The Governor of this Commonwealth shall be the official representative of this Commonwealth on the interstate oil compact commission created by the interstate compact to conserve oil and gas and shall exercise and perform for this Commonwealth all the powers and duties enjoined by such compact. He may appoint a substitute representative, who shall be a resident of this Commonwealth and a producer of oil therein. The substitute representative during the period for which he is designated shall exercise all the powers and duties of the official representative as a member of such commission.