ArcLight's Ridgeline bought another $46.8 million of Eureka Hunter Holdings preferred units, and Eureka Holdings used the proceeds plus new equity to buy TransTex Gas Services' gas-treating business for $58.5 million - expanding Magnum Hunter's midstream operations beyond pipeline gathering into gas treating and processing.
Magnum Hunter finally closed the long-delayed Eagle Operating North Dakota acquisition, about seven months late, for roughly $53 million ($50.9 million cash plus stock) - raising its working interest in the Williston Basin properties from about 47% to about 95%, resolving the dispute that had stalled the deal since August 2011.
27 Mar 2012capital raising announcement▲ GoodMajor
Magnum Hunter brought in outside capital for its midstream arm: Ridgeline Midstream Holdings, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, committed up to $200 million to buy preferred units in Eureka Hunter Holdings (the parent of the Eureka Hunter pipeline), funding an initial $60 million purchase - the pipeline business's first outside institutional investor.
Magnum Hunter's long-delayed North Dakota acquisition from Eagle Operating - originally set to close in August 2011 but stalled by a dispute that turned into litigation - was rescheduled to close March 30, 2012 under a court settlement, still for $57 million and still raising Magnum Hunter's working interest in the properties from about 47% to about 95%.
Magnum Hunter's bank lenders raised its revolving credit facility borrowing base further, to $235 million from $200 million, while also amending the separate $100 million second-lien term loan - the credit facility had now nearly tripled in less than a year as the company kept adding debt.
19 Jan 2012material agreement termination● Neutral
Magnum Hunter again refreshed its Series D preferred at-the-market sales agreements with MLV and Wunderlich under a new shelf registration, terminating the December 2011 versions - another routine renewal of the same ongoing preferred-equity funding tool.
On rising proved reserves, Magnum Hunter's bank lenders again increased its credit facility borrowing base, to $200 million from $167.5 million, and eased the debt-to-EBITDAX covenant calculation - continued easy access to bank credit even as the company piled on the second-lien term loan alongside it.
Magnum Hunter replaced its Series D preferred at-the-market program with new agreements with MLV & Co. and Wunderlich Securities under a fresh shelf registration, terminating the March 2011 version - a routine refresh, not new capital.
Magnum Hunter finalized the terms of warrants it had declared as a dividend to common and exchangeable shareholders - one warrant per ten shares held, exercisable through October 2013 at $10.50 a share - a shareholder sweetener rather than new financing.
Magnum Hunter added a $100 million second-lien term loan led by Capital One and BMO, priced at a steep 6-8% margin over base rates - a costlier, more junior layer of debt stacked on top of its existing bank revolver as the post-NGAS/NuLoch balance sheet grew.
22 Aug 2011capital raising announcement▲ GoodMajor
Magnum Hunter's Eureka Hunter Pipeline subsidiary set up its own $150 million financing (a $100 million SunTrust-led revolver plus a $50 million second-lien term loan from PennantPark) separate from the parent's bank line, non-recourse to Magnum Hunter, and used an initial $31 million draw partly to repay corporate debt.
Ahead of closing the North Dakota (Eagle Operating) acquisition, Magnum Hunter's lenders raised its credit facility borrowing base to $187.5 million, rising further to $230 million once that deal closed, while also clearing its Eureka Hunter Pipeline subsidiary to take on a separate $150 million non-recourse credit facility of its own.
Magnum Hunter's Williston Hunter ND subsidiary agreed to buy North Dakota oil and gas properties from Eagle Operating for $57 million ($55 million cash, $2 million in stock) - the company's first big push into the Bakken/Williston Basin, alongside its established Appalachian and Eagle Ford positions.
With the NGAS and NuLoch acquisitions folded in, Magnum Hunter's lenders raised its credit facility borrowing base again, to $170 million (potentially $177.5 million with added hedges), against a newly expanded $250 million maximum commitment.
Triad Hunter closed the third and final phase of its West Virginia leasehold purchase from Quest Eastern Resource, adding Lewis and Braxton County mineral interests for about $4.9 million cash - wrapping up the multi-phase deal first announced in December 2010.