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19 Feb 2026
Contract Geophysicist
Calgary, AB
Agilus is recruiting for a Contract Geophysicist in the oil & gas industry in Calgary, Alberta. Reporting to the Manager, Geoscience Conventional Heavy Oil, the Contract Geophysicist will be accountable to work in a multi-disciplinary team to ensure reservoir development plans are optimized to meet business needs, enable the successful execution of our development plans, and support our long-term strategy.
This role will apply geophysical interpretation techniques, including advanced seismic inversion techniques, to characterize reservoir complexity, identify reservoir risks and propose development opportunities. Total rewards:- $68.00 - $100.00 hourly
- Mon to Friday, 8 hours a day
- 12 Months of contract
- Pay rate range $68/hr - $83/hr for T4 and for IC range is between $83/hr to $100/hr
A typical day:- Work with asset geologists, reservoir engineers and earthworks team to plan annual start well program to delineate the reservoir, ensuring consistency in development practices and fostering effective communication.
- Provide quality control for processing of seismic data, using appropriate parameters for the needs of the business.
- Interpret and generate depth converted seismic surfaces for development well planning, well placement and real time drilling.
- Work with geologists, geophysicists, acquisition team, engineers and regulatory teams to plan 2D and 3D seismic programs to reduce delineation and reservoir risk, and optimize production.
- Provide geophysical input for geomodels, regulatory submissions and resource management reports, creating documentation and presentations for technical reviews.
- Support workflow optimization projects to improve geoscience and reservoir engineering workflows and work products.
Successful candidates will have:- Bachelor of Science in Geophysics.
- Minimum 8 years of related industry experience.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced prospecting heavy role.
- Registered P. Geo and in good standing with APEGA or other Provincial Professional Geoscience Organization.
- Proficiency in 2D and 3D seismic interpretation & visualization, seismic attribute analysis & other specialized geophysical interpretative techniques.
- Good understanding of clastic depositional systems preferably with some exposure to Mannville Group stratigraphy.
- Experience with a wide range of geoscience software such as Hampson-Russell, Jason, and SeisWare. Expertise in Petrel is preferred.
This posting is for an active opening. Interested? Please apply directly online Agilus would like to thank all candidates for their interest in this opportunity. Due to the volume of resumes we receive; we may only be able to respond directly to those candidates being selected for an interview.We encourage you to visit agilus.ca regularly or subscribe to our email alerts at agilus.ca/Account/Register as new exciting employment opportunities become available daily.
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