June 15, 1976 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News

Dubai Petroleum Elects H.A. Mckinley President

The board of directors of Dubai Petroleum Company (DPC) recently announced the election of Howard A. McKinley as president.

DPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Continental Oil Company (Conoco) and operator for a group of international companies producing oil offshore the Arabian Gulf Sheikhdom of Dubai.

Mr. McKinley succeeds C.K.

Shepherd, who has elected early retirement following nearly 40 years of service with Conoco. He had been president of DPC since 1970.

Mr. McKinley is transferring from Houston, Texas, where he has served as vice president of Conoco for new business development since 1970. Previously, he had been vice president and executive assistant to the president and chief executive officer of Conoco and had served in managerial positions with Conoco's domestic and international oil operations.

Other members of the group for which DPC is operator are Compagnie Francaise des Petroles; Hispanoil of Spain; Deutsche Texaco, A.G., subsidiary of Texaco Inc.; Dubai Sun Oil Company, subsidiary of Sun; and Delfzee Dubai Petroleum N.V., subsidiary of Wintershall A.G. of West Germany.

A Rhodes Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. McKinley joined Conoco in 1952. Later, he was named an officer and director of various Conoco subsidiaries, including Continental Overseas Oil Company, DPC, Continental Oil Company of Qatar, and Continental Oil Company of Argentina. He transferred to London in 1964 to become commercial manager of Conch Methane Services Limited, a Conoco affiliate pioneering in the development of special tankers for overwater shipment of liquefied natural gas. He was named managing director of Conch in 1965.

He returned to the United States in 1968 to become vice president and executive assistant to the president.

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