Irving, Texas - 28 May 2014 - Largest corporation in United States, Exxon Mobil in the Las Colinas development in Irving gives employees a beautiful few of nature. Credit: J. G. Domke/Alamy Live News
DALLAS (AP) — The CEO of Exxon Mobil says sanctions against Russian officials are having no effect on his company's activities there. Rex Tillerson also says that he is skeptical of sanctions and has discussed his view with government officials. Tillerson made the comments Wednesday after Exxon Mobil Corp.'s annual meeting. sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea have targeted the president of Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, but not the company itself. Exxon has an exploration and production agreement with Rosneft in the Russian arctic and Siberia. "There has been no impact on any of our business activities in Russia to this point, nor has there been any discernible impact on the relationship" with Rosneft, Tillerson told reporters. "The organizations continue to work business as usual." Tillerson said he generally opposes sanctions as imprecise and ineffective. He said he has discussed his view with officials. He declined to identify them but said, "Our views are being heard at the highest levels." Exxon Mobil earned $ billion last year, a decline of 26 percent from 2012. Revenue fell 9 percent to $ billion. Exxon shares gained 17 percent last year but have been flat in 2014. But, as it has for several years, environmental debates crowded out financial ones at the annual meeting of the nation's largest oil company. About 15 people protested across the street from the meeting hall, charging that Exxon was not doing enough to reduce climate change and develop alternative sources of energy to burning oil and natural gas. Inside the hall, a dissident shareholder and Dominican sister from New Jersey, Pat Daley, said that Exxon was making a long-term business mistake by not moving more aggressively into alternative fuels. She said the company was betting "that the nations of the world will continue to do nothing about climate change for the next 30 years."
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