Geophysicist

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We are looking for a motivated middle career Geophysicist located in Houston, Tx to join our dynamic team at Digital & Integration division at SLB, based in Houston Texas. In this role, you will collaborate with other geoscientists and engineers to support our customer in successfully utilizing Petrel E&P software on their energy exploration and development activities. The job includes efficient troubleshooting and resolving software challenges occurred during project study, guiding and training customers on software modules and workflows applied on their E&P project objectives. The job also requires supporting project consulting business, to analyze, and perform geophysical and geological interpretation tasks, delivering high quality project study result in timely manner.

• Provide technical support in the area of expertise throughout the Sales and Product and Service Delivery process.
• Assist as required with the development of technical job designs for PLs.
• Assist with identifying areas where new and cost effective techniques can be applied.
• Explore opportunities for value-added products and services.
• Consult with Design/Technical Engineer role as required to optimize the technical design.
• Assist in real-time incident response, recovery, and investigation as related to the area of expertise.
• Assist in evaluating technical viability and overall appraisal of tenders as related to the area of expertise.
• Remain current on new technologies.
• Maintain customer visibility through active participation in professional society activities and calls for papers.
• Understand the competition’s technical offering.
• Participate in external technical societies and communities.
• Contribute, write and review technical publications.
• Engage with local universities, Customer institutes and research organizations.

Qualifications and Experience:

• * Advanced VSP processing, skilled in processing complex subsalt datasets
  

  • VSP Survey design with ray and wave equation-based methods
  • DAS 3D-VSP processing
  • Experience in AVO walkaway VSP’s
  • Salt proximity survey processing and modeling
  • Experienced in advanced VSP imaging workflow
  • Master’s degree in Geophysics, or a related Earth Science discipline.Must have the legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

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