Schlumberger Gould Research Center
Cambridge UK

Research Scientist - Drilling Technologies

£38,000 - £85,000 per annum + benefits
35 hours/week

We are seeking two talented, creative scientists to work in multidisciplinary teams charged with creating novel drilling technologies and techniques to access and enable development of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Achieving reservoir access often involves drilling and navigating through geometrically complex, extended conduits in sometimes unpredictable physical environments to reach targets more than 10 km from the drilling rig. Reaching the reservoir requires overcoming challenges in materials science for rock destruction, in geomechanics for hole stability, and in the physics and mechanics of complex interactions in dynamic systems.

Responsibilities

• Develops new experimental, analytical, or numerical techniques to study the complex interactions between various parts of the drilling system and the rock formations.
• Generates new ideas and articulates them to technology and management teams at the highest company level and to external industry and academic groups.
• Helps develop the ideas through to commercialization.
• Takes an active role in generation of intellectual property.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in physics, engineering, or a related discipline. 
• Knowledge of physics, mechanics of complex interactions in dynamic systems, materials science, and solid mechanics preferred.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience in generating novel research solutions; oilfield experience not required.

To apply, please click the APPLY button below, sending a detailed CV with a list of publications and quoting the reference RSPDT.

Closing date is May 31, 2013. 

Appointments at both junior and senior level will be considered.

Employer – Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd

Schlumberger is an equal opportunities employer.

SOC Code: 2119