The forerunner of Magnum Hunter was Petro Resources, a micro cap exploration and production company with 36.7 million shares trading at $.23 per share. Since changing it's name to Mangun Hunter on July 14, 2009 the company has been on a roll. In less than a year and half, the company has grown from a $8.4 million company to yesterday acquiring Nuloch Resources for $327 million for less than 1/3 of their stock. That would roughly make Magnum Hunter a $1 billion company today. How did Magnum Hunter do this? I am pretty sure that obtaining leaseholds in Fayette and Gonzales Counties in the Eagle Ford for less than fair market price had a lot to do with it. It's not just Magnum Hunter either, it's all the operators using their cheaply acquired Eagle Ford acreage as a piggy bank to prop up their dry gas operations and finance their future exploration and production budgets. The Eagle Ford holds a great treasure capable of this. Those landowners who lease for chump change are giving away a once in a lifetime opportunity and selling something of great value for mere peanuts. $30,000 per acre and 30% royalty are too cheap for this great crude oil treasure. Demand fair value for your land!
added on 1/21/2011
Wall Street Journal
"Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation (NYSE: MHR) (NYSE Amex: MHR-PrC) announced today a 116% increase in the quantity of the Company's estimated total proved reserves at year-end 2010 as compared to year-end 2009. The present value of estimated future cash flows, before income taxes, of the Company's estimated total proved reserves as of December 31, 2010, discounted at 10% ("PV-10"), also increased 171% as compared to year-end 2009."
DUE TO EAGLE FORD PRODUCTION PROVED RESERVES increased by 7.2 million barrels of oil equivalent (Boe) to 13.4 million Boe \at December 31, 2009. The Company's OIL reserve life IS approximately 23 years as of December 31, 2010
The 171% increase is based on accounting rules valuing oil at $79.43 per barrel, and as we know crude oil has trade above $90 per barrel for over a month.
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20110118-908972.html
Because landowners signed so many bad leases, operators are going to make obscene profits from the Eagle Ford. The call any sharing or royalty, a burden. Every other industry calls expenses, expenses. Oil operators call them a burden. Go figure!
ReplyDeleteIf you signed a "bad" lease, it's time to start looking into investing in Eagle Ford operators. With the "obscene" profits, their stocks will rise much more than if they had given "fair" leases. Make smart moves and you'll still come out even with having signed a high % lease that would have resulted in the operators making less profit.
ReplyDeleteAbout three years ago a neighbor of mine signed the company oil and gas lease for 1/8 royalty and $100 an acre with no surface protection. I know others who took what they were offered. A lot of people were taken in by oil company greed.
ReplyDeleteThe Mexican drug cartel's don't even make that kind of money. Leasing high grade acreage really cheap is how this oil company made that money.
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