List of 917 Texas-based Oil/Gas Exploration Companies

Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	M&A Activity			Last 5 Years
Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	Total	Buy	Sell	Last 5 Years
Enterprise Products Partners NYSE : EPD Houston, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	56,219	26	21	5
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Acquired Occidental Petroleum 2019-04-24 $57B The Woodlands, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	12,906	21	11	10
Marathon Oil Acquired ConocoPhillips 2024-05-29 $22.5B Houston, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	6,407	15	11	4
Patterson-UTI NASDAQ : PTEN Houston, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	5,378	12	11	1
ExxonMobil NYSE : XOM Spring, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	339,247	17	10	7
Diamondback Energy NASDAQ : FANG Midland, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	11,023	13	10	3
Occidental Petroleum NYSE : OXY Houston, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	26,725	16	9	7
ConocoPhillips NYSE : COP Houston, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	54,745	19	8	11
Denbury Acquired ExxonMobil 2023-07-13 $4.9B Plano, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	1,704	10	8	2
Earthstone Energy Acquired Permian Resources 2023-11-01 $4.5B The Woodlands, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	420	8	8	-
APA NASDAQ : APA Houston, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	9,737	11	7	4
United Uptime Services PE Backed Wind Point Partners Yukon Partners 2022-09-22 Humble, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	-	7	7	-
Concho Resources, Inc. Acquired ConocoPhillips 2020-10-19 Midland, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	4,592	7	5	2
HF Sinclair NYSE : DINO Dallas, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	28,580	7	5	2
Matador NYSE : MTDR Dallas, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	3,479	5	5	-
Murphy Oil NYSE : MUR Houston, Texas, United States website	Oil/Gas Exploration	3,019	7	4	3

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