Geologist

**About Us**
- Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.

Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.

At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.

Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.

For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.

Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.

The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.

Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions - Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids - are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.

**About the Role**
- As a **Geologist **in the QLD/NSW Subsurface Team, you will identify and develop future well locations, ensuring they are drill-ready and supporting operations during drilling. Your work will integrate drilling results into field models and development plans, enhancing our coal seam gas projects in the Surat, Bowen, and Gunnedah Basins.

Focusing on coal seam gas and emerging tight sand and deep coal plays in the Bowen Basin, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to analyse geological data and optimise drilling strategies.
- Key accountabilities include:

- Undertake comprehensive identification, resource evaluation, and risk assessment of hydrocarbon potential in fields and for appraisal/development drilling opportunities.
- Create and manage detailed field development plans, including post-drill evaluations to enhance field performance expectations, identify remaining drilling opportunities, and assess associated risks and uncertainties.
- Conduct and document extensive field-wide and semi-regional geoscience studies, build and maintain static reservoir models, and assist in pinpointing new drilling and field development opportunities.
- Provide real-time operational support during drilling, including monitoring operations, assisting with operational recommendations, and making evaluation and directional steering decisions.
- Complete and support accurate estimates of field reserves, production potential, and associated risks using established company procedures and processes, ensuring ongoing updates and accuracy.
- Ensure all technical work undergoes rigorous assurance through the Company Subsurface Assurance process, participate in peer reviews, and document and report findings for both working-level use and internal/external stakeholder engagement.

**About You**

**Experience**
- Essential:

- 3-8 years in the oil and gas industry, including Coal Seam Gas.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary subsurface team supporting field appraisal and development plans.
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely to stakeholders and management.
- Proven self-starter and self-guided, with the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively with key stakeholders and multi-disciplinary team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills that can be applied across disciplines and management levels.
- Desirable:

- CSG modelling and/or operational experience.
- Experience building geologic models using the Petrel software suite.
- Experience in CSG resources assessments, formulating, documenting, and presenting to resource certifiers.
- Geophysical interpretation.
- Ideally, you will be a degree qualified Geoscientist with demonstrable, significant training and experience within the oil and gas industry.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**
- Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and tha