VacantInfo

Helping you to find a career which suits you best.

Petroleum Geochemist


Petroleum Geochemist


We are now seeking a Petroleum Geochemist to be based at our offices/laboratories in Trondheim, Norway. The position will report to the Senior Geochemist and Managing Director.
Key Accountabilities:
  • Be involved in interpretation and reporting for routine well studies and larger regional studies.
  • Evaluation and handling of different sample types i.e. well cuttings, swc, cores, outcrops and surface sediments as well as oils and gases.   
  • Be able to partake in onshore and offshore fieldwork for surface geochemical sampling, and partaking in the interpretation and reporting of the analyses from these.
  • Responsibility for the application of petroleum geochemistry in a range of exploration and production activities. 
  • Provide expert skills (scientific and project management) within the area of Geochemistry and Petroleum Systems Analysis.
  • Provide assessments for source rock and oil characteristics, distribution and maturity, oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations in routine well, multi-well and reservoir geochemistry studies. Particularly, important is the ability to assess geochemical data quality.
  • Participate on multi-disciplinary teams in new ventures with other Fugro Opcos.
  • Assist with marketing and business development. Coach and mentor non-specialists.
  • Provide project deliverables (analytical data and interpretation) to clients through written communications and presentations.
  • Actively present papers/posters at key scientific and industry meetings/conferences.

Qualifications and desired knowlegde:
  • BSc. Geology degree or equivalent, MSc. Petroleum Geochemistry degree or similar
  • Experience in petroleum geochemistry studies, of value would be knowledge of the common analytical techniques used in petroleum geochemistry. Laboratory experience would be advantageous.
  • Organic Geochemistry of oils, gases and sediments.
  • Kinetics and petroleum generation/expulsion.
  • Geological skills in Petroleum Systems Analysis
  • Tectonic-thermal history of sedimentary basins.
  • Solid geological foundation.
  • Depositional models of sedimentary organic matter.
  • Basin hydrodynamics, fluid flow, pressure, PVT analysis
  • Fluency in both oral and written English (an eye for detail is essential for effective communication with internal and external customers).
  • Experience in Microsoft Office
Personal qualities:
  • Team player with initiative to work on own when required.
  • Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritize and manage workload.
  • Professional and calm in challenging situations.
  • Good communication and presentation skills.
  • Good interpersonal skills at all levels of contact with the ability to network
  • Must be sufficiently fit and prepared to travel internationally, particularly for surface geochemistry projects which will involve sampling offshore and for marketing and project presentations in clients offices.
Fugro Geolab Nor AS offers an informal and international working environment, salary based on agreement, bonus scheme, loss of license insurance, personal insurance and pension scheme.
If you are interested in this role and meet most of the above criteria, send your application/CV by clicking on the Send application/Søk her button and follow the instructions.

Link to the company website: http://www.fugro.no/


PhD Vacancies Aberdeen

Modelling of Transient Flow Regimes of Water-Gas-Oil Multiphase under Subsea conditions

Supervisors

Dr. Lixin Cheng

Funding Eligibility

EU/UK nationals.

Applications from international applicants will be considered provided they can demonstrate the ability to pay the difference in Tuition Fees.

Funding Notes

The National Subsea Research Institute has offered a number of three year fully funded doctoral studentship from 1st September 2009. We welcome applications from students with an interest in the oil & gas industry and subsea engineering to investigate complex multiphase flow. The annual stipend rates for full time students will be £13,290 per year plus fees paid direct to the institution. More information can be found at www.nsri.org.uk

Application Deadline

30 September 2009

References

Description

Multiphase pumping, boosting and metering technologies are critical in the offshore oil and gas industry. However, multiphase flows are a very complex physical process since they combine the characteristics of a deformable interface, channel shape, flow direction and in some cases the compressibility of one of the phases (gas phase). Depending on the operating conditions, such as pressure, temperature, mass velocity, channel orientation (the effect of gravity, which in non-vertical channels tends to pull the liquid to the bottom of the channel), and fluid properties which are widely different combinations of different classes of fluids such as oil-gas, oil-water and oil-gas-water etc. Various gas-liquid or liquid-liquid interfacial geometric configurations occur in multiphase flow systems. To develop and improve multiphase pumping, boosting and metering technologies, it is very important to understand the flow regime characteristics under various operation conditions. The available experiments and models are mostly for steady flow conditions. Whether the available models are applicable to the transient operation conditions in the subsea oil gas production is not well explored. Therefore, the proposed research aims to model the complex transient flow regimes of water-gas-oil (oil-water, oil-gas and oil-water-gas) flows under the complex subsea conditions and to develop the corresponding prediction models for the void fraction, liquid holdup and frictional pressure drops. Design criteria of oil-gas-water multiphase flows under various flow regimes will be proposed. The proposed study is fundamental to the further investigation of multiphase metering, boosting and pumping technologies which have been planned as our long-term research targets in the field of multiphase flow.

NSRI was launched in January 2009 to define a co-ordinated long-term research strategy for the UK subsea industry. NSRI is a partnership between Subsea UK, the University of Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University, the University of Dundee, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. NSRI Studentships fall within over-arching priority research themes related to reliability and integrity, autonomous systems, and offshore geotechnical engineering and fluid dynamics.

The student will be based in NSRI within the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen. The lead supervisor will be Dr Lixin Cheng. The studentship will be co-supervised by an industrial supervisor to be confirmed.

Application Procedure

Formal applications can be completed online: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply.shtml.

Informal academic enquiries should be directed to Dr Lixin Cheng. All general enquiries should be directed to the Graduate School Admissions Unit.