Imperial Oil Limited (IMO)
Canadian integrated oil company, 5,000 regular employees. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 13 of the 38 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
40%
Employees, annual report
5,000
Leading staffing pattern
Oil and Gas Extraction
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202840%
- End of 203043%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 51%
- Becomes checking a model's work 40%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states about 5,000 regular employees in upstream, downstream and chemical segments in Canada with nothing counted by segment, so the split is by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 40% at the end of 2028, 43% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 43% desk work, 14% people work and 43% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 51% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 40% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). A Canadian company whose operations the filing describes in Canada; the data service's geography table (United States 100%) is wrong and not usable (recorded as 0, flagged).
The filing: “The number of regular employees was about 5,000 at the end of 2025 (2024 - 5,100, 2023 - 5,300).”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Oil and Gas Extraction | 50% | By description (c): the upstream segment runs oil sands mining and in situ production, work that takes more people per dollar than refining; the filing counts no employees by segment. |
| Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing | 40% | By description (c): the downstream segment, 75% of revenue, runs refineries and fuel marketing; no count by segment. |
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 5% | By description (c): the chemical segment, 2% of revenue, makes polyethylene and other chemicals at its plant; the filing counts no employees by segment, so the share is small and loose. |
| Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (4241, 4247, and 4249 only) | 5% | By description (c): fuel marketing to dealers and wholesale customers sits in the downstream segment; the filing counts no employees by function, so the share is small and loose. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 5,000 regular employees, full-time or part-time and covered by the company's benefit plans, down from 5,300 in 2023; the filing says a restructuring announced on September 29, 2025 centralizes corporate and technical activities in global business and technology centres and is expected to reduce employee roles by about 20% by the end of 2027, recorded as the filing states it.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Oil and Gas Extraction, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM, 58,000 employees)20% now, 40% by 2028
- Chevron Corporation (CVX, 43,039 employees)20% now, 39% by 2028
- Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY, 10,412 employees)19% now, 42% by 2028
- ConocoPhillips (COP, 9,900 employees)19% now, 43% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the new and emerging technologies the company must adapt to and capture the benefits of, including digital data technologies for business insights and operations.
- “These factors include global, regional or local changes in supply and demand for oil, natural gas, petroleum and petrochemical products, feedstocks and other market factors, economic conditions and seasonal fluctuations and resulting demand, price, differential and margin impacts, including Canadian and foreign government action with respect to supply levels, prices, trade tariffs, trade sancti...”
- “Other demand-related factors Factors that may affect the demand for crude oil, gas, fuels and petrochemicals, and therefore could impact the company's results, include technological improvements in energy efficiency; seasonal weather patterns; increased competitiveness of, or government policy support for, alternative energy sources or potential substitutes for the company's products; new produ...”
- “To remain competitive, the company must also continuously adapt and capture the benefits of new and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, including growing the company's capabilities to utilize digital data technologies to gain new business insights and support business decisions and operations.”
- “Cybersecurity The company is regularly subject to attempted cybersecurity disruptions from a variety of sources, including state-sponsored actors and actors potentially employing emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence technologies.”
- “Recognizing the importance of oversight relating to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, the directors also reviewed and considered presentations relating to information technology and cybersecurity strategies to assess the security and integrity of the company's information, systems and assets, including risks relating to the use of artificial intelligence technologies by the company and...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20245median 4
- Fiscal 20257median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,000 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,100 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 5,300 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 5,300 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,400 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,800 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 6,000 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 5,700 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 5,400 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,600 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 5,700 | 2016-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 5,500 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 5,300 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 5,100 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 5,085 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 4,970 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 5,015 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 4,850 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 4,800 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 4,900 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 5,100 | 2006-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 6,100 | 2005-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 6,300 | 2004-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2003-03-26 | 6,500 | 2003-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | not read | 2002-03-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is recorded as 0 because the filing describes Canadian operations only; the data service's geography table is wrong.
- No count by segment; the split between upstream, refining, chemicals and marketing is by description and loose.
- The collector's other candidates are director compensation figures, not headcounts.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000049938-26-000009, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Imperial Oil Limited's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 40% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Imperial Oil Limited's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Imperial Oil Limited employ?
- 5,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 0% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Imperial Oil Limited's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Oil and Gas Extraction; by those patterns the work is about 43% desk work, 14% people work and 43% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Imperial Oil Limited's annual report say about AI?
- 7 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 5 and 7 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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