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Petroleum Business
Technical Writing for Oil and Gas Professionals
Good technical writing supports budget approvals, promotion and recognition across the oil and gas industry. This one-day course gives engineers, geoscientists and support staff practical workbook exercises that put grammar and style rules to use straight away. It also covers how to present numbers, units, references, figures and tables in professional documents.
- Discipline
- Petroleum Business
- Level
- Foundation
- Duration
- 1 day
- Formats
- Classroom, In-house
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.
Who should attend
Upstream technical professionals and non-technical support staff who write in English and want to improve the quality of their technical documents.
What participants will be able to do
- Apply grammar, punctuation and capitalisation rules correctly
- Present numbers, units of measure and references properly
- Format equations, figures, tables and captions
- Write clearly and concisely to an industry style guide
- Edit and proofread your own and others' writing
Topics covered
- Grammar and usage
- Punctuation and hyphenation
- Units and references
- Figures and tables
- Industry style guides
- Editing and proofreading