COST: 465 $MM
VOLUMES: 24 MBOE/d
ACRES: 151000 Acres
CALGARY, AB, Feb. 3, 2021 /CNW/ - Enerplus Corporation ("Enerplus" or the "Company") (TSX: ERF) (NYSE: ERF) is pleased to announce that it has closed the equity offering (the "Offering") previously announced on January 25, 2021. Upon closing of the Offering, a total of 33,062,500 Common Shares ("Common Shares") were issued at a price of C$4.00 per Common Share for gross proceeds of C$132,250,000. This includes 4,312,500 Common Shares issued pursuant to the exercise by the underwriters of the over-allotment option in full. The syndicate of underwriters was led by RBC Capital Markets and BMO Capital Markets. The net proceeds of the Offering, together with US$400 million to be drawn on a new three-year term loan obtained by Enerplus in connection with the previously announced proposed acquisition of Bruin E&P HoldCo, LLC (the "Acquisition"), are intended to be used to finance the US$465 million purchase price for the Acquisition, and to fund capital expenditures on the acquired properties and other expenses in connection with the Acquisition. If, however, the Acquisition is not completed, the net proceeds from the Offering will be used to partially fund capital expenditures, as well as the repayment of near-term maturities on the Company's senior notes and for other general corporate purposes.
The Common Shares were offered by way of a prospectus supplement to Enerplus' final short form base shelf prospectus filed in all of the provinces and territories of Canada, and were also offered by way of private placement to qualified institutional buyers in the United States pursuant to exemptions from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the "U.S. Securities Act").
The securities offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act, as amended, or any U.S. state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an available exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About Enerplus
Enerplus is an independent North American oil and gas exploration and production company focused on creating long-term value for its shareholders through a disciplined, returns-based capital allocation strategy and a commitment to safe, responsible operations.
Ian C. Dundas
President & Chief Executive Officer
Enerplus Corporation
Forward-Looking Information and Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking information and statements ("forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. The use of any of the words "expect", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "guidance", "ongoing", "may", "will", "project", "plans", "budget", "strategy" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information. In particular, but without limiting the foregoing, this press release contains forward-looking information pertaining to the anticipated completion of the Acquisition and term loan financing, including expected size, terms and completion thereof.
The forward-looking information contained in this press release reflects several material factors and expectations and assumptions of Enerplus including, without limitation, that the Acquisition will be completed substantially on the terms and within the timeline described in this press release. Enerplus believes the material factors, expectations and assumptions reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable but no assurance can be given that these factors, expectations, and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking information included in this press release is not a guarantee of future performance and should not be unduly relied upon. Such information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information including, without limitation: failure to complete the Acquisition, at all or on terms or within the timeline described in this press release, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Corporation's public disclosure documents. Enerplus assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, unless otherwise required by law.
SOURCE Enerplus Corporation
CALGARY, AB, Jan. 28, 2021 /CNW/ - Enerplus Corporation ("Enerplus" or the "Company") (TSX: ERF) (NYSE: ERF) will be releasing operating and financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2020 prior to market open on Friday, February 19, 2021. A results conference call will be hosted by Enerplus' President & CEO, Ian C. Dundas, at 9:00 AM MT (11:00 AM ET) to discuss these results. Details of the conference call are noted below.
Fourth Quarter & Full-Year 2020 Results Live Conference Call Details
Date: | Friday, February 19, 2021 |
Time: | 9:00 AM MT (11:00 AM ET) |
Dial-In: | 1-888-390-0546 (Toll Free) |
Conference ID: | 87527222 |
Audiocast: | https://produceredition.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1418451&tp_key=a39387ec4a |
To ensure timely participation in the conference call, callers are encouraged to dial in 15 minutes prior to the start time to register for the event. A telephone replay will be available for 30 days following the conference call and can be accessed at the following number:
Dial-In: | 1-888-390-0541 (Toll Free) |
Passcode: | 527222 # |
Electronic copies of our 2020 interim and 2019 year-end MD&A and Financial Statements, along with other public information including investor presentations, are available on our website at www.enerplus.com.
Shareholders may request a hard copy of Enerplus' complete audited financial statements at any time free of charge. For further information, please contact Investor Relations at 1-800-319-6462 or email investorrelations@enerplus.com.
About Enerplus
Enerplus is an independent North American oil and gas exploration and production company focused on creating long-term value for its shareholders through a disciplined capital allocation strategy and a commitment to safe, responsible operations.
Ian C. Dundas
President & Chief Executive Officer
Enerplus Corporation
SOURCE Enerplus Corporation
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CALGARY, AB, Jan. 25, 2021 /CNW/ - Enerplus Corporation ("Enerplus" or the "Company") (TSX: ERF) (NYSE: ERF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a bought deal financing with a syndicate of underwriters (the "Underwriters") led by RBC Capital Markets and BMO Capital Markets. Enerplus will issue 28,750,000 common shares ("Common Shares") at a price of $4.00 per Common Share for gross proceeds of approximately $115 million (the "Offering").
The underwriters will have an option to purchase up to an additional 15% of the Common Shares issued under the Offering at a price of $4.00 per Common Share to cover over-allotments, exercisable in whole or in part at any time until 30 days after the closing. The Offering will be completed by way of a prospectus supplement to Enerplus' final short form base shelf prospectus to be filed in all of the provinces and territories of Canada, and may include shares issued on a private placement basis to qualified institutional buyers in the United States pursuant to exemptions from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the "U.S. Securities Act").
The Offering is subject to customary conditions and is expected to close on or about February 3, 2021. Closing of the Offering is not conditional upon completion of the Company's proposed acquisition of Bruin E&P HoldCo, LLC for US$465 million (the "Acquisition"), as separately announced today.
The net proceeds of the Offering (including any net proceeds received in connection with the over-allotment option), together with US$400 million to be drawn on a new three-year term loan obtained by Enerplus in connection with the Acquisition, are intended to be used to finance the purchase price for the Acquisition, and to fund capital expenditures on the acquired properties and other expenses in connection with the Acquisition. If, however, the Acquisition is not completed, the net proceeds from the Offering will be used to partially fund capital expenditures, as well as the repayment of near-term maturities on the Company's senior notes and for other general corporate purposes.
The securities offered have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act or any U.S. state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an available exemption from the registration requirement of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
ABOUT ENERPLUS
Enerplus is an independent North American oil and gas exploration and production company focused on creating long-term value for its shareholders through a disciplined, returns-based capital allocation strategy and a commitment to safe, responsible operations.
CURRENCY
All amounts in this news release are stated in Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified.
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and statements ("forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. The use of any of the words "expect", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "guidance", "ongoing", "may", "will", "project", "plans", "budget", "strategy" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information. In particular, this news release contains forward-looking information pertaining to the timing and expected closing of the Offering and the proposed acquisition by Enerplus of Bruin E&P HoldCo, LLC.
The forward-looking information contained in this news release reflects certain expectations and assumptions of Enerplus including, without limitation, that all of the necessary conditions to closing of the Offering or the acquisition will occur in the timeframe contemplated, or at all. Enerplus believes the expectations and assumptions reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable but no assurance can be given that these expectations and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking information included in this news release is not a guarantee of future performance and should not be unduly relied upon. Such information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information, including that unforeseen events result in the conditions to closing of the Offering or the acquisition not to occur. Enerplus assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, unless otherwise required by law.
SOURCE Enerplus Corporation
CALGARY, AB, Jan. 25, 2021 /CNW/ - Enerplus Corporation ("Enerplus" or the "Company") (TSX & NYSE: ERF) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the shares of Bruin E&P HoldCo, LLC ("Bruin"), a pure play Williston Basin private company, for total cash consideration of US$465 million (the "Acquisition").
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
"This acquisition demonstrates our disciplined returns-oriented focus and commitment to value creation for our shareholders," said Ian C. Dundas, President and CEO of Enerplus. "With immediately adjacent acreage offering strong operational synergies, Bruin's assets are highly complementary to our existing tier 1 position in the Bakken and will enable us to accelerate free cash flow growth and further support our focus on providing long term sustainable shareholder returns."
(1) | Production and reserves are stated on a working interest basis before deduction of royalties. |
TRANSACTION DETAILS
Enerplus has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Bruin for total cash consideration of US$465 million pursuant to a purchase and sale agreement, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The Acquisition will be funded with a new US$400 million term loan and a concurrent $115 million bought deal equity financing. Enerplus will not assume any debt of Bruin as part of the Acquisition. Closing of the Acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to occur in early March 2021.
In connection with the Acquisition, Enerplus has entered into a binding agreement with RBC Capital Markets and BMO Capital Markets, who are acting as Joint Bookrunners, to provide Enerplus with a new three year, US$400 million term loan, which will be fully drawn to fund a portion of the purchase price for the Acquisition. The new term loan will include financial and other covenants and pricing identical to Enerplus' existing US$600 million revolving credit facility which matures October 31, 2023. Funding under the term loan is subject to limited conditions, including completion of the Acquisition and delivery of customary credit facility documentation.
Bruin's properties are all located in North Dakota with significant production and development inventory concentrated in the Fort Berthold area near Enerplus' primary property. Bruin's current production rate is approximately 24,000 BOE per day (72% tight oil, 14% NGL and 14% natural gas). An independent reserves report on Bruin's properties effective as of December 31, 2020 has assigned proved plus probable reserves of 84.1 MMBOE consisting of 61.5 MMbbls of tight oil, 11.6 MMbbls of NGLs and 66.4 Bcf of shale gas (working interest before the deduction of royalties).
2020 UPDATE AND PRO FORMA 2021 OUTLOOK
Enerplus delivered fourth quarter 2020 production at the higher end of its guidance ranges with total production of approximately 86,200 BOE per day, including liquids production of 49,200 barrels per day, based on preliminary estimates. Full year 2020 production averaged approximately 90,700 BOE per day, with liquids production of 51,100 barrels per day, also at the high end of the Company's guidance. Capital spending in the fourth quarter of 2020 was approximately $52 million, bringing total 2020 capital spending to $291 million, below Enerplus' guidance of $295 million.
Enerplus' Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2020 Production Summary
Light & medium crude oil (bbl/d) | Tight oil | Heavy oil | NGL | Natural gas | Total | |
Fourth quarter 2020 | 3,190 | 36,000 | 4,220 | 5,790 | 222 | 86,200 |
Full year 2020 | 3,280 | 38,240 | 3,900 | 5,630 | 238 | 90,700 |
Enerplus' stand-alone 2021 preliminary outlook (provided with its third quarter 2020 results on November 6, 2020) contemplated 2021 production volumes approximately flat to the Company's fourth quarter 2020 production guidance of 86,000 BOE per day, including 48,000 barrels per day of liquids (based on the guidance mid-points). The capital spending associated with this outlook was approximately $300 million.
Assuming completion of the Acquisition and a ten-month contribution from the Bruin assets to Enerplus' 2021 results, Enerplus expects to deliver 2021 production of 103,500 to 108,500 BOE per day, including 63,000 to 67,000 barrels per day of liquids. Capital spending in 2021 is expected to be $335 to $385 million.
Assuming a ten-month contribution from Bruin, Enerplus expects to generate over $200 million in free cash flow in 2021 based on a US$50 per barrel WTI oil price and US$2.75 per Mcf NYMEX natural gas price. Under the same commodity price assumptions, the Company expects its net debt to trailing adjusted funds flow ratio to be at or below 1.3x at year-end 2021 (inclusive of the bought deal equity financing). With the strengthening of its free cash flow profile as a result of the Acquisition, Enerplus plans to further enhance its balance sheet strength, targeting a net debt to trailing adjusted funds flow ratio of less than 1.0x in a sub-US$50 per barrel WTI oil price environment. The Company will also consider options for increasing its return of capital to shareholders with excess cash flow.
Pro forma for the Acquisition, the Company expects to realize a Bakken oil price differential of $3.25 per barrel below WTI in 2021 assuming the Dakota Access Pipeline ("DAPL") continues to operate. This represents an improvement from 2020, where Enerplus' Bakken differential guidance was US$5.00 per barrel below WTI. The expected differential improvement is due to declining basin production leading to increased pipeline egress. In the event DAPL is required to cease operations, Enerplus expects Bakken oil price differentials to widen reflecting rail economics. The Company estimates this would result in a realized 2021 differential of approximately $6.00 per barrel below WTI, assuming ten months of wider differentials if DAPL cannot operate. The impact to Enerplus' corporate netback in this scenario is estimated to be approximately $1.00 per BOE. The Acquisition is expected to continue to provide attractive per-share accretion to both adjusted funds flow per share and free cash flow per share at a wider differential, as outlined above.
Detailed guidance for 2021 will be provided following closing of the Acquisition.
2021 OUTLOOK SUMMARY
Enerplus 2021 Preliminary | Pro forma 2021 Outlook | Increase (based on a ten-month | |
Total production (BOE/d)(1) | 86,000 | 103,500 to 108,500 | +17,500 to 22,500 |
Liquids production (bbl/d)(1) | 48,000 | 63,000 to 67,000 | +15,000 to 19,000 |
Capital spending ($MM) | $300 | $335 to $385 | +$35 to $85 |
(1) | Production is stated on a working interest basis before the deduction of royalties. |
COMMODITY HEDGING UPDATE
Pro forma for the Acquisition, Enerplus has approximately 70% of its 2021 forecasted crude oil production (net of royalties) protected at a weighted average floor price of US$44 per barrel WTI through swaps and three way collar structures. Of this hedged amount, approximately 66% provides participation up to US$54 per barrel WTI. Based on the 2021 production forecast, Enerplus has approximately 47% of its 2022 crude oil production (net of royalties) protected at a weighted average floor price of US$49 per barrel WTI through swaps and three way collar structures. Of this 2022 hedged amount, approximately 82% provides participation up to US$58 per barrel WTI.
For natural gas, Enerplus has hedges in place for its summer 2021 volumes representing approximately 43% of its forecasted natural gas production (net of royalties) between April 1 to October 31, 2021, protected at a weighted average floor price of US$2.85 per Mcf NYMEX primarily through swaps and three way collar structures. Of this hedged amount, approximately 25% provides participation up to US$3.25 per Mcf NYMEX.
ADVISORS
Stifel FirstEnergy acted as financial advisor to Enerplus on the Acquisition. Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. and TD Securities acted as strategic advisors to Enerplus on the Acquisition. Vinson & Elkins LLP acted as U.S. legal advisor to Enerplus for the Acquisition and financings, and Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted as legal advisor to Enerplus on the Acquisition and financings.
ABOUT ENERPLUS
Enerplus is an independent North American oil and gas exploration and production company focused on creating long-term value for its shareholders through a disciplined, returns-based capital allocation strategy and a commitment to safe, responsible operations.
Currency and Accounting Principles
All amounts in this news release are stated in Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified.
Barrels of Oil Equivalent
This news release also contains references to "BOE" (barrels of oil equivalent). Enerplus has adopted the standard of six thousand cubic feet of gas to one barrel of oil (6 Mcf: 1 bbl) when converting natural gas to BOEs. BOEs may be misleading, particularly if used in isolation. The foregoing conversion ratios are based on an energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable at the burner tip and do not represent a value equivalency at the wellhead. Given that the value ratio based on the current price of oil as compared to natural gas is significantly different from the energy equivalent of 6:1, utilizing a conversion on a 6:1 basis may be misleading.
Presentation of Production Information and Reserves Information
Under U.S. GAAP oil and gas sales are generally presented net of royalties and U.S. industry protocol is to present production volumes net of royalties. Under Canadian industry protocol oil and gas sales and production volumes are required to be presented on a gross basis before deduction of royalties. In order to continue to be comparable with its Canadian peer companies, unless otherwise stated, the information contained within this news release presents Enerplus' production and BOE measures on a before royalty "company interest" basis. All production volumes presented herein are reported on a "company interest" basis, before deduction of Crown and other royalties, plus Enerplus' royalty interest. This news release also contains references to the percentage of the Company's production that is hedged under commodity derivatives contracts, this percentage being based upon the Company's net of royalty production volumes. All reserves volumes in this news release (and all information derived therefrom) are based on "gross reserves" using forecast prices and costs. "Gross reserves" (as defined in NI 51-101), are Enerplus' working interest before deduction of any royalties. Information about reserves on Bruin's properties contained in this press release is derived from a report on Bruin's properties effective as of December 31, 2020 prepared by McDaniel & Associates Ltd., an independent reserves evaluator. The drilling locations identified in this news release are comprised of 65 gross (50.0 net) proved plus probable undeveloped reserves locations identified by McDaniel & Associates Ltd., of which 14 gross (9.9 net) are drilled and uncompleted, and 84 gross (60.9 net) unbooked future drilling locations not associated with any reserves of Bruin, and have been identified by internal qualified reserves evaluators.
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and statements ("forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. The use of any of the words "expect", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "guidance", "ongoing", "may", "will", "project", "plans", "budget", "strategy" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information. In particular, but without limiting the foregoing, this news release contains forward-looking information pertaining to the following: anticipated completion of the Acquisition and financings, including expected size, terms, timing and completion thereof; expected benefits of the Acquisition; expected impacted of the Acquisition on Enerplus' operations and financial results, including inventory of drilling locations, expected accretion to Enerplus' metrics (including expected free cash flow in 2021 and year-end net debt to adjusted funds flow ratio) and minimum rates of return; Enerplus' expected 2020 and 2021 average production volumes and expected capital levels to support such production; anticipated production mix and Enerplus' expected source of funding thereof; the proportion of Enerplus' anticipated oil and gas production that is hedged; our operating plans; oil and natural gas prices and differentials and our commodity risk management programs; and anticipated impact of the Acquisition on Enerplus' future costs and expenses; plans for excess cash flow; and Enerplus' ESG targets, including reduction in GHG emissions intensity and in freshwater use.
The forward-looking information contained in this news release reflects several material factors and expectations and assumptions of Enerplus including, without limitation: that the Acquisition will be completed substantially on the terms and within the timeline described in this press release; that Enerplus will realize expected benefits of the Acquisition described in this press release; that Enerplus will conduct its operations and achieve results of operations as anticipated; that Enerplus' development plans will achieve the expected results; current commodity price and cost assumptions; the general continuance of current or, where applicable, assumed industry conditions, including expectations regarding the duration and overall impact of COVID-19; the continuation of assumed tax, royalty and regulatory regimes; the accuracy of the estimates of Enerplus' reserves and resources volumes; the continued availability of adequate debt and/or equity financing, cash flow and other sources to fund Enerplus' capital and operating requirements, and dividend payments as needed; availability of third party services; and the extent of its liabilities. In addition, Enerplus' 2021 outlook contained in this news release is based on the following: a WTI price of between US$50.00/bbl, a NYMEX price of US$2.75/Mcf, a Bakken crude oil price differential of US$3.25/bbl below WTI and a USD/CDN exchange rate of 1.27. Certain metrics included in this press release, including accretion to adjusted funds flow per share and free cash flow per share and net debt to trailing adjusted funds flow ratio, take into account concurrent equity offering. Enerplus believes the material factors, expectations and assumptions reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable but no assurance can be given that these factors, expectations, and assumptions will prove to be correct.
The forward-looking information included in this news release is not a guarantee of future performance and should not be unduly relied upon. Such information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information including, without limitation: failure to complete the Acquisition, at all or on terms or within the timeline described in this press release; failure by Enerplus to realize anticipated benefits of the Acquisition; changes, including future decline, in commodity prices, including as a result of continued COVID-19 pandemic; changes in realized prices for Enerplus' products; changes in the demand for or supply of Enerplus' products; unanticipated operating results, results from Enerplus' capital spending activities or production declines; curtailment of Enerplus' production due to low realized prices or lack of adequate infrastructure; changes in tax or environmental laws, royalty rates or other regulatory matters; changes in development plans by Enerplus or by third party operators of Enerplus' properties; increased debt levels or debt service requirements; changes in estimates of Enerplus' oil and gas reserves and resources volumes; limited, unfavourable or a lack of access to capital markets; increased costs; a lack of adequate insurance coverage; the impact of competitors; reliance on industry partners; failure to complete any anticipated acquisitions or divestitures; changes in law or government programs or policies in Canada or the United States; and certain other risks detailed from time to time in Enerplus' public disclosure documents (including, without limitation, those risks identified in its AIF, management's discussion and analysis ("MD&A"), and Form 40-F at December 31, 2019 and management's discussion and analysis for the third quarter of 2020) as it may be updated from time to time by current reports on Form 6-K, all of which are available, as applicable, on SEDAR website at www.sedar.com, on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov and on Enerplus' website).
The purpose of our estimated free cash flow disclosure, is to assist readers in understanding our expected and targeted financial results, and this information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Information in this press release is provided as of the date hereof and Enerplus assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, unless otherwise required by law.
NON-GAAP MEASURES
In this news release, Enerplus uses the terms "free cash flow" and "adjusted funds flow" (including per share measures) as measures to analyze operating and financial performance. "Free cash flow" is defined as "Adjusted funds flow less exploration and development capital spending". "Adjusted funds flow" is calculated as net cash generated from operating activities but before changes in non-cash operating working capital and asset retirement obligation expenditures.
Enerplus believes that, in addition to net earnings and other measures prescribed by U.S. GAAP, the terms "adjusted funds flow" and "free cash flow" are useful supplemental measures as such provide an indication of the results generated by Enerplus' principal business activities. However, these measures are not recognized by U.S. GAAP and do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by U.S. GAAP. Therefore, these measures, as defined by Enerplus, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.
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SOURCE Enerplus Corporation
CALGARY, AB, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Enerplus Corporation ("Enerplus" or the "Company") (TSX & NYSE: ERF) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the shares of Bruin E&P HoldCo, LLC ("Bruin"), a pure play Williston Basin private company, for total cash consideration of US$465 million (the "Acquisition").
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
"This acquisition demonstrates our disciplined returns-oriented focus and commitment to value creation for our shareholders," said Ian C. Dundas, President and CEO of Enerplus. "With immediately adjacent acreage offering strong operational synergies, Bruin's assets are highly complementary to our existing tier 1 position in the Bakken and will enable us to accelerate free cash flow growth and further support our focus on providing long term sustainable shareholder returns."
(1) | Production and reserves are stated on a working interest basis before deduction of royalties. |
TRANSACTION DETAILS
Enerplus has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Bruin for total cash consideration of US$465 million pursuant to a purchase and sale agreement, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The Acquisition will be funded with a new US$400 million term loan and a concurrent $115 million bought deal equity financing. Enerplus will not assume any debt of Bruin as part of the Acquisition. Closing of the Acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to occur in early March 2021.
In connection with the Acquisition, Enerplus has entered into a binding agreement with RBC Capital Markets and BMO Capital Markets, who are acting as Joint Bookrunners, to provide Enerplus with a new three year, US$400 million term loan, which will be fully drawn to fund a portion of the purchase price for the Acquisition. The new term loan will include financial and other covenants and pricing identical to Enerplus' existing US$600 million revolving credit facility which matures October 31, 2023. Funding under the term loan is subject to limited conditions, including completion of the Acquisition and delivery of customary credit facility documentation.
Bruin's properties are all located in North Dakota with significant production and development inventory concentrated in the Fort Berthold area near Enerplus' primary property. Bruin's current production rate is approximately 24,000 BOE per day (72% tight oil, 14% NGL and 14% natural gas). An independent reserves report on Bruin's properties effective as of December 31, 2020 has assigned proved plus probable reserves of 84.1 MMBOE consisting of 61.5 MMbbls of tight oil, 11.6 MMbbls of NGLs and 66.4 Bcf of shale gas (working interest before the deduction of royalties).
2020 UPDATE AND PRO FORMA 2021 OUTLOOK
Enerplus delivered fourth quarter 2020 production at the higher end of its guidance ranges with total production of approximately 86,200 BOE per day, including liquids production of 49,200 barrels per day, based on preliminary estimates. Full year 2020 production averaged approximately 90,700 BOE per day, with liquids production of 51,100 barrels per day, also at the high end of the Company's guidance. Capital spending in the fourth quarter of 2020 was approximately $52 million, bringing total 2020 capital spending to $291 million, below Enerplus' guidance of $295 million.
Enerplus' Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2020 Production Summary
Light & medium crude oil (bbl/d) | Tight oil | Heavy oil | NGL | Natural gas | Total | |
Fourth quarter 2020 | 3,190 | 36,000 | 4,220 | 5,790 | 222 | 86,200 |
Full year 2020 | 3,280 | 38,240 | 3,900 | 5,630 | 238 | 90,700 |
Enerplus' stand-alone 2021 preliminary outlook (provided with its third quarter 2020 results on November 6, 2020) contemplated 2021 production volumes approximately flat to the Company's fourth quarter 2020 production guidance of 86,000 BOE per day, including 48,000 barrels per day of liquids (based on the guidance mid-points). The capital spending associated with this outlook was approximately $300 million.
Assuming completion of the Acquisition and a ten-month contribution from the Bruin assets to Enerplus' 2021 results, Enerplus expects to deliver 2021 production of 103,500 to 108,500 BOE per day, including 63,000 to 67,000 barrels per day of liquids. Capital spending in 2021 is expected to be $335 to $385 million.
Assuming a ten-month contribution from Bruin, Enerplus expects to generate over $200 million in free cash flow in 2021 based on a US$50 per barrel WTI oil price and US$2.75 per Mcf NYMEX natural gas price. Under the same commodity price assumptions, the Company expects its net debt to trailing adjusted funds flow ratio to be at or below 1.3x at year-end 2021 (inclusive of the bought deal equity financing). With the strengthening of its free cash flow profile as a result of the Acquisition, Enerplus plans to further enhance its balance sheet strength, targeting a net debt to trailing adjusted funds flow ratio of less than 1.0x in a sub-US$50 per barrel WTI oil price environment. The Company will also consider options for increasing its return of capital to shareholders with excess cash flow.
Pro forma for the Acquisition, the Company expects to realize a Bakken oil price differential of $3.25 per barrel below WTI in 2021 assuming the Dakota Access Pipeline ("DAPL") continues to operate. This represents an improvement from 2020, where Enerplus' Bakken differential guidance was US$5.00 per barrel below WTI. The expected differential improvement is due to declining basin production leading to increased pipeline egress. In the event DAPL is required to cease operations, Enerplus expects Bakken oil price differentials to widen reflecting rail economics. The Company estimates this would result in a realized 2021 differential of approximately $6.00 per barrel below WTI, assuming ten months of wider differentials if DAPL cannot operate. The impact to Enerplus' corporate netback in this scenario is estimated to be approximately $1.00 per BOE. The Acquisition is expected to continue to provide attractive per-share accretion to both adjusted funds flow per share and free cash flow per share at a wider differential, as outlined above.
Detailed guidance for 2021 will be provided following closing of the Acquisition.
