ExxonMobil Wins MMS SAFE Award; Two Employees Win Corporate Leadership Awards.Energy Editors/Business Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2003 The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. ) has selected 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. to receive its 2002 National Safety Award for Excellence (SAFE). Two ExxonMobil employees have also been selected as winners of MMS' 2002 Corporate Leadership Awards. ExxonMobil received the National SAFE award in the high-activity category for the Outer Continental Shelf In the federal United States, the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) consists of the submerged lands, subsoil, and seabed, lying between the seaward extent of the States' jurisdiction and the seaward extent of Federal jurisdiction. in recognition of the company's safety record and operational performance at its offshore facilities 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 and off the coast of California. The award, established in 1983, honors companies that achieve outstanding safety and environmental results, and that demonstrate notable efforts to train and motivate their employees to conduct offshore operations in a highly responsible manner. The SAFE program also highlights to the public that companies conduct offshore oil and gas activities safely and in a pollution-free manner. "This award recognizes a corporate commitment to offshore safety and environmental protection," said MMS Director Johnnie Burton. "We are pleased to recognize this year's SAFE award finalists for their exemplary company performance." "In 2002, our employees and contractors achieved truly outstanding results in offshore safety and environmental performance," said Tom Walters Thomas H. Walters (born June 11, 1942 in Petal, Mississippi) was an American football safety in the NFL for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for The University of Southern Mississippi. He now teaches Sunday School in a small town in Texas. , vice president for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Production for ExxonMobil. "This award recognizes their accomplishments and commitment to our company's values of safe and environmentally sound operations. It also demonstrates movement toward our vision of an incident-free workplace." ExxonMobil employees Steve Brooks Steve Brooks can refer to:
The MMS is the federal agency within the Department of the Interior that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources Noun 1. mineral resources - natural resources in the form of minerals natural resource, natural resources - resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature on the Outer Continental Shelf. The agency also collects, accounts for, and disburses revenues from federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on federal and Indian lands. These revenues totaled more than $6 billion in 2002 and nearly $127 billion since the agency's inception in 1982. |
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