Preliminary meetings could have created world’s second biggest oil company amid crude price crisis during pandemic
The chief executives of American oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron held preliminary talks in early 2020 to explore combining the two largest US oil producers in what would have been the biggest merger of all time, according to people familiar with the matter.
The discussions, which are no longer ongoing, are being seen as having tested the waters for the huge corporate marriage after the coronavirus pandemic shook the world last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/01/exxonmobil-and-chevron-held-merger-talks-in-2020
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