BP: Ultimate Fieldtrip 2012

"Get involved. It's about as valuable as it gets." Prof. Brian Cox OBE

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

Zero emissions, infinite innovation

This year the Ultimate Field Trip reflects BP’s commitment to finding better, cleaner ways of working. We’re looking for a five minute pitch – in any electronic format you choose – that can be emailed to us. It should communicate your ideas and the thinking behind them.

This year’s challenge is: Create the first zero CO2 oil refinery by 2030

We’ll provide all the technical data that you need, but the plan to reduce emissions and minimise the carbon footprint will come from you. Your proposal will include a holistic carbon management plan for the refinery – which could also involve carbon-market based solutions and carbon off-setting.

Your response must be technology-focused, practical and innovative.

Your technical solution might cover:

• Improved process efficiency
• Improved energy efficiency – including low-carbon power supply
• CO2 capture and sequestration
• CO2 utilisation (creating products from CO2)
• Alternative lower carbon-intensive feedstocks

We want you to use your imagination and give us a solution that demonstrates what you’re capable of achieving when you’re presented with a real-world challenge.

Enter now! www.bp.com/fieldtrip

Initial submission by 16 December 2011.

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