We’re making a big bet on India and staffing down all over the world. But has anyone thought about what happens when our internationally unpopular president gets pi---d off at India and we no longer want to be each other’s friends? Seems like the company would be pretty sc--wed!
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my favorite part is that the types of jobs that can be done overseas are first in line to be automated by AI.
if you don’t affect the bottom line on an asset and don’t need to interact with it frequently, you’re cooked. even if you need to interact with it frequently, you’re worse at that when working indian hours.
this all spells doom for outsourcing and that’s why the indian economy is crashing. all of the consultancies, the indian stock market, even the currency. the game is up, it’s a matter of time. smart countries hedge by doing manufacturing when times see good. too little, too late.
the US made that mistake too to be honest, and is rapidly trying to correct it
@1mt Again, nobody likes India or Indian work products. As mentioned by several, Exxon wants something valuable with longterm returns from your government and/or the land resources. Providing employment to all the so-called “elite tech specialists” for some pennies in exchange is part of the trade. And you aren’t even replacing anyone. We’re still here untangling the messes, correcting the mistakes, and coaching you through systems you claim to be a master of.
can you name literally any Indian owned reserves?
The purpose of the Bengaluru Technology Center and the awarding of global projects to Indian companies is to demonstrate to the Indian Government that ExxonMobil is the preferred partner for future investment in India vs. Chevron, Shell, Total, Sinopec, Saudi Arabia, etc.
The 3000+ employee Technology Center is just a negotiating tactic by the Executive Committee to show the Prime Minister of India that "ExxonMobil is continuing to employee Indian University Graduates" in hopes of being selected for future JV's and the future booking of Oil and Gas reserves.
The booking of reserves is more valuable to all stockholders compared to the petty cash spent on a 3000+ technology center employees.
@1jy what an oxymoron. Our executives like us, probably much more than you, and that's that's why the jobs are coming to us, from you.
ExxonMobil’s India strategy centers on three pillars: large‑scale investment, manufacturing expansion, and deep alignment with India’s long‑term energy and industrial policy goals. Across multiple recent statements and investments, the company positions India as a priority growth market with rising energy demand, a strong manufacturing base, and a pivotal role in global supply chains.
🇮🇳 Core Takeaway
ExxonMobil is pivoting from being primarily an energy supplier to becoming a long‑term industrial, manufacturing, and technology partner for India, backed by multibillion‑dollar investments and new local infrastructure.
Strategic Pillars
- Massive capital investment
ExxonMobil has announced $8 billion in India over five years, signaling a major strategic shift toward deeper market presence and long‑term commitment.
Focus areas include infrastructure expansion, advanced technologies, and supporting India’s energy security and diversification goals.
This aligns with India’s rapid energy demand growth and policy push for cleaner, more reliable energy systems.
- Manufacturing expansion
A major component of the strategy is building India as a manufacturing hub for energy‑related equipment and products.
The company’s first greenfield investment in India is a ₹900‑crore Lube Oil Blending Plant in Raigad, Maharashtra, with annual capacity of 159,000 kilolitres.
The plant strengthens supply reliability for automotive and industrial hubs and supports India’s growing lubricants market (projected to reach $9.7B by 2030).
ExxonMobil executives highlight India’s potential to become a global hub for oil & gas equipment manufacturing, mega‑module fabrication, and shipbuilding.
- Alignment with national priorities
ExxonMobil explicitly aligns its strategy with:
Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India vision)
Make in India manufacturing push
India’s pragmatic approach to affordable, diversified energy
Executives emphasize India’s “pragmatic direction” in energy choices and its potential to become a global manufacturing hub.
- Supply chain localization
The company is building resilient, future‑ready supply chains that are globally integrated but locally responsive.
Proximity to ports (e.g., JNPT), automotive clusters, and skilled labor pools is central to site selection.
This reduces import dependence and positions India as a regional export base.
- Technology & innovation integration
ExxonMobil is pushing digital transformation and cleaner energy technologies within its India operations.
The company frames this as a model for how legacy energy firms can reinvent themselves through innovation.
What This Strategy Means for India
Boost to domestic manufacturing of energy equipment
Strengthened energy security through diversified supply and advanced technologies
New partnerships for SMEs and mid‑sized firms in supply chains
FDI‑driven policy momentum toward regulatory clarity and infrastructure development
@OP Nobody really even likes India. Not even Indians like it. ExxonMobil saw this and thought: "Excellent. Let's build a global capability center. Add some PowerPoints. Mention efficiency. Explain nothing. Let morale solve itself."
@1he We dare you because you're not capable of it. You literally are not even doing any work but talking. We commend you for your imagination though.
It would be entertaining if India did something to inspire the US President to imposes sanctions on India.
EM Executives demanding up to 50% of employees come from India, all engineering contracts issued to India, and all possible fabrication performed in India. Maybe EM should Risk Assess so many eggs overloading a single basket.
