Dan Mendell III Retires as President of ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company and ExxonMobil Upstream Technical Computing Company.Business Editors IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2001 Steve Cassiani Nominated to Succeed Mendell Mr. D. (Dan) Mendell III, president of ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company and ExxonMobil Upstream Technical Computing Company, has elected to retire on Jan. 31, 2001, after more than 40 years of service. It is anticipated that the Board of Directors of ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company will elect Mr. S. M. (Steve) Cassiani as president, replacing Mr. Mendell, effective Feb. 1, 2001. It is also anticipated that the Board of Directors of ExxonMobil Upstream Technical Computing Company will elect Mr. Cassiani as president. Mr. Cassiani is currently executive vice president, ExxonMobil Exploration Company. Mr. A. T. (Tim) Cejka, currently vice president, Caspian Sea/Middle East, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, will become executive vice president, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, effective Feb. 1, 2001. Before the merger of Exxon and Mobil in November 1999, Mr. Mendell was president of Exxon Production Research Company and Exxon Upstream Technical Computing Company since November 1993. After receiving a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas, Mr. Mendell joined Exxon as a drilling engineer in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . He progressed through a variety of field and headquarters engineering, planning, and supervisory assignments. He served on the task force that established the plan of development for the Prudhoe Bay Prudhoe Bay, inlet of the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean, N Alaska, in the Alaska North Slope region, east of the Colville River delta. In 1968 one of the largest oil reserves in North America was discovered in Prudhoe Bay. field in Alaska immediately following the wildcat discovery in December 1967. In 1971, Mr. Mendell moved to New Orleans as division reservoir engineer. In 1973, he transferred to Houston as a coordinator of Research and Analysis at Exxon Company, U.S.A.'s Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. Department and returned to Production in 1975 as engineering manager for the East Texas Division. In 1977, he transferred to New Orleans as Southeastern Division operations manager See datacenter manager. with responsibility for Exxon's producing interests in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east . In 1980, Mr. Mendell was transferred to Midland, Texas Midland is the county seat of Midland CountyGR6 located on the Southern Plains of the western area of the U.S. State of Texas. As of the 2006 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a total population of 102,073. , and promoted to division manager. He was named Headquarters Production Department operations manager in 1988 and served as vice president of the department from 1989 to 1993 with responsibilities for Exxon's production activities in the U.S.A. Mr. Cassiani is a native of Brockton, Mass. He joined Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1969 after graduating from Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in Geology and in 1969 with a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in Geophysics. His initial assignments in geophysical interpretation were in the Southeastern Exploration Division in New Orleans. Mr. Cassiani progressed through various Exploration and Production Department assignments and was named district exploration manager in the Southwestern Division in Midland, Texas, in 1975. In 1977, he returned to Houston as geophysical manager for Exxon's Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic operations. He was named exploration planning manager in 1981 and assistant manager, Corporate Planning, in 1982. In August 1984, Mr. Cassiani was named manager of the Southeastern Exploration Division. He became operations manager of the Exploration Department of Exxon Company, U.S.A. in August 1986 and vice president of the Exploration Department in August 1987. With the formation of Exxon Exploration Company (now ExxonMobil Exploration Company) in January 1992, he was named executive vice president. Mr. Cejka is a native of Pittsburgh. He joined Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1975 after graduating from the University of Texas with a master's degree in Geology. Mr. Cejka held various line management, planning and business development positions before being named vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S ) in 1993. In December of 1999, he assumed his current position as regional vice president for the Caspian/Middle East for ExxonMobil Exploration Company. ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company is primarily responsible for research and development of technology to support ExxonMobil's worldwide exploration and production activities for oil, gas, coal, oil shale oil shale Any fine-grained sedimentary rock that contains solid organic matter (kerogen) and yields significant quantities of oil when heated. This shale oil is a potentially valuable fossil fuel, but the present methods of mining and refining it are expensive, damage the , and other minerals. ExxonMobil Upstream Technical Computing Company provides computing and computer related services to support ExxonMobil's worldwide exploration and production activities. ExxonMobil Exploration Company has responsibility for ExxonMobil's oil and gas exploration activities throughout the world. All three companies are based in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the . Exxon Mobil Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation U.S.-based oil and gas company formed in 1999 through the merger of Exxon Corp. and Mobil Corp. It has investments and operations in petroleum and natural gas, coal, nuclear fuels, chemicals, and ores. , based in Irving, Texas, is the world's largest publicly-traded energy company with operations in nearly 200 countries and territories. |
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