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Marathon officer retirements
Posted: 15 August 2003
Marathon Oil Corporation announced the following Marathon officers
have elected to retire, effective October 1, 2003:
-- A. R. "Bob" Kukla, vice president of Global Procurement
-- L. Michael Mueller, vice president of Development
-- Kenneth J. Orlowski, vice president of Information Technology
Commenting on the announcement, Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr., Marathon
president and CEO, said, "Each of these gentlemen has played
an important leadership role that has helped shape Marathon's development
over many years. Their professional expertise, sense of commitment
and dedication have been key assets in our company's drive for continued
success. We thank them for their many contributions and extend our
best wishes to them and their families."
A. R. "Bob" Kukla graduated from Pennsylvania State University
in 1966 with a bachelor of science degree in petroleum and natural
gas engineering. Following graduation, he joined Marathon as a petroleum
engineer in Bridgeport, Illinois. He subsequently served the company
in various engineering and supervisory positions in Mississippi,
Louisiana, Alaska, Ohio, Texas and Wyoming until 1986, when he moved
to Houston as engineering manager for the Domestic Production organization.
The following year, Kukla was appointed senior operations coordinator
of Domestic Production.
In 1988, he was transferred to Alaska as manager of the Alaska
Production Region. Three years later, he moved to Midland, Texas,
where he assumed responsibilities as manager of the Mid-Continent
Production Region. He was elected vice president of Domestic Production-Continental
United States effective October 1, 1997, and in September 2000 was
appointed vice president of Global Procurement.
Professionally, Kukla is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers,
the American Petroleum Institute, and the Institute for Supply Management,
the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and the Procurement
Strategy Council. He also is a 1983 graduate of the Program for
Management Development at Harvard University's Graduate School of
Business.
L. Michael Mueller assumed his current position in 2000 and had
previously served as vice president of Domestic Production-Gulf
of Mexico & Worldwide Deepwater Development since September
1999. Prior to that, Mueller was the Worldwide Deepwater manager
beginning in 1998 and the general manager for Marathon U.K. in Aberdeen,
Scotland, from 1996 to 1998. From 1992 to 1996, he was the Rocky
Mountain Region manager in Cody, Wyoming.
Mueller joined Marathon in 1977 as a reservoir engineer and holds
a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology. Throughout his career at Marathon, Mueller
has held a range of engineering, supervisory and management positions
in Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Wyoming, and Aberdeen, Scotland.
He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Marine Technology
Society and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Illinois and
Ohio. Mueller also is a member of the board of directors of the
Houston Chapter of INROADS.
Kenneth J. Orlowski began his Marathon career in 1976 as a tax
attorney and has subsequently held a number of tax and legal positions
of increasing responsibility supporting the company's refining,
corporate, human resources, labor, transportation, finance and administration
organizations. He was promoted to senior counsel in 1984, and to
general attorney in 1986, where he managed the legal staffs responsible
for supporting the administration, environmental, real estate, human
resources and domestic production areas of the company.
In 1992, Orlowski was elected senior vice president of Administration,
general counsel and secretary of Dallas-based Delhi Gas Pipeline
Company (then, a related operating unit). While there, he managed
the legal, environmental and safety, human resources, security,
real estate, public and governmental affairs, and administration
organizations of the company.
Orlowski was named assistant general counsel of USX Corporation
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1997, and in 2000 he was elected
to his current position at Marathon Oil Company headquarters in
Houston, Texas.
Orlowski is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and earned a bachelor's degree
in business administration from the University of Toledo in 1971,
and a law degree from the University of Toledo, College of Law,
in 1974. He is licensed to practice in the States of Texas, Ohio
and Pennsylvania and is admitted to practice before the United States
Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court and various federal district
courts. He is a member of the American Bar Association, various
state bar associations and the American Petroleum Institute.
For more information see http://www.marathon.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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