Senior Petroleum Engineer
bpinternational
| Company | bpinternational |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Aberdeen |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 6 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (workday) |
Description
Job Family Group:
Subsurface Group Stellenbeschreibung:
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!
Reiseanforderungen:
Bis zu 10 % Reisetätigkeit ist zu erwarten Unterstützung bei Umzug:
Diese Rolle ist innerhalb des Landes für Umzugskostenhilfe verfügbar Arbeitsort:
Diese Position bietet ein Hybridmodell aus Arbeit im Homeoffice und im Büro
Skills:
Bohrlochproduktivität, Datenanalyse, Fördersystemantrieb, Formationsschäden, Geomechanical analysis, Knotenpotentialverfahren, Measuring and Verification for Carbon Storage, Monitoring, 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 surveillance troubleshooting .

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