PMU Petroleum Engineer

bp • Full-time • Aberdeen, United Kingdom • £60k - £90k / year • 4d ago

Entity:
Production & Operations

Job Family Group:
Subsurface Group

Job Description:

The Production Management Unit (PMU) is a new unit, created during reinvent, with a fantastic opportunity to build new capability to deliver huge value to the existing hydrocarbon businesses in Production but also transferable skills and capability that can be deployed to future Net Zero operations. We currently partner with 4 Regions (AGT - North Sea - GoM - TT) covering all 4 chokes and product streams (Oil - Gas - Water - Carbon).

Within the PMU, the Production & Support Systems Squad (PSS) partners with the Production Management Squads (PMS) using innovative digital and data science technologies to deliver the Petroleum and Process Engineering services focussing on Monitoring and Surveillance, Optimisation and Growing Capacity.

This highly visible technical role will provide PMU Petroleum Engineering expertise to multiple North Sea PDU's supporting day to day activities, driving PE best practice in monitoring, optimisation and capacity growth in region, integrating across disciplines and PMU global squads to learn, standardise and maximise value for the assets we support.

The PMU Petroleum Engineer reports to the Petroleum Engineering Discipline Leader and is deployed into the North Sea hub Production Support Squad.

What you will deliver

Deliver HSE commitments, champions identification of carbon reduction opportunities and demonstrate strong safety leadership behaviours.
Communicate powerfully across disciplines, leadership, and front-line engineering squads
Support delivery of the PMU Service Offer through delivering PE activities integrated across 4-chokes and Flow to work across PMU hubs
Perform surveillance & monitoring of integrated production system to understand well and reservoir health and performance.
Create and maintain numerical models, data analysis & data visualization tools for surveillance and optimization of integrated production systems.
Optimize integrated production system to deliver safe, reliable, compliant, low carbon operations and identify opportunities to grow installed production capacity.
Provide technical coaching to PMU PE's and PDU members.
Identify and lead opportunities to improve and grow PMU Petroleum Discipline capability and Production Management Unit service offer.
Share surveillance & optimization lessons with wider bp community through participation in Communities of Practice (CoP) e.g. System Modelling and Optimisation CoP, Surveillance CoP, Sand Management CoP etc.

What you will need to be successful

Essential Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Science from an accredited university

Essential Criteria:

HSE: Uphold and demonstrate bp's Safety Leadership Principles.
Strong technical contributor: Broad production operations experience, demonstrated integration across 4-chokes and track record of delivery.
Strong Communicator: Ability to communicate effectively to gain commitment and support from diverse stakeholders to achieve business outcomes.
Natural Integrator: Able to listen to different perspectives, adapt and identify how to converge different points of view in an integrated solution.

Desired Criteria & Competencies:

How We Work: Working knowledge of bp Production Management Workflows and relevant bp practices and procedures
Digital tools: Working knowledge of production management digital toolkit inc. Palantir and PETEX. Skilled use of data analytics.
Agile: Knowledge of agile methods and experience working in Agile teams/squads
Leadership: Ability to set clear aims and direction, make sound and timely decisions and actively solve emerging problems effectively by generating and discussing pragmatic alternatives.

Why join us?

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and giving back to our environment are highly valued
Possibility to join our social communities and networks
Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
Life and health insurance, medical care package
And many other benefits!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Don't hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations!

Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:
Data Analysis, Geomechanical analysis, Reservoir Forecasting and Business Planning, Reservoir geomechanics, Resource, Reserves Estimation and Storage Volume Assessment, Rock Properties Framework, Subsurface integration, Subsurface uncertainty and risk management, Well and Area Performance Management, Wellbore geomechanics

Legal Disclaimer:

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