Dominion Promotes David Searles to Vice President-Gas Operations
Dominion Delivery has promoted David L. Searles to vice president-Gas
Operations. In his new position, Searles will be responsible for day-to-day
operation of Dominion’s natural gas delivery systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and West Virginia.
Searles, who will be based in Cleveland, formerly served as
director-Delivery Operations with Dominion’s electric business in Richmond,
Va. He succeeds Thomas E. Wester, who is retiring from Dominion.
Searles earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
from The Ohio State University and joined Virginia Power as an associate engineer
in 1982. He served in a variety of engineering and supervisory positions in
electrical operations and construction in Richmond, Petersburg, Fairfax and
Herndon, Virginia, and in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Dominion promoted Searles to
director-Performance and Design in 1998 and to director-Distribution Operations
in 2000. He was promoted to director-Delivery Operations in 2003.
Wester, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees in civil
engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, is completing a 34-year career
with Dominion and the former Consolidated Natural Gas Company, which merged
with Dominion in 2000. Wester joined The Peoples Natural Gas Co. in 1970 as
an engineering technician. He served in various managerial positions in Pittsburgh
and Cleveland. Wester was promoted to his current position in 1999.
Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers of energy,
with an energy portfolio of about 25,500 megawatts of generation, 6.4 trillion
cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves and 7,900 miles of natural
gas transmission pipeline. Dominion also operates the nation's largest underground
natural gas storage system with more than 960 billion cubic feet of storage
capacity and serves about 5 million retail energy customers in nine states.
For more information about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at www.dom.com.
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