2021 OUTLOOK SUMMARY
Enerplus 2021 Preliminary | Pro forma 2021 Outlook | Increase (based on a ten-month | |
Total production (BOE/d)(1) | 86,000 | 103,500 to 108,500 | +17,500 to 22,500 |
Liquids production (bbl/d)(1) | 48,000 | 63,000 to 67,000 | +15,000 to 19,000 |
Capital spending ($MM) | $300 | $335 to $385 | +$35 to $85 |
(1) | Production is stated on a working interest basis before the deduction of royalties. |
COMMODITY HEDGING UPDATE
Pro forma for the Acquisition, Enerplus has approximately 70% of its 2021 forecasted crude oil production (net of royalties) protected at a weighted average floor price of US$44 per barrel WTI through swaps and three way collar structures. Of this hedged amount, approximately 66% provides participation up to US$54 per barrel WTI. Based on the 2021 production forecast, Enerplus has approximately 47% of its 2022 crude oil production (net of royalties) protected at a weighted average floor price of US$49 per barrel WTI through swaps and three way collar structures. Of this 2022 hedged amount, approximately 82% provides participation up to US$58 per barrel WTI.
For natural gas, Enerplus has hedges in place for its summer 2021 volumes representing approximately 43% of its forecasted natural gas production (net of royalties) between April 1 to October 31, 2021, protected at a weighted average floor price of US$2.85 per Mcf NYMEX primarily through swaps and three way collar structures. Of this hedged amount, approximately 25% provides participation up to US$3.25 per Mcf NYMEX.
ADVISORS
Stifel FirstEnergy acted as financial advisor to Enerplus on the Acquisition. Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. and TD Securities acted as strategic advisors to Enerplus on the Acquisition. Vinson & Elkins LLP acted as U.S. legal advisor to Enerplus for the Acquisition and financings, and Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted as legal advisor to Enerplus on the Acquisition and financings.
ABOUT ENERPLUS
Enerplus is an independent North American oil and gas exploration and production company focused on creating long-term value for its shareholders through a disciplined, returns-based capital allocation strategy and a commitment to safe, responsible operations.
Currency and Accounting Principles
All amounts in this news release are stated in Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified.
Barrels of Oil Equivalent
This news release also contains references to "BOE" (barrels of oil equivalent). Enerplus has adopted the standard of six thousand cubic feet of gas to one barrel of oil (6 Mcf: 1 bbl) when converting natural gas to BOEs. BOEs may be misleading, particularly if used in isolation. The foregoing conversion ratios are based on an energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable at the burner tip and do not represent a value equivalency at the wellhead. Given that the value ratio based on the current price of oil as compared to natural gas is significantly different from the energy equivalent of 6:1, utilizing a conversion on a 6:1 basis may be misleading.
Presentation of Production Information and Reserves Information
Under U.S. GAAP oil and gas sales are generally presented net of royalties and U.S. industry protocol is to present production volumes net of royalties. Under Canadian industry protocol oil and gas sales and production volumes are required to be presented on a gross basis before deduction of royalties. In order to continue to be comparable with its Canadian peer companies, unless otherwise stated, the information contained within this news release presents Enerplus' production and BOE measures on a before royalty "company interest" basis. All production volumes presented herein are reported on a "company interest" basis, before deduction of Crown and other royalties, plus Enerplus' royalty interest. This news release also contains references to the percentage of the Company's production that is hedged under commodity derivatives contracts, this percentage being based upon the Company's net of royalty production volumes. All reserves volumes in this news release (and all information derived therefrom) are based on "gross reserves" using forecast prices and costs. "Gross reserves" (as defined in NI 51-101), are Enerplus' working interest before deduction of any royalties. Information about reserves on Bruin's properties contained in this press release is derived from a report on Bruin's properties effective as of December 31, 2020 prepared by McDaniel & Associates Ltd., an independent reserves evaluator. The drilling locations identified in this news release are comprised of 65 gross (50.0 net) proved plus probable undeveloped reserves locations identified by McDaniel & Associates Ltd., of which 14 gross (9.9 net) are drilled and uncompleted, and 84 gross (60.9 net) unbooked future drilling locations not associated with any reserves of Bruin, and have been identified by internal qualified reserves evaluators.
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and statements ("forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. The use of any of the words "expect", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "guidance", "ongoing", "may", "will", "project", "plans", "budget", "strategy" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information. In particular, but without limiting the foregoing, this news release contains forward-looking information pertaining to the following: anticipated completion of the Acquisition and financings, including expected size, terms, timing and completion thereof; expected benefits of the Acquisition; expected impacted of the Acquisition on Enerplus' operations and financial results, including inventory of drilling locations, expected accretion to Enerplus' metrics (including expected free cash flow in 2021 and year-end net debt to adjusted funds flow ratio) and minimum rates of return; Enerplus' expected 2020 and 2021 average production volumes and expected capital levels to support such production; anticipated production mix and Enerplus' expected source of funding thereof; the proportion of Enerplus' anticipated oil and gas production that is hedged; our operating plans; oil and natural gas prices and differentials and our commodity risk management programs; and anticipated impact of the Acquisition on Enerplus' future costs and expenses; plans for excess cash flow; and Enerplus' ESG targets, including reduction in GHG emissions intensity and in freshwater use.
The forward-looking information contained in this news release reflects several material factors and expectations and assumptions of Enerplus including, without limitation: that the Acquisition will be completed substantially on the terms and within the timeline described in this press release; that Enerplus will realize expected benefits of the Acquisition described in this press release; that Enerplus will conduct its operations and achieve results of operations as anticipated; that Enerplus' development plans will achieve the expected results; current commodity price and cost assumptions; the general continuance of current or, where applicable, assumed industry conditions, including expectations regarding the duration and overall impact of COVID-19; the continuation of assumed tax, royalty and regulatory regimes; the accuracy of the estimates of Enerplus' reserves and resources volumes; the continued availability of adequate debt and/or equity financing, cash flow and other sources to fund Enerplus' capital and operating requirements, and dividend payments as needed; availability of third party services; and the extent of its liabilities. In addition, Enerplus' 2021 outlook contained in this news release is based on the following: a WTI price of between US$50.00/bbl, a NYMEX price of US$2.75/Mcf, a Bakken crude oil price differential of US$3.25/bbl below WTI and a USD/CDN exchange rate of 1.27. Certain metrics included in this press release, including accretion to adjusted funds flow per share and free cash flow per share and net debt to trailing adjusted funds flow ratio, take into account concurrent equity offering. Enerplus believes the material factors, expectations and assumptions reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable but no assurance can be given that these factors, expectations, and assumptions will prove to be correct.
The forward-looking information included in this news release is not a guarantee of future performance and should not be unduly relied upon. Such information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information including, without limitation: failure to complete the Acquisition, at all or on terms or within the timeline described in this press release; failure by Enerplus to realize anticipated benefits of the Acquisition; changes, including future decline, in commodity prices, including as a result of continued COVID-19 pandemic; changes in realized prices for Enerplus' products; changes in the demand for or supply of Enerplus' products; unanticipated operating results, results from Enerplus' capital spending activities or production declines; curtailment of Enerplus' production due to low realized prices or lack of adequate infrastructure; changes in tax or environmental laws, royalty rates or other regulatory matters; changes in development plans by Enerplus or by third party operators of Enerplus' properties; increased debt levels or debt service requirements; changes in estimates of Enerplus' oil and gas reserves and resources volumes; limited, unfavourable or a lack of access to capital markets; increased costs; a lack of adequate insurance coverage; the impact of competitors; reliance on industry partners; failure to complete any anticipated acquisitions or divestitures; changes in law or government programs or policies in Canada or the United States; and certain other risks detailed from time to time in Enerplus' public disclosure documents (including, without limitation, those risks identified in its AIF, management's discussion and analysis ("MD&A"), and Form 40-F at December 31, 2019 and management's discussion and analysis for the third quarter of 2020) as it may be updated from time to time by current reports on Form 6-K, all of which are available, as applicable, on SEDAR website at www.sedar.com, on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov and on Enerplus' website).
The purpose of our estimated free cash flow disclosure, is to assist readers in understanding our expected and targeted financial results, and this information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Information in this press release is provided as of the date hereof and Enerplus assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, unless otherwise required by law.
NON-GAAP MEASURES
In this news release, Enerplus uses the terms "free cash flow" and "adjusted funds flow" (including per share measures) as measures to analyze operating and financial performance. "Free cash flow" is defined as "Adjusted funds flow less exploration and development capital spending". "Adjusted funds flow" is calculated as net cash generated from operating activities but before changes in non-cash operating working capital and asset retirement obligation expenditures.
Enerplus believes that, in addition to net earnings and other measures prescribed by U.S. GAAP, the terms "adjusted funds flow" and "free cash flow" are useful supplemental measures as such provide an indication of the results generated by Enerplus' principal business activities. However, these measures are not recognized by U.S. GAAP and do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by U.S. GAAP. Therefore, these measures, as defined by Enerplus, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.
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CALGARY, AB, Jan. 19, 2021 /CNW/ - Enerplus Corporation ("Enerplus") (TSX: ERF) (NYSE: ERF) announces that a cash dividend in the amount of CDN$0.01 per share will be payable on February 16, 2021 to all shareholders of record at the close of business on January 29, 2021. The ex-dividend date for this payment is January 28, 2021.
The CDN$0.01 per share dividend is equivalent to approximately US$0.01 per share if converted using the current Canadian/US dollar exchange rate of 0.7836. The U.S. dollar equivalent dividend will be based upon the actual Canadian/US exchange rate applied on the payment date and will be net of any Canadian withholding taxes that may be applicable. Dividends paid by Enerplus are considered an "eligible dividend" for Canadian tax purposes. For U.S. income tax purposes, Enerplus' dividends are considered "qualified dividends".
For further information, including financial and operating results and our most recent corporate presentation, please visit our website at www.enerplus.com or phone 1-800-319-6462. Shareholders may, upon request, obtain a hard copy of Enerplus' complete audited financial statements free of charge.
About Enerplus
Enerplus is an independent North American oil and gas exploration and production company focused on creating long-term value for its shareholders through a disciplined, returns-based capital allocation strategy and a commitment to safe, responsible operations.
Ian C. Dundas
President & Chief Executive Officer
Enerplus Corporation
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DENVER, June 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerCom has released the presentation schedule of oil and gas companies presenting on day two of its 24th annual The Oil & Gas Conference® which runs Aug. 11-14, 2019, in Denver, Colorado.
Presenting Companies at the 2019 EnerCom Conference on Day Two, Aug. 13, 2019
The second day of the EnerCom conference features E&Ps and operators producing from the U.S., Canadian and Latin American oil and gas plays, including:
Complete List of Day Two Presenters at EnerCom's 2019 The Oil & Gas Conference
The daily schedule of presenters is also posted on the website (presenters, days, times are subject to change). The conference investor presentations begin at 7:30 a.m. and run through 4:30 p.m.
Expert Speakers: Global energy industry leaders, economists, market strategists, government officials, energy finance professionals and other energy experts will provide their insights on global commodities markets, energy exports, frac sand supply and logistics, and capital sources for energy development.
On Aug. 13th, Harvard PhD (Economics) and CIBC Capital Markets CIBC (NYSE: CM) Chief Economist Avery Shenfeld, repeat winner of Dow Jones MarketWatch forecasting award and Bloomberg Markets' awards for forecasting accuracy, will deliver his views on where oil and gas markets are headed.
Tuesday's keynote luncheon is a "Fireside Chat" with outspoken, legendary oilman Continental Resources (NYSE: CLR) Chairman and CEO Harold Hamm.
Online Registration is Open for EnerCom's 24TH Annual The Oil & Gas Conference®: Buyside investors and oil and gas company professionals may register for the event throughthe conference website registration page.
Conference Details: The Oil & Gas Conference® 24 offers investment professionals the opportunity to listen to senior management teams in the oil and gas industry present operational and financial strategies and to gain exposure to important energy topics affecting the global oil and gas industry.
The EnerCom conference forum fosters healthy dialogue and informal networking opportunities for attendees at several sponsored events the week of the conference.
Public and Private Company Presenters: The 2019 edition of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will feature public and private oil and gas companies with operations around the world including the U.S. shale basins, the Gulf of Mexico and Canada. A work-in-progress list of the 2019 presenting companies will be updated on the conference website. The daily schedule of presenters is also posted on the website (presenters, days, times are subject to change).
How to Hear the Luncheon Speakers: Completing online registration well in advance of The Oil & Gas Conference® will provide your best chance to gain insight from Occidental Petroleum SVP and chief financial officer Cedric Burgher, Continental Resources Chairman and CEO Harold Hamm, and global supermajor Eni, SpA VP of North America Investor Relations Andrew Lees.
Who Attends the Conference: More than 2,000 institutional, private equity and hedge fund investors, family offices, energy research analysts, retail brokers, trust officers, high net worth investors, investment bankers and energy industry professionals gather in Denver for the conference.
One-on-One Meetings: EnerCom works in advance with presenting company management teams to arrange one-on-one meetings with the attending institutional investors and research analysts at the conference venue. In 2018, EnerCom arranged and managed more than 2,000 one-on-one meeting requests.
How to Register: Investment professionals and oil and gas companies may register for the event through the conference website.
EnerCom History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil & Gas Conference® in 1996. It is the oldest and largest energy investment conference in Denver.
Global sponsors of EnerCom's conferences are Netherland, Sewell & Associates; and Drillinginfo. Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference® 24 include CIBC; Credit Agricole CIB; McGriff, Seibels & Williams; Haynes and Boone; Moss Adams; PNC; Preng & Associates; Bank of America Merrill Lynch; DNB Bank ASA; Holland & Hart; MUFG; Petrie Partners; SMBC; and Wells Fargo.
About EnerCom, Inc.
Since 1994 EnerCom, Inc. has developed into a nationally recognized management consultancy advising oil and gas industry clients on corporate strategy, asset valuations, investor relations, media relations, external communications and visual communications design.
EnerCom produces and publishes numerous data products and external communications tools for public energy companies and oil and gas investors including:
Headquartered in Denver, with senior consultants in Dallas, EnerCom uses the team approach for delivering its wide range of services to public and private companies, large and small, operating in the global exploration and production, OilService, capital markets, and associated advanced-technology industries. EnerCom's professionals have more than 170 years of industry and business experience and a proven track record of success.
EnerCom's upcoming oil and gas investment conferences include:
EnerCom Denver (The Oil & Gas Conference®) – August 11-14, 2019
EnerCom Dallas – March 4-5, 2020
For more information about EnerCom and its services, please visit http://www.enercominc.com/ or call +1 303-296-8834 to speak with the management team or one of our consultants.
Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) was founded in 1961 to provide the highest quality engineering and geological consulting to the petroleum industry. Today they are recognized as the worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis to industry and financial organizations and government agencies. With offices in Dallas and Houston, NSAI provides a complete range of geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering services and has the technical experience and ability to perform these services in any of the onshore and offshore oil and gas producing areas of the world. They provide reserves reports and audits, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, simulation studies, exploration resources assessments, equity determinations, and management and advisory services. For a complete list of services or to learn more about Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. please visit www.netherlandsewell.com.
For more information about NSAI, call C.H. (Scott) Rees, Chief Executive Officer, at 214-969-5401 or send an email to info@nsai-petro.com.
Drillinginfo
Drillinginfo delivers business-critical insights to the energy, power, and commodities markets. Its state-of-the-art SaaS platform offers sophisticated technology, powerful analytics, and industry-leading data. Drillinginfo's solutions deliver value across upstream, midstream and downstream markets, empowering exploration and production (E&P), oilfield services, midstream, utilities, trading and risk, and capital markets companies to be more collaborative, efficient, and competitive. Drillinginfo delivers actionable intelligence over mobile, web, and desktop to analyze and reduce risk, conduct competitive benchmarking, and uncover market insights. Drillinginfo serves over 5,000 companies globally from its Austin, Texas headquarters and has more than 1,000 employees.
For more information visit drillinginfo.com
CIBC
CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution with a reputation as a strong, reliable banking partner focused on delivering customized products and services built on innovative thinking and leading technology.
Through our major business units – Canadian Personal & Business Banking, Canadian Commercial Banking & Wealth Management, U.S. Commercial Banking & Wealth Management and Capital Markets – our more than 45,000 employees provide a full range of financial products and services to 10 million clients around the world.
With offices throughout North America and other major financial centers, we are widely recognized as a strong global financial institution with more than $634 billion in assets and a market capitalization of $50 billion. We are rated A+ by Standard & Poor's, Aa2 by Moody's Investor Service and AA- by Fitch Ratings.
Our dedicated industry specialists based in Houston, New York, Calgary, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney draw on the breadth of our capabilities to support firms across the entire energy value chain. From credit commitments, A&D advisory, M&A, and capital markets, we help our clients achieve their objectives and unlock value across a range of market conditions.
Visit www.cibccm.com/energy to learn more about CIBC Capital Markets and our energy capabilities.
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world's eighth largest bank by total assets (The Banker, July 2014). Crédit Agricole CIB offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking.
With headquarters in New York City, and U.S. offices in Houston and Chicago, Credit Agricole CIB Americas offers its corporate and institutional clients financial products and services and made-to-order structuring, origination and distribution, through both its banking unit Credit Agricole CIB, and the full-service broker-dealer Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., which is a member of the NYSE and NASD. Credit Agricole CIB is also present in Montreal, Canada, and in Latin America with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
The Energy Industry represents the single largest concentration of industry exposure at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, whose specialty focus dates back over 100 years. Our Energy practice for North America, located in Houston, focuses on all segments of the business and covers it on a truly global basis.
For more information, visit www.ca-cib.com.
McGriff, Seibels & Williams
As one of the most progressive insurance brokerage firms in the United States, McGriff, Seibels & Williams leads the way with innovative programs to protect our clients' financial interests. Our experienced professionals work with some of the world's largest corporations to design state-of-the-art solutions for a full range of needs "…from property and casualty exposures…to employee benefits, life and pension plans…to financial services and surety products…to specialty insurance programs."
Our philosophy of personal service and attention to individual needs puts the client at the top of our organizational chart. We work to make each relationship a long-term partnership that continues to grow in value.
For more information please visit mcgriff.com.
Haynes and Boone
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an energy-focused corporate law firm, providing a full spectrum of legal services to our clients across the oil and gas industry, including the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. We serve energy clients from our offices in Texas, Colorado, New York, California, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai. We work as a team representing U.S. and foreign public and private companies engaged in the dynamic day-to-day work of finding and extracting oil and gas, and the banks, investment funds and other investors that support them.
Our team of more than 100 energy lawyers and landmen understands the U.S. and international physical and financial energy markets, and the firm has been helping operators and lenders complete some of the largest financings and M&A transactions in recent years. With more than 600 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal, and our energy lawyers have been ranked by publications such as Best Lawyers in America, Chambers and Partners and Who's Who in Energy.
For more info, please visit www.haynesboone.com.
Moss Adams LLP
For more than 30 years, Hein & Associates has been recognized throughout the industry as a leading oil and gas accounting and advisory firm. In late 2017, Hein combined with Moss Adams LLP, one of the largest accounting, consulting and wealth management firms in the nation, creating a $600 million middle-market accounting/tax/audit leader in the western U.S. with a strong oil & gas practice group. With more than 2,900 professionals and staff across more than 25 locations in the West and beyond, Moss Adams works with many of the world's most innovative companies and leaders. Our strength in the middle market enables us to advise clients at all intervals of development—from start-up, to rapid growth and expansion, to transition. Today, we help over 2,300 companies doing business in more than 100 countries and territories.
For more information, please contact Joe Blice, Partner, National Practice Leader, Oil & Gas, CPA joe.blice@mossadams.com, (972) 687-7818.
Moss Adams LLP provides details at https://www.mossadams.com/home.
PNC Financial Services Group
PNC is one of the largest, best-regarded and best-capitalized financial services companies in the country, with approximately $325 billion in assets and offices in 33 states, Canada and the United Kingdom.
PNC's Energy Group, headed by Tom Byargeon, is a significant capital and service provider to energy companies, with approximately $6.5 billion in commitments to the industry. The Energy office in Houston houses a team with extensive experience and deep relationships across the entire energy supply chain. This group also offers strategic corporate finance advice and delivers PNC's comprehensive set of solutions and capabilities, including commodity and interest rate hedging, debt capital markets, loan syndications, treasury management, asset securitization, equipment finance and institutional investments.
For more information, please contact Tom Byargeon at 713-353-8782 or tom.byargeon@pnc.com. You can also visit www.pnc.com.
Preng & Associates
Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only retainer-based, international executive search firm specializing solely in the energy industry. Its number one priority is to assist clients with their executive selection, organization development, and human resource needs by providing the highest quality service. Preng's record of accomplishment is directly attributable to their experienced staff, worldwide network of industry contacts, proven search methodology, and high standards of professionalism. Preng has conducted over 3000 searches for board, executive, management, and professional positions in its 35-year history and has the highest success and repeat client track record.
Preng's practice is based on the premise that the search process is most effective when conducted by professionals with significant search industry experience. The company has earned a reputation for combining professional search disciplines with an in-depth industry and market understanding and has succeeded in some of the industry's most challenging and high-profile searches. Preng's international reach allows it to effectively conduct global engagements; and as a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, Preng practices and promotes its high standards of conduct and professionalism.
For more information about Preng & Associates, contact Charles Carpenter, Partner at 713-243-2610 or ccarpenter@preng.com.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Oil and Gas Group
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) Oil and Gas practice is comprised of a global team of bankers dedicated to covering the energy industry, dating back to the 1920s when Texas predecessor banks pioneered reserve-based lending. The practice includes an experienced in-house Petroleum Engineering team with over 150 years of combined experience. With one of the only full-service financial energy platforms in the industry, the BofAML oil and gas team manages significant capital commitments in the energy sector with dedicated bankers based in Calgary, Denver, Dallas, Houston, London and New York.
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research platform offers clients access to information and actionable ideas on stocks, bonds, economics and investment strategies. With approximately 700 analysts in more than 20 countries, we offer our clients knowledge about economic and business developments that are having an impact on the markets, so that they can work with their financial advisors to make the most of opportunities. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was ranked No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year on the 2014 list of Top Global Research Firms, Institutional Investor.
DNB ASA
DNB is Norway's largest financial services provider, with total assets approaching $400 billion. The bank has for years been a major provider of capital to the oil & gas industry, growing up literally side by side with the highly prolific fields developed in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The Oslo Energy Office maintains a global financing strategy and serves this market through multiple offices around the world including Houston, London and Singapore.
Energy Americas, based in Houston, comprises approximately 20 seasoned energy finance professionals. Aside from facilitating the bank's global business strategies, the office concentrates primarily on serving middle market and larger customers in the four principal oil & gas sectors — upstream, midstream, downstream and service — as well as in Power and Renewables. The bank offers a variety of financial products, from traditional oil & gas reserve financing, to longer-term capital markets transactions and merger/acquisition advisory services through its broker-dealer arm, DNB Markets, Inc. Ancillary service capabilities include cash management/depository services, as well as commodity and interest rate hedging.
For information on DNB's energy services, please visit the DNB energy website.
Holland & Hart
Holland & Hart's oil and gas clients include the major, large independent producers and small to medium sized independents.
The Mountain West is one of the nation's leading oil and gas producing regions, and we are the only law firm with established oil and gas lawyers in every state in the region. We provide clients broad-based, in-depth industry knowledge and legal capabilities by local practitioners who have long-standing professional relationships with decision makers in each of the Mountain West states.
We assist clients at every stage of the oil and gas business, from upstream activities including exploration, production, secondary and tertiary recovery, to midstream gathering and processing activities; and to downstream elements including refining, pipelines, local distribution, marketing, and Federal and State utility regulation. Within each segment of the oil and gas business, Holland & Hart's regional team has experience providing representation every step of the way.
For details, please contact Lisa Adelberg in the Denver office: (303) 295-8148.
MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has been a leading provider of banking services to the oil and gas industry in the Americas for more than 30 years, consistently ranking in the Top 10 Lead Arrangers and Top 10 Bond Arrangers in the Thomson Reuters Oil and Gas League Tables.
We support clients across the industry—from regional exploration and production to global diversified services companies—that benefit from our focused approach, strong execution, and customized services. Whether you are looking to expand existing reserves, make an acquisition, or streamline operations, we can support your growth with services, including: underwriting and syndications; U.S./Canadian cross-border funding; securities underwriting and placements; leasing and tax equity financing; and commodities, interest rate, and foreign exchange risk management.
For more information, visit: www.mufgamericas.com/oil-gas.
Petrie Partners
Petrie Partners, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm offering financial advisory services to the oil and gas industry. We provide specialized advice on mergers, divestitures and acquisitions and private placements.
For more information please refer to petrie.com.
SMBC
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management.
SMBC Americas Division, with more than 2,500 employees, oversees operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America. We work across SMFG to offer corporate and institutional clients sophisticated and comprehensive financial services around the globe.
SMBC's roots in Japan trace back more than 400 years to 1590. The Americas Division of SMBC has more than a century of experience in the United States, beginning when the San Francisco branch of Sumitomo Bank was established in 1919. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE: SMFG) was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010.
For more information please visit the corporate website: www.smbcgroup.com/americas/group-companies/
Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,700 locations, 12,500 ATMs, and the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who conduct business in the global economy.
The Energy Banking Group, headed by Bart Schouest, provides corporate banking products and services to the energy sector, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and diversified industries. With offices in Houston, Dallas, Denver, Calgary, and Aberdeen the group's success is driven by in-depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key industry participants. The group has over $45 billion of credit commitments to public and private companies across the upstream, midstream, downstream, services, and power and utilities sectors.
The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by James Kipp, provides strategic advisory and corporate finance expertise to energy and power clients, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, downstream, coal and the power & utilities sectors. Areas of focus include equity, equity-linked and debt underwritings, private placements, syndications, and mergers and acquisitions. The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group has offices in Houston and Charlotte.
These teams work together to offer clients industry and product expertise, in addition to sharing their understanding of internal and external forces that drive both industry trends and financial markets. For additional information, contact us at 713-319-1350 or Energy@wellsfargo.com.
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DENVER, Aug. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Regardless of whether your area of interest in the U.S. energy sector is the shale plays and companies drilling the U.S. basins, offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, oil pipelines, LNG exports, Texas-sourced frac sand, oilfield services or new oilfield technologies, the 23rd annual EnerCom conference will deliver the best of the industry to the Denver Downtown Westin Hotel Denver Aug. 19-22, 2018.
The combined market value of the presenting public companies is more than $220 billion and the publicly-traded energy companies represent a combined enterprise value of more than $275 billion—55% higher than last year.
Several privately held E&Ps and related energy service companies will be at the conference in force as well this year, participating in a variety of panels at the conference. Conference attendees have a rare opportunity to hear from several large private operators who—unlike their publicly traded counterparts—often say nothing in public about their operations.
Among the private oil companies participating in the conference is Anschutz Exploration, a large operator with assets in the Powder River and Washakie Basins of Wyoming, the Piceance and DJ Basins of Colorado and the Unita Basin of Utah. Other private drillers include Permian producer Felix Energy, DJ Basin producer Great Western Oil & Gas, conventional Piceance gas producer Caerus Oil and Gas, and Powder River and Green River Basin operator Samson Resources II.
Who Attends the Conference: More than 2,000 institutional, private equity and hedge fund investors, energy research analysts, retail brokers, trust officers, high net worth investors, investment bankers and energy industry professionals gather in Denver for the conference.
One-on-One Meetings: EnerCom works in advance with presenting company management teams to arrange one-on-one meetings with the attending institutional investors and research analysts at the conference venue. In 2017, EnerCom managed more than 2,100 one-on-one meeting requests. Buyside investors may request meetings on the conference website or contact EnerCom for more information at 303-296-8834.
