Occidental Petroleum
IT Subsurface Data Integration Specialist
Houston, Texas, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
Data StructuresAWSCloud PlatformsData EngineeringProcess ImprovementResearchLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingReservoir Engineering
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About the role
- Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life.
- Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa.
Responsibilities
- Drive the adoption of OSDU data structures across exploration, drilling, production, and reservoir engineering data domains.
- Lead the integration of existing Petrotechnical and subsurface systems (e.g., Petrel, OpenWorks, Studio) with OSDU-compliant platforms
- Design solutions using major cloud providers (e.g., AWS) with a preference for OSDU-supported clouds
- Data Quality Monitoring & Governance: Monitor, support, and maintain the established Well Data Management Framework for acceptable levels of data quality
- Complex Issue Troubleshooting: Research well history and resolve complex data issues for domestic and international wells within working Geoscience projects (OpenWorks and Petrel Studio), coordinating with extended Data Management teams for SOR-level fixes that implement well data governance.
- Petrophysical Data Validation: Monitor and validate petrophysical interpretations loaded to working projects via automation, for both domestic and international assets.
- Trade & Operated-by-Others (OBO) Data: Identify and manage data for trade wells and OBO wells, making it available to Geoscience teams in working projects to reduce third-party data purchases.
- Project Administration: Support OpenWorks project administration and automation troubleshooting across Permian, Rockies, GOM, International Exploration, International Assets, and Low Carbon Venture
- Data Quality Monitoring & Governance: Monitor, support, and maintain the established Well Data Management Framework for acceptable levels of data quality; report areas of non-compliance to System of Record (SOR) owners and Data Management leadership.
- Project Administration: Support OpenWorks project administration and automation troubleshooting across Permian, Rockies, GOM, International Exploration, International Assets, and Low Carbon Venture; lead legacy data cleanup efforts (e.g., Permian) to remove redundant datasets and resolve well data issues.
Requirements
- Expertise with Schlumberger's InnerLogix Suite of applications required
- familiarity with InnerLogix or similar industry-standard Data Quality Management toolkits.
- Open-minded, with the ability to identify new methodologies and technologies for managing technical data.
- Education & Experience
- Data Management
- Subject Matter Expert in loading and validating well data, including surface locations, elevation and elevation reference, and subsurface data such as deviation surveys, north/grid reference, tops, and log curves.
- Expertise with Landmark R5000, EDM, Recall, and Petrel/Studio highly desirable
- working knowledge of the R5000 data model is a plus.
Nice to have
- Translate business and subsurface domain requirements into scalable, secure, and cloud-optimized data and integration architectures
- Establish and enforce best practices for data modeling, metadata tagging, identity and access management (IAM), and API security
- Bachelor of Science degree in Geoscience, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience managing oil and gas geoscience, drilling, and engineering technical data preferred.
- 10+ years of experience loading and managing well data in Landmark R5000, Petrel Studio, or similar subsurface software.
- Advanced knowledge of well data generated during planning, drilling, logging, and completion operations.
- Excellent understanding of master data management (MDM) concepts for technical data.
- Experience defining ETL / DQM business rules for data management toolkits such as InnerLogix.
Skills
- The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products.
Company info
- The IT Subsurface Data Integration Specialist is a Houston-based member of the Technical Systems & Data organization and a core part of the Subsurface Data Management team.
- OSDU / Cloud Alignment: Support integration of existing subsurface systems (Petrel, OpenWorks, Studio) with OSDU-compliant, AWS cloud-based platforms as part of the organization's broader data modernization roadmap.
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