Bill Murchison is president and CEO of Murchison Drilling Schools Inc., headquartered in Albuquerque, N.M., with an additional training center in Houston and a satellite branch in Ghana. The business offers training mainly to operators, contractors and service companies tied to oil and gas, but also clients who work with geothermal.
Murchison took over the company when his father, the founder, asked him to in 2005. The drilling school was launched in 1977, after his father was asked by a number of drilling companies to establish a drilling training business in the States. He had started a training program in Iran for the Iranian Oil Consortium, and it was well received.