Project Lead – Geoscience & Development

 

Contract type: Consultant, estimated duration 12 to 18 months.

Location: Luanda, remote work can be accommodated for set periods. 

 

Accountable for building the Company’s internal technical capability to manage, develop and grow the acquired deepwater asset from a subsurface and engineering standpoint. Leads readiness for both near-term and long-term production growth, and ensures the asset’s full technical and subsurface data heritage is captured and integrated into the Company’s systems.

WORKSTREAMS

•      Development / Engineering: Defining the G&G and engineering team structure, technical priorities and roadmap to FID readiness.

•      Exploration: Building a full technical data inventory (seismic, wells, logs, cores), consolidating historical interpretations, and identifying and closing legacy data gaps.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

•     Incremental production readiness: Ensuring the Company has the data, baseline and team needed to define a path forward.

•     Technical team: Owning how the Company’s G&G and engineering function is built, resourced and led.

•     Subsurface data heritage: Ensuring the completeness of the technical knowledge and data received from the outgoing operator.

•     Technical standards: Owning how technical work is governed under the Company’s operatorship.

KEY COMPETENCIES

•     Technical authority: Commands the respect of a subsurface team through depth of knowledge.

•     Development judgement: Understands what it takes to move a deepwater project from concept to final investment decision, and where the critical risks and decisions sit.

•     Team building: Has built or rebuilt a technical function before, and knows what it takes to operate at the standard a deepwater operator requires.

•     Project management: Able to plan and sequence a technical readiness programme against FID and Day 1 milestones.

EXPERIENCE & REQUIREMENTS

•     Experience: Minimum 15 years in subsurface, reservoir engineering or upstream development within Oil & Gas.

•     PMI track record: Experience in technical integration during M&A, carve-outs or asset acquisitions is valued but not required; deep technical seniority in the subsurface domain, combined with knowledge of West African deepwater assets, carries equal weight.

•     Alternative benchmark: Where PMI integration experience is absent, candidates should demonstrate seniority as a Chief Geoscientist, Lead Reservoir Engineer or equivalent, with a record of leading technical teams through major capital development decisions in deepwater settings.

•     Technical depth: Strong credentials across G&G (geoscience, geophysics, petrophysics) and development engineering in deepwater settings; knowledge of Angolan or analogous West African deepwater assets is a differentiator.

•     Language: Fluent English is mandatory; Portuguese is an advantage.

•     Working style: Able to work autonomously on a full-time basis, with in-country travel for key technical and investment milestones.