(Global Oil Gas) Supercritical Water Gasification Scientist

This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

About the Company


This company engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It operates through the following segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Corporate. The Upstream segment includes crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids exploration, field development, and production. The Downstream segment focuses on refining, logistics, power generation, and the marketing of crude oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and related services to international and domestic customers. The Corporate segment offers supporting services including human resources, finance, and information technology. The company was founded on May 29, 1933 and is headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Job Summary

This Company is seeking a Supercritical Water Gasification Scientist to join the Oil Upgrading & Lubes Team in our Research & Development Center (R&DC). This team is responsible for developing and improving unconventional, conventional, cost effective technologies for upgrading crude oil and its fractions. The Supercritical Water Gasification Scientist's primary role is to lead and contribute to new and existing projects using hot and compressed water for converting oil into valuable products including: hydrogen, light olefins, and upgraded fuel.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and execute research and process development projects under hot and compressed water conditions, with proper planning, funding, budgeting, sourcing, and work force management.
• Develop/optimize process configurations and engage in equipment sizing and material selection with engineering partners for technology scale-up.
• Mentor engineering and technical staff in applying fundamental chemical principles.
• Expand capabilities through innovative internal and external research in areas related to pyrolysis, renewable fuels, gasification and others.
• Investigate new and additional analytical tools for non-routine tests, near-real time and real time process chemistry.
• Develop reactions kinetics, investigate reaction mechanisms and evaluate reactors hydrodynamics.
• Design, setup, perform safety reviews, and execute lab and pilot plant scale experiments and programs in the area of supercritical water gasification and upgrading with a wide variety of feedstocks including crude oil, residue, condensate, plastic waste.
• Create material and energy balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams and develop process design data for the individual components of the systems.
• Use project management tools in setting work objectives, detailing experimental scope, and timely execution of the projects towards sound technical solutions.
• Carry out process simulations and optimizations for the overall process and individual process steps.
• Conduct technical negotiations and communicate directly with customers and internal business stakeholders to investigate potential support to the company through initiating R&D projects and develop new business cases for technology implementation.

Requirements:

• The ability to provide written technical reports or presentations of technical work to a variety of audiences.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in technology development and process design/engineering associated with gasifier operation and supercritical water gasification technology development, with a demonstrated scientific/technical record of achievements and capabilities in utilizing hot and compressed water, including supercritical fluids.
• Effective communication skills and a willingness to seek out cross-functional technical expertise as required, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Sound experience and hands-on skills and sufficient knowledge and capabilities on the necessary required chemistry, kinetics, fluid dynamics, and catalyst to conduct the research work effectively.
• Master's Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering, Physics; a PhD is preferred.
• Willing to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• Wide experience in high-temperature and high-pressure experiments and process design and scale-up where hot and compressed water (e.g., supercritical water) is used with/without catalyst for gasification of liquid feedstock and plastic-derived oil to produce valuable chemicals such as Hydrogen, light olefins, and improved fuels.