CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
−Removed: As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our principal executive officer
−Removed: and principal financial officer have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (Disclosure Controls).
+Added: As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K,
+Added: our principal executive officer and principal financial officer have evaluated the effectiveness of our “disclosure controls and procedures” (“Disclosure Controls”).
Disclosure Controls, as defined in Rule 13a-15(e)
−Removed: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this
−Removed: Annual Report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commissions rules and forms.
−Removed: Disclosure Controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such
−Removed: information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, does not
−Removed: expect that our Disclosure Controls will prevent all error and all fraud.
−Removed: A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are
+Added: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Annual Report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms.
+Added: Disclosure Controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, does not expect that our Disclosure Controls will prevent all error and all fraud.
+Added: A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met.
Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs.
−Removed: Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no
−Removed: evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected.
−Removed: These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be
−Removed: faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake.
−Removed: The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design
−Removed: will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
−Removed: Members of our management, including our chief
−Removed: executive officer and chief financial officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined by paragraph (e) of Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15, as of December 31, 2020 the end of the period covered by this Report.
−Removed: Based upon that evaluation, these officers concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of
−Removed: December 31, 2020.
+Added: Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected.
+Added: These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake.
+Added: The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
+Added: Members of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined by paragraph (e) of Exchange Act Rules 13a-15
+Added: as of December 31, 2021 the end of the period covered by this Report.
+Added: Based upon that evaluation, these officers concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2021.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance that assets are
−Removed: safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition, transactions are executed in accordance with appropriate management authorization and accounting records are reliable for the preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S.
+Added: Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f)
+Added: and 15d-15(f)
+Added: under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition, transactions are executed in accordance with appropriate management authorization and accounting records are reliable for the preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent
−Removed: or detect misstatements.
−Removed: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or
−Removed: procedures may deteriorate.
−Removed: Management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of
−Removed: December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Management based this assessment on criteria for effective internal control over financial reporting described in Internal Control Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of
−Removed: Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
−Removed: Managements assessment included an evaluation of the design of our internal control over financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of its internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting.
+Added: Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
+Added: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
+Added: Management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021.
+Added: Management based this assessment on criteria for effective internal control over financial reporting described in “Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013)” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
+Added: Management’s assessment included an evaluation of the design of our internal control over financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting.
Management reviewed the results of its assessment with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors.
−Removed: this assessment, management believes that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020.
−Removed: This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of the Companys registered public accounting firm regarding internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting.
−Removed: Managements report was not subject to attestation by the Companys registered public accounting firm pursuant to rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit the Company to provide only
−Removed: managements report in this Annual Report.
−Removed: There have been no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the
−Removed: fourth fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2020 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: Based on this assessment, management believes that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021.
+Added: This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public accounting firm pursuant to rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this Annual Report.
+Added: There have been no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the fourth fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION.
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
−Removed: Information relating to the Companys Directors, nominees for Directors and executive officers will be included in the Companys
−Removed: definitive proxy statement relating the Companys Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2021, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: Information relating to the Company’s Directors, nominees for Directors and executive officers will be included in the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2022, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.
−Removed: Information relating to executive compensation will be included in the Companys definitive proxy statement relating to the Companys
−Removed: Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2021, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: Information relating to executive compensation will be included in the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating to the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2022, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.
−Removed: Information relating to security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management will be included in the
−Removed: Companys definitive proxy statement relating to the Companys Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2021, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: Information relating to security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management will be included in the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating to the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2022, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE.
−Removed: Information relating to certain transactions by Directors and executive officers of the Company will be included in the Companys
−Removed: definitive proxy statement relating to the Companys Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2021, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: Information relating to certain transactions by Directors and executive officers of the Company will be included in the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating to the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2022, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.
−Removed: Information relating to principal accountant fees and services will be included in the Companys definitive proxy statement relating to
−Removed: the Companys Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2021, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: Information relating to principal accountant fees and services will be included in the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating to the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in June, 2022, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.
