Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
22 Dec 2010asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
The Exxon acquisition closed on December 17, 2010 for $1.012 billion, adding about 20,000 boe/day of production (53% oil), roughly 66 million barrels of proved and probable reserves, and 130,853 net offshore acres - a transformational addition to Energy XXI's Gulf of Mexico shelf position.
Energy XXI Gulf Coast formally issued the $750 million of 9.25% senior unsecured notes due 2017 under a new indenture, completing the bond financing behind the Exxon acquisition.
Energy XXI Gulf Coast priced $750 million of new 9.25% senior unsecured notes due 2017 to help fund the Exxon acquisition and pay down revolver borrowings.
Lenders granted another interim covenant waiver clearing the way for Energy XXI Gulf Coast to raise new unsecured debt to help fund the pending Exxon acquisition and refinance its 16% and 10% notes.
To finance the Exxon acquisition, Energy XXI's lenders agreed to massively expand its credit facility - revolving commitments to $925 million, borrowing base to $700 million, letter-of-credit capacity to $300 million, maturity extended four years - and to permit up to $1 billion of additional unsecured debt to fund the deal and retire the remaining 16% and 10% notes, contingent on the Exxon deal closing.
Energy XXI agreed to its largest deal yet: a $1.012 billion cash purchase of nine shallow-water Gulf of Mexico shelf fields from ExxonMobil and Mobil affiliates, sitting between its existing South Timbalier and Main Pass operations. The deal is to be financed with a $450 million term loan, $350 million of revolver borrowings and cash on hand, and comes with a roughly $200 million estimated plugging-and-abandonment liability and a $225 million standby letter of credit to cover it - a transformational scale-up that also loads the company with major legacy decommissioning obligations.
Lenders waived credit-agreement covenants to let Energy XXI Gulf Coast use about $133 million of the October equity-raise proceeds to redeem its 16% Second Lien Notes (by March 2011) and, once those were retired, its 10% Senior Notes (by September 2011) - the mechanics behind the ongoing high-cost-debt payoff.
27 Oct 2010capital raising announcement▲ GoodMajor
Energy XXI launched another round of equity raises - 9.5 million common shares plus $200 million of new convertible preferred stock - earmarked to buy back $119 million of its expensive 16% Second Lien Notes and repay $91.5 million of revolver debt, continuing to unwind the costly 2009 crisis-era financing.
Confirming the recovery from its 2009 crisis-era lows, Energy XXI's credit facility borrowing base was back up to $350 million, and lenders amended the agreement to let Gulf Coast fund up to $25 million to induce early conversion of the 7.25% preferred stock and up to $9 million a year for preferred dividends - directly financing the deleveraging program underway.
15 Oct 2010capital raising announcement▲ GoodMajor
Energy XXI expanded the preferred-stock conversion program, exchanging another 347,500 preferred shares for common stock, cutting the outstanding preferred balance to 680,500 shares.
Energy XXI began retiring its 7.25% convertible preferred stock, exchanging 72,000 preferred shares for common stock under a formula tied to the stock's recent trading price - part of a push to simplify its capital structure as the post-crisis recovery took hold.