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FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CARRIZO OIL & GAS INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001040593
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
IRS NUMBER: 760415919
STATE OF INCORPORATION: TX
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: 10-Q
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-29187-87
FILM NUMBER: 06826568
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 1000 LOUISIANA STREET
STREET 2: SUITE 1500
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7133281000
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 1000 LOUISIANA STREET
STREET 2: SUITE 1500
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
10-Q
1
form10q033106.htm
FORM 10-Q 03.31.06
Form 10-Q 03.31.06
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-Q
[X]
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
the
quarterly period ended March
31, 2006
[
]
TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
For
the
transition period from ________ to _________
Commission
File Number 000-29187-87
CARRIZO
OIL & GAS, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Texas
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76-0415919
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|
(State
or other jurisdiction of
|
|
(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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|
|
incorporation
or organization)
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1000
Louisiana Street, Suite 1500, Houston, TX
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77002
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
|
(Zip
Code)
|
|
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(713)
328-1000
(Registrant's
telephone number)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to
be
filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during
the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days.
YES
[X]
NO [ ]
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated
filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act (Check
one):
Large
accelerated filer [
]
|
Accelerated
filer [X]
|
Non-accelerated
filer [
]
|
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule
12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
YES
[ ]
NO [X]
The
number of shares outstanding of the registrant's common stock, par value $0.01
per share, as of May 1, 2006, the latest practicable date, was
24,404,063.
FORM
10-Q
FOR
THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED MARCH
31, 2006
INDEX
PART
I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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PAGE
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Item
1.
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As
of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006
|
2
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|
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|
|
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|
For
the three-month periods ended March 31, 2005 and 2006
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3
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|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
For
the three-month periods ended March 31, 2005 and 2006
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4
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|
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5
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|
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|
Item
2.
|
|
14
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|
|
|
|
|
Item
3.
|
|
|
|
|
Market
Risk
|
24
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|
|
|
|
|
Item
4.
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|
25
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|
|
|
|
|
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PART
II. OTHER INFORMATION
|
|
|
|
|
|
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28
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|
|
|
|
|
30
|
CARRIZO
OIL & GAS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED
BALANCE
SHEETS
(Unaudited)
|
|
December
31,
|
|
March
31,
|
|
ASSETS
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
|
|
(In
thousands
|
|
|
|
except
share amounts)
|
|
CURRENT
ASSETS:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
|
$
|
28,725
|
|
$
|
25,096
|
|
Accounts
receivable, trade (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$253
at December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006)
|
|
|
24,898
|
|
|
21,959
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|
Advances
to operators
|
|
|
3,049
|
|
|
3,582
|
|
Fair
value of derivative financial instruments
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
1,566
|
|
Other
current assets
|
|
|
3,512
|
|
|
2,015
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
current assets
|
|
|
60,184
|
|
|
54,218
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PROPERTY
AND EQUIPMENT, net full-cost method of accounting for oil
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
and
natural gas properties (including unevaluated costs of properties
of
$71,581 and
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$77,091
at December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, respectively)
|
|
|
314,074
|
|
|
342,831
|
|
INVESTMENT
IN PINNACLE GAS RESOURCES, INC.
|
|
|
2,687
|
|
|
2,771
|
|
DEFERRED
FINANCING COSTS
|
|
|
5,858
|
|
|
5,557
|
|
FAIR
VALUE OF DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
253
|
|
OTHER
ASSETS
|
|
|
298
|
|
|
240
|
|
|
|
$
|
383,101
|
|
$
|
405,870
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LIABILITIES
AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CURRENT
LIABILITIES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts
payable, trade
|
|
$
|
17,571
|
|
$
|
16,635
|
|
Accrued
liabilities
|
|
|
23,321
|
|
|
27,575
|
|
Advances
for joint operations
|
|
|
5,887
|
|
|
15,449
|
|
Current
maturities of long-term debt
|
|
|
1,535
|
|
|
1,520
|
|
Fair
value of derivative financial instruments
|
|
|
1,563
|
|
|
-
|
|
Other
current liabilities
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
548
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
current liabilities
|
|
|
49,877
|
|
|
61,727
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LONG-TERM
DEBT, NET OF CURRENT MATURITIES
|
|
|
147,759
|
|
|
147,382
|
|
ASSET
RETIREMENT OBLIGATION
|
|
|
3,235
|
|
|
3,461
|
|
FAIR
VALUE OF DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
|
|
|
2,295
|
|
|
1,012
|
|
DEFERRED
INCOME TAXES
|
|
|
24,550
|
|
|
27,054
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
COMMITMENTS
AND CONTINGENCIES
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SHAREHOLDERS'
EQUITY:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common
stock, par value $0.01 (40,000,000 shares authorized with 24,251,430
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24,391,963
issued and outstanding at December 31, 2005 and
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
March
31, 2006, respectively)
|
|
|
243
|
|
|
244
|
|
Additional
paid-in capital
|
|
|
124,586
|
|
|
130,947
|
|
Retained
earnings
|
|
|
31,627
|
|
|
38,277
|
|
Unearned
compensation - restricted stock
|
|
|
(1,071
|
)
|
|
(4,234
|
)
|
Total
shareholders' equity
|
|
|
155,385
|
|
|
165,234
|
|
|
|
$
|
383,101
|
|
$
|
405,870
|
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
CARRIZO
OIL & GAS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS
OF INCOME
(Unaudited)
|
|
For
the Three
|
|
|
|
Months
Ended
|
|
|
|
March
31,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
|
|
(Restated)
|
|
|
|
|
|
(In
thousands except
|
|
|
|
per
share amounts)
|
|
OIL
AND NATURAL GAS REVENUES
|
|
$
|
15,249
|
|
$
|
21,917
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
COSTS
AND EXPENSES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil
and natural gas operating expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(exclusive
of depletion, depreciation and amortization shown separately
below)
|
|
|
2,235
|
|
|
3,457
|
|
Depreciation,
depletion and amortization
|
|
|
4,678
|
|
|
7,438
|
|
General
and administrative (inclusive of stock-based compensation of 976
and 559
at March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively)
|
|
|
3,576
|
|
|
4,208
|
|
Accretion
expense related to asset retirement obligations
|
|
|
18
|
|
|
79
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
costs and expenses
|
|
|
10,507
|
|
|
15,182
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OPERATING
INCOME
|
|
|
4,742
|
|
|
6,735
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OTHER
INCOME AND EXPENSES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark-to-market
gain (loss) on derivatives, net
|
|
|
(1,727
|
)
|
|
5,373
|
|
Equity
in income (loss) of Pinnacle Gas Resources, Inc.
|
|
|
(1,068
|
)
|
|
35
|
|
Other
income and expenses
|
|
|
8
|
|
|
4
|
|
Interest
income
|
|
|
44
|
|
|
365
|
|
Interest
expense
|
|
|
(1,596
|
)
|
|
(4,275
|
)
|
Capitalized
interest
|
|
|
988
|
|
|
2,078
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
INCOME
BEFORE INCOME TAXES
|
|
|
1,391
|
|
|
10,315
|
|
INCOME
TAXES
|
|
|
(909
|
)
|
|
(3,664
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NET
INCOME
|
|
$
|
482
|
|
$
|
6,651
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BASIC
EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE
|
|
$
|
0.02
|
|
$
|
0.28
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
DILUTED
EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE
|
|
$
|
0.02
|
|
$
|
0.27
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
WEIGHTED
AVERAGE SHARES OUTSTANDING:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BASIC
|
|
|
22,501,696
|
|
|
24,166,801
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
DILUTED
|
|
|
23,402,248
|
|
|
24,845,302
|
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
CARRIZO
OIL & GAS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
|
|
For
the Three
|
|
|
|
Months
Ended
|
|
|
|
March
31,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
|
|
(Restated)
|
|
|
|
|
|
(In
thousands)
|
|
CASH
FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
income
|
|
$
|
482
|
|
$
|
6,651
|
|
Adjustment
to reconcile net income to net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
cash
provided by operating activities-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation,
depletion and amortization
|
|
|
4,678
|
|
|
7,438
|
|
Fair
value loss (gain) of derivative financial instruments
|
|
|
1,936
|
|
|
(4,016
|
)
|
Accretion
of discounts on asset retirement obligations and debt
|
|
|
141
|
|
|
79
|
|
Stock
option compensation
|
|
|
976
|
|
|
559
|
|
Equity
in (income) loss of Pinnacle Gas Resources, Inc.
|
|
|
1,068
|
|
|
(35
|
)
|
Deferred
income taxes
|
|
|
862
|
|
|
3,598
|
|
Other
|
|
|
126
|
|
|
344
|
|
Changes
in operating assets and liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts
receivable
|
|
|
3,495
|
|
|
2,939
|
|
Other
assets
|
|
|
406
|
|
|
462
|
|
Accounts
payable
|
|
|
(6,839
|
)
|
|
(2,238
|
)
|
Other
liabilities
|
|
|
48
|
|
|
1,761
|
|
Net
cash provided by operating activities
|
|
|
7,379
|
|
|
17,542
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CASH
FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital
expenditures
|
|
|
(19,243
|
)
|
|
(41,223
|
)
|
Change
in capital expenditure accrual
|
|
|
(1,212
|
)
|
|
6,559
|
|
Proceeds
from the sale of properties
|
|
|
9,000
|
|
|
5,195
|
|
Advances
to operators
|
|
|
415
|
|
|
(533
|
)
|
Advances
for joint operations
|
|
|
1,327
|
|
|
9,562
|
|
Other
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
(172
|
)
|
Net
cash used in investing activities
|
|
|
(9,713
|
)
|
|
(20,612
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CASH
FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
proceeds from common stock activity:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Warrants
exercised
|
|
|
1,000
|
|
|
-
|
|
Stock
options exercised and other
|
|
|
1,010
|
|
|
99
|
|
Advances
under Borrowing Base Facility
|
|
|
5,024
|
|
|
-
|
|
Debt
repayments
|
|
|
(2,025
|
)
|
|
(547
|
)
|
Deferred
loan costs
|
|
|
(79
|
)
|
|
(42
|
)
|
Other
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
(69
|
)
|
Net
cash provided by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
4,930
|
|
|
(559
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NET
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
|
|
|
2,596
|
|
|
(3,629
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CASH
AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period
|
|
|
5,668
|
|
|
28,725
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CASH
AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period
|
|
$
|
8,264
|
|
$
|
25,096
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SUPPLEMENTAL
CASH FLOW DISCLOSURES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
paid for interest (net of amounts capitalized)
|
|
$
|
608
|
|
$
|
1,895
|
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
CARRIZO
OIL & GAS, INC.
NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
1. SUMMARY
OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:
The
consolidated financial statements included herein have been prepared by
Carrizo
Oil & Gas, Inc. (the “Company”), and are unaudited. The financial statements
reflect the accounts of the Company and its subsidiary after elimination
of all
significant intercompany transactions and balances. The financial statements
reflect necessary adjustments, all of which were of a recurring nature,
and are
in the opinion of management necessary for a fair presentation. Certain
information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements
prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
have
been omitted pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The Company believes that the disclosures presented
are adequate to allow the information presented not to be misleading. The
results for the quarter ended March 31, 2005 have been restated as a result
of
changes in the accounting and valuation of derivatives for interest rate
swaps
and oil and natural gas hedges, as further discussed in the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005 (the
“2005
Form 10-K/A”).
The
financial statements included herein should be read in conjunction with
the
audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the 2005 Form
10-K/A.
Reclassifications
Certain
reclassifications have been made to prior period’s financial statements to
conform to the current presentation.
Use
of Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions
that
affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of
contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the
reporting periods. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
Significant
estimates include volumes of oil and natural gas reserves used in calculating
depletion of proved oil and natural gas properties, future net revenues
and
abandonment obligations, impairment of undeveloped properties, future income
taxes and related assets/liabilities, bad debts, derivatives, stock-based
compensation, contingencies and litigation. Oil and natural gas reserve
estimates, which are the basis for unit-of-production depletion and the
ceiling
test, have numerous inherent uncertainties. The accuracy of any reserve
estimate
is a function of the quality of available data and of engineering and geological
interpretation and judgment. Results of drilling, testing and production
subsequent to the date of the estimate may justify revision of such estimate.
Accordingly, reserve estimates are often different from the quantities
of oil
and natural gas that are ultimately recovered. In addition, reserve estimates
are vulnerable to changes in wellhead prices of crude oil and natural gas.
Such
prices have been volatile in the past and can be expected to be volatile
in the
future.
The
significant estimates are based on current assumptions that may be materially
effected by changes to future economic conditions such as the market prices
received for sales of volumes of oil and natural gas, interest rates, the
market
value of the Company’s common stock and corresponding volatility and the
Company’s ability to generate future taxable income. Future changes to these
assumptions may affect these significant estimates materially in the near
term.
