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Extreme Conditions Mean Right Time for Winter Drilling

Arctic temperatures, frozen ground, high winds, heavy snowfall and ice are not ideal for outdoor activity. But for Devon, the conditions are just right for one of the company’s busiest drilling programs in Canada.
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New Ideas Unlock Unconventional Resources

Sometimes, what an old oil or natural gas field needs to reinvigorate production is a new idea. When it comes to using innovation to unlock new reserves, Devon is an industry leader. The company is a top producer of natural gas from unconventional sources such as coal and shale.
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Barnett Shale

Devon has drilled more than 1,300 wells into the Barnett Shale since 2002. Use of fracturing technology has helped Devon increase its Barnett production from 200 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day to more than 600 million today.
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Environmental Initiatives

Mesquite Bay

The Mesquite Bay project is part of an ongoing effort to preserve the world's only remaining wild flock of endangered whooping cranes, which migrates between northwest Canada and south Texas each year.
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House Creek

As part of a Devon initiative which uses water from coalbed natural gas production to enhance the environment, lakes and ponds have become centers of activity for cattle and sheep, as well as antelope, mule deer and birds ranging from raptors to water fowl.
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Sundown Island

For the past three years, employees from the Houston office and their family members have volunteered to help in the cleanup efforts of the Sundown Island Bird Sanctuary.
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Community Relations

STARS and Devon, partners in emergency medical education

Devon's Canadian Division is proud to announce a recent partnership with STARS. A $350,000 contribution will be made over the next four years, and will be directed to the STARS Human Patient Simulator Program (HPS).
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An Eye on Crime

With an average of only four sheriff's deputies on the road at one time to cover 922 square miles, who better to turn to for help than the people in the area? That's just what Sheriff Phil Ryan of Wise County in north Texas did.
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A Dog's Life: Devon's Namesake Sniffs out Drugs

He growls, walks on four legs and tends to get frisky on the job, but he is one of the few valuable weapons against the war on drugs. He's Deputy "Devon," the newest member of the Wise County Sheriff's Department who is named after the company that purchased him.
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