Patricia has carried out the larger part of her professional career in the Oil and Gas industry, in a variety of commercial and operational management roles. She also worked for the telecommunications, banking and defence sectors.

She spent the first half of her professional career with oilfield services companies SLB and Transocean, then joined TotalEnergies, where she has since held senior management positions in Drilling & Wells, Asset Management (Angola Block 32), Global Procurement, HSE for Gas Renewables and Power.

She is now in charge of the TotalEnergies-Vantage Drilling joint venture.