Senior Geophysicist: Quantitative Interpretation & 4D

Chevron Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Geophysicist focused on Quantitative Interpretation and 4D for land assets. The role emphasizes delivering QI products, mentoring staff, and driving end-user adoption, with a strong background in seismic interpretation and data exploitation.

The successful candidate will bring extensive experience in rock physics, seismic inversion, and multi-asset coordination, working across exploration and development teams to maximize subsurface value.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Geophysics, Geology, Physics, or a related Earth Science discipline.
• 15-20 years of relevant industry experience in technical geophysics, including demonstrated land operations experience.
• Demonstrated depth in quantitative interpretation: rock physics model development, seismic inversion, elastic-property utilization, and seismic attribute analysis.
• Prior hands-on experience planning seismic surveys and overseeing seismic data processing and imaging, sufficient to understand product provenance, quality, and limitations.
• Track record deploying geophysical products to end users and driving their full utilization in support of business decisions.
• Experience supporting both exploration and development objectives, including applying geophysics to drilling and completions, pore pressure prediction, and depth prognosis for well landing.

Responsibilities

• Quantitative Interpretation Delivery: Lead the delivery of quantitative interpretation products across land assets, including rock physics modeling, seismic inversion, elastic-property estimation, and seismic attribute analysis. QC well ties, wavelet extraction, synthetic generation, fluid substitution, AVO modeling, and tuning analysis to ensure robust QI outputs.
• Product Deployment to End Users: Deploy geophysical and QI products to end users, translating outputs into decision-ready insight. Partner with interpreters, geologists, petrophysicists, reservoir and drilling engineers to embed QI products into workflows.
• Ensuring Full Exploitation of Geophysical Products: Act as data/product steward; ensure seismic volumes, inversion and attribute products are fully exploited; drive uptake to unlock subsurface value.
• Exploration, Development & Well Delivery Support: Support exploration prospect evaluation, 4D screening, pore pressure prediction, depth prognosis for well landing.
• Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Set technical direction for QI workflows; mentor junior geophysicists and collaborate with ENGINE/business units.

Job description

Chevron Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Geophysicist focused on Quantitative Interpretation and 4D for land assets. The role emphasizes delivering QI products, mentoring staff, and driving end-user adoption, with a strong background in seismic interpretation and data exploitation.

The successful candidate will bring extensive experience in rock physics, seismic inversion, and multi-asset coordination, working across exploration and development teams to maximize subsurface value.