Pioneer Natural Resources Company Announces Closing of Common Stock Offering

Pioneer Natural Resources Company Announces Closing of Common Stock Offering

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pioneer Natural Resources Company (NYSE: PXD) ("Pioneer" or "the Company") today announced the closing of the previously announced public offering of 10,350,000 shares of the Company's common stock (which includes 1.35 million shares resulting from the underwriters' exercise of their option to purchase additional shares) at a price to the public of $128.00 per share. Pioneer received total gross proceeds (before underwriters' discounts and commissions and estimated expenses) of $1.32 billion from the entire transaction.

Pioneer expects to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including the acceleration of horizontal appraisal drilling in the northern portion of the Company's highly prospective Wolfcamp/Spraberry acreage position in West Texas. Pending such use, a portion of the net proceeds will be used to repay the outstanding borrowings under the Company's credit facility, with the remaining proceeds to be invested in money-market funds or U.S. treasuries.

Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from the following addresses:

You may also obtain these documents at no cost under EDGAR on the SEC web site at www.sec.gov.

This news release is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Pioneer is a large independent oil and gas exploration and production company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with operations in the United States.

Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release related to Pioneer's expected use of proceeds from the public stock offering are forward-looking statements that are made in reliance on the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements of Pioneer are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause Pioneer's actual results in future periods to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. These and other risks are described in Pioneer's annual, quarterly and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, Pioneer may be subject to currently unforeseen risks that may have a materially adverse effect on it. Pioneer undertakes no duty to publicly update these statements except as required by law.

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