Experienced Unconventional Technology Development Reservoir Engineer

About Houston

ExxonMobil's state-of-the-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors. 
 

By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry. 
 

The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I-45), at the intersection of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston. 
 

The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities. 
 

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What role you will play in our team

• Unconventional Technology Development Reservoir Engineers develop and deploy new technology aimed at step-change opportunities to improve recovery in unconventional assets
• Work with multi-discipline teams in our unconventional business and technology development organizations  
• Leverage fundamental reservoir engineering and simulation skills in reservoir description, surveillance, performance prediction, economic evaluation, development planning, opportunity generation and production optimization
• The position is located at the  ExxonMobil campus in Spring, Texas

What you will do

• Explore, identify, and assess new technology leads for unconventional enhanced oil recovery
• Develop new approaches to reservoir simulation for novel recovery processes
• Perform reservoir modeling and simulation for enhanced oil recovery concepts
• Analyze fluid and core laboratory studies for Unconventional EOR techniques and apply results to field studies
• Design and implement reservoir surveillance plans combined with production performance analysis to EOR projects
• Plan, evaluate and execute unconventional asset enhanced oil recovery field trials to provide recommendations and next steps

Skills and Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Engineering (Petroleum, Chemical, Mechanical), Applied and Computational Mathematics, or Applied Physics 
• 3+ years work experience in Unconventional Reservoir Engineering
• Ability to complete decline curve analysis, to forecast future production rates, estimate ultimate recoverable oil volume, and perform economic evaluations.
• Understand Economic evaluations and risk assessments for enhanced oil recovery projects.
• 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

• 5+ years of post-graduate/non-university industry experience in Upstream O&G with a focus on technology development 
• Foundational reservoir engineering skills, such as competency in rock and fluid properties
• Experience integrating advanced diagnostic and/or reservoir simulation work products into reservoir engineering analysis
• Data analytics
• Prior experience with unconventional enhanced oil recovery techniques is preferred 
• Proficiency in application of compositional and black oil reservoir simulators (Intersect, Eclipse, etc.) for modeling chemical or gas-based enhanced oil recovery processes.

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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