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Senior Geological Modeler

Job Number: 48697541
Company Name:Oxy
Location: Houston, TX US
Career Focus:Public Utilities & Services
 Updated: 5/19/2013

Senior Geological Modeler
Title: Senior Geological Modeler
Location: United States-Texas-Houston
Job Number:_00003200
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) is an international oil and gas exploration and production company. We are the fourth-largestU.S.oil and gas company, with more than 10,000 employees and 20,000 contractors on four continents.

Oxy is looking for a highly motivated and talented Senior Geological Modeler to join our Headquarters Major Projects Business Unit in Houston, Texas.

Responsibilities:

* Work with geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and reservoir engineers to evaluate and assure the quality of model input data and interpretations.
* Perform or evaluating core analysis and core description for facies /rock type determination.
* Build structural and stratigraphic frameworks that accurately capture flow unit/flow barrier architecture.
* Perform 1-D to 3-D petrophysical modeling of facies/rock types, porosity, initial water saturation, and permeability.
* Build multiple model realizations and scenarios to evaluate uncertainty and related risk in reserves distributions.
* Work closely with reservoir simulation engineers to appropriately upscale and history match models.
* Work with development geologists, reservoir engineers, and drilling engineers to optimize development planning and project execution.
* The successful candidate will work cooperatively within a multi-disciplinary, integrated team, will proactively plan and undertake reservoir characterization studies and development planning activities, will effectively communicate information and evaluations to team members and management in a timely manner.
* Mentor to junior staff and other disciplines.
* Expertise or working knowledge of sequence stratigraphic analysis, structural analysis, geophysical mapping, petrophysical analysis, 3D reservoir modeling, field development planning, and uncertainty and risk management .


Qualifications:


* Advanced Degree in Geology (M.Sc. or Ph.D.).
* Professional Geologist with minimum 8-10 years of oil & gas industry experience, preferably with an Operator.
* Experience in 3D geological modeling, using Petrel.
* Experience in integrating core, well log, geophysical, petrophysical, production, and engineering data into a coherent framework.
* Experience in core analysis and description, lithofacies analysis, and rock typing.
* Understanding of geostatistics and fundamental geostatistical algorithms.
* Understanding of data and interpretation uncertainties and their influence on modeling and business decisions.
* Experience in probabilistic and multi-scenario reserves estimation.
* Ability to work well within an integrated multidisciplinary team.
* Ability to mentor junior staff members.
* Ability to communicate information and evaluations (written and oral).
* Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
* Good business acumen.

Desired Qualifications:

* Experience with planning.
* Steam floods.
* EOR projects.
* Middle Eastreservoirs.
* Experience with carbonate and/or fractured reservoirs (e.g., DFN modeling).
*LI-SR



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