JEANNE M. PERDUE

Jeanne M. Perdue is a Technical Writer at Occidental Petroleum. After earning a BS in Chemistry at SUNY at Albany, she worked in the Texaco research labs for 14 years before becoming an oilfield journalist for Hart’s E&P magazine. A Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Jeanne served as Chair of the SPE Gulf Coast Section. After being elected to the Alief ISD school board and serving as President of the Alief Education Foundation, she now serves on the Houston Community College Foundation Board and the Univ. of Houston Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board. She is developing an Oil Patch Writing course based on her blog, which has had nearly 900,000 hits since 2012.