Job Description
Job Description: This is the place to truly inspire change. Our people develop hydrocarbon resources, deliver projects, operate refineries as well as oil and gas production assets.
Join us and make a difference by:
- making our production and operations safer and more standardized
- driving quicker reduction of our carbon emissions
- growing cash returns and delivering improved reliability and optimization
- maximizing efficiency through sharing resources
- accelerating the digital transformation of our operating assets
- developing our people faster, leveraging the scale of P&O
- building greater integration and collaboration in service of our purpose.
Role Synopsis The Reservoir Engineering position supports bp's deepwater assets & acreage in the western hemisphere. This is a high-profile position which requires an applicant who shows initiative, can influence, communicate effectively, and uses sound technical judgment. Work will entail cooperatively working projects in conjunction with other engineering subject areas, geoscientists, and finance.
Key Accountabilities - Provide sound Reservoir Engineering technical analysis, judgement, and guidance to support identification, evaluation and progression of value-generating resources.
- Generate development plan scenarios and concept screening to ensure an economic and viable development concept for project progression.
- Support and/or lead the analysis and application of the Discovered Resource Management guidelines to discovered volumes and contribute to appropriate documentation.
- Ensure subsurface products align to bp's technical expectations for sanction decision quality of development.
- Describe subsurface uncertainties and defining work products needed to sufficiently explore those uncertainties.
- Build appropriate models to describe and test a range of sensitivities. These models may be classical and/or numerical, depending on scope and available data and analogs.
- Support well planning process for upcoming exploration, appraisal and development wells, as well as analysis, interpretation and integration of data acquired from the E&A wells.
Essential Education - Bsc/Msc/PhD degree or equivalent experience in Petroleum/Reservoir Engineering or related applied science or engineering
Essential experience and job requirements: - 5-15 years experience in reservoir engineering / petroleum engineering or related experience in Exploration, Appraisal, and/or Field Development.
- Must be available 3 days per week in bp office (hybrid working environment)
Desirable Criteria - Direct hands-on experience with analytical / numerical RE toolkit (PETEX IPM, Nexus, Pressure Transient Analysis, Decline Curve Analysis) and other reservoir engineering toolkits to assess risk and uncertainty management.
- Developing level of data science and analytics skills
- Experience in classical reservoir engineering, reservoir management, and field development planning.
- If possible, experience in well and project planning processes, including drilling operations, well evaluations and facility options.
- Experience in Deepwater Exploration, Appraisal, and Field Development
- Experience in subsurface project evaluation and value of information analysis.
- An enthusiasm for geoscience
Why join us At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, 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, and 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.
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: Legal Disclaimer: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation related to bp's recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.
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