What Extraction Oil & Gas does

Extraction Oil & Gas is a U.S.-based upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2012. The company historically operated in the Rocky Mountains region, with reported revenue and reserves described in third-party comparisons as stronger than peer Nostrum Oil & Gas, though specific figures are not disclosed in available sources. Its core business revolves around energy development services, including the acquisition, drilling, and production of hydrocarbon reserves.

The company was publicly traded on NASDAQ under ticker XOG and subsequently went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in 2020-2021 during the oil price downturn and pandemic-era market dislocation. Following emergence from restructuring, the residual entity now trades on OTC Markets under ticker XOGAQ, indicating materially altered capital structure and ownership. The company is classified with 101-250 employees.

The company's primary web domain (extractionog.com) is currently a parked GoDaddy page with no substantive content, no product or service details, no disclosed pricing, and no customer-facing information. This, combined with the absence of management team disclosures, partnership data, or product line details in the input, suggests very limited current commercial activity or at minimum severely reduced digital and operational footprint post-restructuring.

Name

Extraction Oil & Gas

Legal name

Extraction Oil & Gas

Website

https://extractionog.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Supply Chain

Core offering

Extraction Oil & Gas is an oil and energy company that provides energy development services, operating in the upstream oil and gas sector. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and focuses its operations in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States.

Product overview

No product or service information available. The company's primary website (extractionog.com) was found to be a parked GoDaddy domain with no substantive content about the company's offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Energy Development Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Direct peers

• Civitas Resources: Civitas Resources (formed via the Bonanza Creek–Extraction merger) is a DJ Basin-focused upstream operator, the direct successor entity and most direct comparable to Extraction Oil & Gas in terms of basin, business model, and asset base.
• SM Energy: SM Energy is a Denver-based upstream operator with substantial DJ Basin acreage, directly comparable on basin, scale, and customer/midstream interfaces to Extraction.
• Ovintiv: Ovintiv (formerly Encana) operates significant DJ Basin assets and is a directly comparable upstream peer with similar unconventional oil and gas production profile in the Rockies.
• Bonanza Creek Energy (pre-merger): Bonanza Creek Energy merged with Extraction to form Civitas; the standalone Bonanza Creek provides a clean pre-deal comparable for asset mix, basin exposure, and operating model.
• Whiting Petroleum: Whiting Petroleum is a Rockies-focused upstream operator that also emerged from bankruptcy, offering a highly comparable post-restructuring operating profile and basin focus.
• Nostrum Oil & Gas: Nostrum Oil & Gas is explicitly cited as a comparison reference for Extraction's revenue and reserves, making it a directly comparable upstream E&P operator with overlapping size profile.

Emerging players

• HighPoint Resources: HighPoint Resources (formerly Lilis Energy) is a small-cap DJ Basin operator that emerged from its own restructuring cycle and represents a similar post-bankruptcy small-cap E&P comparable.
• Crescent Energy: Crescent Energy is an upstream operator built through consolidation of smaller E&P assets, providing a comparable small/mid-cap US shale business model reference for Extraction.

Broad incumbents

• Occidental Petroleum: Occidental is a large diversified US E&P with material Rockies operations, comparable at the asset category level though operating at much larger scale than Extraction.
• EOG Resources: EOG Resources is a broad incumbent US shale operator with significant DJ Basin exposure; comparable on product category and upstream operating model, but at substantially larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/extraction_og
• Facebookfacebook.com/extractionoilgas

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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