How to Register: Investment professionals and oil and gas companies can register for the event through the conference website.
2018 Presenting Companies: The Oil & Gas Conference® 2018 presenting companies consist of the following:
Looking at basin and sector, the 2018 EnerCom conference presenting companies and companies participating in panels break out as follows (list is subject to change prior to the conference– please refer to The Oil & Gas Conference website for an updated schedule of presenting companies):
Exploration & Production and Other Energy Companies by Focus Area and Sector
Bakken/Three Forks
Eagle Ford
Permian Basin
Woodford & Other Mid-Continent – SCOOP/STACK
Marcellus/Utica
Niobrara
Gulf of Mexico/Offshore
Haynesville
Pinedale – Jonah Field – Uinta Basin
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Canadian E&Ps
International E&Ps
LNG Export Projects
Oilfield Service Companies
Midstream
Mineral, Royalty, Infrastructure Holders, Acquisition Companies
Private Companies – E&Ps, Midstream, Energy Data and Technology, Energy Capital, Government Energy Agencies
A work-in-progress schedule of the 2018 presenting companies is posted on the conference website and is regularly updated.
Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference®
EnerCom History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil & Gas Conference® in 1996. It is the oldest and largest independent energy investment conference in Denver.
Global sponsors of EnerCom's conferences are Netherland, Sewell & Associates; RS Energy Group; Moss Adams; and Preng & Associates.
Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference® 23 are Bank of America Merrill Lynch; AssuredPartners; DNB Bank ASA; Fifth Third Bank; CIBC; Haynes and Boone; Credit Agricole CIB; Natixis; PJ SOLOMON; PNC Financial Services Group; Wells Fargo; MUFG; SMBC; Opportune LLP; Petrie Partners; EnergyNet; McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc.; Energy Intelligence; and TGS.
About EnerCom, Inc.
Since 1994 EnerCom, Inc. has developed into a nationally recognized oil and gas-focused investor relations consultancy advising oil and gas industry clients on corporate strategy, asset valuations, investor communications, media relations and providing visual communications design.
EnerCom offers services and produces and publishes numerous data products and external communications tools for public and private energy companies including:
EnerCom's professionals have more than 170 years of industry and business experience and a proven track record of success.
Headquartered in Denver, with senior consultants in Dallas and Houston, EnerCom uses the team approach for delivering its wide range of services to public and private companies, large and small, operating in the global exploration and production, OilService, capital markets, and associated advanced-technology industries.
EnerCom's upcoming oil and gas investment conferences include:
EnerCom Denver (The Oil & Gas Conference®) – August 19-22, 2018
EnerCom Dallas – Feb. 27-28, 2019
For more information about EnerCom and its services, please visit http://www.enercominc.com/ or call +1 303-296-8834 to speak with the management team or one of our consultants.
About Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) was founded in 1961 to provide the highest quality engineering and geological consulting to the petroleum industry. Today they are recognized as the worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis to industry and financial organizations and government agencies. With offices in Dallas and Houston, NSAI provides a complete range of geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering services and has the technical experience and ability to perform these services in any of the onshore and offshore oil and gas producing areas of the world. They provide reserves reports and audits, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, simulation studies, exploration resources assessments, equity determinations, and management and advisory services. For a complete list of services or to learn more about Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. please visit www.netherlandsewell.com.
For more information about NSAI, call C.H. (Scott) Rees, Chief Executive Officer, at 214-969-5401 or send an email to info@nsai-petro.com.
About RS Energy Group
RS Energy Group (RSEG) provides data-driven intelligence: evaluate assets, weigh valuable M&A opportunities and benchmark your business for more precise decision-making.
RSEG officially released its data solution in April 2017. RS Data™ provides clients with corrected, multi-sourced permit, completion and production data of unparalleled completeness and quality.
Today, RSEG's intelligence covers more than 150 companies operating in every key North American and many international energy plays with a powerful combination of practical insights at the asset level and a long-standing participation in capital markets. RSEG's independent, unbiased and accurate analysis forms a foundation of trust with its clients. Its collaborative approach, both internally and as an extension of its clients' research efforts, promotes innovation and fosters intimate, long term partnerships.
RS Energy Group (RSEG) is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, with strategic locations in Houston, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Contact RS Energy Group by phone at (403) 294-9111, or email info@rseg.com.
About Moss Adams LLP
For more than 30 years, Hein & Associates has been recognized throughout the industry as a leading oil and gas accounting and advisory firm. In late 2017, Hein combined with Moss Adams LLP, one of the largest accounting, consulting and wealth management firms in the nation, creating a $600 million middle-market accounting/tax/audit leader in the western U.S. with a strong oil & gas practice group.
With more than 2,900 professionals and staff across more than 25 locations in the West and beyond, Moss Adams works with many of the world's most innovative companies and leaders. Our strength in the middle market enables us to advise clients at all intervals of development—from start-up, to rapid growth and expansion, to transition. Today, we help over 2,300 companies doing business in more than 100 countries and territories.
For more information, please contact Joe Blice, Partner, National Practice Leader, Oil & Gas, CPA joe.blice@mossadams.com, (972) 687-7818.
Moss Adams LLP provides details at https://www.mossadams.com/home .
About Preng & Associates
Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only retainer-based, international executive search firm specializing solely in the energy industry. Its number one priority is to assist clients with their executive selection, organization development, and human resource needs by providing the highest quality service. Preng's record of accomplishment is directly attributable to their experienced staff, worldwide network of industry contacts, proven search methodology, and high standards of professionalism. Preng has conducted over 3000 searches for board, executive, management, and professional positions in its 35-year history and has the highest success and repeat client track record.
Preng's practice is based on the premise that the search process is most effective when conducted by professionals with significant search industry experience. The company has earned a reputation for combining professional search disciplines with an in-depth industry and market understanding and has succeeded in some of the industry's most challenging and high-profile searches. Preng's international reach allows it to effectively conduct global engagements; and as a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, Preng practices and promotes its high standards of conduct and professionalism.
For more information about Preng & Associates, contact Charles Carpenter, Partner at 713-243-2610 or ccarpenter@preng.com.
About Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Oil and Gas Group
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) Oil and Gas practice is comprised of a global team of bankers dedicated to covering the energy industry, dating back to the 1920s when Texas predecessor banks pioneered reserve-based lending. The practice includes an experienced in-house Petroleum Engineering team with over 150 years of combined experience. With one of the only full-service financial energy platforms in the industry, the BofAML oil and gas team manages significant capital commitments in the energy sector with dedicated bankers based in Calgary, Denver, Dallas, Houston, London and New York.
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research platform offers clients access to information and actionable ideas on stocks, bonds, economics and investment strategies. With approximately 700 analysts in more than 20 countries, we offer our clients knowledge about economic and business developments that are having an impact on the markets, so that they can work with their financial advisors to make the most of opportunities. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was ranked No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year on the 2014 list of Top Global Research Firms, Institutional Investor.
About AssuredPartners
AssuredPartners Colorado (AP CO) combines 30+ years of experience with leading-edge products to provide exceptional service and value to our customers. We provide a full range of brokerage services including employee benefits, property and casualty, and retirement. Headquartered in Colorado, we think globally but act locally, with personal services designed specifically for each individual client. AP CO utilizes resources with national networks of brokers to ensure we can meet your every need and find answers to your questions quickly and efficiently.
Our goal is to achieve a long-term relationship focused on bringing value to your employee benefits management and insurance programs. We are committed to utilizing our collective talent to support your insurance goals. We work to identify activities that drive claim frequency, and implement an action plan to control health care costs and promote a healthy work environment for your employees.
Securing the best insurance package for your business begins with planning. Analyzing all your risks is critical to successful implementation of your insurance plan. AP CO will partner with you by providing ongoing assistance, consultation and service that will help you control your insurance expenses, choose the best plan to fit your company's needs and promote health care consumerism.
For more information on Assured Partners, please visit the website, call (800) 322-9773 or email info@assuredptrco.com.
About DNB ASA
DNB is Norway's largest financial services provider, with total assets approaching $400 billion. The bank has for years been a major provider of capital to the oil & gas industry, growing up literally side by side with the highly prolific fields developed in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The Oslo Energy Office maintains a global financing strategy, and serves this market through multiple offices around the world including Houston, London and Singapore.
Energy Americas, based in Houston, comprises approximately 20 seasoned energy finance professionals. Aside from facilitating the bank's global business strategies, the office concentrates primarily on serving middle market and larger customers in the four principal oil & gas sectors — upstream, midstream, downstream and service — as well as in Power and Renewables. The bank offers a variety of financial products, from traditional oil & gas reserve financing, to longer-term capital markets transactions and merger/acquisition advisory services through its broker-dealer arm, DNB Markets, Inc. Ancillary service capabilities include cash management/depository services, as well as commodity and interest rate hedging.
For information on DNB's energy services, please visit the DNB energy website.
About Fifth Third Bancorp
Fifth Third Bank is a diversified financial services company with over $120 billion in assets. The Bank's energy group is comprised of experienced and knowledgeable individuals that can assist in providing and structuring financial solutions to meet their clients' needs across the upstream, midstream, downstream and services sectors. Solutions and capabilities include commodity hedging, interest rate management, foreign exchange, debt capital markets, treasury management, and depository/investment products.
For more information, please contact Richard Butler at 713-401-6101 or richard.butler@53.com.
About CIBC
CIBC is a leading North American bank headquartered in Canada and with offices around the world. CIBC was originally founded nearly 150 years ago, and has supported and financed the energy industry for many decades. CIBC was recently ranked as the strongest publicly traded bank in North America by Bloomberg, and is rated A+/Aa3 by S&P and Moody's, respectively.
Our energy specialists draw on the breadth of CIBC's capabilities to provide market insights and creative solutions for our clients. Services include corporate banking, commodity and interest rate hedging and strategy, A&D advisory, and capital markets.
CIBC is publicly traded on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CM" and has a market cap of $36 billion and nearly $400 billion in total assets. For more information, please visit the CIBC energy website.
About Haynes and Boone
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an energy-focused corporate law firm, providing a full spectrum of legal services to our clients across the oil and gas industry, including the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. We serve energy clients from our offices in Texas, Colorado, New York, California, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai. We work as a team representing U.S. and foreign public and private companies engaged in the dynamic day-to-day work of finding and extracting oil and gas, and the banks, investment funds and other investors that support them.
Our team of more than 100 energy lawyers and landmen understands the U.S. and international physical and financial energy markets, and the firm has been helping operators and lenders complete some of the largest financings and M&A transactions in recent years. With more than 600 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal, and our energy lawyers have been ranked by publications such as Best Lawyers in America, Chambers and Partners and Who's Who in Energy.
For more info, please visit www.haynesboone.com.
About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world's eighth largest bank by total assets (The Banker, July 2014). Crédit Agricole CIB offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking.
The Bank provides support to clients in large international markets through its network, with a presence in major countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
With headquarters in New York City, and U.S. offices in Houston and Chicago, Credit Agricole CIB Americas offers its corporate and institutional clients financial products and services and made-to-order structuring, origination and distribution, through both its banking unit Credit Agricole CIB, and the full-service broker-dealer Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., which is a member of the NYSE and NASD. Credit Agricole CIB is also present in Montreal, Canada, and in Latin America with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
The Energy Industry represents the single largest concentration of industry exposure at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, whose specialty focus dates back over 100 years. Our Energy practice for North America, located in Houston, focuses on all segments of the business and covers it on a truly global basis.
For more information, visit www.ca-cib.com.
About Natixis
Natixis is the international corporate and investment banking, asset management, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France.
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking advises and assists corporations, financial institutions, institutional investors, financial sponsors, public-sector organizations and the networks of Groupe BPCE.
We furnish a diversified array of financing solutions, provide access to capital markets and transaction banking services.
Areas of expertise include Advisory: M&A, primary equity, capital & rating advisory; Financing: vanilla and structured; Capital Markets: equities, fixed income, credit, forex and commodities; Global Transaction Banking: trade finance, cash management, liquidity management and correspondent banking; Research: economic, credit, equity and quantitative.
The Bank leverages the expertise and highly technical skills of its teams, and provides industry-recognized research to build innovative and mix-and-matchable solutions. Corporate and Investment Banking is present on the main financial markets via three international platforms: Americas, Asia-Pacific, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).
About PJ SOLOMON
PJ SOLOMON is an investment banking advisory firm that provides strategic advisory services to chief executive officers and senior management, owners of public and private companies, boards of directors, and special committees.
Our full suite of advisory services includes Mergers and Acquisitions, Restructuring and Capital Markets across a range of industry verticals.
The PJ SOLOMON Energy Advisory Group provides strategic investment banking advisory services to public and private clients across the energy chain. Drawing upon our extensive sector relationships and deep strategic and operational expertise, we can offer a unique and valued advisory platform for the upstream, upstream A&D, midstream and the utility sectors.
Based in our Houston office, the PJ SOLOMON Energy team holds more than 100 years of experience on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, A&D, restructurings, bankruptcies, and public and private capital raisings.
Industry sectors/sub-sectors include: Upstream, Upstream A&D, Midstream, Energy related and Utilities.
About PNC Financial Services Group
PNC is one of the largest, best-regarded and best-capitalized financial services companies in the country, with approximately $325 billion in assets and offices in 33 states, Canada and the United Kingdom.
PNC's Energy Group, headed by Tom Byargeon, is a significant capital and service provider to energy companies, with approximately $6.5 billion in commitments to the industry. The Energy office in Houston houses a team with extensive experience and deep relationships across the entire energy supply chain. This group also offers strategic corporate finance advice and delivers PNC's comprehensive set of solutions and capabilities, including commodity and interest rate hedging, debt capital markets, loan syndications, treasury management, asset securitization, equipment finance and institutional investments.
