Neal E Schmale has bought MUR on 4 days since Feb 2016

Neal E. Schmale is a retired corporate director and energy industry executive who most recently served as a Director of Murphy Oil Corporation (MUR), where SEC filings list his relationship to the issuer as Director and report his insider equity transactions in that capacity.( He served on Murphy Oil’s board for nearly two decades, including roles on the Audit and Finance Committee and as Chair of the Compensation Committee, and has been identified by the board as a “qualified financial expert” based on his extensive finance and executive leadership experience.( Schmale is currently a Director at the Colorado School of Mines Foundation and a member of The State Bar of California.(

Over his career, Schmale has held several senior positions in the energy and utilities sectors, including Chief Financial Officer and Director at Unocal Corp., President, Chief Operating Officer and Director at Sempra Energy, and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Pacific Enterprises, Inc., as well as Independent Director at WD-40 Co..( A petroleum engineer and attorney by training, he began his career as a drilling engineer with Unocal, later rising to president of Unocal’s Petroleum Products and Chemicals Division and then CFO, before joining Sempra Energy in 1998 as executive vice president and CFO and subsequently becoming president and COO, overseeing regulated and unregulated subsidiaries with thousands of employees in the U.S. and abroad.( Schmale holds a professional degree in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, a law degree from Loyola University (Loyola Marymount University), and an LL.M., cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law, and he remains active in philanthropy and governance at Colorado School of Mines, including service on the Mines Foundation Board of Governors and establishment of the Schmale BEMS Scholarship Fund.(

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