Jason Spiess: A Man of Intention
“I’m a method journalist so, before I do a story on skydiving, I’m going to go skydiving,” explains Jason Spiess, founder of The Crude Life...
Rebecca Ponton
Maria Claudia Borras: Transformative Leadership
As executive vice president of the oilfield services business at Baker Hughes, Maria Claudia Borras may be facing the biggest challenge of her career. Her...
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (September-October 2021)
We have a lot to celebrate this month! Not only is November Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S. – and we have profiled some incredible...
Interview: Aisha Ghuman, Vice President of Marketing, W Energy Software
Rebecca Ponton: What is the broad, overarching theme of this year’s WE Connect conference and what is the main message you want to get out...
Gaurdie Banister, Jr., The People-Centric CEO
Among the characteristics a company looks for in a CEO or board member, diplomacy would be somewhere at the top of the list. Gaurdie Banister,...
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (July-August 2021)
In addition to a long career as a journalist, I became a petroleum landman (emphasis on “land” – feet firmly on the ground) 10 years...
Marni Zabarsky, First Female Saturation Diver, Gulf of Mexico
When she first started diving commercially [in 1996], one of the supervisors at the company she was diving for told her she was too pretty...
Starlee Sykes: Riding the Waves of Success
When bp CEO Bernard Looney streamlined the corporate leadership structure in May 2020, it enabled Starlee Sykes, bp’s president of the Gulf of Mexico and...
Spotlight on Brazil with Ana Zambelli
For decades, Venezuela was the oil market in South America. With its vast reserves of over 300 billion barrels of proved crude oil (the largest...
Creating Pathways to Our Energy Future
Who says the days of the larger-than-life oilman are over? Energy advisor and corporate development strategist, Mark A. Stansberry, has traveled the world, met heads...