Exploration Geophysicist

Bp

Bp

United Kingdom · Aberdeen, UK
Posted on Sep 30, 2025

Entity:

Production & Operations


Job Family Group:

Subsurface Group


Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role

A "reset bp" plans to grow the upstream with increasing investment in oil and gas to strengthen the portfolio, grow production and grow cash flow. We are planning to increase investment in exploration and exploration seismic to reload and enhance the oil and gas opportunity hopper - both within our existing regions as well as in regions and geographies where we do not currently have upstream activity. Exploration plan to drill ~40 wells globally over the next 3 years.

To support this activity, the Eastern Hemisphere Exploration Team is looking for a geophysicist and interpreter to support the exploration agenda of bringing forward exploration and appraisal opportunities that add value to bp. You will be responsible for characterizing the subsurface, undertaking regional basin evaluations, developing prospect and lead inventories and maturing prospects for drilling.

What you will deliver

As an exploration geophysicist you will :

  • Deliver integrated geological and geophysical descriptions and evaluations at regional, basin, play fairway, and prospect levels.

  • Deliver prospect and lead inventories

  • Mature selected opportunities into detailed integrated prospect descriptions including assured, risked volumetric assessments

  • Support well planning and well operations when drilling exploration prospects

  • Integrate post well results into subsurface models and undertake post-well evaluations.

  • Recommend technical work and data acquisition programs, including seismic surveys.

  • Support exploration seismic acquisition and reprocessing programmes and operations to deliver seismic data to interpreters desktop

  • Work across multiple time zones in an agile and flexible manner.

As a senior member of the Exploration Team you will:

  • Coach and mentor junior exploration geoscientists within the team.

  • Be a key person in leading integration with Global Subsurface Specialists (GSS) teams and Subject Matter Experts (SME's) in support of delivering a complete subsurface description and the associated volumes and risks.

  • Ensure the best processes are applied at the appropriate level and focus on the key technical and business issues

What you will need to be successful

In addition to having a degree in Geoscience related subject area, it is important that you also demonstrate:

  • Proven understanding of integrated petroleum geoscience exploration fundamentals.

  • Significant exploration experience from a variety of basins and depositional system settings.

  • Integrated geoscience skills and ability to work with all forms of geological as well as geophysical data.

  • Sound knowledge of seismic interpretation, seismic attributes, depth conversion seismic rock properties, AVO, and DHI.

  • Ability to Integrate and assimilate diverse datasets and information to produce coherent geoscience understanding and conclusions.

  • A creative and flexible approach and are comfortable with creating integrated ideas, interpretation and models both from large, complex, and multi-dimensional datasets and form sparse limited and occasionally poor quality datasets.

  • A business-oriented, value focused attitude that thrives on uncertainty and with a strong bias for collaboration, communication and integration.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!


Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role


Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation


Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working


Skills:

Basin resource evaluation, Basin resource evaluation, CO2 utilisation and storage, Cost-conscious decision-making, Data Analysis, Data Management, Depletion and Storage Development Planning, Depositional framework, Fluid Properties, Geodesy and coordinate integrity, Geohazard Assessment, Geological Reservoir and Storage Unit Modelling, Geophysical surveillance, Geospatial data visualization, Integrated Resource Progression, Integrated Well Delivery, Petroleum Systems Analysis, Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description, Petrophysical Seismic Lithology and Fluid Prediction, Petrophysical Seismic Reservoir Characterisation, Research and Development, Reservoir quality, Resource, Reserves Estimation and Storage Volume Assessment, Rock Properties Framework, Seismic Acquisition {+ 8 more}


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