Exploration Geoscientist

Airswift; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Airswift in Spring, TX is seeking an Exploration Geoscientist to lead integrated regional evaluations across frontier, emerging, and mature basins. The role blends geology, geophysics, geochemistry, basin modelling, petrophysics, and commercial analysis to guide portfolio and investment decisions.

The successful candidate will drive seismic interpretation, prospect maturation, and uncertainty assessment while providing senior technical leadership and mentoring to geoscientists.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in geology, geophysics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of oil and gas exploration experience including regional interpretation.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary reviews and mentoring geoscientists.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate exploration concepts to technical and investment stakeholders.
• Proven track record in leads/prospects generation and probabilistic resource assessment.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated regional evaluations, play analysis, and prospect identification across frontier, emerging, and mature basins.
• Integrate seismic, well, geological, geochemical data for basin/play scales.
• Build probabilistic volumetric models and assess uncertainty and value implications.
• Provide technical assurance, leadership, and mentorship across teams.
• Communicate exploration concepts, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders.

Skills

Seismic interpretation

Structural geology

Stratigraphy

Sedimentology

Petroleum systems analysis

Basin evolution

Uncertainty assessment

Project leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Technical writing

Education

Master's degree in geology or geophysics

Tools

Petrel

Kingdom

PetroMod

ArcGIS

Spotfire

Power BI

Python

Job description

Job Title: Exploration Geoscientist

Duration: 1 year (possibility of extension)

Schedule: 5/40

Location: Spring, TX

This opportunity offers the chance to lead integrated regional evaluations, play analysis, and prospect identification across frontier, emerging, and mature petroleum basins within a major upstream and energy products environment. The role combines geology, geophysics, geochemistry, basin modelling, petrophysics, and commercial analysis to support portfolio and investment decisions. This position will have a high level of technical impact through seismic interpretation, prospect maturation, uncertainty assessment, and multidisciplinary technical leadership.

Required Education:

Master's degree or equivalent advanced degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of oil and gas exploration experience, including regional interpretation, play analysis, and prospect maturation
• Experience identifying leads and prospects, constructing maps, performing depth conversion, estimating prospective resources, and assessing geological chance of success
• Experience integrating seismic, well, geological, geochemical, and potential-fields data at basin, play, and prospect scales
• Experience building probabilistic volumetric models, evaluating uncertainty ranges, and comparing opportunities using risked resource, economic value, strategic fit, data quality, and commercial-access considerations
• Experience leading multidisciplinary reviews, providing technical assurance, mentoring geoscientists, and communicating exploration concepts, risks, uncertainties, and value propositions to technical and investment stakeholders

Right to work in the USA

Required Skills:

• Strong expertise in seismic interpretation, structural geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, petroleum systems analysis, and basin evolution
• Ability to develop regional structural and stratigraphic frameworks and reconstruct basin evolution using seismic, well, outcrop, gravity and magnetic, geochemical, stratigraphic, and production data
• Capability to define gross depositional environments and evaluate source, reservoir, seal, overburden, trap, charge, and timing relationships
• Ability to generate, mature, and rank leads and prospects through seismic interpretation, depth conversion, seismic attribute analysis, well correlation, analog assessment, and petroleum system integration
• Working knowledge of probabilistic volumetrics, risking, decision analysis, exploration economics, and portfolio ranking
• Ability to test multiple geological hypotheses while clearly separating observations, assumptions, interpretations, and uncertainties
• Strong technical judgement, project leadership, technical writing, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience evaluating frontier or underexplored basins, emerging plays, and mature-basin near-field opportunities
• Expertise in clastic and/or carbonate depositional systems and conventional petroleum systems
• Experience with seismic stratigraphy, seismic attributes, velocity modelling, depth uncertainty, amplitude interpretation, basin modelling, and source-to-sink analysis
• Familiarity with Petrel, Kingdom, PetroMod, ArcGIS, Spotfire, Power BI, Python, or equivalent tools
• Experience with regional 2D and 3D seismic datasets, gravity and magnetic data, play-fairway mapping, common-risk segment mapping, and yet-to-find analysis
• Knowledge of SPE Petroleum Resources Management System principles for prospective-resource classification and reporting
• Experience supporting licensing rounds, acreage capture, bid evaluations, joint-venture reviews, farm-in decisions, and exploration portfolio management
• Demonstrated technical leadership through peer reviews, prospect‑assurance panels, mentoring, publications, conference presentations, or recognised subject‑matter expertise

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