-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, JLshbezuz0i7689B6fNLxGa87qnGV+Znvh5jrTVcW8h8MFK37vnobuGQzzZ9WjCE hCbNbTHlxKB6Y0GOF1/FsQ== 0000909334-07-000127.txt : 20070424 0000909334-07-000127.hdr.sgml : 20070424 20070424131417 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000909334-07-000127 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070423 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20070424 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070424 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: RAM ENERGY RESOURCES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001282648 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311] IRS NUMBER: 200700684 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-50682 FILM NUMBER: 07783855 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5100 E SKELLY DRIVE - SUITE 650 CITY: TULSA STATE: OK ZIP: 74135 BUSINESS PHONE: 918-663-2800 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5100 E SKELLY DRIVE - SUITE 650 CITY: TULSA STATE: OK ZIP: 74135 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: TREMISIS ENERGY ACQUISITION CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20040304 8-K 1 ram8k-42407.htm

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

______________

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 23, 2007

 

RAM ENERGY RESOURCES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

Delaware

 

000-50682

 

20-0700684

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

 

5100 E. Skelly Drive, Suite 650, Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

74135

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  

(918) 663-2800

 

______________________________________________________

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 


 

Item 8.01.  Other Events

 

On April 23, 2007, RAM Energy Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that it had proposed two new wells with respect to its North Texas Barnett Share acreage and that EOG Resources had elected to participate in one of the wells and is considering whether to participate in the second well. The Company owns a 24% working interest in each proposed well. The aggregate estimated cost to drill the first of the two wells would be $3.1 million, and the Company’ share would be approximately $745,000. The aggregate estimated cost to drill the second of the two wells would be $2.7 million, and the Company’ share would be approximately $648,000.

 

In addition, the Company announced that it had increased its non-acquisition capital expenditures budget for 2007 by 20% to $36.3 million. The Company also announced that activity was continuing on two vertical test wells in the Company’s Wolfcamp shale properties in West Texas, and that the Company is participating in a gas exploration play in the Arkoma Basin.

 

 

Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

 

(d)

Exhibits:

 

Exhibit No.

Description

 

 

99.1

Press Release dated April 23, 2007 regarding current oil and gas activities and the increase in the capital expenditures budget.

 

 


SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

April 24, 2007

RAM ENERGY RESOURCES, INC.

 

 

By:  

/s/ John M. Longmire

 

Name:  John M. Longmire

Title:  Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

 

Exhibit No.

Description

Method of Filing

 

 

 

99.1

Press Release dated April 23, 2007 regarding current oil and gas activities and the increase in the capital expenditures budget

Filed herewith electronically

 

 

 

EX-99.1 2 ram8kex991-42407.htm

For Immediate Release

For Further Information Contact:

Monday, April 23, 2007

Robert E. Phaneuf

 

Vice President - Corporate Development

 

(918) 632-0680

 

RAM ENERGY RESOURCES ANNOUNCES OPERATIONAL UPDATE;

INCREASES 2007 CAPITAL BUDGET BY 20 PERCENT

 

Tulsa, Oklahoma – RAM Energy Resources, Inc. (Nasdaq:  RAME) today announced that EOG Resources, Inc., which jointly owns an interest with RAM in a significant portion of the company’s North Texas Barnett Shale acreage, has elected to participate in and operate the Ramsey #1H well. The Ramsey #1H is to be drilled to a true vertical depth of approximately 6,840 feet with a lateral length of approximately 2,800 feet to test the Lower Barnett Shale formation. The well is located in southwest Wise County, Texas, within the prolific Fort Worth Basin. The total estimated cost to drill and complete the well is $3.1 million. If all other leasehold owners elect to participate in the drilling of the Ramsey #1H, RAM will own a 24 percent working interest in the well and will bear a like percentage of the costs.

The Ramsey #1H is the third well that RAM has proposed to EOG and other joint interest owners to date this year in an effort to accelerate the development of the company’s Barnett Shale acreage. RAM made two previous well proposals in recent months; in each case EOG elected to participate, drill and operate the proposed wells. Earlier this year, EOG elected to participate in the Ashe C 1H well located in Wise County, Texas. The Ashe C 1H well was spud earlier this month and is currently drilling ahead.

RAM recently proposed its fourth Barnett shale well to EOG. The Brown #2H well is to be drilled to a true vertical depth of approximately 7,100 feet with a lateral length of approximately 2,300 feet to test the Lower Barnett Shale formation. Located in Wise County, Texas, the total estimated cost to drill and complete the well is $2.7 million. As in the case of other wells proposed by RAM to EOG, if all parties elect to participate, RAM will own a 24 percent working interest in the well and will bear a like percentage of the costs.

