# Exploration Geoscientist

**Company**: Shell
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The Exploration Geoscientist role is suitable for Early Careers professionals with up to three years of experience and will be based in London. It sits within the Exploration, Strategy and Portfolio (ESP) organisation that focuses on the Exploration and Appraisal stages of the hydrocarbon value chain across a global portfolio.

You will help shape the future exploration portfolio by delivering regional play-based evaluations, identifying and maturing new drilling opportunities, and contributing to appraisal and subsurface evaluation activities. Working alongside multidisciplinary experts across geoscience, engineering, and commercial functions, you will influence key exploration decisions and help unlock the potential of assets across diverse geological settings.

**Responsibilities**

- Deliver high-quality integrated subsurface evaluations leading to impactful decisions towards acreage access or drilling activities.

- Deliver fit-for-purpose evaluations applying an end-to-end exploration mindset and ensuring the focus of technical evaluations on subsurface risks and uncertainties that will inform decisions.

- Collaborate with an integrated group of subsurface professionals across a play/basin and lead/prospect scale.

- Partner with the Assets team to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects, reducing handover and cycle time.

**Requirements**

- At least Master's or PhD degree in Geophysics or a related discipline.

- Early career professionals with up to 3 years of experience alongside relevant postgraduate research, internships, or ideally with industry exposure in exploration geoscience.

- Learner mindset eager to develop across a range of subsurface disciplines, including seismic interpretation, prospect evaluation to well delivery, and regional play-based evaluation (PBE) amongst others.

- Technical knowledge of Seismic Evaluation, Imaging & Characterisation, and Quantitative Interpretation (QI).

- Proficiency in relevant subsurface software such as RokDoc, LSS and programming tools including Python, SQL, or Machine Learning.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively engage and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

**Benefits**

- Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

- Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

- Benefit from a flexible work environment with amenability to work onsite at least 3 days per week.

- Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase.

- Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

- Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.

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## Skills

### Required
- Geophysics
- Seismic Evaluation
- Imaging & Characterisation
- Quantitative Interpretation (QI)
- RokDoc
- LSS
- Python
- SQL
- Machine Learning

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