Staff Geoscientist - Onshore Subsurface Development at Murphy Oil Corporation in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

At Murphy Oil Corporation, we believe the rich experiences and backgrounds of our employees strengthen our Company, create a productive workforce, and drive our success. We encourage you to apply for the positions for which you meet the qualifications.

Job Summary

Murphy Oil Corporation is looking for a Staff Geoscientist for the Eagle Ford Asset Team within the Global Subsurface organization. The successful candidate will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to enhance asset development and operations, utilizing core geoscience expertise in petroleum systems, stratigraphy, and basin studies. The Eagle Ford Geologist will play a crucial role in evaluating and developing Murphy acreage to maximize economic recovery.

The Staff Geoscientist will be involved in defining the scope and requirements of major projects, creating multiple effective and cost-efficient solutions for specialized technical opportunities, and drafting executive summaries or presentations on new issues. The role requires anticipating management's questions and responding effectively and strategically to their concerns. Additionally, this role may also provide oversight on small to medium-sized projects and develop a working knowledge of other functions to better approach new opportunities.

Interpersonal skills are essential for this position. The role entails effectively representing the team's work to management, cultivating coaching and mentoring abilities to support junior team members, and exemplifying professional and ethical conduct. Additionally, it requires expanding one's influence beyond the immediate team, engaging with other teams within the area, and extending reach across various regions.

Murphy's Mission, Vision, & Values include communicating difficult messages clearly and effectively, fulfilling agreements and commitments while managing competing priorities, collaborating with others across the organization to achieve common objectives, and acknowledging others for their contributions.

The Staff Geoscientist will work in our Houston Corporate office and may work two (2) days a week remotely.

Responsibilities

• Executing geological operations by communicating with geo-steerers, mudlogging vendors, rig personnel, and drilling personnel
• Conducting well planning, including pre-spud, geo hazards identification and mitigation, correlation of offset drilling events and subsurface anomalies, establishing target window protocols, survey frequency protocols, and tool failure protocols
• Assessing drilling and completions performance by integrating geological, geophysical, geochemical, and geomechanical characterization to understand performance drivers and ensure the repeatability of successful results
• Planning, executing, and interpreting surveillance data acquisition, including the use of new technologies to maximize return on investment
• Interpreting seismic and well logs, generating maps and cross sections, conducting risk and reserve/resource analyses
• Generating optimal field development plans, including step outs, multiple landing targets, and economic justification for well spacing
• Maintaining asset characterizations of hydrocarbon volumes and integrated recovery estimates
• Collaborating with reservoir engineering for construction of simulation models
• Utilizing thorough understanding of Texas land rules and regulations to inform and guide lateral length optimization efforts
• Evaluating and integrating competitor activity and results
• Identifying optimization opportunities to enhance reserves and production output
• Presenting and making recommendations to management for buy in and support
• Assisting in peer reviews and collaborating with other teams
• Applying advanced professional knowledge and expertise in tasks requiring more discretion.
• Showing proficiency and competency in a significant area, with a comprehensive understanding of related fields
• Addressing diverse problems by evaluating recognizable factors through data analysis.
• Providing direction and defining the scope for projects
• Identifying and suggesting process improvements to enhance efficiency within one's work or function with minimal supervision
• Turning creative ideas into practical applications
• Understanding broader organizational objectives and recognizing how team goals contribute to achieving these objectives
• Proactively seeking cross-functional experiences to gain new organizational perspectives and deepen understanding of business operations
• Having a solid understanding of how technology integrates with business processes

Qualifications/Requirements

• Masters in Geology or other geoscience discipline
• Minimum 12 years' experience including operations, development, evaluation, well planning, detailed mapping, petrophysics, and play assessment, with minimum 5 years' experience in EagleFord (preferably)
• Experience with geosteering and operations
• Strong understanding of Texas land rules and regulations
• Experience with operational well planning and execution
• Strong verbal and written communication English skills
• Ability to work multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

The individual is required to follow all applicable safety precautions. Work is performed almost entirely in a controlled (i.e., inside) environment and does not typically subject the incumbent to any hazardous/extreme elements; some positions may require regularly moving or transporting items weighing up to 25 lbs. around the office for various needs. The successful candidate must be able to complete all essential physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

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PURPOSE

We believe in providing energy that empowers people.

MISSION

We challenge the norm, tap into our strong legacy and use our foresight and financial discipline to deliver inspired energy solutions.

VISION

We see a future where we are an industry leader who is positively impacting lives for the next 100 years and beyond.

VALUES & BEHAVIORS

Do Right Always

• Respect people, safety, environment and the law
• Follow through on commitments
• Make it better

Think Beyond Possible

• Offer solution
• Step up and lead
• Don't settle for "good enough"
• Embrace new opportunities

Stay With It

• Show resilience
• Lean into challenges
• Support each other
• Consider the implications

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Murphy Oil Corporation is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, genetic information, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.
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