In recognition of the ascending and significant role of women in global oil, gas and energy - in key roles and multiple spheres - Global Pacific & Partners took the initiative to establish the Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club in 2000.

The Club is exclusively open to women in world energy who register and are accepted as Members.

The Club provides a web-based virtual meeting place for women in the worldwide energy industry. It focuses on relevant issues, tracks the status of women in decision-making, allows Members to network, and provides a global discussion Forum through Global Pacific & Partners’ conferences and website www.petro21.com

The Global Pacific & Partners executive management industry database contains listings of 4,000+ women in oil, gas and energy, making it the world’s largest and most dedicated industry network.

Women In Global Petroleum & Energy

The Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club reflects the improving current worldwide status of the positions and functional roles now executed by increasing numbers of women across the worldwide oil, gas and energy industry.

Whilst there have been impressive gains made by women at both board level and in senior management, there is a significant distance still to go in the process of balance in one of the world’s largest, most important industries.

The Club provides periodic updates on the advancement of women in the oil, gas and energy industry, and offers a network for women executives in energy on a global basis.

Decision Making

Women have traditionally been marginal in the decision making spheres of oil, gas and energy companies and in Government and National Oil Companies.

No longer is this the case, with Ministers, CEOs, Senior Executives, Management and Technical Executives, with equity players, now appearing in more frequent numbers even if not equivalent proportionality.

Ownership

Few women can be identified as visible direct owners of oil and energy companies, but women as indirect equity investors are important, and undoubtably hold a piece of global oil and energy equity on private account or through pension funds.

Board Representation

More women can nowadays be found on the Boards of Companies and in State-Owned Organisations. This growing incidence of Board representation is noticeable in the United States and Europe especially, and also in emerging markets.

Functional Specialisations

In the past, the support roles assigned or achieved by women were limited and concentrated on the lower echelons of the energy organisations. No more is this generally true.

The old corporate morphology has altered with political shifts, changes in social attitudes, new legal processes and the dispersion of managerial knowledge and executive culture outside of the traditional domain.

Women can now be found at all levels, and in most functional specialisations important in world energy.

Women in oil, gas ad energy are now found in technical spheres and geo-science, legal practice, oil and gas negotiations, information specialists, analysts, energy finance, petroleum engineering, commercial, marketing, research, audit and accounting, portfolio management, competitor assessment, Government relations, corporate affairs and public relations, editorial and publications, exploration and new ventures, corporate planning, technology, country managers, economics, strategy, international relations, investment, treasury, data management and the like.