Inexperienced Petroleum Geochemistry Geoscience Specialist

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.

Learn more about what we do in Houston here.

What role you will play in our team

• Support core business activities in the Petroleum Geochemistry Group for Exploration, Development, Production and Low Carbon Solutions.
• Work will be conducted in-person at ExxonMobil's state-of-the-art campus located north of Houston in Spring, Texas, USA.

What you will do

• Evaluate source rock presence, quality, type, maturation, hydrocarbons (HC) generation potential, and kinetics
• Evaluate static and dynamic reservoir connectivity for production and development
• Production allocation of oils from conventional and unconventional assets
• Model rock-fluid and fluid-fluid chemical interactins for carbon sequestration
• QA/QC external and internal analytical geochemistry data; evaluate vendors and partners’ reports
• Plan and execute geochemical business application projects, translate technical work into business context & provide recommendations
• Improve PG workflow, capability, and competitiveness including but not limited to analytical geochemistry, molecular geochemistry, geochemical modelling, database digitization, and workflow automation
• Analyze pressure-volume-temperature-composition (PVTX) properties of fluids and integrate with geochemistry to understand controls on fluid properties
• Identify migrated HCs using seep sediments, cuttings, cores, and fluid inclusions
• Evaluate the origin (source facies, age), maturity, level of alteration (biodegradation, contamination) of HC fluids, determine source-to-oil correlation

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• A PhD or MS in any of the following: organic geochemistry, petroleum geochemistry, biogeochemistry, aqueous geochemistry, elemental geochemistry, analytical geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, fluid inclusion geochemistry, or related fields
• Candidates should have < 3 years of professional experiences in one or more areas pertinent to geochemistry including, but not limited to, molecular geochemistry, petroleum geochemistry, aqueous geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, fluid inclusion/PVTX, rock-fluid interactions, petroleum system analysis
• Ability to analyze and interpret geochemical data from one or more analytical techniques including, but not limited to, chromatography, mass spectrometry, solid-state characterization, fluid inclusion petrography, micro thermometry, and spectroscopy
• Demonstrated leadership, adaptability, teamwork, excellent communication skills in English, and a commitment to higher safety and ethical standards. In addition, candidates should be able to work effectively within and across diverse technical teams
• Familiar with numerical modelling and data analytics

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

• Demonstrated effective communication and teaching
• Knowledgeable about precursors, diagenesis, catagenesis, and geological fate of petroleum biomarkers and aromatic HC
• Academic or industrial experience in carbon capture, carbon storage and related fields in low-carbon solutions
• Familiar with PVTX (fluid properties) applications in exploration, development, production, carbon capture and storage
• Ability to use one or more programming languages including Python, MATLAB, R, SQL or other statistical tools for data management, visualization, and analytics
• Experience with chromatography, mass spectrometry, ICP, or spectroscopy, and related data processing

Your benefits

We offer you

• 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
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

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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