IN A WAY, Suzanne Browne, a senior account manager with ENSCO Offshore, grew up around the oil industry. She was raised in Tulsa, Okla., when it was still a big oilfield town. And her mother worked for Gulf Oil (now Chevron) for more than 30 years in the downstream segment. Her mother's successful career left a good impression of the industry on Ms Browne, but going into college at the University of Oklahoma in the late 1980s, she recalled having no specific intentions of becoming a second-generation oilfield worker. In fact, she said she ended up picking economics as her major because it provided a variety of different career options. "It seemed like it would open up a lot of doors and would be so flexible in doing lots of things with it," she said.
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