For more information, please contact Tom Byargeon at 713-353-8782 or tom.byargeon@pnc.com. You can also visit www.pnc.com.
About MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has been a leading provider of banking services to the oil and gas industry in the Americas for more than 30 years, consistently ranking in the Top 10 Lead Arrangers and Top 10 Bond Arrangers in the Thomson Reuters Oil and Gas League Tables.
We support clients across the industry—from regional exploration and production to global diversified services companies—that benefit from our focused approach, strong execution, and customized services. Whether you are looking to expand existing reserves, make an acquisition, or streamline operations, we can support your growth with services, including: underwriting and syndications; U.S./Canadian cross-border funding; securities underwriting and placements; leasing and tax equity financing; and commodities, interest rate, and foreign exchange risk management.
For more information, visit: www.mufgamericas.com/oil-gas.
About Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,700 locations, 12,500 ATMs, and the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who conduct business in the global economy.
The Energy Banking Group, headed by Bart Schouest, provides corporate banking products and services to the energy sector, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and diversified industries. With offices in Houston, Dallas, Denver, Calgary, and Aberdeen the group's success is driven by in-depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key industry participants. The group has over $45 billion of credit commitments to public and private companies across the upstream, midstream, downstream, services, and power and utilities sectors.
The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by James Kipp, provides strategic advisory and corporate finance expertise to energy and power clients, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, downstream, coal and the power & utilities sectors. Areas of focus include equity, equity-linked and debt underwritings, private placements, syndications, and mergers and acquisitions. The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group has offices in Houston and Charlotte.
These teams work together to offer clients industry and product expertise, in addition to sharing their understanding of internal and external forces that drive both industry trends and financial markets. For additional information, contact us at 713-319-1350 or Energy@wellsfargo.com.
To learn more about Wells Fargo & Company, please visit the company's web site at www.wellsfargo.com.
About SMBC
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management.
SMBC Americas Division, with more than 2,500 employees, oversees operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America. We work across SMFG to offer corporate and institutional clients sophisticated and comprehensive financial services around the globe.
SMBC's roots in Japan trace back more than 400 years to 1590. The Americas Division of SMBC has more than a century of experience in the United States, beginning when the San Francisco branch of Sumitomo Bank was established in 1919. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE: SMFG) was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010.
For more information please visit the corporate website: www.smbcgroup.com/americas/group-companies/
About Opportune LLP
Founded in 2005, Opportune is a leading global energy consulting firm specializing in adding value to clients across the energy industry, including upstream, midstream, downstream, power and gas, commodities trading and oilfield services.
Since we are not an audit firm, we are advocates of our clients and are not subject to the restrictions placed on other firms by regulatory bodies. Using our extensive knowledge of all sectors of the energy industry, we work with clients to provide comprehensive solutions to their operational and financial challenges.
Our practice areas include complex financial reporting, dispute resolution, enterprise risk, outsourcing, process and technology, reserve engineering and geosciences, restructuring, strategy and organization, tax, transactional due diligence and valuation. Opportune LLP is not a CPA firm.
Opportune's corporate headquarters are in Houston, Texas. The firm also has offices in Dallas, Denver, New York City, Tulsa, and the UK. For more information please call Ashley Hunt, Marketing Coordinator,
713.490.5050 and visit the web site https://opportune.com/.
About Petrie Partners, LLC
Petrie Partners, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm offering financial advisory services to the oil and gas industry. We provide specialized advice on mergers, divestitures and acquisitions and private placements.
The firm was formed in 2011 (as Strategic Energy Advisors) by senior bankers formerly with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Petrie Parkman & Co., an investment bank that built a reputation as a most trusted advisor to energy clients during the nearly two decades leading up to its merger into Merrill Lynch in 2006.
Through tenure with Petrie Parkman, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the senior members of the Petrie team bring to bear an average of more than 25 years of energy investment banking experience, including over 300 energy M&A and capital raising transactions representing over $350 billion of aggregate consideration.
For information about the firm, please visit www.petrie.com or call the firm's Denver office (303.953.6768) or the Houston office (713.659.0760).
About EnergyNet
EnergyNet is the only continuous oil and gas auction and sealed bid transaction service that facilitates the sale of producing working interests (operated and non-operated), overrides, royalties, mineral interests, and non-producing leasehold. EnergyNet is a continuous oil and gas property marketplace with due diligence and bidding available 24/7/365, where auctions and sealed bid packages close weekly. Most of the properties EnergyNet sells are located in the lower 48 United States and typically range in value from $1,000 to $100,000,000.
Details about how to buy and sell oil and gas properties using the EnergyNet online auction service are available on the website at https://www.energynet.com/.
About McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc.
McGriff, Seibels & Williams is one of the most progressive insurance brokerage firms in the United States, leading the way with innovative programs to protect clients' financial interests. Services include construction risk, energy and marine, surety, employee benefits and financial services. McGriff's Energy & Marine Division offers specialty services for clients with worldwide operations and potentially catastrophic exposures. Our expertise in this niche industry has made us one of the largest independent energy brokers in the U.S. and one of the top five energy brokers worldwide.
Our client base includes more than 50 electric/gas utility and merchant energy companies, several coal mining companies, and more than 70 E&P companies. It also includes the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and numerous oilfield service companies, including vessel operators, offshore drilling companies, and international marine construction companies.
We will structure and implement a domestic or foreign program for virtually any type of energy-related risk. We have more than 125 professionals in our energy division. Using alternative risk transfer and traditional insurance solutions, we determine the appropriate combination of coverage and risk assumption.
Please contact the company through the website or by calling 800 476 - 2211.
About Energy Intelligence
Energy Intelligence has been a leading independent provider of objective insight, unbiased analysis and reliable data for over 60 years. With offices in New York, London, Houston, Dubai, Moscow, Washington, Singapore and Brussels, we provide decision-makers with critically important information on issues and events affecting the global energy complex.
Our benchmark Information Services, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, Oil Daily, Natural Gas Week, World Gas Intelligence and Energy Compass, are produced by highly experienced journalists, and our research reports and advisory services are provided by highly regarded analysts and economists.
Information on Energy Intelligence is available at the company website: https://www.energyintel.com/pages/non-subscriber.aspx
About TGS
TGS was founded in Houston in 1981 and over time built the dominant 2D multi-client data library in the Gulf of Mexico. The company expanded further into North America and West Africa and added a substantial 3D portfolio in the Gulf of Mexico.
Also in 1981, NOPEC was founded in Oslo and began building an industry-leading multi-client 2D database in the North Sea, with additional operations in Australia and the Far East. In 1997, NOPEC went public on the Oslo Stock Exchange. In 1998, the companies merged to form TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS), creating a winning combination for investors, customers and employees. Since then, TGS has set the standard for geoscientific data around the world.
Additional information is available at the company website: http://www.tgs.com/about-tgs/company-history/ .
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The Oil & Gas Conference® 2018 presenting companies:
- 40 North American shale E&Ps
- 7 international E&Ps
- 10 other producers
- 9 oilfield service providers
- 9 private E&Ps, midstream and data providers
- $202 billion in market value
- 3.2 million barrels of oil equivalent production per day
- $251 billion in enterprise value
DENVER, July 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- An impressive roster of publicly traded oil and gas company senior leadership teams will be telling their companies' stories and presenting operational and financial updates to investors at the 2018 edition of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference®.
CEOs across the upstream and oilfield service spectrum will be at the Denver Downtown Westin Hotel Aug. 20-23, 2018 to make financial presentations and meet with buyside investors and analysts for the 2018 EnerCom conference.
Market Cap: The presenting North American shale E&Ps, other explorers and producers, international E&Ps, and global oilfield service companies represent a combined market value of $202 billion, 71% higher than last year.
Enterprise Value: The 2018 presenting companies represent a combined enterprise value of $251 billion—53% higher than last year.
Production: EnerCom conference E&Ps are producing more than 3.2 million barrels of oil per day, slightly more than last year.
As to basin and sector, the 2018 EnerCom conference presenting companies break out as follows (list is subject to change prior to conference– please refer to The Oil & Gas Conference website for an updated schedule of presenting companies):
Exploration & Production Companies by Focus Area
Bakken/Three Forks
Eagle Ford
Permian Basin
Woodford & Other Mid-Continent – SCOOP/STACK
Marcellus/Utica
Niobrara
Gulf of Mexico/Offshore
Haynesville
Pinedale – Jonah Field – Uinta Basin
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Canadian E&Ps
International E&Ps
Oilfield Service Companies
Mineral, Royalty, Infrastructure Holders
Private Companies – E&Ps, Midstream, Energy Data and Technology Providers
Public and Private Company Presenters: The 2018 edition of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will feature public and private oil and gas companies with operations spanning 40 countries and six continents, including all U.S. shale basins, the Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Australasia.
A work-in-progress schedule of the 2018 presenting companies is posted on the conference website and will be regularly updated.
Who Attends the Conference: More than 2,000 institutional, private equity and hedge fund investors, energy research analysts, retail brokers, trust officers, high net worth investors, investment bankers and energy industry professionals gather in Denver for the conference.
One-on-One Meetings: EnerCom works in advance with presenting company management teams to arrange one-on-one meetings with the attending institutional investors and research analysts at the conference venue. In 2017, EnerCom managed more than 2,100 one-on-one meeting requests. Buyside investors may request meetings on the conference website or contact EnerCom for more information at 303-296-8834.
How to Register: Investment professionals and oil and gas companies can register for the event through the conference website.
EnerCom History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil & Gas Conference® in 1996. It is the oldest and largest energy investment conference in Denver.
Global sponsors of EnerCom's conferences are Netherland, Sewell & Associates; RS Energy Group; Moss Adams; and Preng & Associates. Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference® 23 are Bank of America Merrill Lynch; AssuredPartners; DNB Bank ASA; Fifth Third Bank; CIBC; Haynes and Boone; Credit Agricole CIB; Natixis; PJ SOLOMON; PNC Financial Services Group; Wells Fargo; MUFG; SMBC; and Opportune LLP.
About EnerCom, Inc.
Since 1994 EnerCom, Inc. has developed into a nationally recognized oil and gas-focused investor relations consultancy advising oil and gas industry clients on corporate strategy, asset valuations, investor communications, media relations and providing visual communications design.
EnerCom offers services and produces and publishes numerous data products and external communications tools for public and private energy companies including:
EnerCom's professionals have more than 170 years of industry and business experience and a proven track record of success.
Headquartered in Denver, with senior consultants in Dallas and Houston, EnerCom uses the team approach for delivering its wide range of services to public and private companies, large and small, operating in the global exploration and production, OilService, capital markets, and associated advanced-technology industries.
EnerCom's upcoming oil and gas investment conferences include:
EnerCom Denver (The Oil & Gas Conference®) – August 19-22, 2018
EnerCom Dallas – Feb. 27-28, 2019
For more information about EnerCom and its services, please visit http://www.enercominc.com/ or call +1 303-296-8834 to speak with the management team or one of our consultants.
About Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) was founded in 1961 to provide the highest quality engineering and geological consulting to the petroleum industry. Today they are recognized as the worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis to industry and financial organizations and government agencies. With offices in Dallas and Houston, NSAI provides a complete range of geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering services and has the technical experience and ability to perform these services in any of the onshore and offshore oil and gas producing areas of the world. They provide reserves reports and audits, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, simulation studies, exploration resources assessments, equity determinations, and management and advisory services. For a complete list of services or to learn more about Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. please visit www.netherlandsewell.com.
For more information about NSAI, call C.H. (Scott) Rees, Chief Executive Officer, at 214-969-5401 or send an email to info@nsai-petro.com.
About RS Energy Group
RS Energy Group (RSEG) provides data-driven intelligence: evaluate assets, weigh valuable M&A opportunities and benchmark your business for more precise decision-making.
RSEG officially released its data solution in April 2017. RS Data™ provides clients with corrected, multi-sourced permit, completion and production data of unparalleled completeness and quality.
Today, RSEG's intelligence covers more than 150 companies operating in every key North American and many international energy plays with a powerful combination of practical insights at the asset level and a long-standing participation in capital markets. RSEG's independent, unbiased and accurate analysis forms a foundation of trust with its clients. Its collaborative approach, both internally and as an extension of its clients' research efforts, promotes innovation and fosters intimate, long term partnerships.
RS Energy Group (RSEG) is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, with strategic locations in Houston, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Contact RS Energy Group by phone at (403) 294-9111, or email info@rseg.com.
About Moss Adams LLP
For more than 30 years, Hein & Associates has been recognized throughout the industry as a leading oil and gas accounting and advisory firm. In late 2017, Hein combined with Moss Adams LLP, one of the largest accounting, consulting and wealth management firms in the nation, creating a $600 million middle-market accounting/tax/audit leader in the western U.S. with a strong oil & gas practice group.
With more than 2,900 professionals and staff across more than 25 locations in the West and beyond, Moss Adams works with many of the world's most innovative companies and leaders. Our strength in the middle market enables us to advise clients at all intervals of development—from start-up, to rapid growth and expansion, to transition. Today, we help over 2,300 companies doing business in more than 100 countries and territories.
For more information, please contact Joe Blice, Partner, National Practice Leader, Oil & Gas, CPA joe.blice@mossadams.com, (972) 687-7818.
Moss Adams LLP provides details at https://www.mossadams.com/home .
About Preng & Associates
Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only retainer-based, international executive search firm specializing solely in the energy industry. Its number one priority is to assist clients with their executive selection, organization development, and human resource needs by providing the highest quality service. Preng's record of accomplishment is directly attributable to their experienced staff, worldwide network of industry contacts, proven search methodology, and high standards of professionalism. Preng has conducted over 3000 searches for board, executive, management, and professional positions in its 35-year history and has the highest success and repeat client track record.
