ConocoPhillips internships

Houston is the center for Commercial and Trading Analytics and is one of the locations for Engineering, Geosciences, Accounting & Finance, Supply Chain and IT. Midland appears across Engineering, Geosciences, Accounting & Finance and Supply Chain and is closely tied to Lower 48 assets. Anchorage appears across Engineering, Geosciences, Accounting & Finance and Supply Chain. Engineering also lists Kenedy and Dickinson. IT lists Bartlesville and Houston. [3]

Do not turn those cities into work-mode assumptions. The university recruiting page says interns can be doing hands-on field work, building applications with global use or presenting business solutions to management, and that each intern is paired with a mentor. [18] The exact team and project determine whether the summer is field-heavy, office-heavy or mixed.

ConocoPhillips offers both, alongside accounting, procurement and technology work. Reservoir engineers study production and development choices; Trading Analytics interns build market or pricing models; finance interns handle accounting, planning, valuation or cash decisions. This is an upstream producer, not Phillips 66's refining business. [1][4][7][12]

ConocoPhillips is a pure-play exploration and production company. Its economics turn on production volumes, realized commodity prices, operating costs, transportation, taxes, capital spending, reserves, project execution and portfolio choices. In the second quarter of 2026, the company reported total production of 2.248 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, including 1.479 million from the Lower 48. Within the Lower 48, it reported 720 MBOED from the Delaware Basin, 202 MBOED from the Midland Basin, 363 MBOED from the Eagle Ford and 189 MBOED from the Bakken. [8]

That scale gives the internship two distinct settings. One is asset work: wells, facilities, drilling, completions, geoscience, operations, HSE and supply chain close to producing areas. The other is office work: technical studies, commercial markets, finance, IT and corporate analysis. A Houston assignment can still be technical or commercial; a Midland or Anchorage assignment can include substantial office analysis while staying tied to field assets. The direct posting, not the city alone, tells you what the summer looks like.

This is materially different from a generic "energy analyst" internship. The output is an interpretation that can change where the company studies, drills or develops. A good candidate therefore needs to explain not just software use but the chain from data to interpretation to uncertainty to recommendation. Alternative geological explanations matter. So does knowing which evidence would change your view.

Reservoir work is subsurface-facing but engineering-led: production forecasting, reservoir behavior, development choices and economics. Production work starts closer to the well after it is online and can focus on artificial lift, surveillance, constraints and optimization. Drilling and completions are execution-heavy, with design choices, service coordination, cost, safety and operating performance. Facilities work concerns the surface system that handles production: separation, compression, treating, power, pipelines and controls. Projects connects scope, design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handoff.

For a student deciding between Houston and a basin location, ask what the assigned project requires. A headquarters technical project can involve modeling, design reviews and cross-asset standards. A basin assignment can mean more contact with current wells, facilities and operating constraints. Neither is automatically better. The question is whether the intern owns a defined analysis or design problem, who reviews it, and how close the work sits to an operating decision.

Alaska adds another distinction. ConocoPhillips is advancing Willow while operating long-standing North Slope assets. In the first quarter of 2026 the company said Willow had reached 50% completion after the winter construction season. [10] A project or operations assignment connected to Alaska can therefore sit in a different logistical environment from Houston or Midland. Do not transfer North Slope travel, weather, housing or schedule assumptions to every Alaska internship without the specific offer.

ConocoPhillips' Commercial organization is not consumer marketing. The company says the function manages its worldwide commodity marketing and trading portfolio, works with regional business units to market equity production and improve commodity values, and also conducts third-party marketing and trading. [11]

That makes preparation straightforward. A finance or economics student should have one project where a market view is built from physical drivers, not just price charts. A technical student should be able to explain a model's inputs, validation and failure modes. In either case, understand that the business is trying to improve realized value and manage physical and financial exposures around production. "I want to trade oil" is a weaker explanation than showing how a forecast, transportation constraint, storage decision or curve model changes a commercial choice.

The Bartlesville examples include booking revenue and related receivable/payable entries, paying partners for the company's share of costs, resolving payment disputes, maintaining balance-sheet reconciliations, depreciation and fixed-asset accounting, debt/equity/pension accounting, and risk/control validation. The Houston/Midland/Anchorage examples include monitoring product-volume accuracy, product invoicing and payment, vendor monitoring, forecasting, budgeting, economic valuation, financial-statement analysis, credit exposure, cash management and debt administration. [12]

This is the section business students should use to decide whether they want accounting mechanics, asset/business-unit finance or corporate finance. A Midland finance assignment may sit much closer to production volumes and operating decisions than a corporate accounting assignment in Bartlesville. A Houston Commercial Services assignment may interface with commodity flows and counterparties in a way that a Treasury assignment does not.

ConocoPhillips' corporate Supply Chain page reinforces that point. It describes sourcing and contracting strategies, automated procurement systems, supplier partnerships, and a total-cost-of-ownership approach rather than price alone. [15] A student should prepare a vendor, sourcing or operations case where the recommendation accounts for service level and execution risk as well as cost.

The distinction from an engineering/data role matters. ConocoPhillips' career-area page describes IT work spanning AI, networks, IoT, data engineering, application development, cloud, IT/OT cybersecurity and automation. [11] A strong applicant should identify the likely user: a corporate function, an asset team, engineers, operators or another technology group. Show a system or data project where reliability, access, deployment or user adoption mattered, not just a notebook that produced a good model.

ConocoPhillips should be high on the list for petroleum, mechanical, chemical, electrical and civil engineering students who want direct exposure to upstream assets; graduate geoscience students who want business-unit subsurface work; finance/economics students interested in physical commodity markets; accounting/finance students who want an operating-company context; and supply-chain or IT students who want their work tied to complex physical operations.

Dated role · 2026-09-05
Two August 2026 candidate accounts illustrate different interview formats: a Houston intern described one 30-minute behavioral interview; an IT intern described an on-campus interview followed by three 45-minute on-site interviews. These self-reports do not establish the sequence for your requisition. [21]

Prepare safety, technical-judgment and project-ownership examples, then match the technical work: reservoir forecasts for engineering, model validation for Trading Analytics, and reconciliations or forecasts for Accounting & Finance. Ask the manager what you will deliver, who reviews it, and how much time the assignment spends in the field versus the office.