ExxonMobil’s senior VP to retire

US energy giant ExxonMobil’s senior vice president Mark Albers said he plans to retire, effective April 1, following over 38 years with the company. 

Albers was elected to his current position as senior vice president and a member of the corporation’s management committee in 2007, ExxonMobil said in a statement.

Throughout his career, he held a variety of managerial positions in development, operations, production and engineering.

Albers joined Exxon USA in 1979 and after several assignments in Texas and New Jersey, he was transferred to Esso Australia in Melbourne in 1991 and held operation management roles.

Albers held positions as Alaska interests manager and production manager for the Western U.S. In 2001, he became vice president, Chad/Nigeria for ExxonMobil Development Company in Houston, and later was executive assistant to the chairman at headquarters in Irving, Texas, prior to becoming president of ExxonMobil Development Company in October 2004.