RIVERTON Aug 20, 2015 (Thomson StreetEvents) -- Edited Transcript of US Energy Corp earnings conference call or presentation Monday, August 10, 2015 at 3:00:00pm GMT
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Corporate Participants
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* Reg Larsen
US Energy Corp. - Director, IR
* Keith Larsen
US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO
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Conference Call Participants
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* Noel Parks
Ladenburg Thalmann - Analyst
* Patrick Rigamer
Siefert Global Securities - Analyst
* John White
ROTH Capital Partners - Analyst
* George Jasper
- Private Investor
* Michael Kamperman
Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst
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Presentation
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Operator [1]
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Good morning. My name is Candace and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the US Energy Corp. second-quarter 2015 selected highlights, financial results and operations update conference call. (Operator Instructions). I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Reg Larsen, Director of Investor Relations Of US Energy Corp. Sir, you may begin your conference.
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Reg Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Director, IR [2]
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Thank you, Candace. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and thank you for joining us today. With me this morning is Keith Larsen, Chief Executive Officer; David Veltri, President and Chief Operating Officer; and Steve Richmond, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
In terms of an agenda for today's call, Keith will provide you with an overview of our highlights, financial results and operating initiatives for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015 and we will finish the call with a question-and-answer session from the audience.
As a preliminary matter, I would like to note that, during this call, we may make forward-looking statements, which may be identified by the words will, anticipate, expect and similar words that are based on the beliefs and assumption of US Energy's management. These statements relate to, among other things, potential future transactions and liquidity. These, and all statements other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933.
The forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including those described in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2015, which was filed premarket this morning and our other filings with the SEC, all of which are incorporated herein by reference. Relevant non-GAAP reconciliations are available on the Company's website, which is located at www.USNRG.com. I'd now like to turn the call over to Keith.
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [3]
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Thanks, Reg and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. To begin, I'd like to thank the audience for attending today's call and for following the Company's progress through the midyear point of 2015. At the end of the second quarter, the Company had participation interest in 142 drills, 20.87 net producing wells primarily located in South Texas and in the Williston Basin of North Dakota.
During the second quarter of 2015, the Company produced 81,618 net BOE and average net daily production during the quarter was 897 BOE per day. When compared to the first quarter of 2015's average net daily production of 958 net BOE per day, our production decreased approximately 6.4%. I make note of this because it demonstrates that our base production is holding up relatively well during the curtailment of drilling in both South Texas and North Dakota due to the dramatic downturn in the price of oil.
During the three months ended June 30, 2015, the Company recognized $3.3 million in revenue as compared to $2.7 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2015. The 22.6% increase in revenue is primarily due to higher realized oil and gas prices in the second quarter of 2015 when compared to the first quarter of 2015.
During the six months ended June 30, 2015, we received an average of $1.1 million per month from our producing wells with an average operating cost of $572,000 per month, including workover costs and production taxes of $102,000 for average net cash flows of $421,000 per month from oil and gas production before non-cash depletion expense. Cash provided by operations was $2.1 million during this period. At June 30, 2015, we had $4.1 million in cash and cash equivalents and effective July 16, 2015, we had an additional $1 million in borrowing capacity under our $7 million line of credit with Wells Fargo.
I'd like to note that we are actively seeking additional sources of funding beyond our reserve base credit facility in order to demonstrate sustainability, as well as position ourselves to transact on commodity price-driven opportunities as a result of the current market conditions. We are making progress on this front and anticipate having new financing in place in the coming months.
In the financial and operational release that was published this morning, which is available on our website, we presented an EBITDAX table showing earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation, depletion and amortization, accretion of discount on asset retirement obligations, non-cash impairments, unrealized derivative gains and losses and non-cash stock compensation expense, which we refer to as modified EBITDAX. Modified EBITDAX was a loss of $442,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2015. Modified EBITDAX was a loss of $1.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2015.
The production and financial metrics that I've just stated have resulted in a net loss after taxes of $6.3 million or $0.22 per share basic and diluted for the quarter. This loss is inclusive of a recorded property impairment of $3.2 million related to our oil and gas assets, which represents $0.11 of the $0.22 per share loss during the quarter. During the six months ended June 30, 2015, we reported a net loss after taxes of $30 million, or $1.07 per share basic and diluted as compared to net income after taxes of $306,000, or $0.01 per share basic and diluted during the same period of 2014.
During the six months ended June 30, 2015, the Company recorded two property impairments totaling $22.4 million related to its oil and gas assets, which represents $0.80 of the $1.07 per share loss. Impairments for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015 were primarily due to the decline in the price of oil.
