Exxon Mobil Work Profiles – An
overview
For Promethean Consultants
By Nandkumar Nair
The Main Businesses
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Deep water drilling
Exploration
Hydraulic Fracturing
Liquefied Natural Gas
Vehicle Technology
Deep Water Drilling
• Floating Production Storage and Offloading
(FPSO) vessel
• It is used for processing Hydrocarbons
• Receives Hydrocarbons either from its own
processes or from another platform
• After processing it saves the oil till transferred
• Transfer to another tanker or via pipelines
FPSO Jobs
• Conversion jobs ie. Projects & Ship jobs
• Petrochemical Jobs
Conversion Project
Conversion Project Jobs
• Projects assigned to specific Floating solution
consultants
• Some of the leading FPSO companies are
– Shell
– Maersk
– Prosafe
– Modec
– BW Offshore
– Chevron
• The major requirements include
– Concept development (Special consultant services)
– Design engineering (Only FPSO or FSO depending on
project)
– Procurement profiles (large scale project purchase
profiles)
– Finance profiles (Majorly into Estimation and auditing)
– HR profiles (project based)
– Commissioning Engineers (as per project)
– Safety (on-site & off-site) profiles (experience on
ships, vessels would be preferred)
– Mass number Technical hands (welders, draughtsman
and supervisors)
Petrochemical jobs
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Chemical engineers
Piping engineers
Design Engineers
Commissioning engineers
Project engineers
Specialist profiles
Supervisors
Technical hands
Exploration
• Oil & gas bad conductors of electricity
• This is a modern technology into oil & gas
exploration
• Low frequency electromagnetic waves used
for “remote” mapping.
• 25 years of geophysics research – university
and corporate level
Remote Reservoir Resistivity
Mapping (R3M)
• Magnetic controlled source Electromagnetic
surveying
• Geo-science and seismic data
• Advanced computing capabilities made a
breakthrough since 1990s
• 3D methods for survey design, acquisition,
data processing, imaging and interpretation
• Success in West Africa, Brazil, Colombia and in
Gulf of Mexico
Jobs
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Radiography researchers
Seismographic researchers
Graphic designers
A complete research team
A complete project team
Liquefied Natural Gas
• Access was limited as gas had to be supplied via pipe lines
from sources
• Liquefaction conceptualized
• Extracted gases cooled upto -162 C to be condensed into
liquid
• Natural gas is classified into three groups
– Non Associated
• No oil contact
– Gas cap
• Overlying an oil reserve
– Associated gas
• Dissolved in the oil
• Natural gas liquefied for easier storage
(majorly methane)
• Odorless, colorless, non-toxic and noncorrosive
• Hazards – flammability, vaporization, freezing
and asphyxia
The process
LNG Jobs
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Research analysts
Chemical engineers
Planning engineers
Site engineers
Port operations engineers
Oil & Gas project engineers (other project profiles)
Construction & Civil engineers
Naval architects
Piping specialists
Supervisors & Technical hands
Design engineers
Commissioning engineers
Hydraulic fracturing
• It is a well stimulation process
• Well stimulation – it is a well intervention
process of pumping water and draining
hydrocarbons; performed on a gas or oil well
to improve its production
• Well intervention – It is performed on a oil or
gas well near the end of its productive life
• Literal definition – The technique of fracturing
rock by pressurized liquid
• The pumped liquid is called “fracking fluid”
which consists mostly of water, sand and a few
other proppants (sand & ceramic)
• First experiment in 1947, commercial use
since 1950 in USA
HF/Fracking jobs
• India currently has no fracking projects going on,
will be roping in a few projects soon
• Requirements in US for fracking encapsulates
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Piping experts
Seismographic experts
Radiology experts
Project engineers
CAD designers
Supervisors
Geologists
Process engineers
Hydrocarbon specialist engineers
Mass number of technical hands
Vehicle Technology
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To reduce emission levels
For better economy rates
Hydrogen fuel cell technology
Lighter vehicular parts and tyre liners
Fuel Cell
• A device converting chemical energy to electrical
energy by chemical reactions of positively
charged Hydrogen ions with oxygen or an
oxidized agent
• Tank to wheel efficiency increases by 36% overall
• Hydrogen fuel cell (compressed hydrogen)can
store energy like batteries, unlike other fuel cells
• Fuel cells are used for power generation at
industrial as well as domestic scale
• Used in cars and buses, also started in public
trains
Vehicle technology jobs
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Researchers & analysts
Designers
Project engineers & executors
Plastic specialists (preferred from automobile
background)
• Hydrocarbon engineers
• Automobile engineers
• Chemical engineers
Competitors
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British Petroleum
Chevron Corporation
Royal Dutch Shell
Petrochina Corporation
Gazprom Corporation
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Wikipedia.com
Modec.com
FPSO.com
Oilandgasjobsearch.com
Technip.com
Rigzone.com
Onepetro.org
Exxonmobil.com
Slideshare.com
Timesjobs.com
Morningstar.com