Global Energy Petro Geophysical Software Specialist

This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

About the Company

This company engages in the exploration production transportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It operates through the following segments: Upstream Downstream and Corporate. The Upstream segment includes crude oil natural gas and natural gas liquids exploration field development and production. The Downstream segment focuses on refining logistics power generation and the marketing of crude oil petroleum and petrochemical products and related services to international and domestic customers. The Corporate segment offers supporting services including human resources finance and information technology. The company was founded on May 29 1933 and is headquartered in Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

Job Summary

We are seeking a geophysical application analyst to join Geophysical Applications Division of Exploration Applications Services Department. The Geophysical Applications Division (GAD) core responsibilities include support of a large user base in Exploration with wide range of geoscience applications technologies and solutions spanning the whole upstream spectrum from Exploration to Development. As Oil and Gas exploration in Saudi Arabia has moved to higher levels of complexity and more challenging frontiers GAD is committed as ever to acquire and develop state of the art technologies and to hire the bestinclass geoscientists to meet the growing energy demand and achieving net zero emissions by 2060 as strategized by the 2030 vision of Saudi Arabia. As a geoscientist working in GAD you will be involved in developing workflows that integrates multidisciplinary upstream data utilizing mainstream G&G software platforms such as AspenTechs Paradigm and Schlumbergers Omega among multiple other specialized software. You will work closely with exploration and development geophysicists leveraging an indepth experience in industryleading Geophysical software to conduct advanced seismic processing inversion and imaging including rockphysics analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recommend and conduct studies on extending computing technology into profitable areas of Geophysical Processing and Interpretation technical activities.
• Collaborate with Exploration customer representatives to identify opportunities for computer assistance.
• Prepare proposals for higher management regarding Geophysical Processing systems projects.
• Endorse technical applications with a high degree of operational feasibility.
• Initiate and conduct continuous research into advanced systems concepts and latest developments in techniques and applications related to Geophysical Processing systems.
• Maintain close liaison with U.S. Company representatives to explore programming systems developed that may benefit This Company.
• Participate in technical societies activities to stay updated on advancements in Geological/Geophysical mapping modeling and data display techniques.
• Provide advice on internal department work procedures to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Apply best practices to foster a collaborative disciplined and wellgoverned work environment.

Requirements:

• Willingness to relocate to Dhahran Saudi Arabia.
• Hold a Bachelors degree in Geosciences High Performance Computing (HPC) or a related field. An MSc or PhD degree in geosciences is desirable.
• Possess extensive recent industry experience working on geoscience projects studies and operations.
• Demonstrate intensive knowledge in a wide range of geological and geophysical disciplines including exploration seismic processing inversion imaging rockphysics and other related disciplines. Specialization in specific subdisciplines is advantageous.
• Have masterylevel knowledge and experience in GPU development including porting high computeintensive geophysical algorithms (such as depth migration) onto GPU architecture.
• Possess experience with seismic processing applications and High Performance Computing along with programming skills in C/C Fortran and Python. Additionally have expertise in GPU acceleration and Unix/Linux background.
• Possess knowledge to deal with 2D and 3D seismic data conducting velocity models seismic attributes inversion spectral decomposition AVO AVA and be wellfamiliar with quantitative and prestack seismic imaging.

Geophysical,Imaging