The following documents are filed as part of this Report:
−Removed: Financial statements (Index to Consolidated Financial Statements at page
−Removed: F-1 of this Report)
−Removed: Financial Statement Schedules (Index to Consolidated Financial Statements Supplementary Information at
−Removed: page F-1 of this Report)
−Removed: Certificate of Incorporation of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, as amended and restated of December
−Removed: 21, 2018, (filed as Exhibit 3.1 of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 8-K on December 27, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Bylaws of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation as amended and restated as of April
−Removed: 24, 2020 (filed as Exhibit 3.2 of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 8-K on April 27, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Composite copy of Non-Statutory Option Agreements (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 of PrimeEnergy
−Removed: Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).
−Removed: Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February
−Removed: 15, 2017 among PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, as Borrower, Compass Bank, as Administrative Agent and Lender, Wells Fargo, National Association, as Document Agent, the Lenders Party Hereto (Compass Bank, Wells Fargo, National Association, Citibank, N.A.)
−Removed: and BBVA Compass Bank, as Letter of Credit Issuer and Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2016).
−Removed: THIRD AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of January
−Removed: 8, 2019, among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, COMPASS BANK, as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA COMPASS, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.3 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018).
−Removed: SECOND AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of July
−Removed: 17, 2018 among PRIMEENERGY CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, COMPASS BANK, as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA COMPASS, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner, (Incorporated
−Removed: by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.2 to PrimeEnergy Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018).
−Removed: THIRD AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of January
−Removed: 8, 2019, among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, COMPASS BANK, as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA COMPASS, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner
−Removed: (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.3 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018).
−Removed: FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of May
−Removed: 8, 2020 among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, BBVA USA (f/k/a COMPASS BANK), as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA USA, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole
−Removed: Book Runner (Incorporated by reference to 10.22.5.10.4 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2020).
−Removed: FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of September
−Removed: 4, 2020, among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, BBVA USA (f/k/a COMPASS BANK,) as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA USA, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole
−Removed: Book Runner (Incorporated by reference to 10.22.5.10.5 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2020).
−Removed: SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of FEBRUARY
−Removed: 11, 2021, among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO, THE LENDERS PARTY, HERETO, BBVA USA, as Administrative Agent and BBVA USA, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.6
−Removed: to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 8-K dated February 12, 2021).
−Removed: Amended, Restated and Consolidated Guaranty dated as of February
−Removed: 15, 2017, among PrimeEnergy Management Corporation, Prime Operating Company, Eastern Oil Well Service Company, Southwest Oilfield Construction Company, EOWS Midland Company and Prime Offshore L.L.C.
−Removed: in favor of Compass Bank, as Administrative Agent for
−Removed: the Lenders (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.11 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016).
−Removed: Amended, Restated and Consolidated Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of February
−Removed: 15, 2017, among PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, PrimeEnergy Management Corporation, Prime Operating Company, Eastern Oil Well Service Company, Southwest Oilfield Construction Company, EOWS Midland Company and Prime Offshore L.L.C.
−Removed: and Compass Bank, as
−Removed: Administrative Agent for the Secured Parties (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.12 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
−Removed: Amended, Restated and Consolidated Deed of Trust, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Financing Statement Dated as of
−Removed: May 5, 2017 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.13 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017).
−Removed: Deed of Trust, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Financing Statement Dated as of May
−Removed: 5, 2017 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.14 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017).
−Removed: Amended, Restated and Consolidated Mortgage of Oil and Gas Property, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Financing Statement Dated
−Removed: as of May 5, 2017 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.15 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017).
−Removed: PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, as amended December
−Removed: 16, 2011 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14 of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011).
+Added: Financial statements (Index to Consolidated Financial Statements at page F-1
+Added: of this Report)
+Added: Financial Statement Schedules (Index to Consolidated Financial Statements – Supplementary Information at page F-1
+Added: of this Report)
+Added: Certificate of Incorporation of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, as amended and restated of December 21, 2018, (filed as Exhibit 3.1 of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 8-K on December 27, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Bylaws of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation as amended and restated as of April 24, 2020 (filed as Exhibit 3.2 of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 8-K on April 27, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Composite copy of Non-Statutory Option Agreements (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).
