M&A Deal Summary

ExxonMobil Acquires Debury Resources - Bakken Assets

On September 20, 2012, ExxonMobil acquired oil/gas exploration company Debury Resources - Bakken Assets from Denbury for 1.6B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ExxonMobil’s 5th transaction in the Oil/Gas Exploration sector.
  • This is ExxonMobil’s 7th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is ExxonMobil’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is ExxonMobil’s 1st transaction in North Dakota.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-09-20
Target Debury Resources - Bakken Assets
Sector Oil/Gas Exploration
Buyer(s) ExxonMobil
Sellers(s) Denbury
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 1.6B USD

Target

Debury Resources - Bakken Assets

North Dakota, United States
Denbury's Bakken Shale assets consist of approximately 196,000 net acres in North Dakota and Montana for onshore oil production.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

ExxonMobil

Spring, Texas, United States

Category Company
Founded 1870
Sector Oil/Gas Exploration
Employees62,000
Revenue 334.7B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Exxon Mobil's corporate campus in Irving, Texas.
Entrance to Exxon Mobil's corporate campus in Irving, Texas.

ExxonMobil is a global oil and gas exploration company. ExxonMobil's principal business is energy, involving exploration for, and production of, crude oil and natural gas, manufacture of petroleum products and transportation and sale of crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products. ExxonMobil is a major manufacturer and marketer of commodity petrochemicals, including olefins, aromatics, polyethylene and polypropylene plastics and a wide variety of specialty products. Exxon was incorporated in 1870 and is based in Spring, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 10
Sector (Oil/Gas Exploration) 5 of 9
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
State (North Dakota) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 6 of 8
Year (2012) 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 7 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-09-13 The Lucius oil field

United States

Lucius will produce oil and gas through a truss spar floating production facility. The spar will be 605ft long and 110ft in diameter. It will be installed in 7,100ft of water. It will have a nameplate capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil a day (BOPD) and 450 million cubic feet of gas a day (mcf/d). The hull will weigh approximately 23,000t. The topsides will have an initial payload of 15,000t.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-10-17 Celtic Exploration

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Celtic Exploration is an oil and gas production company that in Canada’s Montney and Duvernay shale.

Buy CA$2.9B

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Denbury

Plano, Texas, United States

Category Company
Founded 1951
Sector Oil/Gas Exploration
Revenue 1.7B USD (2022)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Denbury Resources' corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas.
Entrance to Denbury Resources' corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas.

Denbury is an independent energy company with operations and assets focused on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (“CCS”) and Enhanced Oil Recovery (“EOR”) in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. For over two decades, the Company has maintained a unique strategic focus on utilizing CO2 in its EOR operations and since 2012 has also been active in CCS through the injection of captured industrial-sourced CO2. It currently injects over four million tons of captured industrial-sourced CO2 annually, with an objective to fully offset its Scope 1, 2, and 3 CO2 emissions by 2030, primarily through increasing the amount of captured industrial-sourced CO2 used in its operations. Danbury was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Plano, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector (Oil/Gas Exploration) 2 of 2
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 2
State (North Dakota) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 2 of 2
Year (2012) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-01 Thompson Field

Texas, United States

The Thompson oil field is located 2 miles south of Thompson, Fort Bend County, Texas. Thompson Field comprises oil production field that produces.

Buy $360M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-01-15 ConocoPhillips - Cedar Creek Anticline Oil & Gas Properties

United States

ConocoPhillips - Cedar Creek Anticline Oil & Gas Properties is a major geological feature in eastern Montana and western North Dakota that extends for approximately 126 miles in a northwest-southeast direction and ranges from two to six miles in width. CCA is a series of producing oil units, each of which could be considered a field by itself. Commercial quantities of oil were first discovered in the South Pine Unit of CCA in the early 1950s. The original oil in place at all CCA fields, including those not owned by Denbury, is estimated at over three billion barrels of oil.

Buy $1.1B