Geomechanics

BH-268871
  • 1
  • United States Texas Houston
  • Contract
  • Oil & Gas
Essential Education
Master’s or PhD in Engineering, Science, Geoscience, Geomechanics or Mathematics
Essential Criteria
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in relevant oilfield (drilling PPFG/geomechanics) with operator or service company. 
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complicated technical work to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Ability to work with cross-disciplinary teams and competing priorities to deliver challenging wells.
  • The candidate must be familiar with PPFG, geomechanics, drilling and subsurface aspects of Well Planning and Execution.
Desirable Criteria and Qualifications
  • Previous PPFG experience with an operator; previous geomechanics experience such as wellbore stability and formation pressure integrity tests, strong geology and geophysics background and experience with well planning.
  • Experience generating pre-drill PPFG forecasts for deepwater wells in both development and exploration settings.
  • Awareness of Geology, Petrophysics, Basin Modelling, Processing Geophysics, Reservoir Geomechanics, Drilling Engineering, Rig Systems, and Well Control.
  • Software proficiency and coding capability (e.g., VBA, Python, Techlog and Petrel).


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