Job Family Group:

Subsurface Group

Job Description:

About bp
bp is a global energy business with over 100 years of experience across the value chain. Our purpose is to reimagine energy for people and our planet as we become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner; and also help the world get to net zero. With its many investments in India, bp is one of the largest international energy companies in India. Our organization also aims to:

• Partner with bp’s businesses to provide integrated solutions and governance across our NOJV portfolio.
• Own the development of deep and enduring relationships with targeted strategic corporates and partners in service of bp’s businesses.
• By combining bp’s technical capability with local knowledge and experience, partnerships help unlock value and support long term energy supply.

Job Description

The role will support the bp shareholder team based in Mumbai, India, working closely with bp’s key JV operating partner Reliance Industries Ltd. This role will focus on progressing the development hopper in a mature asset and progress development of a new asset. The successful candidate will be responsible for integrated subsurface description of the discovered and developed resources, support static and dynamic evaluation of the hopper infill options as well as new developments proposed by the operator and drive inputs to FM’s to inform investment governance decisions. The successful candidate will work closely and regularly collaborate with operator’s subsurface, wells and project teams, influencing RIL technical teams on appropriate subsurface description with best commercial and strategic investment outcome for bp.

Key Accountabilities:

• Apply strong expertise in subsurface description and reservoir management, evaluating connected GIIP, and integrating static and dynamic data.
• Support geoscience delivery into Area Development Plan, fully integrating Operations, Risk, Surveillance, Resource Progression, and Technology to improve asset value.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of bp and RIL to support and assure development strategies and reservoir management plans.
• Work closely and regularly collocate with operator’s technical teams on a weekly basis.
• Perform reservoir geological characterization, ensuring robust integration into reservoir models to underpin reliable short- and long-term production forecasts.
• Demonstrate BP guidelines, processes, and workflows across geological discipline to actively influence and challenge the operator, driving adoption of bp views on subsurface uncertainty and risk where appropriate.
• Engage with stakeholders, delivering clear, compelling inputs to technical committee meetings.
• Deliver high-quality technical outputs with a high degree of autonomy.

Essential Criteria:

• Minimum 10 years’ broad subsurface experience, ideally gained through diverse work assignments.
• Degree in Geology (or Earth Sciences equivalent) from an Accredited University.
• Experience in Clastic Reservoir Geology, Subsurface Appraisal, and Reservoir Management.
• Experience in Petrel, seismic interpretation, reservoir characterization & modelling, and volumetric estimation.
• Strong familiarity with the importance of technically thorough Integrated Subsurface Description to underpin reservoir management and depletion planning activities.
• Experience in field development planning, well planning, and operation.
• Experience in surveillance planning and interpretation for risk management and resource progression.
• Experience working in multi-discipline/functional project team and ability to influence others to provide quality inputs to team results.
• Strong networking skills, with ability to work across teams, engaging global SME’s and advisers, bringing technologic and expertise advances from global network.
• Ability to run multiple activities and to quickly respond to changing business priorities and make value and risk-based prioritization decisions.
• Experience working in international JV’s. Appreciates the challenges of, and value generated by, highly diverse working environment.

Why join bp

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 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 in 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.

Travel Requirement:

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Basin resource evaluation, Basin resource evaluation, CO2 utilisation and storage, Core acquisition and analysis, Cost-conscious decision-making, Data acquisition strategy, Data Management, Depositional framework, Fluid Properties, Fluid sampling and analysis, Geodesy and coordinate integrity, Geohazard Assessment, Geomechanical analysis, Integrated Well Delivery, Operations Geology, Petroleum Systems Analysis, Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description, Petrophysical Seismic Lithology and Fluid Prediction, Petrophysical Static Reservoir Description, PPFG detection, Research and Development, Reservoir geomechanics, Reservoir quality, Seismic Interpretation, Seismic stratigraphic interpretation {+ 6 more}.

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