+Added: Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 15, 2017 among PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, as Borrower, Compass Bank, as Administrative Agent and Lender, Wells Fargo, National Association, as Document Agent, the Lenders Party Hereto (Compass Bank, Wells Fargo, National Association, Citibank, N.A.) and BBVA Compass Bank, as Letter of Credit Issuer and Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016).
+Added: FIRST AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of December 22, 2017 among PRIMEENERGY CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, COMPASS BANK, as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA COMPASS, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner, (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.1 to PrimeEnergy Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017).
+Added: SECOND AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of July 17, 2018 among PRIMEENERGY CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, COMPASS BANK, as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA COMPASS, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner, (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.2 to PrimeEnergy Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018).
+Added: THIRD AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of December 27, 2018, among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, COMPASS BANK, as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA COMPASS, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.3 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018).
+Added: FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of May 8, 2020 among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, BBVA USA (f/k/a COMPASS BANK), as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA USA, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner (Incorporated by reference to 10.22.5.4 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2020).
+Added: FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of September 4, 2020, among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, BBVA USA (f/k/a COMPASS BANK,) as Administrative Agent, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent, and BBVA USA, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner (Incorporated by reference to 10.22.5.5 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2020).
+Added: SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of FEBRUARY 11, 2021, among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO, THE LENDERS PARTY, HERETO, BBVA USA, as Administrative Agent and BBVA USA, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.10.6 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 8-K dated February 16, 2021).
+Added: SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of December 20, 2021 among PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION, as Borrower, THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO, THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO, CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and CITIBANK, N.A., as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner (filed herewith).
+Added: Amended, Restated and Consolidated Guaranty dated as of February 15, 2017, among PrimeEnergy Management Corporation, Prime Operating Company, Eastern Oil Well Service Company, Southwest Oilfield Construction Company, EOWS Midland Company and Prime Offshore L.L.C.
+Added: in favor of Compass Bank, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.11 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016).
+Added: Amended, Restated and Consolidated Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of February 15, 2017, among PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, PrimeEnergy Management Corporation, Prime Operating Company, Eastern Oil Well Service Company, Southwest Oilfield Construction Company, EOWS Midland Company and Prime Offshore L.L.C.
+Added: and Compass Bank, as Administrative Agent for the Secured Parties (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.12 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016).
+Added: Amended, Restated and Consolidated Deed of Trust, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Financing Statement Dated as of May 5, 2017 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.13 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017).
+Added: THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED DEED OF TRUST, MORTGAGE, SECURITY AGREEMENT, ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION AND FINANCING STATEMENT (this “ Amendment ”) is made and entered into as of December 20, 2021, by PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation, formerly known as PrimeEnergy Corporation (“ Prime ”) and PRIMEENERGY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION , a New York corporation (“ PEMC, ” and Prime and PEMC herein, individually and collectively, “ Grantor ”), and CITIBANK, N.A.
+Added: , as Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (in such capacity and together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, “ Beneficiary ”).
+Added: Deed of Trust, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Financing Statement Dated as of May 5, 2017 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22.5.14 to PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017).
+Added: FIRST AMENDMENT TO DEED OF TRUST, MORTGAGE, SECURITY AGREEMENT, ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION AND FINANCING STATEMENT (this “ Amendment ”) is made and entered into as of December 20, 2021, by PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation, formerly known as PrimeEnergy Corporation (“ Prime ”) and PRIMEENERGY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION , a New York corporation (“ PEMC, ” and Prime and PEMC herein, individually and collectively, “ Grantor ”), and CITIBANK, N.A.
