Experienced Unconventional Reserves Engineer

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What role you will play in our team

• Unconventional reserves engineers work with area development teams to estimate and report reserves and resources for all Unconventional business units

• Work with multi-discipline teams to evaluate and model all key reserves value drivers

• Leverage fundamental reservoir engineering skills in reservoir description, surveillance, performance prediction, economic evaluation, development planning, opportunity generation and production optimization

• Ensure all relevant reserves evaluations, workflows, data, and quality control processes are SEC compliant and meet financial disclosure requirements

• Typically engineers are responsible for all operated / non-operated reserves/resources within an assigned work area

• The position is located at ExxonMobil campus in Spring, Texas

What will you do

• Primary interface with business unit development team:  attend key asset development plan meetings, understand subsurface/reservoir engineering perspective and share any reserves-related perspective

• Update well decline curves annually, documenting major changes

• Coordinate with senior technical experts to understand, update, and consistently apply technical principles such as b-factor and terminal decline

• Participate in annual reserves process, including providing reports, documentation and support, database quality control, understanding cash flows

• Liaise with auditors and accounting teams as needed to answer questions

• Coordinate documentation and support as related to SOX controls

• Collaborate with relevant experts to complete special reserves-related studies, e.g reliable technology, competitor analysis

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required - preferably Petroleum, Chemical, or Mechanical

• A minimum of 3 years of industry work experience in Unconventional Reservoir Engineering

• Demonstrated work experience in reserves analysis and reporting

• Ability to complete decline curve analysis, develop drill well locations, perform economic evaluations, and prepare area for reserve report review

• Comfort with large amounts of data that is, at times, ambiguous

• Strong computer proficiency and familiar with industry software

• Candidates should be self-motivated and focused on achieving business results while working in a multi-disciplinary team. Demonstrated teamwork, communication and leadership skills are essential

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

• Proficiency with Spotfire, ComboCurve, ARIES, and/or Mosaic

• Experience using public datasets for reservoir engineering analysis, particularly experience with business intelligence tools, e.g. Spotfire, Alteryx

• Data analytics

• Industry knowledge

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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