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Supplementary Information On Oil, Ngl And Natural Gas Reserves
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Supplementary Information On Oil, Ngl And Natural Gas Reserves [Abstract]  
Supplementary Information On Oil, Ngl And Natrual Gas Reserves

11. SUPPLEMENTARY  INFORMATION ON OIL, NGL AND NATURAL GAS RESERVES (UNAUDITED)

 

Aggregate Capitalized Costs

 

The aggregate amount of capitalized costs of oil and natural gas properties and related accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization as of September 30 is as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

Producing properties

$

418,237,512 

 

$

304,889,145 

Non-producing minerals

 

8,247,509 

 

 

8,490,277 

Non-producing leasehold

 

302,631 

 

 

442,628 

Exploratory wells in progress

 

1,710,577 

 

 

 -

 

 

428,498,229 

 

 

313,822,050 

Accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization

 

(204,045,504)

 

 

(186,042,746)

Net capitalized costs

$

224,452,725 

 

$

127,779,304 

 

Costs Incurred

 

For the years ended September 30, the Company incurred the following costs in oil and natural gas producing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property acquisition costs

$

83,405,404 

 

$

1,242,615 

 

$

20,404,465 

Exploration costs

 

2,013,231 

 

 

 -

 

 

1,210,417 

Development costs

 

34,219,072 

 

 

27,938,160 

 

 

24,578,943 

 

$

119,637,707 

 

$

29,180,775 

 

$

46,193,825 

 

In 2014, $81.7 million of property acquisition costs related to the Eagle Ford Shale acquisition. In 2012, $17.4 million of the property acquisition costs related to the acquisition of certain assets in the Arkansas Fayetteville Shale.

 

Estimated Quantities of Proved Oil, NGL and Natural Gas Reserves

 

The following unaudited information regarding the Company’s oil, NGL and natural gas reserves is presented pursuant to the disclosure requirements promulgated by the SEC and the FASB.

 

Proved oil and natural gas reserves are those quantities of oil and natural gas which, by analysis of geosciences and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible – from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations – prior to the time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates that renewal is reasonably certain, regardless of whether deterministic or probabilistic methods are used for the estimation. Existing economic conditions include prices and costs at which economic producibility from a reservoir is to be determined. The price shall be the average price during the 12-month period prior to the ending date of the period covered by the report, determined as an unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within such period, unless prices are defined by contractual arrangements, excluding escalations based upon future conditions. The project to extract the hydrocarbons must have commenced, or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project within a reasonable time. The area of the reservoir considered as proved includes: (i) the area identified by drilling and limited by fluid contacts, if any, and (ii) adjacent undrilled portions of the reservoir that can, with reasonable certainty, be judged to be continuous with it and to contain economically producible oil or natural gas on the basis of available geoscience and engineering data. In the absence of data on fluid contacts, proved quantities in a reservoir are limited by the lowest known hydrocarbons as seen in a well penetration unless geoscience, engineering or performance data and reliable technology establishes a lower contact with reasonable certainty. Where direct observation from well  penetrations has defined a highest known oil elevation and the potential exists for an associated natural gas cap, proved oil reserves may be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir only if geoscience, engineering or performance data and reliable technology establish the higher contact with reasonable certainty. Reserves which can be produced economically through application of improved recovery techniques (including, but not limited to, fluid injection) are included in the proved classification when: (i) successful testing by a pilot project in an area of the reservoir with properties no more favorable than in the reservoir as a whole, the operation of an installed program in the reservoir or an analogous reservoir, or other evidence using reliable technology establishes the reasonable certainty of the engineering analysis on which the project or program was based; and (ii) the project has been approved for development by all necessary parties and entities, including governmental entities.

 

The independent consulting petroleum engineering firm of DeGolyer and MacNaughton of Dallas, Texas, calculated the Company’s oil, NGL and natural gas reserves as of September 30, 2014,  2013 and 2012.  

