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Job Title


Oil Market Analyst


Company : SHELL OIL COMPANY


Location : Houston, TX


Created : 2026-04-17


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Job Description:What is the role?The Oil Market Analyst plays a critical role within STMA as a frontfacing role to support the Regional Cross Book Analyst, providing timely and integrated insights across crude and refined products to directly support commercial decisionmaking. The role connects the full barrel by coordinating and promoting crossproduct discussions, ensuring analytics across crude, middle distillates, light ends, fuel oil, and chemicals are aligned to identify opportunities and emerging market dislocations. It also maintains and enhances core fundamentals databasessuch as margins, maintenance schedules, and asset insightsthat underpin trading signals and short to mediumterm market understanding. Acting as the focal point for engagement with industrial data vendors, consultancies, and market commentators, the analyst ensures the team stays current with industry perspectives and evolving market trends. In addition, the role delivers bespoke, crossbarrel analytical projects and deepdives that strengthen understanding of integrated valuechain dynamics and help shape informed trading convictions.What youll be doing- Support cross-book discussions: support CBA to manage desk interface. Attend regular desk meetings and cross-book discussions to identify analytical gaps. Work with desk analysts to frame up ideas for solutions- Enhancing refinery outage toolkit: enhancing refinery monitoring capability by leveraging various data and sources of information such as remote sensing, ship tracking, inventory to best and timely inform refinery operatingconditions.- Deliver cross-barrel analytical work: this could be any analytical work that cover cross barrels and even beyond oil market. One example is building a model that would represent the liquid burning profile in Saudi Arabia in short-medium term considering new development across oil, natural gas and power sectors.- Support STMA market outlook development: Provide support to development of Shell Baselines for oil demand, liquid supply, operable asset capacities, trade flows and resulting market tensions as required under wider market research Initiatives.What you bring- The candidate must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis- Bachelors degree in economics or engineering required- 2 or more years of working in a trading environment- Good refining and chemical knowledge (value chain, key processes and product yield, refinery margins, optimization, crude diet and crude valuation etc)- Basic understanding of supply-demand balances and the building blocks- Skilled with SQL and Python, proficient in working with API and Power Query in terms of data collection, cleaning and analysis- Basic Visualization and Dashboarding Tools- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills- Excellent communication skills; able to translate analytical insights into trader-relevant outcomes- Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities, balancing detailed execution with strategic alignment- High attention to detail with a bias toward action and continuous improvement- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trust across teamsWhat we offerThe base salary range for this position is $86,000 - $128,000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parent l leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer