My Internship at BP 2010 Katherine Welbourn 1

My Internship at BP 2010
Katherine Welbourn
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Application Process
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Stage 1 – Do some research, choose the right company and internship scheme that best suites you
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Stage 2 – CV and Covering Letter
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Stage 3 - The Application Form
1. Why you want to work for BP
2. Extra-curricular activities, describe your specific involvement and level of responsibility,
3. What have you done to develop your experience/knowledge/skills outside the academic
environment? How will what you learned be beneficial to BP?
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Stage 4 – Online Tests – verbal, numerical and spatial reasoning
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Stage 5 – Interviews
− Technical Interview
− Personal Skills Interview
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The Internship Scheme
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11 Weeks in Aberdeen or Sunbury, London
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Students in penultimate year of degree– preferred masters or pHD, not always the case
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Salary £20,000 per annum – pays for accommodation and living over the internship
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Approx 100 internships p/a
− 40% Engineering
− 40% Science
− 20% Business
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c. 50% of interns made a graduate
offer in 2009 and similar trend in 2010
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National award winning programme
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MY
PROJECT
MADOES - THE FOURTH
DIMENSION
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GEOPHYSICS
− Seismic Interpretation
− Learnt to use Seisworks software
− Built a rock properties model in
‘RocDoc’ –to show how changes
in the reservoir rock properties
directly impact the way oil
volumes are calculated and
predicted.
− Worked with Reservoir Engineers
and Petrophysicists
− Present findings at ‘Geoscience
Network Conference’
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Continuous Assessment
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Ongoing
− Internship performance monitored by Line Manager
− Mid internship review and end of internship
appraisal
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Final assessment
− Grad Assessment Centre
− Series of group exercises based on typical BP
projects
− Technical Presentation – experts in the field
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The Graduate Offer
• 3 year Early Experience programme
− Typically 2 x 18 month or 3 x 1 year
roles
− Focus on on-the-job training
− Offshore trips
− Clear competency framework backed
up by supportive assessment process
− Mentor
− Competitive salary and benefits package
− London or Aberdeen ... ?
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