Senior Vice President, Petrophysics
industrial_energy_operations › Petrophysics · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive leader who sets the strategic direction for all petrophysical evaluation and reservoir characterization activities across the organization's asset portfolio.
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Executive leader who sets the strategic direction for all petrophysical evaluation and reservoir characterization activities across the organization's asset portfolio. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Lead multiple integrated subsurface functions (e.g., petrophysics together with reservoir characterization or data management) through VPs, where evaluation decisions materially affect field economics and asset viability.
- Direct cross-functional formation-evaluation strategy that binds core-log integration, cement evaluation, reservoir modeling and development-well planning into a single technical position across a portfolio of fields.
- Negotiate critical technical and commercial matters — data acquisition budgets, appraisal-well scope, partner technical positions — with senior operator and service-company leadership.
- Establish enterprise petrophysical software, programming (Python/MATLAB automation) and workflow standards that govern how interpretation is done across multiple asset teams.
- Arbitrate high-consequence abstract evaluation questions (uncertain saturation, unconventional pay, laminated reservoirs) whose resolution changes booked volumes and drilling commitments.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-functional subsurface strategy, integrating petrophysics with reservoir characterization and data management to abstract, high-consequence evaluation questions.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Decides matters that may impact asset/field viability, arbitrating uncertain evaluation outcomes whose resolution changes drilling commitments and booked volumes.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical technical and commercial matters with top operator and service-company leadership; leads multiple functions/divisions through VPs.
- Typical experience
- 15+ years, with strategic leadership of subsurface functions or significant technical units. Note: source evidence does not directly attest a petrophysics-specific rung at this scope; framed from Radford discriminators.
Skills at this level
- Formation Evaluation Strategy
- — Directs how rock and fluid properties, log-derived saturation, and reservoir quality are assessed across the organization, setting the evaluation basis used for well and field decisions.
- Petrophysical Data Acquisition Governance
- — Sets standards and budgets for wireline and MWD/LWD logging, RCAL/SCAL core measurement, formation pressure and fluid sampling, production logging, and cement evaluation, ensuring acquisition programs return the data formation evaluation depends on.
- Core-Log Integration Leadership
- — Governs how core measurements, well logs and geologic analysis are reconciled into a coherent reservoir characterization, arbitrating discrepancies between core-derived and log-derived rock properties.
- Unconventional & Complex Reservoir Methodology
- — Establishes the approved interpretation approach for thin beds, laminated sands and tight gas/oil, including refined saturation-height methods, where standard log analysis under-reads pay.
- Reserves-Relevant Interpretation Governance
- — Owns the technical framework under which petrophysical interpretation that supports booked volumes is reviewed and approved, managing the enterprise risk carried by saturation and net-pay decisions.
- Cross-Disciplinary Subsurface Integration
- — Aligns petrophysics with geology, geophysics and reservoir/production engineering so that formation-evaluation outputs feed reservoir modeling, development-well planning and enhanced-recovery decisions.
- Petrophysical Software & Automation Standards
- — Sets enterprise standards for interpretation platforms (e.g., Interactive Petrophysics, Geolog, Petrel, WellCAD) and for Python/MATLAB automation of workflows, algorithm development, modeling and visualization across asset teams.
- Technical Arbitration & Standard-Setting
- — Acts as the ultimate technical authority resolving disputed formation-evaluation calls and defining the standards other petrophysicists work within across the organization.
- External Technical Representation
- — Represents the organization's formation-evaluation methodology and reserves positions in partner, regulatory and industry forums, negotiating technical credibility with external stakeholders.
- Technical Talent & Capability Development
- — Builds the petrophysics bench through mentorship of junior interpreters and structured propagation of best practice, converting individual expertise into durable functional capability.
- Stakeholder Technical Communication
- — Translates complex petrophysical concepts and uncertainty into decisions and commitments understood by both technical peers and non-technical executive, board and partner audiences.
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