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Opening the second day of the\u00a0Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) 2022 Conference and Exhibition (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Fb5wuz<\/a>), a panel discussion that focused on the role of women in Africa\u2019s energy industry featured a strong lineup of speakers who discussed the challenges and opportunities that women face in the industry, highlighting how improving a diverse landscape will serve to promote inclusiveness and bring a new voice to Africa\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Moderated by Natacha Massano, Executive Board Member for Angola\u2019s National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG), the session featured a panel discussion that included K\u00e1tia Epalanga, Executive Board Member, Sonangol; Dr. Maggy Shino, Mines Commissioner, Republic of Namibia; T\u00e3nia Almeida, Secretary General, TotalEnergies E&P Angola; Andreia Prata e Queiroz, ExxonMobil Planning Manager and Women Interest Network Chairperson; Lwena Sebastiao, General Manager Corporate Affairs, Chevron Angola; and Ana Ferreira, Human Resources Director, Azule Energy as speakers<\/p>\n \u201cWe clearly need to give a voice to women in energy,\u201d started Natacha Massano, Executive Board Member for the ANPG, adding that, \u201cWe need to challenge ourselves so that other women may look at us and feel that they might be able to overcome the challenges that other women have faced.\u201d<\/p>\n Highlighting the role of women working in Africa\u2019s\u00a0energy sector (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3H1nLDZ<\/a>), the panelists discussed the important trends in energy and the challenges of breaking through the glass ceiling and how to deal with issues surrounding diversity and equal opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, we try finding ways of attracting more female talent into our industry. We need to promote inclusion and diversity and women have to be able to look at their leaders in order to assess, and become inspired by, their performance, their behavior, and our leadership needs must be able to reflect a strong sense of diversity,\u201d stated Lwena Sebastiao, General Manager for Corporate Affairs at\u00a0Chevron Angola (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3GXy1Nz<\/a>).<\/p>\n With the energy sector comprising one of the most unequal sectors globally, and female participation remaining considerably low, the panel session sought to highlight solutions towards enhancing inclusivity and ensuring women are actively involved in Africa\u2019s energy transformation.<\/p>\n \u201cOur objective is to promote the professional and personal development of women in Angola,\u201d stated Andreia Prata de Queiroz,\u00a0ExxonMobil (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VCFN3t<\/a>)\u00a0Planning Manager and Women Interest Network Chairperson, adding, \u201cWe believe that if we work together, we can move forward. We have been organizing events that can help women to develop and share their experiences, mechanisms, and benefits for women so that they can develop, and also to ensure that they see that women are able to progress within the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to create conditions so that women, not only excel and grow, but retain their positions in the energy industry, and receive support from the topmost levels,\u201d added K\u00e1tia Epalanga, Executive Board Member for\u00a0Sonangol (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3AYQB45<\/a>).<\/p>\n In addition to identifying root causes regarding education and barriers to entry, the need to support and create the opportunity for women pursuing the various field within Africa\u2019s energy industry.<\/p>\n \u201cMy presence here already speaks volumes as to what women in Namibia can do,\u201d stated Dr. Maggy Shino, Mines Commissioner for the Republic of Namibia, adding, \u201cWe have about six directorates and only two of them are led by men, demonstrating our country\u2019s commitment towards empowering women. We do not see ourselves as subordinate, we do not see ourselves as equal to men. We see ourselves as capable through our own nature \u2013 of bringing a unique perspective and sense of expertise to the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, with regards to how women in energy might benefit local communities in Africa, T\u00e3nia Almeida, Secretary General for\u00a0TotalEnergies\u00a0(https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ESuDB7<\/a>) E&P Angola, stated, \u201cOur collective responsibility is to see that female empowerment should also benefit the community.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo far, we are aware that diversification makes a difference,\u201d added Ana Ferreira, Human Resources Director at Azule Energy, concluding that, \u201cMore diversification will result in more opportunities for more people, thus tackling and solving the challenges of communities throughout Africa and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n The value of a supportive workplace culture was reinforced by closing remarks by Melissa Bond, President and General Manager for ExxonMobil Angola and Chairperson for the Association of Exploration and Production Companies in Angola, stating, \u201cDiversity is good for business. Equality benefits communities. We\u2019ve got to give women the opportunities and we\u2019ve got to create the conditions to allow women to become successful.\u201d<\/p>\n Women have a critical role to play in advancing Africa\u2019s\u00a0oil and gas (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XDps0p<\/a>)\u00a0industry. by fostering increased inclusivity across every level and within the entire energy value chain, Africa\u2019s development can not only be ensured, but accelerated. By addressing issues of inclusivity, inequality, and barriers to entry, Africa can realize its development goals.<\/p>\n Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Energy Capital & Power.<\/i><\/p>\n Source<\/a> Opening the second day of the\u00a0Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) 2022 Conference and Exhibition (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Fb5wuz), a panel discussion that focused on the role of women in Africa\u2019s energy industry featured a strong lineup of speakers who discussed the challenges and opportunities that women face in the industry, highlighting how improving a diverse landscape will serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":95401,"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":[258,256,6287,24143,3941,4263,33166,7424,7168,8250,7962,257,4221,5991,254,6524],"class_list":["post-95400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-amp","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-aog","tag-energy","tag-gas","tag-highlights","tag-importance","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-sector","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\/95400","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=95400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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