Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 10/10/2026
About this opportunity:
The Senior Well Abandonment Geologist/Geoscience Technologist within the Asset Retirement (ARO) team provides technical guidance and stewardship for both routine and non-routine well abandonment programs, including yearly monitoring and repairs of surface casing vent flow (SCVF) and gas migration (GM) wells. In addition to providing technical leadership for well abandonment and remediation activities, the role will help advance data-driven decision making, digital innovation, and the application of emerging technologies to improve management of a large and complex well inventory while supporting the company's closure and liability reduction objectives.
What you’ll do:
- Identify, evaluate, and champion innovative approaches to well abandonment and remediation, including workflow automation, predictive analytics, and technology-enabled solutions that improve operational efficiency, decision-making, and cost performance.
- Leverage data analytics, digital tools, and emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to improve well prioritization, risk assessment, remediation planning, and portfolio management across a large inventory of inactive wells.
- Manage the well remediation portfolio by proposing annual wells for remediation using risk-based and area-based closure strategies, collaborating with execution teams to optimize scheduling and assignment of actions while ensuring compliance and stewardship of the approved budget.
- Lead technical evaluations incorporating cased-hole well log analysis in collaboration with Abandonment Engineers to identify root causes of remediation failures and/or successes, refine remediation methodologies, communicate lessons learned, and drive continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain robust data management practices to support the stewardship of a large well inventory, ensuring data quality, consistency, accessibility, and effective integration of geological, engineering, operational, and regulatory information.
- Support the development and implementation of automated reporting, dashboards, and data visualization tools to enhance tracking of remediation performance, compliance obligations, liability reduction, and program execution.
- Support routine abandonment activities related to groundwater protection, including assessment of thermal potential and commingled abandonment opportunities to maximize cost savings while maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Participate in industry associations, technical committees, technology forums, and digital innovation initiatives related to well abandonment and remediation to monitor emerging practices, evaluate new technologies, and share learnings across the organization.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, field operations, data management, digital, regulatory, and environmental groups to identify opportunities for process improvement, technology adoption, and continuous enhancement of abandonment programs.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
- Legally authorized to work in Canada
- Professional Geologist (P.Geo.) or Geoscience Technologist
- Minimum 8 years of experience in oil and gas well abandonment or geology experience in upstream oil and gas
- Working knowledge of Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources (Sask MER) directives and requirements related to well abandonment and remediation
- Familiarity with risk-based well management, abandonment planning, and regulatory compliance
- Experience utilizing advanced analytics, large datasets, digital solutions, AI-enabled tools, or automation technologies to support technical decision-making and portfolio management is considered an asset
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT October 9, 2026.
Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.
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Who we are:
Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.
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The Cenovus experience
Total rewards
We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:
- Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
- Health & dental benefits
- Substantial mental health coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Employee family assistance
- Virtual healthcare coverage
Our development philosophy
We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:
- Internal course offerings
- Education assistance for additional development
- Opportunities to work on special projects
- Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders
We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes - for employees and for the company as a whole.
Our culture
- Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
- Our values:
- Protect what matters
- Do it right
- Make it better
- Do it together
- Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
- Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
- Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
- Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually.
- Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.
Equal opportunity employer
We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.
To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.
The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.
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