HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The head of Exxon Mobil’s XOM.N shale oil and gas business, a unit involved in merger talks with rival Pioneer Natural Resources PXD.N, was arrested at a Texas hotel last week on a sexual assault charge, police said.
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.
Exxon declined immediate comment on the arrest. Scott did not immediately respond to a message sent to his LinkedIn profile.
