Senior Technical Geophysicist – Quantitative Interpretation & 4D

Oil Authority; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

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.

Skills

Quantitative interpretation

Rock physics

Seismic inversion

Elastic properties

Seismic attribute analysis

Land operations experience

Technical leadership

Education

Master's degree in Geophysics, Geology, Physics, or related Earth Science

Tools

Petrel

Hampson-Russell

Jason

Job description

Total Number of Openings

1

Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Senior Technical Geophysicist – Quantitative Interpretation & 4D through 9/18/2026 at 11:59 p.m. (CST).

Chevron's Geophysics Center of Excellence is seeking a highly experienced technical geophysicist to strengthen our Quantitative Interpretation and 4D (QI/4D) team, with a specific focus on land assets. This role is centered on quantitative interpretation and, most importantly, on deploying geophysical products to end users and ensuring those products are fully exploited to maximize subsurface value.

The successful candidate will bring 15–20 years of industry experience and a proven track record that already includes planning seismic surveys, overseeing seismic data processing and imaging, and building rock physics models. Rather than performing those upstream activities as the primary duty, the geophysicist will draw on that deep background to deliver, integrate, and champion QI products, so that end users, from exploration and development teams through drilling and completions, extract full value from the data. The position requires a seasoned practitioner who works independently, sets technical direction, mentors others, and communicates effectively across technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

Quantitative Interpretation Delivery

• Lead the delivery of quantitative interpretation products across land assets, including rock physics modeling, seismic inversion, elastic-property estimation (Vp, Vs, density), and seismic attribute analysis.

• Perform and QC well ties, wavelet extraction, synthetic generation, fluid substitution, AVO modeling, and tuning analysis that underpin robust QI outputs.

• Ensure QI products are physically consistent, well-calibrated, and fit for purpose for the decisions they support.

Product Deployment to End Users

• Deploy geophysical and QI products out to end users, including asset exploration and development teams and drilling and completions groups, translating technical outputs into decision-ready insight.

• Partner closely with interpreters, geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir and drilling engineers to embed QI products into their workflows and models.

• Provide training, documentation, and hands‑on guidance so end users can confidently apply and interpret the products delivered.

Ensuring Full Exploitation of Geophysical Products

• Act as a steward for the data and products, ensuring every geophysical asset, from seismic volumes to inversion and attribute products, is fully exploited rather than under‑utilized.

• Identify gaps where available data or products are not being leveraged and drive their uptake to unlock additional subsurface value.

• Apply elastic properties and attributes to reservoir characterization, lithology and fluid discrimination, and uncertainty quantification in support of end‑user objectives.

Exploration, Development & Well Delivery Support

• Support exploration prospect evaluation and de‑risking, and provide QI input to development decisions, reservoir model constraint, and 4D screening where applicable.

• Apply geophysical knowledge to support drilling and completions, including seismic‑based pore pressure prediction.

• Deliver depth prognosis and time‑to‑depth conversion for accurate well landing, with associated depth uncertainty analysis.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

• Set technical direction and standards for QI workflows; peer review and QC the work of others.

• Mentor and coach junior geophysicists and partner effectively with ENGINE and business‑unit practitioners.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across multiple basins and both conventional and unconventional land plays.

• Familiarity with industry QI and interpretation software (e.g., Petrel, Hampson‑Russell, Jason) and processing/imaging environments.

• Experience with 4D seismic feasibility, geomechanics integration, and mechanical earth model support.

• Application of ML/AI to accelerate reservoir characterization and workflow automation.

Relocation Options:

Relocation may be considered within Chevron parameters.

International Considerations:

Expatriate assignments will not be considered.

Chevron regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time‑limited Visa status for this position.

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