BP

Introduction

Employer Q&A Video

The Pitch

Work Focus

BP has several distinctive brands including: BP, Castrol, Aral, Ultimate, AM/PM and the Wild Bean Cafe. Worldwide, the business is organised into two main segments – Upstream, Refining & Marketing along with its Alternative Energy business. In brief, BP’s work involves finding, extracting and transporting oil and gas; producing fuels and petrochemical products; selling fuels and lubricants products; and generating low-carbon energy.

BP’s operations extend across more than 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas. London is the company’s global headquarters.

BP’s products and services across retail, domestic and commercial segments include:

Retail Markets: biofuels; gas and fuel cards; gas and petrol stations; motor oil and lubricants; travel planners; fuel station locators; and TargetNeutral, a carbon offsetting initiative;

Domestic/Home: LPG;

Commercial: Air BP aviation fuels and lubricants; asphalt/bitumen; petrochemicals for packaging and textiles; BP Shipping; gas and fuel cards; industrial lubricants; marine fuels and lubricants; photovoltaics (solar power), and others.

Roles

Roles in BP are mainly based on academic qualifications and relevant work experience; these are classified into three main groups:
>> Business, Engineering and Science.

Within Business, graduate roles are provided in Commercial, Accounting, Reporting and Control, Trading, Analytics, HR, Procurement and Supply Chain Management and Information Technology and Systems departments.

Engineering roles are available across a number of engineering specialties such as: Automotive; Marine; Electrical; Mechanical; Materials and Corrosion; Petroleum and Reservoir; Instrumentation and Control; Wells; Civil; Chemical; Risk and Process Safety; Pipeline engineering; Subsea and Floating Systems; Construction & Commissioning, Project Services and Naval Architecture.

Science roles are provided within Chemistry, Geosciences, Environmental Science and Petro-physics departments, revolving around research and development, innovation and improvements, ensuring health and safety, and protection of the environment at every step of the oil and gas production, refining and marketing chain.

The Ultimate Field Trip

About the competition
The Ultimate Field Trip is a UK-wide competition BP runs every year. It’s aimed at undergraduates and Masters students. To take part, you’ll need to get a team of three people together and register here. It will challenge you to solve a real-world problem – one that could help us meet the world’s growing demand for energy safely and responsibly.

Discovering new challenges
For you, it’s an opportunity to learn more about the challenges we face – and experience first-hand the scope and scale of what we do. From our first oil discoveries over a hundred years ago in the Middle East to today’s advanced oil recovery techniques pioneered in Alaska, BP has always operated at the frontiers of geography, technology and engineering. The Ultimate Field Trip gives you the opportunity to do the same.

A prize like no other
First prize is an opportunity you won’t find anywhere else – a 6-8 internship. You will get a chance to join the teams working at our largest deepwater oil field, Thunder Horse in the Gulf of Mexico. While you’re in the vicinity, we’ll introduce you to New Orleans, the birthplace of Jazz and home to some of America’s best food and nightlife. You’ll also discover what BP is doing in Trinidad & Tobago by working with our operations there. And to make your experience complete, you could swim with stingrays in the Caribbean.

The winners will also:
> Work on a real project and make business decisions
> Be mentored by BP professionals
> Be fully paid

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