Anybody here work for XOM?

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2:27p, 10/11/23
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PNR ops employee here in the Permian & just curious how you like working for ExxonMobil if there is anybody here on the board that works for them? Bonus points if you worked for XTO and transitioned to working for ExxonMobil, could you let me know if they came in and completely changed everything or did they let y'all operate pretty much the way y'all did before the acquisition?

Going from a company with less than 2500 employees to a company with around 70,000 employees will come with its changes, good or bad. Mainly just curious about everyone's stance on working for ExxonMobil and how you liked/like it, thoughts on company culture, direction company is headed, etc...

I sure won't mind that pension they have, if they will keep me around long enough for it.
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In reply to Dirty-8-thirty Ag • 4:41p, 10/11/23
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I'm not an employee of XOM, but they've been a client of mine for a number of years. For a while it seemed they let XTO operate how they had. I was told XOM liked how lean XTO was and allowed them to operate much more efficiently.

They're all XOM now and brought under the XOM groups.
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6:37p, 10/11/23
Nope, but I hear they keep a suite at LaQuinta.
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6:55p, 10/11/23
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7:16p, 10/11/23
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Been at XOM for 10 years, all in chemicals. There has been a lot of belt tightening over the past 3-4 years. Global headcount has shrunk signicantly, and there are still non-happy memories about the 401k freeze.

All in all, the corporation is still doing well, but the culture is quite different than it was when I joined. The phrase "one year contract" comes up a lot. Likely for better, the corp is very slow to change. So integration will likely stretch years.
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In reply to UhOhNoAgTag • 8:02p, 10/11/23
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UhOhNoAgTag said:
Nope, but I hear they keep a suite at LaQuinta.
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In reply to Dirty-8-thirty Ag • 9:37p, 10/11/23
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Dirty-8-thirty Ag said:
UhOhNoAgTag said:
Nope, but I hear they keep a suite at LaQuinta.
Drilling and fracking ops, or so I'm told.
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8:39a, 10/12/23
Worked in Ops at both PXD and now XOM. There's not much difference. Everyones butthole is puckered up a little bit more at XOM than PXD
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In reply to UhOhNoAgTag • 4:45p, 10/12/23
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UhOhNoAgTag said:
Nope, but I hear they keep a suite at LaQuinta.

For full story....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-12611933/Exxon-Mobil-fracking-boss-arrested-budget-hotel-alleged-sexual-assault.html
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10:40p, 10/12/23
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Working at XOM, working for a service company who contracted by them.

All I can say is good luck. I was at PXD earlier in the year, I find this all fairly humorous.
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In reply to Dark_Knight • 11:32p, 10/12/23
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I've operated in the South Division out of the Big Lake Field office the last couple of years. We are kinda in our own little world down here and we like it that way. The Hwy 80 field office, that houses the other 4 divisions of operations in the Permian, seemed to have a much more uptight & cutthroat/throw you under the bus vibe to it.

I just hope it's not a big loss in net compensation and the rest I can adapt to.
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12:22p, 10/13/23
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My wife worked for XTO about 5 years all totaled, both before and after the XOM merger. They slowly bled out a fair amount of benefits and staff during that transition and the XOM decision-making/ management structure changed noticeably from how she tells it. At first XTO was told they were not being forced out, the office was staying in FtW, then after the huge XOM facility was built in north Houston the narrative changed to you can keep your job.... if you move to Houston.

She had been in line to get a promotion for ~2 years, but with the constant churn of leadership and freezes the merger/transition caused it never went through. Very corporate, little to no compassion for employees was the taste it left in her mouth.

Because they elected not to pay for her move she found a job with a different oil and gas company. That ended up costing them more in the end, she was 1 of 2 employees who knew a certain system/process required for their lease transactions (the other employee took earlier retirement rather than moving) and XOM ended up having to hire 5 people to replace both of them for that one process - which both of them warned the leadership was going to happen.

The new company she went too is awesome, so silver linings.

Very niche perspective, YMM
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12:59p, 10/13/23
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Thanks for all the responses! Really do appreciate everyone and their input.
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In reply to CapAmr05 • 1:57p, 10/13/23
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CapAmr05 said:
My wife worked for XTO about 5 years all totaled, both before and after the XOM merger. They slowly bled out a fair amount of benefits and staff during that transition and the XOM decision-making/ management structure changed noticeably from how she tells it. At first XTO was told they were not being forced out, the office was staying in FtW, then after the huge XOM facility was built in north Houston the narrative changed to you can keep your job.... if you move to Houston.

She had been in line to get a promotion for ~2 years, but with the constant churn of leadership and freezes the merger/transition caused it never went through. Very corporate, little to no compassion for employees was the taste it left in her mouth.

