BP

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 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 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 formal training programme is dependent on the specific area of business in which the graduate employee is based, mainly across three core activities: Upstream Refining & Marketing, and Integrated Supply & Trading (IST). Each of these business areas employs a mix of graduates and professionals from the Business, Engineering and Science streams. The content and structure of the main training programmes is provided below.

Upstream and Refining & Marketing

A 2-3-year programme known as ‘Challenge’, consisting of placements on the technical and business side with the help of a dedicated buddy and mentor. A highly structured programme offering real professional roles in which you will develop your technical expertise. Training and other opportunities to develop competencies within your disciplines and the opportunity to learn from and network with a group of peers and more experienced BP colleagues.

IST

The training programme runs for a period of three years, with three placements of 12 months duration across various departments within the Commercial, Trading, Analytics and IT&S business areas.