Development & Production Geoscientist

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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.

About the Role

Development & Production Geoscientists work at the field scale, focusing on high grading development inventory through 3D reservoir characterization. They deliver accurate subsurface descriptions and communicate key risks and uncertainties supporting business investment decisions. Development & Production Geoscientists integrate and interpret geological and geophysical data to develop appraisal strategies, field scale development plans and execute drilling programs. Typical datasets for integration include seismic, logs, fluids, and core, which are to be used to build subsurface prediction models. The role requires collaboration with engineering colleagues on reservoir characterization, well planning, drilling execution and technology development.

Responsibilities

• Ability to comprehend, integrate knowledge, ideas and skills to solve geological problems with the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and expertise.
• Plan and execute developments with integrated teams.
• Evaluate appraisal potential through prospect generation, maturation, and drilling.
• Integrate diverse datasets across multiple scales (seismic, log, core) to build subsurface interpretations.
• Work effectively within and across diverse multi-discipline team environments.

Qualifications

• Master of Science (M.S.) degree in a relevant discipline.
• Three or more years of experience in a relevant industry.

Skills

• Effective quantitative interpretation skills with ability to work independently.
• Experience in well planning and execution to support drilling operations.
• Experience in building integrated, regionally consistent, core-, well- and seismic-constrained interpretations.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in report writing and mentoring.
• Ability to use any of the following software: Kingdom, Petra, Petrel.
• Ability to integrate geoscience skills and knowledge, varied data sets, analogs and ideas to solve geological problems to support the business, independently.
• Provide sound judgment, timeliness and aptitude in application of geoscience tools and techniques and desire to maintain competitive advantage leveraging prior experiences.

Benefits

• 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: Programs such as “Flex your Day” provide 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.