Senior Exploration Geoscientist: Frontier Basin Leader

Ian Martin Group

Spring (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Raise is currently hiring a Senior Exploration Integrator on behalf of our client to lead integrated regional evaluations and play analysis across frontier and mature basins in Texas. The role combines geology, geophysics, geochemistry, basin modeling, petrophysics, and commercial analysis to identify opportunities and support investment decisions.

The successful candidate will plan regional studies using seismic, well, gravity, magnetic, geochemical, stratigraphic, and production data, develop

Qualifications

Master’s degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline.
10+ years of oil and gas exploration experience, including regional interpretation, play analysis, and prospect maturation.
Strong expertise in seismic interpretation (Quantitative interpretation), structural geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, petroleum systems analysis, and basin evolution.
Demonstrated ability to integrate seismic, well, geological, geochemical, and potential-fields data at basin, play, and prospect scales.
Experience identifying leads and prospects, constructing maps, performing depth conversion, estimating prospective resources, and assessing geological chance of success.
Working knowledge of probabilistic volumetrics, risking, decision analysis, exploration economics, and portfolio ranking.
Ability to develop and test multiple geological hypotheses while clearly separating observations, assumptions, interpretations, and uncertainties.
Strong technical judgment, project leadership, technical writing, presentation, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
Right to work in the USA

Responsibilities

Leads integrated regional evaluations, play analysis, and prospect identification and assessment across frontier, emerging, and mature petroleum basins.
Plan and conduct regional studies using seismic, well, outcrop, gravity and magnetic, geochemical, stratigraphic, and production data.
Generate, mature, and rank leads and prospects through seismic interpretation, depth conversion, seismic attribute analysis, well correlation, analog assessment, and integration of petroleum-system information.
Build probabilistic volumetric models, evaluate uncertainty ranges, and compare prospects using risked resource, economic value, strategic fit, data quality, and commercial-access considerations.
Lead multidisciplinary reviews, provide technical assurance, mentor less-experienced geoscientists, and communicate exploration concepts, risks, uncertainties, and value propositions to technical teams, partners, and investment decision-makers.