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Acquisitions and Divestitures

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Acquisitions and Divestitures
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
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Acquisitions and Divestitures

2.  Acquisitions and Divestitures

2014 Acquisitions

Fairway  

On September 15, 2014, the Parent Company entered into an asset purchase agreement with a third party to increase its ownership interest from 64.3% to 100% in the Mobile Bay blocks 113 and 132 (the “Fairway Field”) and the associated Yellowhammer gas processing plant (collectively, “Fairway”).  The Fairway Field is located in the state waters of Alabama and the Yellowhammer gas processing plant is located in the state of Alabama.  The effective date of the transaction was July 1, 2014.  The transaction included customary adjustments for the effective date, certain closing adjustments and our assumption of the related asset retirement obligations (“ARO”).  A net purchase price increase of $1.3 million for customary final closing adjustments was recorded in 2015.  The acquisition was funded from borrowings under our revolving bank credit facility and cash on hand.

The following table presents the purchase price allocation, including adjustments, for the increased ownership interest in Fairway (in thousands):  

Cash consideration:

 

 

 

Evaluated properties including equipment

$

18,693

 

Non-cash consideration:

 

 

 

Asset retirement obligations - non-current

 

6,124

 

Total consideration

$

24,817

 

The acquisition was recorded at fair value, which was determined by applying the market and income approaches using Level 3 inputs.  The Level 3 inputs were: (i) analysis of comparable transactions obtained from various third-parties, (ii) estimates of ultimate recoveries of reserves and (iii) estimates of discounted cash flows based on estimated reserve quantities, reserve categories, timing of production, costs to produce and develop reserves, future prices, ARO and discount rates.  The estimates and assumptions were determined by management and third-parties.  The fair value is based on subjective estimates and assumptions, which are inherently imprecise, and the actual realized values could vary significantly from these estimates.  No goodwill was recorded in connection with this acquisition of an additional working interest in Fairway.

Woodside Properties  

On May 20, 2014, Energy VI entered into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire certain oil and natural gas property interests from Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. (“Woodside”).  The properties acquired from Woodside (the “Woodside Properties”) consisted of a 20% non-operated working interest in the producing Neptune field (deepwater Atwater Valley blocks 574, 575 and 618), along with an interest in the Neptune tension-leg platform, associated production facilities and various interests in 24 other deepwater lease blocks.  All of the Woodside Properties are located in the Gulf of Mexico.  The effective date of the transaction was November 1, 2013.  The transaction included customary adjustments for the effective date, certain closing adjustments and our assumption of the related ARO.  The acquisition was funded from borrowings under our revolving bank credit facility and cash on hand.

The following table presents the purchase price allocation, including adjustments, for the acquisition of the Woodside Properties (in thousands):  

 

Cash consideration:

 

 

 

Evaluated properties including equipment

$

52,102

 

Unevaluated properties

 

2,660

 

Sub-total cash consideration

 

54,762

 

Non-cash consideration:

 

 

 

Asset retirement obligations - current

 

782

 

Asset retirement obligations - non-current

 

10,543

 

Sub-total non-cash consideration

 

11,325

 

Total consideration

$

66,087

 

 

The acquisition was recorded at fair value, which was determined by applying the market and income approaches using Level 3 inputs.  The Level 3 inputs were: (i) analysis of comparable transactions obtained from various third-parties, (ii) estimates of ultimate recoveries of reserves and (iii) estimates of discounted cash flows based on estimated reserve quantities, reserve categories, timing of production, costs to produce and develop reserves, future prices, ARO and discount rates.  The estimates and assumptions were determined by management and third-parties.  The fair value is based on subjective estimates and assumptions, which are inherently imprecise, and the actual realized values could vary significantly from these estimates.  No goodwill was recorded in connection with the Woodside Properties acquisition.

2014 Acquisitions — Revenues, Net Income and Pro Forma Financial Information  

The increase in working interest ownership for Fairway was not included in our consolidated results until the property transfer date, which occurred in September 2014 and the incremental revenue and operating expenses were immaterial for the three month period ended March 31, 2015.  Unaudited pro forma information is not presented as the pro forma information is not materially different from the reported results presented for the three months ended March 31, 2014.  

The Woodside Properties were not included in our consolidated results until the property transfer date, which occurred in May 2014.  For the three months ended March 31, 2015, the Woodside Properties accounted for $5.5 million of revenues, $3.2 million of direct operating expenses, $4.1 million of depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion (“DD&A”) and $0.6 million of income tax benefit, resulting in $1.2 million of net loss.  The net loss attributable to the Woodside Properties does not reflect certain expenses, such as general and administrative expenses (“G&A”) and interest expense; therefore, this information is not intended to report results as if these operations were managed on a stand-alone basis.  In addition, the Woodside Properties are not recorded in a separate entity for tax purposes; therefore, income tax was estimated using the federal statutory tax rate.    

In accordance with the applicable accounting guidance, the unaudited pro forma financial information was computed as if the acquisition of the Woodside Properties had been completed on January 1, 2013.  The financial information was derived from W&T’s audited historical consolidated financial statements for annual periods, W&T’s unaudited historical condensed consolidated financial statements for interim periods, and the Woodside Properties’ unaudited historical financial statements for the annual and interim periods.

The pro forma adjustments were based on estimates by management and information believed to be directly related to the purchase of the Woodside Properties.  The pro forma financial information is not necessarily indicative of the results of operations had the purchase occurred on January 1, 2013.  Had we owned the Woodside Properties during the periods indicated, the results may have been substantially different.  For example, we may have operated the assets differently than Woodside; the realized sales prices for oil, NGLs and natural gas may have been different; and the costs of operating the Woodside Properties may have been different.

The following table presents a summary of our pro forma financial information (in thousands, except earnings per share):

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31, 2014

 

Revenue

 

$

268,375

 

Net income

 

 

14,976

 

Basic and diluted earnings per common share

 

 

0.20

 

 

For the pro forma financial information, certain information was derived from our financial records, Woodside’s financial records and certain information was estimated.  

The following table presents incremental items included in the pro forma information reported above for the Woodside Properties (in thousands):

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

March 31, 2014

 

Revenues (a)

 

$

13,859

 

Direct operating expenses (a)

 

 

2,612

 

DD&A (b)

 

 

4,989

 

G&A (c)

 

 

200

 

Interest expense (d)

 

 

246

 

Capitalized interest (e)

 

 

(14

)

Income tax expense (f)

 

 

2,039

 

 

The sources of information and significant assumptions are described below:

 

(a)

Revenues and direct operating expenses for the Woodside Properties were derived from the historical financial records of Woodside.

 

(b)

DD&A was estimated using the full-cost method and determined as the incremental DD&A expense due to adding the Woodside Properties’ costs, reserves and production into our full cost pool in order to compute such amounts.  The purchase price allocated to unevaluated properties for oil and natural gas interests was excluded from the DD&A expense estimation.  ARO was estimated by W&T management.

 

(c)

Estimated insurance costs related to the Woodside Properties.

 

(d)

The acquisition was assumed to be funded entirely with borrowed funds.  Interest expense was computed using assumed borrowings of $54.8 million, which equates to the cash component of the acquisition purchase price, and an interest rate of 1.8%, which equates to the rates applied to incremental borrowings on the revolving bank credit facility.

 

(e)

The change to capitalized interest was computed for the addition to the pool of unevaluated properties and the capitalization interest rate was adjusted for the assumed borrowings.  The negative amount represents a decrease to net expenses.

 

(f)

Income tax expense was computed using the 35% federal statutory rate.

The pro forma adjustments do not include adjustments related to any other acquisitions or divestitures.