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                                July 28, 2020

       Richard P. Dealy
       Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
       Pioneer Natural Resources Company
       777 Hidden Ridge
       Irving, Texas 75038

                                                        Re: Pioneer Natural
Resources Company
                                                            Form 10-K for the
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2019
                                                            10-K filed February
24, 2020
                                                            File No. 001-13245

       Dear Mr. Dealy:

              We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. In
some of our
       comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your
       disclosure.

              Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

       Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2019

       Properties
       Drilling Activities, page 42

   1.                                                   Expand the disclosure
of your drilling activities to clarify the extent, if true, that your
                                                        productive exploratory
wells include wells drilled to extend the limits of a known
                                                        reservoir, e.g.
extension wells. Refer to the definition of a productive well in Item
                                                        1205(b)(2) of
Regulation S-K and the definitions of a development, exploratory and
                                                        extension well in Rule
4-10(a)(9), (a)(13) and (a)(14), respectively.
       Unaudited Supplementary Information
       Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Activities
       Reserve Quantity Information, page 108

   2.                                                   The change in the net
quantities of total proved reserves attributed to extensions and
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Pioneer Natural Resources Company
July 28, 2020
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         discoveries appears to be significantly greater than the corresponding
change in the net
         quantities of proved undeveloped reserves for each of the last three
fiscal years presented.
         Expand the discussion of the changes in your total proved reserves
attributed to extensions
         and discoveries to explain the reason(s) for this difference. Refer to
FASB ASC 932-235-
         50-5.
3.       Expand the tabular disclosure of your proved reserves to present the
net quantities of
         proved developed and proved undeveloped reserves, by individual
product type, at the
         beginning of 2017, the first period presented in the reserves
reconciliation. Refer to
         FASB ASC 932-235-50-4.
4.       The future production and development costs shown on page 111 in the
tabular
         presentation of the cash flows from proved undeveloped reserves as of
December 31,
         2019 appear to be significantly less than the corresponding production
costs in the
         standardized measure as of December 31, 2019 and the development costs
incurred to
         convert proved undeveloped reserves during fiscal 2019, when
determined on a dollar per
         Boe of reserves basis.

         For example, the future production costs for proved undeveloped
reserves of $638 million
         correlates to $11.07 per Boe; however, the future production costs for
total proved
         reserves of $19,687 million correlates to $17.34 per Boe of reserves.
Similarly, the future
         development costs for proved undeveloped reserves of $508 million
correlates to $8.81
         per Boe; however, the costs incurred to convert proved undeveloped
reserves during fiscal
         2019 of $743 million correlates to $27.58 per Boe of reserves.

         Expand your disclosure of the future cash flows from proved
undeveloped reserves as of
         December 31, 2019 to explain the reason(s) for the differences in
future production costs
         compared to the costs used to determine the cash flows for total
proved reserves and for
         the differences in future development costs compared to the costs
incurred to convert
         proved undeveloped reserves during the last fiscal year.
        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.

       You may contact John Hodgin, Petroleum Engineer, at (202) 551-3699 if
you have
questions regarding the engineering comments. Please contact Brad Skinner,
Office Chief, at
(202) 551-3489 with any other questions.



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