Responsibilities
- Working in wellsite units collecting, processing, logging and analysing geological samples.
- Using various laboratory techniques to evaluate detailed and complex data for signs of oil or gas.
- Monitoring computer recordings of drillings.
- Interpreting information and feeding it back to the drilling team to enhance safety and success.
- Operating and maintaining a real-time computer-based data acquisition system, the advanced logging system (ALS), which records all aspects of rig activity.
- Undertaking some on-site maintenance, for which knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems is useful.
- Taking on the primary health and safety role for the well through constant monitoring of all critical drilling parameters.
- Predicting dangerous situations, such as over-pressured formations.
- Assisting the wellsite geologist during coring operations
- Reporting to the wellsite geologist and the oil company in written reports.
- Frequently acting as a drilling engineer, collating and then logging details of drilling operations in oil company computer systems.
- Good computer skills
- The ability to work with sophisticated technology.
- The capacity to absorb a range of technical information in areas such as geology, chemistry, mechanics, electricity, electronics and computer science.
- strong mathematical skills
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Decision-making ability
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also as part of a team.
- The capability to cope in stressful conditions.
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