About the Role:
This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to join the agile, fast-paced and exciting integrated team that provides advisory on opportunities for Production Management, Depletion Management, and Area Development Planning to improve production and recovery from oil & gas fields.
As a Geologist in the G&LCE team, you will play a central technical role in interpreting, integrating, and communicating geological insights that drive reservoir management decisions. You will work closely with partners, bp subsurface specialists, and multi-disciplinary teams across India and global bp hubs.
This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone who brings strong geological fundamentals, thrives in collaborative environments, and enjoys shaping subsurface solutions for complex mature fields.
What you will deliver:
- As an individual technical contributor, working closely with other subsurface teams and other business units such as the Wells organization, you will deliver high-quality geological inputs to progress prioritized business opportunities.
- You will interpret and integrate core, well-log, seismic, analogue, and dynamic data (pressure, production etc.) to develop and refine the integrated structural, stratigraphic, depositional, rock property and fluid frameworks which underpin integrated subsurface products.
- Your technical and business skills will enable you to develop appropriate subsurface scenarios, to characterize and communicate subsurface uncertainties and use this knowledge to plan and deliver fit for purpose technical products.
- You will support the base management and reservoir management opportunities to enhance economic recovery from existing infrastructure.
- Engage proactively with bp specialists, partners, and cross disciplinary team members (RE, PT, geophysics, data, wells) to drive integrated subsurface solutions. disciplinary team members (RE, PT, geophysics, data, wells) to drive integrated subsurface solutions.
- Support adoption of new technologies, digital workflows, and data-driven tools (e.g., RAPID-style workflows) that improve efficiency and reliability of subsurface interpretation.
- Your ability to clearly communicate subsurface uncertainty to colleagues and business leaders will enable the development of appropriate risk management and mitigation plans.
- As a geologist in bp's geological and subsurface communities you will coach, share standard process and seek to innovate to solve technical and business problems.
What you will need to be successful
Must have educational qualifications:
- A geology / geoscience degree from a recognized university
Minimum years of relevant experience:
- Minimum of 7+ years experience as a geologist in oil, gas or exploration, appraisal, development or production.
Must have experience/skills:
- Excellent geoscience and subsurface interpretation skills, including interpretation workstation skills and seismic interpretation (e.g., Petrel or equivalent).
- Exposure in appraisal, development and production geoscience in oil and gas assets
- Ability to integrate diverse static and dynamic subsurface data
- Delivery of Integrated Subsurface Descriptions
- Skilled in characterizing and communicating subsurface uncertainty and risk
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- A highly collaborative, team-first ethos, and a validated track-record of personal delivery.
Good to have experiences/skills:
- Contribution or exposure to the development or update of static and dynamic models
- Broad development, production and well planning experience
- Experience of working in diverse global teams and managing stakeholders
- Leading technical projects
- Experience in probabilistic resource assessment and reservoir performance prediction
- Experience in Carbonates
- Familiarity with agile working practices
You will work with
- Your line manager will be the Performance manager PE/RE
- You will be based at Mumbai and work from the bp and 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 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.
