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==History==
The company was founded in 1985 as Cross Timbers Oil Company. It went public in 1993 on the NYSE (under ticker XTO). The company changed its name in 2001to XTO Energy Inc.<ref>[http://www.xtoenergy.com/en/about.html "About XTO"] XTO Energy Website, accessed March 2012. </ref> In 2007, it paid [[Dominion Resources]] US$2.5 billion for of oil and gas reserves in the Rocky Mountains, Texas and southern Louisiana.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060400512.html Mufson, Steven, "Dominion sells more of its oil and gas assets", ''Washington Post'' (June 5, 2007) p D04]</ref>
In 2008 XTO acquired [[Hunt Petroleum Corporation]] for $4.2 billion.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2008/06/10/afx5100025.html | title=XTO Energy to buy private firm Hunt Petroleum for $4.2B in cash/stock | publisher=Forbes | accessdate=2009-08-14 | date=June 10, 2008}}</ref>