Attention: | Mr. H. Roger Schwall, Assistant Director Mr. James Giugliano, Staff Accountant |
Re: | ReoStar Energy Corporation Form 10-KSB/A for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2008 Filed July 23, 2008 Form 10-Q for Fiscal Quarter ended December 31, 2008 Filed February 13, 2009 Response Letter Dated April 21, 2009 Response Letter Date June 4, 2009 Response Letter Dated July 24, 2009 File No. 000-52316 |
The staff's primary concern noted above was
based upon the conclusion that the J. O. Burke pilot project was an alkali-surfactant
flood, and was therefore different from the surfactant polymer injection
project we have begun implementing. We believe the staff has not considered
all of the relevant facts in its comment letter. The pilot project was a
surfactant polymer project - no alkali was included in the mix. Therefore,
the pilot project and our surfactant polymer project are substantially similar,
and our engineers were justified in using the offset pilot as a baseline
for the reserve study. Further, the staff's opinion does not take into consideration the fact that ReoStar began polymer injection in the first stage of our project in June 2007 and that the oil recovery response observed through the evaluation date was within the expected range of response indicated by the J.O. Burke pilot project. This response not only validates the J.O. Burke pilot, it also validates the recoverable volumes shown in the reserve report - they are achievable. |
Crude Oil
(MBBL) |
|
Natural Gas
(MMCF) |
|
Crude Oil
Equivalents (MBOE) |
|||
Proved Developed Producing |
602
|
3,447
|
1,177
|
||||
Proved Developed Non-Producing |
199
|
3,051
|
708
|
||||
Proved Undeveloped |
610
|
12,311
|
2,662
|
||||
Total Proved Reserves at April 1, 2008 |
1,411
|
18,809
|
4,546
|
||||
Barnett Shale Project
|
|
Corsicana
Project |
|
East Texas
Project |
||||||||||
Crude Oil (MBBL) |
|
Natural Gas
(MMCF) |
|
Crude Oil
Equivalents (MBOE) |
|
Crude Oil
(MBBL) |
|
Crude Oil
Equivalents (MBOE) |
||||||
Proved Developed Producing |
164
|
3,446
|
738
|
430
|
8
|
|||||||||
Proved Developed Non-Producing |
190
|
3,050
|
698
|
-
|
9
|
|||||||||
Proved Undeveloped |
590
|
12,311
|
2,642
|
20
|
-
|
|||||||||
Total Proved Reserves at April 1, 2008 |
944
|
18,807
|
4,079
|
450
|
17
|
|||||||||
• | Estimates are made of quantities of proved reserves and future amounts expected to be produced based on current year-end economic conditions. | |
• | Estimated future cash inflows are calculated by applying current year-end prices of natural gas and oil relating to our proved reserves to the quantities of those reserves produced in each future year. | |
• | Future cash flows are reduced by estimated production costs, costs to develop and produce the proved reserves and abandonment costs, all based on current year-end economic conditions. | |
• | The resulting future net cash flows are discounted to present value by applying a discount rate of 10%. |
Total
|
|
Barnett
Project |
|
Corsicana
Project |
|
East Texas
Project |
||||||
In thousands |
April 1, 2008
|
|
April 1, 2008
|
|
April 1, 2008
|
|
April 1, 2008
|
|||||
Future Cash Inflows | $ |
311,067
|
$ |
267,363
|
$ |
41,944
|
$ |
1,760
|
||||
Future Production and Development Costs |
(107,196
|
) |
(92,186
|
) |
(13,919
|
) |
(1,091
|
) | ||||
Income Taxes |
(71,355
|
) |
(61,312
|
) |
(9,809
|
) |
(234
|
) | ||||
Future Net Cash Flows |
132,516
|
113,865
|
18,216
|
435
|
||||||||
10% Annual Discount |
(64,215
|
) |
(55,724
|
) |
(8,374
|
) |
(117
|
) | ||||
Standardized Measure of Discounted
Future Net Cash Flow |
$ |
8,301
|
$ |
58,141
|
$ |
9,842
|
$ |
318
|
In Thousands | ||||||||||||
Balance at beginning of year | $ |
117,629
|
||||||||||
Net change in prices and production costs |
19,348
|
|||||||||||
Net changes in future development costs |
(14,805
|
