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C. Susan Howes

Consultant

Susan Howes is an organizational capability consultant in the Reservoir Management Department at Chevron, with prior assignments as reservoir management consultant in the Reservoir Management Framework Group and as manager of the Horizons Program. She formerly was the learning and organizational development manager at Anadarko. Howes is a petroleum engineer skilled in reservoir management, business development, knowledge management, economic analysis, portfolio rationalization, and petroleum engineering, with experience in the US Rockies, midcontinent, Permian Basin, and offshore Gulf of Mexico, as well as several other locations throughout the world. A petroleum engineering graduate of The University of Texas, she is the Chevron UT recruiting team lead for petroleum engineering and drilling. Howes is Chevron Women’s Network president, having previously served as its vice president. Howes currently serves on the SPE Soft Skills Council.

    • When I was asked recently how women choose the companies for which they work, I responded that women choose employers in a similar fashion as men do: they look at the compensation package, the scope of the job, the opportunities for upward mobility, and whether the company has a good reputation in the industry. Often, they also look around to see if there are women ex…
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