Exploration Geoscientist

Shell is seeking an Exploration Geoscientist to join its team in Houston.

The Exploration, Strategy and Portfolio (ESP) organization focuses on the Exploration & Appraisal components of the Hydrocarbon value chain across the world. We are looking for a Geoscientist with integrated exploration evaluation experience in deepwater depositional settings.

Accountabilities:

• Report to one of the team leads within the Opportunity Identification/Emerging Ventures organization in ESP
• Deliver regional play-based evaluations, identify and mature new drilling opportunities, and participate in appraisal workflows
• Deliver high quality integrated subsurface evaluations leading to impactful decisions towards acreage access or drilling activities
• Work with an integrated group of subsurface professionals across a play/basin
• Work at both the basin scale and the lead/prospect scale
• Monitor and analyze competitor activity
• Work closely with the assets to ensure an end-to-end delivery of projects, reducing handover and cycle time

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• Must have Master's or PhD degree in Geoscience is a plus
• Exploration geoscientist with 5 years relevant experience
• Must be a geologist or geophysicist with seismic interpretation and prospect evaluation / exploration experience and a technical delivery track record
• Must have mastery in at least one of the following areas, and proficiency in the others: Lead-to-Prospect Maturation, QC seismic data/provide geologic scenarios, Prospect-to-Well Delivery, regional play-based evaluation (PBE)
• Must have experience in at least one of the following: Manage Seismic Processing Projects, Play identification, Lead Portfolio Generation, New Business/Farm-in, Heartland Rejuvenation PBE
• Exploration mindset to evaluate and communicate a range of credible subsurface scenarios that can lead to new opportunities. Comfortable to manage & communicate high subsurface uncertainty
• Clear on intent: end-to-end mindset, focus efforts on key risks & uncertainties that will inform the decision in hand. Know when to stop
• Best-in-class data and information management skills, and demonstratable willingness to experiment with new workflows
• Ability to communicate how multi-discipline and multi-source evaluations are integrated in support of play-based evaluations and/or prospect maturation
• Exhibits leadership behaviours by demonstrating a learner mindset, and living the organi