Women in Energy, Oil and Gas (WEOG) have called for more women inclusion in leadership positions in the oil and gas industry.National President, WEOG, Oladunni Owo, represented by Secretary of the Lagos Chapter of the International Forum for WEOG, Lucy Onoriode Okeke, yesterday, at the ongoing 17th Oil Trading and Logistics (OTL) Africa Week 2023, said that in Africa, women make just nine per cent of the senior management positions in the energy sector with gender diversity, decreasing with seniority.
 
She added that McKinsey 2020 study revealed that women make just 15 per cent of the world’s oil and gas workforce and 32 per cent of renewable energy workforce.
   
She emphasised that resources are rife with empirical evidence that suggests gender gap is wide and must be closed, seek strategic, focused, and intentional ways to ensure efforts towards formulating sustainable Human Resources (HR) policies are not thwarted but outlived.
 
Meanwhile, as part of efforts to push the state’s ambitious energy agenda, Lagos State Government has offered policy priorities for investors in the Nigerian oil and gas downstream sector, seeking to invest in Liquified Natural Gas, import terminals, pipelines and other strategic infrastructure aimed at improving the reliability of gas supply in the state.
 
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Sholabomi Shasore, said this is the time for more synergy in the oil and gas downstream and midstream sector.