Clarke
Turner is the Director of the both the Rocky Mountain
Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC) and the Naval Petroleum
Reserve No. 3 (NPR-3), better known as the Teapot Dome
oil field. With offices located in Casper and 35 miles
northeast of Casper, Wyoming, RMOTC is the oil and gas
rocky mountain regional office for the U.S. Department
of Energy.
Mr.
Turner graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in
1981 with an engineering degree. Upon graduation, he entered
the service as a petroleum management officer in the United
States Army. Besides numerous assignments in the United
States, he has worked in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador,
South Korea, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. He left the Army
after 11 years of active duty to consult for Louisiana
Land and Exploration for short time. He then went to work
for the Department of Energy's Elk Hills oil field in
California and then transferred to Casper in 1993.
In
2002 Mr. Turner was selected to be the Secretary of Energy's
representative on an interagency Iraq oil planning and
policy task force. He later led a team from the Department
of Energy into Iraq to assist the Department of Defense
in protection of the oil infrastructure during the war
and then the post war rebuilding of the Iraqi Oil Ministry
and Oil Company.
Mr.
Turner has experience in a broad spectrum of the petroleum
industry including:
Rocky
Mountain gas development and production operations;
Primary,
secondary and enhanced oil production operations;
Refining,
Wholesale
and retail refined product storage and distribution;
and
Energy
research and development.
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