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Location: Houston, Texas
This role will be a part of bp’s early careers development program. Through this program, early careers employees will build their experience through challenging development assignments, by developing a toolkit of transferable skills for the future and having a dedicated network of support to help them succeed.
A reservoir engineering specialist is responsible for developing and applying advanced numerical modeling techniques to building, simulating, and assessing asset risks and uncertainties with reservoir models. bp has a strong ecosystem of in-house and vendor tools used to inform business decision-making around the development of our subsurface resources. The maintenance, research, and development of future generations of such tools requires the talents and capabilities of technical specialist reservoir engineers equipped with strong skills in not only reservoir engineering, but also data analytics, statistical analysis, computer science and programming.
The role will be in the bp I&E Subsurface Technology Center of Excellence (ST CoE), which partners with and supports bp oil and gas, carbon storage and other low carbon teams in researching and developing innovative tools and workflows for robust field development and/or storage plans, with full consideration of risks and uncertainty.
Minimum Requirements
Seeking a graduate, majoring in reservoir engineering, physics, or relevant quantitative discipline, with strong computational modelling experience
Coding skills in Python and/or C++/Fortran
Experience in reservoir model building and simulation
Experience in designing and applying statistical and physics-based mathematical modeling techniques.
Must have cumulative and major GPA of 3.2 or higher
On a case-by-case basis, bp may support US Immigration sponsorship for full-time or long- term employment
Must be in final year, graduating from Dec. 2023 through May 2024 or graduated in the past 3 years.
Desirable skills
Skills in data analytics and statistical analysis
Skills in machine learning or automation
Proficient in working in a Linux environment
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