Diapositive 1

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• An african woman geoscientist in a national
  petroleum company 

• Juliette TEA-YASSI
• Director of Analyses and Research Center, Petroci
  Holding
• CÔTE dIVOIRE

Young Earth-Scientists, 25-28 october 2009,
Beijing-China
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• AGENDA
• I. BIOGRAPHY
• II. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED
• ACADEMIC AND PRIVATE LIFE  as student , woman
  and mother
• PROFESSIONAL LIFE  as Ivorian first woman
  geologist in oil field
• III. CHALLENGES REQUIREMENTS AND HARDWORK TO
  ACHIEVE A SUCCESSFULL CAREER
  
  
  
• IV. ADVANTAGES / PRIVILEGES
• V. RECOMMENDATIONS
• VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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I - Biography

• Geologist Engineer at PETROCI since January 1981
  and Director of the PETROCI Analyses and Research
  since October 2 005
• Master of Sciences( Post Graduate Diploma
  Geology option biostratigraphy obtained at the
  university Pierre et Marie) at Jussieu Paris 6
• one year of specialization in  palynostratigaphy
  at the university of Provence Marseille
  University
• 1986, create PETROCI geological laboratory.

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• Promoted as Deputy Director of Exploration from
  1995 to 1998, after 9 years in the laboratory.
• Responsable of the conception and the
  coordination of the geology, geophysic and
  laboratory studies
• PETROCI Representative of the Exploration
  technical committy meetings
• Participate to the negotiations of the
  production sharing contracts of the petroleum
  blocks
• Participate to the mission of information and
  economic promotion with the delegation of Cote
  dIvoire Prime Minister, in the United States
  and Canada in september 1996
• Participate, in Asia in April,1996, to the
  ministerial mission of promotion of mining and
  oil sector
• Participate to the negotiation and signature of
  the onshore seismic acquisition contract between
  Cote dIvoire and the Popular Republic of China
  in May, 1997
• Manager of the above Project from September,
  1997 to June, 1998.
• Married and mother of 4 children .

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II- PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED

• A- ACADEMIC AND PRIVATE LIFE  as student, woman
  and mother
• as student, woman and mother
• numerous constraints
• Fiel dtrip research works,
• laboratory works,
• constant journeys
• make the conciliation of woman life and normal
  mother is not always evident.
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• As student in geosciences
• In the 70s, the orientation of a girl in
  geology recovered from the utopia in Côte
  dIvoire
• Geological sciences are considered as being man
  job
• Chosing such a discipline is considered as
  pretention for girls

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• As woman and mother
• Delayed studies (pregnancies,)
• Misunderstanding in the familly for some crucial
  decisions
• Constant unavailability - little time dedicated
  to children

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• B- PROFESSIONAL LIFE
• As first woman geologist in an African petroleum
  company
• Difficult beginnings and constant frustrations
• Problems of caoching 
• Refusal of sending a woman on the offshore rig
• Implicit Refusal of any collaboration from the
  elder geoscientists 
• Implicit refusal to train the women
• Hesitation of the technical direction
  (management) towards the evolution or promotion
  of women within the company 
• Indifference, scorn, systematic refusal of
  ideas, researches, innovative projects, in
  particular the proposition of the creation of
  laboratory at PETROCI
• Hesitation of certain collaborators to work under
  the authority of a woman in the domain.

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III- CHALLENGES REQUIREMENTS AND HARDWORK TO
ACHIEVE A SUCCESSFULL CAREER

• The major challenge
• Force the respect as only woman geologist in the
  company by the hard work and abnegation.

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• Challenges
• Make accept the idea of sending the women on the
  offshore rig
• Make admit the utility of a laboratory in the
  company 
• Make accept the idea of its creation by concrete
  acts 
• Elaborate illustrated catalog used as guide
  documents for biostratigraphical analyses
• Give more visibility to the Managers on the
  importance and the utility of laboratory in
  petroleum Exploration.

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• Fight to obtain the effective creation of the
  laboratory and its promotion
• Elaborate presentations and publications of the
  biostratigraphy analyses results for better
  knowledge of the ivorian sedimentary basin
• Contribute to the progress of the research in
  geosciences 
• Conceive and create a laboratory of petroleum
  products analyses and controls
• Create an unit of petrophysic study in a near
  future

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• Result of efforts
• A laboratory of international fame

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• Old building

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• Current laboratory

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LABORATORY AIMS

• Ensure a better geological understanding of the
  basin, in fields such as sedimentology,
• biostratigraphy, geochemistry, in order to prove
  the presence of hydrocarbon.
• Preserve data from the sedimentary basin
• Ensure confidentiality of data by analysing
  samples, and therefore reduce coats of having
  them analysed abroad.
• Promote local and national competences
• Diversify services, based on qualified personal
  and high technology materials.

New building
Samples warehouse
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• ORGANIZATION
• 30 agents
• 1/ Director
• 2/ Advisors
• 3/ Departments
• 4/ Services

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• three axes of research targeted to achieve its
  objectives
• The sedimentology
• The organic geochemistry
• The biostratigraphy

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• high-perfomance equipments
• Chromatographs.
• Microscop (electronic, binocular).
• Rock eval6
• SEM with EDS
• Thin section confection materials

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• Equipments are also at the disposal of
  researchers operating in other fields
• Universities
• Mining
• Agriculture
• Environment
• Medecine.

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• Laboratory data used by PETROCI
  Exploration/Production Management
• The Production
• The Geostatistic
• The Geology
• The Geophysic

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Today 100 wells Out of the 211 drilled in the
ivorian sedimentary basin have been studied by
PETROCI laboratory
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Since 1995PETROCI Laboratory is in charge of
all the samples catching on the rigs. PETROCI
Laboratory provides services to petroleum
operators
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• Ambition of PETROCI Laboratory
• Become in very short-term a service provider in
  the sub region.

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IV - ADVANTAGES

• Professional and corporate recognition
• Multiple promotions among which the major was the
  appointment as first Director of PETROCI
  laboratory and the first lady technical Director
• Nomination as the first President of the African
  association of the women in geosciences Côte
  dIvoire 
• Cooptation as president of the 5th congress of
  the African Association of women in geosciences
  next 11- 17 April, 2010 in Grand-Bassam Côte
  dIvoire .

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• Personal achievements
•  Exchanges, journeys and meetings that have
  given me an important open-minded

• State honours
• Chevalier de lOrdre de lEducation Nationale
• Chevalier de lOrdre National du Mérite du
  Travail

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V- RECOMMENDATIONS

• Get ready to work more than men who directly will
  minimize you as woman geoscientist
• (in consideration of the misogynous
  character of the sectors of the geology and the
  oil research) 
• Accept the decision of the management whatever it
  may cost you.

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VI. ACKOWLEDGEMENTS

• Many thanks to the headquarter of UNESCO and to
  the Chinese Organizing Committee for having
  funded my participation to this roundtable .
• My acknowledgements to PETROCI Managing Director
  for having authorized my presence at this
  congress.
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