Exxon Mobil's Spring, Texas, campus where the bulk of the oil company's new trading will take place in Spring, Texas, U.S., April 21, 2017.
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.
Scott, 49, was arrested at the budget hotel near Exxon's Spring, Texas, headquarters where rooms cost about $120 a night.
He become head of Exxon's Permian Basin operations in 2020 and was promoted to senior vice president earlier this year in charge of all its shale oil and gas.
As a senior vice president, he would not necessarily be involved in merger talks, a person familiar with the matter said.
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