Operations & GIS Geologist

Role summary

Operations & GIS Geologist is a role at Formentera Partners LP in City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (on-site). Posted 2026-08-27. Experience level: 5-10.

Job title

Operations & GIS Geologist

Company

Formentera Partners LP

Location

City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Work arrangement

on-site

Category

Software Engineering

Experience level

5-10

Date posted

2026-08-27

Job description

Operations & GIS Geologist

Date

August 2026

Reports to

Co-head Australia Operations

Position location

Brisbane or Darwin

Approx. travel

Periodic field travel to support drilling operations, field data collection, land access and stakeholder activities

Status

Full time

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Daly Waters is a leading upstream company focused on the Beetaloo Sub-basin, backed by Formentera Partners, an Austin, Texas based energy private equity firm. Daly Waters entered the Beetaloo Basin in 2022 through a 50/50 joint venture with Tamboran Resources (NYSE: TBN). Formentera Partners is an independent energy private equity platform managing four funds (>US$2.5B). Formentera's expansive development and production experience across all major US shale basins is leveraged to deliver reliable, efficient, and technically driven operations to optimise value and performance across diverse assets.

Daly Waters is poised to take over operatorship of some of the most prospective acreage within the Beetaloo and has an exciting growth trajectory for 2026 and beyond.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Operations & GIS Geologist provides day-to-day subsurface and spatial data capability for Daly Waters. The role requires deep operations geology capability — well planning input, real-time support during drilling, geosteering and formation evaluation. The successful candidate will already have the skills to work with the company's geospatial data, covering tenements, infrastructure, land access and environmental constraint data; or will demonstrate skills and willingness to develop the necessary GIS skills.

This is a practical, delivery-focused role in a lean team that suits a geoscientist who already has broad operator experience.

POSITION JOB DUTIES

Operations Geology

Provide geological input to well planning, including target selection, landing point definition, geological prognoses and offset well reviews for horizontal wells.

Deliver real-time geological support during drilling operations, including geosteering, formation top picking, and timely communication of geological risk to the wellsite and operations team.

Oversee wellsite geological services and contractors — mud logging, LWD and sampling — ensuring data quality, timely reporting and adherence to program requirements.

Coordinate core, cuttings and fluid sampling programs, including handling, chain of custody, laboratory dispatch and integration of results.

Undertake petrophysical and formation evaluation work to support completions design and target refinement.

Complete post-well geological reviews, capturing lessons learned and feeding them into subsequent well designs.

Build and maintain the corporate well database, including well headers, deviation surveys, formation tops, wireline and LWD logs, and completion records.

GIS & Spatial Data Management

Act as custodian of the company's GIS environment in ArcGIS, in collaboration with the Formentera Partners GIS function.

Build and maintain authoritative spatial datasets covering key data.

Produce maps and spatial deliverables supporting regulatory submissions, environment management plans, land access negotiations, field planning and joint venture reporting.

Integrate survey, LiDAR, satellite imagery and field-collected data into the corporate spatial environment.

Develop practical mapping and reporting tools — templates, automated map series and dashboards — that reduce manual effort across the operations team.

Regulatory & Land Access Support

Prepare the spatial and geological content required for Northern Territory petroleum regulatory submissions and approvals, including well notifications, environment management plans and tenure reporting.

Support compliance with NT tenement conditions, including work program tracking, reporting obligations and submission deadlines.

Provide accurate spatial products to support land access agreements, pastoral and traditional owner engagement, and cultural heritage clearance processes.

Maintain geological and spatial records to a standard that withstands regulatory scrutiny and audit.

General

Contribute to the development of subsurface and data management procedures, standards and systems as the business scales toward operatorship.

Maintain professional and technical knowledge through publications, workshops and industry networks.

Perform other duties as reasonably required in a small, multi-disciplinary team.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Tertiary qualification in Geology, Geoscience or a related discipline.

Typically 5–10+ years' experience with an active E&P operator, including hands-on operations or wellsite geology.

Demonstrated experience supporting horizontal well planning and real-time geosteering.

Practical GIS capability with demonstrated proficiency in Esri ArcGIS.

Formation evaluation and log interpretation capability sufficient to support well delivery decisions.

Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to non-technical audiences, including operations, approvals, land and commercial staff.

Comfortable working independently in a lean team with minimal oversight and competing priorities.

Current driver's licence and willingness to undertake periodic travel to remote field locations.

Current right, or willingness to gain right, to work in Australia.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Experience in an analogous unconventional shale play.

Working knowledge of Northern Territory upstream operations.

Experience producing spatial deliverables in support of land access, native title, cultural heritage or pastoral enga