before i finished reading your post my response was 'probably not'. call it politics or 'understanding human behavior'. Exxon knows that they have an image problem with some populations and it's easier to have a bunch of subsidiaries with a different name that don't immediately draw the ire of reactionary types. XTO still maintains some amount of autonomy.
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