South Atlantic Petroleum Limited Recruits Senior Geophysicist

South Atlantic Petroleum Limited is an indigenous Oil exploration and Production Company, whose vision is to be the best indigenous Oil Company, striving to build a better Nigeria. SAPETRO seeks top talent to enable her achieve this vision.

To support maximization of our existing assets and the pursuit of our business expansion agenda, we seek talented, enthusiastic, innovative and multi-tasking individuals to fill the below position of:

Job Title: Senior Geophysicist
Ref: SA012
Reports To: Manager, Geosciences

Key Roles

• The ideal candidate should have strong seismic interpretation skills, and be an experienced user of modern PC based exploration tools including Petrel and Kingdom.
• The individual will need to be a creative prospect generator, with a proven track record in exploration.
• Experience as a project lead is important.
• Experience gained working internationally would be an advantage, however the candidate is expected to have experience in mature areas and with maturation of frontier environments.
• Should be conversant with working on AVO studies and also have experience with seismic modelling.
• A good understanding of seismic processing is important, for work program planning and design.

Accountabilities

• Carry out integrated subsurface interpretations to evaluate prospects’ primary risk parameters of structure presence, structure effectiveness, reservoir presence, reservoir effectiveness and charge.
• Must be confident with synthetic well ties, velocity analysis, depth conversion, qualitative AVO/offset gather analysis and rock physics.
• Carry out quantitative seismic inversion and AVO analysis.
• Assist in the preparation of volumetric & economic analyses for prospects & well locations.
• Help high-grade acreage in which to pursue new play concepts within region.
• Advise Management of geological and seismic data acquisition opportunities, seismic data reprocessing, new technology applications and technical services.
• Prepare Exploration plans and work programs.
• Monitor drilling wells & conduct post drill revjews.
• Recommend and manage geoscience studies with internal and external service providers.
• Monitor/evaluate competitor activity. Build and maintain cross departmental technical relationships.
• Recognize and recommend commercially attractive business opportunities.
• Evaluate prospects available through farm-ins and joint venture opportunities. Interpret technical data over existing lease inventory, finalize maps and support data, evaluate risk and prepare recommendations.
• Provide creativity and technical leadership to the team. Develop support staff and mentor emerging professionals.

Requirements

• Minimum of a 2nd Class Honours University degree in Geology and/or Geophysics.
• An M.Sc in Geophysics.
• Approximately 7 to 10 years as a seismic interpreter.
• Good organizational and numerical skills.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Good leadership and mentoring skills.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
• Good team spirit.
• Innovative with good presentation skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills.
• Conversant with the use of Microsoft Office Tools.

Application Closing Date
7th February, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs (Microsof tWord Format) as an attachment to jobopportunities@owel-linkso.com. Using Senior Geophysicist - SA012 as the subject of your email.