Pioneer Natural Resources

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Pioneer Natural Resources Company
Public company
Traded as NYSEPXD
S&P 500 Component
Industry Petroleum industry
Founded 1997
Headquarters Irving, Texas
Key people
Scott D. Sheffield, Chairman & CEO[1]
Products petroleum, natural gas, and natural gas liquids
Production output
204 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (1,250,000 GJ) per day[1]
Revenue Decrease US$4.825 billion (2015)[1]
Decrease -US$421 million (2015)[1]
Decrease -US$273 million (2015)[1]
Total assets Increase US$15.154 billion (2015)[1]
Total equity Decrease US$8.375 billion (2015)[1]
Number of employees
3,732[1]
Website www.pxd.com

Pioneer Natural Resources Company is a petroleum, natural gas, and natural gas liquids exploration and production company based in Irving, Texas.

Current Operations

As of December 31, 2015, the company had 664 million barrels of oil equivalent (4.06×109 GJ) of proved reserves, of which 47% was petroleum, 19% was natural gas liquids, and 34% was natural gas. All of the company's reserves are in the United States.[1]

In 2015, the company produced 204 million barrels of oil equivalent (1.25×109 GJ) per day, of which 61% was in the Permian Basin, 22% was in the Eagle Ford shale, 9% was in the Raton Basin, and 4% was in the Western Panhandle of Texas.[1]

On May 11, 2016, at the Citi Global Energy & Utilities Conference in Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental, Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer, along with support from Tom Spalding, a geologist and Pioneer's vice president for geoscience, announced that more than 10 billion and possibly as much as 75 billion barrels of oil equivalent had been discovered in Permian shales.[2][3][4][5][6][lower-alpha 1]

History

The company was created in 1997 by the merger of Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company and MESA Inc., owned by T. Boone Pickens[7]

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. These holdings were sold for $550 million in 2013.[8]

In 2004, Pioneer Natural Resources acquired Evergreen Resources, Inc. in a $2.1 billion transaction.[9]

In June 2010, Pioneer Natural Resources announced a $1.15 billion Eagle Ford Shale midsteam joint venture with Reliance Industries.[10] The business was sold to Enterprise Products Partners for $2.15 billion in 2015.[11]

In March 2012, Pioneer Natural Resources announced the $297 million acquisition of Carmeuse Industrial Sands, a silica sand manufacturer the company renamed Premier Silica.[12]

In January 2013, Pioneer Resources announced the sale of a 40 percent interest in approximately 207,000 net acres (84,000 net hectares) leased in horizontal Wolfcamp Shale to Sinochem Petroleum USA LLC (a subsidiary of Sinochem Group) for $1.7 billion. Pioneer continues as the operator of the project.[13]

In 2014, the company sold non-producing assets in the Hugoton Basin to Linn Energy for $340 million.[14]

Footnotes

  1. Only Saudi Arabia's massive Ghawar field contains more proven petroleum reserves.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Pioneer Natural Resources Company 2015 Form 10-K Annual Report
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  5. May Investor Presentation 05/05/16 (pdf)
  6. For the May 5, 2016, slide show presentation, click on this link then click on May Investor Presentation. This will give you access to the 2016-05-02 May Investor Presentation.pdf which is: Adobe Acrobat Document (3.1 MB) from: http://phx.corporate-ir.net
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