Geology Student/New Graduate

Strathcona Resources Ltd. (“Strathcona”) is a Calgary, Alberta based oil and gas production and development company focused on maximizing oil and gas recovery from its low decline, high free cash flow oil and gas resource base. Strathcona's operations, infrastructure and land position are focused in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Strathcona is always looking for people focused on growth, both personal and professional. Those who love a challenge and get excited at the prospect of collaborating with talented people to continuously improve and innovate on tasks both large and small.

We are actively seeking a Geology Student or New Graduate to join our team Cold Lake Team in Calgary, Alberta. Reporting to the Manager, Geosciences – Cold Lake Thermal, the successful candidate will support a team of Geoscience professionals in providing geological analysis, subsurface interpretations, recommendations, and technical work.

This is an excellent opportunity for a geology student to understand how their education can impact oil production and growth through reservoir optimization and will give them exposure to working alongside experienced geoscience professionals.

This opportunity will be available for an 8-month fixed term.

Responsibilities:

- Assist in developing play maps and depositional models to generate and verify drill locations and development opportunities.

- Interpret stratigraphic and structural cross-sections to formulate subsurface geologic models.

- Interpret subsurface formation isopach, structure, and facies maps to illustrate reservoir characteristics.

- Integration of petrography, core, drill cuttings, petrophysical analysis and geophysical interpretation to accurately characterize SAGD reservoirs.

- Detailed log analysis for reservoir mapping and volumetrics.

- Working closely with geologists, geophysicists, and engineers to optimize bitumen recovery by analyzing steam chamber development and suggesting optimizations to well operations.

- Well placement, planning, and geological drilling operations for stratigraphic, observation, and horizontal wells.

- Generation of geological prognoses for SAGD development.

Requirements:

- Enrolled or recently graduated from a University Geosciences program.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – adaptable to a wide range of personalities.

- Thrive in a collaborative team setting, intrinsically motivated, enthusiastic, and a positive attitude.

- Good verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Great things aren’t done by one person, they’re done by a team.

Strathcona is committed to developing a high-performance culture through collaboration, trust, and agility. We value our work, our communities, and our commitments – but most of all, we value the team of people who make what we do possible.

Apply to Strathcona

If you have what it takes to be a great Strathcona team member, we want to hear from you. We appreciate all interest in this opportunity but only those selected to advance through the process will be contacted.