Business Development Geologist

Trinity Operating, LLC is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from onshore properties within the U.S. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, we are a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Our focus is to maintain high operations of explorations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Are you interested in delivering clean-burning natural gas to customers? Join our world-class team today!   

 

Position Specific Description

This role will be at the forefront of identifying and executing on new play concepts adjacent to and beyond our current asset base. 

 

Basic Job description and daily duties:
•    Has extensive experience in the ranking of prospective areas and formulate a development strategy based on basin analysis, risk assessment, ultimate potential, and economic analysis.
•    Has extensive skill in assimilating complex inter-disciplinary data (geological, geophysical, engineering, basin wide framework, structural setting, stratigraphy, thermal maturity, core and cutting, Microseismic data), to generate high-quality oil and gas leads and prospects.
•    Exploration and development experience in multiple onshore US basins, with an emphasis on unconventional reservoirs
•    Strong knowledge of drilling and completion operations.
•    Perform geologic interpretation and mapping, including resource-specific, structural and/or various isopach maps, cross-sections, and production maps. Interprets geologic data utilizing Petrel or Kingdom software.
•    Generate digital presentations for meetings for management.
•    Demonstrated entrepreneurial and growth mindset showing success in evaluating and acquiring assets. 
•    Must be familiar and able to communicate with diverse disciplines including reservoir engineering, operations, marketing, business management, land and upper management including CEO. 
•    Experience developing and fostering relationships with Investment Banks, Industry partners as well as potential partners. 

 

Preferred Qualifications
•    15+ years’ experience
•    Degree: BS/BA Geology/Geophysics. MS preferred.

Job Overview

This job works as a member of an integrated team to identify and evaluate hydrocarbon zones of interest for development by the NextEra Gas Infrastructure group. The primary focus will be on established unconventional plays onshore in the US. Employees in this role will provide a basis for prediction of ultimate hydrocarbon recovery by integrating petrophysical analysis from well log and core data with regional trends and performance history.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

•   Works as a member of an integrated team with reservoir engineers, technical specialists, deal generation and operations
•   Applies familiarity with basic and advanced logging tools to conduct basic petrophysical analysis
•   Builds type curves for new plays
•   Generates structure, isopach and net pay maps
•   Supports reserves determination and economic evaluations
•   Has knowledge of drilling/completion and well operations
•   Mentors less experienced team members and interns
•   Conducts all activities in line with NextEra values
•   Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

•  Bachelor's Degree
•  Experience: 6+ years

Preferred Qualifications

•  Master's Degree

 

Employee Group:  Exempt
Employee Type:  Projectbound FT
Job Category:  Other
Organization:  Trinity Operating (USG), LLC 
Relocation Provided:  Yes, if applicable

 

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

 

NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Pleas