Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited on Friday announced the appointment of Mr Paul McGrath as the new Chairman and Managing Director of the organisation, with effect from  March 1.

Ogechukwu Udeagha, Manager, Media and Communication, said in a statement issued in Lagos that McGrath will succeed Mr Nolan O’Neal, who elected to retire after 34 years of service.

Udeagha said that McGrath was a senior executive in charge of project execution for ExxonMobil Development Company, based in Houston, Texas.

McGrath joined ExxonMobil in 1999 and had held a variety of technical and managerial positions in upstream and downstream operations while working in the U.K, Korea, Qatar, Australia and the U.S.