Women in general, especially from the Gulf countries, prefer professions related to medicine or education rather than a career in science or engineering, including petroleum. What considerations underlie a woman’s choice of profession and pursue a career in the oil and gas industry is full of science, engineering, and technology is certainly very diverse. Unfortunately not much research that can help deduce and voice phenomenon.

SPE Applied Technology Workshop – Women in Engineering, Science & Technology aims to explore and find out why the science and engineering disciplines shunned impress the ladies, and how to educate the public, improve the impression and enhance people’s appreciation of science and engineering disciplines, particularly those related with oil and gas industry. Industry that seemed masculine, fierce, full of safety risks and are not environmentally friendly. The workshop was opened by Dr. Eve Sprunt, 2006 SPE President, who also masihmenjabat as a University Partnership & Recruitment Manager of Chevron Corporation. He said that his knowledge, topic workshops on women in science and engineering for the first time held exclusively by the SPE, is associated with the annual convention of the largest oil and gas industry in the Gulf Region, MEOS (Middle East Oil & Gas Show) to-15. And MEOS Workshop took place in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, 10-14 March 2007. » Read more: Women In Science