Basra, Iraq · Technical English
The English speaking skills your teams need to run your oilfield - taught in 10-day intensives.
More than a decade of Technical English experience on the oilfields of southern Iraq — now delivered through focused 10-day intensive programmes in Basra. Programmes are built around your team's roles, equipment, procedures and the conversations your teams need to have with IOC and contractor counterparts.
- 10 years experience to build your programmes
- Our lead instructors bring a proven track-record of high results for delivering technical English programmes in southern Iraqi oilfields over a more than a decade.
- Field-Based Courses
- Our courses are built* on your oilfield's plant & equipment and the specific communication needs of your teams. (* A four-week lead time is required for this process. )
- Management Courses
- Empower your managers in their communication with IOC counterparts with 5-Day , or 10-Day intensives on Business Meetings English, Presentation English, Negotiation English, Email English in 10-day immersive courses. 5-Day intensives can cover 2 of these areas, 10-Day intensives can cover 3. Talk to us about which core skills are most important for your managers' needs.
- Results you can verify
- "We don't ask managers to take our word for the results. We invite them to watch." BTE intensives focus on practical speaking and listening — using the specific technical English your teams need. Performance of this capability is therefore an important part of our process and assessment. With participants' consent, managers are invited to observe these assessments to verify the results for themselves.
For the people who approve training
A finite budget, clear scope
Gaining multi-layered corporate approval for a long term training programme can be a challenge. The great advantage our approach offers is that each of BTE Intensive - tailor made for your team - is a fixed five or ten day programme with a defined scope, a named group, verifiable goals and most of all: a low, one-time cost. We can deliver for your teams comparable results to long-term programmes in a fraction of the time and cost. The keeps your workforce on shift rather than in the classroom, and minimises your training budget spend.
- Clear scope, goals and cost fixed before the first day
- Delivered on or near site
- Progress evidence you can verify
- Content that stays available online through the BTE site to sustain your company's gains
For the people who attend
Start learning before the course begins
Your department managers, team leads, engineers and shift crews can create a free account today and start working through some general oil&gas technical English exercises. Each exercise is followed by short assesment quiz with a recorded score.
Programmes
Operations, Maintenance and Management courses.
10 days · Upper-intermediate
Operations English Intensive
Designed for your field and/or specific production facility, these intensives give operations personnel the English they need to communicate confidently about the equipment, processes and workplace they work with every day. Participants develop the language to describe process flow and operating conditions, explain changes and abnormalities, coordinate with maintenance teams, and communicate equipment and production status. The programme can also cover handovers, permits to work, incident reporting, operational procedures, troubleshooting discussions, and communication with IOC team leads and other international counterparts.
Course detail10 days · Intermediate to upper-intermediate
Maintenance English Intensive
Designed for maintenance teams working alongside operations personnel and international counterparts. These intensives develop the English needed to discuss maintenance requirements, coordinate isolations and repairs around production priorities, and communicate equipment status and return-to-service requirements. Participants also develop the language needed to discuss work orders, coordinate with operations departments, and report recommendations to IOC team leads and other international counterparts.
Course detail10 days · Set by assessment
Bespoke Equipment & Commissioning English
A course written from scratch around newly commissioned equipment, so a new team can operate it safely in English from handover.
Course detail10 days · Upper-intermediate to advanced
Management Communication English
Meetings English, Negotiation English, Presentation English, Email English
Course detailGot any questions? Just ask here !
If you have any questions - we are very happy to talk about how we can make exactly the training programme your company needs.