Lead Geophysicist: Quantitative Interpretation & 4D

Oil Authority

Houston, Northern (TX, KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Chevron's Geophysics Center of Excellence seeks a senior geophysicist to lead quantitative interpretation and 4D initiatives on land assets. You will deliver end-user oriented QI products, mentor colleagues, and set technical direction across QI workflows.

Ideal candidates bring 15–20 years of industry experience, including seismic surveys planning, processing oversight, and rock-physics modeling, with a proven track record in product deployment and cross‑functional collaboration to maximize

Qualifications

15–20 years of industry experience in technical geophysics, including demonstrated land operations experience.
Depth in quantitative interpretation: rock physics modeling, seismic inversion, elastic-property utilization, and seismic attribute analysis.
Hands-on experience planning seismic surveys and overseeing processing/imaging, understanding product provenance and quality.
Track record deploying geophysical products to end users and driving full utilization for business decisions.
Experience supporting exploration and development objectives, including drilling, pore pressure prediction, and depth prognosis.

Responsibilities

Lead delivery of quantitative interpretation products across land assets, including rock physics modeling and inversion.
Perform and QC well ties, wavelet extraction, synthetic generation, fluid substitution, AVO modeling, and tuning analysis.
Ensure QI products are physically consistent and fit for purpose for decision support.
Deploy geophysical and QI products to end users, translating outputs into decision-ready insights.
Partner with interpreters, geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir/drilling engineers to embed QI into workflows.
Provide training and guidance so end users can apply products effectively.
Act as a steward for data/products, ensuring full exploitation of seismic volumes, inversions, and attributes.
Identify data/product gaps and drive uptake to unlock subsurface value.
Apply elastic properties and attributes to reservoir characterization and uncertainty quantification.
Support exploration prospect evaluation and de-risking, and provide QI input to development decisions.
Apply geophysics to drilling/completions and depth-prognosis for well landing.
Deliver depth prognosis and time-to-depth conversion with uncertainty analysis.
Set technical direction for QI workflows; perform peer reviews and QC.
Mentor junior geophysicists and collaborate with ENGINE and business units.