The Company recognizes that during these times it is pertinent to focus its efforts on cost-cutting measures and to prudently manage the bottom line. During the three months and six months ended June 30, 2015, general and administrative expenses decreased by $312,000 and $439,000 respectively due to reductions in professional services, compensation expense, contract services and other general and administrative costs.
Now I will briefly touch on operations. In South Texas, the Company currently participates in approximately 30,754 gross or 7,826 net acres in Zavala and Demmit counties with several operators. During the quarter, two gross wells, one targeting the Buda Formation and one targeting the E Bench of the Austin Chalk Formation commenced production. Overall production from the region during the quarter averaged 287 net BOE per day from 37 gross or 9.99 net wells.
On a going-forward basis, drilling activity has been curtailed due to the low commodity prices. However, we continue to monitor recent development activity in and around our producing properties. We are encouraged by the results of a vertical pilot well drilled to test the Eagle Ford potential late in 2014 and by our neighboring operators' recent drilling results immediately adjacent to our acreage position in Zavala County. We plan to participate in the testing of our acreage with our partner Contango during 2016 in order to further evaluate the development potential of our acreage.
In the Williston Basin of North Dakota, the Company participates in approximately 84,810 gross, 3,511 net acres in Williams, McKenzie and Mountrail counties, North Dakota with numerous operators. Production during the quarter averaged 557 net BOE per day from 102 gross, 10.32 net producing wells. We continue to participate in the drilling and completion of our inventory of wells in the basin in order to maintain our base production from this region. We are continuing to seek funding sources to provide sustainability and liquidity for the acquisition of accretive operated projects in our identified areas of focus. We believe that we will be successful in these efforts and that this acquisition approach will be a value-added complement to the expected reduced development of our portfolio through the drill bit this year.
Before moving on to the question-and-answer portion of today's call, I'd like to also mention that we are continuing to work towards finding the proper path forward on the Manama Project in Colorado. We continue to evaluate all options for a permanent solution for the project and remain optimistic that we will be successful in our efforts in due course.
That concludes the prepared remarks for today's call. Operator, would you begin the Q&A session now, please?
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Questions and Answers
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Operator [1]
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(Operator Instructions) Noel Parks, Ladenburg Thalmann.
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Noel Parks, Ladenburg Thalmann - Analyst [2]
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Good morning. Just had a couple questions. In South Texas, could you just refresh my memory on where you stand as far as the operators holding various leases that you have? And I wondered, with your operators or other surrounding players, have you seen any effort go towards maybe renewing or extending leases sort of on the assumption that your near-term drill bit activity might slow down a bit?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [3]
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Well, I'm not sure on the second part of your question on the operators renewing their leases or extending. Certainly we are looking to extend some of our releases that are not held by production. And to answer the first part of your question, Noel, most of the acreage that we have with Contango is held by production. A very small amount of our acreage is held by production with US Enercorp down there.
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Noel Parks, Ladenburg Thalmann - Analyst [4]
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Okay, great. Yes, so on your side, you have been b- you're taking a look at some of those leases you have that you say are not held by production?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [5]
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We are and we are talking with our operator about negotiating with the leaseholder to extend those leases so that we can hold the leases.
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Noel Parks, Ladenburg Thalmann - Analyst [6]
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Great. And I'm just assuming you're, prior to that discussion, what sort of [lease bonus] or terms and I was just trying to get a feel for how that might look compared to when the original leases were taken as far as the bonuses or royalty terms that you might be looking for this time around.
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [7]
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Yes, again, those are private discussions, Noel, and I can't really comment on them until we get them done.
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Noel Parks, Ladenburg Thalmann - Analyst [8]
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Sure, no problem. In the Bakken, all the activity you listed was with XTO among the operators and I was wondering just a similar question, your other operators, is there anyone there who has been talking about getting back on the properties with rigs?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [9]
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Really hasn't been much talk from our operators except for, as you mentioned, XTO of getting on. We have seen a significant reduction in service. I believe the last day of fee that we got from XTO was around $7.5 million and that's down from about $10 million a year ago. So we are encouraged by that, but still with $45 oil we have not seen a lot of activity.
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Noel Parks, Ladenburg Thalmann - Analyst [10]
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Sure, great. And I guess just my last question is, in general, I've been hearing some interest a little bit on the public side, but also on the private side, among players who are looking to maybe invest more in non-operated working interest or in royalty interest. And I just wondered just from the calls you've been getting, either people talking to you about possibly buying or selling interests, have you seen a steady flow of inquiries from folks or has it sort of slowed throughout the year or picked up throughout the year so far?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [11]
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Maybe surprisingly we have had several inquiries about our non-operated working interests. I think people recognize the value that we have in our proved reserves and certainly we don't want to sell them and that's why we are seeking additional financing.
