This past Monday, March 18, was Bentley's first day on the job as CEO of the Permian Strategic Partnership, the non-profit organization formed last fall by 20 of the largest producers in the oil and natural gas-rich Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico. These are exactly the kinds of regional issues the Permian Strategic Partnership (PSP) was created to help the area's communities address. When the state's increasingly contentious political atmosphere towards the industry convinced the American Petroleum Institute (API) that it should open a Colorado office, Bentley was hired to become the Executive Director of the Colorado Petroleum Council in 2015. The PSP is an effort that is vitally important, not just to the Permian Basin region, but for the entire industry. [Correction: While the PSP does have 20 member companies, only 17 of them are Permian producers.

Source: Forbes March 21, 2019 17:15 UTC