Preng's practice is based on the premise that the search process is most effective when conducted by professionals with significant search industry experience. The company has earned a reputation for combining professional search disciplines with an in-depth industry and market understanding and has succeeded in some of the industry's most challenging and high-profile searches. Preng's international reach allows it to effectively conduct global engagements; and as a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, Preng practices and promotes its high standards of conduct and professionalism.
For more information about Preng & Associates, contact Charles Carpenter, Partner at 713-243-2610 or ccarpenter@preng.com.
About Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Oil and Gas Group
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) Oil and Gas practice is comprised of a global team of bankers dedicated to covering the energy industry, dating back to the 1920s when Texas predecessor banks pioneered reserve-based lending. The practice includes an experienced in-house Petroleum Engineering team with over 150 years of combined experience. With one of the only full-service financial energy platforms in the industry, the BofAML oil and gas team manages significant capital commitments in the energy sector with dedicated bankers based in Calgary, Denver, Dallas, Houston, London and New York.
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research platform offers clients access to information and actionable ideas on stocks, bonds, economics and investment strategies. With approximately 700 analysts in more than 20 countries, we offer our clients knowledge about economic and business developments that are having an impact on the markets, so that they can work with their financial advisors to make the most of opportunities. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was ranked No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year on the 2014 list of Top Global Research Firms, Institutional Investor.
About AssuredPartners
AssuredPartners Colorado (AP CO) combines 30+ years of experience with leading-edge products to provide exceptional service and value to our customers. We provide a full range of brokerage services including employee benefits, property and casualty, and retirement. Headquartered in Colorado, we think globally but act locally, with personal services designed specifically for each individual client. AP CO utilizes resources with national networks of brokers to ensure we can meet your every need and find answers to your questions quickly and efficiently.
Our goal is to achieve a long-term relationship focused on bringing value to your employee benefits management and insurance programs. We are committed to utilizing our collective talent to support your insurance goals. We work to identify activities that drive claim frequency, and implement an action plan to control health care costs and promote a healthy work environment for your employees.
Securing the best insurance package for your business begins with planning. Analyzing all your risks is critical to successful implementation of your insurance plan. AP CO will partner with you by providing ongoing assistance, consultation and service that will help you control your insurance expenses, choose the best plan to fit your company's needs and promote health care consumerism.
For more information on Assured Partners, please visit the website, call (800) 322-9773 or email info@assuredptrco.com.
About DNB ASA
DNB is Norway's largest financial services provider, with total assets approaching $400 billion. The bank has for years been a major provider of capital to the oil & gas industry, growing up literally side by side with the highly prolific fields developed in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The Oslo Energy Office maintains a global financing strategy, and serves this market through multiple offices around the world including Houston, London and Singapore.
Energy Americas, based in Houston, comprises approximately 20 seasoned energy finance professionals. Aside from facilitating the bank's global business strategies, the office concentrates primarily on serving middle market and larger customers in the four principal oil & gas sectors — upstream, midstream, downstream and service — as well as in Power and Renewables. The bank offers a variety of financial products, from traditional oil & gas reserve financing, to longer-term capital markets transactions and merger/acquisition advisory services through its broker-dealer arm, DNB Markets, Inc. Ancillary service capabilities include cash management/depository services, as well as commodity and interest rate hedging.
For information on DNB's energy services, please visit the DNB energy website.
About Fifth Third Bancorp
Fifth Third Bank is a diversified financial services company with over $120 billion in assets. The Bank's energy group is comprised of experienced and knowledgeable individuals that can assist in providing and structuring financial solutions to meet their clients' needs across the upstream, midstream, downstream and services sectors. Solutions and capabilities include commodity hedging, interest rate management, foreign exchange, debt capital markets, treasury management, and depository/investment products.
For more information, please contact Richard Butler at 713-401-6101 or richard.butler@53.com.
About CIBC
CIBC is a leading North American bank headquartered in Canada and with offices around the world. CIBC was originally founded nearly 150 years ago, and has supported and financed the energy industry for many decades. CIBC was recently ranked as the strongest publicly traded bank in North America by Bloomberg, and is rated A+/Aa3 by S&P and Moody's, respectively.
Our energy specialists draw on the breadth of CIBC's capabilities to provide market insights and creative solutions for our clients. Services include corporate banking, commodity and interest rate hedging and strategy, A&D advisory, and capital markets.
CIBC is publicly traded on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CM" and has a market cap of $36 billion and nearly $400 billion in total assets. For more information, please visit the CIBC energy website.
About Haynes and Boone
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an energy-focused corporate law firm, providing a full spectrum of legal services to our clients across the oil and gas industry, including the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. We serve energy clients from our offices in Texas, Colorado, New York, California, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai. We work as a team representing U.S. and foreign public and private companies engaged in the dynamic day-to-day work of finding and extracting oil and gas, and the banks, investment funds and other investors that support them.
Our team of more than 100 energy lawyers and landmen understands the U.S. and international physical and financial energy markets, and the firm has been helping operators and lenders complete some of the largest financings and M&A transactions in recent years. With more than 600 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal, and our energy lawyers have been ranked by publications such as Best Lawyers in America, Chambers and Partners and Who's Who in Energy.
For more info, please visit www.haynesboone.com.
About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world's eighth largest bank by total assets (The Banker, July 2014). Crédit Agricole CIB offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking.
The Bank provides support to clients in large international markets through its network, with a presence in major countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
With headquarters in New York City, and U.S. offices in Houston and Chicago, Credit Agricole CIB Americas offers its corporate and institutional clients financial products and services and made-to-order structuring, origination and distribution, through both its banking unit Credit Agricole CIB, and the full-service broker-dealer Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., which is a member of the NYSE and NASD. Credit Agricole CIB is also present in Montreal, Canada, and in Latin America with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
The Energy Industry represents the single largest concentration of industry exposure at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, whose specialty focus dates back over 100 years. Our Energy practice for North America, located in Houston, focuses on all segments of the business and covers it on a truly global basis.
For more information, visit www.ca-cib.com.
About Natixis
Natixis is the international corporate and investment banking, asset management, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France.
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking advises and assists corporations, financial institutions, institutional investors, financial sponsors, public-sector organizations and the networks of Groupe BPCE.
We furnish a diversified array of financing solutions, provide access to capital markets and transaction banking services.
Areas of expertise include Advisory: M&A, primary equity, capital & rating advisory; Financing: vanilla and structured; Capital Markets: equities, fixed income, credit, forex and commodities; Global Transaction Banking: trade finance, cash management, liquidity management and correspondent banking; Research: economic, credit, equity and quantitative.
The Bank leverages the expertise and highly technical skills of its teams, and provides industry-recognized research to build innovative and mix-and-matchable solutions. Corporate and Investment Banking is present on the main financial markets via three international platforms: Americas, Asia-Pacific, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).
About PJ SOLOMON
PJ SOLOMON is an investment banking advisory firm that provides strategic advisory services to chief executive officers and senior management, owners of public and private companies, boards of directors, and special committees.
Our full suite of advisory services includes Mergers and Acquisitions, Restructuring and Capital Markets across a range of industry verticals.
The PJ SOLOMON Energy Advisory Group provides strategic investment banking advisory services to public and private clients across the energy chain. Drawing upon our extensive sector relationships and deep strategic and operational expertise, we can offer a unique and valued advisory platform for the upstream, upstream A&D, midstream and the utility sectors.
Based in our Houston office, the PJ SOLOMON Energy team holds more than 100 years of experience on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, A&D, restructurings, bankruptcies, and public and private capital raisings.
Industry sectors/sub-sectors include: Upstream, Upstream A&D, Midstream, Energy related and Utilities.
About PNC Financial Services Group
PNC is one of the largest, best-regarded and best-capitalized financial services companies in the country, with approximately $325 billion in assets and offices in 33 states, Canada and the United Kingdom.
PNC's Energy Group, headed by Tom Byargeon, is a significant capital and service provider to energy companies, with approximately $6.5 billion in commitments to the industry. The Energy office in Houston houses a team with extensive experience and deep relationships across the entire energy supply chain. This group also offers strategic corporate finance advice and delivers PNC's comprehensive set of solutions and capabilities, including commodity and interest rate hedging, debt capital markets, loan syndications, treasury management, asset securitization, equipment finance and institutional investments.
For more information, please contact Tom Byargeon at 713-353-8782 or tom.byargeon@pnc.com. You can also visit www.pnc.com.
About MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has been a leading provider of banking services to the oil and gas industry in the Americas for more than 30 years, consistently ranking in the Top 10 Lead Arrangers and Top 10 Bond Arrangers in the Thomson Reuters Oil and Gas League Tables.
We support clients across the industry—from regional exploration and production to global diversified services companies—that benefit from our focused approach, strong execution, and customized services. Whether you are looking to expand existing reserves, make an acquisition, or streamline operations, we can support your growth with services, including: underwriting and syndications; U.S./Canadian cross-border funding; securities underwriting and placements; leasing and tax equity financing; and commodities, interest rate, and foreign exchange risk management.
For more information, visit: www.mufgamericas.com/oil-gas.
About Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,700 locations, 12,500 ATMs, and the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who conduct business in the global economy.
The Energy Banking Group, headed by Bart Schouest, provides corporate banking products and services to the energy sector, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and diversified industries. With offices in Houston, Dallas, Denver, Calgary, and Aberdeen the group's success is driven by in-depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key industry participants. The group has over $45 billion of credit commitments to public and private companies across the upstream, midstream, downstream, services, and power and utilities sectors.
The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by James Kipp, provides strategic advisory and corporate finance expertise to energy and power clients, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, downstream, coal and the power & utilities sectors. Areas of focus include equity, equity-linked and debt underwritings, private placements, syndications, and mergers and acquisitions. The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group has offices in Houston and Charlotte.
These teams work together to offer clients industry and product expertise, in addition to sharing their understanding of internal and external forces that drive both industry trends and financial markets. For additional information, contact us at 713-319-1350 or Energy@wellsfargo.com.
To learn more about Wells Fargo & Company, please visit the company's web site at www.wellsfargo.com.
About SMBC
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management.
SMBC Americas Division, with more than 2,500 employees, oversees operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America. We work across SMFG to offer corporate and institutional clients sophisticated and comprehensive financial services around the globe.
SMBC's roots in Japan trace back more than 400 years to 1590. The Americas Division of SMBC has more than a century of experience in the United States, beginning when the San Francisco branch of Sumitomo Bank was established in 1919. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE: SMFG) was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010.
For more information please visit the corporate website: www.smbcgroup.com/americas/group-companies/
About Opportune LLP
Founded in 2005, Opportune is a leading global energy consulting firm specializing in adding value to clients across the energy industry, including upstream, midstream, downstream, power and gas, commodities trading and oilfield services.
Since we are not an audit firm, we are advocates of our clients and are not subject to the restrictions placed on other firms by regulatory bodies. Using our extensive knowledge of all sectors of the energy industry, we work with clients to provide comprehensive solutions to their operational and financial challenges.
Our practice areas include complex financial reporting, dispute resolution, enterprise risk, outsourcing, process and technology, reserve engineering and geosciences, restructuring, strategy and organization, tax, transactional due diligence and valuation. Opportune LLP is not a CPA firm.
Opportune's corporate headquarters are in Houston, Texas. The firm also has offices in Dallas, Denver, New York City, Tulsa, and the UK. For more information please call Ashley Hunt, Marketing Coordinator, 713.490.5050, and visit the web site https://opportune.com/.
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SOURCE EnerCom, Inc.
DENVER, June 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerCom, Inc. is pleased to update the list of oil and gas companies and energy sector experts who will be presenters at the 23rd annual edition of The Oil & Gas Conference®, coming August 19-22, 2018, to the Westin Denver Downtown.
Public and Private Company Presenters: The 2018 edition of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will feature public and private oil and gas companies with operations spanning 40 countries and six continents, including all U.S. shale basins, the Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Latin America and Africa. A work-in-progress list of the 2018 presenting companies will be posted and updated on the conference website.
The EnerCom Denver 2018 presenting companies include but are not limited to:
Who Attends the Conference: More than 2,000 institutional, private equity and hedge fund investors, energy research analysts, retail brokers, trust officers, high net worth investors, investment bankers and energy industry professionals gather in Denver for the conference.
One-on-One Meetings: EnerCom works in advance with presenting company management teams to arrange one-on-one meetings with the attending institutional investors and research analysts at the conference venue. In 2017, EnerCom managed more than 2,100 one-on-one meeting requests.
How to Register: Investment professionals and oil and gas companies can register for the event through the conference website.
EnerCom History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil & Gas Conference® in 1996. It is the oldest and largest energy investment conference in Denver.
Global sponsors of EnerCom's conferences are Netherland, Sewell & Associates; RS Energy Group; Moss Adams; and Preng & Associates. Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference® 23 are Bank of America Merrill Lynch; AssuredPartners; DNB Bank ASA; Fifth Third Bank; CIBC; Haynes and Boone; Credit Agricole CIB; Natixis; PJ SOLOMON; PNC Financial Services Group; Wells Fargo; MUFG; and SMBC.
About EnerCom, Inc.
Since 1994 EnerCom, Inc. has developed into a nationally recognized oil and gas-focused investor relations consultancy advising oil and gas industry clients on corporate strategy, asset valuations, investor communications, media relations and providing visual communications design.
EnerCom offers services and produces and publishes numerous data products and external communications tools for public and private energy companies including:
EnerCom's professionals have more than 170 years of industry and business experience and a proven track record of success.
Headquartered in Denver, with senior consultants in Dallas and Houston, EnerCom uses the team approach for delivering its wide range of services to public and private companies, large and small, operating in the global exploration and production, OilService, capital markets, and associated advanced-technology industries.
