Chevron Oil & Gas Job Vacancy Ph.D Degree : Seismic Processing Research Geophysicist, August 2009

Chevron is one of the world's largest integrated energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, we conduct business in more than 100 countries. We are engaged in every aspect of the crude oil and natural gas industry, including exploration and production, manufacturing, marketing and transportation, chemicals manufacturing and sales, geothermal, and power generation. We're also investing in renewables and advanced technologies.

Chevron conducts business in countries around the world which offers you diverse opportunities for continued growth — both professionally and personally. You'll work with colleagues around the world, you'll travel, and maybe you'll even live and work in another country. In all the locations and communities in which we operate, Chevron employees are united by common values and our mission to find new, cleaner ways to power the world.

Job Title: Seismic Processing Research Geophysicist
Requisition Number: 032213073
Job is available
in these cities: San Ramon, California, USA
Houston, Texas, USA

Overview of Position: Chevron Corporation is one of the world’s leading energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, and conducting business in approximately 180 countries, the company is engaged in every aspect of the oil and natural gas industry, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transportation; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation.

Chevron Energy Technology Company (ETC) is accepting online applications for the position of Seismic Processing Research Geophysicist located in San Ramon, California or Houston, Texas.

Overview:

ETC has an immediate opening on the Seismic Processing R&D Team in San Ramon, California, or Houston, Texas, for experienced Research and Development Land Data Processing Geophysicist.

The successful candidate will be part of a R&D team responsible for conducting research and developing advanced true amplitude data processing algorithms and workflows improving seismic data quality. Travel is necessary for communication and collaboration in research projects, deployment of new technologies and workflows as well as educational seminars and conferences.
Position Details: Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

# Conduct independent geophysical research and develop efficient processing algorithms and applications targeted for land and multi-azimuth data.
# Work closely with the seismic imaging, acquisition, and velocity modeling R&D and services teams to create integrated, interpretative solutions and workflows for processing and analyzing seismic data.
# Mentor, support and teach other earth scientists in using the software and workflows that are developed.
# Work collaboratively with R&D technology, service and business unit teams around the world for successful and rapid implementation of new technology to be applied on seismic data.
# Robust software implementations of land seismic data processing applications into an internal, integrated seismic data processing platform (ProMax) running on high performance, parallel computing Linux clusters.
# Communicate R&D results to peers, users, customers, and management.

Required Qualifications:

# A Ph.D. in Geophysics.
# A minimum of 4 years of directly related Oil and Gas industry experience as a researcher and developer creating robust software applications (production-level code) and workflows for land seismic data processing.
# Experience with developing extensions and enhancements to current technology (scope, frame, prototype, commercialize, deploy, support, maintain and renew technology).
# Demonstrated proficiency in programming in C++, C, FORTRAN, Java and MPI to build computationally efficient (parallel) 3D applications on high performance Linux clusters.
# Experience with deployment of 2D/3D seismic data processing applications onto Linux Clusters and into production data processing platforms.
# Experience with transferring technology to service and business unit teams worldwide for application on seismic data (includes development of workflows, workshops, documentation, mentoring and training earth scientists on how to use the technology).
# Experience with managing projects: planning, directing, coordinating, and conducting earth science research.
# Ability to work collaboratively with other R&D, service, operations, and business units worldwide.
# Excellent communication skills.
# Broad theoretical and practical understanding of geophysics, signal processing, wave propagation, and inversion especially in the areas of statics, attenuation, denoise, for land and multi-azimuth data processing.
# Expertise in 2D/3D seismic data processing from field tapes through post migration enhancements.
# Proficiency in modern software development methods such as object-oriented design, parallel programming and interactive applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

# Ability to develop applications for the ProMax Seismic Data Processing platform or interactive GUIs.

Relocation Options:

# Relocation may be considered within Chevron parameters.

EOE M/F/D/V
Education Required: Doctorate
Education Required
Discipline: Geophysics
Employment Status: Full Time
City: San Ramon
State: California
Country: USA
Relocation Eligible: Yes

For More Information just go to : careers.chevron.com

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