Reservoir Engineer Asset Business Delivery

The Chevron Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center(ENGINE) in Bengaluru India brings together the resources and expertise of the Chevron global network with talent in India to enhance agility and technological innovation to optimize solutions for the world’s current and future energy challenges. As one of the leading energy providers worldwide, Chevron is involved in the production of crude oil and natural gas, manufacturing of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, and additives, and the development of enabling technologies.

Chevron's vision is to be the global energy company most admired for its people, partnerships, and performance. With a clear purpose to develop affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy that enables human progress, we believe human ingenuity has the power to solve any challenge and overcome any obstacle. Meeting the world’s growing energy needs requires the pursuit of innovations and advancements that deliver a better future for all.

The Asset Business Delivery Reservoir Engineer is responsible and accountable for delivering technical support to the business to enable asset growth through brownfield and post-initial investment decision greenfield opportunities. The successful candidate should have broad general experience delivering dynamic subsurface characterization, including well and surveillance data integration, simulation model construction, production forecasting, resource maturation, and technology deployment.

Role will maintain close collaboration with peers on asset teams, Asset Business Delivery and Center of Excellence verticals within Subsurface and Capital Projects teams to support reservoir characterization, development planning, and execution planning.

Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, and work hours are aligned to business needs. Standard working hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM, Monday to Friday. These may evolve based on operational or business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Expertise in integrated dynamic subsurface characterization, including demonstrated knowledge of well surveillance, pressure transient analysis, production forecasting, simulation, network modeling, and reserves assessment. Responsibilities include reservoir management, maintaining reservoir simulation models/workflows to generate reliable production forecasting, performing value engineering work to support development plan decisions, reserves determination, support assurance activities, reservoir depletion studies, and reservoir management deliverables.

Ability to utilize multiple datasets for integrated interpretation. Proficient in simulation software (e.g. CMG/ECLIPSE) and able to utilize/update simulation models, collaborate with earth scientists, and support new model construction.

Experience utilizing workflows and tools (e.g. IPM) for generating new asset development opportunities to mature resources to reserves to production, assessing/mitigating risk, advancing capital projects, and supporting business planning.
Skill collaborating and communicating with technical peers, cross-disciplinary teams, and other stakeholders. Able to serve as mentor and adopt/deploy relevant technology.

Required Qualifications

BS in Petroleum Engineering or other engineering discipline. Experience in hands-on reservoir engineering, modeling and simulation using industry software.

Preferred Qualifications

MS in Petroleum Engineering or other engineering discipline.

Selection Criteria 1

Relevant Experience required : 10-12 years

Technical Capability: Experience in dynamic reservoir characterization, reserves booking, development planning, production forecasting, development strategy assessment, and working cross-functionally to evaluate project economics.
Broad experience working deepwater assets (specifically gas fields) a plus.
Demonstrated ability to manage and QC existing reservoir simulation models to generate production forecasts using industry software.
Experience with maturing capital projects.