Oil
and Natural Gas Properties
Investments
in oil and natural gas properties are accounted for using the full-cost
method
of accounting. All costs directly associated with the acquisition, exploration
and development of oil and natural gas properties are capitalized. Such
costs
include lease acquisitions, seismic surveys, and drilling and completion
equipment. The Company proportionally consolidates its interests in oil
and
natural gas properties. The Company capitalized compensation costs for
employees
working directly on exploration activities of $0.5 million and $1.0 million
for
the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Maintenance
and
repairs are expensed as incurred.
Oil
and
natural gas properties are amortized based on the unit-of-production method
using estimates of proved reserve quantities. Investments in unproved properties
are not amortized until proved reserves associated with the projects can
be
determined or until
they
are
impaired. Unevaluated properties are evaluated periodically for impairment
on a
property-by-property basis. If the results of an assessment indicate
that the
properties are impaired, the amount of impairment is added to the proved
oil and
natural gas property costs to be amortized. The amortizable base includes
estimated future development costs and, where significant, dismantlement,
restoration and abandonment costs, net of estimated salvage values. The
depletion rate per Mcfe for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and
2006 was
$1.99 and $2.67, respectively.
Dispositions
of oil and natural gas properties are accounted for as adjustments to
capitalized costs with no gain or loss recognized, unless such adjustments
would
significantly alter the relationship between capitalized costs and proved
reserves.
In
March
2006, we sold our average 20 percent working interest in 13 non-operated
wells
in the Barnett Shale area for approximately $5.2 million. The proceeds
will be
used to fund our drilling program and general corporate purposes.
The
net
capitalized costs of proved oil and natural gas properties are subject
to a
“ceiling test” which limits such costs to the estimated present value,
discounted at a 10% interest rate, of future net revenues from proved
reserves,
based on current economic and operating conditions. If net capitalized
costs
exceed this limit, the excess is charged to operations through depreciation,
depletion and amortization. For the three months ended March 31, 2005
and 2006,
the Company did not have any charges associated with its ceiling test
analysis.
Depreciation
of other property and equipment is provided using the straight-line method
based
on estimated useful lives ranging from five to 10 years.
Supplemental
Cash Flow Information
The
Statement of Cash Flows for the three months ended March 31, 2005 does
not
include interest paid-in-kind of $0.7 million and the net exercise of
$80,000 of
warrants. The
Company paid no taxes for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and
2006.
Stock-Based
Compensation
In
June
of 1997, the Company established the Incentive Plan of Carrizo Oil & Gas,
Inc. (the “Incentive Plan”), which authorizes the granting of incentive stock
options and restricted stock awards to directors and selected employees.
For the
three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, the Company recognized $1.0
million
and $0.6 million, respectively, for stock-based compensation. The 2005
expense
is comprised of stock-based compensation expense associated with the
repricing
of certain stock options and the 2006 expense is comprised of $0.1 million
of
expense associated with stock options and $0.5 million associated with
restricted stock issuances.
Stock
Options.
Prior
to January 1, 2006, the Company accounted for stock-based compensation
utilizing
the intrinsic value method as permitted under Accounting Principles Board
(“APB”) Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees.” APB Opinion
No. 25 recognized compensation expense only when the market price on
the grant
date exceeded the option exercise price. In February 2000, the Company
repriced
certain employee and director stock options. The Company accounted for
these
repriced stock options in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards
Board
(“FASB”) Interpretation No. 44 “Accounting for Certain Transactions involving
Stock Based Compensation - An Interpretation of APB No. 25” (“FIN 44”) which
prescribes the variable plan accounting treatment for repriced stock
options.
Under variable plan accounting, compensation expense is adjusted for
increases
or decreases in the fair market value of the Company’s common stock to the
extent that the market value exceeds the exercise price of the option
until the
options are exercised, forfeited, or expire unexercised. Under these
accounting
guidelines, the Company recognized $1.0 million of stock-based compensation
expense for the three month period ended March 31, 2005.
Effective
January 1, 2006, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards
(“SFAS”) No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” (“SFAS No. 123(R)”),
which requires companies to measure all stock-based compensation awards
using
the fair value method and record such expense in the financial statements
over
the vesting period of the options which is generally three years. The
Company
implemented SFAS No. 123(R) using the modified prospective transition
method.
The Company recognizes compensation expense for all unvested options
outstanding as of January 1, 2006, options issued after January 1, 2006,
and
those options that are subsequently modified, repurchased or cancelled.
The
compensation expense is based on the grant-date fair value of the options
and
expensed over the vesting period. The Company did not restate prior periods
to
reflect the impact of adopting the new standard. As part of the adoption
of SFAS
No. 123(R), the Company stopped recording stock compensation associated
with the
February 2000 repriced options mentioned above and the liability associated
with
the repriced options totaling $2.6 million was reclassed to equity during
the
first quarter of 2006.
The
Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to compute the fair
value of
stock options which requires the Company to make the following
assumptions:
· |
The
risk-free interest rate is based on the five year Treasury bond
at date of
grant.
|
· |
The
dividend yield on the Company’s common stock is assumed to be zero since
the Company does not pay dividends and has no current plans to
do so in
the future.
|
· |
The
market price volatility of the Company’s common stock is based on daily,
historical prices for the last three
years.
|
· |
The
term of the grants is based on the simplified method as described
in Staff
Accounting Bulletin No. 107.
|
In
addition, the Company estimates a forfeiture rate at the inception of
the option
grant based on historical data and adjusts this prospectively as new
information
regarding forfeitures becomes available.
For
the
three months ended March 31, 2006, the Company recognized $0.1 million
in stock
option compensation expense and computed $0.7 million associated with
nonvested
awards that will be expensed in the future over a weighted-average period
of 1.5
years.
The
table
below summarizes stock option activity for the three months ended March
31,
2006:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-
|
|
Average
|
|
Aggregate
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average
|
|
Remaining
|
|
Intrinsic
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercise
|
|
Life
|
|
Value
|
|
|
|
Shares
|
|
Prices
|
|
(In
years)
|
|
(In
millions)
|
|
Outstanding
at December 31, 2005
|
|
|
1,025,204
|
|
$
|
5.53
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Granted
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercised
|
|
|
(7,333
|
)
|
|
13.59
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
(30,001
|
)
|
|
12.28
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outstanding
at March 31, 2006
|
|
|
987,870
|
|
$
|
5.28
|
|
|
5.9
|
|
$
|
20.3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercisable
at March 31, 2006
|
|
|
857,052
|
|
$
|
4.25
|
|
|
5.4
|
|
$
|
18.5
|
|
The
total
intrinsic value (current market price less the option strike price) of
options
exercised during the three months ended March 31, 2006 was $0.1 million,
and the
Company received $0.1 million in cash in connection with these exercises.
The
following table sets forth pro forma information for the three months
ended
March 31, 2005 as if compensation cost had been consistent with the requirements
of SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-based Compensation”:
|
|
For
the Three
|
|
|
|
Months
Ended
|
|
|
|
March
31, 2005
|
|
|
|
(Restated)
|
|
|
|
(In
thousands except
|
|
|
|
per
share amounts)
|
|
Net
income as reported
|
|
$
|
482
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Add:
Stock based employee compensation
|
|
|
634
|
|
expense
recognized, net of tax
|
|
|
|
|
Less:
Total stock-based employee compensation
|
|
|
|
|
expense
determined under fair value method for all
|
|
|
|
|
awards,
net of related tax effects
|
|
|
(122
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pro
forma net income
|
|
$
|
994
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
income per common share, as reported:
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
|
|
$
|
0.02
|
|
Diluted
|
|
|
0.02
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pro
forma net income per common share, as if
|
|
|
|
|
the
fair value method had been applied to all awards
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
|
|
$
|
0.04
|
|
Diluted
|
|
|
0.04
|
|
During
the first quarter of 2005, the Company granted options with a weighted
average
grant date fair value of $6.97 based on the following
assumptions:
Risk-free
interest rate
|
|
|
4.3
|
%
|
Dividend
yield
|
|
|
-
|
|
Volatility
|
|
|
46
|
%
|
Term
(in years)
|
|
|
5.6
|
%
|
Restricted
Stock.
In
addition to stock options, the Company issues restricted stock and records
deferred compensation based on the closing price of the Company’s stock on the
issuance date. The deferred compensation is amortized to stock-based
compensation expense ratably over the vesting period of the restricted
shares
(one to three years). The unamortized deferred compensation obligation
amounted
to $4.2 million as of March 31, 2006, and the Company recorded $0.5 million
of
compensation expense related to restricted stock during the quarter ended
March
31, 2006. The table below summarizes restricted stock activity for the
first
quarter of 2006:
|
|
|
|
Weighted-
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average
|
|
|
|
Shares
|
|
Price
|
|
Unvested
restricted stock at December 31, 2005
|
|
|
87,585
|
|
$
|
15.98
|
|
Granted
|
|
|
137,850
|
|
|
26.55
|
|
Vested
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
-
|
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
(4,650
|
)
|
|
15.59
|
|
Unvested
restricted stock at March 31, 2006
|
|
|
220,785
|
|
|
22.59
|
|
Derivative
Instruments
The
Company uses derivatives to manage price and interest rate risk underlying
its
oil and gas production and the variable interest rate on its Second
Lien Credit
Facility.
Upon
entering into a derivative contract, the Company either designates
the
derivative instrument as a hedge of the variability of cash flow to
be received
(cash flow hedge) or the derivative must be accounted for as a non-designated
derivative. All of the Company’s derivative instruments at December 31, 2005 and
March 31, 2006 were treated as non-designated derivatives and the unrealized
gain/ (loss) related to the mark-to-market valuation was included in
the
Company’s earnings.
The
Company typically uses fixed rate swaps and costless collars to hedge
its
exposure to material changes in the price of oil and natural gas and
variable
interest rates on long-term debt.
The
Company’s Board of Directors sets all of the Company’s risk management policies
and reviews volumes, types of instruments and counterparties, on a
quarterly
basis. These policies are followed by management through the execution
of trades
by either the President or Chief Financial Officer after consultation
and
concurrence by the President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman
of the Board.
The master contracts with the authorized counterparties identify the
President
and Chief Financial Officer as the only Company representatives authorized
to
execute trades. The Board of Directors also reviews the status and
results of
derivative activities quarterly.
Major
Customers
The
Company sold oil and natural gas production representing more than
10% of its
oil and natural gas revenues as follows:
|
|
For
the Three Months
|
|
|
|
Ended
March 31,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cokinos
Natural Gas Company
|
|
|
11
|
%
|
|
-
|
|
Chevron/Texaco
|
|
|
16
|
%
|
|
13
|
%
|
WMJ
Investments Corp.
|
|
|
12
|
%
|
|
-
|
|
Sequent
Energy Management
|
|
|
11
|
%
|
|
-
|
|
Reichman
Petroleum
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
11
|
%
|
Earnings
Per Share
Supplemental
earnings per share information is provided below:
|
|
For
the Three Months Ended March 31,
|
|
|
|
(In
thousands except share and per share amounts)
|
|
|
|
Income
|
|
Shares
|
|
Per-Share
Amount
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
|
|
(Restated)
|
|
|
|
(Restated)
|
|
|
|
(Restated)
|
|
|
|
Basic
Earnings per Common Share:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
income available to common shareholders
|
|
$
|
482
|
|
$
|
6,651
|
|
|
22,501,696
|
|
|
24,166,801
|
|
$
|
0.02
|
|
$
|
0.28
|
|
Dilutive
effect of Stock Options and Warrants
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
900,522
|
|
|
678,501
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted
Earnings per Common Share
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
income available to common shareholders
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
plus
assumed conversions
|
|
$
|
482
|
|
$
|
6,651
|
|
|
23,402,218
|
|
|
24,845,302
|
|
$
|
0.02
|
|
$
|
0.27
|
|
Basic
earnings per common share is based on the weighted average number
of shares of
common stock outstanding during the periods. Diluted earnings per
common share
is based on the weighted average number of common shares and all
dilutive
potential common shares outstanding during the periods. The Company
had
outstanding 53,334 and 24,167 stock options during the three months
ended March
31, 2005 and 2006, respectively, which were antidilutive and were
not included
in the calculation because the exercise price of these instruments
exceeded the
underlying market value of the options.
2.
LONG-TERM DEBT:
At
December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, long-term debt consisted
of the
following:
|
|
December
31,
|
|
March
31,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
|
|
(In
thousands)
|
|
First
Lien Credit Facility
|
|
$
|
-
|
|
$
|
-
|
|
Second
Lien Credit Facility
|
|
|
149,250
|
|
|
148,875
|
|
Capital
lease obligations
|
|
|
27
|
|
|
12
|
|
Other
|
|
|
17
|
|
|
15
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
149,294
|
|
|
148,902
|
|
Less:
current maturities
|
|
|
(1,535
|
)
|
|
(1,520
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
147,759
|
|
$
|
147,382
|
|
First
Lien Credit Facility
On
September 30, 2004, the Company entered into a Second Amended and
Restated
Credit Agreement with Hibernia National Bank and Union Bank of
California, N.A.
