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Devon Energy Corporation
Company typePublic
IndustryPetroleum industry
Founded1971; 55 years ago (1971)
Founders
HeadquartersDevon Energy Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
,
U.S.
Key people
ProductsPetroleum
Natural gas
Natural gas liquids
Production output
840 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (5,100,000 GJ) per day (2025)
RevenueIncrease US$17.188 billion (2025)
Decrease US$2.642 billion (2025)
Total assetsIncrease US$31.599 billion (2025)
Total equityIncrease US$15.528 billion (2025)
Number of employees
2,200 (2025)
Websitedevonenergy.com
Footnotes / references
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Devon Energy Corporation is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It is organized in Delaware with operational headquarters in the 50-story Devon Energy Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Its operations are in the Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford Group, and the Rocky Mountains (Williston Basin and Powder River Basin).[1]

The company is ranked 267th on the Fortune 500[2] and 607th on the Forbes Global 2000.[3]

As of December 31, 2025, the company had proved reserves of 2,428 million barrels of oil equivalent (1.485×1010 GJ), of which 40% was petroleum, 30% was natural gas liquids, and 30% was natural gas.[1]

History

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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 February 2016, Devon announced plans to lay off 1,000 employees, including 700 in Oklahoma City, and cut its quarterly dividend to $0.06 per share due to low prices of its products.[6][7] In 2021, it instituted a fixed plus variable dividend structure that resulted in a record high dividend.[8]

Acquisitions

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# Year Company Price Description of Assets Ref(s).
1 February 1992 Hondo Oil and Gas $122 million Oil and gas reserves and seven natural gas processing plants [9]
2 January 1996 Kerr-McGee $250 million North American onshore oil and gas properties; 370,000 net acres of undeveloped drilling rights [10]
3 July 1998 Northstar Energy $750 million Oil and gas properties in Canada [11]
4 August 1999 PennzEnergy $2.2 billion Oil and gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico [12]
5 May 2000 Santa Fe Snyder $3.35 billion Oil and gas properties in the Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico [13][14]
6 September 2001 Anderson Exploration $4.6 billion Oil and gas properties in Canada [15]
7 August 2002 Mitchell Energy $3.1 billion Oil and gas properties in the Barnett Shale of Texas [16]
8 April 2003 Ocean Energy $5.3 billion Deepwater sites in the Gulf of Mexico [17]
9 May 2006 Chief Oil & Gas $2.2 billion Barnett Shale leaseholds [18]
10 February 2014 GeoSouthern Energy $6.1 billion Eagle Ford assets [19]
11 March 2014 Crosstex Energy Merger of midstream assets to form EnLink Midstream, LLC [20]
12 December 2015 Felix Energy $2.5 billion Oil and gas properties in the Powder River Basin and Anadarko Basin [21]
13 January 2021 WPX Energy $2.56 billion Oil and gas properties in the Williston Basin and the Permian Basin [22]
14 July 2022 RimRock Oil and Gas $865 million Williston Basin assets [23]
15 September 2022 Validus Energy $1.8 billion Eagle Ford assets [24]
16 October 2024 Grayson Mill Energy $5 billion Williston Basin assets [25]

Divestitures

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# Year Buyer Price Description of Assets Ref(s).
1 March 2010 BP $7 billion Assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan, and the Gulf of Mexico [26]
2 April 2014 Canadian Natural Resources C$3.125 billion Conventional assets in Canada [27]
3 June 2014 Linn Energy $2.3 billion 900,000 net acres in the Rockies, Mid-Continent, east Texas, north Louisiana, and south Texas [28][29]
4 July 2017 Penn Virginia $340 million Lavaca County assets in the Eagle Ford [30][31]
5 June 2019 Canadian Natural Resources C$3.8 billion Assets in Canada [32][33]
6 October 2020 Banpu Kalnin Ventures (BKV) $770 million Assets in the Barnett Shale [34]

CEOs

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  • Larry Nichols (1980-2010)
  • John Richels (2010-2015)
  • Dave Hager (2015-2021)[35]
  • Rick Muncrief (2021-2025)
  • Clay Gaspar (2025-)

Political activity

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The Devon Energy Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the headquarters of Devon Energy.

Devon has contributed millions of dollars to politicians and political organizations, almost entirely to organizations and individuals affiliated with the Republican Party.[36]

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 first presidency of Donald Trump due to rollbacks of environmental regulations.[37]

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.[38]

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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, Texas and Nordheim, Texas until the well was capped. It took 35 hours to get the issue under control.[39] The company paid $48,750 in fines for the incident.[40]