 

The Company’s net proved oil, NGL and natural gas reserves, all of which are located in the contiguous United States, as of September 30, 2014,  2013 and 2012, have been estimated by the Company’s Independent Consulting Petroleum Engineering Firm. Estimates of reserves were prepared by the use of appropriate geologic, petroleum engineering and evaluation principals and techniques that are in accordance with practices generally recognized by the petroleum industry as presented in the publication of the Society of Petroleum Engineers entitled “Standards Pertaining to the Estimating and Auditing of Oil and Gas Reserves Information (Revision as of February 19, 2007).” The method or combination of methods used in the analysis of each reservoir was tempered by experience with similar reservoirs, stage of development, quality and completeness of basic data and production history.

 

All of the reserve estimates are reviewed and approved by our Vice President and COO, who reports directly to our President and CEO. Paul Blanchard, our COO, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree

in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Before joining the Company, he was sole proprietor of a consulting petroleum engineering firm, spent 10 years as Vice President of the Mid-

Continent business unit of Range Resources Corporation and spent several years as an engineer with Enron Oil and Gas. He is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) with over 28 years of oil and gas industry experience, including engineering assignments in several field locations.

 

Our COO and internal staff work closely with our Independent Consulting Petroleum Engineers to ensure the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of data furnished to them for their reserves estimation process. We provide historical information to our Independent Consulting Petroleum Engineers for all properties such as ownership interest, oil and gas production, well test data, commodity prices, operating costs and handling fees, and development costs. Throughout the year, our team meets regularly with representatives of our Independent Consulting Petroleum Engineers to review properties and discuss methods and assumptions.

 

When applicable, the volumetric method was used to estimate the original oil in place (OOIP) and the original gas in place (OGIP). Structure and isopach maps were constructed to estimate reservoir volume. Electrical logs, radioactivity logs, core analyses and other available data were used to prepare these maps as well as to estimate representative values for porosity and water saturation. When adequate data was available and when circumstances justified, material balance and other engineering methods were used to estimate OOIP or OGIP.

 

Estimates of ultimate recovery were obtained after applying recovery factors to OOIP or OGIP. These recovery factors were based on consideration of the type of energy inherent in the reservoirs, analyses of the petroleum, the structural positions of the properties and the production histories. When applicable, material balance and other engineering methods were used to estimate recovery factors. An analysis of reservoir performance, including production rate, reservoir pressure and gas-oil ratio behavior, was used in the estimation of reserves.

 

For depletion-type reservoirs or those whose performance disclosed a reliable decline in producing-rate trends or other diagnostic characteristics, reserves were estimated by the application of appropriate decline curves or other performance relationships. In the analyses of production-decline curves, reserves were estimated only to the limits of economic production or to the limit of the production licenses as appropriate.

 

Accordingly, these estimates should be expected to change, and such changes could be material and occur in the near term as future information becomes available.

 

Net quantities of proved, developed and undeveloped oil, NGL and natural gas reserves are summarized as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proved Reserves

 

Oil

 

NGL

 

Natural Gas

 

(Barrels)

 

(Barrels)

 

(Mcf)

September 30, 2011

843,738 

 

791,648 

 

101,837,984 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revisions of previous estimates

8,627 

 

(76,794)

 

(27,389,752)

Acquisitions (divestitures)

 -

 

 -

 

19,075,529 

Extensions, discoveries and other additions

373,097 

 

172,602 

 

29,062,593 

Production

(153,143)

 

(98,714)

 

(9,072,298)

September 30, 2012

1,072,319 

 

788,742 

 

113,514,056 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revisions of previous estimates

(90,968)

 

141,081 

 

(2,697,853)

Acquisitions (divestitures)

 -

 

 -

 

1,660,649 

Extensions, discoveries and other additions

896,036 

 

798,200 

 

30,698,644 

Production

(234,084)

 

(111,897)

 

(10,886,329)

September 30, 2013

1,643,303 

 

1,616,126 

 

132,289,167 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revisions of previous estimates

(50,025)

 

469,897 

 

(3,917,380)

Acquisitions (divestitures)

