Petrophysics - Summer Internship 2025

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Petrophysics - Summer Internship 2025

About the Internship

Embark on an 11-week journey with bp, where you’ll work directly on impactful projects, managing them from start to finish. Based within one team, you’ll experience real-world challenges and learn from experienced professionals, with guidance from a dedicated line manager and a buddy from our early careers community. The programme includes training sessions, social events with fellow interns, and networking opportunities with bp leaders—all aimed at developing both your technical and interpersonal skills. This internship is crafted to help you gain expertise and experience life at bp.

Role and Responsibilities

As a Petrophysics Summer Intern, you’ll be at the heart of bp’s mission to meet the world’s growing energy needs. Petrophysicists are essential to determining the volume, distribution, and flow characteristics of oil and gas in our reservoirs. In this role, you’ll investigate the quality of reservoir rocks by analysing key properties, such as porosity, permeability, and fluid interactions within the reservoir matrix.

This work involves integrating direct measurements, such as those from core and fluid samples, with data from advanced logging tools that measure nuclear, electrical, and acoustic responses of rocks. The integrated results provide critical insights for predicting the volume and distribution of hydrocarbons and optimising extraction methods.

As part of bp’s multi-disciplinary and multicultural subsurface team, you’ll contribute to global exploration, new field development, or active production assets. You’ll collaborate with geoscientists, reservoir and drilling engineers, commercial teams, and other specialists to turn your evaluations into actionable business decisions.

Why bp?

Joining bp as a Petrophysicist intern means becoming part of an organisation dedicated to fostering a diverse, energetic, and inclusive culture that values open and constructive feedback. You’ll have the opportunity to apply your numerical skills, enthusiasm, and commitment to real projects that make a difference. At bp, we believe in helping you grow both professionally and personally while supporting a sustainable future.

Requirements 

To apply for this role, you will need a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Earth or Natural Science, Environmental Geology, Geology, Geophysics, Geoscience, Maths, Physics, Petroleum or Petrophysics Engineering, Petroleum Geology or Petrophysics. You must be in your penultimate year of study (those going onto a Master’s and PhD students can apply) and be on track for a 2:1.

You are also expected to have strong spoken and written English language skills, including business and technical English. Language skills will be assessed throughout the recruitment process.

Location(s)

This role is likely to be based out of one of our main UK offices in Sunbury or Aberdeen:

Bp Sunbury - International Centre for Business & Technology (ICBT), Chertsey Road, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex, TW16 7LN

Bp Aberdeen - North Sea Headquarters (NSHQ), 1 Wellheads Avenue, Dyce, Aberdeen, AB21 7PB, UK

Start & End Dates

23rd June to 5th September 2025 

Please note: Our internships are full-time. If you will struggle to be available for these dates &/or may not be able to work full time, please flag this if you are invited to a technical interview, or earlier if possible.

Other Information

Please note the following when applying:

You can only apply to one bp early careers opportunity globally per academic year – within this time, we will only process the first application you make. You will be withdrawn from any subsequent applications. 

Unless you apply to a role with a location explicitly stated, role locations are not guaranteed – where not stated, you will be placed in a location based on business need.

Accommodation – once confirmed, where you need or decide to move closer to your location, you are responsible for organising and funding this accommodation.

Adjustments

We are keen to make our recruitment process accessible to all. If you require any adjustments/accommodations, to any stage of the recruitment process, please mention this in the allocated section on your initial application form. Someone will then be in touch to discuss or confirm the adjustments/accommodations as appropriate for you. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss adjustments before applying, please get in touch:

T: +44 1635 584149

E: enquiry@bpgraduates.co.uk

Reward

Salary: £35,200 p.a. (prorated for the duration of your internship)

Legal Disclaimer: 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/ accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. 

T: +44 1635 584149 

E: enquiry@bpgraduates.co.uk 

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

About bp

bp is a global company that offers a world of opportunities for professionals as well as those starting out in their career. We’re guided by our purpose and ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and help the world get there too.

What does this mean for you? It means you can expect purposeful work, world-class training and the flexibility to realize your full potential. Not to mention the chance to join a company committed to delivering more sustainable energy for all. Ready to crack on? Your perfect job match awaits.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.