In September 2021, the company agreed to pay $6.15 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act of 1863 by underpaying and underreporting royalties for natural gas from federal lands in Wyoming and New Mexico.[41]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Devon Energy Corporation 2025 Form 10-K Annual Report". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. February 18, 2026.
  2. ^ "Fortune: Devon Energy". Fortune.
  3. ^ "Forbes: Devon Energy". Forbes.
  4. ^ a b Miller, Stephen (August 9, 2008). "Former Accountant Worked to Build Devon Energy Into Industry Giant". The Wall Street Journal.
  5. ^ Pulsinelli, Olivia (October 11, 2012). "Devon Energy to close Houston office, will affect 500 employees". American City Business Journals.
  6. ^ Wilmoth, Adam (February 16, 2016). "Devon Energy to lay off 700 in Oklahoma City". The Oklahoman.
  7. ^ Baker, Max B. (February 17, 2016). "Devon Energy cutting 1,000 jobs, slashing dividend". Fort Worth Star Telegram.
  8. ^ "Devon Energy Announces Fixed-Plus-Variable Dividend for" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. May 4, 2021.
  9. ^ "Hondo Oil Offer". The New York Times. Bloomberg News. February 29, 1992.
  10. ^ Vandewater, Bob (January 1, 1997). "Devon Obtains Kerr-McGee Oil, Gas Properties". The Oklahoman.
  11. ^ "Devon Energy to acquire Canada's Northstar". Oil & Gas Journal. July 6, 1998.
  12. ^ "Devon Energy and PennzEnergy Announce Completion of Merger" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 17, 1999.
  13. ^ "Devon Energy and Santa Fe Snyder Complete Merger" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 29, 2000.
  14. ^ "Devon Energy to acquire Santa Fe Snyder in $3.35 billion deal". Oil & Gas Journal. May 26, 2000.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ "Devon to buy Mitchell Energy for $3.1 billion, boosting gas reserves". Oil & Gas Journal. August 14, 2001.
  17. ^ Wilmoth, Adam (April 26, 2003). "Devon completes $5.3 billion merger with Ocean Energy; More than 98 percent approve companies' deal". The Oklahoman.
  18. ^ "Devon acquiring Barnett shale acreage from Chief". Oil & Gas Journal. May 8, 2006.
  19. ^ "Devon Energy Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2014". United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
  20. ^ "Devon, Crosstex Energy complete transaction to create EnLink Midstream". March 7, 2014 – via Yahoo Finance.
  21. ^ "Devon's $2.5 Billion Shale Grab Prompts Downgrade Warnings". Bloomberg News. December 7, 2015.
  22. ^ "Devon Energy and WPX Energy Complete Merger of Equals Transaction" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. January 7, 2021.
  23. ^ "Devon Closes $865 Million Cash Acquisition of RimRock Oil and Gas". Hart Energy. July 21, 2022.
  24. ^ Casey, Simon (August 9, 2022). "Devon Inks $1.8 Billion Shale Deal to Expand in Eagle Ford". Bloomberg News.
  25. ^ "Devon Energy Completes Strategic Acquisition in the Williston Basin" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. September 27, 2024.
  26. ^ "BP pays Devon Energy $7bn for Brazilian, Azeri, and Gulf of Mexico assets". The Daily Telegraph. Reuters. March 11, 2010.
  27. ^ "Devon Energy completes sale of Canadian assets". The Oklahoman. April 2, 2014.
  28. ^ "LINN Energy Announces $2.3 Billion Acquisition of Assets from Devon Energy" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. June 30, 2014.
  29. ^ Pramanick, Anannya (June 30, 2014). "Devon to sell oil and gas assets to Linn Energy for $2.3 bln". Reuters.
  30. ^ Hiller, Jennifer (July 31, 2017). "Penn Virginia buys Devon's Eagle Ford Shale acreage". Chron.com.
  31. ^ "OKC-based Devon Energy agrees to sell noncore assets for $340 million". The Oklahoman. July 31, 2017.
  32. ^ "Devon Energy Completes Sale of Canadian Business" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. June 27, 2019.
  33. ^ "Oilsands giant Canadian Natural inks $3.8B deal for Devon assets". CBC News. May 29, 2019.
  34. ^ "Devon Energy Completes Sale of Barnett Shale Assets" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. October 2, 2020.
  35. ^ "Devon Energy President and CEO, John Richels, to Retire July 31, 2015; Dave Hager, Devon COO, to Succeed Richels Effective Aug. 1, 2015" (PDF) (Press release). Devon Energy. December 3, 2014.
  36. ^ "Devon Energy: Total Contributions by Party of Recipient". OpenSecrets.
  37. ^ Tabuchi, Hiroko; Lipton, Eric (May 20, 2017). "How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt's E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil". The New York Times.
  38. ^ Lipton, Eric (December 6, 2014). "Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General". The New York Times.
  39. ^ Chapa, Sergio (November 12, 2019). "Devon Energy one step away from capping blowout in DeWitt County". Houston Chronicle.
  40. ^ "State fines Devon Energy $97500 for well blowout in rural". The Victoria Advocate. July 17, 2021.
  41. ^ "Devon Energy Companies Agree to Pay $6.15 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations for Underpaying Royalties on Gas from Federal Lands" (Press release). United States Department of Justice. September 27, 2021.
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