(the “First Lien Credit Facility”), which matures on September 30, 2007. The
First Lien Credit Facility provides for (1) a revolving line of
credit of up to
the lesser of the Facility A Borrowing Base and $75.0 million and
(2) a term
loan facility of up to the lesser of the Facility B Borrowing Base
and $25.0
million (subject to the limit of the borrowing base, which was
$22.5 million as
of March 31, 2006). It is secured by substantially all of the Company’s
assets and is guaranteed by the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary. The First
Lien Credit Facility was amended on June 21, 2005 in connection
with entering
into the Second Lien Credit Facility. At December 31, 2005 and
March 31, 2006
there were no amounts outstanding under this facility. At December
31, 2005 two
letters of credit totaling $5.6 million were outstanding under
the facility and
there were no letters of credit outstanding at March 31, 2006.
Second
Lien Credit Facility
On
July
21, 2005, the Company entered into a Second Lien Credit Agreement
with Credit
Suisse, as administrative agent and collateral agent (the “Agent”) and the
lenders party thereto (the “Second Lien Credit Facility”) that matures on July
21, 2010. The Second Lien Credit Facility provides for a term loan
facility in
an aggregate principal amount of $150.0
million.
It is secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets and is guaranteed by
the Company’s subsidiary. The liens securing the Second Lien Credit Facility
are
second in priority to the liens securing the First Lien Credit
Facility, as more
fully described in the intercreditor agreement among the Company,
the Agent, the
agent under the First Lien Credit Facility and the lenders.
The
interest rate on each base rate loan will be (1) the greater of
the Agent’s
prime rate and the federal funds effective rate plus 0.5%, plus
(2) a margin of
5.0%. The interest rate on each eurodollar loan will be the adjusted
LIBOR rate
plus a margin of 6.0%. Interest on eurodollar loans is payable
on either the
last day of each period or every three months, whichever is earlier.
Interest on
base rate loans is payable quarterly. On March 30, 2006, the interest
rate was
approximately 10.53%, excluding the impact of the interest rate
swap.
3. |
INVESTMENT
IN PINNACLE GAS RESOURCES, INC.:
|
The
Pinnacle Transaction
During
the second quarter of 2003, the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary
CCBM,
Inc. (“CCBM”) and Rocky Mountain Gas, Inc. (“RMG”) each contributed their
interests in certain natural gas and oil leases in Wyoming and
Montana in areas
prospective for coalbed methane to a newly formed entity, Pinnacle
Gas
Resources, Inc. In exchange for the contribution of these assets,
CCBM and RMG
each received 37.5% of the common stock of Pinnacle and options
to purchase
additional Pinnacle common stock, or, on a fully diluted basis,
CCBM and RMG
each received an ownership interest in Pinnacle of 26.9%. U.S.
Energy Corp. and
Crested Corp (collectively, “U.S. Energy”) later succeeded to RMG’s interest in
Pinnacle. CCBM no longer has a drilling obligation in connection
with the oil
and natural gas leases contributed to Pinnacle.
Simultaneously
with the contribution of these assets, affiliates and related parties
of CSFB
Private Equity (the “CSFB Parties”) contributed approximately $17.6 million of
cash to Pinnacle in return for redeemable preferred stock of Pinnacle,
25% of
Pinnacle’s common stock as of the closing date and warrants to purchase
Pinnacle
common stock at an exercise price of $100.00 per share, subject
to
adjustments.
In
March
2004, the CSFB Parties contributed additional funds of $11.8 million
to continue
funding the 2004 development program of Pinnacle. In 2005, the
CSFB Parties
contributed $15.0 million to Pinnacle to finance an acquisition
of additional
acreage. CCBM and U.S. Energy elected not to participate in the
equity
contribution. In November 2005, the CSFB Parties and a former Pinnacle
employee
received 30,000 and 2,000 shares of Pinnacle common stock, respectively,
after
exercising certain warrants and options. At December 31, 2005 and
March 31,
2006, on a fully diluted basis, assuming that all parties exercised
their
Pinnacle warrants and Pinnacle stock options, the CSFB Parties,
CCBM and U.S.
Energy would have had ownership interests of approximately 68.4%,
15.8% and
15.8%, respectively.
In
April
2006, prior to and in connection with a private placement by Pinnacle
of
7,400,000 shares of its common stock, Pinnacle issued 25 new shares
of its
common stock to each of its stockholders in exchange for each existing
share in
a stock split; Pinnacle redeemed the preferred stock held by the
CSFB Parties at
110% of par value; the CSFB Parties exercised all of their warrants
on a
“cashless” net exercise basis; and CCBM and U.S. Energy exercised their
respective options on a “cashless” net exercise basis. On April 11, 2006, after
the stock split, the redemption of the preferred stock, the warrant
and option
exercises and the private placement, CCBM owned 2,459,102 shares
of Pinnacle’s
common stock, and its ownership of Pinnacle was 9.5% on a fully
diluted basis.
On such date, U.S. Energy and the CSFB Parties owned 2,459,102
and 7,306,782
shares of Pinnacle’s common stock, respectively, and their ownership of Pinnacle
was 9.5% and 28.3% on a fully diluted basis, respectively.
Prior
to
the April 2006 Pinnacle private placement, the Company accounted
for its
interest in Pinnacle using the equity method. Beginning with the
second quarter
of 2006, the Company expects to use the cost method to account for the
Pinnacle investment.
The
Company provides deferred income taxes at the rate of 35%, which
also
approximates its statutory rate that amounted to $0.9 million and
$3.7 million
for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2005 and 2006.
5 |
COMMITMENTS
AND CONTINGENCIES:
|
From
time
to time, the Company is party to certain legal actions and claims
arising in the
ordinary course of business. While the outcome of these events
cannot be
predicted with certainty, management does not expect these matters
to have a
materially adverse effect on the financial position of the Company.
The
operations and financial position of the Company continue to be
affected from
time to time in varying degrees by domestic and foreign political
developments
as well as legislation and regulations pertaining to restrictions
on oil and
natural gas production, imports and exports, natural gas regulation,
tax
increases, environmental regulations and cancellation of contract
rights. Both
the likelihood and overall effect of such occurrences on the Company
vary
greatly and are not predictable.
In
January 2006 the Company exercised an option to purchase over an
18 month period
a non-exclusive license to certain geophysical data at a cost of
approximately
$1.5 million.
In
January 2005, all of the remaining 250,000 warrants that were originally
issued
to affiliates of Enron were exercised for 250,000 shares of the
Company’s common
stock. The net cash proceeds from the exercise of the warrants
amounted to $1.0
million.
On
June
13, 2005, the Company sold 1.2 million shares of the Company’s common stock to
institutional investors (the “Investors”) at a price of $15.25 per share in a
private placement (the “Private Placement”), a 4.7% discount to the closing
price on the NASDAQ stock market for the Company’s common stock the day prior to
closing. The number of shares sold was approximately 5% of the
fully diluted
shares outstanding before the offering. The net proceeds of the
Private
Placement, after deducting placement agents’ fees but before paying offering
expenses, were approximately $17.2 million. The Company used the
proceeds from
the Private Placement to fund a portion of its capital expenditure
program for
2005, including the drilling programs in the Barnett Shale and
onshore Gulf
Coast areas, and for other corporate purposes.
In
connection with the Private Placement, the Company was required
to file a resale
shelf registration statement to register the resale of the shares
sold under the
Securities Act and will be required to cause the registration statement
to
become and be kept effective for resale of shares for two years
from the date of
their original sale. In certain situations, the Company is required
to indemnify
the investors in the Private Placement, including without limitation,
for
certain liabilities under the Securities Act.
The
Company issued 574,097 and 145,183 shares of common stock during
the three
months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively. The shares
issued during the
three months ended March 31, 2005 consisted of 304,669 shares
issued through the
exercise of warrants, and the balance through the exercise of
options granted
under the Company’s Incentive Plan. The shares issued during the three months
ended March 31, 2006 consisted of 137,850 shares issued as restricted
stock
awards to employees and 7,333 shares issued through the exercise
of options
granted under the Company’s Incentive Plan. Forfeited shares of previously
issued restricted stock totaled 4,650 for the three months ended
March 31,
2006.
7. |
DERIVATIVE
INSTRUMENTS:
|
The
Company’s operations involve managing market risks related to changes in
commodity prices. Derivative financial instruments, specifically
swaps, futures,
options and other contracts, are used to reduce and manage those
risks. The
Company addresses market risk by selecting instruments whose value
fluctuations
correlate strongly with the underlying commodity being hedged.
The Company
enters into swaps, options, collars and other derivative contracts
to hedge the
price risks associated with a portion of anticipated future oil
and natural gas
production. While the use of derivative
financial instruments limits
the downside risk of adverse price movements, it may also limit
future gains
from favorable movements. Under these agreements, payments are
received or made
based on the differential between a fixed and a variable product
price. These
agreements are settled in cash at termination or expiration or
exchanged for
physical delivery contracts. The Company enters into the majority
of its
derivative transactions with two counterparties and a netting agreement
is in
place with those counterparties. The Company does not obtain collateral
to
support the agreements but monitors the financial viability of
counterparties
and believes its credit risk is minimal on these transactions.
In the event of
nonperformance, the Company would be exposed to price risk. The
Company has some
risk of accounting loss since the price received for the product
at the actual
physical delivery point may differ from the prevailing price at
the delivery
point required for settlement of the derivative financial
instruments.
For
the
quarters ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, the unrealized mark-to-market
gain/(loss) on oil and natural gas derivative instruments was ($1.9)
million and
$3.3 million, respectively, which are presented as unrealized mark-to-market
gain (loss) on derivatives, net in the other income and expense
section of the
Statement of Income.
At
March
31, 2006 the Company had the following outstanding derivative
positions:
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|
Contract
Volumes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average
|
|
Average
|
|
Average
|
|
Quarter
|
|
BBls
|
|
MMbtu
|
|
Fixed
Price
|
|
Floor
Price
|
|
Ceiling
Price
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Second
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
|
1,092,000
|
|
$
7.00
|
|
$
7.40
|
|
$
10.70
|
|
Second
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
18,200
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
57.00
|
|
|
68.30
|
|
Third
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
706,000
|
|
|
7.00
|
|
|
7.06
|
|
|
10.04
|
|
Third
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
27,600
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
59.00
|
|
|
70.22
|
|
Fourth
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
368,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.25
|
|
|
8.75
|
|
Fourth
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
18,400
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
58.50
|
|
|
70.93
|
|
First
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
360,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.50
|
|
|
9.45
|
|
Second
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
273,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.68
|
|
|
8.08
|
|
Third
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
276,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.80
|
|
|
8.20
|
|
Fourth
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
276,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.92
|
|
|
8.32
|
|
First
Quarter 2008
|
|
|
|
|
|
182,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.25
|
|
|
8.65
|
|
During
the third quarter of 2005, the Company entered into interest rate
swap
agreements, with respect to amounts outstanding under the Second
Lien Credit
Facility. These arrangements are designed to manage the Company’s
exposure
to
interest rate fluctuations during the period beginning January
1, 2006 through
June 30, 2007 by effectively exchanging existing obligations to
pay interest
based on floating rates for obligations to pay interest based on
fixed LIBOR
rates. These
agreements are treated as derivatives rather than fair value hedges
and are
marked-to-market as of each balance
sheet date.
For the
three months ended March 31,
2006,
the unrealized gain related to the mark-to-market value of these
swap
arrangements totaled
$0.7
million. These derivatives will be
marked-to-market
at the end of each reporting period and the realized and unrealized
gain or loss
will be reported as mark-to-market gain or loss on derivatives,
net in other
income and expense on the Statement of Income.
The
Company’s outstanding positions under interest rate swap agreements at
March 31,
2006 are as follows (dollars in thousands):
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Notional
|
|
Fixed
|
|
Quarter
|
|
Amount
|
|
LIBOR
Rate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Second
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
148,875
|
|
|
4.39
|
%
|
Third
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
148,500
|
|
|
4.39
|
%
|
Fourth
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
148,125
|
|
|
4.39
|
%
|
First
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
147,750
|
|
|
4.51
|
%
|
Second
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
147,375
|
|
|
4.51
|
%
|
ITEM
2 - MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND
ANALYSIS
OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The
following is management’s discussion and analysis of certain significant factors
that have affected certain aspects of the Company’s financial position and
results of operations during the periods included in the accompanying
unaudited
financial statements. You should read this in conjunction with
the discussion
under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations” and the audited financial statements included in our Annual
Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005 and
the unaudited
financial statements included elsewhere herein.