) | ||||||||||
Sales of oil & gas produced net of production costs |
(2,458
|
) | ||||||||||
Extensions and discoveries |
98,476
|
|||||||||||
Previously estimated development costs incurred |
2,188
|
|||||||||||
Revisions of previous quantity estimates |
(372,372
|
) | ||||||||||
Purchases of reserves |
1,815
|
|||||||||||
Net change in income taxes |
93,733
|
|||||||||||
Accretion of discount |
124,747
|
|||||||||||
End of Year | $ |
68,301
|
||||||||||
Reserves |
Barnett
Shale |
|
|
Corsicana
Field |
|
|
E. Texas
Field |
|
|
Total
|
||
Proved Developed (MBOE) |
1,437
|
430
|
9
|
1,876
|
||||||||
Proved Undeveloped (MBOE) |
2,642
|
20
|
9
|
2,671
|
||||||||
Total Proven Reserves at March 31, 2008 |
4,079
|
450
|
18
|
4,547
|
||||||||
|
||||||||||||
Benchmark Pricing | ||||||||||||
Natural Gas per mcf | $ |
9.86
|
||||||||||
Crude Oil per barrel | $ |
101.54
|
Net Reserves (MBOE)
|
||||||||||||
2008
|
|
2007
|
|
% Change
|
||||||||
Proved Developed |
430
|
106
|
406.4%
|
|||||||||
Proved Undeveloped |
20
|
11,302
|
-99.8%
|
|||||||||
450
|
11,408
|
-96.1%
|
||||||||||
Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
|
|||||||
2009
|
2008
|
||||||
Unproved oil and gas properties | $ |
484,198
|
$ |
2,445,556
|
|||
Proved oil and gas properties |
23,920,960
|
14,456,967
|
|||||
Support Equipment and facilities |
-
|
-
|
|||||
Capitalized Interest |
999,620
|
930,408
|
|||||
Total Capitalized Cost of Oil and Gas Properties |
25,404,778
|
17,832,931
|
|||||
Less accumulated depletion, depreciation, and amortization |
(6,206,558
|
) |
(4,139,337
|
) | |||
Net Capitalized Costs | $ |
19,198,220
|
$ |
13,693,594
|
|||
Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
|
|||||||
2009
|
2008
|
||||||
Property Acquisition Costs | |||||||
Proved | $ |
427,676
|
$ |
1,814,718
|
|||
Unproved |
15,472
|
271,151
|
|||||
Exploration Costs |
267,212
|
4,933,277
|
|||||
Development Costs |
7,393,929
|
696,594
|
|||||
Asset retirement costs recognized according to SFAS No. 143 |
344,079
|
-
|
|||||
Total Costs Incurred | $ |
8,448,368
|
$ |
7,715,740
|
|||
Oil & Gas Production
|
||||||||||||
Oil
(Bbl) |
Gas
(Mcf) |
Total
BOE |
||||||||||
Fiscal Year Ended |
3/31/2008
|
33,602
|
351,538
|
92,192
|
||||||||
Fiscal Year Ended |
3/31/2009
|
45,105
|
479,180
|
124,968
|
Fiscal Years Ended March 31,
|
||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||
Oil & Gas Revenue | $ |
6,558,069
|
$ |
4,902,072
|
||||||||
Gain on Sale of Oil & Gas Leases |
18,005
|
307,028
|
||||||||||
Production Costs |
3,140,198
|
2,800,388
|
||||||||||
Exploration Costs |
2,975
|
61,179
|
||||||||||
Expired Leases and Plugging Costs |
433,969
|
290,959
|
||||||||||
Depreciation, Depletion, & Amortization |
4,591,131
|
1,399,293
|
||||||||||
(1,592,199
|
) |
657,281
|
||||||||||
Income Taxes |
557,270
|
(230,048
|
) | |||||||||
Results of operations for
oil and gas producing activities (excluding corporate overhead and financing costs) |
(1,034,929
|
) |
427,233
|
|||||||||
Oil
(MBBL) |
Gas
(MMCF) |
|||||||||||
Reserves at March 31, 2007 |
11,677
|
3,392
|
||||||||||
Revisions of previous estimates |
(10,970
|
) |
(133
|
) | ||||||||
Improved recovery |
124
|
4,786
|
||||||||||
Purchases of minerals in place |
24
|
525
|
||||||||||
Extensions and discoveries |
590
|
10,591
|
||||||||||
Production |
(34
|
) |
(351
|
) | ||||||||
Sales of minerals in place |
-
|
-
|
||||||||||
Reserves at March 31, 2008 |
1,411
|
18,809
|
||||||||||
Revisions of previous estimates |
(739
|
) |
(11,269
|
) | ||||||||
Improved recovery |
-
|
-
|
||||||||||
Purchases of minerals in place |
1
|
25
|
||||||||||
Extensions and discoveries |
397
|
4,725
|
||||||||||
Production |
(45
|
) |
(479
|
) | ||||||||
Sales of minerals in place |
-
|
-
|
||||||||||
Reserves at March 31, 2009 |
1,025
|
11,811
|
||||||||||
Barnett Shale Project
|
|
Corsicana
Project |
