ARENA RESOURCES INC

ARENA RESOURCES INC deregistered its securities, ending its obligation to file reports with the SEC.

listing compliance notice

ARENA RESOURCES INC's exchange filed to remove a class of its securities from listing.

listing compliance notice

SandRidge completed the acquisition on 16 July 2010. Every Arena share was cancelled for 4.7771 SandRidge shares and $4.50 in cash - about 191 million SandRidge shares and $178 million of cash in total - the board and officers stood down, the NYSE listing was withdrawn three days later and the SEC registration cancelled on 29 July. Arena ended in a completed sale, not a quiet disappearance.

business combination

The 30-day search for a better offer ended with two preliminary approaches, neither judged capable of beating SandRidge. Chairman and co-founder Tim Rochford said the board was satisfied it had tested the market properly; the shareholder vote was set for 16 July.

business combination

SandRidge raised its offer: the cash portion went from $2.50 to $4.50 a share on top of the same 4.7771 SandRidge shares, both shareholder votes were postponed, and Arena won a 30-day window to hunt for a better bid. The lawsuits of the previous week have bought Arena holders an extra $2.00 a share.

material agreement

Nine shareholder class actions had been filed against Arena and its board over the SandRidge terms; to settle them the parties amended the merger agreement, including allowing either side to pay the break fee in shares rather than cash. Shareholder resistance to the price is now a live obstacle to the deal.

material agreement

Agreed to be bought by SandRidge Energy: each Arena share to become 4.7771 SandRidge shares plus $2.50 in cash, subject to both companies' shareholders approving. After a decade of buying Permian Basin properties on borrowed money, Arena is now the property being bought.

business combination

Halved its own borrowing capacity: the credit agreement was extended only to mid-July 2009 and, at Arena's election, the maximum revolving commitment cut from $150 million to $75 million. After the oil-price crash the company chose to shrink an unused line rather than keep paying to hold it open.

material agreement

Agreed to sell up to 2.5 million shares through Dahlman Rose, Tudor Pickering Holt and Capital One Southcoast off a shelf registration that became effective the same day - an underwritten offering into the mid-2008 oil price spike, rather than the private placements used in 2005 and 2006.

material agreement

Paid $49 million cash to Phoenix PetroCorp for the South Fuhrman-Mascho and University Consolidated IX units, immediately alongside its core Andrews County property, for the production plus an estimated 120 further drilling locations. Its largest purchase yet - five times the 2004 deals - and again funded entirely on the bank line.

asset acquisition disposition

ARENA RESOURCES INC's securities were notified for removal from listing and registration on its exchange.

listing compliance notice

the New York Stock Exchange certified ARENA RESOURCES INC's securities for listing, clearing them to begin trading.

listing compliance notice

Raised $32.2 million placing 1.15 million shares at $28.04 with thirty accredited investors, a 5% discount to the market price. The shares have almost tripled since the $10.30 placement eleven months earlier.

capital raising announcement

Tripled the bank line: MidFirst brought in Compass Bank and Bank of Scotland to lift the facility ceiling from $50 million to $150 million and the amount actually drawable from $35 million to $65 million, for three years. The lending group is growing in step with the asset base.

material agreement

ARENA RESOURCES INC's securities were notified for removal from listing and registration on its exchange.

listing compliance notice

Raised $10 million selling 970,874 new shares at $10.30 to a group of investors, who also took over the company's call-option rights on 149,658 existing shares. First equity money to sit alongside the bank debt that had paid for both Permian purchases.

capital raising announcement

Bought the Fuhrman-Mascho leases in Andrews County, Texas - 84 leases and 172 producing wells - for $10.55 million, $9.5 million of it cash borrowed from MidFirst again plus 150,013 shares at $7.00. Bought as much for the drilling locations on it as the existing production; Fuhrman-Mascho becomes the company's core asset.

asset acquisition disposition

ARENA RESOURCES INC's securities were notified for removal from listing and registration on its exchange.

listing compliance notice

the American Stock Exchange certified ARENA RESOURCES INC's securities for listing, clearing them to begin trading.

listing compliance notice

Paid just over $10 million for an 82% working interest in the East Hobbs San Andres lease in Lea County, New Mexico - 20 producing wells bought from Enerquest - funded entirely on a credit facility and bridge loan from MidFirst Bank. The first of the debt-funded Permian Basin purchases the company is built on.

asset acquisition disposition

the American Stock Exchange certified ARENA RESOURCES INC's securities for listing, clearing them to begin trading.

listing compliance notice