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Supplementary Information On Natural Gas, Oil And NGL Reserves
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Extractive Industries [Abstract]  
Supplementary Information On Natural Gas, Oil And NGL Reserves

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

Aggregate Capitalized Costs

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

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

Producing properties

 

$

324,886,491

 

 

$

354,718,398

 

Non-producing minerals

 

 

18,808,689

 

 

 

14,413,899

 

Non-producing leasehold

 

 

185,125

 

 

 

185,124

 

 

 

 

343,880,305

 

 

 

369,317,421

 

Accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization

 

 

(263,277,422

)

 

 

(258,063,849

)

Net capitalized costs

 

$

80,602,883

 

 

$

111,253,572

 

 

Costs Incurred

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

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Property acquisition costs

 

$

10,453,119

 

 

$

6,235,905

 

 

$

11,409,673

 

Exploration costs

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Development costs

 

 

273,825

 

 

 

3,012,095

 

 

 

10,291,476

 

 

 

$

10,726,944

 

 

$

9,248,000

 

 

$

21,701,149

 

 

Estimated Quantities of Proved Natural Gas, Oil and NGL Reserves

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

Proved natural gas and oil reserves are those quantities of natural gas and oil which, by analysis of geoscience 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 natural gas or oil 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, prepared the Company’s natural gas, oil and NGL reserves estimates as of September 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018.

The Company’s net proved natural gas, oil and NGL reserves, which are located in the contiguous United States, as of September 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, 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 principles 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, Minerals Operations, Freda Webb. Ms. Webb holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Professional Engineering License in Petroleum Engineering in the State of Oklahoma. Ms. Webb has more than 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Before joining the Company, she was sole proprietor of a consulting petroleum engineering firm and a mineral acquisition company. Ms. Webb held various positions of increasing responsibility at Southwestern Energy Company and Occidental Petroleum Corporation, with reservoir engineering assignments in several field locations across the United States. She is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Our Vice President, Minerals Operations, 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 (such as ownership interest, gas and oil production, well test data, commodity prices, operating costs, handling fees and development costs) for all properties to our Independent Consulting Petroleum Engineers. Throughout the year, our team meets regularly with representatives of our Independent Consulting Petroleum Engineers to review properties and discuss methods and assumptions.

Estimates of reserves were prepared by the use of appropriate geologic, petroleum engineering and evaluation principles and techniques that are in accordance with the reserves definitions of Rules 4–10(a) (1)–(32) of Regulation S–X of the SEC and with practices generally recognized by the petroleum industry as presented in the publication of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) entitled “Standards Pertaining to the Estimating and Auditing of Oil and Gas Reserves Information (revised June 2019) Approved by the SPE Board on 25 June 2019” and in Monograph 3 and Monograph 4 published by the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. 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. Based on the current stage of field development, production performance, development plans and analyses of areas offsetting existing wells with test or production data, reserves were classified as proved. The proved undeveloped reserves were estimated for locations that have been permitted, are currently drilling, are drilled but not yet completed, or locations where the operator has indicated to the Company its intention to drill.

For the evaluation of unconventional reservoirs, a performance-based methodology integrating the appropriate geology and petroleum engineering data was utilized. Performance-based methodology primarily includes (1) production diagnostics, (2) decline-curve analysis, and (3) model-based analysis (if necessary, based on availability of data). Production diagnostics include data quality control, identification of flow regimes and characteristic well performance behavior. These analyses were performed for all well groupings (or type-curve areas). Characteristic rate-decline profiles from diagnostic interpretation were translated to modified hyperbolic rate profiles, including one or multiple b-exponent values followed by an exponential decline. Based on the availability of data, model-based analysis may be integrated to evaluate long-term decline behavior, the effect of dynamic reservoir and fracture parameters on well performance, and complex situations sourced by the nature of unconventional reservoirs. In the evaluation of undeveloped reserves, type-well analysis was performed using well data from analogous reservoirs for which more complete historical performance data were available.

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 natural gas, oil and NGL reserves are summarized as follows:

 

 

 

Proved Reserves

 

 

 

Natural Gas

 

 

Oil

 

 

NGL

 

 

Total

 

 

 

(Mcf)

 

 

(Barrels)

 

 

(Barrels)

 

 

Bcfe

 

September 30, 2017

 

 

121,195,120

 

 

 

5,509,667

 

 

 

2,384,699

 

 

 

168.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revisions of previous estimates

 

 

(29,247

)

 

 

(1,407,995

)

 

 

303,728

 

 

 

(6.7

)

Acquisitions (divestitures)

 

 

(1,782,949

)

 

 

236,690

 

 

 

24,765

 

 

 

(0.2

)

Extensions, discoveries and other additions

 

 

9,400,374

 

 

 

1,982,624

 

 

 

476,174

 

 

 

24.2

 

Production

 

