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Senior Geophysicist
senior · Other
Job Family Group:
Subsurface Group
Job Description:
About bp:
In production & operations, we find, develop and operate oil and gas resources and assets, as well as refineries, pipelines and terminals around the world.
Our vision is to become an industry-leading hydrocarbons business and the engine room of our integrated energy company.
Gas & low carbon energy (G&LCE) encompasses businesses, platforms and partnerships helping to deliver shareholder value and decarbonize our operations while positioning us for growth through the next decade.
Our organization also aims to:
Partner with bp’s businesses to provide integrated solutions and governance across our NOJV portfolio.
Lead the development of deep and enduring relationships with targeted strategic corporates and partners in service of bp’s businesses.
Ensure bp’s strategy, plans and wide-ranging activities in the US and China are unified and regionally integrated for value.
About the role:
This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to join the agile, fast-paced and exciting integrated team that provides technical advice for opportunities in Production Management, Depletion Management, Area Development Planning and Exploration to improve production and recovery from oil & gas fields and to identify new opportunities.
The successful candidate for this role will drive business value through the consistent application of deep technical and functional expertise using BP workflows, practices, guidelines and toolkits. A skillful understanding and usage of the seismic products linked to an ability to translate those products into a geological description and hydrocarbon habitat whilst collaborating with others are crucial to success.
This is a hands‑on technical role suited to someone who brings strong geological and geophysical fundamentals, thrives in collaborative environments, and enjoys shaping subsurface solutions for complex mature fields.
What You will Deliver:
- Contributes to sharing geophysical understanding of the field to a diverse range of stakeholders including broader asset subsurface team.
- Interprets and analyzes key geophysical products to construct a consistent subsurface description.
- Identifies maximising technologies and studies that will improve the understanding of the data and integration of these products for reservoir characterization in service of business delivery.
- Works with client stakeholders to define optimal seismic processing flows and opportunities for improvements.
- Uses seismic data to review and plan future well targets and underpin a business decision
- Assesses the data quality of the current seismic data, it’ strengths and weaknesses and works with stakeholders to plan a forward work program that improves data quality enabling business decisions now and in the future
What you will need to be successful :
Must have educational qualifications:
- A geoscience degree from a recognised university
Minimum years of relevant experience:
- Minimum of 10+ years’ experience as a geophysicist in oil, gas or exploration, appraisal, development or production which must include experience of seismic processing and seismic analysis
Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):
- Excellent geoscience and subsurface interpretation and integration skills, demonstrated through understanding of workstation environment using Petrel or equivalent
- Skilled in the use of rapid interpretation techniques e.g Paleoscan
- Understanding of seismic processing (pre and post stack) and recent advances
- A good all-round knowledge of depth conversion, seismic rock property and inversion workflows
- Exposure to Exploration, appraisal, development and production geoscience in oil and gas assets
- Delivery of Integrated Subsurface Descriptions
- Skilled in characterising and communicating subsurface uncertainty and risk using minimal data and taking minimal time to make decisions and conclusions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience of working in diverse global teams and managing stakeholders
- A highly collaborative style, able to work with many cultures with a proven track-record of personal delivery whilst working under challenging conditions in a different office environment.
Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for – learning/on-the-job):
- Experience in Carbonates
- Well planning experience from Exploration to Development
- Leading technical projects
- Hands-on experience of depth conversion, inversion, seismic processing and seismic rock properties
- Experience manipulating seismic and other data in and out of Petrel
- 4D and potential fields experience
- Contribution or exposure to the development or update of static and dynamic models
You will work with:
Your line manager will be the bp Area Development Manager
You will be based at Mumbai and work from the partner offices.
You will work in close collaboration with both bp and partner subsurface and production teams and with bp’s global subsurface technical specialists and subject matter experts.
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 fostering 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 generously paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with 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.
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