Pioneer Natural Resources

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Pioneer Natural Resources Company
Company typeDefunct
NYSE: PXD
Industry Petroleum industry
Founded1997;27 years ago (1997)
DefunctMay 3, 2024;33 days ago (2024-05-03)
FateAcquired by Exxon Mobil
Headquarters Irving, Texas, U.S.
Key people
 Richard P. Dealy, President & CEO
Products
Production output
617 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (3,770,000 GJ) per day (2022)
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$24.294 billion (2022)
Increase2.svg US$7.845 billion (2022)
Total assets Decrease2.svg US$35.740 billion (2022)
Total equity Decrease2.svg US$22.541 billion (2022)
Number of employees
2,213 (December 2023)
Website pxd.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Pioneer Natural Resources Company, headquartered in Irving, Texas, was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It operated in the Cline Shale, which is part of the Spraberry Trend of the Permian Basin, where the company was the largest acreage holder. [1] In May 2024, the company was acquired by Exxon Mobil.

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As of December 31, 2022, the company had 2.376  billion barrels of oil equivalent (1.454×1010 GJ) of proved reserves, of which 41% was petroleum, 23% was natural gas liquids, and 28% was natural gas. In 2022, the company produced 649 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (3,970,000 GJ) per day, of which 58% was petroleum, 23% was natural gas liquids, and 19% was natural gas. [1]

History

Pioneer Natural Resources was created in 1997 by the merger of Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company and MESA Inc., owned by T. Boone Pickens. [2]

In May 2016, CEO and chairman Scott D. Sheffield was succeeded by Timothy Dove. Sheffield returned to the roles in 2019 after Dove's retirement. [3] [4] In January 2024, Richard P. Dealy was named as CEO. [5]

Divestitures and acquisitions

Examples of acquisitions by Pioneer include the 2004 acquisition of Evergreen Resources for $2.1 billion, the 2021 acquisitions of Parsley Energy for $4.5 billion and DoublePoint Energy for $6.4 billion, and the acquisition of Carmuse Industrial Sands in 2012 for $297 million. [6] [7] [8] [9]

#YearAcquisition / DivestitureBuyer / SellerPriceDescription of AssetsRef(s).
1May 2004AcquisitionEvergreen Resources Inc.$2.1 billion in cash and stockNatural gas assets in Colorado [10]
2April 2012AcquisitionCarmeuse Industrial Sands$297 millionProducer of Hickory frac sand [9]
3May 2013Divestiture Sinochem Group $1.7 billion40% interest in approximately 207,000 net acres (84,000 net hectares) leased in horizontal Wolfcamp Shale [11]
4October 2013DivestitureCaelus Energy Alaska$550 millionInterests in Alaska. In 2002, Pioneer made discoveries in its offshore Oooguruk field, west of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. In 2008, Pioneer became the first independent operator to produce oil on the Alaska North Slope. [12] [13]
5August 2014Divestiture Linn Energy $340 millionNon-producing assets in the Hugoton Basin [14]
6June 2015Divestiture Enterprise Products Partners $2.15 billionMidstream joint venture with Reliance Industries for assets in the Eagle Ford Group. JV was formed in 2010. [15] [16]
7June 2016Acquisition Devon Energy $3.35 billion28,000 acres in the Midland Basin [17]
8March 2017DivestitureUndisclosed$266 million2,000 acres in Martin County, Texas [18]
9January 2021AcquisitionParsley Energy$7 billion in stockAssets in the Permian Basin [8]
10April 2021AcquisitionDoublePoint Energy$6.4 billion in cash and stockAssets in the Midland Basin [7]

Acquisition by ExxonMobil

In May 2024, in the largest merger in the petroleum industry in 20 years, Pioneer was acquired by Exxon Mobil, making ExxonMobil the largest producer of shale gas in the Permian Basin. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]

Approval for the transaction from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was accompanied by a consent order alleging that former Pioneer CEO Scott D. Sheffield colluded with OPEC to raise oil prices and making the merger conditional on Sheffield's being barred from joining ExxonMobil's board of directors or serving as an advisor to Exxon after the merger. [28] [29]

Antitrust lawsuit

In January 2024, a class action lawsuit was filed by drivers in three US states accusing Pioneer, along with seven other oil and gas producers, of an illegal price fixing scheme to constrain production of shale oil that led to American drivers paying more for gasoline than they would have in a competitive market. [30] [31] In May 2024, plaintiffs asked for the communications records of former CEO Scott Sheffield. [32]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pioneer Natural Resources Company 2022 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  2. ↑ Cropper, Carol Marie (April 8, 1997). "Mesa Is to Merge With Parker & Parsley". The New York Times .
  3. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Company Chairman and CEO Scott D. Sheffield to Retire; Timothy L. Dove Named Successor" (Press release). Business Wire. May 19, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources CEO to retire". American City Business Journals . February 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Announces that Richard P. Dealy Commences Role as Chief Executive Officer" (Press release). Business Wire. January 2, 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-01-02.
  6. ↑ "Pioneer and Evergreen Announce $2.1 Billion Merger" (Press release). Business Wire. May 4, 2004.
  7. 1 2 "Pioneer Natural Resources Announces Bolt-On Acquisition of DoublePoint Energy in the Midland Basin" (Press release). Business Wire. April 1, 2021.
  8. 1 2 "Pioneer Natural Resources Completes Acquisition of Parsley Energy Following Stockholder Approvals" (Press release). Business Wire. January 12, 2021.
  9. 1 2 "Pioneer Natural Resources Announces Closing of Carmeuse Industrial Sands Acquisition" (Press release). Business Wire. April 2, 2012.
  10. ↑ "Pioneer and Evergreen in $2.1 Billion Energy Merger". TheStreet.com . May 4, 2004.
  11. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Announces Closing of $1.7 Billion Horizontal Wolfcamp Shale Transaction with Sinochem" (Press release). Business Wire. May 31, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Announces Sale of Alaska Subsidiary to Caelus Energy Alaska for $550 Million" (Press release). Business Wire. October 25, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Pioneer sells Alaska holdings for $550M". Alaska Journal of Commerce . October 25, 2013.
  14. ↑ "LINN Energy Announces $340 Million Acquisition From Pioneer Natural Resources" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. August 4, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Announces $1.15 Billion Eagle Ford Shale Joint Venture with Reliance Industries" (Press release). June 24, 2010.
  16. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Announces Sale of Eagle Ford Shale Midstream Business for $2.15 Billion" (Press release). Business Wire. June 1, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Company to Acquire Approximately 28,000 Midland Basin Acres for $435 Million and to Add 5 Horizontal Rigs During the Second Half of 2016" (Press release). Business Wire. June 15, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Pioneer Natural Resources Company Announces Sale of Northeastern Martin County Acreage for $266 Million" (Press release). Business Wire. March 15, 2017.
  19. ↑ "ExxonMobil Completes Acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources" (Press release). Business Wire. May 3, 2024.
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  27. ↑ "Midland Basin Map". United States Geological Survey. November 15, 2016.
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