Geoscientist

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ExxonMobil’s affiliates in India

ExxonMobil’s affiliates have offices in India in Bengaluru, Mumbai and the National Capital Region.

ExxonMobil’s affiliates in India supporting the Product Solutions business engage in the marketing, sales and distribution of performance as well as specialty products across chemicals and lubricants businesses. The India planning teams are also embedded with global business units for business planning and analytics.

ExxonMobil’s LNG affiliate in India supporting the upstream business provides consultant services for other ExxonMobil upstream affiliates and conducts LNG market-development activities.

The Global Business Center - Technology Center provides a range of technical and business support services for ExxonMobil’s operations around the globe.

ExxonMobil strives to make a positive contribution to the communities where we operate and its affiliates support a range of education, health and community-building programs in India. Read more about our Corporate Responsibility Framework.

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What role you will play in our team

We are seeking dynamic, creative, and resourceful candidates to work in ExxonMobil's Bengaluru, India location on challenging projects in strong collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir modelers, reservoir engineers, land and drilling engineers. Candidates will support multi-disciplinary global teams of ExxonMobil’s diverse assets.

What you will do

• Apply fundamental geological and geophysical skills, e.g., subsurface mapping, log analysis, seismic interpretation, stratigraphy and structural analysis
• Integration of multidisciplinary subsurface data like formation evaluation, production, drilling and completions for opportunity generation and development planning
• Evaluate uncertainties in reservoir and productivity parameters and estimate in place and ultimate recovery ranges
• Opportunity generation, maturation and stewardship of well proposals. Identifying and capturing new acreage/opportunities via primary geologic work as well as leveraging 3rd party activity and results.
• Well planning and pre-drill preparation for drilling horizontal or vertical wells in unconventional reservoirs. This includes ability to integrate well log, core, rock quality, seismic and geomechanical data for geologic target definition, determining optimum well orientation and identification of drilling hazards. The position involves closely working with drilling, land, operations and reservoir engineering teams to make informed decisions.
• Support drilling operations through landing and geo-steering of horizontal wells to keep the wellbore within the geologic target while drilling.
• Collection and interpretation of company and competitor well performance data and industry activity, assessment of trends within plays and integration of results into field development plans to improve profitability.
• Ability to multi-task and handle high workloads, for example simultaneously steering multiple wells while planning others and rapidly applying learnings to new operations and development plan proposals.

About You

Skills and Qualifications

• Candidates should have a Bachelor’s or Master's degree with minimum 7.0 GPA or equivalent from a recognized university in Earth Science, Geology, Geophysics (or related fields).
• Demonstrated record of hands-on industry experience in development and production geology; 3+ years of relevant industry experience is required after graduation.
• Willing to travel periodically, based on business needs.
• Experience with one or more geological analysis software suites (e.g., Petrel, Kingdom, Petra)
• Proficiency in English and good communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse group, in person and virtually
• Strong computational and analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications

The job requires individuals with demonstrated leadership, adaptability, teamwork, mentoring, and a commitment to high safety and ethical standards. In addition, candidates should be able to work effectively within and across diverse team environments.

The corporation regards its global and long-term approach to hiring and career development as the foundation of its future success as a company, and as a source of great opportunity for subsurface scientists who want to grow their skills and capabilities for a long-term career.

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:

• Competitive compensation
• Medical plans, maternity leave and benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Global networking & cross-functional opportunities
• Annual vacations & holidays
• Day care assistance program
• Training and development program
• Tuition assistance program
• Workplace flexibility policy
• Relocation program
• Transportation facility

Please note benefits may change from time to time without notice, subject to applicable laws. The benefits programs are based on the Company’s eligibility guidelines.

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Functional Skills

Prospect Evaluation

Basin Fluid Systems & Prediction

Geologic Modeling

Reservoir Connectivity Analysis

Field Evaluation

Field Optimization & Abandonment

Geophysical Analysis

Volumetric Assessment & Risking

Regional & Play Evaluation

Geoscience Mapping

Structural Analysis

Integrated Subsurface Data & Workflow Management

Applied Geoscience Fundamentals

Geoscience Uncertainty Analysis

Basin Evolution & Tectono-stratigraphy

Quantitative Geophysical Interpretation

Stratigraphy & Sedimentology

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