|
East Texas
Project |
||||||||||
Crude Oil (MBBL) |
|
Natural Gas
(MMCF) |
|
Crude Oil
Equivalents (MBOE) |
|
Crude Oil
(MBBL) |
|
Crude Oil
Equivalents (MBOE) |
||||||
Proved Developed Producing |
94
|
2,812
|
563
|
100
|
11
|
|||||||||
Proved Developed Non-Producing |
43
|
494
|
125
|
87
|
2
|
|||||||||
Proved Undeveloped |
655
|
8,505
|
2,073
|
33
|
-
|
|||||||||
Total Proved Reserves at April 1, 2009 |
792
|
11,811
|
2,761
|
220
|
13
|
|||||||||
• | Estimates are made of quantities of proved reserves and future amounts expected to be produced based on current year-end economic conditions. | |
• | Estimated future cash inflows are calculated by applying current year-end prices of natural gas and oil relating to our proved reserves to the quantities of those reserves produced in each future year. | |
• | Future cash flows are reduced by estimated production costs, costs to develop and produce the proved reserves and abandonment costs, all based on current year-end economic conditions. | |
• | The resulting future net cash flows are discounted to present value by applying a discount rate of 10%. |
As of March 31,
|
||||||||||||
In thousands |
2009
|
2008
|
||||||||||
Future Cash Inflows | $ |
90,391
|
$ |
311,067
|
||||||||
Future Production and Development Costs |
(55,865
|
) |
(107,195
|
) | ||||||||
Income Taxes |
(12,084
|
) |
(71,355
|
) | ||||||||
Future Net Cash Flows |
22,442
|
132,517
|
||||||||||
10% Annual Discount |
(12,120
|
) |
(64,216
|
) | ||||||||
Standardized Measure of Discounted
Future Net Cash Flow |
$ |
10,322
|
$ |
68,301
|
||||||||
Year Ended March 31,
|
||||||||||||
In Thousands |
2009
|
2008
|
||||||||||
Balance at beginning of year | $ |
68,301
|
$ |
117,629
|
||||||||
Net change in prices and production costs |
(194,933
|
) |
19,348
|
|||||||||
Net changes in future development costs |
6,807
|
(14,805
|
) | |||||||||
Sales of oil & gas produced net of production costs |
(3,533
|
) |
(2,458
|
) | ||||||||
Extensions and discoveries |
23,664
|
98,476
|
||||||||||
Previously estimated development costs incurred |
8,243
|
2,188
|
||||||||||
Revisions of previous quantity estimates |
(10,020
|
) |
(372,372
|
) | ||||||||
Purchases of reserves |
427
|
1,815
|
||||||||||
Net change in income taxes |
59,271
|
93,733
|
||||||||||
Accretion of discount |
52,095
|
124,747
|
||||||||||
End of Year | $ |
10,322
|
$ |
68,301
|
||||||||
Total
|
|
Barnett
Project |
|
Corsicana
Project |
|
East Texas
Project |
||||||
In thousands |
April 1, 2009
|
|
April 1, 2009
|
|
April 1, 2009
|
|
April 1, 2009
|
|||||
Future Cash Inflows | $ |
90,391
|
$ |
79,631
|
$ |
10,095
|
$ |
665
|
||||
Future Production and Development Costs |
(55,865
|
) |
(48,034
|
) |
(7,588
|
) |
(243
|
) | ||||
Income Taxes |
(12,084
|
) |
(11,059
|
) |
(878
|
) |
(147
|
) | ||||
Future Net Cash Flows |
22,442
|
20,538
|
1,629
|
275
|
||||||||
10% Annual Discount |
(12,120
|
) |
(11,366
|
) |
(668
|
) |
(86
|
) | ||||
Standardized Measure of Discounted
Future Net Cash Flow |
$ |
10,322
|
$ |
9,172
|
$ |
961
|
$ |
189
|
||||
Estimated Proved Reserves |
Barnett
Shale |
|
|
Corsicana
Field |
|
|
E. Texas
Field |
|
|
Total
|
||
Proved Developed (MBOE) |
688
|
187
|
13
|
888
|
||||||||
Proved Undeveloped (MBOE) |
2,073
|
33
|
-
|
2,106
|
||||||||
Total Proven Reserves at March 31, 2009 |
2,761
|
220
|
13
|
2,994
|
||||||||
|
||||||||||||
Benchmark Pricing | ||||||||||||
Natural Gas per mmbtu | $ |
3.58
|
||||||||||
Crude Oil per barrel | $ |
49.65
|
• | The company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings; | |
• | Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not prevent the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filings; and | |
• | The company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
Very truly yours, /s/ Scott D. Allen Scott D. Allen Chief Financial Officer |