General
Overview
We
began
operations in September 1993 and initially focused on the acquisition of
producing properties. As a result of the increasing availability
of economic
onshore 3-D seismic surveys, we began obtaining 3-D seismic data
and optioning
to lease substantial acreage in 1995 and began drilling our 3-D
based prospects
in 1996. In 2005, we drilled 65 gross wells (35.8 net), including
20 gross wells
in the onshore Gulf Coast area, 37 gross wells in the Barnett Shale
play, and
eight wells in the Camp Hill field and other East Texas areas,
with an apparent
success rate of 94%. During the three months ended March 31, 2006,
we were
apparently successful drilling 21 of 22 (10.6 net) wells with an
apparent
success rate of 95% that was comprised of: (1) five of six gross
(1.1 net) wells
in the onshore Gulf Coast area, (2) 15 of 15 gross (8.5 net) wells
in the
Barnett Shale area and (3) one of one gross (1.0 net) well in the
East Texas
area. As of March 31, 2006, we have completed 8 of these wells
and 13 are in the
process of being completed. In 2006, we plan to drill 26 gross
wells (11.7 net)
in the onshore Gulf Coast area, 49 gross wells (35.0 net) in our
Barnett Shale
area and 35 to 40 gross wells (35 to 40 net) in our East Texas
area, primarily
in our Camp Hill oil field. The actual number of wells drilled
will vary
depending upon various factors, including the availability and
cost of drilling
rigs, land and industry partner issues, our cash flow, success
of drilling
programs, weather delays and other factors. If we drill the number
of wells we
have budgeted for 2006, depreciation, depletion and amortization,
oil and
natural gas operating expenses and production are expected to increase
over
levels incurred in 2005. Our ability to drill this number of wells
is heavily
dependent upon the timely access to oilfield services, particularly
drilling
rigs. The shortage of available rigs in 2005 and in the first quarter
of 2006
delayed the drilling of several wells, slowing our growth in
production.
Since
our
initial public offering, we have grown primarily through the exploration
of
properties within our project areas, although we consider acquisitions
from time
to time and may in the future complete acquisitions that we find
attractive.
Recent
Developments
In
March
2006, we sold our average 20 percent working interest in 13 non-operated
wells
in the Barnett Shale area for approximately $5.2 million. We expect
the proceeds
will be used to fund our drilling program and general corporate
purposes.
In
May
2006, we completed the sale of 1,800 undeveloped acres in the Barnett
Shale for
approximately $18 million and plan to reinvest the proceeds in
other
properties.
Pinnacle
Gas Resources, Inc.
During
the second quarter of 2003, we (through our wholly-owned subsidiary
CCBM, Inc.)
and Rocky Mountain Gas, Inc. (“RMG”) each contributed our interests in certain
natural gas and oil leases in Wyoming and Montana in areas prospective
for
coalbed methane to a newly formed entity, Pinnacle Gas Resources,
Inc. In
exchange for the contribution of these assets, we and RMG each
received 37.5% of
the common stock of Pinnacle and options to purchase additional
Pinnacle common
stock, or, on a fully diluted basis, we and RMG each received an
ownership
interest in Pinnacle of 26.9%. U.S. Energy Corp. and Crested Corp
(collectively,
“U.S. Energy”) later succeeded to RMG’s interest in Pinnacle. We no longer have
a drilling obligation in connection with the oil and natural gas
leases
contributed to Pinnacle.
Simultaneously
with the contribution of these assets, affiliates and related parties
of CSFB
Private Equity (the “CSFB Parties”) contributed approximately $17.6 million of
cash to Pinnacle in return for redeemable preferred stock of Pinnacle,
25% of
Pinnacle’s common stock as of the closing date and warrants to purchase
Pinnacle
common stock at an exercise price of $100.00 per share, subject
to
adjustments.
In
March
2004, the CSFB Parties contributed additional funds of $11.8 million
to continue
funding the 2004 development program of Pinnacle. In 2005, the
CSFB Parties
contributed $15.0 million to Pinnacle to finance an acquisition
of additional
acreage. CCBM and U.S. Energy elected not to participate in the
equity
contribution. In November 2005, the CSFB Parties and a former Pinnacle
employee
received 30,000 and 2,000 shares of Pinnacle common stock, respectively,
after
exercising certain warrants and options. At December 31, 2005 and
March 31,
2006, on a fully diluted basis, assuming that all parties exercised
their
Pinnacle warrants and Pinnacle stock options, the CSFB Parties,
CCBM and U.S.
Energy would have had ownership interests of approximately 68.4%,
15.8% and
15.8%, respectively.
In
April
2006, prior to and in connection with a private placement by Pinnacle
of
7,400,000 shares of its common stock, Pinnacle issued 25 new shares
of its
common stock to each of its stockholders in exchange for each existing
share in
a stock split; Pinnacle redeemed the preferred stock held by the
CSFB Parties at
110% of par value; the CSFB Parties exercised all of their warrants
on a
“cashless” net exercise basis; and we and U.S. Energy exercised our respective
options on a “cashless” net exercise basis. On April 11, 2006, after the stock
split, the redemption of the preferred stock, the warrant and option
exercises
and the private placement, we owned 2,459,102 shares of Pinnacle’s common stock,
and our ownership of Pinnacle was 9.5% on a fully diluted basis.
On such date,
U.S. Energy and the CSFB Parties owned 2,459,102 and 7,306,782
shares of
Pinnacle’s common stock, respectively, and their ownership of Pinnacle was
9.5%
and 28.3% on a fully diluted basis, respectively.
Derivative
Transactions
Our
financial results are largely dependent on a number of factors,
including
commodity prices. Commodity prices are outside of our control and
historically
have been and are expected to remain volatile. Natural gas prices
in particular
have remained volatile during the last few years and more recently
oil prices
have become volatile. Commodity prices are affected by changes
in market
demands, overall economic activity, weather, pipeline capacity
constraints,
inventory storage levels, basis differentials and other factors.
As a result, we
cannot accurately predict future natural gas, natural gas liquids
and crude oil
prices, and therefore, cannot accurately predict revenues.
Because
natural gas and oil prices are unstable, we periodically enter
into
price-risk-management transactions such as swaps, collars, futures
and options
to reduce our exposure to price fluctuations associated with a
portion of our
natural gas and oil production and to achieve a more predictable
cash flow. The
use of these arrangements limits our ability to benefit from increases
in the
prices of natural gas and oil. Our derivative arrangements may
apply to only a
portion of our production and provide only partial protection against
declines
in natural gas and oil prices.
Results
of Operations
Three
Months Ended March 31, 2006,
Compared
to the Three Months Ended March 31, 2005
Oil
and
natural gas revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2006
increased 44% to
$21.9 million from $15.2 million for the same period in 2005. Production
volumes
for natural gas during the three months ended March 31, 2006 increased
from 2.0
Bcf for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to 2.4 Bcf in the
first quarter of
2006. Average natural gas prices excluding the impact of the gain
from our cash
settled derivatives of $1.3 million and $0.2 million for the quarters
ended
March 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, increased 23% to $7.50 per
Mcf in the
first quarter of 2006 from $6.09 per Mcf in the same period in
2005. Average oil
prices for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 increased 22% to $61.65
from $50.63
per barrel in the same period in 2005. The increase in natural
gas production
volume was principally due the commencement of production from
the Galloway #1
and new wells in the Barnett Shale, Encinitas Project and Peters
Ranch areas.
These volume increases were partially offset by: (1) production
declines from
the Beach House #1 and other normal production declines, (2) an
after-payout
working interest reduction on the LL&E #1 Deepening and (3) the sale of the
Shadyside #1 in the first quarter of 2005.
The
following table summarizes production volumes, average sales prices
and
operating revenues (excluding the impact of derivatives) for our
oil and natural
gas operations for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006:
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006
Period
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Compared
to 2005 Period
|
|
|
|
March
31,
|
|
Increase
|
|
%
Increase
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2006
|
|
(Decrease)
|
|
(Decrease)
|
|
|
|
(Restated)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Production
volumes -
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil
and condensate (MBbls)
|
|
|
65
|
|
|
67
|
|
|
2
|
|
|
3
|
%
|
Natural
gas (MMcf)
|
|
|
1,966
|
|
|
2,367
|
|
|
401
|
|
|
20
|
|
Average
sales prices
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil
and condensate (per Bbls)
|
|
$
|
50.63
|
|
$
|
61.65
|
|
$
|
11.02
|
|
|
22
|
%
|
Natural
gas (per Mcf)
|
|
|
6.09
|
|
|
7.50
|
|
|
1.41
|
|
|
23
|
%
|
Operating
revenues (In thousands)-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oil
and condensate
|
|
$
|
3,280
|
|
$
|
4,161
|
|
$
|
881
|
|
|
27
|
% |
Natural
gas
|
|
|
11,969
|
|
|
17,756
|
|
|
5,787
|
|
|
48
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
Operating Revenues
|
|
$
|
15,249
|
|
$
|
21,917
|
|
$
|
6,668
|
|
|
44
|
% |
Oil
and
natural gas operating expenses for the three months ended March
31, 2006
increased 55% to $3.5 million from $2.2 million for the same period
in 2005
primarily as a result of higher severance taxes related to increased
revenues of
$0.2 million on higher commodity prices, higher lifting costs of
$1.0 million
primarily attributable to the increased number of producing wells
added after
the first quarter of 2005 and expense related to workovers on wells
in 2006.
Operating expenses per equivalent unit increased to $1.25 per Mcfe
in the first
quarter of 2006 compared to $0.95 per Mcfe in the same period in
2005.
Depreciation,
depletion and amortization (DD&A) expense for the three months ended March
31, 2006 increased 59% to $7.4 million ($2.67 per Mcfe) from $4.7
million ($1.99
per Mcfe) for the same period in 2005. This increase was primarily
due to (1) an
increase in production volumes and (2) an increase in the DD&A rate
attributable to the increased land, seismic and drilling costs
added to the
proved property cost base and increased future development costs
largely related
to the significant increase in the number of Barnett Shale wells.
General
and administrative expense for the three months ended March 31,
2006 increased
by $0.6 million to $4.2 the number million from $3.6 million
for the same period
in 2005 primarily as a result of (1) higher salary and incentive
compensation
costs, attributable to increased headcounts and an overall increase
in salaries
and incentive bonuses, (2) higher contract service costs of $0.4
million largely
due to the recent vacancies in several key accounting positions
during the
year-end close process and (3) higher auditing fees of $0.2 million
largely
attributable to the financial restatement for mark-to-market
accounting on
derivatives. Partially offsetting these increases were lower
stock-based
compensation. In the first quarter of 2006 we discontinued the
recognition of
expense related to the 2000 repriced stock options. Partially offsetting
this decline was the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), which required
us to recognize
compensation expense related to our stock options as described
under Note 1 to
our consolidated financial statements included in Item 1 of this
report.
The
mark-to-market net gain on derivatives of $5.4 million in the first
quarter of
2006 was comprised of (1) $1.4 million of realized gain on net
settled
derivatives and (2) $4.0 million of net unrealized mark-to-market
gain on the
derivatives accounted for as nondesignated derivatives. The mark-to-market
loss
on derivatives of $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2005 was
comprised of (1)
$0.2 million of realized gain on net settled derivatives and (2)
$1.9 million of
net unrealized mark-to-market loss on the derivatives accounted
for as
nondesignated derivatives.
We
recorded a $35,000 benefit on our equity interest in Pinnacle for
the three
months ended March 31, 2006. The increase in earnings is primarily
due to the
non-cash gains related to Pinnacle’s hedging activity. In April 2006, our
ownership interest in Pinnacle declined below 20 percent. As a
result, in future
periods we expect to use the cost method to account for this
investment.
Interest
expense and capitalized interest for the three months ended March
31, 2006 were
$4.3 million and ($2.1) million, respectively, as compared to interest
and
capitalized interest of $1.6 million and ($1.0) million for the
same period in
2005. The increases in 2006 are attributable to the debt refinancing
in July
2005.
Income
taxes increased to $3.7 million for the three months ended March
31, 2006 from
$0.9 million for the same period in 2005 as a result of higher
taxable income
based on the factors described above.
Net
income for the three months ended March 31, 2006 increased by $6.2
million to
$6.7 million for the first quarter of 2006 from $0.5 million for
the same period
in 2005 as a result of the factors described above.
Liquidity
and Capital Resources
During
the three months ended March 31, 2006, capital expenditures, net
of $5.2 million
in proceeds from property sales, exceeded our net cash flows provided
by
operating activities. For future capital expenditures in 2006,
we expect to use
cash on hand, cash generated by operating activities and available
draws on the
First Lien Credit Facility to partially fund our planned drilling
expenditures
and fund leasehold costs and geological and geophysical costs on
our exploration
projects in 2006. We may need to seek other financing alternatives
to fund our
2006 capital expenditures program, including possible debt or equity
financings.
We
may
not be able to obtain financing as may be needed in the future
on terms that
would be acceptable to us. If we cannot obtain adequate financing,
we anticipate
that we may be required to limit or defer our planned oil and natural
gas
exploration and development program, thereby adversely affecting
the
recoverability and ultimate value of our oil and natural gas properties.
Our
primary sources of liquidity have included funds generated by operations,
proceeds from the issuance of various securities, including our
common stock,
preferred stock and warrants (including our public offering in
2004 and our
private placement in 2005 of our common stock), and borrowings
under our credit
facilities.
Cash
flows provided by operating activities were $7.4 million and $17.5
million for
the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively. The
increase was
primarily due to increased production and higher commodity prices.
