Internship in CO2 Geological Sequestration from CGGVeritas-Houston

CGGVeritas, with 2009 revenues over 3 billion dollars and more than 6000 employees, is the leader in seismic equipment manufacturing, land, shallow water and marine seismic acquisition, seismic processing and reservoir modeling. More at www.cggveritas.com .

CGGVeritas offers a unique range of services directly applicable to the challenges of the sequestration of CO2 in depleted oil and gas reservoir or saline aquifers. These services cover CO2 site reconnaissance, CO2 reservoir characterization and monitoring during and after injection.

CGGVeritas is a member of the CSLF-USA (Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum), the ZEP-Europe (Zero Emission Platform) and GCCSI-Australia (Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute) and participates in various CCS R&D initiatives around the world. CGGVeritas is also involved in projects for site reconnaissance and monitoring, including not only Norway Sleipner, Canada-Weyburn and Algeria-InSalah.

For the development of its CO2 storage services offer, CGGVeritas offers a 6 months internship in CGGVeritas-Houston. Candidate will work in the Houston R&D team.
Candidate’s duties include:
• Literature search on CCS projects and topics (primarily online).
• Construct a bibliographic reference database of CCS material.
• Summarize and incorporate CCS projects and results into the database.
• Interview key CCS participants, both internal CGGVeritas and external.
• Identify the key challenges and technologies for CGGVeritas .
• Participate in CCS project review meetings and discussions.
• Present his key findings to the internal CCS community

Candidates’ profile requirements include:
• Student for MSc level (Engineering School or University) degree in Geophysics, Geology, Earth Sciences, Reservoir Engineering or the equivalent. Alternatively, applicants with 2 - 5 years industry experience will be considered.
• Understanding of CO2 Capture and Sequestration topics and techniques.
• Understanding of seismic monitoring methods.
• Inquisitive nature and good communication skills are a plus
• Good level of English.

Internship could start as soon as August 01, 2010 and not later than January 30, 2011.
Interested candidates should email their motivation letter and resumes to
Jean-Louis GELOT, VP CCS Business Development, jean-louis.gelot@cggveritas.com

CGGVeritas, May 2010