Alex Mills
President, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers
Air Date, January 13, 2013
Alex Mills became President of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers in 2000, following the merger of the North Texas Oil & Gas Association (NTOGA) and the West Central Texas Oil & Gas Association (WeCTOGA). The Alliance is the largest state oil and gas associations in the nation with more than 3,000 members in 305 cities and 28 states.
Mills moved to Wichita Falls in 1994 as Executive Vice President of NTOGA, after living 8 years in Washington, D.C., where he served as Vice President of Marketing for the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the national organization for the independent oil and gas industry. He also served as Executive Vice President of the West Central Texas Oil & Gas Association in Abilene from 1981 to 1986.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas after serving in the U.S. Army Security Agency.
He worked as Managing Editor of The American Oil & Gas Reporter, and for several newspapers, television and radio stations in Texas. He authors a column concerning energy issues, which appears in the Fort Worth Business Press, San Angelo Standard Times, the Journal of North Texas, the Graham Leader, Wichita Falls Times Record News and the Midland Reporter Telegram.
Mills served as President of the University of North Texas Alumni Association in 1997 and 1998. Texas Governor Ann Richards appointed him to the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission in 1994 and Governor George W. Bush re-appointed him in 1995. He serves on the Board of the National Stripper Well Association and IPAA’s Wildcatters’ Political Action Committee. He is a member of the American Society of Association Executives, the Texas Society of Association Executives, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Desk & Derrick Club, and he is a former high school football official.