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Ray Smith Named Acting Manager of Oil & Gas Technical Department

OKLAHOMA CITY – E. R. (Ray) Smith has been appointed acting manager of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas technical department. He succeeds Claude V. McNully, who died unexpectedly on April 15.

The technical department handles geology, engineering, surety and records functions of oil and gas industry regulation. Mike Battles, Oil and Gas Division director, said a search for a permanent manager probably won’t start until the new Oklahoma fiscal year begins on July 1.

Smith joined the Corporation Commission in February 1994 as director of the agency’s Fuel Division after retiring as a group vice president of Mustang Fuel Corp. and president of Mustang Fuel of Oklahoma.

He has handled special projects for the Oil and Gas Division since July 1998, when the Fuel Division was merged into the Petroleum Storage Tank Division.

Smith has a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Wyoming. He worked 27 years with Skelly Oil Co. and Getty Oil Co. in onshore and offshore exploration and production management before joining Mustang Fuel in 1982.

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