Controls & Procedures

Summary of Disclosure Controls and Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting (ICFR)

Management's Conclusions on Effectiveness:
Management concluded that both the Corporation's disclosure controls and procedures, and its internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), were effective as of December 31, 2022. The evaluation of disclosure controls confirmed that the procedures are effective in ensuring that required information is accumulated, communicated, recorded, processed, summarized, and reported in a timely manner. The ICFR evaluation was conducted based on the COSO (2013) framework, and an independent audit confirmed this effectiveness.

Material Weaknesses and Significant Deficiencies:
The provided text does not identify any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in the controls.

Changes and Remediation Efforts:
Regarding changes, the filing explicitly states that there were no changes during the Corporation's last fiscal quarter that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting. Consequently, no specific remediation efforts for changes were detailed.

Noteworthy Controls or Procedures:
No noteworthy new controls or procedures were introduced or highlighted in this section of the filing.

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Management's Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As indicated in the certifications in Exhibit 31 of this report, the Corporation's Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer have evaluated the Corporation's disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2022. Based on that evaluation, these officers have concluded that the Corporation's disclosure controls and procedures are effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the Corporation in the reports that it files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is accumulated and communicated to them in a manner that allows for timely decisions regarding required disclosures and are effective in ensuring that such information is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission's rules and forms.

Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Management, including the Corporation's Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over the Corporation's financial reporting. Management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, management concluded that Exxon Mobil Corporation's internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2022.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, audited the effectiveness of the Corporation's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, as stated in their report included in the Financial Section of this report.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes during the Corporation's last fiscal quarter that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Corporation's internal control over financial reporting.

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