TULSA, Feb. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mid-Con Energy Partners, LP (NASDAQ: MCEP) (“Mid-Con Energy” or the “Partnership”), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Mid-Con Energy Properties, LLC, announces that it has entered into definitive agreements to sell substantially all of its Texas properties for $60.0 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments, and to acquire producing properties in Caddo, Grady and Osage Counties, Oklahoma for $27.5 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The transaction is expected to close on or about March 28, 2019 with an effective date the same as the closing date.
“We are excited to announce this latest in a series of transactions which strengthen our financial position while enhancing the Partnership’s asset base with low decline properties and an inventory of waterflood growth projects,” stated Mid-Con Energy’s CEO, Jeff Olmstead. “Like many of the other assets we have acquired in the past few years, we see significant opportunity in optimizing margins and the value of the new properties in a short time frame through a combination of operational efficiency improvements, reactivation of wells, and production enhancements. Pro-forma for this transaction, the underlying PDP decline rate for the Partnership will be less than 10%, with a portfolio of development projects for future growth. Lowering our overall base decline rate allows us to allocate more of our free cash flow to acquisitions and new growth projects.”
This transaction also will significantly lower the Partnership’s total outstanding debt and Leverage Ratio as calculated under our Credit Agreement. The Partnership expects this to be a liquidity enhancing transaction post close. Going forward we will continue to look to acquire long-lived, low-decline assets with opportunities to enhance margins and cash flow, as well as looking to acquire select growth projects with waterflood potential.
Oklahoma Assets to be Acquired
The Partnership will be acquiring multiple new properties in Caddo, Grady and Osage Counties, Oklahoma, including 10 mature waterflood units. These assets are low decline, long-lived properties with opportunities to both grow production and decrease current operating expenses through operational efficiencies. Certain highlights of the assets to be acquired are as follows:
- Net proved developed producing reserves of 6.2 MMBoe (96% oil), as January 1, 2019, based on January 1, 2019 SEC pricing
- Production for third quarter 2018 was 1,312 Boe/d
- Average PDP decline rate of less than 5%
ABOUT MID-CON ENERGY PARTNERS, LP
Mid-Con Energy is a publicly held Delaware limited partnership formed in July 2011 to own, acquire, and develop producing oil and natural gas properties in North America, with a focus on Enhanced Oil Recovery. Mid-Con Energy’s core areas of operation are located in Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming. For more information, please visit Mid-Con Energy's website at www.midconenergypartners.com.
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