Oil and gas companies in Oklahoma City: the offices, the operators and the wells next door

This report is for people looking for an oil and gas employer, partner or contractor in Oklahoma City, analysts tracking the city's energy base after the 2026 moves, and B2B sellers whose customers are producers and the service firms around them.

What changed in 2026

Two filings with the SEC tell the story. Expand Energy, formerly Chesapeake, filed an 8-K on 9 February 2026 announcing plans to move its headquarters from Oklahoma City to its existing office in Spring, Texas, in mid-2026. Devon Energy completed its merger with Coterra Energy on 7 May 2026, and the 8-K reporting it lists 840 Gessner Road, Houston, as its principal executive office. Both companies' 2025 10-Ks still gave Oklahoma City addresses. Devon still drills in Oklahoma: its production subsidiary filed 34 new-drill permits with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) in 2026 to 29 October. Expand's 10-K lists its operations in Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, so its Oklahoma City office was a head office rather than a field base.

The Greater Oklahoma City Economic Development major employers list, which carries no date, still shows Devon Energy with 1,800 employees, Expand Energy with 1,200 and Continental Resources with 1,000, each marked as headquartered in the metro. Treat those counts as pre-move.

The producers still headquartered here

Revenue is each company's total revenue as reported for the year to 31 December 2025, and the addresses are from the 10-K cover pages.

Oklahoma City oil and gas in Census data

US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023, Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area (CBSA 36420), NAICS 211, 213111, 213112 and 324110:

There are no petroleum refinery establishments in the metro.

The Census Bureau doesn't publish the classes above 99 employees here; the 21 is the total less the published classes. Two thirds of the metro's establishments have fewer than five employees.

"Not reported" marks a total the Census Bureau published with a high-noise flag: the noise it adds to protect confidentiality changed the value by 5% or more. These are establishments with paid employees, not companies; self-employed landmen and consultants aren't counted, and head offices are often filed under management of companies (NAICS 55).

The operators with Oklahoma City addresses

The OCC's operator list, downloaded on 30 October 2026, has 265 operators with an open surety status and an Oklahoma City office address, ahead of Tulsa (179) and Edmond (85). Joining that list to the OCC's nightly well file, 234 Oklahoma City operators run 29,323 active wells, 22.7% of the state's 129,147. The largest by active wells:

The list splits into two kinds of company. Consolidators such as Diversified Production and the BCE-Mach entities hold thousands of older wells and drill little; Continental, FW Midcon I and Devon are the active drillers. An address in the OCC list is where the operator receives mail, not proof of a head office.

The drilling inside the metro

Most headquarters towns are far from the rigs. Oklahoma City isn't:

The seven counties drew 197 of the state's 647 new-drill permits in 2026 to 29 October, up from 132 of 610 in 2025. In Canadian County, Devon (526 active wells) and Coterra (387) are the largest operators; in Grady County it is Continental (453).

Finding and checking companies

Selling to Oklahoma City oil and gas companies

Sell to the offices and the field as two markets. The 293 extraction establishments, mostly in Oklahoma County, buy engineering, land, data and finance services and decide in the office. The 402 support and 56 drilling establishments, many in Canadian and Grady counties, buy equipment, crews and safety services and decide at the yard.

Illustrative example. The seller and its numbers are invented; the permit counts are OCC data.

Prairie Surveys (prairiesurveys.example) stakes well locations and pipeline routes. Every new-drill permit needs a surveyed location, so it targets the operators behind the 160 permits filed in Grady and Canadian counties in 2026. Seventeen operators filed them; with two contacts each (drilling manager and land manager), that's 34 people. At an 8% reply rate, about 3 conversations; one operator that stakes 20 locations a year at $4,500 each is $90,000. The OCC's seven-day intent-to-drill file shows new filers every week. Bebop can list the operators that match and research each one; to find the right person, see how to find decision makers.

Subject: Your [county] permits

Hi [first name],

Corporation Commission records show [operator] filed [number] intent-to-drill permits in [county] since [month].

We stake surface locations and pipeline routes for operators in Canadian and Grady counties, and we turn a plat around in [number] days.

Would it help to quote the next [number] locations on your schedule?

[Your name]

Next step: see the statewide picture, including the largest operators by permits and wells, in the report on oil and gas companies in Oklahoma.