment dealing with people from various disciplines to achieve goals, and to identify and resolve problems

Business travel will be required approximately 10% of the time to South East Asia, therefore a valid passport is required. 

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