+Added: , as Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (in such capacity and together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, “ Beneficiary ”)
+Added: THIS SECOND AMENDMENT TO AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED MORTGAGE OF OIL AND GAS PROPERTY, SECURITY AGREEMENT, ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION AND FINANCING STATEMENT (this “ Amendment ”) is made and entered into as of December 20, 2021, between PRIMEENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation, formerly known as PrimeEnergy Corporation (“ Prime ”) and PRIMEENERGY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION , a New York corporation (“ PEMC, ” and Prime and PEMC herein, individually and collectively, “ Mortgagor ”), and CITIBANK, N.A.
+Added: , as Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (in such capacity and together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, “ Mortgagee ”).
+Added: PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, as amended December 16, 2011 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14 of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011).
Subsidiaries (filed herewith).
1 unchanged sentence
(filed herewith).
−Removed: Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
−Removed: (filed herewith).
−Removed: Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
−Removed: (filed herewith).
+Added: Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (filed herewith).
+Added: Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (filed herewith).
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
4 unchanged sentences
(filed herewith).
−Removed: XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Instance Document (filed herewith)
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document (filed herewith)
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to
−Removed: be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on the 23 rd , day of April 2021.
+Added: Inline XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Instance Document (filed herewith)
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document (filed herewith)
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
+Added: Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document (filed herewith)
+Added: Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on the 21st day of April, 2022.
PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation
1 unchanged sentence
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Report has been signed below
−Removed: by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities indicated and on the 23 rd day of April 2021.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities indicated and on the 12st, day of April 2022
/s/ Charles E.
9 unchanged sentences
Financial Statements
−Removed: Consolidated Balance Sheet As of December
−Removed: 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statement of Operations
−Removed: For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statement of Equity
−Removed: For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
−Removed: For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheet – As of December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Consolidated Statement of Operations – For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Consolidated Statement of Equity – For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows – For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Supplementary Information:
−Removed: Capitalized Costs Relating to Oil and Gas Producing Activities, years ended December 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Costs Incurred in Oil and Gas Property Acquisition, Exploration and Development
−Removed: Activities, years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows Relating to Proved Oil
−Removed: and Gas Reserves, years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows and
−Removed: Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves, years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Capitalized Costs Relating to Oil and Gas Producing Activities, years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Costs Incurred in Oil and Gas Property Acquisition, Exploration and Development Activities, years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves, years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves, years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
Reserve Quantity Information, years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
−Removed: Results of Operations from Oil and Gas Producing Activities, years ended December 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019
+Added: Results of Operations from Oil and Gas Producing Activities, years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
Notes to Supplementary Information
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To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
−Removed: Resources Corporation and Subsidiaries:
+Added: PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation and Subsidiaries:
Opinion on the Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation and Subsidiaries (the Company) as of
−Removed: December 31, 2020 and 2019, the related consolidated statements of operations, equity, and cash flows for each of the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the financial statements).
−Removed: In our opinion,
−Removed: the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years then ended, in conformity with
−Removed: accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation and Subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the related consolidated statements of operations, equity, and cash flows for each of the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Companys financial
−Removed: statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in
−Removed: accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for
−Removed: the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Companys internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and
−Removed: performing procedures that respond to those risks.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used
−Removed: and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
−Removed: The critical audit matters
−Removed: communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
−Removed: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to
−Removed: the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
−Removed: The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are
−Removed: not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
+Added: The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization and Impairment of Property and Equipment
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At December 31, 2021, the carrying value of the Company’s property and equipment was $184.7 million, and depreciation, depletion and amortization (DD&A) expense was $26.3 million for the year then ended.
−Removed: described in Note 1, the Company follows the successful efforts method of accounting for its oil and gas properties.
−Removed: Under the successful efforts method, costs of acquiring undeveloped oil and gas leasehold acreage, including
−Removed: lease bonuses, brokers fees and other related costs are capitalized.
+Added: As described in Note 1, the Company follows the “successful efforts” method of accounting for its oil and gas properties.
