ExxonMobil appoints new research director for ExxonMobil Research Qatar

Doha: ExxonMobil yesterday announced that it has appointed Ana Laplaza as Research Director for ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ), succeeding Dr. Mohamed Al Sulaiti, who retired recently. 

Prior to this appointment, Laplaza served for several years as Head of Process Engineering, seconded to Qatargas Operating Company Limited. She has been with ExxonMobil for 26 years, beginning her career with the company in 1995 at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in Houston, Texas, and gaining expertise in loss prevention, process engineering and flow assurance.  She has worked at ExxonMobil’s LaBarge gas plant in Wyoming, USA, the site of the world’s largest operating carbon capture and storage  facility, and later had positions providing leading technical expertise to ExxonMobil’s upstream business worldwide in the areas of flow assurance and process engineering.