Research Associate – Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage

This role will serve as part of Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS research team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a strong, global team and make a major contribution to decarbonisation and the energy transition at a global scale.

Our services include tracking and forecasting 10-year and 25-year outlooks, detailed economic valuations and reports of individual projects, project data tracking for more than 50 variables on over 1000 projects, policy tracking, quarterly market insights, and analytics.

You will work together with our other global CCUS research team members to provide an assessment of CCUS applications in key hard-to-abate sectors to assess the demand potential of CCUS. He/She/We will also work to track and calibrate data and research, ensuring we remain at the leading edge of this critical analysis. You will also support research relating to asset and company valuations. The project data and valuations are part of numerous other tools and services; as such, you will also become a go-to person to support stakeholders from related functions such as our data and product teams.

You will also track policy updates, regulations and come up with quick assessments to understand impact of stakeholder and/or key players.

You will be expected to develop relationships with industry partners will also be key in this role. Through your research and industry engagement, you will establish a knowledge base to test assumptions on methodologies and represent Wood Mackenzie’s research in a high-quality way to clients.

Main responsibilities:-

The Research Associate is expected to:-

• Support and inform cash-flow analyses and written content for individual CCUS projects (clusters, hubs, individual projects)
• Contribute to regular written reports and insights on the changing way CCUS and other Carbon Removal mechanisms impact the Energy Transition
• Work with the Fiscal Centre of Excellence to translate fiscal and subsidy terms relevant to each market where carbon capture, use and storage projects operate or are planned.
• Provide underpinning research for market reports, industry insight pieces and industry presentations, with a career path towards delivering your own presentations.
• Conduct high-quality primary research with project developers, governments and investors on projects, costs, policy updates and market evolution.
• Provide high-quality client service to research subscribers through responding to inquiries, one-on-one conversations, and special events.
• Collaborate with SMEs and internal stakeholders across Wood Mackenzie to support the creation of our content.
• Support in the modelling of WoodMac’s CCUS demand potential and supply forecast for 10 and 25 years, in collaboration with other sectoral experts in the Energy transition team, and ensure high quality data and methodological alignment.

Knowledge and Experience:-

• Demonstrated achievement and growth in past academic and/or professional endeavors
• Distinctive undergraduate academic achievement
• Engineering, scientific, and financial expertise is an asset
• Knowledgeable and experienced in financial modelling of energy-related or similar assets
• 1+ years or distinguishing previous experience in carbon management, CCUS or CCUS-related sectors (e.g. oil and gas, power, chemicals, steel, hydrogen, cement), project development, project and energy economics, energy policy research, and energy transition technologies and initiatives is an asset
• Interest in policy landscape as it impacts the energy transition
• Interest in energy demand, technology adoption and technology cost modelling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Interested in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer market questions.
• Self-driven. Capable of switching between the roles of an individual contributor and a collaborator.
• Strong communication skills. Ability to write cogently. Comfortable interacting with clients and industry stakeholders.
• Capable of managing ambiguity; able to synthesize complexity into key themes and insights by being resourceful and persistent.
• An engaging nature, capable of connecting with co-workers, clients and industry stakeholders in a wide range of professional settings around the globe.

Passionate, with a deep intellectual curiosity, about the energy transition. Specifically, the impact of carbon capture and removal capability amid a wider, global business and policy landscape.

Key Competencies:-

• Issue identification and problem-solving
• Building analytical models, manipulating and illustrating data.
• Planning, implementation
• Efficiency-focused
• Determined and resilient
• Continuous improvement
• Creativity
• Curiosity
• Orientation to detail
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Communication
• Personal impact
• Collaboration

Location:-

• Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Company Overview:-

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.