KUALA LUMPUR (June 21): ExxonMobil has appointed Shane Harris as president and chairman of ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc.
As lead country manager for ExxonMobil’s subsidiaries in Malaysia, Harris will be based in Kuala Lumpur, the oil and gas giant said in a statement.
The group said Harris succeeds Edward E Graham, who has been appointed as vice-president of ventures for ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions located in Houston, Texas.
Prior to 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 a variety of leadership, engineering and business assignments in production, drilling, mining and subsurface disciplines in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Russia and the United States.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia.