Step into a key subsurface role at a company with strong ambitions on the NCS

Lead our exploration evaluations from opportunity to decision

As a Geoscientist, you will lead and shape the subsurface evaluations that underpin our exploration strategy on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. As activity increases, we are progressing opportunities towards licence applications and drilling decisions across both operated and partner-operated licences. You will combine deep technical expertise with sound judgement, ensuring that prospects are matured with the right quality, documented clearly, and presented convincingly in internal and external decision forums. This is a senior technical role with real influence, where your work directly shapes company decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead prospect maturation and subsurface decision support across operated and partner-operated licences, ensuring geological and geophysical work provides a robust basis for licence applications, drilling decisions, relinquishments and key milestones.

• Deliver high-quality subsurface interpretations through seismic interpretation and integrated geological evaluations in line with INPEX best-practice guidelines, including volumes, risk and uncertainty assessments.

• Plan, coordinate and manage subsurface work in IIN-operated licences, including geological evaluation projects, external specialist studies and contractor follow-up on quality, progress and results.

• Represent INPEX Idemitsu Norge in licences and decision forums, acting as licence committee member where relevant, evaluating operators' proposals, and presenting company views and recommendations in the partnership and internal reviews.

• Work closely across disciplines and borders, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, maintaining proactive dialogue with partners and INPEX HQ in Tokyo, and monitoring HSE aspects of licence activities.

What you bring

• MSc degree in Geoscience or other relevant discipline.

• Typically 5-10 years of relevant G&G experience from the petroleum industry.

• Strong experience with exploration workflows and subsurface work processes in production licences.

• Proven ability to mature prospects and deliver clear, decision-ready technical recommendations.

• Practical experience with industry-standard G&G interpretation software.

• Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

• Strong communication skills and excellent written and spoken English.

It's a plus if you have

• Experience representing a company in licence committees.

• Exposure to internal assurance and decision processes

• A track record of prospects progressing to licence applications or drilling decisions.

• Experience working closely with international corporate HQ environments.

Why INPEX Idemitsu Norge?

• A senior technical role with real influence on exploration decisions and portfolio development on the NCS.

• Short distance from subsurface analysis to management decision.

• Close collaboration with partners and INPEX HQ in Tokyo.

• Competitive compensation, strong pension and insurance schemes, and flexible work arrangements.

• Modern offices at Lysaker and an international, multidisciplinary environment.

How to apply

Submit your application and resume. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and early submission is encouraged.

Questions? Contact our advisors at Jefferson Wells: Sondre Bratteberg, +47 916 29 808 or Nikolai Svendsen, +47 45 20 77 46. All enquiries will be treated confidentially.

Drive the decisions that shape our future. INPEX Idemitsu Norge is part of the INPEX Group, Japan's largest E&P company, with a strong and lasting local presence in Norway. Your work will have a direct impact on critical exploration decisions, with meaningful exposure and clear opportunities to grow professionally. We are entering an exciting growth phase on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, with a clear focus on maturing prospects to drill-ready status and executing drilling projects with our partners. While INPEX Idemitsu has long been a trusted license partner on the NCS, we are now assuming broader responsibilities in selected assets.