{"id":95252,"date":"2022-12-05T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/equinor-hosts-women-in-energy-lunch-attended-by-angolas-minister-of-mineral-resources-petroleum-and-gas-sonangol\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:00:11","slug":"equinor-hosts-women-in-energy-lunch-attended-by-angolas-minister-of-mineral-resources-petroleum-and-gas-sonangol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/equinor-hosts-women-in-energy-lunch-attended-by-angolas-minister-of-mineral-resources-petroleum-and-gas-sonangol\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinor Hosts Women in Energy Lunch, Attended by Angola\u2019s Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas; Sonangol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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https:\/\/wp.fifu.app\/southafricatoday.net\/aHR0cHM6Ly9zb3V0aGFmcmljYXRvZGF5Lm5ldC9hZnJpY2EtbmV3cy93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAyMi8xMi8xNjcwMjEyODA5XzI1NF9sb2dhbmFseXRpY3M\/d4f2dc22ef33\/equinor-hosts-women-in-energy-lunch-attended-by-angolas-minister-of-mineral-resources-petroleum-and-gas-sonangol.webp?p=95252&amp;w=1600&amp;h=0&amp;c=0 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/wp.fifu.app\/southafricatoday.net\/aHR0cHM6Ly9zb3V0aGFmcmljYXRvZGF5Lm5ldC9hZnJpY2EtbmV3cy93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAyMi8xMi8xNjcwMjEyODA5XzI1NF9sb2dhbmFseXRpY3M\/8d6ac6a3f992\/equinor-hosts-women-in-energy-lunch-attended-by-angolas-minister-of-mineral-resources-petroleum-and-gas-sonangol.webp?p=95252\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>High-level stakeholders in Angola\u2019s\u00a0oil and gas\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XNdyRu\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XNdyRu<\/a>) industry united on Wednesday for a Women in Energy luncheon, sponsored by Norwegian multinational Equinor, during the second day of the\u00a0Angola Oil &amp; Gas (AOG) 2022 conference (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VCutEz\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VCutEz<\/a>). The event was attended by H.E Diamantino Azevedo, Angola\u2019s Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas; Sebasti\u00e3o Gaspar Martins, Chairman of the Board of Sonangol; Ane Aubert, Managing Director of Equinor and\u00a0Melissa Bond, President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Angola, among others, with opening remarks delivered by Ricardo Gomes, Country Manager Support &amp; Communications for Equinor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The event served to recognize and celebrate the contributions of women in the sector, as well as highlight the contributions\u00a0Equinor\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Vj2gmh\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Vj2gmh<\/a>) has made to female participation, capacity building and advancement in Angola\u2019s oil and gas industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInclusivity and diversity are the foundation of our company,\u201d stated Gomes. \u201cEquinor is also the first International Oil Company in Angola to have a woman as its country manager.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gender equality, diversity and inclusion have been key focal points at AOG 2022 \u2013 taking place November 29 \u2013 December 1 \u2013 with a dedicated\u00a0Women in Energy panel\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ieoO9d\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ieoO9d<\/a>) unpacking the challenges and opportunities behind female empowerment within the industry earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Energy Capital &amp; Power.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energycapitalandpower.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/equinor-hosts-women-in-energy-lunch-attended-by-angolas-minister-of-mineral-resources-petroleum-and-gas-sonangol?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-level stakeholders in Angola\u2019s\u00a0oil and gas\u00a0(https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XNdyRu) industry united on Wednesday for a Women in Energy luncheon, sponsored by Norwegian multinational Equinor, during the second day of the\u00a0Angola Oil &amp; Gas (AOG) 2022 conference (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VCutEz). The event was attended by H.E Diamantino Azevedo, Angola\u2019s Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas; Sebasti\u00e3o Gaspar Martins, Chairman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":95253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,13368,15131,7424,39985,7168,6574,16220,6272,5941,257,5733,6482,8459,254,6524],"class_list":["post-95252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-attended","tag-energy","tag-equinor","tag-gas","tag-hosts","tag-lunch","tag-mineral","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-petroleum","tag-resources","tag-sonangol","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}