Dominion Executive Vice President
Duane Radtke Retires
RICHMOND, Va. – Dominion (NYSE: D) announced today the retirement of
Duane C. Radtke as executive vice president on Dec. 31, 2007. Radtke
had been responsible for the company’s natural gas and oil exploration
and production business.
"Dominion is extremely grateful for Duane’s outstanding leadership
and business counsel," said Thomas F. Farrell II, chairman, president
and chief executive officer. "We wish him an enjoyable retirement. After
leading a very successful expansion of our E&P business — building
it into one of the largest and most-respected independent producers in North
America — Duane was just as successful at managing the sale of most of
our E&P assets as part of Dominion’s refocusing on our regulated
energy sales, transmission and distribution businesses and power generation."
Radtke
joined Dominion as president and chief executive officer of its E&P
operations in 2001. He previously worked at the Santa Fe Snyder Corp. of Houston,
which merged into Devon Energy in 2000.
Radtke, a Houston resident, is a past
president of Spindletop Charities Inc. and was recently honored as 2007
Mr. Spindletop for his charitable
work. He
is a native of Wausau, Wisc., and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin
with a bachelor’s degree in mining engineering.
Dominion is one of the
nation's largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of
approximately 26,500 megawatts of generation, 7,800 miles of natural gas transmission
pipeline and 1 trillion cubic feet equivalent (Tcfe) of proved natural gas
and oil reserves. Dominion also owns and operates the nation's largest underground
natural gas storage system with about 960 billion cubic feet of storage capacity
and serves retail energy customers in 11 states. For more information about
Dominion, visit the company's Web site at http://www.dom.com.
