Clarke Turner is the director of RMOTC and NPR-3. With offices located in Casper and at NPR-3 35 miles northeast of Casper, RMOTC is the oil and gas Rocky Mountain regional office for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Clarke 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, Clarke 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. He 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
Energy research and development |
NPR-3/RMOTC Director 
