Senior Geosteering Lead: Real-Time Drilling & Strategy

Anschutz Exploration; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 185,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Anschutz Exploration invites a Lead Operations Geologist to provide technical and organizational leadership across pre-drill planning, real-time drilling operations, and post-well evaluation. You will manage geosteering personnel, coordinate with asset geologists, drilling engineers, mudloggers, and field teams to ensure safe, efficient well delivery and timely, actionable interpretations.

The role emphasizes mentorship, standardization of workflows, and clear communication of recommendations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Geology, Geoscience, Geophysics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of oil and gas geoscience experience, including operations geology and geosteering.
• Experience supporting unconventional horizontal-well development.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily geosteering activities, staffing, coverage, priorities, and escalation protocols.
• Integrate logs, seismic, core, mudlogs, geochemistry, petrophysics, production, and offset-well data.
• Coordinate geologic inputs for directional plans, bottom-hole locations, target lines, and landing points.
• Provide operational geology oversight from spud through total depth, with focus on curve and lateral execution.
• Lead post-well reviews and finalize geosteering interpretations.
• Balance reservoir objectives with directional constraints, operational risk, and drilling efficiency.

Skills

Geosteering leadership

Data integration

Mentoring

Real-time operations

Communication skills

Decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Geology/Geoscience/Geophysics

10+ years oil & gas geoscience experience

Unconventional horizontal-well experience

Tools

Geosteering software

StarSteer

GeoGraphix

Spotfire

Power BI

Python/SQL data analysis

Job description

Anschutz Exploration invites a Lead Operations Geologist to provide technical and organizational leadership across pre-drill planning, real-time drilling operations, and post-well evaluation. You will manage geosteering personnel, coordinate with asset geologists, drilling engineers, mudloggers, and field teams to ensure safe, efficient well delivery and timely, actionable interpretations.

The role emphasizes mentorship, standardization of workflows, and clear communication of recommendations