Issue: Oilwoman July-August 2021

“The silence was profound,” Barbara MacMullan recalls of the day Block Island switched from diesel generators to the first commercial ...

I did not have many female role models when I started my career working as a field engineer on offshore ...

The earth is perfect, and energy is always at our fingertips; that is the lesson to be learned from hydrokinetic ...

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In the past year, the energy geoscience community has experienced a proliferating trend of career transformations that are coincident with ...

In addition to a long career as a journalist, I became a petroleum landman (emphasis on “land” – feet firmly ...

Near Paris, Texas. Fort Morgan, Colorado. Project for City of Novato, California. Wamsutter, Wyoming. Pecos County, West Texas. Near Wichita, ...

When she first started diving commercially , one of the supervisors at the company she was diving for told her ...

I was a child raised in a country ravaged by war. In instances when the world was bleak, I saw ...

When bp CEO Bernard Looney streamlined the corporate leadership structure in May 2020, it enabled Starlee Sykes, bp’s president of ...

For decades, Venezuela was the oil market in South America. With its vast reserves of over 300 billion barrels of ...

In December of 2020, I headed offshore as the wellsite geologist on an exploration drilling campaign in the Bay of ...

Crux OCM, an innovative autonomous control room that works alongside humans to increase efficiency and safety, is the brainchild of ...

I grew up asking questions and wanting to solve problems. My late father allowed me to get away with what ...

In 2007 I chaired four energy events for the centennial celebration of Oklahoma’s statehood. The events were a salute to ...

2:45 pm – It’s now mid-day in the Gulf of Mexico on an ultra-deepwater drillship. I’m on Day 14 of ...

I wish I had been raised in Norway! Maria Moræus Hanssen tells me that Norway, her home country, and the ...

Chris Summers, owner Terrapin Wetsuits: I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Geophysics from Texas A&M University (TAMU) in ...