Flow Assurance Engineer in Production Chemistry

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What role you will play in our team

We are seeking a qualified and experienced Flow Assurance expert to join our team to provide technical leadership in the broad discipline of flow assurance and wells technology with particular expertise in oilfield production chemistry, inorganic scale prediction, and inorganic scale mitigation strategies.

The candidate would be part of the Flow Assurance Technology team in ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering located in Spring, Texas. The candidate will be responsible for working across interdisciplinary teams on developing solutions for global projects and operating assets in predicting and mitigating flow assurance challenges associated with inorganic scale in hydrocarbon and low carbon solution applications.

The Flow Assurance expert in production chemistry is responsible for providing technical leadership, innovation, and execution excellence in the prediction, prevention, and mitigation of inorganic scale and other solids across the production system. This role integrates Flow Assurance modeling, Production Chemistry expertise, and technology development to ensure safe, reliable, and optimized hydrocarbon delivery.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and quality assurance for established and emerging technologies across projects and operations, driving business performance through technology development and adaptation.
• Lead research initiatives by developing detailed plans, including scope, tasks, schedules, resources, and budgets, aligned with research strategies and Technology Development/Commercialization milestones.
• Coordinate internal gate and independent project reviews, act as the primary Research Application contact, and facilitate technology transfer, including qualification, deployment, improvement, and training.
• Lead or support lab testing programs (compatibility, partitioning, thermal stability, biodegradation, MIC/biocide interplay, scaling kinetics, and squeeze return testing) and translate findings into field trial designs.
• Perform fluid characterization using thermodynamic simulation to model PVT behavior of produced fluids.
• Conduct steady‑state flow modeling for sizing gas/water injection systems and pipelines.
• Execute multiphase flow modeling (steady-state and transient) to design production systems, artificial lift requirements, insulation needs, and to evaluate operational transients such as slugging, cool‑down/warm‑up, startup, shutdown, and blowdown.
• Analyze and predict solid formation and deposition behaviors (hydrates, sand, wax, scale, asphaltenes, etc.) using modeling and laboratory methods.
• Evaluate erosion and corrosion risks and collaborate with Materials Engineers to guide material selection.
• Act as advisor and mentor/guide for less experienced Flow Assurance Engineers globally, particularly in the area of inorganic scale prediction, prevention and remediation.
• Represent ExxonMobil in engagements with competitors, partners, joint ventures, NOCs, industry groups, academia, and industry forums.
• Coordinate technical qualification of scale inhibitors with chemical suppliers and service providers.
• Steward and update Flow Assurance design/selection guides, software, and tools.
• Sustain and promote ExxonMobil’s safety culture

About You

Skills and Qualifications
 

• Education: Advanced Degree (PhD preferred) – Material, Petroleum or Chemical Engineering or Cemistry.

• 5–10 years of relevant engineering experience, with demonstrated capability in Flow Assurance and Production Chemistry.

• Proficiency with scale prediction and water chemistry tools (e.g., OLI Studio/ScaleChem, ScaleSim, PHREEQC or equivalents).

• Proven experience in scale prediction, scale related risk assessments, and development of preventative and remediation strategies.

• Formal training and demonstrated work experience with Dynamic Multiphase Flow Simulator OLGA or LedaFlow Engineering 1D software required.

• Demonstrated work experience as a flow assurance engineer or production cehimstry on an oil or gas field development project or in oil or gas field and facility operations    

• High level of written and verbal communication required.

• Ability to effectively engage and collaborate with people with diverse skill-sets and backgrounds.

• Willingness and ability to travel internationally.

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

• Hands-on experience with oilfield chemical management, including specification, qualification, vendor engagement, and performance monitoring.
• Experience with laboratory testing programs, including scale kinetics testing, inhibitor qualification, compatibility/partitioning studies, and squeeze return analysis.
• Familiarity with digital surveillance tools, dashboards, and data analytics to drive chemistry program optimization.
• Knowledge in acid reactions/acid-rock or acid-material reactivity, degradable materials, fluid flow dynamics, chemical reactivity, and/or flow performance/efficiency.
• Understanding coreflow testing is a plus.
• Experience/knowledge in well remediation, sandstone acidizing, and/or carbonate acidizing is a plus.

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
 
We offer you: 
 

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life. 
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match. 
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. 
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing. 
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you. 
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.

 
More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com. 
 
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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