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Supplementary Information On Oil and Gas Reserves (Unaudited)
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Oil and Gas Properties [Abstract]  
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION ON OIL AND GAS RESERVES (UNAUDITED)
19. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION ON OIL AND GAS RESERVES (UNAUDITED)

 

The following supplemental information regarding the Company’s oil and gas activities is presented pursuant to the disclosure requirements promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and ASC 932, Extractive Activities - Oil and Gas, (“ASC 932”).

 

Users of this supplemental information should be aware that the process of estimating quantities of “proved” and “proved developed” oil reserves is very complex, requiring significant subjective decisions in the evaluation of all available geological, engineering and economic data for the reservoir. The data for a reservoir may also change substantially over time as a result of numerous factors including, but not limited to, additional development activity, evolving production history and continual reassessment of the viability of production under varying economic conditions. As a result, revisions to existing reserve estimates may occur from time to time. Although every reasonable effort is made to ensure reserve estimates reported represent the most accurate assessments possible, the subjective decisions and variances in available data for various reservoirs make these estimates generally less precise than other estimates included in the financial statement disclosures. Proved reserves represent estimated quantities of natural gas and crude oil that geological and engineering data demonstrate, with reasonable certainty, to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under economic and operating conditions in effect when the estimates were made. Proved developed reserves are proved reserves expected to be recovered through wells and equipment in place and under operating methods used when the estimates were made.

 

Under current SEC standards, “Proved Reserves” are those quantities of oil and gas, 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.

 

Under current SEC standards, the term “Reasonable Certainty” if deterministic methods are used, implies a high degree of confidence that the quantities will be recovered. If probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 90% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the estimate. A high degree of confidence exists if the quantity is much more likely to be achieved than not, and, as changes due to increased availability of geoscience (geological, geophysical, and geochemical), engineering, and economic data are made to estimated ultimate recovery (“EUR”) with time, reasonably certain EUR is much more likely to increase or remain constant than to decrease. Reasonable certainty can be established using techniques that have been proved effective by actual production from projects in the same reservoir or an analogous reservoir or by other evidence using reliable technology that establishes reasonable certainty.

 

Under current SEC standards, “Reliable Technology” is a grouping of one or more technologies (including computational methods) that have been field tested and have demonstrated to provide reasonably certain results with consistency and repeatability in the formation being evaluated or in an analogous formation.

 

Estimated Oil and Gas Reserve Quantities of Proved Developed and Proved Undeveloped Reserves

 

The following table illustrates the Company’s estimated net proved reserves for the periods indicated, as estimated by third party reservoir engineers. The Company’s oil reserves are attributable solely to properties within Alberta, Canada. The following table discloses, in the aggregate, the Company’s estimated reserves on the Company’s Sawn Lake oil sands properties located in the Peace River oil sands area of Alberta, Canada, as of September 30, 2014, based on estimated constant prices and cost assumptions.

 

      Oil     Natural Gas     Total  
      Gross (1) (Mbbl)     Net (2) 
Mbbl)
    Gross
(Mmcf)
   

Net
(Mmcf)

    BOE
(MBOE)
 
  Proved developed and undeveloped reserves:                                        
  as of September 30, 2013                              
  Revisions of previous estimates     572       530                   572  
  Improved recovery                              
  Purchases of minerals in place                              
  Extensions and discoveries                              
  Production     (1 )     (1 )                 (1 )
  Sales of minerals in place                              
  as of September 30, 2014     571       530                   571  
                                           
  Proved developed reserves:                                        
  as of September 30, 2013                              
  as of September 30, 2014     571       530                   571  

 

(1)Gross Reserves – are defined as the Company’s working interest reserves (operating or non-operating) before deduction of royalties.

(2)Net Reserves – are defined as the Company’s working interest reserves (operating or non-operating) after deduction of royalties.