Because they elected not to pay for her move she found a job with a different oil and gas company. That ended up costing them more in the end, she was 1 of 2 employees who knew a certain system/process required for their lease transactions (the other employee took earlier retirement rather than moving) and XOM ended up having to hire 5 people to replace both of them for that one process - which both of them warned the leadership was going to happen.

The new company she went too is awesome, so silver linings.

Very niche perspective, YMM
I deleted my comments about XOM, but was at XTO Energy in downtown Ft Worth working on a large scale system migration to SAP. The company I own had about 15 contractor/consultants (including myself) on the project that lasted two years. We were about three months into the project when XOM announced XTO employees would be moving to the XOM spring campus. There was literally ladies crying because they didn't want to leave FW or couldn't because their husbands couldn't leave their job and they loved FW. Many of those employees left to take jobs in other FW based Oil and Gas companies like Range Resources and TXO (Morning star partners). TXO was founded by the same person that founded XTO

My company supported XOM from 2003 until 2013 and XTO from 2017 until now.

Word was that XOM took their time about moving XTO and really merging systems and teams until they felt comfortable that they had XTO proprietary information under their belt.

There are still plenty of backoffice processed that havent completely merged.

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In reply to txaggieacct85 • 2:38p, 10/13/23
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txaggieacct85 said:

I deleted my comments about XOM, but was at XTO Energy in downtown Ft Worth working on a large scale system migration to SAP. The company I own had about 15 contractor/consultants (including myself) on the project that lasted two years. We were about three months into the project when XOM announced XTO employees would be moving to the XOM spring campus. There was literally ladies crying because they didn't want to leave FW or couldn't because their husbands couldn't leave their job and they loved FW. Many of those employees left to take jobs in other FW based Oil and Gas companies like Range Resources and TXO (Morning star partners). TXO was founded by the founder of XTO.

My company supported XOM from 2003 until 2013 and XTO from 2017 until now.

Word was that XOM took their time about moving XTO and really merging systems and teams until they felt comfortable that they had XTO proprietary information under their belt.

There are still plenty of backoffice processed that havent completely merged.

Yea lol TXO got flooded with applications when that announcement happened. So much so that TXO basically became XTO part 2. Lots of local O&G companies really benefited by getting great new staff from that exact event.

XOM paid for some employee's moves - the ones that took it were handcuffed with a 2 year agreement of staying with the company - if they didn't they'd reimburse XOM for the move. One of my friends was an engineer there, he took the job, moved and really disliked it, so much so that he picked up and moved to Colorado. I don't remember exactly if it was before or after the two year was up - he was that upset with it.

I know the above comes across as pretty critical - my intent isn't to try and dunk XOM either, I know they're a successful and strong company - I've made good money off their stock too. The whole XTO->XOM thing was just really unfortunate for a lot of folks.
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2:49p, 10/13/23
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It sounds like the Midland and Las Colinas Corporate offices are going to get the same treatment. They will supposedly remain at their current offices for at least 2 years before needing to relocate to Houston Campus, unless you get a severance package.

From the announcement they made in our company wide meeting Wednesday morning, they said 100% of both field offices employees will have a job offer. I am just hoping they don't try to make us relocate to Midland and allow us to continue living in San Angelo and operating out of Big Lake field office. Already lived in Midland and don't want to do that again.
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7:52a, 10/14/23
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I truly think XOM's intentions were to let xto employees stay in ft worth. They liked the success of the company and wanted to keep their methodology in place.

Unfortunately, natural gas prices cratered and it made the acquisition look like the worst deal of all time. Eventually, I think XOM had to cut their losses. Thus, forcing everyone to their main campus.

Just my 2 cents.
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3:56p, 10/14/23
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Yep XTO was intended to be separate. That's why they kept the brand. But when oil prices cash and Nat gas prices crash and XTO is a cashflow loser, things change.
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In reply to Dirty-8-thirty Ag • 2:19p, 10/15/23
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Dirty-8-thirty Ag said:
I've operated in the South Division out of the Big Lake Field office the last couple of years. We are kinda in our own little world down here and we like it that way. The Hwy 80 field office, that houses the other 4 divisions of operations in the Permian, seemed to have a much more uptight & cutthroat/throw you under the bus vibe to it.

I just hope it's not a big loss in net compensation and the rest I can adapt to.


I worked at the HQ in Las Colinas. In Drilling and Geo, it was fairly cut throat and back stabby. It wasn't that bad back in the day before the 2019 layoffs. The company took a turn for the worst after the layoffs, created a lot more sycophants and sheep. I knew what was up when ol sheffield stepped down as CEO and brought in a finance guy as ceo.
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In reply to Dark_Knight • 4:18p, 10/15/23
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I knew we were selling when Sheffield said "PNR won't sell on my watch, but my watch ends December 23" knew it was done then.
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