Assets Reservoir Engineer - Shale & Tight

About the role

Chevron ENGINE, the Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center in Bengaluru, is hiring an Assets Reservoir Engineer for its Subsurface team. The role covers reservoir management, development planning, production forecasting, reserves and resources maturation, and value optimization for shale and tight assets. Working hours are standard 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM, Monday to Friday, and may change with business needs.

Key responsibilities

• Develop reservoir evaluations and integrated development plans supporting field development and asset growth.
• Generate production forecasts, type curves, reserves and resources assessments, and development recommendations.
• Run reservoir surveillance, decline curve analysis, pressure analysis and well performance evaluations to find optimization opportunities.
• Evaluate development spacing, sequencing, depletion strategies, completion performance and capital efficiency trade-offs.
• Integrate reservoir, production, geological, petrophysical, operational and commercial data into decision-ready recommendations.
• Support reserves and resource maturation with auditable engineering work products.
• Evaluate competitor performance and external analog developments.
• Collaborate with Earth Science, Production Engineering, Drilling and Completions, Planning, Commercial and Operations teams, and communicate recommendations clearly to technical and leadership audiences.
• Contribute to workflow improvements through automation, analytics and digital tools, and support technical mentoring.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in petroleum engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5-10 years of reservoir engineering experience, including production forecasting, development planning, reserves assessment, surveillance and economic evaluation.
• Legal authorization to work in India without company-sponsored visa support, if required by the final posting.

Preferred qualifications

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

What we offer

• World-leading energy projects and structured learning and mentorship.
• Thoughtfully designed work environments supported by digital collaboration tools.
• Comprehensive benefits covering health, well-being and work-life balance.

To apply, use the online application form on the career site; Chevron does not sponsor employment visas for this position.