Upstream: Cold Lake, Kearl, Syncrude Downstream: Strathcona, Sarnia, Nanticoke, Terminals, Pipelines Chemical: Sarnia Or does it make more sense DW finally recommends to the EM board to buy the minority interest of IOL (30%)?

Opinion by David Bookbinder. opinion contributor American consumers shouldn’t have to pay twice for the damage done by multinational oil and gas companies — once through the harm their products cause to our health and our planet, and again when... — read more 

Anyone receive their PTO payout yet? Was it a check or direct deposit?

Another big party with no expense spared. Thanks Darren but I’d rather you save the money on the party and just give every Houston campus employee $200. Assuming $2M spend and 10,000 employees on campus.

I'm genuinely wondering, our work is continuously outsourced to many countries with the bulk being to Argentina AND India, but India seems to bear most of the brunt and hate comments. Is it legit because Argentina does a better job than India? Or... — read more 

LCS here. Pretty nervous about the immediate future outlook for my group. Is the layoff package generally 3 months, or more or less? And if you find a job within that timeframe do you have to pay it back? Wasn’t with XOM back during the covid layoff... — read more 

Everything down..... Wtg btc

Considering offer as an experienced technical staff member. Can you please mention the salary and YEE?

Tax management is ruthless. The income tax group used to be where a new hire can enter into the company and advance. Then they migrated work to BA. Then they brought over people from BA for jobs limiting opportunities for US employees. Those brought... — read more 

Hard to believe some of the latest managers are long term employee and have no clue about the basics of the oil and gas industry. Instead of the old managers from just a few years ago who would be in the field shoulder to shoulder with us, we now... — read more 

How long did it take you to move from CL28 to 29? How much of a pay increase did you see when promoted?

Really feels like Polaris is where you get moved if there is no position for you and you weren’t PiP. So after Polaris project ends, I’m guessing that means you’re cut. If you are average performer I’d be worried.

225K for Darren. He’s got about 2 million shares now KAM is just disgusting to me. After 3 years already accumulated 645K RSUs. JPW and NAC both received 118K shares this year and each have about 1 million shares. It’s disgusting what goes to... — read more 

By Michael Kern - Nov 24, 2025, 9:00 AM CST JP Morgan predicts the international crude benchmark, Brent, could drop into the $30s per barrel by 2027 due to an overwhelming market oversupply. Goldman Sachs forecasts the U.S. benchmark WTI Crude will... — read more 

Today marks the end of ExxonMobil's presence in France, with the change in control for all remaining assets owned by US major to North Atlantic. There will only remain a tiny commercial structure with less than 20 employees. Esso France is dead, long... — read more 

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you on board. Being here last 2 months felt like I was part of the community and a family. All the best to all of you and your families.

It feels like money disappears every quarter thanks to sloppy management decisions. A lot of the newer leaders just don’t have the experience to handle these situations, and it shows. Staff end up scrambling to cover mistakes that shouldn’t even be... — read more 

Has anyone ever been rehired after a PIL?

To those who are competent and actually know how to get things done: are you as sick and tired as I am of cleaning up all the messes and doing all the hard work as I am? Might be bearable if there was some recognition and reward for doing it but... — read more 

The Canadian EDO program needs to go. I have worked globally including in Canada and always put in more hours than 40. Never took an EDO in Canada and was never offered one outside of Canada. Get rid of all the people putting in minimal hours. I am... — read more 

The Monetary-Energy Singularity The article argues that the global economy is approaching an irreversible thermodynamic financial crisis between 2026 and 2030. The core claim is that there is a structural collision between rapidly expanding... — read more 

I have been with the company for decades and discovered that ranking is more about your role than anything else. I would love it if the corp would post ranking data in the data lake. The bias would be very easy to spot using data analytics tools.

Is dead. Half a billion down the toilet.

When are they coming out? What % do you expect by performance group?

I work at another major and saw a commercial analyst role in the M&A group. Does anyone have any insight if the culture in that group is as bad as the rest?

I’d like to hear from current/former employees. I have an opportunity for a move to Beaumont but I’m not familiar with the site at all. Any information shared would be greatly appreciated.

With all the outsourcing, the system changes, replacement of experience, I see so many errors. Polaris is a disaster and people being rotated in and out who don’t know the process.

$12,500 per business trip to BLR TV $15,000 per business trip to Brazil GBC $18,000 per business trip to Europe GBC $20,000 per business trip to KL TC $30,000 per business trip to Guyana and other $ 475 per hour bill rate - the highest in the... — read more 

Is it truly as simple as our great leader DW makes it seem? Fire people as often as possible and the sky is the limit? After 10+ years in upstream chasing npv+ opportunities the downstream model exemplified by our most fearless and brilliant... — read more 

There is absolutely nothing we can do to improve our stock price. It will just change in lock step with oil and natural gas prices.

Are you ready to move to your beautiful office at the Pioneer building?

$12,500 per business trip $80 per hour bill rate

What does it affect? Promotion? Salary?

FM lifted, what’s the prognosis amongst the crew? Is it worth à chat with my manager?

Fife to be shutdown Feb 2026. Sorry to all colleagues there. Hearing about 50 roles to move to Fawley.

So I am going thru a background check and am wondering what information is shared on things like ADP employment information to my new employer, the work number, etc. Will it show every job title I had at XOM? I omitted one lame role I had and... — read more 

Any ideas?