+Added: Under the “successful efforts” method, costs of acquiring undeveloped oil and gas leasehold acreage, including lease bonuses, brokers’ fees and other related costs, are capitalized.
Provisions for impairment of undeveloped oil and gas leases are based on periodic evaluations.
−Removed: Annual lease rentals and exploration expenses, including geological and
−Removed: geophysical expenses and exploratory dry hole costs, are charged against income as incurred.
−Removed: Costs of drilling and equipping productive wells, including development dry holes and related production facilities, are capitalized.
−Removed: All other property and
−Removed: equipment are carried at cost.
−Removed: Depreciation and depletion of oil and gas production equipment and properties are determined under the unit-of-production method based on
−Removed: estimated proved developed recoverable oil and gas reserves.
+Added: Annual lease rentals and exploration expenses, including geological and geophysical expenses and exploratory dry hole costs, are charged against income as incurred.
+Added: Costs of drilling and equipping productive wells, including development of dry holes and related production facilities, are capitalized.
+Added: All other property and equipment are carried at cost.
+Added: Depreciation and depletion of oil and gas production equipment and properties are determined under the unit-of-production method based on estimated proved developed recoverable oil and gas reserves.
Depreciation of all other equipment is determined under the straight-line method using various rates based on useful lives generally ranging from 5 to 10 years.
−Removed: The cost of assets and
−Removed: related accumulated depreciation is removed from the accounts when such assets are disposed of, and any related gains or losses are reflected in current earnings.
−Removed: Interest costs related to financing major oil and gas projects in progress are capitalized until the projects are evaluated or until the
−Removed: projects are substantially complete and ready for their intended use if the projects are evaluated and successful
−Removed: The Company reviews long-lived assets, including oil and gas properties, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying
−Removed: amounts may not be recovered.
+Added: The cost of assets and related accumulated depreciation is removed from the accounts when such assets are disposed of, and any related gains or losses are reflected in current earnings.
+Added: Interest costs related to financing major oil and gas projects in progress are capitalized until the projects are evaluated or until the projects are substantially complete and ready for their intended use if the projects are evaluated and successful.
+Added: The Company reviews long-lived assets, including oil and gas properties, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts may not be recovered.
If the carrying amounts are not expected to be recovered by undiscounted cash flows, the assets are impaired, and an impairment loss is recorded.
−Removed: The amount of impairment is based on the estimated fair value of the
−Removed: assets determined by discounting anticipated future net cash flows.
−Removed: Proved oil and
−Removed: gas reserves directly impact financial accounting estimates, including depreciation, depletion and amortization.
−Removed: Proved reserves represent estimated quantities of natural gas, crude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquids that geological and
−Removed: engineering data demonstrate, with reasonable certainty, to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under economic and operating conditions existing at the time the estimates were made.
−Removed: The process of estimating quantities of proved oil
−Removed: and gas reserves is very complex, requiring significant subjective decisions in the evaluation of all available geological, engineering and economic data for each reservoir.
−Removed: The data for a given reservoir may also change substantially over time as a
−Removed: result of numerous factors including, but not limited to, additional development activity, evolving production history and continual reassessment of the viability of production under varying economic conditions.
−Removed: Consequently, material revisions
−Removed: (upward or downward) to existing reserve estimates may occur from time to time.
−Removed: Estimates of oil and gas reserves, as determined by independent petroleum engineers, are continually subject to revision based on price, production history and
−Removed: other factors.
+Added: The amount of impairment is based on the estimated fair value of the assets determined by discounting anticipated future net cash flows.
+Added: Proved oil and gas reserves directly impact financial accounting estimates, including depreciation, depletion and amortization.
+Added: Proved reserves represent estimated quantities of natural gas, crude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquids that geological and engineering data demonstrate, with reasonable certainty, to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under economic and operating conditions existing at the time the estimates were made.
+Added: The process of estimating quantities of proved oil and gas reserves is very complex, requiring significant subjective decisions in the evaluation of all available geological, engineering and economic data for each reservoir.