5,882,886 

 

884,889 

 

8,191,448 

Extensions, discoveries and other additions

439,802 

 

276,957 

 

16,702,684 

Production

(346,387)

 

(207,688)

 

(10,773,559)

September 30, 2014

7,569,579 

 

3,040,181 

 

142,492,360 

 

The prices used to calculate reserves and future cash flows from reserves for oil, NGL and natural gas, respectively, were as follows: September 30, 2014 - $96.94/Bbl,  $31.45/Bbl,  $4.04/Mcf ; September 30, 2013 - $89.06/Bbl,  $27.28/Bbl,  $3.33/Mcf September 30, 2012 - $89.41/Bbl,  $35.70/Bbl,  $2.51/Mcf.  

 

The revisions of previous estimates from 2013 to 2014 were primarily the result of:

 

·

Negative performance revisions of 4.7 Bcfe, which consisted of 1.7 Bcfe of negative proved developed revisions principally due to poorer than projected well performance attributable to properties in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle and 3.0 Bcfe of negative proved undeveloped revisions principally attributable to the removal of dry gas reserves which are no longer projected to be developed within 5 years from the date they were added to the proved undeveloped reserves.

 

·

Positive pricing revisions of 3.3 Bcfe due to proved developed wells (2.6 Bcfe) and proved undeveloped locations (0.7 Bcfe) reaching their economic limits later than previously projected, thus adding reserves, resulting from higher oil, NGL and natural gas prices.

 

Extensions, discoveries and other additions from 2013 to 2014 are principally attributable to:

 

·

The Company’s participation in ongoing development of unconventional natural gas utilizing horizontal drilling in the Arkansas Fayetteville Shale. 

 

·

The Company’s participation in ongoing development of conventional oil, NGL and natural gas plays including the Granite Wash and Marmaton plays in western Oklahoma, and the Springer play in southern Oklahoma as well as minor activity in other areas.

 

·

The Company’s participation in ongoing development of unconventional oil, NGL and natural gas utilizing horizontal drilling in the Anadarko Basin Woodford Shale in western and southern Oklahoma.

 

·

The addition of PUD reserves principally in the Fayetteville Shale play in Arkansas, the Anadarko Basin Woodford Shale in western and southern Oklahoma and the Marmaton and Granite Wash plays in western Oklahoma, as well as the Bakken play in North Dakota. These additions are the result of reservoir delineation proved by continuing drilling and well performance data in each of the referenced plays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proved Developed Reserves

 

Proved Undeveloped Reserves

 

Oil

 

NGL

 

Natural Gas

 

Oil

 

NGL

 

Natural Gas

 

(Barrels)

 

(Barrels)

 

(Mcf)

 

(Barrels)

 

(Barrels)

 

(Mcf)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 30, 2012

849,548 

 

494,160 

 

65,733,119 

 

222,771 

 

294,582 

 

47,780,937 

September 30, 2013

1,037,721 

 

764,321 

 

82,298,833 

 

605,582 

 

851,805 

 

49,990,334 

September 30, 2014

2,890,678 

 

1,564,859 

 

88,512,767 

 

4,678,901 

 

1,475,322 

 

53,979,593 

 

The following details the changes in proved undeveloped reserves for 2014 (Mcfe):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning proved undeveloped reserves

58,734,656 

Proved undeveloped reserves transferred to proved developed

(17,488,307)

Revisions

(2,251,443)

Extensions and discoveries

17,776,338 

Purchases

34,133,687 

Ending proved undeveloped reserves

90,904,931 

 