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Noel Parks, Ladenburg Thalmann - Analyst [12]
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Great. That's all I had.
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Operator [13]
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Patrick Rigamer, [Siefert] Global Securities.
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Patrick Rigamer, Siefert Global Securities - Analyst [14]
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A couple quick ones I guess. In the Williston, you list the current activity there and it looks like a lot of these wells are drilled waiting on completion. Do you get a sense from the operators that they are holding these wells in inventory or are they likely to work down that backlog or do you know what the plans are there?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [15]
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They're such a big company, I don't see them holding back on inventory. They will complete them in due course.
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Patrick Rigamer, Siefert Global Securities - Analyst [16]
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Okay. And then I guess on the A&D or M&A, are you looking at exclusively opportunities that could be operated or are you also looking at non-operated opportunities and are you looking at joint ventures or partnerships or just kind of standalone things for you guys to take on, or can you maybe just give a little bit more detail around what some of the things you are looking at?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [17]
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Well, our stated goal when we brought Dave Veltri on was to become an operator. So predominantly, we are looking at operated properties, but we're certainly not dismissing non-operated or other opportunities and we're looking at lots of them. In fact, we are currently looking at four or five opportunities.
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Patrick Rigamer, Siefert Global Securities - Analyst [18]
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Okay. Are those kind of partnership joint ventures or just something that you would enter into on your own?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [19]
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Kind of a mixture of all of the above, if you will, but we want to be the operator and it looks like that's the direction that we are going.
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Patrick Rigamer, Siefert Global Securities - Analyst [20]
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Okay, great. Thank you very much.
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Operator [21]
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John White, ROTH Capital.
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John White, ROTH Capital Partners - Analyst [22]
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I had a question on the Williston activity, which has been answered and it is a harsh environment and in my opinion, you're pulling all the levers you can by reducing costs and slowing activity and talking to folks about deals, so good luck.
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [23]
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Thank you, John. We appreciate the encouragement.
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Operator [24]
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[George Jasper], Private Investor.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [25]
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Good morning to everyone. Keith, a question on Texas and the Eagle Ford area acreage that you have that you made some comments about offsetting vertical success with maybe some new completion techniques. What are the odds for you and your partners to drill an Eagle Ford vertical by the end of this year?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [26]
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I don't think that we are going to drill another Eagle Ford well this year, George. I think it will be in the first or second quarter of 2016.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [27]
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Okay. All right. And secondly, and I know there have been some questions on the Bakken and the forward view of things. You've got quite a list of wells that have modest participations in that are drilled, but not completed. Is there any initiation to complete any of these at this point in time? Has that environment changed or is it still a standoff?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [28]
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George, what I think that XTO does is they go in and drill a series of wells and then they go in and complete those wells kind of like a zipper frac.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [29]
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Okay.
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [30]
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(technical difficulty) and we don't anticipate any slowdown and we don't see XTO holding them in inventory because of the price. They continue to complete.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [31]
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I see. So there's a good possibility as you are moving forward that that list -- a good number of those can get completed into the late third, fourth quarters?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [32]
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They will and although we have modest ownership there, that's why I mentioned that we are trying to maintain our production profile by continuing to participate even though these are lower interest wells.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [33]
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Sure, I can understand that. It's an opportunity to keep the production stabilized. Another question on Colorado, in terms of what you have going now, everything standstill, you're in the water treatment process yet is your commitment. Is there anything new on that, the water treatment process discussion with the state or the county in terms of your ongoing commitment, or any opportunity to get some other participation in that?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [34]
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Well, we are currently discussing with a few people some possible participation, but not the county or the state. To answer your question outright, there has been no change in the water treatment plant. We continue to look to cut costs there, whichever way possible, while maintaining the integrity of the plant and the excellent record that it's got of treating water down there.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [35]
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I see, okay. And one question on Utah, the uranium situation, is there any peripheral progress on that transition of those properties taking place and a new owner coming in and if there is, do you anticipate having any residual interest in a changeout of the ownership of those uranium properties as you had when you initially sold the properties?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [36]
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We do. It's a junior out of Canada. It's called Anfield Resources, has come to an agreement with Uranium One and they have until August 15 to close that deal and every indication is that they're going to be able to close it. If they are able to close it, over time and depending on the performance of the mill, US Energy will receive up to $5 million in cash and stock of Anfield Resources.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [37]
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I see. Okay. In terms of that, is there actually a processing mill there, or is this going to have to be a groundup situation if Anfield comes through and signs on?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [38]
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There is actually an existing mill. One of the last four remaining in the United States that is permitted (technical difficulty) Hanksville, Utah. It's actually called the Shootaring Canyon Mill, and that's rated, I believe, to 750 tons per day.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [39]
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Okay. So there is a distinct possibility here then of hopefully having some resid interest on this?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [40]
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It could. In my opinion, uranium prices will have to recover (technical difficulty) somewhere around $35 a pound after enjoying prices over $100. And if the price does recover and Japan recovers some of its nuclear capacity, I think that it has a real good chance.