EnerCom's upcoming oil and gas investment conferences include:
EnerCom Denver (The Oil & Gas Conference®) – August 19-22, 2018
EnerCom Dallas – Feb. 27-28, 2019
For more information about EnerCom and its services, please visit http://www.enercominc.com/ or call +1 303-296-8834 to speak with the management team or one of our consultants.
About Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) was founded in 1961 to provide the highest quality engineering and geological consulting to the petroleum industry. Today they are recognized as the worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis to industry and financial organizations and government agencies. With offices in Dallas and Houston, NSAI provides a complete range of geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering services and has the technical experience and ability to perform these services in any of the onshore and offshore oil and gas producing areas of the world. They provide reserves reports and audits, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, simulation studies, exploration resources assessments, equity determinations, and management and advisory services. For a complete list of services or to learn more about Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. please visit www.netherlandsewell.com.
For more information about NSAI, call C.H. (Scott) Rees, Chief Executive Officer, at 214-969-5401 or send an email to info@nsai-petro.com.
About RS Energy Group
RS Energy Group (RSEG) provides data-driven intelligence: evaluate assets, weigh valuable M&A opportunities and benchmark your business for more precise decision-making.
RSEG officially released its data solution in April 2017. RS Data™ provides clients with corrected, multi-sourced permit, completion and production data of unparalleled completeness and quality.
Today, RSEG's intelligence covers more than 150 companies operating in every key North American and many international energy plays with a powerful combination of practical insights at the asset level and a long-standing participation in capital markets. RSEG's independent, unbiased and accurate analysis forms a foundation of trust with its clients. Its collaborative approach, both internally and as an extension of its clients' research efforts, promotes innovation and fosters intimate, long term partnerships.
RS Energy Group (RSEG) is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, with strategic locations in Houston, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Contact RS Energy Group by phone at (403) 294-9111, or email info@rseg.com.
About Moss Adams LLP
For more than 30 years, Hein & Associates has been recognized throughout the industry as a leading oil and gas accounting and advisory firm. In late 2017, Hein combined with Moss Adams LLP, one of the largest accounting, consulting and wealth management firms in the nation, creating a $600 million middle-market accounting/tax/audit leader in the western U.S. with a strong oil & gas practice group.
With more than 2,900 professionals and staff across more than 25 locations in the West and beyond, Moss Adams works with many of the world's most innovative companies and leaders. Our strength in the middle market enables us to advise clients at all intervals of development—from start-up, to rapid growth and expansion, to transition. Today, we help over 2,300 companies doing business in more than 100 countries and territories.
For more information, please contact Joe Blice, Partner, National Practice Leader, Oil & Gas, CPA joe.blice@mossadams.com, (972) 687-7818.
Moss Adams LLP provides details at https://www.mossadams.com/home .
About Preng & Associates
Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only retainer-based, international executive search firm specializing solely in the energy industry. Its number one priority is to assist clients with their executive selection, organization development, and human resource needs by providing the highest quality service. Preng's record of accomplishment is directly attributable to their experienced staff, worldwide network of industry contacts, proven search methodology, and high standards of professionalism. Preng has conducted over 3000 searches for board, executive, management, and professional positions in its 35-year history and has the highest success and repeat client track record.
Preng's practice is based on the premise that the search process is most effective when conducted by professionals with significant search industry experience. The company has earned a reputation for combining professional search disciplines with an in-depth industry and market understanding and has succeeded in some of the industry's most challenging and high-profile searches. Preng's international reach allows it to effectively conduct global engagements; and as a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, Preng practices and promotes its high standards of conduct and professionalism.
For more information about Preng & Associates, contact Charles Carpenter, Partner at 713-243-2610 or ccarpenter@preng.com.
About Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Oil and Gas Group
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) Oil and Gas practice is comprised of a global team of bankers dedicated to covering the energy industry, dating back to the 1920s when Texas predecessor banks pioneered reserve-based lending. The practice includes an experienced in-house Petroleum Engineering team with over 150 years of combined experience. With one of the only full-service financial energy platforms in the industry, the BofAML oil and gas team manages significant capital commitments in the energy sector with dedicated bankers based in Calgary, Denver, Dallas, Houston, London and New York.
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research platform offers clients access to information and actionable ideas on stocks, bonds, economics and investment strategies. With approximately 700 analysts in more than 20 countries, we offer our clients knowledge about economic and business developments that are having an impact on the markets, so that they can work with their financial advisors to make the most of opportunities. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was ranked No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year on the 2014 list of Top Global Research Firms, Institutional Investor.
About AssuredPartners
AssuredPartners Colorado (AP CO) combines 30+ years of experience with leading-edge products to provide exceptional service and value to our customers. We provide a full range of brokerage services including employee benefits, property and casualty, and retirement. Headquartered in Colorado, we think globally but act locally, with personal services designed specifically for each individual client. AP CO utilizes resources with national networks of brokers to ensure we can meet your every need and find answers to your questions quickly and efficiently.
Our goal is to achieve a long-term relationship focused on bringing value to your employee benefits management and insurance programs. We are committed to utilizing our collective talent to support your insurance goals. We work to identify activities that drive claim frequency, and implement an action plan to control health care costs and promote a healthy work environment for your employees.
Securing the best insurance package for your business begins with planning. Analyzing all your risks is critical to successful implementation of your insurance plan. AP CO will partner with you by providing ongoing assistance, consultation and service that will help you control your insurance expenses, choose the best plan to fit your company's needs and promote health care consumerism.
For more information on Assured Partners, please visit the website, call (800) 322-9773 or email info@assuredptrco.com.
About DNB ASA
DNB is Norway's largest financial services provider, with total assets approaching $400 billion. The bank has for years been a major provider of capital to the oil & gas industry, growing up literally side by side with the highly prolific fields developed in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The Oslo Energy Office maintains a global financing strategy, and serves this market through multiple offices around the world including Houston, London and Singapore.
Energy Americas, based in Houston, comprises approximately 20 seasoned energy finance professionals. Aside from facilitating the bank's global business strategies, the office concentrates primarily on serving middle market and larger customers in the four principal oil & gas sectors — upstream, midstream, downstream and service — as well as in Power and Renewables. The bank offers a variety of financial products, from traditional oil & gas reserve financing, to longer-term capital markets transactions and merger/acquisition advisory services through its broker-dealer arm, DNB Markets, Inc. Ancillary service capabilities include cash management/depository services, as well as commodity and interest rate hedging.
For information on DNB's energy services, please visit the DNB energy website.
About Fifth Third Bancorp
Fifth Third Bank is a diversified financial services company with over $120 billion in assets. The Bank's energy group is comprised of experienced and knowledgeable individuals that can assist in providing and structuring financial solutions to meet their clients' needs across the upstream, midstream, downstream and services sectors. Solutions and capabilities include commodity hedging, interest rate management, foreign exchange, debt capital markets, treasury management, and depository/investment products.
For more information, please contact Richard Butler at 713-401-6101 or richard.butler@53.com.
About CIBC
CIBC is a leading North American bank headquartered in Canada and with offices around the world. CIBC was originally founded nearly 150 years ago, and has supported and financed the energy industry for many decades. CIBC was recently ranked as the strongest publicly traded bank in North America by Bloomberg, and is rated A+/Aa3 by S&P and Moody's, respectively.
Our energy specialists draw on the breadth of CIBC's capabilities to provide market insights and creative solutions for our clients. Services include corporate banking, commodity and interest rate hedging and strategy, A&D advisory, and capital markets.
CIBC is publicly traded on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CM" and has a market cap of $36 billion and nearly $400 billion in total assets. For more information, please visit the CIBC energy website.
About Haynes and Boone
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an energy-focused corporate law firm, providing a full spectrum of legal services to our clients across the oil and gas industry, including the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. We serve energy clients from our offices in Texas, Colorado, New York, California, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai. We work as a team representing U.S. and foreign public and private companies engaged in the dynamic day-to-day work of finding and extracting oil and gas, and the banks, investment funds and other investors that support them.
Our team of more than 100 energy lawyers and landmen understands the U.S. and international physical and financial energy markets, and the firm has been helping operators and lenders complete some of the largest financings and M&A transactions in recent years. With more than 600 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal, and our energy lawyers have been ranked by publications such as Best Lawyers in America, Chambers and Partners and Who's Who in Energy.
For more info, please visit www.haynesboone.com.
About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world's eighth largest bank by total assets (The Banker, July 2014). Crédit Agricole CIB offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking.
The Bank provides support to clients in large international markets through its network, with a presence in major countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
With headquarters in New York City, and U.S. offices in Houston and Chicago, Credit Agricole CIB Americas offers its corporate and institutional clients financial products and services and made-to-order structuring, origination and distribution, through both its banking unit Credit Agricole CIB, and the full-service broker-dealer Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., which is a member of the NYSE and NASD. Credit Agricole CIB is also present in Montreal, Canada, and in Latin America with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
The Energy Industry represents the single largest concentration of industry exposure at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, whose specialty focus dates back over 100 years. Our Energy practice for North America, located in Houston, focuses on all segments of the business and covers it on a truly global basis.
For more information, visit www.ca-cib.com.
About Natixis
Natixis is the international corporate and investment banking, asset management, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France.
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking advises and assists corporations, financial institutions, institutional investors, financial sponsors, public-sector organizations and the networks of Groupe BPCE. We furnish a diversified array of financing solutions, provide access to capital markets and transaction banking services.
Areas of expertise include Advisory: M&A, primary equity, capital & rating advisory; Financing: vanilla and structured; Capital Markets: equities, fixed income, credit, forex and commodities; Global Transaction Banking: trade finance, cash management, liquidity management and correspondent banking; Research: economic, credit, equity and quantitative.
The Bank leverages the expertise and highly technical skills of its teams, and provides industry-recognized research to build innovative and mix-and-matchable solutions. Corporate and Investment Banking is present on the main financial markets via three international platforms: Americas, Asia-Pacific, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).
About PJ SOLOMON
PJ SOLOMON is an investment banking advisory firm that provides strategic advisory services to chief executive officers and senior management, owners of public and private companies, boards of directors, and special committees.
Our full suite of advisory services includes Mergers and Acquisitions, Restructuring and Capital Markets across a range of industry verticals.
The PJ SOLOMON Energy Advisory Group provides strategic investment banking advisory services to public and private clients across the energy chain. Drawing upon our extensive sector relationships and deep strategic and operational expertise, we can offer a unique and valued advisory platform for the upstream, upstream A&D, midstream and the utility sectors.
Based in our Houston office, the PJ SOLOMON Energy team holds more than 100 years of experience on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, A&D, restructurings, bankruptcies, and public and private capital raisings.
Industry sectors/sub-sectors include: Upstream, Upstream A&D, Midstream, Energy related and Utilities.
About PNC Financial Services Group
PNC is one of the largest, best-regarded and best-capitalized financial services companies in the country, with approximately $325 billion in assets and offices in 33 states, Canada and the United Kingdom.
PNC's Energy Group, headed by Tom Byargeon, is a significant capital and service provider to energy companies, with approximately $6.5 billion in commitments to the industry. The Energy office in Houston houses a team with extensive experience and deep relationships across the entire energy supply chain. This group also offers strategic corporate finance advice and delivers PNC's comprehensive set of solutions and capabilities, including commodity and interest rate hedging, debt capital markets, loan syndications, treasury management, asset securitization, equipment finance and institutional investments.
For more information, please contact Tom Byargeon at 713-353-8782 or tom.byargeon@pnc.com. You can also visit www.pnc.com.
About MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has been a leading provider of banking services to the oil and gas industry in the Americas for more than 30 years, consistently ranking in the Top 10 Lead Arrangers and Top 10 Bond Arrangers in the Thomson Reuters Oil and Gas League Tables.
We support clients across the industry—from regional exploration and production to global diversified services companies—that benefit from our focused approach, strong execution, and customized services. Whether you are looking to expand existing reserves, make an acquisition, or streamline operations, we can support your growth with services, including: underwriting and syndications; U.S./Canadian cross-border funding; securities underwriting and placements; leasing and tax equity financing; and commodities, interest rate, and foreign exchange risk management.
For more information, visit: www.mufgamericas.com/oil-gas.
About Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,700 locations, 12,500 ATMs, and the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who conduct business in the global economy.
The Energy Banking Group, headed by Bart Schouest, provides corporate banking products and services to the energy sector, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and diversified industries. With offices in Houston, Dallas, Denver, Calgary, and Aberdeen the group's success is driven by in-depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key industry participants. The group has over $45 billion of credit commitments to public and private companies across the upstream, midstream, downstream, services, and power and utilities sectors.
The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by James Kipp, provides strategic advisory and corporate finance expertise to energy and power clients, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, downstream, coal and the power & utilities sectors. Areas of focus include equity, equity-linked and debt underwritings, private placements, syndications, and mergers and acquisitions. The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group has offices in Houston and Charlotte.
These teams work together to offer clients industry and product expertise, in addition to sharing their understanding of internal and external forces that drive both industry trends and financial markets. For additional information, contact us at 713-319-1350 or Energy@wellsfargo.com.
To learn more about Wells Fargo & Company, please visit the company's web site at www.wellsfargo.com.
About SMBC
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management.
SMBC Americas Division, with more than 2,500 employees, oversees operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America. We work across SMFG to offer corporate and institutional clients sophisticated and comprehensive financial services around the globe.
SMBC's roots in Japan trace back more than 400 years to 1590. The Americas Division of SMBC has more than a century of experience in the United States, beginning when the San Francisco branch of Sumitomo Bank was established in 1919. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE: SMFG) was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010.
For more information please visit the corporate website: www.smbcgroup.com/americas/group-companies/
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