We
have
planned capital expenditures in 2006 of approximately $140 million
to $145
million, of which $117.5 million is expected to be used for drilling
activities
in our project areas and the balance is expected to be used to
fund 3-D seismic
surveys and land acquisitions and capitalized interest and overhead
costs. We
plan to drill approximately 26 gross wells (11.7 net) in the onshore
Gulf Coast
area and 49 gross wells (35.0 net) in our Barnett Shale area and
35
to 40
gross
wells (35 to 40 net) in our East Texas areas, primarily in our
Camp Hill oil
field in 2006. The actual number of wells drilled and capital expended
is
dependent upon our available financing, cash flow, availability
and cost of
drilling rigs, land and partner issues and other factors.
We
have
continued to reinvest a substantial portion of our cash flows into
our leasehold
acreage and 3-D prospect portfolio, improving our 3-D seismic interpretation
technology and funding our drilling program. Capital expenditures
were $19.2
million (excluding $9.0 million of proceeds from an asset sale)
and $41.8
million (excluding a $5.2 million asset sale) for the three months
ended March
31, 2005 and 2006, respectively.
Our
drilling efforts in the Gulf Coast region resulted in apparent
successes in
drilling five gross wells (1.1 net) during the three months ended
March 31,
2006. In our Barnett Shale area, we had apparent successes in drilling
15 gross
wells (8.5 net) during the first three months of 2006, and in our
East Texas
area, we had apparent successes in drilling one gross well (1.0
net) during that
period. Of the 21 apparently successful wells, eight have been
completed and the
remaining wells were in various stages of completion at March 31,
2006.
We
have
accelerated the development of our Camp Hill project. In August
2005, management
proposed the acceleration of the Camp Hill development to our
board of
directors. Accordingly, a development plan was formally approved
by the board
for increased drilling activity in the Camp Hill field, beginning
with an
initial 60-well drilling program. In February 2006, our board
of directors
formally approved a multi-year plan to fully develop the entire
Camp Hill field.
In furtherance of this plan, we expect to drill between 35 and
40 gross wells
(35 to 40 net) in this area at an estimated cost of $3.2 million
during 2006. To
fully develop the field, we expect to drill approximately 326
wells from 2006
through 2017, at a total cost of approximately $22 million and
total operating
costs including steam of approximately $175.0 million. The precise
timing and
amount of our expenditures on additional well drilling and increased
steam
injection to develop the proved undeveloped reserves in this
project will depend
on several factors including the relative prices of oil and natural
gas.
In
our
Camp Hill field in the East Texas area, we drilled seven gross
wells (7.0 net)
during 2005, all of which are apparent successes. During 2006
and the first half
of 2007, we expect to drill between 55 and 60 gross wells (55
to 60 net) in this
area at an estimated cost of approximately $4.2 million.
Financing
Arrangements
First
Lien Credit Facility
On
September 30, 2004, we entered into a Second Amended and Restated
Credit
Agreement with Hibernia National Bank and Union Bank of California,
N.A. (the
“First Lien Credit Facility”), maturing on September 30, 2007. The First Lien
Credit Facility provides for (1) a revolving line of credit of
up to the lesser
of the Facility A Borrowing Base and $75.0 million and (2) a
term loan facility
of up to the lesser of the Facility B Borrowing Base and $25.0
million (subject
to the limit of the borrowing base, which was $22.5 million as
of March
31, 2006). It is secured by substantially all of our assets and
is guaranteed by
our subsidiary. The First Lien Credit Facility was amended on
July 21, 2005 in
connection with the Second Lien Credit Facility and refinancing
discussed in our
2005 Annual Report Form 10-K/A. At March 31, 2006, we had $22.5
million
available for borrowing under the First Lien Credit Facility.
Second
Lien Credit Facility
On
July
21, 2005, we entered into a second lien credit agreement with Credit
Suisse, as
administrative agent and collateral agent (the “Agent”) and the lenders party
thereto (the “Second Lien Credit Facility”) that matures on July 21, 2010. The
Second Lien Credit Facility provides for a term loan facility in
an aggregate
principal amount of $150.0 million. It is secured by substantially
all of our
assets and is guaranteed by our subsidiary. The liens securing
the Second Lien
Credit Facility are second in priority to the liens securing the
First Lien
Credit Facility, as more fully described in an intercreditor agreement
dated
July 21, 2005 among us, the Agent, the agent under the First Lien
Credit
Facility and the lenders.
The
interest rate on each base rate loan will be (1) the greater of
the Agent’s
prime rate and the federal funds effective rate plus 0.5%, plus
(2) a margin of
5.0%. The interest rate on each eurodollar loan will be the adjusted
LIBOR rate
plus a margin of 6.0%. Interest on eurodollar loans is payable
on either the
last day of each interest period or every three months, whichever
is earlier.
Interest on base rate loans is payable quarterly.
The
Second Lien Credit Facility is subject to customary events of default.
Subject
to certain exceptions, if an event of default occurs and is continuing,
the
Agent may accelerate amounts due under the Second Lien Credit Facility
(except
for a bankruptcy event of default, in which case such amounts will
automatically
become due and payable). If an event of default occurs under the
Second Lien
Credit Facility as a result of an event of default under the First
Lien Credit
Facility, the Agent may not accelerate the amounts due under the
Second Lien
Credit Facility until the earlier of 45 days after the occurrence
of the event
resulting in the default and acceleration of the loans under the
First Lien
Credit Facility.
We
are
subject to certain covenants under the terms of the Second Lien
Credit Facility.
These covenants include, but are not limited to, the maintenance
of the
following financial covenants: (1) a minimum current ratio of 1.0 to 1.0
including availability under the borrowing base under the First
Lien Credit
Facility; (2) a minimum quarterly interest coverage ratio of 2.75 to 1.0
through June 30, 2006 and 3.0 to 1.0 thereafter; (3) a minimum
quarterly proved reserve coverage ratio of 1.5 to 1.0 through September 30,
2006 and 2.0 to 1.0 thereafter; and (4) a maximum total net recourse debt
to EBITDA (as defined in the Second Lien Credit Facility) ratio
of not more than
3.5 to 1.0 through June 30, 2006 and 3.25 to 1.0 thereafter. The Second
Lien Credit Facility also places restrictions on additional indebtedness,
dividends to shareholders, liens, investments, mergers, acquisitions,
asset
dispositions, repurchase or redemption of our common stock, speculative
commodity transactions, transactions with affiliates and other
matters.
Shelf
Registration Statement
In
the
third quarter of 2005, we filed a registration statement on Form
S-3 with the
SEC for the proposed offering from time to time of up to $250 million
of senior
or subordinated debt securities, preferred stock, common stock
and warrants to
purchase debt securities, preferred stock, common stock or other
securities. Due
to the delay in our filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended
December 31, 2005, we believe that we are not eligible to use a
“short form”
registration statement on Form S-3 at the present time. Accordingly,
unless and
until we regain eligibility to use Form S-3, we will not be able
to offer and
sell securities under our shelf registration statement without
first amending it
to convert it to a registration statement on Form S-1 and then
obtaining a
declaration of effectiveness for the registration statement from
the SEC. The
inability to use Form S-3 may increase the costs and complexity
of the
registration process. This registration statement has not yet been
declared
effective by the SEC.
Effects
of Inflation and Changes in Price
Our
results of operations and cash flows are affected by changing
oil and natural
gas prices. If the price of oil and natural gas increases (decreases),
there
could be a corresponding increase (decrease) in the operating
cost that we are
required to bear for operations, as well as an increase (decrease)
in revenues.
Inflation has had a minimal effect on us.
Recently
Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
On
December 16, 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004),
“Share-Based
Payment” (“SFAS No. 123(R)”). SFAS No. 123(R) requires companies to measure all
employee stock-based compensation awards using a fair value method
and record
such expense in their consolidated financial statements. In addition,
the
adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) requires additional accounting and
disclosure
related to the income tax and cash flow effects resulting from
share-based
payment arrangements. SFAS No. 123(R) was effective beginning
as of the first
annual reporting period after June 15, 2005. We adopted the provisions
of SFAS
No. 123(R) during the first quarter of 2006 using the modified
prospective
method for transition and recognized approximately $0.1 million
in compensation
expense in the first quarter of 2006.
Critical
Accounting
Policies
The
following summarizes several of our critical accounting policies:
Use
of Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally
accepted
accounting principles requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that
affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure
of
contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and
the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
periods.
Actual results could differ from these estimates. The use of these
estimates
significantly affects our natural gas and oil properties through
depletion and
the full cost ceiling test, as discussed in more detail below.
Significant
estimates include volumes of oil and natural gas reserves used
in calculating
depletion of proved oil and natural gas properties, future net
revenues and
abandonment obligations, impairment of undeveloped properties,
future income
taxes and related assets/liabilities, bad debts, derivatives, stock-based
compensation, contingencies and litigation. Oil and natural gas
reserve
estimates, which are the basis for unit-of-production depletion
and the ceiling
test, have numerous inherent uncertainties. The accuracy of any
reserve estimate
is a function of the quality of available data and of engineering
and geological
interpretation and judgment. Results of drilling, testing and production
subsequent to the date of the estimate may justify revision of
such estimate.
Accordingly, reserve estimates are often different from the quantities
of oil
and natural gas that are ultimately recovered. In addition, reserve
estimates
are vulnerable to changes in wellhead prices of crude oil and natural
gas. Such
prices have been volatile in the past and can be expected to be
volatile in the
future.
The
significant estimates are based on current assumptions that may
be materially
effected by changes to future economic conditions such as the market
prices
received for sales of volumes of oil and natural gas, interest
rates, the market
value of our common stock and corresponding volatility and our
ability to
generate future taxable income. Future changes to these assumptions
may affect
these significant estimates materially in the near term.
Oil
and Natural Gas Properties
We
account for investments in natural gas and oil properties using
the full-cost
method of accounting. All costs directly associated with the acquisition,
exploration and development of natural gas and oil properties are
capitalized.
These costs include lease acquisitions, seismic surveys, and drilling
and
completion equipment. We proportionally consolidate our interests
in natural gas
and oil properties. We capitalized compensation costs for employees
working
directly on exploration activities of $0.5 million and $1.0 million
for the
three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively. We expense
maintenance
and repairs as they are incurred.
We
amortize natural gas and oil properties based on the unit-of-production
method
using estimates of proved reserve quantities. We do not amortize
investments in
unproved properties until proved reserves associated with the projects
can be
determined or until these investments are impaired. We periodically
evaluate, on
a property-by-property basis, unevaluated properties for impairment.
If the
results of an assessment indicate that the properties are impaired,
we add the
amount of impairment to the proved natural gas and oil property
costs to be
amortized. The amortizable base includes estimated future development
costs and,
where significant,
dismantlement,
restoration and abandonment costs, net of estimated salvage values.
The
depletion rate per Mcfe for the three months ended March 31, 2005
and 2006 was
$1.99 and $2.67, respectively.
We
account for dispositions of natural gas and oil properties as
adjustments to
capitalized costs with no gain or loss recognized, unless such
adjustments would
significantly alter the relationship between capitalized costs
and proved
reserves. We have not had any transactions that significantly
alter that
relationship.
The
net
capitalized costs of proved oil and natural gas properties are
subject to a
“ceiling test” which limits such costs to the estimated present value,
discounted at a 10% interest rate, of future net revenues from
proved reserves,
based on current economic and operating conditions (the “Full Cost Ceiling”). If
net capitalized costs exceed this limit, the excess is charged
to operations
through depreciation, depletion and amortization.
In
connection with our March 31, 2006 ceiling test computation,
a price sensitivity
study also indicated that a 20% increase in commodity prices
at March 31, 2006
would have increased the pre-tax present value of future net
revenues (“NPV”) by
approximately $125.8 million. Conversely, a 20% decrease in commodity
prices at
March 31, 2006 would have reduced our NPV by approximately $94.2
million. The
aforementioned price sensitivity and NPV is as of March 31, 2006
and,
accordingly, does not include any potential changes in reserves
due to second
quarter 2006 performance, such as commodity prices, reserve revisions
and
drilling results.
The
Full Cost Ceiling cushion at the end of March 2006
of approximately $68.9 million was based upon average realized
oil and natural
gas prices of $61.37 per Bbl and $6.93 per Mcf, respectively, or
a volume
weighted average price of $47.81 per BOE. This cushion, however,
would have been
zero on such date at an estimated volume weighted average price
of $37.05 per
BOE. A BOE means one barrel of oil equivalent, determined using
the ratio of six
Mcf of natural gas to one Bbl of oil, condensate or natural gas
liquids, which
approximates the relative energy content of oil, condensate and
natural gas
liquids as compared to natural gas. Prices have historically been
higher or
substantially higher, more often for oil than natural gas on an
energy
equivalent basis, although there have been periods in which they
have been lower
or substantially lower.
Under
the
full cost method of accounting, the depletion rate is the current
period
production as a percentage of the total proved reserves. Total
proved reserves
include both proved developed and proved undeveloped reserves.
The depletion
rate is applied to the net book value plus estimated future development
costs to
calculate the depletion expense. Proved reserves materially impact
depletion
expense. If the proved reserves decline, then the depletion rate
(the rate at
which we record depletion expense) increases, reducing net income.