 

Revisions of previous estimates – are revisions that represent changes in previous estimates of proved reserves, either upward or downward, resulting from new information (except for an increase in proved acreage) normally obtained from development drilling and production history or resulting from a change in economic factors. The Company was assigned probable reserves based on Petroleum Resources Management System (“PRMS”) standards as of the Company’s September 30, 2013 fiscal year end, of which a percentage of these probable reserves were then assigned as proved reserves in connection with production from the Company’s SAGD Project which began producing on September 16, 2014.

 

Improved recovery – are changes in reserve estimates resulting from application of improved recovery techniques. The Company reported no proved reserves based on Petroleum Resources Management System (“PRMS”) standards as of the Company’s September 30, 2013 fiscal year end, therefore there were no changes of previous estimates for improved recovery to be disclosed from the prior years developed and undeveloped reserve estimates.

 

Purchases of minerals in place – For the year ended September 30, 2014, the Company did not report any property acquisitions whereby the Company purchased any properties with proved reserves.

 

Extensions and discoveries – are additions to proved reserves that result from (1) extension of the proved acreage of previously discovered reservoirs through additional drilling in periods subsequent to discovery and (2) discovery of new fields with proved reserves or of new reservoirs of proved reserves in old fields. There were no additions to proved reserves resulting from extensions or discoveries during the fiscal year September 30, 2014.

 

Production – The Company’s first SAGD well pair began producing oil on September 16, 2014.

 

Sales of minerals in place – For the year ended September 30, 2014, the Company did not report any sale of its properties of which had proved reserves.

 
The following table discloses, in the aggregate, the Company’s estimated proved developed and undeveloped reserves on the Company’s Sawn Lake oil sands properties located in the Peace River oil sands area of Alberta, Canada, as of September 30, 2014, based on estimated constant prices and cost assumptions.

 

Summary of Oil and Gas Reserves as of September 30, 2014 (Constant Prices and Costs)

 

    RESERVES  
    Light and 
Medium Oil
    Heavy Oil     Oil     Natural Gas     Natural Gas
Liquids
 
Reserves Category   Gross (Mbbl)     Net
(Mbbl)
    Gross (Mbbl)     Net
(Mbbl)
    Gross (1) (Mbbl)     Net (2) (Mbbl)     Gross (Mmcf)     Net
(Mmcf)
    Gross
(Mbbl)
    Net (Mbbl)  
Proved                                                            
Developed Producing                             281       260                          
Developed Non-producing                                                            
Undeveloped                             290       269                          
Total Proved                             571       529                          

 

(1) Gross Reserves – are defined as the Company’s working interest reserves (operating or non-operating) before deduction of royalties.

(2) Net Reserves – are defined as the Company’s working interest reserves (operating or non-operating) after deduction of royalties.

 

Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows Related to Proved Oil and Gas Reserve Quantities

 

The following table discloses, in the aggregate, the Company’s estimated net present value of future cash flows attributable to the Company’s estimated oil reserves on the Company’s Sawn Lake oil sands properties located in the Peace River oil sands area of Alberta, Canada, as of September 30, 2014, based on estimated constant prices and cost assumptions. The future cash flow estimate set forth below are estimates only and the actual realized cash flow may be greater or less than those calculated and should not be considered as representative of the current value of the Company. 

      Year Ended     Year Ended  
  In Thousands   September 30, 2014(1)     September 30, 2013(1)  
                   
  Future cash inflows   $ 31,062     $  
  Future Royalties     (2,456 )      
  Future Operating costs     (13,040 )      
  Future Development Costs     (8,586 )      
  Future Abandonment Costs     (161 )      
  Future income tax expenses            
  Future net cash flows   $ 6,819     $  
  10% annual discount for estimated timing of cash flows     (4,919 )      
  Standardize measure of discounted future net cash flows   $ 1,900     $  

 

(1) Future net cash flows were converted from Cdn$ to US$ in this table based on the year-end exchange rate of $0.8962. 

 

The Company reported no proved reserves based on Petroleum Resources Management System (“PRMS”) standards as of the Company’s September 30, 2013 fiscal year end, therefore there were no changes to the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows from previous estimates attributable to the Company’s proved developed and undeveloped reserve estimates from the prior years.