Ruth Zambrano has been in the oil field for 17 years. She started as a wireline field engineer in Perth Australia in 2005. She joined Schlumberger to have a borderless career and that's exactly what she got. She has been in operations most of her career and she truly enjoys this side of the business. She talks about how authenticity is what makes a leader and takes us through her life from country to country and how each one presents its own challenge.
Growing up in a small town in Ecuador Ruth's parents were both in the medical field. Her family hoped that she would one day follow in their footsteps, she had other plans. Early on Ruth challenged her parents, her father a supporter of his daughter's curiosity, ultimately just wanted her to pursue something she loved. Ruth loved mathematics, with her fathers support she decided to go into Engineering.
Ruth fell into oil and gas by a friend signing her up for a career fair as a sophomore in College.. Ruth knew nothing about Schlumberger. She ended up getting a phone call when she graduated from Schlumberger for a 7:00 PM interview. Ruth explains how she thought the interview was actually a joke. She takes us back to this time in her life over 16 years ago that started her career in oil and gas.
Ruth started offshore working in the field in very difficult conditions. Ruth walks us through her time in Australia running open hole wireline, then moving to Argentina working in extreme weather conditions and away from home. Ruth thrived off the challenge and talks about her hardest transition moving to Chile as the only woman in her product line. She had a belief during her time in Chile that she had to be a certain way in order to manage the team. She talks about how the “ male style” leadership she felt she needed to have was not her real self - she finds out that she never had to take this approach to manage the team.
Ruth shares her view on the future of oil and gas. She talks about why the generations to come are pivotal in the future of our industry.
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