
The top company in Texas’ birthplace of shale exits for $770M
Houston Chronicle Devon Energy is selling its position in Texas’ Barnett shale for $770 million, leaving the birthplace of the shale revolution without any top industry players. The shale boom started with George P. Mitchell in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex’s Barnett shale and he eventually sold his Mitchell Energy to Oklahoma-based Devon in 2002 for more than $3 billion.







