At a Glance
- Tasks: Maximise production performance and optimise well operations in a dynamic offshore environment.
- Company: Join bp, a leader in sustainable energy solutions with over 100 years of experience.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, generous parental leave, and excellent retirement benefits.
- Other info: Hybrid work model with opportunities for mentoring and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on energy delivery while shaping your career in a diverse team.
- Qualifications: Degree in Engineering; experience in Petroleum or Production Engineering is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 72000 £ per year.
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!
About the role
Join bp's North Sea Production & Operations team and play a key role in maximising production performance across our offshore assets. Working closely with operations, reservoir management and subsurface teams, you will help optimise well and field performance, support production delivery and see opportunities to improve value from our assets. This is an individual contributor role with strong technical leadership responsibilities. You'll mentor colleagues, influence decisions across multiple disciplines and help shape production management activities across the asset.
What you'll do
- Drive production optimisation and well performance improvement initiatives.
- Support daily production management activities, including well surveillance, gas lift optimisation, water handling and production fixing.
- Deliver and maintain production forecasts, integrating well performance, planned activities and new well opportunities.
- Partner with operations, reservoir management and subsurface teams to maximise asset performance.
- Lead production engineering input into well interventions and new well start-ups.
- Identify emerging opportunities and risks and recommend actions to improve production delivery.
- Coach and mentor less experienced engineers, sharing technical knowledge and best practices.
- Support continuous improvement through data-driven decision making and optimisation activities.
What you'll bring
- Essential Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Significant experience in Petroleum Engineering, Production Engineering or a similar upstream technical role.
- Experience optimising well and field performance within producing oil and gas assets.
- Knowledge of production operations, reservoir management and production forecasting.
- Experience working with artificial lift systems, waterflood operations and offshore production environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Preferred MSc or PhD in Petroleum Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience working on North Sea assets.
- Knowledge of flow assurance risks such as hydrates, scale and asphaltenes.
- Experience supporting well interventions and new well start-ups.
- Previous mentoring or coaching experience.
Why join us?
At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. 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 generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided 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.
Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!
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: Artificial Lift, Data Analysis, Formation Damage, Geomechanical analysis, Measuring and Verification for Carbon Storage, Monitoring, Nodal Analysis, Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description, Reservoir Forecasting and Business Planning, Reservoir geomechanics, Rock Properties Framework, Subsurface integration, Subsurface Knowledge Management, Subsurface uncertainty and risk management, System modelling optimization, Vertical lift performance, Well and Area Performance Management, Wellbore geomechanics, Well integrity management, Well Productivity, Well surveillance troubleshooting.
Asset Petroleum Engineer employer: Bp Energy
As a Lead Solution Architect in the Finance & Accounting sector, you will thrive in a dynamic and innovative environment that prioritises employee growth and collaboration. Our company offers competitive benefits, a supportive work culture, and ample opportunities for professional development, all set in a vibrant location that fosters creativity and teamwork. Join us to make a meaningful impact while enjoying a fulfilling career with a forward-thinking organisation.
