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7 Apr 2014production update▲ GoodMajor
USE's new Buda Limestone wells with Contango and U.S. Enercorp delivered strong, oil-rich initial rates (up to 1,185 BOE/d on one well) using open-hole completions without fracture stimulation - early validation of the strategic pivot toward this play.
USE set a $30.2 million 2014 budget centered on a new focus, the Buda Limestone formation in South Texas (Booth-Tortuga, now operated by Contango Oil & Gas, and the Big Wells block operated by U.S. Enercorp) alongside continued Williston Basin drilling and $8 million set aside for further acreage or producing-property acquisitions.
USE closed the sale of its Remington Village apartment complex in Gillette, Wyoming for $15 million, paying off a $9.5 million note against the property and netting about $5 million to redeploy into oil and gas development or debt reduction - shedding a non-core real estate asset to focus on its energy business.
USE refinanced its revolving credit facility with a new lead lender, Wells Fargo, replacing BNP Paribas - extending the facility to 2017, lowering its interest margins, and setting a $25 million borrowing base.
BIG SKY INDUSTRIAL INC. shareholders approved the routine matters put to a vote at the company's annual meeting (director elections, auditor ratification, and the executive-pay advisory vote).
BIG SKY INDUSTRIAL INC. shareholders approved the routine matters put to a vote at the company's annual meeting (director elections, auditor ratification, and the executive-pay advisory vote).
USE set a $27.1 million 2013 oil and gas budget that shifted strategy - only $7.1 million for organic Williston Basin drilling but $20 million earmarked for buying producing properties outright, while South Texas drilling was paused pending nearby operators' results - and separately budgeted $5.4 million to keep advancing the Mount Emmons molybdenum project, including buying out partner Thompson Creek's interest in an adjacent property, after filing a formal Mine Plan of Operations with the U.S. Forest Service in October 2012.
USE's new Woodbine Sub-Clarksville 7 project in northeast Texas (a 26.5% working interest acquired in May 2012) came up mostly empty - six of seven back-to-back test wells were dry holes, and the one well that found hydrocarbons saw the zone water out - while its Eagle Ford and Williston Basin wells kept producing modest, unremarkable results.
BIG SKY INDUSTRIAL INC. shareholders approved the routine matters put to a vote at the company's annual meeting (director elections, auditor ratification, and the executive-pay advisory vote).
USE reported solid initial rates (1,000-1,400+ BOE/d) on three more participated Williston Basin wells - including its first well with new operator Slawson Exploration, albeit at a token 1% working interest - and closed a separate sale of its Montana leasehold acreage.
BIG SKY INDUSTRIAL INC. shareholders approved the routine matters put to a vote at the company's annual meeting (director elections, auditor ratification, and the executive-pay advisory vote).
More strong Bakken results (a new well at 1,869 BOE/d, another offsetting the program's best-ever well) and continued Eagle Ford progress, plus USE entered a new participation agreement for an Oakville oil prospect in Live Oak County, Texas.
26 Jan 2012asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
USE monetized undeveloped Bakken acreage it wasn't going to drill itself, selling 75% of its Yellowstone/SE HR leasehold to GeoResources and Yuma for $16.7 million (on top of a $13.7 million sale of undeveloped Rough Rider acreage to Brigham the month before) while keeping its working interests in producing wells; separately, it listed its Remington Village apartment complex (Gillette, WY) for sale and flagged an expected non-cash impairment on that real estate asset.
USE approved a $48.1 million 2012 drilling budget across its Eagle Ford, Williston Basin and San Joaquin programs, projected a 70% jump in average daily production for 2012, sold part of its undeveloped Rough Rider acreage to Brigham, and reported a strong 1,840 BOE/d initial rate from its latest Zavanna well.