David Scott, the top of Exxon Mobil Co.’s shale oil and gasoline manufacturing enterprise, was arrested in Texas and faces a cost of sexual assault.
In accordance with public information from the Montgomery County, Texas, Sheriff’s Workplace, Scott, 49, was arrested Thursday afternoon on second-degree felony sexual-assault fees. In accordance with the information, he was launched on $30,000 bond. Police information present he was arrested at a La Quinta Inn & Suites lodge in Magnolia, Texas, close to Exxon’s headquarters in Spring, Texas, simply north of Houston.
No additional particulars of the incident have been made clear.
In accordance with his LinkedIn profile, Scott is vice chairman of Exxon’s upstream unconventional unit, and has labored for Exxon for 26 years on the firm’s operations in Australia, the U.Ok., the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Angola and the U.S.
In an announcement Sunday, Exxon Mobil
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stated it was “conscious of the allegations and can’t touch upon a private matter.” Nonetheless, “we will say that this particular person is not going to proceed work tasks because the investigation proceeds.”
Scott’s arrest comes as Exxon Mobil is reportedly closing in on a roughly $60 billion deal to purchase shale driller Pioneer Pure Sources
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because it appears to develop into the dominant participant within the oil-rich Permian Basin in western Texas and New Mexico.
Scott oversees Exxon’s operations within the Permian Basin, but it surely was unclear if or how he is likely to be concerned within the Pioneer deal.
