Offshore staff

IRVING, Texas -- Exxon Mobil Corp. board of directors has elected M. W. (Mark) Albers as senior VP.

Albers, previously president, ExxonMobil Development Co., becomes a member of the corporation's Management Committee and assumes certain responsibilities for the upstream businesses.

Albers joined the company in 1979. In 1991, he was transferred to Esso Australia in Melbourne as technical manager, and later became operations manager, Alaska interests manager and production manager for the Western U.S.

In 2001, Albers became VP, Africa, Chad/Nigeria for EMDC in Houston, and he served as executive assistant to the chairman and the president of ExxonMobil Corp. at headquarters in Irving, Texas, prior to becoming president of EMDC in October 2004.

Albers holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A & M University and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Institution of Engineers Australia, the CEO Forum, and serves on the Texas A & M Engineering Advisory Council.

Concurrently, the board of directors of ExxonMobil Development Co. has elected N. W. (Neil) Duffin, executive VP, to succeed Albers as president.

Duffin joined Mobil Oil Co. in 1979. In 1992, he was named producing advisor for Europe and Africa based in Fairfax, Virginia. In 1995, he transferred to Aberdeen, Scotland, as operations and northern North Sea manager, and in 1998, he was named senior VP, Mobil Oil Indonesia.

After the merger, Duffin became VP, EMDC, with responsibility for projects in Russia/Caspian Sea and the Middle East. He became VP, Africa, of ExxonMobil Production Co. in June 2004, with responsibilities for the West Africa countries. He was appointed executive VP of EMDC in August 2006.

Duffin was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. He is a graduate of Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, with a BS in mechanical engineering.

4/3/2007