We
have a
significant amount of proved undeveloped reserves, which are primarily
oil
reserves. We had 97.9 Bcfe of proved undeveloped reserves at both
December 31,
2005 and March 31, 2006, representing 65% and 66% of our total
proved reserves.
As of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, a large portion of
these proved
undeveloped reserves, or approximately 38.1 Bcfe as of both dates,
are
attributable to our Camp Hill properties that we acquired in 1994.
The estimated
future development costs to develop our proved undeveloped reserves
on our Camp
Hill properties are relatively low, on a per Mcfe basis, when compared
to the
estimated future development costs to develop our proved undeveloped
reserves on
our other oil and natural gas properties. Furthermore, the average
depletable
life (the estimated time that it will take to produce all recoverable
reserves)
of our Camp Hill properties is considerably longer, or approximately
15 years,
when compared to the depletable life of our remaining oil and natural
gas
properties of approximately 10 years. Accordingly, the combination
of a
relatively low ratio of future development costs and a relatively
long
depletable life on our Camp Hill properties has resulted in a relatively
low
overall historical depletion rate and DD&A expense. This has resulted in a
capitalized cost basis associated with producing properties being
depleted over
a longer period than the associated production and revenue stream,
causing the
build-up of nondepleted capitalized costs associated with properties
that have
been completely depleted. This combination of factors, in turn,
has had a
favorable impact on our earnings, which have been higher than they
would have
been had the Camp Hill properties not resulted in a relatively
low overall
depletion rate and DD&A expense and longer depletion period. As a
hypothetical illustration of this impact, the removal of our Camp
Hill proved
undeveloped reserves starting January 1, 2002 would have reduced
our earnings by
(1) an estimated $11.2 million in 2002 (comprised of after-tax
charges for a
$7.1 million full cost ceiling impairment and a $4.1 million depletion
expense
increase), (2) an estimated $5.9 million in 2003 (due to higher
depletion
expense), (3) an estimated $3.4 million in 2004 (due to higher
depletion
expense) and (iv) an estimated $6.9 million in 2005 (due to higher
depletion
expense).
We
expect
our relatively low historical depletion rate to continue until
the high level of
nonproducing reserves to total proved reserves is reduced and the
life of our
proved developed reserves is extended through development drilling
and/or the
significant addition of new proved producing reserves through acquisition
or
exploration. If our level of total proved reserves, finding cost
and current
prices were all to remain constant, this continued build-up of
capitalized costs
increases the probability of a ceiling test write-down.
We
depreciate other property and equipment using the straight-line
method based on
estimated useful lives ranging from five to 10 years.
Oil
and Natural Gas Reserve Estimates
The
proved reserve data as of December 31, 2005 included in this
document are
estimates prepared by Ryder Scott Company, DeGolyer and MacNaughton
and
Fairchild & Wells, Inc., Independent Petroleum Engineers. We estimated the
reserve data for all other dates. Reserve engineering is a subjective
process of
estimating underground accumulations of hydrocarbons that cannot
be measured in
an exact manner. The process relies on judgment and the interpretation
of
available geologic, geophysical, engineering and production data.
The extent,
quality and reliability of this data can vary. The process also
requires certain
economic assumptions regarding drilling and operating expense,
capital
expenditures, taxes and availability of funds. The SEC mandates
some of these
assumptions such as oil and natural gas prices and the present
value discount
rate.
Proved
reserve estimates prepared by others may be substantially higher
or lower than
our estimates. Because these estimates depend on many assumptions,
all of which
may differ from actual results, reserve quantities actually recovered
may be
significantly different than estimated. Material revisions to
reserve estimates
may be made depending on the results of drilling, testing, and
rates of
production.
You
should not assume that the present value of future net
cash flows is the current market value of our estimated proved
reserves. In
accordance with SEC requirements, we based the estimated discounted
future net
cash flows from proved reserves on prices and costs on the
date of the
estimate.
Our
rate
of recording depreciation, depletion and amortization expense for
proved
properties depends on our estimate of proved reserves. If these
reserve
estimates decline, the rate at which we record these expenses will
increase. A
10% increase or decrease in our proved reserves would have increased
or
decreased our depletion expense by 10% for the three months ended
March 31,
2006.
As
of
December 31, 2005, approximately 81% of our proved reserves were
proved
undeveloped and proved nonproducing. Moreover, some of the producing
wells
included in our reserve reports as of December 31, 2005 had produced
for a
relatively short period of time as of that date. Because most of
our reserve
estimates are calculated using volumetric analysis, those estimates
are less
reliable than estimates based on a lengthy production history.
Volumetric
analysis involves estimating the volume of a reservoir based on
the net feet of
pay of the structure and an estimation of the area covered by the
structure
based on seismic analysis. In addition, realization or recognition
of our proved
undeveloped reserves will depend on our development schedule and
plans. Lack of
certainty with respect to development plans for proved undeveloped
reserves
could cause the discontinuation of the classification of these
reserves as
proved. Although we have accelerated our development of the Camp
Hill field in
East Texas, we have in the past chosen to delay development of
our proved
undeveloped reserves in the Camp Hill Field in East Texas in favor
of pursuing
shorter-term exploration projects with higher potential rates of
return, adding
to our lease position in this field and further evaluating additional
economic
enhancements for this field's development. The average life of
the Camp Hill
proved undeveloped reserves is approximately 15 years, with 50%
of these
reserves being booked over 8 years ago. Although we have recently
accelerated
the pace of the development of the Camp Hill project, there can
be no assurance
that the aforementioned discontinuance will not occur.
Derivative
Instruments
We
use
derivatives to manage price and interest rate risk underlying our
oil and gas
production and the variable interest rate on the Second Lien Credit
Facility.
Given our limited internal resources, we have elected to account
for all new
derivative contracts as non-designated derivatives that will be
marked-to-market. For a discussion of the impact of changes in the prices
of oil and gas on our hedging transactions, see “Volatility of Oil and Natural
Gas Prices” below.
We
have
initiated a program designed to manage our exposure to interest
rate
fluctuations by entering into financial derivative instruments.
The primary
objective of this program is to reduce the overall cost of borrowing.
We have
entered into interest rate swap agreements with respect to amounts
borrowed
under the Second Lien Credit Facility, which effectively exchange
existing
obligations to pay interest based on floating rates for obligations
to pay
interest based on fixed LIBOR rates.
Our
Board
of Directors sets all of our risk management policies and reviews
volume
limitations, types of instruments and counterparties, on a quarterly
basis.
These policies are followed by management through the execution
of trades by
either the President or Chief Financial Officer after consultation
and
concurrence by the President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman
of the Board.
The master contracts with the authorized counterparties identify
the President
and Chief Financial Officer as the only
representatives
authorized to execute trades. The Board of Directors also reviews
the status and
results of derivative activities quarterly.
During
the third quarter of 2005, we entered into interest rate swap
agreements with
respect to amounts outstanding under the Second Lien Credit Facility.
These
arrangements are designed to manage our exposure to interest
rate fluctuations
during the period beginning January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007 by
effectively exchanging existing obligations to pay interest based
on floating
rates for obligations to pay interest based on fixed LIBOR rates.
These
derivatives will be marked-to-market at the end of each period
and the realized
and unrealized gain or loss will be recorded as market to market
gains and
losses on derivatives, net within other income on our Statement
of
Income.
Income
Taxes
Under
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109 (“SFAS No. 109”),
“Accounting for Income Taxes,” deferred income taxes are recognized at each year
end for the future tax consequences of differences between
the tax bases of
assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts
based on tax laws
and statutory tax rates applicable to the periods in which
the differences are
expected to affect taxable income. We routinely assess the
realizability of our
deferred tax assets. We consider future taxable income in making
such
assessments. If we conclude that it is more likely than not
that some portion or
all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized under accounting
standards,
it is reduced by a valuation allowance. However, despite our
attempt to make an
accurate estimate, the ultimate utilization of our deferred
tax assets is highly
dependent upon our actual production and the realization of
taxable income in
future periods.
Contingencies
Liabilities
and other contingencies are recognized upon determination of an
exposure, which
when analyzed indicates that it is both probable that an asset
has been impaired
or that a liability has been incurred and that the amount of such
loss is
reasonably estimable.
Volatility
of Oil and Natural Gas Prices
Our
revenues, future rate of growth, results of operations, financial
condition and
ability to borrow funds or obtain additional capital, as well as
the carrying
value of our properties, are substantially dependent upon prevailing
prices of
oil and natural gas.
We
periodically review the carrying value of our oil and natural gas
properties
under the full cost accounting rules of the Commission. See “—Critical
Accounting Policies and Estimates—Oil and Natural Gas Properties.”
Total
oil
purchased and sold under swaps and collars during the three months
ended March
31, 2005 and 2006 was 32,900 Bbls and 18,000 Bbls, respectively.
Total natural
gas purchased and sold under swaps and collars during the three
months ended
March 31, 2005 and 2006 was 928,000 MMBtu and 1,082,000 MMBtu,
respectively. The
net gain realized by us under such hedging arrangements was $0.2
million and
$1.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006,
respectively,
and is included in mark-to-market gain (loss) on derivatives,
net.
To
mitigate some of our commodity price risk, we engage periodically
in certain
other limited derivative activities including price swaps, costless
collars and,
occasionally, put options, in order to establish some price floor
protection. We
do not hold or issue derivative instruments for trading purposes.
For
the
quarter ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, the unrealized gain (loss)
on oil and
natural gas derivatives of ($1.9) million and $3.3 million, respectively,
were
included in mark-to-market gain (loss) on derivatives, net.
While
the
use of hedging arrangements limits the downside risk of adverse
price movements,
it may also limit our ability to benefit from increases in the
prices of natural
gas and oil. We enter into the majority of our derivatives transactions
with two
counterparties and have a netting agreement in place with those
counterparties.
We do not obtain collateral to support the agreements but monitor
the financial
viability of counterparties and believe our credit risk is minimal
on these
transactions. Under these arrangements, payments are received or
made based on
the differential between a fixed and a variable product price.
These agreements
are settled in cash at expiration or exchanged for physical delivery
contracts.
In the event of nonperformance, we would be exposed again to price
risk. We have
some risk of financial loss because the price received for the
product at the
actual physical delivery point may differ from the prevailing price
at the
delivery point required for settlement of the hedging transaction.
Moreover, our
derivatives arrangements generally do not apply to all of our production
and
thus provide only partial price protection against declines in
commodity prices.
We expect that the amount of our hedges will vary from time to
time.
Our
natural gas derivative transactions are generally settled based
upon the average
of the reporting settlement prices on the Houston Ship Channel
index for the
last three trading days of a particular contract month. Our oil
derivative
transactions are generally settled based on the average reporting
settlement
prices on the West Texas Intermediate index for each trading
day of a particular
calendar month. For the first quarter of 2006, a $0.10 change
in the price per
Mcf of gas sold would have changed revenue by $0.2 million. A
$0.70 change in
the price per barrel of oil would have changed revenue by less
than
$100,000.
The
table
below summarizes our total natural gas production volumes subject
to derivative
transactions during the three months ended March 31, 2006.
Natural
Gas Collars
|
|
|
|
Volumes
(MMBtu)
|
|
|
1,082,000
|
|
Average
price ($/MMBtu)
|
|
|
|
|
Floor
|
|
$
|
8.51
|
|
Ceiling
|
|
$
|
11.06
|
|
The
table
below summarizes our total crude oil production volumes subject
to derivative
transactions for the three months ended March 31, 2006.
