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Lee R. Raymond, who served as a lightning rod for environmental critics while steadily guiding ExxonMobil Corp. to become the world’s richest public company, on Thursday said he will retire at the end of this year.

NYMEX Holdings Inc., announced that Michel Marks, who had served as chairman of the board of the New York Mercantile Exchange from 1978 to 1987, resigned from its board of directors Thursday. Marks has been a member of the board since May 2001, upon the creation of the equity owner category of the board. Nymex declined to give any reason for his resignation, which came a week after Nymex CFO, Lewis A. Raibley, III resigned. At that time, Nymex said Raibley was accepting a position with another company. Kenneth D. Shifrin, the company’s vice president and controller, was appointed acting CFO, while the search proceeded for Raibley’s replacement.

Samuel Bodman, who has served as U.S. Energy Secretary for just over a week, had his feet held to the fire in three hours of questioning Wednesday about the administration’s proposed energy budget by a not-entirely-friendly House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Samuel Bodman, who has served as U.S. Energy Secretary for just over a week, had his feet held to the fire in three hours of questioning Wednesday about the administration’s proposed energy budget by a not-entirely-friendly House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Canadian government has served notice that it intends to move the Mackenzie Gas Project along as briskly as the complex northern regulatory apparatus will permit.

The Canadian government has served notice that it intends to move the Mackenzie Gas Project along as briskly as the complex northern regulatory apparatus will permit.

Jerald V. Halvorsen, who has served as president of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) since 1987, will retire effective Aug. 1st of this year, association Chairman Fred Fowler said. Halvorsen will be replaced by Don Santa, who is currently serving as INGAA Executive Vice President. Santa, a former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, joined the INGAA management group with the understanding he would be succeeding Halvorsen (see Daily GPI Oct. 17, 2002).

John Geesman, 51, a lawyer who previously served on the California Independent System Operator’s governing board, was named Thursday to an open seat on the California Energy Commission, which sites power plants and oversees energy resource planning and conservation programs. Gov. Gray Davis made the announcement, noting that this fills out the five-member commission that is based in Sacramento. It is the same agency that Geesman once headed as executive director.

John Geesman, 51, a lawyer who previously served on the California Independent System Operator’s governing board, was named Thursday to an open seat on the California Energy Commission, which sites power plants and oversees energy resource planning and conservation programs. Gov. Gray Davis made the announcement, noting that this fills out the five-member commission that is based in Sacramento. It is the same agency that Geesman once headed as executive director.