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Basin & Equity Research Lead

ComboCurve · Houston, TX · On-site

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About ComboCurve

ComboCurve is a industry leading cloud-based software solution for A&D, reservoir management, and forecasting in the energy sector. Backed by Bessemer.

About the role

Every study gets published at two depths. The two-page executive summary is what circulates: the ranking or the call, the type curve, the headline numbers, the methodology in brief. Underneath it sits the full study, which is where the actual argument lives.

What they're looking for

  • Basin and play research. Top-wells rankings, subplay studies, completion-design trends, operator benchmarking. Audience is E&P executives
  • Publish the screening waterfall. Every study shows how the population went from unfiltered to final, and what each criterion removed
  • Know where the data lies. Null proppant, perforated vs. drilled lateral length, re-fracs with two completion events booked under one EUR, mis-assigned operators after an acquisition
  • Run decline curve analysis across hundreds to thousands of wells: Arps parameters, b factor, Di, terminal decline, forecast QC at scale
  • Build type curves and P10/P50/P90 bands, normalize EUR to a common lateral length so rankings aren’t just a proxy for who drilled longest
  • Run full-cycle economics: vintage-tiered and lateral-length-based CAPEX, fixed and variable OPEX, flat and strip pricing, NPV, IRR, and payout, with sensitivities when the conclusion depends on price
More about this role

Oil and gas equities are having a moment, and most of the research being written about them is modeled top-down off company guidance. We can do something almost nobody else can: build from the well up. Well-level forecasts and economics in ComboCurve, rolled into a corporate model, rolled into a view on the equity. Same engine, two products.

  • Basin and play research. Top-wells rankings, subplay studies, completion-design trends, operator benchmarking. Audience is E&P executives.
  • Equity research. Coverage of public E&P names built on our own well-level forecasts rather than on management’s. NAV and inventory, corporate cash flow, leverage, hedge position, valuation. Audience is investors and the executives who care what investors think.

The through-line is that our conclusions are built from the rock upward, and we can show our work at every layer. When our NAV disagrees with a company’s own disclosure, we can point to the wells and say why. That is the whole product.

This is a technical role with a public face. The output is research, not marketing copy. But the audience is made up of decision-makers, and the writing and design have to earn their attention.

Every study gets...

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