The head of Exxon Mobil’s (XOM) shale oil and gas business, a unit involved in merger talks with rival Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), was arrested at a Texas hotel last week on a sexual assault charge, police said, according to Reuters’ Gary Mcwilliams. David Scott, an Exxon senior vice president who oversees all its shale oil and gas production business, was arrested early Thursday morning at a La Quinta Inn & Suites hotel in Magnolia, Texas, the Montgomery Sheriff’s Office said.
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