Newfield Exploration Co

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Houston, Texas-based Newfield Exploration Co (NYSE:NFX) is an oil and gas exploration and production company. In October, 2009 the company announced a joint exploration agreement with Hess Corp to develop 140,000 gross acres of Marcellus shale primarily in Susquehanna and Wayne counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. Newfield was to operate the venture and receive a 50% working interest.

Newfield in the past has primarily operated in the Woodford shale located in Oklahoma and the mid-continental region of the U.S. where it has drilled over 300 horizontal wells. It has also been active in the Rocky Mountains.

• Lee K. Boothby is Newfield's President and CEO.