Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

Business Support Group, Subsurface Group

Job Description:

Early Careers at bp

Looking to turn your career dreams into global impact? Explore graduate opportunities with bp. Here you get to work on challenging projects, learn from experts and mentors, and be part of a high-performing team from the get-go. You get the freedom to think boldly, the licence to innovate and the chance to grow in multiple directions. And you get supported, recognised and rewarded along the way.

Our Geoscience Graduate Programme

One Sciences is our Early Careers programme designed to create a pipeline of science talent, positioned to lead bp through the energy transition, to provide reliable, affordable and lower carbon energy to the world and achieve net-zero. The program is 3 years, with most early careers completing three 12-month rotations, designed to provide breadth of experience and build technical depth.

Early careers will follow a structured development offer to accelerate the acquisition of foundational technical skills, experience and knowledge; and application in the business world. The programme supports transition from university to discipline professional and, through our 'Elevate' training programme, provides a framework of ‘non-technical’ skills to support building personal effectiveness, helping you to grow both personally and professionally.

Early careers will build their experience through challenging development assignments, grow a toolkit of transferable skills for the future, and have a dedicated network of support, as well as a vibrant Early Careers community, to help them succeed.

Role and Responsibilities

Job description for Geophysics Graduate role

Geophysicist role will require the individual to be able to learn and operate with relevant support from senior members of the team in seismic interpretation, analysis, and integration of geophysical data with other disciplines supporting well concept and early well design squads. The Geophysicist will support the integrated subsurface description (ISD), special studies and New Well Delivery activities and practices as it relates to the New Well Delivery common process. They will interface with drilling and completions teams to create well documents to pass D1, D2, D3 (WID) and D5 (SOR) and D11 (Subsurface end of well reports) Stages. They may be asked to provide geophysical operational support as needed. They may represent bp externally or in partner meetings.

The following accountabilities are generic and will be subject to clarity depending on where Graduate Geophysicist will be assigned to:

• As an individual technical contributor, working closely with other subsurface disciplines, you will deliver high-quality geophysical inputs to progress prioritized business opportunities.

• You will interpret and integrate seismic, well-log, analogue, and dynamic data (pressure, production etc.) to develop and refine the integrated structural, stratigraphic, depositional, rock property and fluid frameworks that underpin integrated subsurface products.

• Part of an integrated team which delivers all the required reservoir geophysical inputs, documents and reviews for the well planning and deliver process from D1, D2 to D5.

• Contributes to the delivery of all the required geophysical inputs to well planning and execution (D2-D5) including real time activity within Integrated Well Delivery. Emphasis is on understanding the relevant practices.

• Learns how to provide the most up-to-date geophysical information as input to the generation of all maps and other internal documents whilst adhering to defined practices engaging the discipline lead and other field geophysicists as needed for assurance.

• Learns how to identify strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities found whilst analyzing the data.

• Works with senior geophysicists to identity studies, projects and programs to improve or understand the data.

• Works with other geophysicists in ADU teams to deliver products for reservoir characterization and to analyze these products.

• Works with other disciplines to ensure that a consistent truly integrated subsurface description of the field is maintained and input to key documents. Emphasis here will be on the individual learning how to deliver these products.

• You are expected to learn how to use best practice workflows and to continually search for new and improved ways of generating seismic products and the interpretation of these through interaction with Central Technology teams, Seismic Delivery teams and other technical experts.

• Will take an active part in community sessions and may be a local representative for a community of practice.

• Build organizational capability through knowledge sharing and coaching of summer interns.

• You will participates in informing all stakeholders and other disciplines of ongoing changes to the geophysical understanding and new geophysical products.

• Contributes to sharing geophysical understanding of the field with SOCAR, Partners and others as needed (e.g., inputs to RMWG meetings)

• Working constructively with Discipline Leader and others to build and implement a personal development plan.

Job description for Petrophysics Graduate role

Do you have a passion for solving puzzles? Can you think differently about data? These are the kind of things we look for in a bp Petrophysicist. Petrophysicists play a crucial role in our efforts to produce enough oil and gas to help satisfy the world’s growing demand for energy. At bp, our Petrophysicists define the volume and distribution of oil and gas in our reservoirs as well as their flow characteristics. They investigate the quality of reservoir rocks such as their porosity, permeability and how reservoir fluids interact with the reservoir matrix. This involves the integration of direct measurements of reservoir properties, from core and fluid samples extracted from the reservoir together with data from sophisticated indirect measurements made by logging tools lowered into boreholes. These tools measure the nuclear, electrical and acoustic response of rocks and the integrated results are used to predict the volume and distribution of the hydrocarbons and optimise the methods of extraction.

As a Petrophysicist graduate joining our multi-disciplinary and multicultural subsurface team, you’ll work on our global exploration program, new field developments or at a producing asset - all dynamic, collaborative environments. You’ll interact with geoscientists; reservoir, petroleum and drilling engineers; as well as commercial and other disciplines to turn your evaluations into business decisions and actions.

Requirements

• Azerbaijani citizenship
• Relevant bachelor’s and/or master’s degree
• 2024, 2025 and 2026 academic year graduates are eligible to apply
• CGPA 75% (2.5)
  

Specializations:

• Geoscience - Geophysics
• Geoscience - Other
• Biostratigraphy
• Earth Science

Important:
You can apply to one role only!

Employment start date

1st of September 2026

Travel Requirement

No travel is 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:

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