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EOG Resources drills and operates wells, with almost all revenue coming from its U.S. business. Crude oil and condensate sales provide most of its revenue. It also sells natural gas and extracts liquids from some gas production for separate sale. Gathering, processing and marketing bring in additional revenue.
Buyers pay EOG for delivered oil and gas, generally at market prices tied to the product and sales location. Most U.S. oil and gas production reaches buyers through pipelines; customers include oil refiners and a natural gas liquefaction facility near Corpus Christi, Texas. Two refiners are significant purchasers, although EOG says losing any single buyer would not materially harm its business.
Cash generation depends heavily on commodity prices and access to processing and transportation facilities, including those owned by others. As existing wells deplete, EOG must find, acquire or develop reserves to sustain production. Environmental, health and safety rules govern its operations, and authorities can suspend or stop activity in affected areas.
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Devon Energy and EOG Resources face the same oil-price and drilling pressures: both produce and sell oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids in the Delaware, Eagle Ford, Powder River and Williston basins. Watch Devon’s Delaware drilling program, its largest and best-funded, as a comparison for EOG’s development there.
Permian Resources Corporation gives EOG Resources holders a focused Delaware Basin comparison: both develop acreage there and sell oil, natural gas liquids and gas to buyers at market-sensitive prices. Its production sales offer a read on the same basin’s exposure to commodity prices.
Diamondback Energy and EOG Resources share exposure to Permian oil prices and well economics, developing oil and gas with horizontal wells in the Delaware Basin. Diamondback’s costs and development pace are useful comparisons, though most of its acreage is in the Midland Basin.
Occidental Petroleum’s oil, natural gas liquids and gas sales face the same commodity-price pressures as EOG Resources, with both substantial producers in the Permian Basin. Watch Occidental’s oil and gas business rather than its broader results when comparing production economics with EOG.
ConocoPhillips and EOG Resources both develop Permian resources and sell oil, natural gas liquids and gas at market-linked prices, so commodity prices affect both businesses. ConocoPhillips’ prices received for those products provide a comparison, keeping in mind its worldwide operations.
Matador Resources Company offers a close comparison for EOG Resources’ Delaware production and drilling: both devote substantial activity to that basin’s oil and gas resources. Watch Matador’s drilling and completion spending there, where it directed most of its capital in 2025, separately from its gas-processing and transportation services for producers.
Ovintiv Inc. and EOG Resources both produce and market oil, natural gas liquids and gas across several basins, with overlapping operations in the Permian. Ovintiv’s U.S. production is the closer comparison for EOG’s Permian business; its Canadian operations also include the Montney.
ExxonMobil competes with EOG Resources in supplying oil and gas, and both operate in the Permian Basin. Its Permian production is the relevant comparison for EOG, rather than its sales of refined fuels, petrochemicals and specialty products.
Chevron’s Delaware oil and gas development offers EOG Resources holders a comparison for Permian well productivity and returns. Both are major producers there; watch Chevron’s productivity gains from horizontal drilling and longer wells, rather than its separate refining and product-sales businesses.
SM Energy Company and EOG Resources share oil-price exposure through oil-weighted production portfolios with substantial South Texas and Permian operations. Oil supplied 82% of SM Energy’s production revenue in 2025, but its revenue growth mainly reflected a full year of acquired Uinta production, not just conditions in the areas it shares with EOG.
Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation provides a South Texas comparison for EOG Resources: both produce oil, gas and natural gas liquids there, including in the Eagle Ford. Watch Magnolia’s drilling spending against cash flow from its South Texas production, since it aims to keep that spending well within cash flow.
APA Corporation and EOG Resources both depend heavily on Permian oil, gas and natural gas liquids production for cash flow. APA’s reported reductions in drilling, completion and facility costs give EOG holders a concrete comparison for development costs in the same basin.
Chord Energy Corporation gives EOG Resources holders a Williston Basin comparison, though Chord is much more concentrated there; both develop the basin and sell oil, gas and natural gas liquids. Watch the regional price adjustments on Chord’s oil sales to refiners and marketers, including transportation costs.
EOG Resources pays ProPetro Holding Corp. to fracture rock and prepare wells for production, making ProPetro dependent on EOG’s completion spending: EOG supplied 12.1% of its 2025 revenue. ProPetro’s fracturing-fleet activity offers a view of the service demand behind EOG’s Permian well completions.
EOG Resources relies on WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC to handle water brought up with oil and gas under long-term contracts, and is one of its five largest water-revenue customers. Watch WaterBridge’s ability to keep water moving in the Delaware Basin: it says producers may have to stop production when pipeline capacity is constrained and reliable water handling is unavailable.
