Back to My Roots
In the past year, the energy geoscience community has experienced a proliferating trend of career transformations that are coincident with the evolving markets and global...
Diversity
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...
Why Women Are Key for Empowering Other Women
I was a child raised in a country ravaged by war. In instances when the world was bleak, I saw color in the skies, not...
The Blue Brigade
In December of 2020, I headed offshore as the wellsite geologist on an exploration drilling campaign in the Bay of Bengal. COVID-19 restrictions were in...
Empowered to be Adventurous
I grew up asking questions and wanting to solve problems. My late father allowed me to get away with what most people thought was unacceptable...
America Needs Women in Energy
In 2007 I chaired four energy events for the centennial celebration of Oklahoma’s statehood. The events were a salute to the past, present, future, and...
Quotas: Tokenism or Diversity Drivers?
I wish I had been raised in Norway! Maria Moræus Hanssen tells me that Norway, her home country, and the other Scandinavian countries, are the...
What Power Means to Me
“Perception is reality.” This was the very first career pep talk I heard, as a freshly minted petroleum engineer graduate in 2015. At the time,...
Is Unity Possible in Today’s Competitive World?
What if there was a holistic model, one that had unity at its core, its premise being that at the heart of each and every...
Wanted: Thrill Seekers, Humanitarians, Inquisitive Types
People are often surprised to learn, number one, that I work in the oil and gas industry and, number two, that I’m the chief financial...