The combined companies will form one of the largest oil and natural gas operators in the Delaware Basin in western Texas.A pump jack operates at a well site leased by Devon Energy Production Company near Guthrie, Oklahoma on Sept. 15, 2015. Reuters/Nick Oxford2/2/2026|Updated: 2/2/2026Devon Energy and Coterra Energy announced on Feb. 2 an agreement to merge the two companies in an all-stock transaction with an enterprise value of about $58 billion.The merger of Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy and Houston-based Coterra Energy creates one of the largest shale operators in the Delaware Basin, a sub-basin of the Permian Basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico.Rob Sabo has worked as a business journalist for nearly two decades and covers a broad range of business topics for The Epoch Times.Author’s Selected Articles





