CONTRACT GEOLOGY / HOUSTON, TX
Development geology, exploration prospecting, well steering, and A&D evaluation for operators who need a working geologist on the asset without carrying one on the payroll.
Scoped independently or stacked across a program. Thickness below reflects how much of a typical engagement each one carries, not a menu.
Well planning, correlation, and target definition on producing assets. Geologic models built to survive the drill bit, not just the presentation.
Interval thickness 380 ft / interbeddedPlay-level screening through prospect maturation. Regional framework, trap definition, and an honest read on what the data will and will not support.
Interval thickness 135 ft / shaleReal-time geosteering during lateral drilling. Correlation on the fly, target maintained, decisions made while they still matter.
Target window, live during drillingTechnical due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures. Independent subsurface review of what is actually being bought or sold, on the timeline the deal requires.
Interval thickness 315 ft / carbonateScoped independently or stacked across a program.
Reason one is the work itself. The rest is arithmetic.
Over twenty years of oil and gas geology, most of it operator side, sits on every engagement. That is a career spent in conventional and unconventional rock, on exploration, development, and A&D, at companies that had to live with the decisions. The maps and the calls that come out of this practice are the work of a seasoned geologist, and that is the first reason operators bring it in.
The three points below are real. They are also secondary. Nobody drills a good well because the overhead was lower.
A full-time geologist carries health insurance, retirement, workers' compensation, training, incentives, and paid leave. A contract engagement carries a rate. When the well is drilled and the map is delivered, the rate stops.
Employers are liable for state Unemployment Insurance taxes based on their rate and the taxable wages paid. Contract workers, treated as independent contractors, do not move those rates when an engagement ends. Predictability, not just savings.
Interpretation and mapping licenses are expensive to hold and expensive to keep current. A contract geologist brings their own working environment to the engagement, so the operator is not buying seats for a six-week question.
Conventional and unconventional plays, onshore. Engagements run remote against a data room or on site through a drilling program, whichever the scope needs.
The practice does not claim every basin in North America. It claims the ones it has actually worked, which is a shorter and more useful list.
Conventional and unconventional. Engagements outside these are taken on where the rock and the question are a genuine fit.
Send the scope through the form and you will get a straight read on whether this practice is the right fit for it.