Compensation Peer Group

In response to the shareholder outreach efforts described information available at the time of the decision). The Com- above, the Compensation Committee undertook an exten- pensation Committee considered enterprise value because it sive review of the 2017 peer companies and determined that believes enterprise value is a more comprehensive measure a revision to the peer group was warranted in 2018 due to re- of a company’s total value than market capitalization, which duced enterprise value and market capitalization. As a result, fails to incorporate substantive operating metrics and a com- in November 2017, the Compensation Committee adopted a pany’s relative amount of debt. Based on this analysis, the significantly revised peer group for 2018, with more than half Compensation Committee replaced the six peer companies of the previous peer companies being replaced with new peer with the largest enterprise and market capitalizations from our companies. The companies in our 2018 peer group have sev- 2017 peer group (ConocoPhillips, EOG Resources, Inc., Hess eral characteristics in common. Specifically, they: are complex Corporation, Marathon Oil Corporation, Murphy Oil Corpora- organizations of similar size within the oil and gas exploration tion and Occidental Petroleum Corporation) with the follow- and production industry; have large U.S. production and global ing companies for 2018: (1) Antero Resource Corporation; (2) reserves; operate with similar geographic plays and operations; Cimarex Energy Co.; (3) EQT Corporation; (4) Newfield Explo- and are competitors for exploration prospects and for the same ration Company; (5) Pioneer Natural Resources Company; and talent pool of potential employees and executive level talent. (6) Range Resources Corporation.

The Compensation Committee based its decision on a peer The following table shows the companies that we currently group report prepared by L&A and an analysis of factors consider our peers, together with their production, enterprise deemed most important in determining the Company’s peer value and market capitalization as of October 30, 2017 (the group, including enterprise value, market capitalization and most current information available at the time of the Compen- U.S. production data as of October 30, 2017 (the most current sation Committee decision).

2017 U.S. Production 2017 U.S. Enterprise Value 2017 Market Cap Company Name (mmboe) (a) ($mm) (a) ($mm) (a) Anadarko Petroleum Corporation 258 39,940 27,284 Chesapeake Energy Corporation 233 15,262 3,497 Devon Energy Corporation 174 31,455 18,834 EQT Corporation 129 16,933 10,471 Antero Resources Corporation 113 11,887 5,994 Noble Energy, Inc. 110 20,777 13,657 Range Resources Corporation 94 8,305 4,457 Pioneer Natural Resources Company 88 25,304 24,768 Apache Corporation 82 23,716 15,538 Encana Corporation 60 14,769 10,928 Cimarex Energy Co. 59 12,058 11,091 Newfield Exploration Company 55 7,853 5,968 (a) Source: Bloomberg, as of 10/30/2017. U.S. production is the average total production for the trailing 12 months ending 10/30/2017. Enterprise Value is calculated as the market capitalization plus outstanding debt and preferred stock, less cash and cash equivalents.

As discussed below under the caption “Material Changes for 2019 Executive Compensation,” the Compensation Committee decided to continue to utilize the current peer group for 2019 executive compensation decisions.

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