Crude
Oil Collars
|
|
|
|
Volumes
(Bbls)
|
|
|
18,000
|
|
Average
price ($/Bbls)
|
|
|
|
|
Floor
|
|
$
|
55.00
|
|
Ceiling
|
|
$
|
68.25
|
|
At
March
31, 2006 we had the following outstanding derivatives
positions:
|
|
Contract
Volumes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average
|
|
Average
|
|
Average
|
|
Quarter
|
|
BBls
|
|
MMbtu
|
|
Fixed
Price
|
|
Floor
Price
|
|
Ceiling
Price
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Second
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
|
1,092,000
|
|
$
7.00
|
|
$
7.40
|
|
$
10.70
|
|
Second
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
18,200
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
57.00
|
|
|
68.30
|
|
Third
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
706,000
|
|
|
7.00
|
|
|
7.06
|
|
|
10.04
|
|
Third
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
27,600
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
59.00
|
|
|
70.22
|
|
Fourth
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
368,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.25
|
|
|
8.75
|
|
Fourth
Quarter 2006
|
|
|
18,400
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
58.50
|
|
|
70.93
|
|
First
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
360,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.50
|
|
|
9.45
|
|
Second
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
273,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.68
|
|
|
8.08
|
|
Third
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
276,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.80
|
|
|
8.20
|
|
Fourth
Quarter 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
276,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.92
|
|
|
8.32
|
|
First
Quarter 2008
|
|
|
|
|
|
182,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
7.25
|
|
|
8.65
|
|
Forward
Looking Statements
The
statements contained in all parts of this document, including,
but not limited
to, those relating to our schedule, targets, estimates or results
of future
drilling, including the number, timing and results of wells, budgeted
wells,
increases in wells, the timing and risk involved in drilling follow-up
wells,
expected working or net revenue interests, planned expenditures,
prospects
budgeted and other future capital expenditures, risk profile of
oil and natural
gas exploration, acquisition of 3-D seismic data (including number,
timing and
size of projects), planned evaluation of prospects, probability
of prospects
having oil and natural gas, expected production or reserves, increases
in
reserves, acreage, working capital requirements, hedging activities,
the ability
of expected sources of liquidity to implement the Company’s business strategy,
future hiring, future exploration activity, production rates, the
exploration
and development expenditures in the Barnett Shale trend, the Company’s
initiatives designed to eliminate material weaknesses in the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting and the results of these initiatives
and all
and any other statements regarding future operations, financial
results,
business plans and cash needs and other statements that are not
historical facts
are forward looking statements. When used in this document, the
words
“anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “may,” “project,” “believe” and similar
expressions are intended to be among the statements that identify
forward
looking statements. Such statements involve risks and
uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, those
relating to the Company's dependence on its exploratory drilling
activities, the
volatility of oil and natural gas prices, the need to replace reserves
depleted
by production, operating risks of oil and natural gas operations,
the Company's
dependence on its key personnel, factors that affect the Company's
ability to
manage its growth and achieve its business strategy, risks relating
to, limited
operating history, technological changes, significant capital requirements
of
the Company, the potential impact of government regulations, litigation,
competition, the uncertainty of reserve information and future
net revenue
estimates, property acquisition risks, availability of equipment,
weather,
availability of financing, the actual results of the initiatives
designed to
eliminate a material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting, availability of a qualified workforce to fill the Company’s
accounting positions, completion of the implementation of the Company’s new
accounting software system and the results of audits and assessments
and other
factors detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K/A
for the year
ended December 31, 2005 and other filings with the Securities and
Exchange
Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties
materialize, or
should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes
may vary
materially from those indicated. All subsequent written and oral
forward-looking
statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are
expressly
qualified in their entirety by reference to these risks and uncertainties.
You
should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
Each
forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular
statement
and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking
statement.
ITEM
3-
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
For
information regarding our exposure to certain market risks, see
“Quantitative
and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” in Item 7A of our Annual Report
on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, except for
the Company’s
hedging activity subsequent to December 31, 2005, which is described
above in
“Volatility of Oil and Natural Gas Prices.” There have been no material changes
to the disclosure regarding our exposure to certain market risks
made in the
Annual Report on Form 10-K/A. For additional information regarding
our long-term
debt, see Note 2 of the Notes to Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements in
Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
ITEM
4-
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure
Controls and Procedures.
We
maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed
to provide
reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed
by us in the
reports that we file or submit to the Securities and Exchange
Commission under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is
recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time
periods specified
by the Commission’s rules and forms, and that information is accumulated and
communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive
Officer and Chief
Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding
required
disclosure.
In
accordance with Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15, we carried
out an
evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation
of management,
including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,
of the
effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of
the end of the
period covered by this report. As described in more detail in
our Form 10-K/A
filed on April 11, 2006 (the “10-K/A”), we identified material weaknesses in the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange
Act
Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) in connection with the work related
to
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
As a
result of these material weaknesses, our Chief Executive Officer
and Chief
Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2005, the
Company’s
disclosure controls and procedures were not effective. Additionally,
as a result
of such material weaknesses, the Company was not able to file
its Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 with the Securities
and
Exchange Commission in the time required. Because the control
deficiencies
leading to such material weaknesses were still present as of
March 31, 2006, our
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded
that as of
the end of the period covered by this report, the Company’s disclosure controls
and procedures were not effective. The Company has outlined a
number of
initiatives, as discussed below, that it believes will remediate
these material
weaknesses in 2006.
Hedging
We
completed a review of our documentation practices underlying
our derivative
positions in 2004 and 2005 and determined that we lacked sufficient
contemporaneous documentation and did not timely designate our
derivative
positions at inception as cash flow hedges as required by Statement
of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No.
133,
“Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities” to account for
these positions as cash flow hedges. Under cash flow hedge accounting,
the
after-tax change in the fair value of the open derivative positions
(“fair value
change”) is reported as Other Comprehensive Income in the equity section
of the
balance sheet. Alternatively, if the derivative does not qualify
as a cash flow
hedge, mark-to-market accounting requires that the fair value
change be reported
in earnings. This error came to management’s attention during the preparation of
our Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended December
31, 2005 which
ultimately resulted in a restatement of our financial statements
for 2004 as
well as the first three quarterly periods in 2005.
In
the
process of restating our financials to account for our derivatives
on a
mark-to-market basis, we discovered certain computational errors
in the fair
value of the Company’s derivatives that was previously reported in other
comprehensive income in 2004 and 2005. These errors resulted
from the
information we had relied upon to establish oil and gas prices
used in
connection with determining the fair value of the derivatives. For all the
periods covered by our consolidated financial statements, we
used a third-party
website source to obtain New York Mercantile (“NYMEX”) oil and gas prices and
then used those prices to determine the fair value of the derivatives.
However,
we determined in the course of our evaluation that the use of
Houston Ship
Channel prices was instead required for this purpose which matched
the index
used within our derivative agreements, furthermore we also determined
that the
information from the third party provider was not entirely reliable.
As a result
of the restatement relating to our change in the treatment of
our derivatives,
we no longer report the change in fair value of our derivatives
in other
comprehensive income but now record them as a change to earnings.
Nevertheless,
in marking these derivatives to market, the gains and losses
reflected in other
income and expense have been based upon corrected amounts that
were not based
upon the information from the third party provider. These items
constituted a
material weakness in our internal controls as of December 31,
2005.
Year-end
Close Process and Other Controls
In
the
fourth quarter of 2005, we hired a manager of financial reporting, filling
the prior vacancy described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended
December 31, 2004. This manager of financial reporting subsequently
left the
Company late in the fourth quarter of 2005, creating a new vacancy.
Our manager
of accounting left the Company in November 2005. In February
2006, our
controller and our director of financial planning and analysis
also both left
the Company. We attempted to fill these vacancies, but were not
able to do so as
quickly as we would have liked. We subsequently hired a new controller
and
manager of
accounting
in March 2006, near the end of our year-end closing process. We
have also hired
a new manager of financial reporting, who joined the Company in
April
2006.
The
accounting and financial staff vacancies described above occurred
during the
year-end close process. While these vacancies were partially
remedied by
reliance upon independent financial reporting consultants for
review of critical
accounting areas and disclosures and material nonstandard transactions,
these
absences, combined with our complex manual, review intensive
accounting system,
placed greater burdens of detailed reviews on our remaining middle
and
upper-level accounting professionals, which in turn compromised
the level of
their qualitative review of the elements of the year end close,
financial
statements and disclosures. These review procedures are an important
component
of our controls surrounding the closing process and in financial
reporting. As a
result, we believe that these vacancies resulted in inadequate
staffing,
supervision and financial reporting expertise in our accounting
and financial
areas, which constituted a material weakness in our internal
control over
financial reporting as of December 31, 2005. These deficiencies
ultimately
affect the accuracy of our financial statement reporting and
disclosures.
Accordingly,
in connection with the audit of our 2005 financial results, Pannell Kerr
Forster of Texas, P.C. (“PKF”), our independent registered public accounting
firm, detected a number of errors and/or omissions that were
an indication that
the aforementioned material weaknesses were present at December
31, 2005,
increasing the likelihood to more than remote that a material
misstatement of
the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented
or
detected. The most notable of these errors included (1) our accounting
for our
derivatives as cash flow hedges rather than on a mark-to-market
basis, (2)
corrections for certain computational errors in the fair value
of the Company’s
derivatives previously reported in other comprehensive income
in 2004 and 2005,
(3) errors related to our capital expenditures accrual, (4) errors
in the
evaluation of our unproved property pool and (5) errors related
to the
evaluation of our asset retirement obligation. These errors came
to management's
attention in connection with the preparation of our consolidated
financial
statements for the year ended December 31, 2005. The controls in place
related to items (3), (4) and (5) (“Other Controls”) were not properly designed
and/or operating to provide reasonable assurance that amounts
would be properly
recorded in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The failure
of the Other Controls constituted a third material weakness in
our internal
controls as of December 31, 2005. Management determined that the
restatement of our consolidated financial statements discussed
in Note 3 to our
consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of our Annual
Report on
Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005 was an additional
effect of the
year-end close process material weakness. All correcting adjustments
were
recorded by the Company prior to the finalization of its 2005
financial
statements. The Company has implemented procedures to prevent
these specific
errors from occurring in the future. However, the additional
initiatives
(outlined below) are needed to remediate the material weaknesses
in our internal
controls, and thus lower the risk level to remote of other potential
material
errors or omissions.
As
a
result of these three material weaknesses, our management concluded
in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31,
2005 that our
internal control over financial reporting was not effective as
of December 31,
2005.
While
there can be no assurance in this regard, we expect that the
following
initiatives will eliminate the material weaknesses relating to
our year-end
close process and Other Controls in 2006: (1) increasing the
level of our
professional accounting staff, including the successful placement
of a
new manager of financial reporting, new controller, new manager of
accounting and new director of financial planning and analysis
(including the
placement in the first quarter of 2006 of a new manager of financial
reporting,
new controller and new manager of accounting), and (2) completing our
transition to a new fully-integrated accounting software system
(phase one was
completed in the fourth quarter of 2005) to automate processes
and improve
qualitative reviews. Until these initiatives are fully implemented,
we will
continue to rely on manual processes and require additional commitment
of
resources to the closing process to produce our financial records
and reports.
We have engaged a consultant to assist us in evaluating our risk
management
program to provide guidance, and, where needed, assistance so
that we may
continue to account for our derivative activities as cash flow
hedges in
accordance with the requirements of SFAS No. 133 on a prospective
basis.
Given its limited internal resources, the Company has elected
to account for all
new derivative contracts as non-designated derivatives. As of
the date of this
report, we have not yet completed the initiatives described above.
While we have
hired three new accounting professionals, we have not yet hired
a new director
of financial planning and analysis. Also, our project team has
made significant
progress towards completing the transition to a new fully-integrated
accounting
software system described in the second initiative. We have discussed
these
material weaknesses and our remediation steps with our Audit
Committee.
Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Except as described
above, there
have not been any changes in the Company's internal control over
financial
reporting during the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2006 that
have materially
affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the
Company's internal
control over financial reporting. As described above, the Company
identified
material weaknesses in the Company's internal control over financial
reporting
and has described a number of planned changes to its internal
control over
financial reporting during 2006 designed to remediate these weaknesses.
Some of
these changes
were
effected in the first quarter of 2006, including some changes
in staffing and
changes in hedge accounting. This Item 4 should be read in conjunction
with Item
9A included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year
ended December 31,
2005.
PART
II.
OTHER INFORMATION
Item
1 -
Legal Proceedings
From
time
to time, the Company is party to certain legal actions and claims
arising in the
ordinary course of business. While the outcome of these events
cannot be
predicted with certainty, management does not expect these matters
to have a
materially adverse effect on the financial position or results
of operations of
the Company.
Item
1A -
Risk Factors
In
addition to the other information set forth in this report, you
should carefully
consider the factors discussed in Part I, “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Annual
Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, which
could
materially affect our business, financial condition or future results.
The risks
described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A are not the only
risks facing us.
Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or
that we
currently deem to be immaterial also may materially adversely affect
our
business, financial condition and/or operating results.
Item
2 -
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
None
Item
3 -
Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None
Item
4 -
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
None.
Item
5 -
Other Information
None
Item
6 -
Exhibits
Exhibits
required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K are as follows:
Exhibit
Number
|
|
Description
|
†2.1
|
—
|
Combination
Agreement by and among the Company, Carrizo Production,
Inc., Encinitas
Partners Ltd., La Rosa Partners Ltd., Carrizo Partners
Ltd., Paul B.
Loyd, Jr., Steven A. Webster, S.P. Johnson IV, Douglas
A.P. Hamilton and
Frank A. Wojtek dated as of September 6, 1997 (incorporated
herein by
reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-29187)).
|
†3.1
|
—
|
Amended
and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company
(incorporated herein
by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997).
|
†3.2
|
—
|
Amended
and Restated Bylaws of the Company, as amended by Amendment
No. 1
(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the
Company’s
Registration Statement on Form 8-A (Registration No.
000-22915) Amendment
No. 2 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2
to the Company’s
Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 15, 1999) and
Amendment No. 3
(incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the
Company’s Current
Report on Form 8-K dated February 20, 2002).
|
10.1
|
—
|
|
10.2
|
—
|
|
31.1
|
—
|
|
†
|
Incorporated
herein by reference as indicated.
|
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed
on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
|
Carrizo
Oil & Gas, Inc.
|
|
(Registrant)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Date:
May 10, 2006
|
By:
/s/S. P. Johnson, IV
|
|
President
and Chief Executive Officer
|
|
(Principal
Executive Officer)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Date:
May 10, 2006
|
By:
/s/Paul F. Boling
|
|
Chief
Financial Officer
|
|
(Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer)
|
EX-10.1
2
exhibit101.htm
EXHIBIT 10.1 - SCHEDULE OF 2005 ANNUAL BONUSES
Exhibit 10.1 - Schedule of 2005 Annual Bonuses
Exhibit
10.1
Schedule
of 2005 Annual Bonuses for
Certain
Executive Officers
Name
and Position
|
|
2005
Annual Bonus
|
|
|
|
|
|
S.P.
