E. A. Galvin, President of CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL GAS & OIL LTD., announces the appointment of Edward G. Battle as Executive Vice President of the Company.
Mr. Battle graduated with degrees in Geological and Petroleum Engineering from Texas A & M in 1954 and joined Medallion Petroleums Limited in Calgary in 1957. In 1963 he was appointed Vice President of Medallion and in 1965, following the amalgamation of Medallion with Canadian Industrial Gas Limited and other companies to form Canadian Industrial Gas & Oil Ltd., he was elected Vice President of Production. Mr. Battle was recently elected President of Prairie Oil Royalties Company Ltd. and is a director of several other oil companies. Mr. Battle is married and has three children.