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These are the smart ones that didn’t accept. They made the right move.
We knew it was coming just not when. Wonder how DW and cronies sleep at night
This is a layoff people.
The layoffs will mostly affect employees in Pioneer's offices in the Dallas suburb of Irving and the West Texas town of Midland, according to the notice.
The company will cut 376 jobs, representing almost 20 percent of Pioneer's staff before the merger, and will come in seven stages between now and May 2026, Exxon said in a notice to the Texas Workforce Commission released on Wednesday.
Exxon will release 110 employees by the end of 2024 and another 178 throughout 2025. The remainder of the cuts, about 100 employees, will take place in 2026, according to the filing.
1,900 Pioneer employees were offered jobs as part of the merger, according to Reuters. A majority of those accepted their offers, Reuters said, per the filing.
Breaking news! People would rather have a severance check than a sh-tty job at XOM!
Don’t think this is a layoff. This is most likely those who accepted the severance package.
20% is not enough. Hahaha.
Exxon Set to Slash Jobs at Pioneer Natural Resources by 20%
By Irina Slav - Nov 14, 2024, 1:47 AM CST
Exxon will reduce the headcount at Pioneer Natural Resources by some 397 over the next two years, reducing the number of employees by 20%.
The move follows Exxon’s megadeal for the acquisition of Pioneer, which had a final price tag of around $62 billion.
According to Bloomberg, most of the jobs to be axed are in Dallas and Midland, Exxon said in a notice submitted to the Texas Workforce Commission. “The success of this merger depends heavily on the retention of Pioneer’s talented workforce,” the supermajor wrote. “More than 1,900 Pioneer employees were offered jobs as part of the merger, with well over a majority accepting their offer of employment.”
Exxon said it would buy Pioneer Natural Resources late last year, signaling what turned out to be a wave of megadeals worth tens of billions that significantly reduced the number of large players in the U.S. shale field. The deal was approved by regulators earlier this year, on the condition of banning Scott Sheffield, Pioneer’s former chief executive, from joining the board of the new company.
The condition was based on allegations by the FTC that Sheffield was involved in an attempt to coordinate production cuts to lift oil prices, according to unnamed sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal. The allegations later spread to include other oil companies and spur an investigation into their practices, which sparked suspicions regulators wanted to put the brakes on the consolidation drive.
The deal with Pioneer is done, however, adding more than 1.4 million net acres to Exxon’s footprint in the Delaware Basin and the Midland Basin. Following the acquisition, the combined entity is poised for a substantial surge in production to as much as 1.3 million bpd. Looking ahead, Exxon anticipates further growth, with production forecast to reach an impressive 2 million bpd by 2027, underscoring the long-term strategic value of this acquisition.
By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com
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