https://www.texasobserver.org/metoo-schlumberger-oil-and-gas/
The Oil and Gas Industry Still Hasn’t Reckoned with #MeToo
Groping. Catcalling. Crude texts. We spoke to women in the oil industry who say they faced s-xual harassment and were punished for speaking out.
Arya Sundaram
Dec 14, 2020, 8:00 am CST
With stunning precision, Sara Saidman, an oil field engineer, can still recall the moment that “set the tone for the rest of my employment at Schlumberger,” a Texas-based oil field services company.
Saidman took a job at Schlumberger in 2016 because the company had a reputation for being the best in the industry. In her first week of working at a New Mexico drilling site, Saidman was sitting on a couch near her trainer Leslie Bullard, a large woman with a thick West Texas accent. Bullard slid her hand down Saidman’s left knee, onto her thigh, and grabbed her v—na, she says. Saidman bolted into her bedroom and hid under her covers for the rest of her night. Bullard declined to comment.