Devon Energy

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Devon Energy Corporation
Company type Public company
NYSE:  DVN
S&P 500 component
Industry Petroleum industry
Founded1971;53 years ago (1971)
FounderJohn Nichols
J. Larry Nichols
Headquarters Devon Energy Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
,
United States
Key people
Rick Muncrief, CEO & President
Jeffrey L. Ritenour, CFO
Products Petroleum
Natural gas
Natural gas liquids
Production output
658 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (4,030,000 GJ) per day (2023)
RevenueDecrease2.svg $15.258 billion (2023)
Decrease2.svg $3.747 billion (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svg $24.490 billion (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svg $12.061 billion (2023)
Number of employees
1,900 (2023)
Website www.devonenergy.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Devon Energy Corporation is a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States. It is organized in Delaware with operational headquarters in the 50-story Devon Energy Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Its primary operations are in the Barnett Shale STACK formation in Oklahoma, Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford Group, and the Rocky Mountains. [1]

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In 2023, the company was ranked 216th on the Fortune 500 [2] and 445th on the Forbes Global 2000. [3]

As of December 31, 2023, the company had proved reserves of 1,817 million barrels of oil equivalent (1.112×1010 GJ), of which 43% was petroleum, 28% was natural gas liquids, and 29% was natural gas. [1]

History

Devon was founded in 1971 by John Nichols (1914-2008) and his son, J. Larry Nichols. [4] In 1988, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [4]

In October 2012, the company completed construction of its current headquarters, the 50-story Devon Energy Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and closed its office in the Allen Center in Downtown Houston. [5]

In August 2015, Dave Hager was named president and chief executive officer of the company. [6]

In February 2016, Devon announced plans to lay off 1,000 employees, including 700 in Oklahoma City, and cut its dividend as part of a cost-cutting effort due to low prices of its products. [7] [8]

In November 2019, a blowout at a Devon natural gas well prompted authorities to seal off thousands of acres of land near the Eagle Ford Shale towns of Yorktown and Nordheim until the well was capped. [9]

Acquisitions

#YearCompanyPriceDescription of AssetsRef(s).
1February 1992Hondo Oil and Gas$122 millionOil and gas reserves and seven natural gas processing plants [10]
2January 1996 Kerr-McGee $250 millionNorth American onshore oil and gas properties; 370,000 net acres of undeveloped drilling rights [11]
3July 1998Northstar Energy$750 millionOil and gas properties in Canada [12]
4August 1999PennzEnergy$2.2 billionOil and gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico [13]
5May 2000Santa Fe Snyder$3.35 billionOil and gas properties in the Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico [14] [15]
6September 2001Anderson Exploration$4.6 billionOil and gas properties in Canada [16]
7August 2002Mitchell Energy$3.1 billionOil and gas properties in the Barnett Shale of Texas [17]
8April 2003Ocean Energy$5.3 billionDeepwater sites in the Gulf of Mexico [18]
9May 2006 Chief Oil and Gas $2.2 billionBarnett Shale leaseholds [19]
10February 2014 GeoSouthern Energy $6.1 billionEagle Ford assets [20]
11October 2014Crosstex EnergyMerger of midstream assets to form EnLink Midstream, LLC [21]
12December 2015Felix Energy$2.5 billionOil and gas properties in the Powder River Basin and Anadarko Basin [22]
13January 2021 WPX Energy $2.56 billionOil and gas properties in the Williston Basin and the Permian Basin [23]
14July 2022RimRock Oil and Gas$865 millionWilliston Basin assets [24]
15September 2022Validus Energy$1.8 billionEagle Ford assets [25]

Divestitures

#YearBuyerPriceDescription of AssetsRef(s).
1March 2010 BP $7 billionAssets in Brazil, Azerbaijan, and the Gulf of Mexico [26]
2April 2014 Canadian Natural Resources C$3.125 billionConventional assets in Canada [27]
3June 2014 Linn Energy $2.3 billion900,000 net acres in the Rockies, Mid-Continent, east Texas, north Louisiana, and south Texas [28] [29]
4July 2017 Penn Virginia $340 millionLavaca County assets in the Eagle Ford [30] [31]
5June 2019 Canadian Natural Resources C$3.8 billionAssets in Canada [32] [33]

Political activity

Devon contributed over $1 million in each of the last 3 U.S. election cycles, almost entirely to organizations and individuals affiliated with the Republican Party. [34]

After agreeing with the Obama administration to install systems to control the illegal emission of hazardous chemicals, Devon backed out of such agreements during the Trump administration due to rollbacks of environmental regulations. [35]

Devon and its lobbyists have been noted to have close ties to government officials. In 2014, an investigation by The New York Times uncovered that a three-page letter signed by Scott Pruitt, then the Attorney General of Oklahoma, to the United States Environmental Protection Agency advocating for a relaxing of laws related to hydraulic fracturing was actually written by lobbyists for Devon Energy and not by Pruitt. [36]

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  12. ↑ "Devon Energy to acquire Canada's Northstar". Oil & Gas Journal . July 6, 1998.
  13. ↑ "Devon Energy and PennzEnergy Announce Completion of Merger" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 17, 1999.
  14. ↑ "Devon Energy and Santa Fe Snyder Complete Merger" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 29, 2000.
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