RAM has an interest in 27,700 gross (6,800 net) acres in Jack and Wise Counties, Texas with all the acreage held by production. Currently RAM has 9 gross producing wells in the Barnett Shale, with the tenth well, the Devon-operated T. L. Dickenson 1-H, awaiting completion. In addition to the T.L. Dickenson 1-H well and

 

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the recently spud Ashe C 1H well, RAM’s project inventory for potential near-to-intermediate term growth in its Barnett Shale play includes five PUD locations, 19 probable seismic locations and 9 possible seismic locations, for a total of 35 locations identified to date. Many of these locations stem from the company’s acquisition and ongoing review of 35 square-miles of 3-D seismic data over the last year. RAM expects additional locations to emanate from further geophysical work on the acquired seismic data. Also, a portion of RAM’s 2007 capital budget is allocated to acquire an additional 60 square-miles of 3-D seismic covering other acreage in its Barnett Shale holdings.

2007 Capital Budget Increased 20 Percent to $36.3 Million

RAM initially allocated $4.0 million of its $30.3 million non-acquisition capital expenditure budget for 2007 to drilling and developmental activity on its Barnett Shale acreage. However, with EOG’s election to drill and operate three of the four wells proposed by RAM to date this year and with Devon Energy Corporation’s continuous drilling commitment, it has become increasing apparent that the activity level has reached the four to seven wells which comprised the existing 2007 capital spending allocation for the Barnett Shale. As a result of the year-to-date pace of apparent development activity, the portion of the budget allocated to the Barnett Shale has been increased by 150 percent, or $6.0 million, to a total of $10.0 million to accommodate additional wells anticipated to be proposed by the company to EOG from RAM’s inventory of seismically identified locations. Accordingly, the total company 2007 capital budget has been increased by about 20 percent to $36.3 million.

RAM’s Wolfcamp Shale Activity Update

In RAM’s 15,000 acre Wolfcamp shale play in West Texas, activity is continuing on the two vertical test wells drilled in the fourth quarter of 2006. Two zones have been fracture stimulated in one of the wells and one zone has been fracture stimulated in the other well. The wells are currently recovering fluids from the stimulation process and both wells are testing. At the conclusion of the fluid recovery effort from stimulated zones, it is anticipated that another zone in each of the wells will undergo fracture stimulation and additional testing. The company does not anticipate that it will be able to predict whether such completion activities will result in commercially productive wells until remaining targeted zones are fracture stimulated, frac fluids are recovered and additional testing occurs.

 

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RAM is also participating in a gas exploration play in the Arkoma Basin. Based on results in two previously drilled wells along with gas shows and electric log results in the current well, the company has elected to participate in the completion of the Weyerhaeuser 8-22 well. In addition, RAM has also elected to participate in the drilling of another proposed well, the Weyerhaeuser 10-22, anticipated to spud in the second quarter of this year.

RAM’s Inventory of Identified PUD Locations Remains High

At year-end 2006 the company had a substantial inventory of 228 proved undeveloped (PUD) locations. The inventory of locations amounts to about three years of drilling activity at recent rates of drilling. Importantly, 200 of the PUD locations identified are in the mature Electra/Burkburnett field in North Texas. As a part of its exploitation program, RAM drilled 79 development wells in the Electra/Burkburnett field during 2006, primarily converting PUD reserves to proved developed producing reserves. However, the drilling also established 64 new PUD well locations, replacing most of the PUD locations drilled with new PUD locations to be drilled in the future and extending its project inventory. Approximately 72 wells are targeted to be drilled in the field in the 2007 capital spending budget.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release includes certain statements that may be deemed to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, which address estimates of drilling costs, capital spending, the possibility of reserve additions, the election of other working interest owners to the Joint Operating Agreement to participate or not in a well, and events or developments that RAM Energy Resources expects or believes are forward-looking statements. Although RAM Energy Resources believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking

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statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include oil and gas prices, exploitation and exploration successes, actions taken and to be taken by the government as a result of political and economic conditions, continued availability of capital and financing, rig availability and general economic, market or business conditions as well as numerous other risk factors described from time-to-time in RAM Energy Resources’ periodic reports, proxy statements and other information statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

RAM Energy Resources, Inc. is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploitation, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties and the marketing of natural gas and crude oil. Company headquarters are in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its common shares are traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol RAME. For additional information, visit the company website at www.ramenergy.com.

 

 

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