Johnson IV
President
and Chief Executive Officer
|
|
$
|
214,535
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Paul
F. Boling
Chief
Financial Officer, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer
|
|
$
|
112,668
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gregory
E. Evans
Vice
President of Exploration
|
|
$
|
89,409
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
J.
Bradley Fisher
Vice
President of Operations
|
|
$
|
175,412
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jack
L. Bayless
Vice
President of Land
|
|
$
|
31,823
|
|
EX-10.2
3
exhibit102.htm
EXHIBIT 10.2 - SECOND AMENDMENT TO CONTRIBUTION AND SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.2 - Second Amendment to Contribution and Subscription Agreement
Exhibit
10.2
Execution
Version
SECOND
AMENDMENT TO
CONTRIBUTION
AND SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
This
SECOND AMENDMENT TO CONTRIBUTION AND SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Amendment’),
dated
as of March 31, 2006, is entered into by and among Pinnacle Gas Resources,
Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),
CCBM,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (“CCBM”),
U.S.
Energy Corp., a Wyoming corporation (“US
Energy”),
Crested Corp., a Colorado corporation (“Crested”),
and
each of the CSFB Parties (as defined in the Contribution and Subscription
Agreement (defined herein), and collectively with CCBM, US Energy and Crested,
the “Investors”).
W
I T
N E S SE T H:
WHEREAS,
the Company, CCBM, Rocky Mountain Gas, Inc., a Wyoming corporation
(“RMG”),
and
the CSFB Parties (collectively, the “Parties”)
are
parties to that certain Contribution and Subscription Agreement, dated as of
June 23, 2003 and amended by an Amendment to Contribution and Subscription
Agreement dated August 9, 2005 (as so amended, the “Contribution
and Subscription Agreement”);
and
WHEREAS,
the Parties desire to amend certain terms of the Contribution and Subscription
Agreement.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, mutual covenants and agreements
hereinafter contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
1
Definitions
All
capitalized terms used in the recitals above and the succeeding provisions
of
this Amendment which are not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed
to
such terms in the Contribution and Subscription Agreement, as amended by this
Amendment. All sections referred to in this Amendment shall be references to
sections in the Contribution and Subscription Agreement unless otherwise
noted.
ARTICLE
2
Amendments
2.1 Section
2.3
is
hereby amended by adding the following after subsection
(e):
(f) Effective
as of the closing of the first Private Offering (as defined below) after the
date hereof (such closing date, the “Exercise
Date”),
the
options to purchase Additional Shares shall be exercised, and hereby will be
deemed exercised, in full by each of (i) CCBM or any of its Permitted
Transferees, in the case of the option described in Section
2.3( a),
and
(ii) US Energy, Crested or any
of
their
Permitted Transferees, in the case of the option described in Section
2.3(b),
on a
“cashless” net exercise basis, in which case the Company will issue to the
holder of the option the number of shares of Common Stock computed using the
following formula:
X
=
Y(A-B)
A
Where:
X
=
number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the option holder upon exercise
of the option;
Y
= total
number of shares of Common Stock purchasable under the option;
A
= the
Current Market Price of one share of Common Stock; and
B
= the
Tranche A Price, to the extent the option relates to the Tranche A Shares,
and
the Tranche B Price, to the extent the option relates to the Tranche B Shares;
provided,
however,
that
the Tranche A Price and the Tranche B Price shall each be adjusted to take
into
account the 25-for-1 stock split with respect to the Company’s Common Stock in
the form of a stock dividend of twenty-four (24) shares of Common Stock on
each
outstanding share of Common Stock, payable by distribution of newly issued
shares.
For
purposes of this Section
2.3,
“Current
Market Price”
means
the price at which shares of Common Stock are offered and sold in the Private
Offering. “Private
Offering”
means
a
private placement of the Common Stock of the Company to “qualified institutional
buyers” pursuant to Rule 144A and/or to “accredited investors” pursuant to
Regulation D with net proceeds to the Company of not less than $100.0
million.
(g) Within
three days after the Exercise Date, the Company, at its expense, shall cause
to
be issued in the name of, and delivered to, the option holder, or, subject
to
compliance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Securityholders
Agreement, as the option holder (upon payment by the option holder of any
applicable transfer taxes) may direct, a certificate(s) for the number of full
shares of Common Stock to which the option holder shall be entitled upon such
exercise plus, in lieu of any fractional share to which the option holder would
otherwise be entitled, cash.
ARTICLE
3
Miscellaneous
3.1 Descriptive
Headings.
The
descriptive headings of the several Sections of this Amendment are inserted
for
convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Amendment.
3.2 Governing
Law.
This
Amendment shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and the rights
of
the parties shall be governed by, the law of the State of Texas, without giving
effect to the choice of law or conflicts principles thereof.
3.3 Counterparts.
This
Amendment may be executed by the parties hereto on separate counterparts
(including by facsimile), and such counterparts taken together shall be deemed
to constitute one and the same instrument.
3.4 Notices.
All
communications and notices to the parties hereunder shall be given as provided
in the Contribution and Subscription Agreement.
3.5 Severability.
Whenever possible, each provision of this Amendment will be interpreted in
such
manner as to be effective and valid under applicable Law, but if any provision
of this Amendment is held to be prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction,
such provision will be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and
any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate
or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
3.6 Further
Assurances.
In
connection with this Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby, each
Party shall execute and deliver any additional documents and instruments and
perform any additional acts that may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate
and perform the provisions of this Amendment and those
transactions.
[Signature
Pages to Follow]
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the
undersigned have executed this Amendment as of the date first set forth
above.
PINNACLE
GAS RESOURCES, INC.
By: /s/
Peter G. Schoonmaker
Name:
Peter G. Schoonmaker
Title:
Chief
Executive Officer and President
CCBM,
INC.
By:
By: /s/
S.P. Johnson
Name:
S.P. Johnson
Title:
President
U.S.
ENERGY CORP.
By: /s/
Keith G. Larson
Name:
Keith G. Larson
Title:
Chief
Executive Officer
CRESTED
CORP.
By: /s/
Keith G. Larson
Name:
Keith G. Larson
Title:
Co-Chairman
MILLENNIUM
PARTNERS II, L.P.
|
By:
|
DLJ
Merchant Banking III, Inc.,
|
as
Managing General Partner
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Principal
DLJ
MERCHANT BANKING III, INC.,
as
Advisory General Partner on behalf of DLJ
Offshore
Partners III, C.V.
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Principal
DLJ
MERCHANT BANKING III, INC.,
as
Advisory General Partner on behalf of DLJ
Offshore
Partners III-1, C.V.
and as
attorney-in-
fact
for
DLJ Merchant Banking III, L.P., as
Associate
General Partner of DLJ Offshore Partners
III-1,
C.V.
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Principal
DLJ
MERCHANT BANKING III, INC.,
as
Advisory General Partner on behalf of DLJ
Offshore
Partners III-2, C.V.
and as
attorney-in-
fact
for
DLJ Merchant Banking III, L.P., as
Associate
General Partner of DLJ Offshore Partners
III-2,
C.V.
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Principal
DLJ
MERCHANT BANKING PARTNERS III, L.P.
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By:
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DLJ
Merchant Banking III, Inc.,
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as
Managing General Partner
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Principal
DLJ
MB PARTNERS III GMBH & CO. KG
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By:
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DLJ
Merchant Banking III, L.P.,
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as
Managing Limited Partner
By: DLJ
Merchant Banking III, Inc.,
as
General Partner
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Principal
By: DLJ
MB
GmbH, as General Partner
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Director
MBP
III PLAN INVESTORS, L.P.
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By:
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DLJ
LBO Plans Management Corporation II, as General
Partner
|
By: /s/
Michael S. Isikow
Name: Michael
S. Isikow
Title: Vice
President
EX-31.1
4
exhibit311.htm
EXHIBIT 31.1 - CEO CERTIFICATION
Exhibit 31.1 - CEO Certification
Exhibit
31.1
CERTIFICATIONS
PRINCIPAL
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
I,
S.P.
Johnson, IV, certify that:
1.
|
I
have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Carrizo Oil & Gas,
Inc.;
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2.
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Based
on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
to
make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which
such
statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered
by
this quarterly report;
|
3.
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Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material
respects
the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of
the
registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly
report;
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4.
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The
registrant's other certifying officer and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal
control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and we
have:
|
|
a)
|
designed
such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to
ensure
that material information relating to the registrant, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those
entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly
report is
being prepared;
|
|
b)
|
designed
such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,
to
provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial
reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles;
|
|
c)
|
evaluated
the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures
and presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures as of the
end of
the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation;
and
|
|
d)
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disclosed
in this quarterly report any change in the registrant's internal
control
over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most
recent
fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case
of an
annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely
to
materially affect the registrant's internal control over financial
reporting; and
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5.
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The
registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based
on our
most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting,
to
the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's
board of
directors (or persons performing the equivalent
function):
|
|
a)
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all
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to
record,
process, summarize and report financial information;
and
|
|
b)
|
any
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal
control
over financial reporting.
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Date:
May 10, 2006
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/s/S.P.
Johnson IV |
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S.P.
Johnson IV
|
|
President
and Chief Executive Officer
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EX-31.2
5
exhibit312.htm
EXHIBIT 31.2 - CFO CERTIFICATION
Exhibit 31.2 - CFO Certification
Exhibit
31.2
CERTIFICATIONS
PRINCIPAL
FINANCIAL OFFICER
I,
Paul
F. Boling, certify that:
1.
|
I
have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Carrizo Oil & Gas,
Inc.;
|
2.
|
Based
on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
to
make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which
such
statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered
by
this quarterly report;
|
3.
|
Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material
respects
the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of
the
registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly
report;
|
4.
|
The
registrant's other certifying officer and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal
control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and we
have:
|
|
a)
|
designed
such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to
ensure
that material information relating to the registrant, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those
entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly
report is
being prepared;
|
|
b)
|
designed
such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,
to
provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial
reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles;
|
|
c)
|
evaluated
the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures
and presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures as of the
end of
the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation;
and
|
|
d)
|
disclosed
in this quarterly report any change in the registrant's internal
control
over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most
recent
fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case
of an
annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely
to
materially affect the registrant's internal control over financial
reporting; and
|
5.
|
The
registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed based
on our
most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting,
to
the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's
board of
directors (or persons performing the equivalent
function):
|
|
a)
|
all
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to
record,
process, summarize and report financial information; and
|
|
b)
|
any
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal
control
over financial reporting.
|
Date:
May 10, 2006
|
/s/Paul
F. Boling |
|
Paul
F. Boling
|
|
Chief
Financial Officer
|
EX-32.1
6
exhibit321.htm
EXHIBIT 31.2 - CEO CERTIFICATION
Exhibit 31.2 - CEO Certification
Exhibit
32.1
Certification
Pursuant to
Section
906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
(Subsections
(a) and (b) of Section 1350, Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States
Code)
Pursuant
to section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Subsections (a) and (b) of
Section 1350, Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States Code), I, S.P. Johnson,
IV,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., a Texas
corporation (the “Company”), hereby certify, to my knowledge, that:
|
(1)
|
the
Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March
31, 2006 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section
13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;
and
|
|
(2)
|
information
contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects,
the
financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
|
Dated: May
10, 2006
|
/s/S.P.
Johnson IV
Name:
S.P. Johnson, IV
President
and Chief Executive Officer
|
The
foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to Section 906 of
the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 1350, Chapter
63
of Title 18, United States Code) and is not being filed as part of the Report
or
as a separate disclosure document.
A
signed
original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided
to
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. and will be retained by Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon
request.
EX-32.2
7
exhibit322.htm
EXHIBIT 32.2 - CFO CERTIFICATION
Exhibit 32.2 - CFO Certification
Exhibit
32.2
Certification
Pursuant to
Section
906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
(Subsections
(a) and (b) of Section 1350, Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States
Code)
Pursuant
to section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Subsections (a) and (b) of
Section 1350, Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States Code), I, Paul Boling,
Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., a Texas
corporation (the “Company”), hereby certify, to my knowledge, that:
|
(1)
|
the
Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months
ended March 31, 2006 (the “Report”) fully complies with the
requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of
1934; and
|
|
(2)
|
information
contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects,
the
financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
|
Dated: May
10, 2006
|
/s/Paul
F. Boling
Name:
Paul F. Boling
Vice
President and
Chief
Financial Officer
|
The
foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to Section 906 of
the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 1350, Chapter
63
of Title 18, United States Code) and is not being filed as part of the Report
or
as a separate disclosure document.
A
signed
original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided
to
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. and will be retained by Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon
request.
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