Petrophysicist – Oklahoma & Permian Job Job Details

Job Overview:

The position will be a part of the Oklahoma/North Delaware (OND) Development Team at Marathon Oil Corporation.  This person will report to the Integration Manager and will provide petrophysical support to advance the technical understanding and optimized development of assets in OK/NM/TX.    

The successful candidate will need to have a solid understanding of petrophysical fundamentals and have a desire to expand their technical knowledge beyond their discipline through active participation in a cross functional team.  The individual selected will be tasked with working with high level engineers and geoscientists within OND and technical support organizations to become a foundational team member by helping to create innovative solutions.  A strong emphasis on collaboration, influence and thought leadership is a requirement of this position. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide multi-well petrophysical evaluations for geomodel building in support of multi-discipline projects.
• Recommend and assist in the planning of data collection programs (core and log analysis).
• Provide operational petrophysical support as needed during critical open-hole logging operations.
• Provide quality control and analysis of core and log data.
• Apply physical models to derive reservoir properties from well log responses.
• Drive the integration of rock property data and interpretations into existing and new models.
• Assess and predict from core and multi-log analysis the rock and fluid properties along with sensitivities and uncertainties of those properties.
• Make recommendations of landing zone for optimized lateral well placement.
• Work closely with geoscientists and engineers to ensure a full utilization of drilling, wellbore, and lab measurements to identify reservoir properties.
• Liaise with other petrophysicists to provide best practices and standardization of the log interpretation processes.
• Provide mentoring to less experienced petrophysicists, geoscientists, and engineers.
• Present petrophysical reports and interpretations to Marathon Oil management and representatives of other companies.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in geoscience, engineering or physics with a least 10+ years of oil and gas experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years of petrophysical experience with > 3 years of experience in unconventionals.
• Thorough understanding of core analysis and core-log integration for reservoir properties prediction.
• Experience in well logging operations (LWD, MWD and wireline) and real-time data QC.
• General understanding of reservoir engineering principles, completion principles, drilling principles, and geological processes.
• Extensive experience with petrophysical software packages (Techlog preferred),  intermediate MS Office skills (e.g., Excel and PowerPoint), and basic knowledge of Spotfire.
• Ability to convert final petrophysical model to a format that geologic platforms can process and run.
• Selfless track record of collaborative efforts and multi-discipline integration.
• Excellent presentation and writing skills, able to communicate complex problems in simple words.

Preferred Requirements:

• MS or PhD degree in geoscience, engineering or physics with at least 5+ years of O&G experience.
• Solid understanding of advanced logs such NMR, nuclear spectroscopy, dipole sonic, etc.
• Ability to write computer codes to solve problems in petrophysics, e.g., Python (preferred), Matlab, R, C++, etc.
• Experience with geomechanics interpretation, drilling dynamics, mudlogs, and production logging is a plus.
• Fundamentals of rock physics and geophysical tools are important for this role.
• Experience with Petrel, Geographix, and RokDoc.
• Self-organized and highly skillful in data managemen

Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company based in Houston, Texas. With a material position in four of the best oil-rich U.S. resource plays in different stages of development, we offer a variety of career opportunities, whether you’re a recent college graduate or an experienced professional. You’ll have the tools to develop and refine the skills and knowledge you need to succeed.

Marathon Oil Company will take the necessary action to ensure that applicants are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status or other protected status under applicable employment law.

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Posting Notes: ||  Houston  ||  TX   ||  United States (US)  ||  SF:LI; SF:DI; SF:GH; SF:MN; SF:RZ ||  Geosciences  || Engineering  || || 32081  ||