Exhibit 24.1(a)

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

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     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors
and/or officers of Mobil Corporation, a Delaware corporation, hereby constitutes
and appoints CHARLES H. DUBOIS, WALTER R. ARNHEIM and GORDON G. GARNEY his or
her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each of such persons having
full power to act without the others, in any and all capacities, (i) to execute
and file in his or her name and capacity on behalf of Mobil Corporation and (ii)
to sign in his or her name and capacity on behalf of the individual, a Shelf
Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any appropriate form including amendments
and/or post-effective amendments and supplements, together with all exhibits and
other documents necessary or appropriate in connection therewith, for
registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of $650,000,000 of Pass Through
Certificates and a Mobil Corporation Guaranty with respect thereto.

     AND FURTHER, that each of the undersigned directors and/or officers of
Mobil Corporation hereby grants to said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each
of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things
essential and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person in connection with
the proper exercise of the powers granted hereunder.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned as directors and/or officers of Mobil
Corporation or as individuals, have hereunto set their hands as of the 27th day
of September, 1996.

NAME AND TITLE         /s/ Lucio A. Noto
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                       Lucio A. Noto, Director, Chairman of the Board, President
                       and Chief Executive Officer: Principal Executive Officer

NAME AND TITLE         /s/ Thomas C. DeLoach, Jr.
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                       Thomas C. DeLoach, Jr., Senior Vice President and Chief
                       Financial Officer: Principal Financial Officer

NAME AND TITLE         /s/ George Broadhead
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                       George Broadhead, Acting Controller: Principal Accounting
                       Officer

 
NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Lewis M. Branscomb
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                        Lewis M. Branscomb, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Donald V. Fites
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                        Donald V. Fites, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
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                        Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Paul J. Hoenmans
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                        Paul J. Hoenmans, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Allen F. Jacobson
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                        Allen F. Jacobson, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Samuel C. Johnson
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                        Samuel C. Johnson, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Helene L. Kaplan
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                        Helene L. Kaplan, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ J. Richard Munro
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                        J. Richard Munro, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Aulana L. Peters
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                        Aulana L. Peters, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Eugene A. Renna
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                        Eugene A. Renna, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
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                        Charles S. Sanford, Jr., Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Robert G. Schwartz
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                        Robert G. Schwartz, Director

NAME AND TITLE          /s/ Robert O. Swanson
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                        Robert O. Swanson, Director

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