Job Description:

About us
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We're always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world's leading energy company!

Role Overview

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 disciplines, geoscientists, and finance.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Education:

• Bsc/Msc/PhD degree in Petroleum/Reservoir Engineering or related applied science or engineering

Experience:

• 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:

Technical

• 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 bp:
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
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, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

Travel Requirement
Negligible 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:
Data acquisition strategy, Data Analysis, Data Management, Depletion and Storage Development Planning, Fluid Properties, Fluid sampling and analysis, Geological Reservoir and Storage Unit Modelling, Integrated Resource Progression, Measuring and Verification for Carbon Storage, Monitoring, Operations Geology, Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description, Petrophysical Static Reservoir Description, Reservoir Forecasting and Business Planning, Reservoir quality, Rock Properties Framework, Subsurface integration, Subsurface uncertainty and risk management, Subsurface verification and assurance, Well and Area Performance Management

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