Terry Spencer is chief operating officer of ONEOK Partners. He is responsible for the partnership’s four operating segments – natural gas gathering and processing, natural gas pipelines, natural gas liquids gathering and fractionation and natural gas liquids pipelines. From 2007 to 2009, he was executive vice president of ONEOK, with responsibilities for ONEOK Partners' natural gas liquids gathering and fractionation, and pipelines segments, as well as ONEOK's energy services segment.

Spencer joined ONEOK in 2001 as director - project development for natural gas gathering and processing. Later, he served as vice president of gas supply and project development in the gathering and processing segment and then became vice president of the segment. In 2005, Spencer became senior vice president of ONEOK’s natural gas liquids business following the asset acquisition from Koch. He became president of natural gas liquids in 2006.

Prior to joining ONEOK in 2001, Spencer held positions of increasing responsibility in the natural gas gathering and processing industry with Continental Natural Gas, Inc., in Tulsa; Stellar Gas Company in Houston; and Texas Oil and Gas Corporation’s Delhi Gas Pipeline subsidiary in Dallas. He is a member of the Gas Processors Association board of directors.

Spencer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering in 1981 from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.