Graduate - Complex Fluids Reservoir Engineer – Houston, TX

BP•Houston, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

bp operates at the heart of the global energy system, helping countries meet their energy needs and serving millions of customers every day. With world-class assets, technology, trading capability and partnerships, we deliver energy at scale today while investing with discipline in the energy transition. The One Subsurface Programme is an early careers programme designed to create a pipeline of subsurface professionals. Early careers will follow a structured development offer to accelerate the acquisition of foundational technical skills, experience and knowledge, and application in the business world. The programme supports transition from university to discipline professional and provides a framework of ‘non-technical’ skills to support building personal effectiveness skills. Early careers will build their experience through challenging development assignments, grow a toolkit of transferable skills for the future, and have a dedicated network of support to help them succeed. This is a three-year program with two 18-month rotations, including field experience. Global Subsurface Solutions provides technical support to bp’s regional businesses in various areas including reservoir fluid characterization. As specialist reservoir engineers, Complex Fluids practitioners provide technical expertise globally in understanding the fluid properties, the associated risks, and mitigation strategies for our resilient hydrocarbon business and low carbon energy transition. They play a critical role in making sure fluids are properly described to make the business safer and our predictions more reliable. Complex fluids support covers the entire project cycle by planning the fluid sampling and analysis for renewal to modeling the fluid phase behavior for projects and operations. Over the past few years, complex fluids specialists are also being called on more to advise on the fluid implications for CCS and Hydrogen projects.

Requirements

Seeking a MS or PhD, majoring in petroleum engineering, chemical engineering or similar.
Must have cumulative and major GPA of 3.2 or higher
Must be in final year, graduating from December 2026 through May 2027 or graduated in the last 3 years.
Must be available to start on agreed upon global programme start dates (January 19, 2027 or June 21, 2027).

Nice To Haves

Data acquisition strategy
Data Analysis
Data Management
Depletion and Storage Development Planning
Fluid Properties
Fluid sampling and analysis
Geological Reservoir and Storage Unit Modelling
Integrated Resource Progression
Measuring and Verification for Carbon Storage
Monitoring
Operations Geology
Petrophysical Dynamic Reservoir Description
Petrophysical Static Reservoir Description
Reservoir Forecasting and Business Planning
Reservoir quality
Rock Properties Framework
Subsurface integration
Subsurface uncertainty and risk management
Subsurface verification and assurance
Well and Area Performance Management

Responsibilities

Plan the fluid sampling and surveillance programs.
Oversee the fluid analysis in the third-party laboratories and conduct quality check and estimate in-situ reservoir fluid properties from PVT data.
Develop equation of state models and table of properties for reservoir dynamic performance prediction, flow assurance, process simulation, and multiphase flow meter configuration.
Contribute to the understanding of reservoir connectivity/compartmentalization through PVT data analysis.
Simulate reservoir souring to support projects and operations (using SourSimRL software).
Participate in Integrated Fluids Reviews (IFR) for Major Projects (Hydrocarbons, CCS and potentially Hydrogen).
Inform the fluid risk management by providing fluid analysis results.
Support development of complex fluids workflow and practices including fluids database, software applications, and internal tools.
All the above are delivered in collaboration with various stakeholders from Subsurface, Production, Wells, Projects, Regional teams, and external vendors.