Our client, one of the industry’s more significant oil and gas producers is aggressively pursuing a number of “pure” exploration plays throughout the Basin and is seeking an exceptional individual to join its Exploration Team as its:

Senior Exploration Petrophysicist

Working closely with the Director of Exploration and the teams Geologists, you will be an active participant in the identification, evaluation and execution of new exploration investment opportunities through your Petrophysical assessments and analyses.

A professional Geoscientist or Engineer with advanced training in Petrophysics, the preferred candidate will undertake comprehensive Petrophysical evaluations that define the Expected Ultimate Resource (EUR) of a play trend through log & core analysis. Your industry background will cover the entire range of Petrophysical issues encountered from exploration to development including the design of well logging programs, quality control of acquired log data, formation evaluations of critical wells, creating final log curve for input in reservoir models, reservoir characterization, and determining rock properties for seismic models. Familiar with various software packages, you will provide time critical log evaluations for drilling operations while integrating your Petrophysical work with geophysics, geology and reservoir engineering.

Tenacious, analytical and creative, your well developed interpersonal and communication skills coupled with strong organizational and project management abilities will allow you to contribute to and provide your expertise and opinion on a multitude of ongoing plays and prospects. Possessing a pleasant, enthusiastic and mature personality, the ideal candidate will be recognized as being the ultimate team member through their ability to share and encourage new ideas and concepts.

Interested candidates confident of their ability to apply their expertise within an exciting new exploration team are encouraged to respond to Rob Derkitt in complete confidence at 266-8800 or by email at rob@rjderkittassociates.com.

Our client, an internationally renowned provider of integrated exploration and development geoscience consulting services, requires the expertise and guidance of two seasoned petroleum geoscientists to join the Firm. Consulting to a variety of client organizations with exciting and innovative exploration and development projects within Canada and around the globe, you will apply your technical expertise in the hands-on, pivotal leadership roles of:

Chief Geologist/Chief Geophysicist

The Chief Geologist will be technically proficient and familiar with basin assessment, risk management and play and prospect development techniques. Ideally, your background will include a broad range of geoscience expertise including hydrocarbon systems analysis, sequence stratigraphy, seismic interpretation, geochemistry, reservoir characterization, proficiency with workstations and familiarity with a host of exploration and economic analysis software packages. The Chief Geophysicist will have the structural and stratigraphic mapping skills combined with a proficiency in utilizing log and petrophysical data in order to assess the quality, risks and potential of prospects. Additionally, you will be proficient with the latest technology such as modeling tools, workstations and exploration software including a range of geophysical techniques (2D, 3D & 4D seismic, gravity and magnetics, remote sensing) and their integration into accurate geologic interpretations.

A professional Geologist or Geophysicist with twenty or more years of successful exploration experience augmented with post graduate training, both Chiefs will demonstrate a keen interest in developing, conducting and managing complex technical projects that could include: regional exploration analyses; exploration prospect generation; basin analysis; development planning; property evaluations; reserves determinations; and, operations support. Your well developed interpersonal and communication skills coupled with strong organizational and project management abilities and an extensive network of contacts from within the industry and throughout the regulatory, consulting and academic sectors will allow you to contribute to and provide your expertise and opinion on a multitude of ongoing client projects. Possessing a pleasant, enthusiastic and mature personality, the ideal candidates will be recognized as being the ultimate “mentors” through their ability to share and encourage new ideas and concepts through the presentation of seminars and project studies all with the goal of optimizing the potential of the Firm’s geotechnical capabilities in meeting its client’s goals of developing new reserves. Interested candidates are encouraged to respond in complete confidence by email.

Our client, one of the industries’s more successful Oil and Gas Energy Trusts with a significant portion of its producing assets based in international locations is intent on continued corporate growth through accretive corporate and/or asset acquisitions throughout North America and around the globe. On their behalf, we are seeking technically qualified and highly motivated individuals to take a lead role within their Corporate Business Development team as one of their:

Senior Business Development Professionals

Comfortable in working as part of a small multi-disciplined team of engineers, economists, financial analysts, geologists, geophysicists and commercial specialists, you will be a key part of the group responsible for the identification, evaluation and recommendation of strategic acquisitions that enhance stakeholder value.

As one of the ideal candidates, you will be proficient in some or all of the following areas: economic and business evaluations and modeling; reservoir and exploitation engineering; play and prospect generation and risk assessment; the development and negotiation of agreements and due diligence requirements. Successful candidates will exhibit the organizational and prioritization abilities required to analyze and evaluate a significant number of company assessments at any given time including interfacing with Finance/Tax, Operations, Land and Marketing professionals within the company. Highly motivated, self-starting and analytical, with a strong and varied background in their specialist field, all of the team’s Professionals will be comfortable in providing their technical expertise and collaborative opinions to senior management and the Board regarding the evaluation of both public and private North American and International opportunities. The ideal candidates will be tenacious and entrepreneurial-minded, exhibiting exemplary business, communication and interpersonal skills, while excelling in the fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Qualified (P.Eng. P.Geol.) candidates are invited to respond in complete confidence to Rob Derkitt by telephone or email at rob@rjderkittassociates.com

Our client, a successful E&P Company with significant production and land holdings throughout South America, is seeking an energetic and experienced geologist to join its Exploration team as:

Senior Exploration Geologist

Working closely with the VP Exploration and a multi-disciplinary exploration team, the Senior Geologist will take a proactive, hands-on leadership role with: the exploration for oil; the exploitation of the company’s operated reservoirs; the development of bitumen resources; and, the development of new exploration targets in other South American Basins.

A professional Geologist with at least ten years of combined Clastic and carbonate depositional systems experience, the ideal candidate will be recognized for their creative and innovative generation of prospects which have led to hydrocarbon discoveries within the complex reservoirs and formations found within fold and thrust belt and foreland basin environments. Technically proficient with the integration of seismic and geological data in addition to conducting log analysis and DST evaluations, the Geologist will possess a working expertise with a variety of geological software packages (Petra) and geophysical interpretation concepts and be cognizant with all of the engineering issues associated with a prospects’ viability.

Possessing well developed communication, negotiation and presentation skills, you will demonstrate the organizational and prioritization abilities required to analyze and evaluate the large number of exploration and acquisition prospects in a timely and confidential manner. Flexible, open minded and possessing a cultural sensitivity, you will display a mature, enthusiastic and participative work outlook in the achievement of your team’s goals and objectives by generating viable new exploration prospects in addition to supporting an aggressive development drilling program. Given the international make-up of the Exploration team, preference will be given to those candidates with a good working knowledge of Spanish. As the successful candidate, you can expect a moderate amount of travel to the Company’s South American office and other international locations as required. Interested candidates are encouraged to respond in complete confidence to Rob Derkitt by telephone or email at rob@rjderkittassociates.com