Exploration Geoscientist

The Exploration Geoscientist role is suitable for Early Careers professional with up to three years of experience and will be based in London. It sits within the Exploration, Strategy and Portfolio (ESP) organization that focuses on the Exploration and Appraisal stages of the hydrocarbon value chain across a global portfolio. Within ESP, you will be part of a team responsible for evaluating regional basins, assessing exploration potential, and identifying new opportunities to support portfolio growth. The team plays a key role in evaluating prospective acreage, supporting licensing rounds and strategic partnerships, and progressing exploration assets from early-stage evaluation through to discovery and development readiness.

You will help shape the future exploration portfolio by delivering regional play-based evaluations, identifying and maturing new drilling opportunities, and contributing to appraisal and subsurface evaluation activities. Working alongside multidisciplinary experts across geoscience, engineering, and commercial functions, you will influence key exploration decisions and help unlock the potential of assets across diverse geological settings. This is an opportunity to apply your expertise to technically challenging projects, gain exposure to a global portfolio, and contribute to discoveries that can create long-term business value.

As an Exploration Geoscientist, your key accountabilities will include:

• →Deliver high quality integrated subsurface evaluations leading to impactful decisions towards acreage access or drilling activities.
• →Deliver fit-for-purpose evaluations applying an end-to-end exploration mindset and ensuring the focus of technical evaluations on subsurface risks and uncertainties that will inform decisions.
• →Collaborate with an integrated group of subsurface professionals across a play/basin and lead/prospect scale.
• →Partner with the Assets team to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects, reducing handover and cycle time.

• At least Master’s or PhD degree in Geophysics or a related discipline
• Early career professionals with up to 3 years of experience alongside relevant postgraduate research, internships, or ideally with industry exposure in exploration geoscience.
• Learner mindset eager to develop across a range of subsurface disciplines, including seismic interpretation, prospect evaluation to well delivery, and regional play-based evaluation (PBE) amongst others.
• Technical knowledge of Seismic Evaluation, Imaging & Characterization, and Quantitative Interpretation (QI).
• Proficiency in relevant subsurface software such as RokDoc, LSS and programming tools including Python, SQL, or Machine Learning.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively engage and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

Shell UK remains one of the North Sea’s biggest producers, supplying around 10% of the UK’s total oil and gas needs. But perhaps the most recognisable face of Shell in the UK is our network of over 1,000 Shell-branded service stations.

Shell is a vital contributor to the UK, supporting energy security, jobs and economic value. We provide energy to fuel homes, hospitals, schools, vehicles, machinery and factories. Our history here dates back over 125 years. A UK-headquartered global energy leader, and leading FTSE multinational, we are active across the country’s energy system.

In the years ahead, as the UK looks to strengthen energy security and deliver its 2050 net-zero goal, Shell UK aims to play a crucial role. We aim to be a major investor in the UK energy system by helping our customers decarbonise with a focus on transport and industry.

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