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features
ExxonMobil's feature stories provide an in-depth look at industry issues and company activities.
November 01, 2008taking a different track
Born and raised in a railroad town, ExxonMobil’s newest director rose to the top of one of America’s premier communications companies.
November 01, 2008safer and sounder
Exploring for the oil and gas needed to meet the world’s rising energy demands requires a broad array of scientific expertise and technology.
November 01, 2008the outlook for refining and chemicals
As the ExxonMobil Management Committee’s newest member, Senior Vice President Mike Dolan has stewardship responsibilities for a wide range of businesses and departments as well as in several countries. Key among them are ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Company and ExxonMobil Chemical Company. In this interview, Dolan highlights issues impacting the refining and chemical businesses.
November 01, 2008helping protect tomorrow, today
Imagine an automotive tire made with a new lightweight impermeable material that could potentially help save more than a billion gallons of fuel every year, the equivalent of taking a million cars off U.S. roads.
November 01, 2008Papua New Guinea LNG project plans move ahead
A proposed project in the Southern Highlands and Western Provinces of PNG could bring new supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to world markets by the next decade.
November 01, 2008fifth major ExxonMobil startup in 2008 commercializes Nigerian natural gas liquids
ExxonMobil is adding to the world’s energy supply – not only by finding new reservoirs, but also by making existing ones more productive, while at the same time reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
November 01, 20082008 marks 90th year for The Lamp publication
Today, The Lamp has a readership of more than 650,000 who look to the magazine for information about ExxonMobil and the energy industry.
November 01, 2008innovative technology could commercialize challenging gas resources
Process may make carbon capture and storage more affordable while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
November 01, 2008career inspiration from a crawl space
New Senior Vice President Mike Dolan has seen a lot of the world in his 33-year career. And every step of the way, some sage advice that his dad had for him early in life has continued to serve him, his family and fellow employees quite well.
November 01, 2008Camps for kids who like to think
ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camps give bright but disadvantaged U.S. middle-school students the chance to experience the world of science and technology for themselves.
November 01, 2008Angolan project brings gains in oil production, use of local resources and worker safety
The successful startup of two more fields in ExxonMobil’s Kizomba C development off the West African coast has brought on vital additions of oil for a world whose energy needs are growing. The path to this accomplishment includes maximizing local content and a coordinated effort to improve worker safety among each of the project’s major contractors.
August 15, 2008ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Employees Honored as 2008 Heroes of Chemistry by American Chemical Society
Award recognizes ExxonMobil's development of a new type of catalyst that allows refineries to produce cleaner diesel fuel
August 01, 2008an interview with Rich Pisarczyk, president of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Research commitment provides competitive cornerstone.
August 01, 2008The next quarter-century in Malaysia
An agreement toward a new production sharing contract builds on 115 years of growth with one of ExxonMobil’s most successful energy partners.
August 01, 2008energy research program reaches milestone
The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University seeks new solutions to one of the most daunting problems of this century – supplying energy for a growing world population while protecting the environment.
August 01, 2008new flexible films cut waste, save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Films made with ExxonMobil Chemical’s Enable metallocene polyethylene polymer are thin, lightweight, strong and recyclable.
August 01, 2008corporation's newest director is a man for all seasons
Larry Faulkner’s seasons have found him in many roles: student, teacher, research scientist, university department head, dean, provost and vice chancellor, president of one of the nation’s largest universities and now head of a major philanthropic organization.
August 01, 2008high-efficiency cogeneration plants create cost and environmental benefits
It takes a lot of power to run an energy company the size of ExxonMobil, and cogeneration helps provide that power while saving energy, cutting operational costs and reducing global greenhouse-gas emissions.
August 01, 2008capturing new opportunities
Exploration Company President Tim Cejka believes ExxonMobil is uniquely positioned to capture maximum benefit through the value chain in both the upstream and the downstream segments of the company’s business.
August 01, 2008an arctic success story
As Exxon Neftegas Limited hits peak production at a Sakhalin Island oil field, those involved take stock in operating in one of the world’s toughest energy environments.
