Newfield Exploration Co.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
363 N Sam Houston Pkwy. E, Ste. 100, Houston, TX 77060-2424, United States
(281)847-6000, (281)405-4242 fax, http://www.newfld.com

Primary SIC: Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas, Primary NAICS: Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction
Description: Newfield Exploration Co. is a Delaware corporation and was founded in 1989. It is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of natural gas and crude oil properties. Its asset base and related capital programs are diversified geographically and by type -- offshore and onshore, domestic and international, conventional plays and unconventional "resource" plays in oil and gas basins; a large inventory of low risk exploitation and development opportunities; and a smaller, but significant, inventory of higher risk, higher reserve potential exploration opportunities. While the company only has operations in the oil and gas exploration and production industry, it is organizationally structured along geographic operating segments. Its current operating segments are the United States, Malaysia, China and other international locations. As of late 2008, Newfield Exploration has a total of 4,455 productive oil and gas wells in which it owned an interest and its domestic areas of operation included the Anadarko and Arkoma Basins of the Mid-Continent, the Rocky Mountains, onshore Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. It is also active in Malaysia and China.Mining: Exploration and production of oil and natural gas.