The largest public companies in the Houston region are energy giants. Exxon Mobil had revenue of $324 billion in 2025, followed by Chevron, which had $185 billion, and Phillips 66, with about $132 billion.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2026/hc-top-companies-quiz/
So still nowhere near 2012 revenues.
EM making billions while putting its largest effort into chasing millions.
In this process losing the most experienced workers and destroying the loyalty of everyone from executives to managers to SMEs to New Hires.
And how much of that was shared with employees? Executives certainly got a share. Totally unfair how executive pay has rocketed up while employee compensation is cut cut cut
The bigger the company the more revenue it needs to cover expenses. The question is how much profit was retained.