Purpose

Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited are looking to recruit a Geophysicist to join our Exploration Licence Group based in Aberdeen. 


The Position

To identify the exploration opportunities in and around the Maersk focus areas within the UKCS. To evaluate and rank the exploration prospects within the UK portfolio and to mature and drill those prospects that add value to the UK business.

Key Responsibilities 

• Conduct regional studies to identify and evaluate the exploration potential and make recommendations on growth opportunities for the company.
• Evaluate the exploration prospectivity within Maersk’s licenced acreage in the UK and provide timely input to corporate portfolio roll-up exercises.
• Identify the key risks associated with prospects and reduce uncertainty through the application of geophysical techniques.
• For the highest ranked exploration/appraisal opportunities, mature to drillable status and provide input to the preparation of Investment Proposals.
• Generate post-well audits to ensure learnings are captured.
• Ensure prospect evaluations are of high quality through attendance at peer assists and reviews.
• Participate in partner meetings to help gain support for Maersk proposals.
• Support data room evaluations to help optimise Maersk’s UK portfolio of opportunities.
• Promote Maersk’s name through participation at technical conferences.

The Candidate

• Educated to degree level - preferably with an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience.
• Previously employed within the exploration or subsurface department of an operating company.
• Experience in conducting regional studies to assess exploration prospectivity.
• Experience in identifying and maturing exploration/appraisal/infill opportunities to drillable status.
• Experience in using the latest geophysical characterisation techniques.
• Exposure to petrophysical and geological characterisation techniques.
• Good communicator with collaborative working style.

Contact information:
If you are interested in this role please apply on line. Only applicants with a legal right to work in the UK will be considered.



About the company:
Maersk Oil Maersk Olie og Gas AS (Maersk Oil) is owned by A.P. Møller – Maersk A/S, and is part of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. Maersk Oil was established in 1962, when Mr A.P. Møller was awarded the Concession for oil and gas exploration and production in Denmark. In 2003, the concession period was extended from 2012 until 2042 and terms and conditions were adjusted as of 1 January 2004. Today, Maersk Oil is a midsize international oil and gas company operating an oil production of about 600,000 barrels per day and a gas production of up to some 1,000 million cubic feet per day. The company has a net equity production exceeding 500,000 barrels of oil equivalents per day from fields in the Danish and British part of the North Sea, offshore Qatar, in Algeria and in Kazakhstan. Activities are ongoing in, among others, the Danish, British and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, Qatar, Algeria, Angola, Kazakhstan, Oman, Brazil and the US Gulf of Mexico. Maersk Oil has been amongst the leaders in developing solutions tailored to meet the North Sea challenges. The main part of Maersk Oil’s operated production is from low permeability, high porosity chalk and limestone reservoirs, which prior to the 1980’s were deemed unattractive due to low production rates. Innovative application of advanced seismic processing techniques as part of a comprehensive state-of-the-art reservoir characterization, combined with ultra long horizontal drilling (up to 12 kilometres) as well as Maersk Oil’s completion and stimulation technology of the horizontal wells, have been the key to the technical success in developing these chalk fields. In addition, attention to health and safety, a strong respect for the environment and a cost conscious operation have made Maersk Oil grow to become one of the world's top 25 independent oil and gas producing companies. It is Maersk Oil's strategic intent to continue this growth. The company believes that this can be achieved by fully utilizing the potential of existing production areas and establishing and growing material business in new areas.