PetroSkills is a technical training and workforce development provider for the oil, gas and wider energy industry. Its headquarters are at 10026-A S. Mingo Road, PMB 333, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a Canadian arm, PetroSkills Canada and TTG Systems, works from St. Albert, Alberta. The company publishes telephone numbers for customer service, registration and a 24-hour emergency line, but no general e-mail address, routing enquiries through a web form instead.
Six decades of course lineage
The courses PetroSkills sells have been taught continuously since the 1960s. In 1964 Alan P. Roberts and Thomas O. Allen delivered the first session of Production Operations 1, and the business they built, Oil and Gas Consultants International, became an established name in exploration and production training. In 1968 John M. Campbell began teaching Gas Conditioning and Processing, known as the Campbell Gas Course, which the company still presents as an industry reference point for gas processing. PetroSkills itself took shape in 2001, when Shell, BP and OGCI founded the PetroSkills Alliance to supply what they described as important but not unique competency-based training.
How the business has been assembled
Growth has come through acquisition as well as course development. PetroSkills bought Resource Development Company in 2014, adding e-learning, learning management, performance support and compliance information tools that the company says are used in more than 500 facilities worldwide. In 2019 it acquired the assets of Simulation Solutions, whose Hands On Training System combines high-fidelity process models with distributed control system emulation for console operator training. In 2023 the business reorganised under The Competency Alliance, which groups PetroSkills for upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas alongside NetZeroSkills, covering greenhouse gas management, carbon capture and storage and hydrogen, and RenewableSkills, covering wind and geothermal. The Competency Alliance, including PetroSkills, was acquired by the Danish training group RelyOn in February 2025 and now also trades as PetroSkills Academy inside RelyOn's structure.
Course catalogue and delivery formats
Training is catalogued by value-chain segment and by subject, with browsable categories for upstream, midstream, downstream, energy transition, operations and maintenance, business management, and health and safety, and by format across classroom, virtual, eLearning and published books. Public scheduled courses sit alongside in-house programmes delivered on company premises, technical coaching and mentoring, and guided work experiences. Progression maps show learners how foundation courses lead into advanced ones, and the site publishes catalogues, case studies, webinars, frequently asked questions and a blog. The company states that its instructors average three decades of industry experience.
eLearning and simulation products
The eLearning portfolio is split by audience: PetroAcademy serves engineers and professionals, while the ePilot libraries are aimed at operations and maintenance staff. Operator training simulators extend the classroom work into hands-on console practice, and Ability Learning Management provides the platform layer for hosting and tracking it. Competency mapping, assessment and course content are reviewed by member companies of the Alliance, which the company describes as spanning dozens of operators, contractors and national oil companies; member logos displayed on its site include Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Saudi Aramco, Halliburton, Repsol, Ecopetrol, SABIC, Woodside, OMV, MOL Group, Cheniere, Freeport LNG, ONEOK, Plains All American, Motiva, Santos, Methanex and YPF.
Competency, compliance and consulting services
Alongside course delivery, PetroSkills offers competency consulting, competency maps and toolkits for building technical career paths, rapid programme deployment, and ongoing competency programme management for large employers. Related services cover workforce development, performance consulting and compliance management, with the stated aim of identifying skill and knowledge gaps that hold back operational performance or regulatory compliance and closing them at scale. The company positions the combination of alliance-validated content, long-serving instructors and simulator-based practice as a faster route to competency than building training in-house.