The beginning PUD reserves were 58.7 Bcfe. A total of 17.5 Bcfe (30% of the beginning balance) were transferred to proved developed producing during 2014. The 2.3 Bcfe of negative revisions to PUD reserves consist of a positive pricing revision of 0.7 Bcfe offset by a 3.0 Bcfe (5% of the beginning balance) negative performance revision in 2014 as the result of removal of dry gas reserves which are no longer projected to be developed within 5 years from the date they were added. A total of 20.5 Bcfe (35% of the beginning balance) of PUD reserves were moved out of the category during 2014 as either the result of being transferred to proved developed or removed because they were no longer projected to be developed within 5 years from the date they were added to the proved undeveloped reserves. PUD locations from 2010 representing 9% of total 2014 PUD reserves remain in the PUD category. We anticipate that all the Company’s PUD locations will be drilled and converted to PDP within five years of the date they were added. However, PUD locations and associated reserves which are no longer projected to be drilled within 5 years from the date they were added to the proved undeveloped reserves will be removed as revisions at the time that determination is made and in the event that there are undrilled PUD locations at the end of the five-year period, it is our intent to remove the reserves associated with those locations from our proved reserves as revisions.

 

Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows

 

Accounting Standards prescribe guidelines for computing a standardized measure of future net cash flows and changes therein relating to estimated proved reserves. The Company has followed these guidelines, which are briefly discussed below.

 

Future cash inflows and future production and development costs are determined by applying the trailing unweighted 12-month arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month individual product prices and year-end costs to the estimated quantities of oil, natural gas and NGL to be produced. Actual future prices and costs may be materially higher or lower than the unweighted 12-month arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month individual product prices and year-end costs used. For each year, estimates are made of quantities of proved reserves and the future periods during which they are expected to be produced based on continuation of the economic conditions applied for such year.

 

Estimated future income taxes are computed using current statutory income tax rates including consideration for the current tax basis of the properties and related carry forwards, giving effect to permanent differences and tax credits. The resulting future net cash flows are reduced to present value amounts by applying a 10% annual discount factor. The assumptions used to compute the standardized measure are those prescribed by the FASB and, as such, do not necessarily reflect our expectations of actual revenue to be derived from those reserves nor their present worth. The limitations inherent in the reserve quantity estimation process, as discussed previously, are equally applicable to the standardized measure computations since these estimates affect the valuation process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Future cash inflows

$

1,405,400,261 

 

$

630,332,900 

 

$

408,694,869 

Future production costs

 

(423,512,430)

 

 

(216,584,982)

 

 

(135,516,703)

Future development and asset retirement costs

 

(146,465,509)

 

 

(50,572,218)

 

 

(35,290,260)

Future income tax expense

 

(308,149,182)

 

 

(131,397,192)

 

 

(83,543,516)

Future net cash flows

 

527,273,140 

 

 

231,778,508 

 

 

154,344,390 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10% annual discount

 

(322,490,636)

 

 

(130,103,612)

 

 

(86,930,102)

Standardized measure of discounted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

future net cash flows

$

204,782,504 

 

$

101,674,896 

 

$

67,414,288 

 

Changes in the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Beginning of year

$

101,674,896 

 

$

67,414,288 

 

$

78,382,434 

Changes resulting from:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales of oil, NGL and natural gas, net of production costs

 

(66,239,618)

 

 

(46,909,635)

 

 

(30,226,927)

Net change in sales prices and production costs

 

164,240,162 

 

 

47,270,404 

 

 

(45,178,377)

Net change in future development and asset retirement costs

 

(46,593,511)

 

 

(7,363,224)

 

 

4,483,543 

Extensions and discoveries

 

44,308,910 

 

 

54,101,830 

 

 

34,216,533 

Revisions of quantity estimates

 

(3,235,695)

 

 

(3,150,420)

 

 

(27,419,576)

Acquisitions (divestitures) of reserves-in-place

 

102,945,609 

 

 

2,198,612 

 

 

20,160,327 

Accretion of discount

 

17,646,314 

 

 

11,473,819 

 

 

13,644,203 

Net change in income taxes

 

(90,457,070)

 

 

(27,464,341)

 

 

10,735,694 

Change in timing and other, net

 

(19,507,493)

 

 

4,103,563 

 

 

8,616,434 

Net change

 

103,107,608 

 

 

34,260,608 

 

 

(10,968,146)

End of year

$

204,782,504 

 

$

101,674,896 

 

$

67,414,288