Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
28 Apr 2014debt financing▲ GoodMajor
Banks lifted the borrowing base to $1.6 billion, kept commitments at $1.4 billion and pushed the revolver out a year to May 2017. This was the high-water mark of lender confidence; every redetermination after the oil price broke went the other way.
Set up a $200 million at-the-market programme to dribble units into the market as needed. A cheaper, quieter version of the underwritten raises, and a sign that regular equity issuance was now permanent plumbing rather than an occasional event.
31 Dec 2013asset acquisition disposition● NeutralMajor
Closed the third CrownRock deal plus $20 million of extra interests. The disclosure that matters is the last line: $727 million drawn against $1.4 billion of lender commitments, after roughly $1.15 billion of acquisitions in 2013 alone.
A third CrownRock purchase, $282 million for more Permian acreage, with Breitburn saying it would hedge five years of the acquired production immediately. The hedges were the whole thesis: buy long-life production on debt and lock in the price.
Issued a further $400 million of the 7.875% 2022 notes, taking that single issue to $850 million. Combined with the 2020 notes, unsecured bond debt was now well over $1.1 billion - the same notes whose holders would later be wiped down to a rights offering in bankruptcy.
Sold 19 million units at $18.22 for about $333 million to repay the borrowings used for Whiting. Each raise is bigger and each price lower than the last.
18 July 2013asset acquisition disposition● NeutralMajor
Closed the Whiting purchase at about $846 million, with Whiting continuing to run the fields until the end of October. Breitburn had roughly doubled its debt to buy a mature enhanced-oil-recovery project whose economics depend on a high oil price.
Agreed to pay Whiting Oil and Gas $860 million for the Postle and North East Hardesty carbon-dioxide flood fields in the Oklahoma Panhandle plus the pipelines, gas plant and CO2 supply contracts that feed them. Three times the size of anything Breitburn had bought before, and it brought midstream assets and a decade of CO2 purchase commitments with it.
Sold 15 million units at $19.86 for about $285 million, the largest equity raise so far, once more to repay the revolver emptied by the Permian buying.