All Posts from April, 2011
Supporting minority students – Securing our future
Across the United States, schools, governments and companies – including ExxonMobil – are investing time and money to encourage students to study math and science and potentially pursue careers in fields like engineering that require these essential skills. When these kids go off to college and major in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM), we know we are making progress. But our efforts can’t stop there.
Restricting oil supplies? Take a look in the mirror.
A Senate committee last week passed legislation that would attempt to allow lawsuits in U.S. courts against any foreign state or cooperative for limiting the production of oil or natural gas. The bill, nicknamed “NOPEC,” targets the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). It’s ironic that the “NOPEC” bill tries to ban the very thing that U.S. energy policy does on a daily basis – limiting production of oil and natural gas supplies.
Testing U.S. competitiveness
Advanced Placement exams will take place next month in schools around the country. If you’re wondering why this event is on the radar for an oil and gas company, you could say we’re heavily invested in the outcome. Students who pass an AP exam are three times more likely to graduate from college. That means that if we can get more students to take and pass AP exams – especially in math and science – U.S. companies including ExxonMobil will have a greater pool of talent from which to recruit.
