RESEARCH & DATA
THE WILLIAMS COMPANIES
Payvand Fazel
Vice President - Western Interstates
Payvand Fazel has held multiple leadership roles within Williams since joining the company 14 years ago. Recently, Payvand was named Vice President, Western Interstates, a new organization consolidating Williams’ MountainWest and Northwest Pipeline operations, commercial, and business development teams to integrate better and optimize the Western regulated natural gas transmission and storage assets.
Before this role, Payvand served as Vice President, Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Operations and Commercial; Vice President, Strategic Development; and Vice President, Origination and NGL Marketing / Commercial.
Payvand started his career working for Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, working as a Market Analyst in Wichita, Kansas, and then as a Product Manager for Olefins and Feedstocks in Houston, Texas. After working for Flint Hills Resources for 3 years, Payvand moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to start his career with Williams in May 2011.
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Additionally, Payvand was named to Oil and Gas Investor’s 40 Under 40 class of 2025 and has also been named an Outstanding Alumni of Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business.
Jimmie Hammontree
Director of State Government and Regulatory Affairs
Jimmie's responsibilities include tracking state legislative and regulatory activity, leading advocacy strategy and implementation, fostering relationships with elected officials and agency leaders, and conducting stakeholder outreach supporting Williams projects in the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Northwest regions.
Jimmie has more than 25 years of experience, with most of that time focused on environmental, regulatory, and government affairs roles for the upstream and midstream oil and natural gas sectors. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, as Chairman of GPA Midstream Association’s Natural Resources Subcommittee, and as an appointee to the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.