Leatherhead (1 April 2008) -- Robert S. Franklin, formerly executive assistant to the chairman of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has been appointed to the position of chairman of ExxonMobil International Limited and vice president, Europe/Caspian/Russia, for ExxonMobil Production Company, based in Leatherhead, Surrey. He has also been appointed chairman of Esso Petroleum Company Limited, Esso Exploration and Production UK Limited and Mobil North Sea LLC.

Robert C. Olsen, who formerly held the above positions, was appointed to the position of executive vice president of ExxonMobil Production Company, based in Houston, USA.

Both appointments were effective April 1.

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ExxonMobil International Limited oversees ExxonMobil's exploration, production operations and gas marketing businesses in Europe and CIS.

ExxonMobil has major interests in the UK, primarily focused on the exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas, the refining of crude oil and the marketing of natural gas, petroleum products and petrochemicals.

In the upstream, ExxonMobil subsidiaries Esso Exploration and Production UK Limited and Mobil North Sea LLC are responsible for around 12 per cent of total UK oil and gas production.

Fawley refinery, near Southampton, is the UK's largest refinery and provides approximately 14 per cent of all petroleum products sold in the UK. Through its retail network of around 900 Esso petrol stations the company serves around one million customers a day. With manufacturing facilities adjacent to Fawley refinery and a world-scale sized ethane cracker in Fife, Scotland, ExxonMobil Chemical is one of the largest petrochemical manufacturers in the UK.

There are around 7,000 ExxonMobil employees in the UK. The company invests over £2 million per year in community programmes focussing on education, environmental and neighbourhood projects.