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Retirement after years with ExxonMobil: Bruce Allen Dale

Bruce A. Dale ’79, MS ’80 retired from ExxonMobil after 36 years and will be splitting retirement between Houston and Door County Wisconsin locations. His career spanned R&D to field operations all over the world and included both technical leadership and management capacities, culminating as Chief Subsurface Engineer. Bruce played major roles as inventor, developer and advisor to dozens of new technologies for improving and optimizing drilling, completion and production of wells in safe, economic and environmentally-responsible ways and holds 25 US patents.

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