BP operates at the frontiers of geography and technology. We want you to experience what we do first hand.

The Ultimate Field Trip 2011 is a team competition. The winners will spend six to eight weeks on a paid internship with our operations in the North Sea. During the internship, you’ll visit an offshore platform, take a trip to the Forties pipeline, go to Edinburgh to see the world-famous Fringe Festival and visit Wytch Farm – the largest known onshore oil field in western Europe.

How to enter

Innovation and efficiency are essential for long-term sustainability. The 2011 competition focuses on our UK North Sea operations. The coming decades will see significant asset restructuring as some 500 platforms and around 13,000 km of pipelines from the North Sea oil and gas industry approach the end of their economic lives. Currently, 450,000 people work in the North Sea energy sector including some of the finest scientists and engineers in the world.

This competition gives you the chance to study the issues facing our North Sea operations and come up with new ideas that will extend the useful life of the oil and gas infrastructure – and potentially the oil and gas fields themselves.

We want you to use your imagination. We’ll be looking for innovative thinking.

To take part, you’ll need to get a team of three people together and register on our website via the button below. We’ll send you an email to confirm what to do next and how to submit your entry.

If you get through the first round, you’ll take part in a regional semi-final. From there, we’ll choose the best teams to go through to the grand final in London – where industry leaders will judge the entries.

Important dates

• Register online: Now
• Initial submissions by: 17 December 2010
• Short-list: 17 January 2011
• Semi finals: February 2011*
• Grand final: April 2011*

For full terms and conditions please refer to our website: bp.com/fieldtrip *Exact dates to be confirmed

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