What are the responsibilities and job description for the Permian Trading Analyst position at ExxonMobil?
About Us
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
What Role You Will Play In Our Team
If successful, you will be an integral part of our Global Trading Analytics organization, supporting commercial and trading activities across North American natural gas markets. We are seeking a highly motivated analyst with strong market fundamentals, analytical capabilities, and regional expertise in the Permian Basin and South Texas markets to develop market views and analytical frameworks that support trading, asset optimization, and commercial decision-making.
In this role, you will work closely with traders, originators, quantitative analysts, and risk professionals to evaluate production trends, transportation constraints, regional balances, and market dislocations across key natural gas hubs. You will contribute to the development of scalable analytical solutions and actionable market insights that help the Global Trading organization identify and capture commercial opportunities.
What You Will Do
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last and we provide job rotations throughout your career with us. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life. Currently our employees' benefits include long term savings allowance, dental reimbursement, annual health checkups and home ownership assistance plan amongst others and these are updated from time to time.
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Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
What Role You Will Play In Our Team
If successful, you will be an integral part of our Global Trading Analytics organization, supporting commercial and trading activities across North American natural gas markets. We are seeking a highly motivated analyst with strong market fundamentals, analytical capabilities, and regional expertise in the Permian Basin and South Texas markets to develop market views and analytical frameworks that support trading, asset optimization, and commercial decision-making.
In this role, you will work closely with traders, originators, quantitative analysts, and risk professionals to evaluate production trends, transportation constraints, regional balances, and market dislocations across key natural gas hubs. You will contribute to the development of scalable analytical solutions and actionable market insights that help the Global Trading organization identify and capture commercial opportunities.
What You Will Do
- Develop and maintain market views for Permian Basin and South Texas natural gas markets.
- Analyze regional supply, demand, storage, and transportation fundamentals impacting North American gas pricing.
- Monitor production trends across major supply basins, including associated gas growth, drilling activity, completion trends, and infrastructure developments.
- Evaluate pipeline flows, transportation constraints, capacity utilization, maintenance events, and basis market dynamics.
- Build regional balance models and forecasting frameworks supporting short-, medium-, and long-term market analysis.
- Identify market dislocations, arbitrage opportunities, and regional pricing drivers that support trading and portfolio positioning decisions.
- Analyze LNG feedgas demand, Gulf Coast fundamentals, power burn trends, and other drivers impacting South Texas markets.
- Partner closely with traders and commercial teams to translate market analysis into actionable trading insights and positioning recommendations.
- Develop analytical tools, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to improve decision support and market transparency.
- Conduct scenario analysis and sensitivity testing to evaluate market risks and opportunities.
- Communicate market developments and analytical findings clearly and effectively to commercial stakeholders.
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Economics, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics, Energy Markets, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of North American natural gas fundamentals.
- Experience analyzing Permian Basin and/or South Texas natural gas markets.
- Knowledge of pipeline flows, transportation economics, storage dynamics, and regional basis markets.
- Experience building market balance models, forecasting frameworks, or market intelligence tools.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, Excel, and data visualization platforms.
- Experience working with large energy datasets, including production, pipeline, storage, pricing, and weather data.
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate complex market dynamics to both technical and commercial stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced trading and commercial environment.
- Experience supporting natural gas trading or portfolio management organizations.
- Experience with LNG market analysis and Gulf Coast gas dynamics.
- Experience with GPCM or other gas market modeling platforms.
- Knowledge of power markets and gas-to-power relationships.
- Experience with Enverus, Wood Mackenzie, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Genscape, or similar energy market datasets.
- Experience supporting physical asset optimization, transportation portfolios, or structured commercial transactions.
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last and we provide job rotations throughout your career with us. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life. Currently our employees' benefits include long term savings allowance, dental reimbursement, annual health checkups and home ownership assistance plan amongst others and these are updated from time to time.
Stay connected with us
Learn more at our website
Follow us on LinkedIN and Instagram
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe our channel at YouTube
Alternate Location:
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.