William McCabe currently serves as Vice President, Navajo Petroleum for the Navajo Nation Oil and Gas Company (NNOGC).  His spectrum of experience is a result of his career long association in the Energy and Power Industry acquiring expertise in oil and gas exploration and development, pipeline and infrastructure planning and construction, energy marketing, emissions trading, carbon sequestration, energy efficiency, renewable resource development, alternative fuels technology, distributed electric power generation systems, the development of community-scale utility capacity, right-of-way valuation and negotiation, as well as an ability to form business alliances between resource provider and resource consumer.  More recently, he is a principal in a pilot hydrogen project utilizing stranded/flared natural gas as a feedstock for hydrogen extraction; while also actively engaged in helium resource development for the Navajo Nation. His primary focus throughout is to provide expertise towards Tribal Energy Resource Development for sustainable Tribal Economies in a responsible manner consistent with Tribal Values. 

His forty year career in the Energy Industry includes work with the Superior Oil Company, Mobil Oil Corporation, Bechtel Petroleum Operations, Inc., the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, Navajo Nation, Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (MHA Nation), Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, Morongo Band of Mission Indians as well as an on-going advisor to a host of Tribes in the western US for matters relating to energy, water and capital needs.  In addition, he currently serves as an adjunct professor at the San Juan College-School of Energy creating and delivering the curriculum for the Tribal Energy Management Program. 

He has also served as an appointed member of the National Petroleum Council and is recently re-appointed by US-DOE Secretary Granholm; is a 35 Year Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, a professional member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, a member of the American Energy Society and serves on the USA Green Communities Program Advisory Board 

William is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation (Táchii’nii Clan, born for Áshįįhí Clan).  He graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering and Management.