Corporate Development Geologist / Data Scientist

Job Summary

The Corporate Development Geologist plays a critical role in evaluating and advancing the company’s strategic growth initiatives by integrating geoscience expertise with advanced data analytics. This position supports mergers and acquisitions (M&A), asset evaluations, portfolio optimization, and new venture screening across the energy value chain.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform geological assessments of prospective acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures across conventional, unconventional, and emerging resource plays
• Develop basin and play-level evaluations to support long-term corporate strategy and target screening
• Build geological risk assessments and volumetric estimates to support valuations and economic modeling
• Provide technical inputs for M&A financial models, including production forecasts, decline curves, type curves, reserves, and value-impact drivers
• Collaborate with Corporate Development, Finance, Reservoir Engineering, and Data Science teams to synthesize geological insights into investment recommendations
• Participate in diligence processes, including technical deep dives, data room reviews, and management team discussions
• Prepare executive-level presentations summarizing the geologic rationale and value proposition of strategic opportunities
• Interpret and integrate subsurface datasets (well logs, cores, seismic, production data, geochemistry) to assess reservoir quality, productivity, and uncertainty
• Use Python, SQL, and analytics libraries (e.g., pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn) to automate workflows, analyze datasets, and build predictive models
• Apply machine learning techniques to streamline technical and financial valuations
• Build tools and dashboards using Power BI, Spotfire, or similar platforms to visualize geological, engineering, commercial, and public datasets
• Integrate large geospatial datasets (GIS layers, satellite imagery, digital elevation models) to support valuation and regional assessments
• Evaluate development scenarios, spacing/stacking potential, and reservoir performance in collaboration with engineering and operations
• Contribute to strategy initiatives such as CCUS site screening, geothermal feasibility, critical minerals potential, or energy transition subsurface evaluations

Job Specific Skills

• Strong technical proficiency with geological software (e.g., Petrel, Kingdom, ArcGIS, Petra)
• Hands-on experience with Python for data analysis, automation, or modeling
• Familiarity with statistical analysis, uncertainty quantification, and machine learning workflows
• Strong communication skills with experience presenting to executives or non-technical audiences
• Ability to work across functions in a fast-paced, deal-oriented environment
• Experience supporting M&A, corporate development, or asset A&D evaluations
• Knowledge of SQL, cloud environments (Azure, AWS), and modern data pipelines
• Experience building dashboards (Power BI, Spotfire, Tableau)
• Background in unconventional reservoir evaluation, CCUS, geothermal, or emerging energy systems
• Familiarity with decline curve analysis, type curve generation, and integration of geologic inputs into financial models

Education

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree - from accredited university - Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics, Earth Science or related field
• PREFERRED: Master’s degree - from accredited university - Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics, Earth Science or related field

Experience

• Minimum: 8–12 years of experience in corporate development, exploration, reservoir characterization, or subsurface evaluation