Specific Responsibilities
APA Corporation is seeking a Geoscience Advisor to join our Deepwater Exploration team in Houston. This is a high-impact role ideal for a proven oil finder who thrives in technically complex environments and has a passion for unlocking new hydrocarbon potential across the globe.
As a Senior Geoscientist in our Exploration team, you will evaluate opportunities from frontier regions to near-field prospects, guiding business decisions with your expertise in seismic interpretation, prospect maturation, and risked volumetric analysis. You'll also provide mentorship, promote collaboration, and drive innovation in subsurface evaluation and data integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct regional technical evaluations and play fairway mapping using:
- 2D/3D seismic, well data, gravity/magnetic datasets, and published literature
- Generate and mature leads and prospects in deepwater depositional systems.
- Apply probabilistic volumetrics and play/prospect risking methodologies.
- Integrate with Commercial, RE, Planning, and HSE teams to assess above ground and technical risk.
- Review and present technical findings to internal leadership and stakeholders.
- Ensure seismic data integrity through close collaboration with seismic processors.
- Mentor staff in Quantitative Interpretation (QI) and subsurface workflows.
- Collaborate with stratigraphers, basin modelers and reservoir engineers to characterize reservoir quality, continuity, and trap integrity.
Technical Expertise
- Advanced seismic interpretation and amplitude analysis (AVO, inversion, etc.).
- Strong background in rock physics, including clastic and carbonate systems.
- Proficiency in Hampson-Russell or similar inversion toolkits.
- Experience in the application of QI workflows to deep water clastic systems.
- Skilled in probabilistic facies and geostatistical inversion techniques.
- Comfortable integrating well and seismic data into QI workflows.
- Experience in complementary subsurface disciplines such as Petrophysics, and downhole data QC.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Master’s degree or higher in Geology or Geophysics (PhD preferred in Geophysics).
- Minimum of 10 years’ industry experience in exploration and subsurface disciplines.
- Proven oil finder with a successful exploration track record in deepwater settings.
- Strong project delivery and cross-functional leadership experience.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and project management skills.
- High ethical standards and demonstrated professional integrity.
- Actively pursues cross-team and cross-discipline collaboration.
- Agile mindset with the ability to work across multiple concurrent projects.
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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