Background: I started my career with Shell worked across the globe for 22 years. Then decided to get a leg up and started working for XOM, i left Shell not because it was a bad company or anything, i just wanted to work at some other assets in Uncon that Exxon had recently acquired back then.
Have been at Exxon ever since, more than a decade to be more precise. Anyways today i had some downtime at work and was looking at Imperial Oil career connects flow chart. I was shocked to see that MOST freaking IOL assets had asset managers and 2nd in command management seconded from ExxonMobil USA. All Americans running the show there at IOL, even their freaking CEO and others in his office are all americans. The one asset that has a canadian asset manager is Kearl, probably cuz its been a net loss asset so makes sense for no american Hi-po to want it.
I was comparing this to Shell, where you see typically their CEO and CEOs office having a vast diversity in nationality. And when Shell opens operations in other countries they dont send out dutch men to go be the bad cop (asset manager), usually Shell likes to promote locally. Which makes them a much more liked and truly global company. There is no place for this "colonialism" mindset in the 21st century, im afraid if XOM does not reverse course we will be outdone by our competitors. So much for being a Global company if we cant even trust the desert monkeys in India to manage themselves, we literally have to send out american expats to babysit.