Senior Director of Petrophysics
industrial_energy_operations › Petrophysics · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive leader who directs the entire petrophysics function across multiple assets or business units.
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What this role is
Senior executive leader who directs the entire petrophysics function across multiple assets or business units. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Leads the petrophysics discipline across multiple functions or divisions through senior managers, shaping long-term subsurface evaluation capability and its effect on company reserves and portfolio success
- Defines long-term discipline strategy on abstract, cross-functional issues — digital petrophysics, machine-learning log interpretation, and enterprise reservoir-characterization standards
- Negotiates with executives on critical formation-evaluation matters affecting major capital commitments and reserves-reporting integrity
- Influences corporate subsurface policy, R&D direction, and strategic partnerships with service providers and technology vendors
- Oversees multiple petrophysics departments and integrated subsurface functions, ensuring evaluation excellence and talent depth across the enterprise
- Knowledge applied
- Defines long-term discipline strategy on abstract, cross-functional issues shaping enterprise reservoir-characterization capability.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-divisional problems — digital/ML petrophysics, enterprise standards — with long-term company impact.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives on critical evaluation matters; influences corporate subsurface policy and strategic partnerships.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years with deep leadership across petrophysics departments or subsurface divisions.
Skills at this level
- Log analysis and core-log integration
- — Directs the analytical core of the discipline — deriving reservoir properties from wireline/LWD logs and calibrating them to core (RCAL/SCAL) and rock physics for reliable formation evaluation.
- Petrophysical data acquisition management
- — Plans and supervises acquisition programs across wireline and MWD/LWD logs, core measurements, formation pressure and fluid sampling, production logging, and cement evaluation.
- Reservoir property uncertainty propagation
- — Ensures porosity, permeability, saturation, and net-to-gross uncertainties are quantified and properly reflected in static and dynamic reservoir models.
- Complex and unconventional reservoir evaluation
- — Applies techniques suited to thin beds, laminated sands, and unconventional plays where standard log responses are ambiguous, setting the methods the team uses.
- Geomechanics and pore-pressure prediction
- — Oversees pore-pressure, minimum horizontal stress, and log-derived mechanical property prediction and comparison to laboratory measurements to inform drilling and completion design.
- Petrophysical software governance
- — Governs the discipline toolchain — Techlog, Geolog, and Interactive Petrophysics — standardizing workflows, templates, and interpretation practices across the team.
- Petrophysical database management
- — Establishes and maintains structured management of well-log, core, and pressure data so multidisciplinary teams work from consistent, quality-controlled records.
- Multidisciplinary subsurface integration
- — Coordinates petrophysical interpretation with geology, geophysics, and reservoir engineering to support well placement, design optimization, and volumetric estimates.
- Formation-evaluation standards and best practice
- — Defines and institutionalizes interpretation standards, QC criteria, and best-practice workflows and mentors staff to apply them consistently.
- Talent development and mentoring
- — Builds discipline depth by mentoring junior and senior petrophysicists, resourcing teams, and developing career paths within the petrophysics function.
- Petrophysics budget and vendor management
- — Owns operating budgets for logging services and software licenses and manages strategic relationships with service and technology providers.
- Reserves and volumetric support
- — Ensures petrophysical inputs to volumetric and reserves estimates are consistent, defensible, and appropriately uncertainty-bounded for booking decisions.
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