EOG Resources pays for gas transportation on Summit Midstream Corporation’s majority-owned Double E pipeline under long-term contracts requiring payment even if it does not use the committed capacity. Double E carries Delaware Basin gas, including from EOG’s Janus plants, to the Waha area in Texas, making its transportation availability relevant to EOG’s gas sales.
Expand Energy and EOG Resources share U.S. natural-gas price exposure and both develop Appalachian resources, including the Utica. Expand’s gas prices received from sales to intermediary and end markets provide a comparison for EOG’s growing gas business, rather than for its oil sales.
EQT and EOG Resources both produce Appalachian natural gas for the U.S. market, making EQT a comparison for EOG’s gas business. Watch EQT’s gas sales separately from derivative gains and its gas-gathering and transmission businesses, which also enter its results.
BP competes with EOG Resources in oil and gas production but also shares its Trinidad gas-development results through the EOG-operated Mento and Coconut projects. Watch BP’s updates on Coconut’s expected 2027 start-up; Mento, a 50:50 venture, began producing in May 2025.
EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change (Oct/16)
EIA stocks track how much crude oil and fuel is held in storage in the United States; tighter or looser supply can shift the market prices EOG receives for its crude oil and condensate sales.
Falling stocks can signal tighter supply and support prices EOG receives for crude oil and condensate; rising stocks can signal looser supply and weigh on those prices.
Expand Energy Corporation earningsEXE
Expand Energy’s report will show the prices and volumes it receives for gas sales, offering a regional comparison for EOG Resources’ gas business.
Look at Expand Energy’s realized gas-sales prices and volumes, bearing in mind where its Appalachian and Utica business overlaps with EOG’s. Strong prices and volumes would point to a market that can also support EOG’s gas sales; weakness in both would signal a less supportive backdrop, though the companies may receive different prices.
ProPetro Holding Corp. earningsPUMP
ProPetro Holding Corp.’s report will show activity in its fracturing fleet, a read on demand for completion services EOG Resources uses.
Look at fracturing activity and related revenue. Stronger activity would suggest firm demand for the services EOG needs to complete wells; weaker activity could signal cooling demand, but ProPetro’s overall results do not establish EOG’s own spending or plans.
BP p.l.c. earningsBP
BP’s report offers an update on the Trinidad projects it shares with EOG Resources, including the EOG-operated Coconut project.
Look for BP’s update on Coconut’s expected start-up and what it says about Mento, which is already producing. Progress on Coconut alongside continued Mento output would support the contribution of these shared projects to EOG’s Trinidad business; delays or weaker Mento output would mean less support.
MATADOR RESOURCES COMPANY earningsMTDR
Matador Resources’ report will show whether its Delaware Basin drilling and completion spending is translating into production, a comparison for EOG Resources’ development there.
Compare Matador’s Delaware Basin drilling and completion spending with its production. Controlled spending with rising output would show that development is adding production, a useful read-through for EOG’s work in the basin; spending that rises without production keeping pace would suggest weaker returns on added activity.
APA Corporation earningsAPA
APA’s report will show how drilling, completion and facility costs are moving in the Permian, a cost comparison for EOG Resources.
Read APA’s drilling, completion and facility costs alongside its activity. Falling costs while work continues would suggest easing development-cost pressure in the same basin and offer a favorable comparison for EOG; rising costs would point to a tougher cost backdrop for similar work.
WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC earningsWBI
WaterBridge Infrastructure’s report will show whether water-handling services in the Delaware Basin can support production for EOG Resources and other producers.
Look at WaterBridge’s ability to keep water-handling service and capacity available in the Delaware Basin. Reliable service supports EOG and other producers’ operations; constrained capacity or interruptions could force wells to reduce or stop production and could raise operating costs.
EOG Resources, Inc. earningsThis company
EOG Resources’ report will show how production and realized prices for oil, natural gas liquids and gas combine to shape its cash flow.
Read production of crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids, and gas alongside the realized price for each, then compare the picture with operating cash flow. If production rises and cash flow holds or grows even as some prices weaken, added volumes are supporting cash generation. If production rises but cash flow falls, price pressure is outweighing the added sales.
Summit Midstream Corporation earningsSMC
Summit Midstream’s report offers a read on Double E’s ability to move Delaware Basin gas, while EOG Resources pays for its committed capacity even if unused.
Look at Double E’s transportation service and capacity toward the Waha area of Texas. Reliable service helps EOG move Delaware Basin gas to market; constrained capacity could hinder sales while EOG still owes for its committed transportation.