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George Jasper, - Private Investor [41]
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Right, yes. And again, the timing on your getting out of that situation was utterly fantastic relative to the price you paid. And if you could find something like that to do in the future, it would be awesome, [responsing] your stock. Thank you.
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Operator [42]
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [43]
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I have three questions. The first question is you guys do have some non-producing assets. Are you looking to monetize any of them? For example, do you have a hedge that's now in the money for the first half of 2016? You've got some peripheral real estate. Is there anything else that you guys are looking to monetize to try to raise a little bit of cash in this environment?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [44]
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We've got about $5 million in real estate, but we're not there yet. We've certainly talked about it in the case that we would need additional cash. I think we are going to be successful in additional financing sources with our reserve base lending.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [45]
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Okay. Now I have a couple questions down in South Texas. The first one is this Eagle Ford bench that you are drilling in, which I guess is a transition zone between the Eagle Ford and the Austin Chalk. Are you guys considering drilling a horizontal into that section sometime, if not later this year, in 2016, or are you just planning to stick with the verticals?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [46]
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We are looking at everything right now. The engineers of our operators are looking at all of those things and of course, it's more economical if you can make a well at a vertical because of the cost. But we're looking at both, Mike.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [47]
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Okay. And then if you were to drill into this Eagle Ford, Austin Chalk/Eagle Ford bench you guys are calling it, transition zone, could you still on the same acreage drill a traditional Eagle Ford well and a traditional Austin chalk well or would that Eagle Ford bench capture all of those zones?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [48]
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I'm not sure I know the answer. I think that you would be able to drill those additional, but basically the Austin Chalk has been drilled. That's what we're holding. That's what we're holding those leases with by production. (technical difficulty) gas, but we are still holding it. But I think the answer is that they are still available.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [49]
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Okay. And then the last question I have up on the KM Ranch, I see that that well is going to get pushed off to 2016. How much -- EXCO has been very successful right all around that acreage up there. How much of that do you guys already have booked into your PV-10?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [50]
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We don't have any of it booked in.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [51]
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Can you book any in without drilling a well or do you have to drill a well to book it in?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [52]
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I think that's an engineering question. Certainly Dave has been working with our engineers to see if there's some potential there and what we've done is we did a swap with EXCO, so we have some information on their wells and we are currently evaluating what the difference is between the first two Eagle Ford wells that we drilled with Contango there and the methodology that they are using. And as soon as we come to grips on that and what the differences were and what the chances are then we will be approaching our engineers to add potential PUD locations in that acreage.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [53]
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Okay. Is there a possibility that will happen here in 2015 for year-end or you're not sure?
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [54]
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I'm really not sure.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [55]
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Okay. I do know that some of the wells that EXEO Resources has drilled near your property on the KM Ranch lease, they are using only a 10/64th-inch choke and those wells are still coming on at 600, 700, 800 barrels initial production a day. So it does seem like they've really found something up there. I know that they've also been very active in acquiring additional acreage in Zavala in the second quarter.
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [56]
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We have heard those same things and I have read those same things and we are encouraged by that. And again, that has potential that we could even sell to EXCO, but again we are trying to preserve our assets and to grow as a company.
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Michael Kamperman, Prometheus Wealth Management - Analyst [57]
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Okay. Thanks, guys and good luck.
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Operator [58]
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I'm showing no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Keith Larsen for any final remarks.
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Keith Larsen, US Energy Corp. - Chairman & CEO [59]
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Thank you. We remain committed to the longevity of the Company and its shareholders and believe that we are well-positioned to persevere through the reduced commodity pricing cycle. I would point out that we are not overlevered and have a relatively low level of debt at $6 million versus our substantial oil and gas assets that include approximately 900 net BOE per day of production along with additional development potential in the associated acreage.
In addition, we are working towards adding additional liquidity to the Company's balance sheet through the expansion of our banking relationships. Lastly, I would like to note that while current market conditions have brought on a new set of challenges for our Company and our industry, we have seen times and market conditions like this before and we will continue to work diligently to adapt and capture value as this cycle persists. Thank you for joining us today and for the continued support of the Company and its endeavors.
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Operator [60]
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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating in today's conference. This does conclude the program and you may all disconnect. Have a great day, everyone.