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Marathon Petroleum Adds to Board of Directors

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Marathon Petroleum announced that J. Mike Stice has been elected to the company's board of directors, to be effective Feb. 22, 2017.

Stice joins the MPC board with a career that spans more than 35 years in the upstream and midstream gas businesses, including as chief executive officer of Access Midstream Partners L.P., where he led one of the largest publicly traded gathering and processing master limited partnerships (MLPs).

Stice began his career in 1981 with Conoco, working in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility. He was named president of ConocoPhillips Qatar in 2006. In 2008, he was named president and chief operating officer of Chesapeake Midstream Development, L.P., a wholly owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK), and senior vice president of natural gas projects for Chesapeake. In 2009, he was named chief executive officer of Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P. Stice was designated a director of Chesapeake Midstream Partners, which changed its name to Access Midstream in 2012. Stice continued as chief executive officer until his retirement in 2014, and remained on the board of directors until 2015.

Currently, Stice serves as Dean of the Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy at the University of Oklahoma, a position he assumed in August 2015. He is a member of the board of directors at U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. and a former director on the MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. board.

Stice holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, a master's degree in business from Stanford University, and a doctorate in education from The George Washington University.