Natural Gas Trader, Texas
Spring, TX, US, 77389
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About the Role
ExxonMobil's North American gas and power trading team is hiring a Natural Gas Trader to for our Texas gas portfolio within our West book. You will be responsible for moving one of the largest equity gas positions in the basin from the plant tailgate to the best available market, managing transportation, storage and price risk across West Texas and the Gulf Coast, physically and financially, within delegated authority.
This role supports three parts of the business: a large and growing upstream gas portfolio, Gulf Coast LNG export, and the Texas power market that supplies our field operations. You will work alongside schedulers, system traders, originators, analysts, risk and upstream operations, and you will be expected to develop and present a market view.
Key Responsibilities
Market equity production. Sell the firm's Permian gas and manage daily optimization around it.
Optimize transportation. Manage firm and interruptible capacity on Texas intrastate and interstate pipelines out of the Permian area to Katy, Houston Ship Channel, Agua Dulce, and other Texas markets; capture locational and time spreads.
Optimize storage. Use Texas storage positions to capture seasonal and daily value and to absorb operational swings.
Trading and hedging strategies. Develop and execute strategies across daily, monthly and term horizons, taking positions in physical and financial gas markets within approved risk limits and policies.
Trade around operational events. Respond to pipeline maintenance, Waha price dislocations, plant and compression outages and weather events.
Coordinate with power. Work with the power trading team on ERCOT exposures that affect field operations and production.
Develop market views. Develop and communicate fundamentals-based views on Permian supply, new egress capacity, LNG feedgas, Mexico exports and power burn, in partnership with Global Trading Analytics.
Support origination and midstream business development. Evaluate and help structure supply agreements, transport and storage capacity opportunities and other term transactions.
Desk coverage. Take part in desk coverage, including a weekend and holiday rotation.
Build relationships. Develop relationships with producers, midstream operators, utilities, LNG exporters, industrials and marketers.
What We’re Looking For
Required
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering, business or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, including at least 3 years of portfolio responsibility in Texas markets (Waha / Permian, HSC, Katy).
- Working knowledge of Texas intrastate and interstate pipelines, pooling and nomination cycles.
- Experience trading both physical gas and financial instruments a plus.
- Sound commercial judgment under time pressure, and the ability to communicate a position and its risk clearly.
Preferred
- Experience marketing equity production for a producer or integrated company.
- Direct exposure to Permian-to-Gulf Coast basis and Waha volatility.
- Storage optimization experience.
- Exposure to LNG feedgas, Mexico exports or ERCOT power.
- Analytical skills in Python or SQL.
- Experience mentoring
Functional Skills
Physical gas trading and marketing: daily cash, bidweek and term transactions; selling equity production.
Transportation optimization: firm and interruptible capacity, fuel and rates, and valuing capacity.
Storage optimization: injection and withdrawal strategy, and capturing seasonal and daily spreads.
Financial hedging and derivatives: NYMEX futures, basis and index swaps
Position and risk management: managing exposure within limits, VaR and delegated authority.
Market fundamentals and analysis: supply and demand balances, egress, LNG feedgas, Mexico exports, power burn and weather.
Scheduling and pipeline operations: NAESB nomination cycles, pooling, imbalances and operational events.
Contracts and counterparty management: NAESB agreements, and credit coordination.
Deal evaluation and structuring: supply agreements, capacity opportunities and term transactions.
P&L, settlements and controls: daily P&L, month-end settlements and trade capture accuracy.
Trading systems and data: ETRM, ICE, and Excel; Python or SQL a plus.
Regulatory compliance: CFTC, FERC and Texas intrastate requirements, and market conduct rules.
Power market interface: awareness of ERCOT
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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