Assets Reservoir Engineer- Shale & Tight

Overview

Assets Reservoir Engineer - Shale & Tight role in Chevron's ENGINE Subsurface team in Bengaluru, supporting reservoir management, development planning, production forecasting, reserves and resources maturation, and value optimization for shale and tight assets.

What you'll do

• Develop reservoir evaluations and integrated development plans that support field development and asset growth.
• Generate production forecasts, type curves, reserves and resources assessments, and development recommendations.
• Conduct reservoir surveillance, decline curve analysis, pressure analysis, and well performance evaluations to identify optimization opportunities.
• Evaluate development spacing, sequencing, depletion strategies, completion performance, and capital efficiency trade-offs.
• Integrate reservoir, production, geological, petrophysical, operational, and commercial datasets into decision-ready recommendations.
• Support reserves and resource maturation processes through technically robust and auditable reservoir engineering work products.
• Evaluate competitor performance and external analog developments to identify opportunities for value creation and risk reduction.
• Collaborate with Earth Science, Production Engineering, Drilling and Completions, Planning, Commercial, and Operations teams.
• Communicate technical recommendations and uncertainty clearly to technical and leadership audiences.
• Contribute to workflow improvements through automation, analytics, digital technologies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support technical mentoring and capability building across the reservoir engineering community.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or higher in petroleum engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5-10 years of reservoir engineering experience.
• Experience in production forecasting, development planning, reserves assessment, surveillance, and economic evaluation.
• Strong technical background in decline curve analysis, reservoir management, forecasting, uncertainty analysis, and development optimization.
• Ability to integrate technical and commercial considerations into business recommendations.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
• If required by the final posting: legal authorization to work in India without company-sponsored visa support.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in petroleum engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting shale and tight developments.
• Experience with reserves determination, type curve development, development planning, and portfolio optimization.
• Experience with analytics, machine learning, automation, or digital workflow development.
• Experience supporting integrated asset teams and business planning processes.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

Details

• Based in Chevron's office in Bengaluru, India.
• Standard working hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM, Monday to Friday, subject to change based on operational or business requirements.
• Chevron is unable to sponsor employment visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.