KUALA LUMPUR, December 1 - Esso Malaysia Berhad (EMB), a public-listed company on Bursa Malaysia, today announced that with effect from December 1, 2008, Puan Fatimah Merican has been appointed Executive Business Services Director.  She has also been appointed to the Boards of Directors and Committees of the other subsidiary companies of ExxonMobil in Malaysia, namely ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc., ExxonMobil Malaysia Sdn Bhd, ExxonMobil Borneo Sdn Bhd, ExxonMobil Chemical Malaysia Sdn Bhd and ExxonMobil Services (Labuan) Limited, all effective the same date.

Prior to her appointment, Puan Fatimah was the Manager for ExxonMobil's global Downstream/Chemical Applications, Business Line Applications, Information Technology.

Puan Fatimah joined ExxonMobil in 1977.  During her career, she has held various professional and managerial positions in ExxonMobil's local and global Information Technology organisations in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok.  She also completed a rotational assignment in Public Affairs.

Puan Fatimah graduated with a Higher National Diploma from the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster), United Kingdom.

Puan Fatimah succeeds Mr. Zain C. Willoughby, Financial Director of the ExxonMobil Subsidiaries in Malaysia who will be accepting a new assignment within the global ExxonMobil group.