Director of Midland College’s Petroleum Professional Development Center
Midland College
 W. Hoxie Smith, M.S., P.G. – Mr. Smith graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. Degree in Geology (1982) and joined ARCO Exploration Company, Denver, Colorado where he conducted exploration for hydrocarbons in the complex overthrust region of western Montana. He received his Master's Degree in Geology from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin (1995) while working for Dawson Geophysical Company in Midland, Texas and serving as the Project Manager for a U.S. Department of Energy Project. From 1996 he served full-time as a Principal and Vice President of GeoSpectrum, Inc., a reservoir development company based in Midland. Mr. Smith has presented at numerous professional society meetings, including national conventions of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He has authored and co-authored over twenty-five publications in his field. Mr. Smith is currently the Director of Midland College’s Petroleum Professional Development Center providing continuing education coursework and timely industry-oriented workshops for oil and gas professionals. He is the current Chair and Continuing Education Director of the Permian Basin Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers; Past-President, Permian Basin Geophysical Society; a member of the Midland Annual CO2 Conference Committee; as well as holding a recent position as Regional Coordinator for FutureGen Texas.