Principal Regional Geologist
Full Expat package + Generous Bonus - Jakarta-South East Asia
The company has an enviable track record of success and is poised to significantly grow daily oil production. With a healthy balance sheet, our strategy is to deliver growth from existing producing assets, ongoing developments, high potential exploration opportunities and acquisition activities. Our core values of creativity, dynamism, professionalism, respect and tenacity have helped build and sustain a successful business and we continue to be committed to invest in our people, and the countries and communities in which we operate.
Responsibilities
This is a newly created role, based in Jakarta, with a focus on driving forward the delivery of high quality technical work in the exploration and new ventures groups in Indonesia and with a complimentary role across the SE Asia region.
The incumbent will oversee geological technical work undertaken by the groups and will interact with the Exploration and New Ventures managers in the region on technical work programmes and other technical aspects. Managers are ultimately responsible for the programmes while the incumbent will assure the technical quality of the work through a combination of mentoring and project review.
Travel will be required, as the incumbent will be interacting with G&G staff and senior stakeholders across the SE Asia offices though it is anticipated that the majority of time will be spent in the Jakarta office.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Primary responsibility will be to work with SE Asia Exploration team in a "hands-on" role;
- assisting the Exploration Manager to ensure technical work quality and best practices.
- taking a leading role and participating in ongoing Indonesia operated and non-operated technical projects and New Venture evaluations.
- mentoring G&G staff.
- Gain detailed knowledge of the SE Asian exploration and NV projects through interaction with the region's Exploration Managers and geoscientists.
- Provide expert geological technical support and review to Premier's exploration geosciences teams and SE Asia New Ventures teams, to ensure high quality geosciences analysis, prospect development and reporting by the teams, and hence robust exploration investment proposals.
- Work closely with the regional Exploration Managers to stimulate the creation of ideas around current and future exploration activities within the region.
- Mentor and develop national and expatriate exploration staff within the region, regarding technical competence and broader relationship management skills.
Skills/experience:
- Minimum 15 years experience within Upstream Oil & Gas, working for an operator and/or consultancy, including senior technical and leadership roles. Operational experience preferred.
- Expertise in Petroleum System analysis at a basin and prospect scale, including experience in basin modelling, sequence stratigraphy, application of biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy, structural interpretation, petro physics, formation evaluation planning, pore pressure analysis etc.
- Broad experience across both Exploration and Development geosciences, and commercial awareness.
- Good knowledge of exploration geophysics and experience in seismic interpretation.
- Experience in prospect resource and risk assessment, review and audit.
- Multi-national experience well regarded and SE Asia knowledge would be useful but is not essential.
Knowledge:
- Familiarity with relevant geosciences software (e.g. Kingdom, Petrel, volumetric/risking software, basin modelling software, etc)
Remuneration
Our client is seeking for a staff engagement on extremely attractive EXPAT terms.
To take this further please write to the email address below, or contact our researcher Roger Wills on + 44 07802 235777 or +44 (0) 1787 269212
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