@OP From a world-leader view, India is not mainly about cheap IT labor. That’s the visible symptom. The bigger strategy is: China containment, supply-chain diversification, defense alignment, energy markets, consumer markets, and keeping India from drifting too far toward Russia/China.
India is first and foremost a China counterweight. India shares a tense border with China, has a huge population, a major military, and sits near critical Indo-Pacific sea lanes. That is why the Quad, U.S., India, Japan, Australia matters. World leaders see India as a billion-plus-person consumer base: aircraft, energy, we-pons, software, finance, education, pharma, phones, cloud, everything. It is not just hire workers there. It is sell into that civilization-scale market. It is also a supply-chain hedge. The U.S. does not want everything dependent on China. India is part of the “China-plus-one” strategy: manufacturing, chips, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals, defense tech. The Quad has even launched critical minerals work partly to counter China. The Indian government is also a defense customer and partner. India buys advanced defense equipment and conducts military cooperation with the U.S. A closer India means more interoperability, more arms sales, more regional leverage, and less Russian dependence over time.
They are also an energy buyer. India needs enormous energy. U.S. energy exports to India, especially as the U.S. tries to reduce India’s reliance on Russian oil. They are also
a diplomatic swing state. India is not a formal U.S. ally. It practices strategic autonomy, meaning it wants relationships with America, Russia, Europe, the Gulf, and others without being owned by anyone. So U.S. leaders court India because they do not want the world’s biggest democracy sitting on the fence when the global order gets messy. So the grand strategy is not only export dollars and debt, but to
keep India close enough that China cannot dominate Asia, Russia cannot fully keep India, and U.S. corporations can access India’s market, labor, data, defense spending, and geopolitical weight. Of course and understandably so, American workers experience this grand strategy as labor arbitrage. Leaders talk about “partnership,” “innovation,” and “global delivery,” but at the cubicle level, outsourcing feels like someone replaced skilled carpenters with hords of termites holding clipboards labeled “wood initiative.” Word of advice is to just rise above. Don't argue with the termite species. Instead arm yourself with pest control. Invest time and energy on yourself only and once you see the load bearing beams are turning to oatmeal, start thinking about alternative housing arrangements. Good luck everyone.
@191 in your dreams. Without us this country would go south instantly. People of our kind make better ceo than yours. See Sundar vs Darren.
Does this mean that more Indians will be going back to India? Asking only because they are literally every where and I always thought if they do good, why don't they ever go back to improve their own country
@12d Kumar/Kaur , are you planning to do part‑time Robotel scamming and part‑time corporate boot‑licking, or is that already the full‑time job?
@116 keep practicing being an esl teacher for our kids. That's your job after this one.
@10d, this won’t do at all. Five grammatical errors in your short reply. I’m beginning to suspect you’re not really an angry Indian troll after all.
@10d Kaur, do you always work over time?
@106 That's it. Talking bs in English is the only skill you got. Dont worry soon you will get laid off and then be teaching our Indian kids proper English while we are taking your sweet jobs.
Good job 👍 keep coping. Keep saying a lot of sorrys too because you will be doing a lot to us in the future.
@z2, sorry, your English is so poor I can’t understand what you are trying to say. Maybe try some AI to help edit your post?
Also our bosses are proud Americans who fell for our cheap labor. You are so smart so much better so good at everything, why falling for it? Right, we are blamed for your stupidity than anything.
One thing for sure we have already proven better is our ability to fool your smart assess, and make your own clean our shist while being treated like shist. Who lives in the bathroom now, ladies and gentlemen?
@yx tell us when your country has no b-ms on the street, ok?
@w7 you are taking our jobs because you cost 1/10 as much, so 5 of you to replace 1 of us is still economic, or 1 of you having to redo flawed work is still economic.
Nothing to do with you being better at anything.
If you want to impress us, then clean up the rubbish covering your country. Being poor, backwards, and stupid is no excuse for trash getting deep along your roads.
@y8 what a genius, so much knowledge, a valuable talent.
go play a trivia gameshow somewhere else please.
Let’s talk about stolen land.
Pre-Columbian and post-contact North America had constant territorial shifts between tribes. They did nothing but steal land from each other. There were no stable nations, this being taught in school is a lie. Most of these “nations” were younger than even the founding of America. Here are a few clear examples.
The Comanche split off from the Shoshone in the late 1600s, acquired horses, and over the 1700s violently displaced the Apache from the southern Plains, eventually controlling a huge territory (“Comancheria”) across what’s now Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas.
The Lakota (Sioux) migrated west out of the Minnesota woodlands in the 1700s and took the Black Hills from the Cheyenne around 1776. Ironically, this is the same Black Hills they’d later fight the US government over as sacred ancestral land. The Cheyenne had even displaced the Kiowa from that area earlier. Remember, this sacred ancient land argument by this exact tribe over this exact land got the North Dakota access pipeline ki-led.
