
Drilling Engineer
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide engineering support in drilling and borehole management areas to ExxonMobil global wells teams leveraging modeling, analysis, and engineering insights
- Engage in offset well analysis to assist with well design criteria and provide recommendations to business units and drive performance.
- Strong analytical skillset to Monitor data, identify trends and provide insights and recommendations to decision makers based on reasoning and engineering prowess
- Strong leadership, problem solving and communication skills are crucial to manage conflicting priorities and resolving issues.
- Work directly with Wells teams to provide design and / or operational support for safe and cost-effective operations
- Model and analyze various engineering parameters such as torque and drag, vibrations, hydraulics, hole cleaning, wellbore stability.
- Conduct pore pressure/fracture gradient and in-situ stress analysis.
- Utilize real-time and post well data to monitor well performance and troubleshoot operations issues by providing recommendations.
- Generate plots and reports to communicate well performance and leverage ExxonMobil subject matter expert recommendations & company best practices to improve performance
- Collaborate with engineers and operations personnel on global asset teams
- Integrate with adjacent disciplines – Completions, Operations Geology teams to provide synergistic solutions to global wells teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree from a recognized university in petroleum, mechanical, chemical, civil, or electrical engineering with minimum GPA 7.5 and above
- 3-10 years of work experience in the upstream oil and gas industry
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate critical design & operating parameters through data and trend analysis and deduce meaningful interpretations to support operations.
- Experience in well design, pre/execution planning, writing procedures for Drilling Operations.
- Relevant Field experience at a rig site or wellsite is preferred
- Knowledge of one or more of the basic wells engineering concepts including:
- Well construction – drilling techniques, well control, fluids and solids management, drilling mechanics, performance monitoring, borehole management
- Experience in programming languages such as Python, MATLAB is preferred
- Experience working in Tableau or Power BI or Spotfire is preferred but not required
- Experience with various engineering applications such as WellCAT, WellView is preferred but not required
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a diverse team environment
- Flexibility to work in shifts, with opportunities to leverage flexible work hours
- Position is Bangalore-based with potential for international travel
- Demonstrated ability to cooperate effectively in a team environment
- Flexibility to work in shifts, with opportunities to leverage flexible work hours
- Position is Bangalore-based with potential for international travel
- 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
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