Geophysical Processing Imaging Specialist

 

 

About us

 

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ExxonMobil's state-of-the-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.

 

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What role you will play in our team

 

We are looking to hire dynamic, creative, and resourceful candidates for ExxonMobil’s seismic processing core group in Spring, Texas.  Candidates will be responsible for delivering seismic imaging solutions to the company business lines on challenging geophysics problems by leveraging state-of-the-art processing technologies. Candidates will be expected to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to understand business and technical challenges, develop appropriate seismic imaging solutions, lead and execute the processing projects, and deliver the products while ensuring uptake by the teams.

What you will do

 

Responsibilities include:

 

• Contribute to and lead all stages of seismic processing including signal processing, velocity model building, depth imaging, and full wavefield inversion. 

• Conduct analysis, recognize issues, support the formulation of new and innovative workflows and methods to resolve problems, and ensure optimal quality of results.  

• Work with research geophysicists and computational scientists to deliver new seismic processing technologies and algorithms. 

• Direct and influence vendor-leveraged processing projects.

 

About you

 

Skills and Qualifications

 

• MS or PhD in Geophysics, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related technical discipline

• Knowledge of seismic acquisition techniques, seismic data processing, seismic wave propagation, depth imaging, full wavefield inversion

• 5+ years’ experience in hands-on production-scale seismic processing and imaging within the Oil and Gas industry, with demonstrated record of technical problem solving and innovation

• Experience in working in High Performance Computing (HPC) environment 

• Proficiency in English

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred knowledge / Skills / Abilities

 

• OBN and land data processing and imaging 

• Processing and analysis of 4D seismic data

• FWI application and research

• Quantitative interpretation and geophysical analysis of seismic data 

Your benefits

 

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