The Iroquois Confederacy waged the Beaver Wars (roughly 1640s–1700) and absolutely steamrolled their neighbors, destroying or displacing the Huron, Erie, Neutral, Petun, and Susquehannock, and pushing groups like the Shawnee out of the Ohio Valley.
Settlers were the ones who brought in age of nation state stability in the west that never existed before. If it was another indigenous tribe that came ashore and did the warring, nobody would complain. Which shows there’s no real logic to it.
@w6 grow yours and say what you have in mind to your boss first thing in the morning tomorrow before suggesting. Be a grown up and walk your bs fluffy talk or talking is the only trick you donkeys got.
PIPs will hit you first and then your jobs will hit us lol. Those millions of our people lining up to get in are taking your jobs too because you guys are weak anybody from our country can easily replace you. Calling us low skilled, but we can take jobs from you highly cocky skilled people, all day everyday we can do them without talking fluffy bs in a call. By the way, that one trick bs skill you have can be replaced by AI while its going to be so easy to keep your jobs coming to us. Just admit it that you guys are scared and worthless you can't find a new job. Our bosses already encouraged you guys to go so why dont you huh?
@w0 Good, then grow a pair of ba--s and instead of kissing our as--s when doing face to face meetings, say this nonsense you are regurgitating in our faces.
@w0 Yes - expensive labor. What's your point? Remember you get what you pay for.
If you don't like our way of life, then why are millions of you lined up to move to this country?
1000yr old civilization which still allowed themselves to be looted by the British and then stayed a colony for 250 years. Because they couldn't stop fighting with each other. Don't worry, you'll see similar infighting in Bengaluru soon, once the PIPs start rolling in and Exxon finds even cheaper people to replace you with.
cheap labor and you are? expensive labor?
stole land from others and commenting on 1000s years civilization?
go back to mowing your lawn, you lonely unhappy depressed blob on earth. you have taken a lot from the world, the workd will take that with interest back from you. only a matter of time.
“@vv I don’t understand, for people who should prioritize making more toilets so badly, mansion? Oh wait… they came to EMHC, saw those bathrooms, and thought that's a mansion.
@t2 you guys barely have enough fuel to commute to work, or cook at home. Good luck building a mansion let alone keeping the lights on. This is just a short term sugar rush you’re experiencing, until AI comes in and wipes out these low skilled jobs. Tick Tock
as long as you remember that turnabout is fair play when AI takes that job right back, it sounds fine to me
if the work doesn’t need to be done in a facility on an asset, it will go away. the only question is when. be sure to save your money and i don’t recommend investing in your own stock market. tick tock.
@ty I'm in India, watching your sweet jobs coming here. If I go there it's only for taking your job, ok?
@OP Cheap labor sources exist outside of India. Personally, I prefer Chinese labor. I hope U.S.-China tensions are resolved soon so we can move the pendulum back. The Chinese are resourceful and excellent at everything they do. My experence with India based labor has been overwhemingly negative. On a scale of 1 to 100, they are a negative 100 (-100), not just unhelpful, but actively creating more work, more friction, and more problems than they ever solved which are 0.
if you really thought your nation would get better then you would stay there instead of trying to emigrate
your actions betray your false bravado
Your house that's being torn apart because the work that coming to us? Thanks but no thanks. You see the table is being turned and you unskilled expensive but worth nothing cocky just because you live in the US will soon be living in the whorsehouse soon while our houses will become beautiful mansions. We maybe eating shist now. Soon we won't be, but you will be. We suggest you find some time to cope with it.
Wow so many of entitled low performers bullying us indians in here. You are just jealous that we're being loved by our executives more that's it.
To add to this, they’re not even hiring from the top schools in India (IIT, state government colleges). The campus hires come from low tier diploma mills, and their experienced hires are rejects from other Indian O&G companies. The good engineers don’t work for the salaries that Exxon offers, they either work for the competitors or go overseas for work. Or these days, open their own startups.
@n8 you are correct, because Sweden has a higher cost of employment and a much lower population than India, so there would be a significantly lower amount of jobs being relocated to Sweden. They also have a higher standard of living and a moral compass more inline with the US, they are likely even more ethical than the US in general, so that would also be a plus vs India.
India is dirt cheap and has a seemingly unlimited population, with questionable behaviors, thus the issue.
do you realize that you immediately contradicted yourself by saying it’s not an issue followed by saying that it is?
you’re not as smart as you think you are. i would not take unsolicited advice on logical ability from someone who can’t write with any, that’s a sign of a bad hire.
@mn It’s not.
It’s only a pressing issue for you because it shows that white collar O&G workers aren’t worth anything near what they’re being paid. If you were then your jobs wouldn’t be getting sent to India to begin with.
Way too many of you are professional meeting-callers and BS artists with some minor technical skills, like reading P&IDs or sizing plant equipment. My company has made the mistake of hiring some of you “experienced” O&G guys, and you all seem to have the same culture and performance issues.