NEW YORK CITY: ExxonMobil hopes to take advantage of the oil price crash to acquire other petroleum companies, but will wait for the right opportunity, chief executive Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).

Tillerson alluded to the company’s history of big takeovers during oil busts, as when Exxon acquired Mobil in 1999.

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