ExxonMobil appoints Shane Harris as lead country manager in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: ExxonMobil has appointed Shane Harris as president and chairman of ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc, succeeding Edward E Graham.

The American multinational oil and gas (O&G) corporation said Graham had been appointed as vice president of ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions in Houston, Texas.

As lead country manager for ExxonMobil's subsidiaries in Malaysia, Harris will be based in Kuala Lumpur.

Before his appointment, Harris was the asset manager for Imperial Oil's Kearl oil sands mining asset in northern Alberta, Canada.

He previously served as ExxonMobil's global drilling technical manager in Houston.

Harris joined ExxonMobil in 1998 and has held various leadership, engineering and business assignments in production, drilling, mining and subsurface disciplines in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Russia and the United States.

Harris holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

The ExxonMobil subsidiaries in Malaysia are companies that have business activities, including upstream production of O&G, global business centres and marketing of chemical products.

In the upstream, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc operates more than 30 platforms in 11 producing fields and has a working interest in two fields offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

These fields collectively produce about 15 per cent of the nation's crude oil and condensate and supply about 40 per cent of Peninsular Malaysia's natural gas needs.