Geoscience - Reservoir Modeller
Houston, TX, US
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What role you will play in our team
ExxonMobil is seeking qualified and experienced individuals to provide reservoir modeling expertise for Oil & Gas projects. The candidates will be responsible for working with multi-discipline teams to build and review 3D geocellular models for reservoir characterization and simulation to support field development planning, mature field opportunity generation, regulatory requirements, and strategic projects. The candidates will leverage fundamental skills in model framework and property construction, geologic principals, multidisciplinary team coordination, and business judgment. The position is located at ExxonMobil Spring campus in Texas.
What you will do
- KEY: Willingness and ability to construct & QC 3D geocellular models for oil & gas fields with diverse depositional environments
- Integrate seismic data, petrophysical data, stratigraphic concepts, and production data into robust geologic models.
- Conduct updates to existing models, develop/maintain workflows, volumetrics, and calibration to dynamic data
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to align model objectives, timeline, concepts, inputs and deliverables with business needs
- Manage and lead the model QA/QC and review process from model design through simulation initialization
- Partner with reservoir simulation engineers to ensure geomodels align with simulation priorities
- Incorporate concepts of subsurface uncertainty into model design and scenario-building for opportunity screening, uncertainty analysis and development plan optimization.
- Communicate and present model methodology, results, and recommendations with multi-discipline team, management line, and partners.
About you
Skills and Qualifications
- A MS or PhD in geoscience, or related field
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in hands-on industry experience in reservoir modeling in support of upstream oil and gas operations
- Expert-level Petrel user, including use of pillar gridding, facies modeling, petrophysical modeling, and workflows
- Strong computational and analytical skills; industry experience working integrated reservoir modeling projects; strong preference for coding and data analytics
- Strong background in one or more geoscience skills (production/development geology, geophysics, stratigraphy)
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience
- Seismic interpretation
- Seismic conditioning of model properties
- Petrophysics
- Stratigraphy
- Uncertainty Analysis
- Simulation experience
- Modeling for carbon storage fields (CCS)
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.
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