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A great group of interns combined with the freedom to visit BP's sites across the UK made for a very enjoyable internship!

With summer assignments based around current projects within BP, plenty of time was spent trying to get an idea of what colleagues were working on and how everything fitted together. Everybody was extremely helpful and made time for any questions we had throughout the 11 weeks.

Starting with very little experience within an oil and gas company, and having never worked on Subsea Hardware prior to the internship, the situation could become quite daunting. With great support from both my manager and supervisor, they were able to get me up to speed very quickly with the current projects, where my project fitted in and who I should contact for questions regarding different sections of the assignment.

Throughout the majority of the internship I was fairly busy - 8:30am through to around 5pm, picking up slightly more through the middle of the summer, and relaxing slightly towards the end. Due to the nature of the project, time-management was very flexible, like a University course with meetings rather than lectures.

Some interns were working directly with a current project, where-as my project was a lot more research-based - taking past information and developments to reporting on conclusions set out at the start of the assignment.

Skills developed in re-structuring processes to increase efficiency, writing technical documents and working with both internal and external colleagues will be in-valuable when transitioning from Uiversity-style work through to industry as a graduate.

A relaxed environment, with a lot of group discussions about work going on around the office.

Introductory sessions with all the interns, presentation technique workshops and group nights out resulted in a very well organised internship. The HR team were very helpful throughout the summer - any questions we had were answer promptly, and the projects we worked on within our teams were relevant to the bigger BP picture.

Lunch-and-Learn sessions, one-to-one sessions with colleagues within BP and travelling to both Petrochemical Plants and Trading departments ensured the summer was very valuable with respect to my personal development.

With graduate jobs available in a both Upstream and Downstream disciplines, the prospect of employment is very exciting within BP as an engineer.

Great group of interns and graduates through a range of different satellite sites across the UK.

Standard living in London costs, but a lunch allowance was paid for by BP.

The nightlife in Staines wasn't fantastic, but there was plenty of places to go out nearer the centre of London.