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Interview with Martha Vasquez, Associate Director Upstream Oil & Gas, Boston Consulting Group
Published 18 January 2023
Martha Vazquez, Associate Director Upstream Oil & Gas, Boston Consulting Group, joined us ahead of moderating a panel at WECA 2022 entitled ‘Clean Tech Enabling the Transition: The Importance of Emissions Management, Reduction & Removal for Ongoing Hydrocarbons Exploration'. Listen now to hear how BCG are committed to their energy clients and how they partner together on the biggest challenges currently facing the sector.
Martha Vasquez is a core member of the Energy practice at Boston Consulting Group, specializing in upstream oil and gas, and oil and gas assets decarbonization and decommissioning.
Martha’s consulting experience for clients worldwide includes strategy, diagnostics and benchmarks, cost reduction, cost models, commercial due diligence, and digital dashboards. She has worked on projects covering upstream oil and gas exploration, development, production operations, decarbonization, and decommissioning.
Before joining BCG, Martha worked at McKinsey & Company and Schlumberger, where her focus was on production optimization, well intervention, field operations, and field development planning.
Traditional energy sector boundaries are blurring as companies throughout every industry reach different stages in their energy transformation. As the new energy future continues to emerge, leaders must turn away from old approaches, embrace new thinking, and reinvent business models to ensure the proper supply and demand of sustainable energy for both businesses and the world beyond.
BCG’s energy consultants help clients decarbonize and rapidly scale zero-carbon solutions and technologies by working shoulder-to-shoulder with them to solve the energy trilemma—ensuring affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy—no matter where they are in their energy transformation.
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