Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Senior Petrophysicist
Job Description:
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Type of hiring: Contract
Accountabilities
- Deliver near real-time formation evaluations to support drilling operations and provide guidance on data acquisition strategies.
- Plan and manage cost-effective logging and coring programmes, including the design and analysis of RCAL/SCAL laboratory results, ensuring quality control and assurance.
- Perform advanced petrophysical evaluations using well logs, core samples, and other subsurface data to identify hydrocarbon-bearing zones and assess reservoir properties.
- Liaise with core laboratories to specify petrophysical analysis requirements and recommend best practices to ensure the acquisition of high-quality data.
- Undertake reservoir characterisation studies to understand rock and fluid properties, developing rock typing from core and log data.
- Plan, execute, and oversee petrophysical studies for reservoir characterisation and volumetric resource assessments.
- Provide input for the development of both static and dynamic reservoir models.
- Present findings and recommendations to multidisciplinary teams, senior management, Joint Venture Partners, and host authorities.
- Implement innovative techniques to enhance petrophysical evaluations and workflows.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Petroleum Geology or Earth Sciences.
- A minimum of 10 years' experience in an exploration and production company or a service-related logging firm.
- In-depth knowledge of MWD/LWD, wireline logging tools, and formation evaluation techniques.
- Extensive experience in planning and overseeing data acquisition programmes, particularly well logging.
- Proven experience in designing and ensuring quality control for laboratory analysis of rock properties.
- Expertise in screening carbonate and coal formations, determining VSH/VCL, and optimising methods for log porosity and permeability calculations, calibrated against RCA/SCAL and DST data.
- Proficiency in determining methods for water saturation calculations, including the use of saturation height functions and the calibration of J-Functions with log water saturation at observed contacts.
- Skilled in the use of industry-standard petrophysical interpretation software such as Geolog, Techlog, and IP.
- Familiarity with the evaluation of vintage logs.
- Strong communication skills, with experience working in multinational environments.
- A self-motivated individual capable of working independently with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated skills in negotiation, organisation, communication, and interpersonal relations.
- Local candidates will be primarily considered.