XOM Exxon Mobil Corp

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) announced today that Petro-Canada has selected MIDW(TM) fuels catalytic dewaxing technology for both their Montreal, Quebec and Edmonton, Alberta refineries. At Montreal, the MIDW fuels catalytic dewaxing technology will be integrated with a 30,000 barrels per day EMRE grassroots ultra low sulfur diesel hydrotreater to produce high quality diesel fuel at less than 10 ppm sulfur with excellent pour point quality. The MIDW proprietary catalyst also provides a boost in cetane quality while reducing high boiling components to lower the T95 boiling point of the diesel fuel through isomerization and distillate selective cracking. At Edmonton, the MIDW technology will be used to produce very low pour point diesel on a 15,000 barrels per day retrofit unit. This technology will provide Petro-Canada the maximum yield of diesel product and will feature the latest in EMRE's Spider Vortex(TM) reactor technology. Spider Vortex reactor internals provide the leading edge technology solution for owners who want to optimize grassroots or revamped hydroprocessing reactor performance and reliability. Spider Vortex has been commercially proven in more than 30 applications in ExxonMobil refineries and several licensed facilities. EMRE designed the MIDW facilities to allow Petro-Canada to optimize feedstock selection for diesel manufacture while minimizing capital investment and maintaining superior reliability and low operating costs. EMRE is the research and engineering arm of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), a leading global oil, natural gas, and petrochemicals company whose subsidiaries have operations in approximately 200 countries and territories. Additional information regarding ExxonMobil and technologies it licenses can be found at http://www.exxonmobil.com/refiningtechnologies. Petro-Canada is one of Canada's largest oil and gas companies, operating in both the upstream and downstream sectors of the industry in Canada and internationally. Common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol PCA and on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PCZ.