Senior Processing Geophysicist

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Geophysics or Geology.
  
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in geophysical operations within oil & gas E&P, including 4 years’ experience working on advanced geophysical workflows that interrogate seismic waveform for lithology and fluid signature.
  

Required Professional Certifications / Accreditations / Registrations:

• Project Management Professional (PMP), National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) or other recognized geophysical professional certifications.
  

Seismic Processing Planning & Workflow Design

• Design end-to-end seismic processing workflows by integrating acquisition parameters, geologic objectives, and QC criteria so that optimal imaging sequences are selected to reduce uncertainty in structural and stratigraphic interpretation.
  
• Define processing objectives through multidisciplinary collaboration and technical scoping to ensure that workflows are aligned with exploration and development goals for improved drilling decisions.
  
• Conduct feasibility studies using test processing, velocity scans, and noise diagnostics to select the most appropriate algorithms that enhance signal fidelity and reservoir detectability.
  
• Customize processing strategies for vintage and multi-survey data by harmonizing geometries and statics to deliver a consistent merged dataset that supports basin-wide evaluations
  

Seismic Reprocessing Project Management & Contractor Oversight

• Oversee day-to-day processing steps using QC checkpoints, parameter testing, and iterative refinement to ensure high-resolution seismic volumes suitable for structural and stratigraphic interpretation.
  
• Apply advanced noise attenuation, deghosting, demultiple, and anisotropic imaging algorithms to enhance signal penetration and imaging clarity for complex subsurface environments.
  
• Validate contractor processing workflows by reviewing logs, QC reports, and intermediate products, and coordinate technical workshops through collaborative review sessions to ensure technical-standard compliance, strengthen alignment between operators, contractors, and interpreters, and ultimately enhance cross-disciplinary decision-making and overall processing quality.
  

Subsurface Imaging Optimization (Velocity Modeling, Migration & AVO/RTM)

• Build high-resolution velocity models using tomography, well ties, and geological constraints, and optimize AVO, inversion-preconditioning, and attribute-ready processing sequences to improve depth accuracy, reduce structural uncertainty, enhance reservoir property prediction, and increase hydrocarbon detectability.
  
• Ability to generate, QC, and interpret seismic attributes (e.g., RMS, sweetness, variance, coherence, spectral decomposition) to enhance structural and stratigraphic understanding.
  
• Performs quantitative interpretation including rock physics modelling, AVO/AVA, inversion preconditioning, elastic property extraction to support reservoir characterization and hydrocarbon prediction as well perform integrated seismic interpretation to delineate structures, horizons, faults, channels and stratigraphic traps.
  

Technical Governance, Standards, Innovation & Contractor Management

• Implement emerging geophysical technologies such as FWI, ML-based noise attenuation, compressive imaging, cloud-based processing or machine learning classification through structured trials to enhance speed, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness of decision-making.
  
• Benchmark OER’s technical practices against global standards through active participation in professional networks, conferences, and peer reviews to maintain operational excellence.
  
• Establish and enforce seismic processing technical standards to ensure consistency and adherence to global best practices across all projects.
  

Team Leadership, Development & Stakeholder Engagement

• Provide coaching and technical mentoring for junior geophysicists and geophysical students in work attachment and internship to build capability, promote career growth, and ensure operational continuity.
  
• Drive collaboration across drilling, geology, reservoir, and HSE functions by coordinating integrated subsurface studies that ensure geophysical inputs directly influence business outcomes.
  
• Prepare and deliver data-driven technical presentations and reports to management and joint venture partners to support exploration investment decisions and operational approvals.