TITLE

Exxon Mobil's historic buy

AUTHOR(S)
TRONCHE, JOHN-LAURENT
PUB. DATE
December 2009
SOURCE
Fort Worth Business Press;12/21/2009, Vol. 25 Issue 46, p19
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article reports that petroleum company Exxon Mobil Corp. has acquired Fort Worth, Texas-based XTO Energy Inc. for 41 billion U.S. dollars.
ACCESSION #
47572088

Tags: CONSOLIDATION & merger of corporations;  EXXON Mobil Corp.;  XTO Energy Inc.

 

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