Head of Exxon’s Shale Oil Business Faces Sexual Assault Charge in Texas

Head of Exxon’s Shale Oil Business Faces Sexual Assault Charge in Texas
David Scott. Montgomery County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters
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HOUSTON—The head of Exxon Mobil’s shale oil and gas business 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.