Exploration Geophysicist

Entity:
Production & Operations

Job Family Group:
Subsurface Group

Job Description:

Western Hemisphere Exploration is looking for a Geophysicist and interpreter to support the Exploration agenda of bringing forward exploration and appraisal opportunities that make valuable contributions to bp.

You will be responsible for characterizing the subsurface, developing prospect lead inventories, maturing prospects for drilling, and supporting well execution.

This role, as part of Western Hemisphere Exploration. The Western Hemisphere Exploration business is core to the company's Exploration strategy to deliver advantage hydrocarbon opportunities.

What you will deliver

• Develop, describe, and deliver technical recommendations for prospects in support of the Exploration strategy
• Undertake seismic interpretation to develop understanding and integrated models of the subsurface across the Exploration portfolio
• Contribute to the subsurface description of hydrocarbon prospects. This includes building and ranking prospect inventories, describing high-graded prospects and providing technical recommendation applying exploration common process, BP tools, and standard methodologies
• Coordinating 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
• Interact with different functions including the wells organizations, new well concepts teams, finance, and other subsurface teams
• Deliver clear and concise prospect descriptions outlining key data quality issues, limitations, assumptions, and uncertainty; you will support the development of lead and prospect inventories ensuring risks and resources are appropriately characterized
• Support well planning and drilling activities for exploration wells
• Support post drilling well evaluations ensuring results are appropriately integrated into subsurface models and understanding, including learnings across global Exploration portfolio

What you will need to be successful

In addition to having a degree (or equivalent) in Geology / Geophysics, candidates should also demonstrate:

• Good communications skills
• Established track record of delivery in the subsurface oil and gas industry
• Proven track record of assimilating large, complex, and multi-dimensional datasets to produce coherent and logical geoscience understanding and conclusions
• Superb understanding of seismic rock property fundamentals, Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators (DHI) and Amplitude Vs. Offset (AVO) analysis
• Ability to assess the quality and suitability of seismic datasets across and formulate recommend courses of action
• Working understanding of seismic acquisition and processing is a plus
• Familiarity with risk and resource-based prospect evaluation
• Familiar with exploration volumetric assessment

Why join us?

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our
• achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
• Life and health insurance, medical care package
• And many other benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Don't hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations.

Travel Requirement
Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

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}

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 an accessibility need may request an adjustment/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 adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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