Jason Smith

Jason Smith brings over 25 years of successful international oil and gas experience running both onshore and offshore businesses as well as significant M&A and commercial negotiation experience. He started his career in 1995 with Mobil and then Exxon Mobil in New Orleans working the Gulf of Mexico in various Operations Engineering and Reservoir Engineering roles. Jason then joined Murphy Oil in 2000 in Corporate Planning and spent the next 20 years in a variety of senior leadership roles overseeing operations in the United States, Canada, Malaysia, and Ecuador. In Canada, Jason was the President of Murphy Oil Company Ltd. (Murphy Canada). He repositioned the Canadian portfolio away from heavy oil and led the development of Murphy’s highly successful Kaybob Duvernay and Tupper Montney assets. During his tenure, Murphy derisked the Kaybob Duvernay oil window across the entire play and became the basin leader. At the same time, Murphy unlocked the value potential of Tupper Montney’s significant resource base by drastically lowering cost structure, expanding plant capacity with third party investments, and creating a free cash flow machine. Jason received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University. He also has an MBA from Tulane University and completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University.