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GEO-Stratigraphy
The Stratigraphy Job Family is responsible for ensuring high quality technical work in stratigraphic analysis, including play element prediction and reservoir characterization relevant to business decisions.
Job Role Summary
The advanced capability carbonate stratigrapher (ACS) is expected to develop a broad range of fundamental geoscience skills (many at expert level) and have the ability to integrate data, concepts and skills to solve geologic problems across exploration, development, production and research functions and influence broad project and strategic directions. Assignments will provide the opportunity to acquire these fundamental skills through on-the-job experience and training. In addition ACS is capable of performing cold-eyes peer reviews across wider regions and business stages to identify critical gaps and issues in existing interpretations and analysis and provide direction to teams and regions. Furthermore, ACS should be able to identify broader technology gaps and steer strategic research and hiring directions.
ACS has the ability to independently construct sequence stratigraphic frameworks and make EOD interpretations using integrated datasets (core, logs, seismic) in complex, subtle and poorly imaged settings. In addition, ACS has advanced expert capabilities in reservoir quality, being able to predict early and late diagenetic process as they relate to EOD and burial history to inform carbonate reservoir characterization. ACS has the ability to mentor and influence across functions and is called upon for assistance in sequence stratigraphic and EOD interpretations across projects and regions.
ACS is typically reached through three to five assignments across different business stages and EODs where the focus is on play element predictions and reservoir characterization.
Performance dimensions including increased effectiveness and efficiency with regard to work quality and quantity, coordination and teamwork, demonstrating leadership, sound decision making, good business judgment and a focus on general interest are extremely important. These advanced technical and non-technical skills are expected to expand in scope and breadth through time, across projects and discipline over the course of a career.
Skills required include the twenty three fundamental skills listed below (mostly Level 2-3) and an informed understanding of internal upstream business terminology, processes and systems. This knowledge will be obtained through a combination of multiple on-the-job experience and basic training. Skills requiring an expert capability (i.e. being able to broadly influence and strategically direct) include seismic interpretation, subsurface mapping and stewarding opportunities and discoveries through the maturation process. In addition, expertise in reservoir characterization requires the ability to take components of reservoir presence and quality to predict rock physical, petrophysical responses as well as provide critical input on reservoir producibility, well completion design and well planning. In particular, an advanced expert capability in reservoir quality as it relates to early diagenesis, EOD and pore water chemistry, as well as burial diagenesis and its relation to temperature and pressure is required to influence reservoir characterization.
ACS should take an active role in their skill and capability development to meet business needs and are encouraged to self-assess in as many skills and capability milestones as appropriate to accurately reflect their technical capabilities. Technical and non-technical skills are developed over the course of a career, including progression up the technical ladder to Senior Technical Professional Advisors, Senior Technical Consultants and Chief Geoscientist, consistent with the Upstream Professional Development Framework. See the GCO SharePoint for further documentation on career path and milestones.
Functional Skills
Behavioral Skills
(B) Adapts
(B) Collaborates
(B) Communicates Effectively
(B) Mentors
(B) Promotes Inclusion
(B) Shows Initiative
(B) Strategic
(B) Analytical
(B) Applies Learning
(B) Innovates
