Regional Geoscientist
Spring, TX, US
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What role you will play in our team
The Regional Geoscientist is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and framing exploration opportunities across basin, play, and prospect scales. You are responsible for integrating subsurface and above-ground parameters and applying systems based geological thinking to establish geological dependencies, quantify uncertainty, and set realistic risk and success case expectations for yet-to-be-found prospects. You are expected to generate and mature opportunities in both data rich and data limited settings, leveraging analogs, regional synthesis, and scenario-based interpretation to progress opportunities. You are expected to clearly communicate geological risks, uncertainties, and success case expectations to support sound business and investment decisions.
What you will do
The Regional Geoscientist characterize yet to be found exploration potential by developing play concepts grounded in genetic basin analysis and the integrated interpretation of geological and geophysical data, including seismic, well logs, and fluid information. You establish play extents beyond well control and predict play quality, including key risks, success case expectations, internal variability, and overall explorability.
You leverage play level understanding and products to inform prospect identification and maturation, while maintaining a regional, systems based perspective. You characterize value potential by working within integrated subsurface, engineering, and commercial teams to define key value drivers, indicators of portfolio competitiveness, and the subsurface uncertainties that influence materiality and decision making.
Expectations
- Deliver Regional Frameworks: Integrate geologic and geophysical data across basins to define petroleum systems, play fairways, and key geological dependencies
- Quantify Play Risk and Volume:Apply probabilistic methods to assess play‑level chance of success, volumetric potential, and uncertainty, distinguishing dependent (shared) risks from independent uncertainties
- Evaluate Play Maturity and Explorability: Assess exploration history, data coverage, and analogs to rank plays by maturity and potential
- Integrate Above-Ground Factors: Incorporate access, infrastructure, and regulatory data into play evaluation
- Enable Prospect Identification: Use play‑scale frameworks and risk understanding to guide prospect generation, screening, and evaluation
- Communicate Integrated Risk and Value propositions: Translate complex, multi scale geological uncertainty into clear, decision focused narratives for technical leadership and management.
- Collaborate effectively with integrated Commercial and Engineering teams to support Portfolio and Business Decisions: align technical decisions with strategic and commercial objectives to subsurface characterizations contribute meaningfully to portfolio value and long-term growth
About You
Skills and Qualifications
- Basin analysis
- Uncertainty analysis and probabilistic assessement
- Petroleum systems analysis
- Integration across geological and geophysical data
- Seismic interpretation, including geophysical characterizations (rock property prediction and seismic attribute derivation)
- Well log interpretation
- Cross-functional collaboration and project management
MA/MS and/or PhD in Geology (or related fields)
- strong background in earth sciences, physical sciences and mathematics (including statistics)
- leadership, adaptability, teamwork, excellent communication skills in English and commitment to high safety and ethical standards
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience
- Five or more years of experience in a relevant industry
- Experience with Petrel, ArcGIS, PetroMod
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
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