Senior Commercial Crude Valuation Subject Matter Expert (Remote, Contract)

We are seeking a remote-based Senior Commercial Crude Valuation Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support an AI-assisted workflow that translates crude-quality and upstream signals into downstream valuation, OSP, sales, trading, and refinery-fit decision support.

You will partner closely with client stakeholders, engineers, and data scientists to help translate commercial crude-value expertise into structured workflows that support AI-enabled decision making.

Responsibilities

• Translate commercial crude-value expertise into structured workflows and decision frameworks.
• Connect crude quality, refinery fit, logistics, pricing, OSP, and trading decisions.
• Define commercial decision criteria, trade-offs, uncertainty drivers, and explainability requirements.
• Help identify missing context, weak assumptions, limitations, and human review points.
• Validate outputs from a crude valuation, refinery-fit, sales, and trading perspective.
• Support evaluation of alternative commercial strategies and decision options.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to guide development efforts.

What You'll Bring

• 15+ years of experience
  in the oil and gas industry.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• Crude valuation
• Crude pricing
• Official Selling Price (OSP) processes
• Crude sales and trading
• Crude marketing
• Refinery economics
• Customer/refinery-fit analysis
• Scheduling and logistics
• Integrated planning
• Commercial optimization
• Strong understanding of value drivers, pricing impacts, trade-offs, and commercial decision making.
• Ability to clearly articulate uncertainty, assumptions, decision criteria, and commercial implications.
• Experience translating complex expert reasoning into structured workflows and decision processes.
• Prior involvement in digital, analytics, forecasting, automation, or AI-enabled initiatives.
• Advanced degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.

Nice to Have

• Experience with crude assay, blending, PVT, or upstream production workflows.
• Exposure to integrated value-chain optimization initiatives.
• Experience supporting AI, analytics, or digital transformation programs.

Duration

12-week engagement beginning in late July 2026, with potential for extension.

Compensation

• Locally competitive remuneration.

About ThinkOnward

ThinkOnward brings together experienced industry professionals, engineers, scientists, and technologists to solve complex challenges across the energy sector. We combine deep domain expertise with advanced analytics, AI, and digital technologies to accelerate decision-making and deliver practical, real-world solutions.

Our Experts-in-Residence (XiR) community plays a critical role in this work. Through project-based engagements, we connect seasoned experts with high-impact initiatives where their knowledge can shape the development of next-generation tools, workflows, and capabilities.

If you're passionate about applying your expertise to challenging problems and helping define the future of energy innovation, we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more at https://thinkonward.com/joim