Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
19 May 2022business combination▲ GoodMajor
Centennial agreed to combine with Colgate Energy Partners in an all-equity 'merger of equals' creating a $7.0 billion Permian Basin pure-play with about 180,000 net acres and 135,000 boe/d of production; Sean Smith becomes Executive Chair while Colgate's Will Hickey and James Walter become Co-CEOs of the combined company.
Centennial replaced its credit agreement with a new facility (initial $1.15 billion borrowing base, $750 million elected commitments) and launched a $350 million share repurchase program, reporting a swing to $138 million of full-year 2021 net income after 2020's pandemic-driven loss.
As the oil market recovered, Centennial issued $150 million of new 3.25% exchangeable senior notes due 2028, convertible into Centennial common stock - its first equity-linked debt issuance and a lower-cost financing option than its prior secured notes.
Centennial's bank lenders reaffirmed its $700 million borrowing base at the scheduled fall redetermination, and the company reported improved liquidity after paying down $15 million of revolver debt in the third quarter as oil prices began recovering.
Nasdaq issued Centennial a second warning that its stock remained below the $1 minimum bid price requirement, continuing the delisting risk first flagged in April.
Centennial settled its distressed exchange offers, swapping about $254 million of its unsecured 2026 and 2027 notes for $127 million of new 8.00% second-lien secured notes due 2025 - noteholders took a discount to move up in the capital structure amid the COVID oil price crash.
18 May 2020material agreement termination▼ BadMajor
Centennial terminated its $150 million sale of water infrastructure to WaterBridge after WaterBridge failed to close by the contractual deadline; Centennial believes it is entitled to keep the $10 million deposit held in escrow.
Centennial's lenders cut its revolving credit borrowing base to $700 million (from $800 million) in the spring 2020 redetermination and reduced elected commitments to match, tightening credit amid collapsed oil prices.
Amid the COVID-19 oil price crash, Nasdaq warned Centennial that its stock had traded below the $1 minimum bid price for 30 straight days, risking delisting; separately the company launched distressed exchange offers, proposing to swap its unsecured 2026 and 2027 notes for new second- and third-lien secured notes.
As the COVID-19 oil price crash hit, Centennial and BP agreed to delay the ramp-up of their crude oil supply agreement by a year, pushing the higher-volume delivery period to January 2021.
Centennial agreed to sell its Delaware Basin saltwater disposal and water transportation infrastructure to WaterBridge for $150 million, with up to $75 million more in potential earnout payments.
Centennial signed a similar crude oil offtake agreement with ExxonMobil, ramping from 20,000 barrels a day in 2019 up to 75,000 barrels a day by 2023, diversifying its sales commitments beyond the BP deal signed weeks earlier.
Centennial signed a five-year agreement to sell crude oil to BP, starting at 20,000 barrels a day in 2019 and rising to 30,000 barrels a day, giving it a committed offtake outlet for its growing Delaware Basin production.
Centennial replaced its credit agreement with a new five-year facility providing an $800 million initial borrowing base and up to $1.5 billion in maximum revolving credit.
Centennial's early sponsor investors sold another 25 million shares (worth about $491 million) in a secondary offering; the company received no proceeds.
Centennial priced an upsized $400 million (from a planned $350 million) offering of 5.375% senior notes due 2026 and voluntarily cut its revolving credit facility commitments to $475 million as it shifted funding toward the new notes.
Centennial launched a private offering of $350 million in senior unsecured notes due 2026 to repay revolving credit facility borrowings, with lenders waiving the usual borrowing-base reduction that new debt would otherwise trigger.
Centennial's early sponsor investors (Riverstone and other original Silver Run/Centennial holders) sold 25 million shares of Centennial stock in a secondary offering; the company itself received no proceeds.
Centennial's lenders raised its revolving credit facility's borrowing base from $350 million to $575 million and doubled the maximum facility size to $1 billion.
9 June 2017asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
Centennial completed its roughly $350 million acquisition of Northern Delaware Basin properties from GMT Exploration, funded by a concurrent private stock placement.
Centennial agreed to buy undeveloped and producing oil and gas properties in the Northern Delaware Basin from GMT Exploration for about $350 million, marking its strategic entry into that area and raising its 2020 oil production target to 60,000 bbl/d.
In connection with closing the Silverback acquisition, Centennial's operating subsidiary amended its credit agreement with JPMorgan Chase, formalizing terms tied to the newly closed deal.
29 Dec 2016asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
Centennial closed its roughly $855 million acquisition of Reeves County, Texas leasehold and upstream assets from Silverback Exploration, funded by a $910 million private placement of equity (including $430 million from Riverstone) alongside an increased borrowing base on its revolving credit facility.
Newly renamed Centennial Resource Development dismissed WithumSmith+Brown and engaged KPMG (which had already audited Centennial Resource Production's own books) as its independent auditor, with no disagreements over accounting matters.
10 Nov 2016asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
Silver Run filed updated financial statements for Centennial Resource Production and pro forma combined financials ahead of completing its acquisition of the company, which closed on October 11, 2016 and was renamed Centennial Resource Development, Inc.
Silver Run Acquisition Corporation completed its acquisition of approximately 89% of Centennial Resource Production and renamed itself Centennial Resource Development, Inc., converting from a blank-check SPAC into an operating Permian Basin oil and gas company.