Devon Energy

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Devon Energy Corporation
Company type Public company
NYSE:  DVN
S&P 500 component
Industry Petroleum industry
Founded1971 (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
572 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (3,500,000 GJ) per day (2021)
RevenueIncrease2.svg $12.206 billion (2021)
Increase2.svg $2.808 billion (2021)
Total assets Increase2.svg $21.025 billion (2021)
Total equity Increase2.svg $9.399 billion (2021)
Number of employees
1,600 (2021)
Website www.devonenergy.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Devon Energy Corporation is an energy company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States. It is organized in Delaware and its corporate operative headquarters are 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 ranked 216th on the Fortune 500 [2] and 445th on the Forbes Global 2000. [3]

As of December 31, 2021, the company had proved reserves of 1,625 million barrels of oil equivalent (9.94×109 GJ), of which 44% was petroleum, 27% was natural gas liquids, and 29% was natural gas. [1]

History

Devon was founded in 1971 by John Nichols and his son, J. Larry Nichols. [4] In 1988, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [4] In August 2000, the company was added to the S&P 500. [5] In 2004, Devon was one of several companies in the petroleum industry for which shareholder resolutions were introduced that would have required the companies to monitor their effects on climate change. [6] In August 2008, co-founder John Nichols died. [4]

In March 2010, the company sold assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan, and the Gulf of Mexico to BP for $7 billion. [7] 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. [8] In April 2014, the company sold its conventional assets in Canada to Canadian Natural Resources for C$3.125 billion. [9] In June 2014, the company sold assets to Linn Energy for $2.3 billion. [10]

In August 2015, Dave Hager was named president and chief executive officer of the company. [11] 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. [12] [13] In 2017, the company sold its Lavaca County assets in the Eagle Ford. [14] In June 2019, the company sold its assets in Canada to Canadian Natural Resources for CAD $3.8 billion. [15] [16] In November 2019, the company almost capped a blowout at a natural gas well, which prompted authorities to seal off thousands of acres of land near the Eagle Ford Shale towns of Yorktown and Nordheim. Crews were able to install a capping stack on the well to reduce natural gas flowing from the well. [17]

Acquisitions

#YearCompanyPriceDescription of AssetsRef(s).
11992Hondo Oil and Gas$122 millionOil and gas reserves and seven natural gas processing plants [18]
21996 Kerr-McGee $250 millionNorth American onshore oil and gas properties; 370,000 net acres of undeveloped drilling rights [19]
31998Northstar Energy$750 millionOil and gas properties in Canada [20]
41999PennzEnergy$2.2 billionOil and gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico [21]
52000Santa Fe Snyder$3.35 billionOil and gas properties in the Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico [5] [22]
62001Anderson Exploration$4.6 billionOil and gas properties in Canada [23]
72002Mitchell Energy$3.1 billionOil and gas properties in the Barnett Shale of Texas [24]
82003Ocean Energy$5.3 billionDeepwater sites in the Gulf of Mexico [25]
92006 Chief Oil and Gas $2.2 billionBarnett Shale leaseholds [26]
102014 GeoSouthern Energy $6.1 billionEagle Ford assets [27]
112014Crosstex EnergyMerger of midstream assets to form EnLink Midstream, LLC [28]
122015Felix Energy$2.5 billionOil and gas properties in the Powder River Basin and Anadarko Basin [29]
132021 WPX Energy $2.56 billionOil and gas properties in the Williston Basin and the Permian Basin [30]
142022Validus Energy$1.8 billionEagle Ford assets [31]

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. [32] In 2016, the company contributed $750,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund, whose goal is to protect the Republican majority in the United States Senate. It also gave $500,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund, whose goal is to protect the Republican majority in the United States House of Representatives. [33]

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. [34]

In 2015, a shareholder resolution was introduced that would have required the company to disclose its lobbying activity against regulations to prevent climate change. The resolution received votes of support by approximately 20% of shareholders. [35]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Devon Energy Corporation 2021 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  2. ↑ "Fortune 500: Devon Energy". Fortune.
  3. ↑ "Forbes Global 2000". Forbes .
  4. 1 2 3 Miller, Stephen (August 9, 2008). "Former Accountant Worked to Build Devon Energy Into Industry Giant" . The Wall Street Journal .
  5. 1 2 "Devon Energy and Santa Fe Snyder Complete Merger" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 29, 2000.
  6. ↑ Feder, Barnaby J. (February 27, 2004). "Funds Want Oil Companies To Report On Climate" . The New York Times .
  7. ↑ "BP pays Devon Energy $7bn for Brazilian, Azeri, and Gulf of Mexico assets". The Daily Telegraph. Reuters. March 11, 2010.
  8. ↑ Pulsinelli, Olivia (October 11, 2012). "Devon Energy cutting 1,000 jobs, slashing dividend". American City Business Journals .
  9. ↑ "Devon Energy Completes Sale of Canadian Conventional Assets" (Press release). Business Wire. April 2, 2014.
  10. ↑ "LINN Energy Announces $2.3 Billion Acquisition of Assets from Devon Energy" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. June 30, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Devon Energy Completes Leadership Transition as Board of Directors Elects Dave Hager New President and CEO, Succeeding Retiring John Richels" (Press release). Business Wire. August 3, 2015.
  12. ↑ Wilmoth, Adam (February 16, 2016). "Devon Energy to lay off 700 in Oklahoma City". The Oklahoman .
  13. ↑ Baker, Max B. (February 17, 2016). "Devon Energy cutting 1,000 jobs, slashing dividend". Fort Worth Star Telegram .
  14. ↑ "Devon Energy Announces $340 Million of Non-Core Asset Sales" (Press release). Business Wire. July 31, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Devon Energy Completes Sale of Canadian Business" (Press release). Globe Newswire. June 27, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Devon Energy Announces Final Step to Complete Transformation to U.S. Oil Growth Company" (Press release). Business Wire. February 19, 2019.
  17. ↑ Chapa, Sergio (November 12, 2019). "Devon Energy one step away from capping blowout in DeWitt County". Houston Chronicle .
  18. ↑ "Hondo Oil Offer". The New York Times . February 29, 1992.
  19. ↑ Vandewater, Bob (January 1, 1997). "Devon Obtains Kerr-McGee Oil, Gas Properties". The Oklahoman .
  20. ↑ "Devon Energy and Northstar Energy to Combine: US$2 Billion Oil and Gas Company Would be Created" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. June 29, 1998.
  21. ↑ "Devon Energy and PennzEnergy Announce Completion of Merger" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 17, 1999.
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  23. ↑ "Devon Energy to Acquire Anderson Exploration and Become North America's Largest Independent Producer of Oil and Natural Gas" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. September 4, 2001.
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  26. ↑ "Devon acquiring Barnett shale acreage from Chief" . Oil & Gas Journal . May 8, 2006.
  27. ↑ "Devon Energy Completes Acquisition of Eagle Ford Assets from GeoSouthern Energy" (Press release). Business Wire. February 28, 2014.
  28. ↑ "Devon Energy and Crosstex Energy to Create New Midstream Business" (Press release). Business Wire. October 21, 2013.
  29. ↑ "Devon Energy Sharpens Focus on Core Assets" (Press release). Business Wire. December 7, 2015.
  30. ↑ "Devon Energy and WPX Energy Complete Merger of Equals Transaction" (Press release). Globe Newswire. January 7, 2021.
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  34. ↑ Lipton, Eric (December 6, 2014). "Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General" . The New York Times .
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