Senior Consultant - Geophysicist-Seismic Data Processing

About Anton

Anton is a globally leading integrated oil and gas value-added management service company committed to delivering resource value-maximizing solutions for clients through three core elements: technology, management, and resources. Headquartered in Dubai with a worldwide business footprint, Anton employs approximately 7,000 professionals from over 30 countries and regions. Anton's long-term vision is to become a world-leading green energy technology service enterprise, growing together with clients and talent while driving high-quality development in the energy industry.

About the role

Position Title : Senior Consultant Geophysicist-Seismic Data Processing

Work Location : Kuwait

Department : On-sync Energy Management Services Company.

Job Responsibilities

1. Define and manage seismic data processing workflows for 2D and 3D land, marine, and transition-zone datasets.
2. Establish and quality-control critical processing steps, including geometry QC, noise attenuation, amplitude and statics corrections, deconvolution, multiple attenuation, velocity model building, and migration.
3. Lead advanced depth-imaging workflows, including Pre-Stack Depth Migration (PSDM), Reverse Time Migration (RTM), and Full Waveform Inversion (FWI).
4. Evaluate and manage seismic processing contractors through technical assessments, benchmarking, tender evaluations, and performance reviews.
5. Lead seismic reprocessing projects and integrate legacy datasets with modern acquisition and processing workflows.
6. Conduct rigorous quality control at all processing stages and review contractor processing reports, velocity models, conditioned gathers, and migrated volumes.
7. Apply advanced signal-analysis techniques to assess processing quality and identify artefacts or inconsistencies.
8. Ensure seismic processing deliverables meet recognized industry data standards, quality requirements, and data-management practices.
9. Work closely with geoscience interpretation teams to support structural, stratigraphic, and integrated subsurface studies.
10. Provide conditioned full-stack and angle-stack seismic volumes to support attribute analysis, AVO/AVAz, inversion, and interpretation workflows.
11. Provide technical input to well-tie, seismic-to-well calibration, and integrated subsurface studies.
12. Evaluate and support the adoption of AI/ML-assisted seismic processing technologies, including automated noise suppression, machine-learning velocity picking, and AI-enhanced FWI.
13. Assess high-performance computing and cloud-based processing platforms for improved scalability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
14. Contribute to digital geoscience transformation initiatives and evaluation of emerging seismic processing technologies.
15. Prepare technical reports, processing updates, QC documentation, milestone reviews, processing parameter reports, and final deliverable metadata.
16. Conduct technical training and knowledge-sharing sessions to develop advanced seismic processing capabilities within the geoscience team.
17. Represent the organization in relevant technical forums and contribute to technical publications where appropriate.
18. Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams and provide expert guidance on complex seismic processing challenges.

Qualification Requirements

1. PhD in Geophysics, Geoscience, Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
2. Minimum 20 years of professional Upstream Oil & Gas experience , with extensive experience in seismic data processing and E&P activities.
3. Preferably 25+ years of international Upstream experience with major and independent E&P companies and/or research institutions.
4. Extensive expertise in 2D/3D seismic processing, including land, marine, and transition-zone datasets.
5. Strong knowledge of advanced processing and imaging techniques, including PSDM, RTM, FWI, multiple attenuation, velocity model building, and seismic signal analysis.
6. Proven experience managing seismic processing contractors, technical evaluations, benchmarking studies, and large-scale reprocessing projects.
7. Strong understanding of seismic QC, data standards, processing deliverables, and subsurface data quality assurance.
8. Experience supporting seismic interpretation, AVO/AVAz, inversion, well-tie, and integrated subsurface workflows.
9. Experience with AI/ML-assisted seismic processing, HPC, cloud-based processing, and digital geoscience technologies is highly desirable.
10. Proven ability to develop, scope, plan, and manage complex technical programs and multidisciplinary projects.
11. Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams comprising geophysicists, geologists, geochemists, reservoir engineers, and other technical specialists.
12. Strong leadership, analytical, strategic thinking, problem-solving, communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
13. Excellent English communication and technical report-writing skills.
14. A strong record of technical publications in recognized geoscience or industry journals is preferred.
15. Middle East experience is an advantage.