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Pink Petro is a company, a social media and a learning community created for women professionals in the oil and gas industry and headquartered in Houston, Texas. Katie Mehnert, an  oil and gas industry entrepreneur, founded the company in 2014, with the support of Shell, Halliburton, Jive Software and KPMG. Its main objective is to bring gender diversity, share knowledge and foster connections among peers, women and men experts and executives in the energy industry around the world.

History
The Pink Petro story started in 2013, aboard a Boeing 777 from London to Houston when Mehnert laid down her ideas on three cocktail napkins. With encouragements from Cindy Patman, a head of diversity and Vice president at Halliburton and support from Shell Oil, she launched an online platform based on cloud enterprise social technology from Jive Software. Then, the CEO of Jive, Elisa Steele also helped create a partnership at Silicon Valley. During the Offshore Technology Conference, Mayor Annise Parker proclaimed Pink Petro Day on May 2, 2015 to celebrate with over 300 executives and professionals.

Pink Petro marked its first year with The HerWorld Energy Forum, on International Women’s Day, hosted at Halliburton headquarters in Houston and live-streamed around the globe.

Activities
Pink Petro has four core areas centered on development including mentorship (mentHER), professional networking (networkHER), leadership (leadHERship), and sponsorship (sponsHER). It advocates the creation of a new culture that better integrates women in the energy industry in the oil and gas industry.

Pink Petro is reaching out in the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, and Asia  and bringing women together for mentoring, education, networking and learning opportunities.

Pink Petro TV
PinkPetroTV is an online television channel produced by Pink Petro in cooperation with the TV Worldwide Internet TV network. Its content is an interactive series featuring issues, resources, content, conversations and ideas and practices of interest to women in the energy industry. The series is produced and anchored live from studios near Washington D.C.

HERWorld conference
In May 2015, Pink Petro organized the HERWorld Energy Forum, a daylong conference streamed across the globe with local events being coordinated by internal women’s networks at Halliburton, Shell, GE, KPMG, and Spectra. The conference addressed new frontiers in the energy industry where innovation and policy meet with entrepreneurship and workforce. Several speakers including Alex Epstein from the industry, reflect on oil price, diversity, technology, policy, and the gender gap. TV Worldwide, broadcast it on the recently launched PinkPetro TV and also live on the Internet in 15 locations around the world.

Notable members

 * Cindy Patman, Chief Human Resources Officer, Orica
 * Clarice Rogers, Vice president, HR Wellspun
 * John Sequiera, CEO, TL One Partner
 * June Ressler, CEO, Cenergy Partners
 * Kathleen Camilli, CEO, Camilli Economics
 * Kimberly Wilson, TL Search, Managing Director
 * Laura Schilling, Director Global Business Development, Halliburton
 * Margaret (Peggy) C. Montana. Chair of the American Petroleum Institute Downstream Committee
 * Paula Waggoner-Agular, The Energy CFO

Recognition
On April 27, 2016, Panola College in Carthage, Texas hosted its third Women in Energy event with Katie Mehnert as its keynote speaker. Its purpose it to help female high school students meet with  women who work for energy firms and educate them about opportunities for females in this industry.