Unconventional Development & Production Geoscientist

Airswift; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Airswift invites an Unconventional Development & Production Geoscientist to join a major oil and gas environment in Spring, TX. You will integrate seismic, well, geological, geochemical, pressure, production, and completion data to advance well placement, recovery, and asset value across field- and development-scale models.

The role emphasizes multidisciplinary decision support, resource evaluation, and development planning for unconventional plays, with focus on geomechanics, frac behavior, and

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or related discipline.
• Significant oil and gas geoscience experience with unconventional reservoir development exposure.
• Experience integrating subsurface interpretation with drilling, completions, reservoir engineering, and production data.
• Experience supporting resource assessment, development planning, and inventory ranking within unconventional assets.
• Experience building regional, field‑scale, and development‑scale geological models.

Responsibilities

• Support multidisciplinary decision‑making by integrating seismic, well, geological, geochemical, pressure, production, and completion data to improve well placement, recovery and long‑term asset value.
• Contribute to field‑scale and development‑scale geological modelling, resource evaluation, and well planning in a technically complex upstream setting.
• Collaborate with teams across the upstream to optimise development sequencing and asset economics.

Skills

Sequence stratigraphy

Sedimentology

Structural interpretation

Petrophysics

Reservoir characterization

Geological modelling

Resource evaluation

Seismic interpretation

Well correlation

Unconventional reservoir

Geomechanics

Hydraulic fracturing

Data integration

Well planning

Uncertainty analysis

Team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Right to work in USA

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent advanced degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline

Job description

Job Title: Unconventional Development & Production Geoscientist Duration: 1 year (possibility of extension) Schedule: 5/40 Location: Spring, TX This opportunity sits within a major oil and gas environment focused on unconventional reservoir development, subsurface interpretation, and development optimisation. The role will support multidisciplinary decision‑making by integrating seismic, well, geological, geochemical, pressure, production, and completion data to improve well placement, recovery, and long‑term asset value. This position offers exposure to field‑scale and development‑scale geological modelling, resource evaluation, and well planning in a technically complex upstream setting.

Required Education:

Master’s degree or equivalent advanced degree in geology, geophysics, petroleum geoscience, or a related discipline

Required Experience:

• Significant oil and gas geoscience experience with unconventional reservoir development exposure
• Experience integrating subsurface interpretation with drilling, completions, reservoir engineering, and production data
• Experience supporting resource assessment, development planning, and inventory ranking within unconventional assets
• Experience building and maintaining regional, field‑scale, and development‑scale geological models

Required Skills:

• Strong capability in sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural interpretation, petrophysics, reservoir characterization, geological modelling, and resource evaluation
• Proficiency in seismic interpretation, well correlation, mapping, volumetric assessment, uncertainty analysis, and well‑development planning
• Strong understanding of unconventional reservoir geomechanics, hydraulic‑fracture behaviour, pressure depletion, well interference, and completion‑performance relationships
• Ability to integrate seismic, well‑log, core, geological, geochemical, pressure, production, and completion data into a coherent reservoir interpretation
• Ability to identify landing zones, well trajectories, lateral lengths, spacing, stacking patterns, and development sequencing
• Ability to support geosteering, offset‑well analysis, pre‑drill prognosis preparation, operational risk assessment, and post‑well evaluation
• Ability to perform probabilistic resource assessments, uncertainty analysis, risking, development scenario evaluation, and inventory ranking
• Strong analytical, collaboration, technical‑assurance, presentation, and stakeholder‑management skills
• Ability to make practical recommendations from incomplete or uncertain datasets while clearly distinguishing observations, interpretations, assumptions, and risks
• Right to work in the USA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Development experience in shale oil, tight oil, shale gas, or liquids‑rich unconventional plays
• Experience progressing an asset from resource appraisal and pilot development through full‑field manufacturing‑scale execution
• Working knowledge of horizontal drilling, geosteering, multi‑stage hydraulic fracturing, microseismic interpretation, fibre‑optic diagnostics, pressure‑interference testing, and production surveillance
• Experience with static modelling, integrated subsurface workflows, machine‑assisted interpretation, and analysis of large well and production datasets
• Familiarity with geological and reservoir software used for interpretation, modelling, well planning, and development optimisation
• Demonstrated success improving landing‑zone selection, well spacing, inventory quality, recovery, or development economics through integrated geoscience analysis

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