Lei Jin
About Lei Jin
Lei Jin is a Senior Research Engineer at ExxonMobil with a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University and extensive experience in geomechanics and hydro-mechanical modeling.
Title and Current Position
Lei Jin is a Senior Research Engineer at ExxonMobil, located in Spring, TX. He has held this position since 2018.
Previous Work Experience
Lei Jin has a diverse background in the industry. He was an R&D Intern at Total in 2016 at the Centre Scientifique et Technique Jean Féger (CSTJF) in Pau, France. In 2015, he served as a Geophysics Intern at EOG Resources in Fort Worth, Texas. Additionally, in 2014, he worked as a Visiting Geomechanicist at OMV in Vienna, Austria.
Education and Expertise
Lei Jin earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Geophysics from Stanford University, where he studied from 2012 to 2018. Prior to that, he completed a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Civil Engineering at Tongji University, where he studied from 2009 to 2012.
Developments and Contributions
At ExxonMobil, Lei Jin developed a 3D fully coupled hydro-mechanical modeling workflow for industry-scale saltwater disposal in layered and faulted rocks, restoring a 20,000 barrel/day SWD capacity. He led the development of GIST, a tool for fully coupled hydro-mechanical analytical modeling of SWD injection, rapid seismicity causal analysis, attribution, and forecasting. He also supported Angola assets by developing 3D FEA workflows using Abaqus on HPL, enabling a 1000 barrel/well/day production uplift. Additionally, he developed 2D FEA modeling workflows to predict behaviors of salt-casing systems under various drilling and completion scenarios, addressing casing ovalization issues in Brazil assets. His contributions also include an analytical method to estimate safe CO2 injection pressure for the Porthos CCS project in the Netherlands and performing 3D geomechanical modeling for geoform compaction and permeability loss, supporting well completions in Canada Hibernia assets.