2027 Summer Geoscience Internship

Murphy Oil • Houston, TX

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Murphy Oil Corporation’s Geoscience Summer Internship Program offers an exciting opportunity to explore the energy industry, apply your classroom knowledge, and make meaningful contributions through real-world projects during a 12-week summer experience. As a Geoscience Summer Intern, you will interpret subsurface geoscience and related data to support hydrocarbon exploration and development while working alongside a mentor and experienced professionals. You will help develop recommendations for basin studies, prospects, and/or field development and collaborate with fellow interns and Murphy teams across the business. Current opportunities are available within our Exploration and Subsurface, Offshore, and Onshore Development teams at Murphy Oil Corporation’s corporate office in Houston, Texas. If you are ready to gain hands-on geoscience experience and contribute to impactful summer projects, we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Geology, Geophysics or currently enrolled in a master’s program or higher in Geology, Geophysics.
• Must be enrolled in an accredited college or university program for the duration of the internship
• The successful candidate for this role must be authorized to work in the United States and must not require sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future (e.g., F1).
• Minimum of twelve (12) continuous weeks’ availability for internship

Nice To Haves

• They should have a background with a heavy emphasis on stratigraphy and deep-water depositional systems.
• experience in 3D seismic interpretation, structural geology, basin modeling, and/or rock physics.

Responsibilities

• Development Interns may conduct reservoir studies that will include interpretation of 3D seismic data, analyzing well logs, etc. with a geoscientist to draft cross-sections, structure/net pay maps, and amplitude maps to quantify the oil and gas reserves of a developing field.
• Exploration Interns should have experience in 3D seismic interpretation, structural geology, basin modeling, and/or rock physics.
• They will interpret well log data, 3D seismic data, perform amplitude analyses, assist in the creation of regional basin models, and/or assist in maturation efforts over our exploration acreage in the US GOM and Internationally.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern