EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pledged this month to promote more people of color into leadership roles in his agency. His track record during 11 years at the helm of Exxon Mobil Corp. suggests he means it.

EghtesadOnline: Low crude prices and weak refining margins weighed on third-quarter profits at US oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron in reports Friday, but earnings rose compared with the prior two quarters.

EghtesadOnline: Exxon Mobil may be set for its second consecutive loss in Q2 as the oil price collapse and weak refining margins will hit both the upstream and downstream divisions of the US supermajor.

EghtesadOnline: Exxon will postpone the start of expansion works at its Beaumont refinery in Texas because of still slow demand for fuels, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation.

EghtesadOnline: As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers.