Petrophysicist at Sahara Group

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Purpose Statement

• The role identifies and quantifies hydrocarbon resources in the subsurface and evaluates the nature and distribution of rock properties and formation fluids over the life cycle of reservoirs.

Key Deliverables

• Deliver Open Hole Log Answer Products as inputs for Volumetrics and Reserve data
• Deliver Cased Hole Answer Products for Re-Completions and Well diagnostics for Sub-optimal Reservoir performance
• Deliver Petrophysical Answer Products for rig operations, mud gas, and Gas Chromatographs Analyses.
• Deliver Logging, Sampling, Pressure and Coring programs , respective Supervisions and Interpretations and integration towards a great petrophysical product consistent with conceptual models / Geologic Models
• Understanding of development Logging and Interpretation deliverables.
• Writing and Reviewing of Logging Programs
• Deliver quality petrophysical products in operational timeframes on a real-time basis and other times as required.
• Provide cement log interpretations for testing applications and other Case Hole Logs like Saturation and C/O logs.
• Review core description and thin section analysis for petrophysical integration.
• Required to carry out ad-hoc petrophysical evaluation for completions, geophysicist, geologic-modelling  et.c
• Deliver Subsurface Interface Answer Products in a Multidiscipline Environment
• Deliver Petrophysical Products for Field Development Plan , Drilling Proposals , Completions and Re-Completions Proposals
• Deliver Well-Site Visits Products
• Deliver Multi-Approach to Fluid Typing for Heavy and light Oil

Minimum Qualification/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Geology / Physics / Geophysics /Petroleum Engineering
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Petrophysical analysis of clastics / sedimentary basins.
• Strong working knowledge of Interactive Petrophysics (IP) required, experience in Techlog could also be considered
• Highly experience in OH log data acquisition, and interpretation, cased hole skills will be a plus.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Open Hole Log Analyses
• Cased Hole Log Analyses
• Petrophysical log Interpretation Software in arriving at the answer products
• Technical Report Writing Skills
• MS-Office Application
• Mud log Interpretation
• Core-log Interpretation
• Reserve Computations / Volumetrics Computations
• Knowledge of Seismic Petrophysics is an advantage.

Personality Traits:

• Ability to adapt to operational environment
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good interpersonal skills
• Able to work with minimal supervision
• Must possess good analytical and decision making skills
• Ability to interpret complex data

Working Relationships

• Petroleum Engineering Manager
• Internal and External  stakeholders
• Regulators, Concessionaire, JV partners, e.t.c.