Integrated Petrophysicist - TSI

Job Family Group:

Subsurface Group

Job Description:

About bp 

bp Technical Solutions India (TSI) center in Pune, aims to build on bp’s existing engineering and technical strengths to deliver high quality services to its hydrocarbons and new energy businesses worldwide. TSI brings together diverse engineering capabilities to provide technical services across a range of areas including engineering, maintenance, optimization, data processes, projects and subsurface, to deliver safe, affordable and lower emission energy, while continuously innovating how we work. 

About the role:

Global Subsurface Solutions (GSS) delivers quality, impactful, subsurface technical products to address critical business challenges across bp’s oil, gas, and low carbon businesses.  As a bp TSI petrophysicist you will support prioritized well planning, resource progression and low carbon opportunities across bp’s global portfolio.  Communication of subsurface uncertainty and risk, and the ability to integrate deeply with other disciplines will be key to your success

What You will Deliver:

• Analyse and integrate available well data to define the rock and fluid frameworks that underpin integrated subsurface products.  

• Describe petrophysical uncertainty and alternative scenarios at the well- and reservoir-scale, and communicate their impact effectively. 

• Make recommendations on data acquisition plans. 

• Become an active member of bp’s petrophysics community, learning from (and sharing) best practice, and seeking to innovate to solve technical and business problems. 

What you will need to be successful  

Must have educational qualifications:

• Advanced Degree (MA, MSc or PhD) in geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering or relevant science-based educational curriculum.
• Minimum years of relevant experience:
• 5 – 12 years of experience as a petrophysicist in an integrated oil and gas company, or with a service provider.

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):

• Reservoir characterization and log interpretation skills (using open hole logs, core, pressures and fluid data, mudlogs/lithlogs, and any available dynamic data).
• Comfortable working with large datasets and taking a pragmatic approach to analysis.
• Familiarity with both the latest wireline / LWD tools and vintage tools.
• Integration of petrophysical products with geological models/scenarios.
• Highly proficient in a well log interpretation package, ideally Techlog.
• Self-motivated, analytical and resourceful, with a strong ability and desire to collaborate and integrate across disciplines.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.

Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for – learning/on-the-job):

• Experience working in exploration-facing, integrated teams
• Cased hole log interpretation and integration.
• Spotfire / PowerBI-style data visualization.
• Experience using Petrel.
• Computer programming (ideally in Python) includes statistical methods, machine learning and data analytics.

You will work with ?

Your line manager will be the Petrophysics Discipline Leader supporting the TSI Unit within GSS.    You will work in Pune, India, but will be remotely deployed into an integrated subsurface team consisting of 5-10 inter-disciplinary technical members based in multiple locations.  You will become part of bp’s supportive global Petrophysics Community, with access to Communities of Practice, technical specialists and subject matter experts to help you develop your technical skills. 

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. 

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 a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Completions petrophysics, Data acquisition strategy, Fluid Properties, Fluid sampling and analysis, Geology, Geomechanical analysis, Integrated Well Delivery, Integration, Operations Geology, Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description, Petrophysical Static Reservoir Description, Petrophysics, Reservoir Characterization, Reservoir geomechanics, Rock Properties Framework, Subsurface integration, Subsurface uncertainty and risk management, Subsurface verification and assurance, Well integrity petrophysics, Well interventions petrophysics, Well Log Interpretation, Well Planning

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