Geomechanics Fracture Modeling Specialist

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.

Chevrons 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.

About The Position

The Geomechanics Fracturing Modeling Specialist will provide fracture modelling support to enhance shale & tight (S&T) recovery, reduce cost, optimize completion designs, enable safe fracturing operations, reduce environmental risk, and safeguard the system integrity & reliability. The position supports the construction, setup and execution of geomechanical model for hydraulic fracturing that are integral to S&T business unit (BU) activities. Strong knowledge in fracture mechanics is required. Extensive experience in geomechanics, stimulation and reservoir simulation is required. Advanced degree in geomechanics or related discipline is required. A functional knowledge of shale and tight operations, the role geomechanics plays in them, and geomechanics related business decisions is required. Background in development of 1D or 3D Mechanical Earth Models (MEM) is preferred. The role brings together working subsurface knowledge and expertise in a growing technical area with significant impact to shale & tight (unconventional) assets. The role requires close collaboration with subject matter experts to maintain workflow alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• The position supports the construction, setup and execution of geomechanical model for hydraulic fracturing that are integral to S&T asset activities. Model construction and analyses are conducted to address geomechanical challenges for S&T assets such as: hydraulic fracturing, fracture height growth, drainage height assessment, fracture driven interaction, job optimization including well and cluster spacing, landing point optimization etc.
• Populate hydraulic fracture models for S&T assets with geological and geophysical data, rock properties, pump schedules, fluid rheology and, relevant pressure and temperature conditions under collaboration with relevant subject matter experts.
• Execute hydraulic fracture S&T models, extract relevant data and manage results repository.
• Assess interactions between parent and child wells utilizing workflows that couple hydraulic fracture models, reservoir simulators and 4D MEM models.
  
  

• BS and MS in Earth science disciplines (Geology, Geophysics, Geomechanics) or Petroleum or equivalent Engineering
• 5-7 years of pertinent industry experience.
• Experience in oil and gas industry
• Experience in hands-on geomechanics hydraulic fracture modeling for S&T applications (e.g. Kinetix, ResFrac or equivalent software)
• Experience with well operations and understanding of the interplay between subsurface conditions in unconventional assets and well performance.
• Experienced in unconventional resources and proficient in a wide range of geomechanics analysis techniques to handle field and well data
  
  

• 5-7 years of experience in geomechanics field
• Experience in hydraulic fracture modeling software for shale and tight applications such as Kinetix, ResFrac or StimPlan
• Experience in one dimensional well log software such as Techlog or Geolog
• Experience in finite element solvers such as Abaqus, ParaGeo or Elfen