Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
16 May 2014asset acquisition disposition● Neutral
Magnum Hunter filed the pro forma financials for the closed Williston Hunter Canada/Steppe Resources sale, bundled with an earlier, smaller sale of Alberta assets to BDJ Energy - paperwork closing out the Canadian divestiture.
Magnum Hunter reported encouraging early results from its first Utica Shale well in West Virginia (Stewart Winland pad, Tyler County), with wireline logs showing hydrocarbon-bearing rock consistent with its earlier Stalder Utica discovery in Ohio - the Appalachian Utica/Marcellus push it was now funding was starting to show technical results.
Magnum Hunter closed the sale of Williston Hunter Canada (the former NuLoch Saskatchewan assets) to Steppe Resources for CAD $75 million cash, completing its exit from Canada three years after the NuLoch acquisition first brought it there.
Magnum Hunter agreed to sell its Canadian subsidiary Williston Hunter Canada - the Tableland Field oil properties in Saskatchewan it had gained through the 2011 NuLoch acquisition - to Steppe Resources for about CAD $75 million (about US $68 million) cash, another step in exiting non-core assets to focus on its Appalachian core.
Eureka Hunter Pipeline refinanced into a new $117 million ABN AMRO-led revolving facility (extendable to $150 million only with lender consent), non-recourse to Magnum Hunter, using it to repay and cancel the $50 million PennantPark second-lien term loan that had needed covenant relief in 2012 and again in 2013, and to close out the undrawn SunTrust first lien. The same filing disclosed the sale of Magnum Hunter's Alberta properties - about 110 boe/day from three Kiskatinaw wells - to BDJ Energy for CAD $9.5 million.
Magnum Hunter raised $30.1 million in a private placement of 4.3 million common shares to institutional investors, earmarked for its Marcellus/Utica Ohio and West Virginia leasehold buildout and related gas-transportation letters of credit - funding the Appalachian growth even as it kept selling off North Dakota, Eagle Ford and Canadian assets.
What it means for a shareholder
4.3m new shares at about $7.00 to raise about $30.1m. That's 2.4% dilution: every existing holder's slice gets 2.4% smaller. If you held $1,000 of shares (143 at the issue price), your slice goes from 0.0000833% to 0.0000813% of the company. To keep it you'd need 4 more shares - about $28 at the issue price.
ICS Opportunities, Ltd, Cognizant Holdings, Ltd, Integrated Assets, Ltd, Millennium International Management LP, Millennium International Management GP LLC, Millennium Management LLC, Israel A. Englander reported a MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORP shareholding of 9,081,116 shares (5.30% of votes) in a periodic institutional filing.
New Standard Energy's Texas subsidiary exercised its option and signed to buy Magnum Hunter's remaining Eagle Ford Shale properties for $15 million cash plus NSE shares, completing Magnum Hunter's full exit from the Eagle Ford play first entered years earlier.
Magnum Hunter settled a tangle of lawsuits and an arbitration with Seminole Energy Services over a jointly-owned Tennessee gas processing plant and related contracts - the same counterparty whose gas-gathering fee agreements Magnum Hunter had negotiated cooperatively back in 2011 as a condition of the NGAS merger had since escalated into multi-state litigation, now resolved by settlement.
Magnum Hunter closed the sale of its Burke/Renville/Bottineau/McHenry County, North Dakota properties to Enduro Operating for about $39.6 million net of the earlier deposit, and its credit facility borrowing base automatically dropped by $22.5 million as a result - continuing the wind-down of the North Dakota position built up through 2012's big acquisitions.