Job Duties and Qualifications

• Under general supervision, acts as the lead position responsible for the job execution and overall performance for the purpose of providing on-location geological and drilling data collection and reporting to the customer.
• Responsible for company assets on location, and assures that adequate supplies and equipment are present at well site at all times.
• Offers advice on equipment capabilities.
• Gathers accurate and factual logging information (Depth, Gas Units and Composition, Rate of Penetration, Lag Time, etc).
• Interprets logging information to determine occurrence and composition of any oil and/or gas shows which occur while drilling.
• Analyses and documents according to SDL zone of interest and/or show reports.
• Provides lithological descriptions of all formations drilled and identify formation name, group, or member.
• Assembles mud logging information into mud logs and drilling database following established SDL and/or customer guidelines and procedures.
• Communicates mud logging information to customers as necessary to fulfill their requirements (morning report, show notification, engineering problems, delivery of mud logs).
• Performs any specialized tests or gathers any additional data as required by the customer.
• Gathers, assembles and assures timely delivery of sets of cuttings samples as per customer requirements.
• Maintains transmittal sheets.
• Performs safe, neat professional rig-up and tear-down when needed.
• Ensure smooth transitions at crew changes and shift changes.
• Completes training appointments as necessary to obtain safety, offshore, or other operations, or customer specific certificates in order to be able to go the designated rig site(s).
• Skills acquired through the completion of an under graduate degree in Geology and a minimum of 2 years relevant field experience and completion of on the job development activities to acquire and demonstrate full competence in the job tasks as detailed in the competency system.
• Ability to demonstrate technical aptitude to standards required.
• Must possess good communication skills, arithmetic, data entry and recording skills.
• Must have successfully passed company tests, or met task guideline requirements.
• This is a field position.