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| May 10, 2021
Bonanza Creek And Extraction To Combine In Merger Of Equals, Creating Civitas Resources â A New Colorado Energy Leader And The State's First Net-Zero Oil & Gas Producer
Denver, CO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. (NYSE: BCEI) (“Bonanza Creek”) and Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: XOG) (“Extraction”), today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger of equals. The combined company, to be named Civitas Resources, Inc. (“Civitas”), will be the largest pure-play energy producer in Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin, with an aggregate enterprise value of approximately $2.6 billion (based on the closing share prices of Bonanza Creek and Extraction on May 7, 2021).