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| | Norma Fisk
Transportation Developer, Gas and Power Marketing
Studied Economics and Finance at Ecole des Ponts (French Engineering University), Business Administration at CDI (Collège des Ingénieurs) and Law in La Sorbonne-Paris (CAVEJ)
Having studied engineering for six years I wanted to continue to use the knowledge and analytical skills I had acquired. ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing was offering positions that I felt were able to meet these requirements with the added advantage of a commercial focus to the work.
As a native French speaker I relished the opportunity to utilise my English language skills and was immediately attracted to being located in the UK. Admittedly I was apprehensive of moving to a new city, a new country and starting my first job. Having a month's hotel accommodation helped me to settle into the London lifestyle and gave me more time to find something more permanent. Once at work, I was quickly able to establish a support network with my mentor and with colleagues, many of whom have had been through similar experiences. Training has been a mixture of on-the-job training from more experienced colleagues and more formal training courses including the EGDP programme at London Business School.
During my first year in ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing, I have had the opportunity to work in both the Transportation and Regulatory areas of the gas business. The two fields are very different from each other, but both are of great importance to the overall performance of our gas business.
In my work in Transportation, I have been involved in the negotiations of the commercial arrangements to minimise the cost of transporting our gas to our customers. This required an understanding of our customers' needs and the alternative transportation options available in each country. To do this I kept in regular contact with both the pipeline owners and our customers to ensure that our equity gas continued to flow correctly.
The second area of my work has been in the Regulatory sector. Currently in Europe there have been a number of significant measures to assist the liberalisation of the energy market and as a result I have been involved in the close monitoring of regulatory changes at both a European and national level. My recent work has involved analysing the new French legal framework for the gas industry and subsequently meeting the French Government and Regulator to present and share ExxonMobil's views on the proposed regulatory frameworks.
Today, when I look back at the work I have been involved in during my first year, I can say that ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing has given me what I was looking for. I have enhanced my degree knowledge, analytical skills and have acquired a greater understanding of the commercial aspects of the energy business in Europe.
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