 

(8,721,262

)

 

 

(336,564

)

 

 

(255,176

)

 

 

(12.3

)

September 30, 2018

 

 

120,062,036

 

 

 

5,984,422

 

 

 

2,934,190

 

 

 

173.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revisions of previous estimates

 

 

(35,644,135

)

 

 

(3,266,351

)

 

 

(890,046

)

 

 

(60.6

)

Acquisitions (divestitures)

 

 

(948,496

)

 

 

(322,023

)

 

 

(18,881

)

 

 

(3.0

)

Extensions, discoveries and other additions

 

 

3,891,262

 

 

 

313,241

 

 

 

164,276

 

 

 

6.8

 

Production

 

 

(7,086,761

)

 

 

(329,199

)

 

 

(216,259

)

 

 

(10.4

)

September 30, 2019

 

 

80,273,906

 

 

 

2,380,090

 

 

 

1,973,280

 

 

 

106.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revisions of previous estimates

 

 

(34,666,426

)

 

 

(1,094,923

)

 

 

(774,214

)

 

 

(45.9

)

Acquisitions (divestitures)

 

 

911,853

 

 

 

57,721

 

 

 

70,933

 

 

 

1.7

 

Extensions, discoveries and other additions

 

 

1,816,144

 

 

 

260,555

 

 

 

118,480

 

 

 

4.1

 

Production

 

 

(5,962,704

)

 

 

(269,786

)

 

 

(168,622

)

 

 

(8.6

)

September 30, 2020

 

 

42,372,773

 

 

 

1,333,657

 

 

 

1,219,857

 

 

 

57.7

 

 

The prices used to calculate reserves and future cash flows from reserves for natural gas, oil and NGL, respectively, were as follows: September 30, 2020 - $1.62/Mcf, $40.18/Bbl, $9.95/Bbl; September 30, 2019 - $2.48/Mcf, $54.40/Bbl, $19.30/Bbl; September 30, 2018 - $2.56/Mcf, $62.86/Bbl, $26.13/Bbl.

The revisions of previous estimates from 2019 to 2020 were primarily the result of:

 

Negative pricing revisions of 35.8 Bcfe due to natural gas and oil wells reaching their economic limits earlier than was projected in 2019 due lower gas and oil prices and decreased operator activity in 2019 and a change in strategy to remove PUD locations not permitted, in progress, or drilled and uncompleted (DUC); proved developed revisions of 20.4 Bcfe and PUD revisions of 15.4 Bcfe.

 

Negative revisions of 10.1 Bcfe. Proved developed negative revisions of 8.7 Bcfe were the result of lower performance of high-interest Woodford natural gas wells in the STACK and Arkoma Stack in Oklahoma and, to a lesser extent, lower performance of the Eagle Ford Shale oil properties in southern Texas. Proved undeveloped revisions were negative 1.4 Bcfe, due to changes to scheduled first production date, expected performance, costs and other reserve parameters.

Acquisitions and divestitures were the result of:

 

The acquisition of 2.4 Bcfe, predominately in the active drilling program of the Woodford and Mississippian in the SCOOP and STACK plays in Oklahoma and the Bakken in North Dakota, of which 1.1 Bcfe were proved developed and 1.3 Bcfe were proved undeveloped.

 

The sale of 0.7 Bcfe, predominately in the Permian Basin in New Mexico, of which 0.2 Bcfe were proved developed and 0.5 Bcfe were proved undeveloped.

Extensions, discoveries and other additions from 2019 to 2020 are principally attributable to:

 

Proved developed reserve extensions, discoveries and other additions of 4.1 Bcfe, of which 1.7 Bcfe were proved developed and 2.4 Bcfe were proved undeveloped reserves, resulting from:

 

a)

The Company’s royalty interest ownership in the ongoing development of unconventional natural gas, oil and NGL utilizing extended horizontal drilling in the Woodford Shale in the STACK and SCOOP in Oklahoma.

 

 

b)

The Company’s royalty interest ownership in ongoing development of unconventional natural gas, oil and NGL utilizing horizontal drilling in the STACK Meramec play in the Anadarko Basin in western Oklahoma.

 

 

c)

The Company’s royalty interest ownership in ongoing development of unconventional natural gas, oil and NGL utilizing horizontal drilling in the Bakken Shale in North Dakota.

Production of 8.6 Bcfe from the Company’s natural gas and oil properties.

