Technical Writing for Oil and Gas Professionals

Technical writing excellence is very important for career growth in the oil and gas industry. Being able to document your work is key to gaining budget approvals, promotions, prestige, and recognition outside your company. Engineers, geoscientists, and support employees can boost their skills by taking this course from one of the industry’s most experienced technical writers. The workbook exercises give participants a chance to put grammar rules to work immediately, ensuring retention of learnings.

“This course was amazing! It included much more than I could have imagined. I considered myself proficient in English, and realized that I make certain mistakes almost daily.” – Drilling & Completions Engineer

“My supervisor has noticed an improvement in my writing since taking your course in person. It truly was
beneficial.” – Control Room Management Compliance

“I think this class was fantastic and the instructor made it a blast. She was fun, energetic, and had so much passion teaching it. It was a great refresher for relearning proper grammar, especially since we write contracts daily.” – Supply Chain

“This was an outstanding course. It was surprisingly challenging, fun, and full of great information and resources. Jeanne is a uniquely talented writer and teacher.” – Senior Artificial Lift Adviser

“I would absolutely recommend this class. It was full of information that those in our field who do any kind of writing need to know.” – Production Engineer

Target Audience

Any upstream technical professional in the oil and gas industry who speaks English and would like to improve the quality of his/her technical writing; also appropriate for non-technical support persons in exploration and production who prepare documents for oil and gas industry professionals. This course is particularly beneficial for those with English as a second language.

You Will Learn

• Use the seven parts of speech correctly in sentences
• Use tenses, plurals, and technical terms properly
• Use correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and hyphenation
• Include numbers, units of measure, and references in technical papers
• Format documents that include equations, figures, tables, and captions
• Write clearly and concisely using the Society of Petroleum Engineers Style Guide
• Construct various documents and format them using Word templates
• Edit and proofread their own writing and the writings of others

Course Content

• Parts of Speech – Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Preposition, and Conjunctions
• Building Sentences and Paragraphs – Structure and Flow
• Hyphenation, Punctuation, Quotes, and Expressions
• Page Layout – Spacing, Fonts, Styles, Templates, Bullets, and Numbered Lists
• Technical Terminology, Acronyms, Numbers, and Units of Measure
• Figures, Tables, Equations, Captions, and References
• The Writing Process
• Document Structure – Emails, Reports, SPE Papers, Journal Articles, Websites
• The Five C's of Writing
•  Proofreading

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