Devon Energy drops tight oil and gas trio

By LUKE JOHNSON and NOAH BRENNER Houston

 31 January 2013 23:59 GMT

Devon Energy appears to have walked away from three of the five emerging tight oil and gas plays in the US covered under a $2.5 billion joint venture with Chinese state-run Sinopec due to poor well results and high costs.

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