A woman’s voice in the OW industry

“HAVING worked in the Oil & Gas (O&G) industry, a traditionally male-dominated sector, I sometimes found myself having to speak louder for my voice to be heard or having to prove myself more than needed,” said Myriam Samba, the senior business development manager for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region of BlueFloat Energy, a purely renewable energy player.

The company’s head of government affairs, who has been working in the energy sector for 15 years, shared her experiences about facing discrimination while going up the ranks. The road had not been easy. Once, when working in an onshore field in Russia, people around her assumed that “I was the translator and not the field operation engineer.” The unspoken thought in that society was that women made better communicators than engineers.