 

 

 

Proved Developed Reserves

 

 

Proved Undeveloped Reserves

 

 

 

Natural Gas

 

 

Oil

 

 

NGL

 

 

Natural Gas

 

 

Oil

 

 

NGL

 

 

 

(Mcf)

 

 

(Barrels)

 

 

(Barrels)

 

 

(Mcf)

 

 

(Barrels)

 

 

(Barrels)

 

September 30, 2018

 

 

83,151,954

 

 

 

2,334,587

 

 

 

2,085,706

 

 

 

36,910,082

 

 

 

3,649,835

 

 

 

848,484

 

September 30, 2019

 

 

67,713,193

 

 

 

1,863,096

 

 

 

1,747,242

 

 

 

12,560,713

 

 

 

516,994

 

 

 

226,038

 

September 30, 2020

 

 

40,924,083

 

 

 

1,148,989

 

 

 

1,135,864

 

 

 

1,448,690

 

 

 

184,668

 

 

 

83,993

 

 

The following details the changes in proved undeveloped reserves for 2020 (Mcfe):

 

Beginning proved undeveloped reserves

 

 

17,018,905

 

Proved undeveloped reserves transferred to proved developed

 

 

(399,894

)

Revisions

 

 

(16,767,540

)

Extensions and discoveries

 

 

2,405,590

 

Sales

 

 

(479,415

)

Purchases

 

 

1,283,010

 

Ending proved undeveloped reserves

 

 

3,060,656

 

 

For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, our beginning PUD reserves were 17.0 Bcfe. Total net PUD reserves decreased by 14.0 Bcfe, as compared to September 30, 2019. In 2020, a total of 0.4 Bcfe (2% of the beginning balance) was transferred to proved developed. The remaining 13.6 Bcfe (80% of the beginning balance) of negative revisions to PUD reserves consist of  (i) pricing revisions of -15.4 Bcfe resulting from the impact of COVID-19 and reduced pricing leading to an unprecedented decrease in operator activity in 2020, and a decision to remove PUD locations not permitted, in progress, or drilled and uncompleted (DUC), (ii) sales and performance revisions of -1.8 Bcfe, and (iii) purchases and extensions of  3.6 Bcfe. We anticipate that all the Company’s current 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 five years from the date they were added to PUD reserves, will be removed as revisions at the time that determination is made. 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. The Company added 2.4 Bcfe of PUD reserves in 2020 within the active drilling program areas of (i) STACK Meramec and Woodford in western Oklahoma, (ii) the SCOOP Woodford Shale in western Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin, (iii) the Arkoma Stack in eastern Oklahoma, (iv) the Bakken in North Dakota. These additions result from continuing development and additional well performance data in each of the referenced plays. Additionally, the Company purchased 1.3 Bcfe in the STACK Meramec and Woodford in Oklahoma and sold 0.5 Bcfe, predominately in the Permian Basin in New Mexico.

 

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 natural gas, oil 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.

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Future cash inflows

 

$

134,179,216

 

 

$

366,697,321

 

 

$

759,899,074

 

Future production costs

 

 

(66,136,222

)

 

 

(153,935,373

)

 

 

(259,413,766

)

Future development and asset retirement costs

 

 

(1,957,225

)

 

 

(1,917,937

)

 

 

(89,518,449

)

Future income tax expense

 

 

(13,224,535

)

 

 

(47,788,416

)

 

 

(95,872,182

)

Future net cash flows

 

 

52,861,234

 

 

 

163,055,595

 

 

 

315,094,677

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10% annual discount

 

 

(21,727,081

)

 

 

(77,494,066

)

 

 

(158,768,823

)

Standardized measure of discounted future net

   cash flows

 

$

31,134,153

 

 

$

85,561,529

 

 

$

156,325,854

 

 

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

 

 

 

2020

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Beginning of year

 

$

85,561,529

 

 

$

156,325,854

 

 

$

80,832,575

 

Changes resulting from:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales of natural gas, oil and NGL, net of

   production costs

 

 

(12,692,681

)

 

 

(25,072,122

)

 

 

(32,836,007

)

Net change in sales prices and production costs

 

 

(46,499,344

)

 

 

(76,588,460

)

 

 

47,533,281

 

Net change in future development and asset

   retirement costs

 

 

(20,571

)

 

 

43,607,535

 

 

 

1,580,942

 

Extensions and discoveries

 

 

2,841,807

 

 

 

7,074,245

 

 

 

34,667,557

 

Revisions of quantity estimates

 

 

(28,332,653

)

 

 

(60,308,497

)

 

 

(8,391,223

)

Acquisitions (divestitures) of reserves-in-place

 

 

1,169,819

 

 

 

(3,134,783

)

 

 

(307,472

)

Accretion of discount

 

 

11,039,792

 

 

 

20,457,930

 

 

 

12,602,209

 

Net change in income taxes

 

 

17,037,980

 

 

 

23,413,194

 

 

 

(3,057,128

)

Change in timing and other, net

 

 

1,028,475

 

 

 

(213,367

)

 

 

23,701,120

 

Net change

 

 

(54,427,376

)

 

 

(70,764,325

)

 

 

75,493,279

 

End of year

 

$

31,134,153

 

 

$

85,561,529

 

 

$

156,325,854