Subsurface team
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Professional disciplines within a subsurface team.[1] Table on page 6 of [1].
Job title | Job description |
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Subsurface manager | Manages and coordinates the work of everyone in the subsurface team. |
Production geologist | Responsible for understanding and modeling the geological framework of the reservoir. Helps to identify and plan new well locations. |
Geophysicist | Spends much of his/her time interpreting seismic data to define the reservoir structure and fault distribution. Where the seismic data allow, depositional environment, rock, and fluid properties can also be characterized. |
Petrophysicist | A key task is to analyze wireline logs to quantify the rock and fluid properties of the reservoir at the well scale. |
Technical assistant | Provides technical support to the team. This includes data management, data preparation, and computer mapping. |
Reservoir engineer | Predicts how much oil and gas a field is likely to produce, and may use a computer simulation of reservoir performance to analyze how the field will behave as well as taking a lead in reservoir management activities. |
Production engineer | Responsible for optimizing all the mechanical aspects of hydrocarbon production from the wellbore to the surface facilities. |
Production chemist | Analyzes and treats problems related to scale formation, metal corrosion, drilling fluids, wax formation, and solids precipitation between the reservoir and the surface facilities. |
Drilling engineer (Well engineer) | Plans the mechanical aspects of any well operations including drilling new wells. |
Economist | Costs and evaluates any economic activity relevant to the subsurface. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shepherd, M., 2009, Oil Field Production Geology: AAPG Memoir 91, 350 p.