Oilwoman 2021 May-June

The Million Women Mentor

Forty years in a male-dominated, cyclical and volatile industry is quite an accomplishment for a female entrepreneur and, last year, Donna Fujimoto Cole, founder and CEO…

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (May-June 2021)

As the EIC of OILWOMAN Magazine, it is my honor and privilege to get to talk to some of the most incredible women in industry, and…

Geeta Thakorlal, President, Digital and Energy Transition, Worley

There are many facets that go into making the oil and gas industry thrive. Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms are vital as they essentially put…

Ace Your Next Virtual Interview

As we collectively adapt to our brave new world in 2021, recent hiring trends have surfaced that pose new, unexpected challenges. One such challenge concerns job…

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, I…

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 human…

A Robotics Entrepreneur

7:00 am: By the time I get online, our European engineering team is already up and working, and our early bird Houston teammates have begun sending…

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 officer…

Diversity and Inclusion of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women Past, Present and Future

We enjoy such great social diversity, strength and potential in the oil and gas industry and wherever we embrace our differences and understand they make us…

Emerging from the Year That Was

While most of us are eager to put the pandemic behind us and return to “normal,” we know that the world we are reentering in 2021…

“I Can Make a Difference”

As a toddler, my parents knew I was good at math and science. I had a passion for counting and reading simple books about science. To…

Small Businesses Driving Big Change

Even a pandemic is not enough to stop the American entrepreneurial dream. According to U.S. Business Formation Statistics, 4.35 million applications for new businesses were submitted…

Charting a Path to Clean Energy

“Change is coming so very fast in the energy sector,” Lorraine Akiba says. “For those at the edge, innovation technology is changing the model that has…

Lady with the Iron Ring: An Engineer’s Memoir of Hope, Luck and Success

It was a shock to the University of British Columbia (UBC) Engineering Undergraduate Society that the first-year class of 1974 had 14 women. Up to then,…

You Are Enough: A Manifesto for the Overworked and Overwhelmed

Treat Yourself with Self-Compassion “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are, and…

Power Surge: Women in Geothermal Energy

Headlines over the past few years have shown that we are far behind when it comes to taking definitive action to save our environment. Activists around…

Living the Crude Life

The Crude Life engages with industry experts and energy enthusiasts every day with interviews, radio programs, social media posts, print features, video content and podcasts. These…

Women Add to a Board’s “Cognitive Diversity”

After her decades-long career in finance, Vanessa C.L. Chang now sits on the boards of two electric utilities, Edison International and Southern California Edison Company, and…

Oilwoman Cartoon May/June 2021

Cartoonist: Andrew Grossman

Sisterhood of the Working Pants

Rebecca Ponton: What was the defining moment when you were so fed up with the lack of proper-fitting workwear that you decided to create your own?…

Sun Coast Resources: Help is on the Way

Long fuel trucks with Sun Coast Resources’ blue, yellow and white logo emblazoned on the sides are a familiar sight to those of us in Texas…

Letter from the Publisher (May-June 2021)

Texas and 20 states filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration in March for canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline. The executive order halted the high-profile pipeline…

Reducing Lifting Cost with End-to-End Commodity Transportation Management

Oil and gas producers may not have control over the direction of their commodity prices, but lifting cost is a lever that can be applied to…

App Puts Safety Lessons in the Palms of Workers’ Hands

While graduating from Texas A&M with a mechanical engineering degree, Dillon Bloodworth never expected that he would later be paving the way with an intuitive app…

Career Downturn Leads to Journey of Discovery

For Connor Albrecht, landing a job in the vice-grip tight oil and gas labor market came down to simple doggedness and inventiveness. After being pink slipped…

Your Oil Field Job Has Been Automated. What Now?

While there are some who may still wax poetic about the days of cassette tapes, CD players and boomboxes, reports show that Gen Z represents roughly…

For ESG Investors, “Clean Fracs” Could Mitigate Environmental Impacts

It is no secret that the upstream oil and gas industry has been under increased scrutiny from environmental, social and governance (ESG)-conscious investors and the public…

Interview with Dr. Ryan Todd, CEO and Co-founder of Headversity

Headversity is a workplace mental health support service that helps employees talk and deal with their mental health, often a frowned-upon topic in industries such as…

LWD Versus MAD Pass Formation Sampling in ERD Wells

In the oil and gas industry, the complex design and engineering of Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) wells, which may have horizontal sections spanning more than 20,000…

The Death of Petroleum Engineering… is an Exaggeration

Despite the advances that renewable sources of energy can provide, the use of fossil fuels is not dead nor is the future for those working in…

Young Professional in the Oil & Gas Industry: Interview with Ahmed Tarabily

Alan Alexeyev: Tell us a little bit about your current (or most recent) position and what you do, as well as how you found a job?…

America’s Energy Reliability

“Creating Together the People’s Energy Plan” was the sub-theme of my book entitled, America Needs America’s Energy. A dependable energy plan is necessary for all of…

Looking to the Future: Carbon Capture and Storage

One industry that will be worth about 1.4 trillion dollars by 2050, and which as of today has reached the significant investment figure of $300 million,…

Facilitating a Safe Work Culture Without Policing It

Achieving the “buy in” mentality of a successful safety culture is a daunting task of epic proportions. It involves persevering through teaching, coaching, mentoring, preaching and…

Oilman Cartoon May/June 2021

Living the Crude Life – May/June 2021

“The electric frac is a fantastic step forward. I don’t think it’ll displace the industry overnight but slowly but surely. You know we have gas ready…