+Added: The data for a given reservoir may also change substantially over time as a result of numerous factors including, but not limited to, additional development activity, evolving production history and continual reassessment of the viability of production under varying economic conditions.
+Added: Consequently, material revisions (upward or downward) to existing reserve estimates may occur from time to time.
+Added: Estimates of oil and gas reserves, as determined by independent petroleum engineers, are continually subject to revision based on price, production history and other factors.
Depletion expense, which is computed based on the units of production method, could be significantly impacted by changes in such estimates.
Additionally, U.S.
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles require that if the expected
−Removed: future undiscounted cash flows from an asset are less than its carrying cost, that asset must be written down to its fair market value.
−Removed: As the fair market value of an oil and gas property will usually be significantly less than the total
−Removed: undiscounted future net revenues expected from that asset, slight changes in the estimates used to determine future net revenues from an asset could lead to the necessity of recording a significant impairment of that asset.
−Removed: Auditing the Companys DD&A and impairment calculations is complex because of
−Removed: the use of independent petroleum engineers and the evaluation of managements determination of the inputs described above used by the engineers in estimating oil and gas reserves.
+Added: generally accepted accounting principles require that if the expected future undiscounted cash flows from an asset are less than its carrying cost, that asset must be written down to its fair market value.
+Added: As the fair market value of an oil and gas property will usually be significantly less than the total undiscounted future net revenues expected from that asset, slight changes in the estimates used to determine future net revenues from an asset could lead to the necessity of recording a significant impairment of that asset.
+Added: Auditing the Company’s DD&A and impairment calculations is complex because of the use of independent petroleum engineers and the evaluation of management’s determination of the inputs described above used by the engineers in estimating oil and gas reserves.
How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit
−Removed: We obtained an understanding and evaluated the design of the Companys controls over its process to calculate DD&A and impairment,
−Removed: including managements controls over the completeness and accuracy of the financial data utilized by the engineers in estimating oil and gas reserves.
−Removed: Our audit procedures included, among others, evaluating the professional qualifications and objectivity of the Companys independent petroleum engineers
−Removed: responsible for the preparation of the proved oil and gas reserve estimates for select properties.
−Removed: In addition, we compared the Companys recent production with its reserve estimates for properties that have significant production or
−Removed: significant reserve quantities and inquired of disproportionate ratios that did not align with our expectations.
−Removed: We also tested the mathematical accuracy of the DD&A and impairment calculations, including comparing the oil and gas reserve
−Removed: amounts used in the calculations to the Companys reserve reports.
+Added: We obtained an understanding and evaluated the design of the Company’s controls over its process to calculate DD&A and impairment, including management’s controls over the completeness and accuracy of the financial data utilized by the engineers in estimating oil and gas reserves.
+Added: Our audit procedures included, among others, evaluating the professional qualifications and objectivity of the Company’s independent petroleum engineers responsible for the preparation of the proved oil and gas reserve estimates for select properties.
+Added: In addition, we compared the Company’s recent production with its reserve estimates for properties that have significant production or significant reserve quantities and inquired of disproportionate ratios that did not align with our expectations.
+Added: We also tested the mathematical accuracy of the DD&A and impairment calculations, including comparing the oil and gas reserve amounts used in the calculations to the Company’s reserve reports.
Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations
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At December 31, 2021, the asset retirement obligation (ARO) balance totaled $14.3 million.
−Removed: As further described in Note 5, the
−Removed: Companys ARO primarily represents the estimated present value of the amount the Company will incur to plug, abandon, and remediate producing properties at the end of their productive lives, in accordance with applicable state laws.
−Removed: determined its asset retirement obligation by calculating the present value of estimated cash flows related to the liability.
−Removed: The asset retirement obligation is recorded as a liability at its estimated present value at its inception, with an
−Removed: offsetting increase to producing properties.
+Added: As further described in Note 1, the Company’s ARO primarily represents the estimated present value of the amount the Company will incur to plug, abandon, and remediate producing properties at the end of their productive lives, in accordance with applicable state laws.
+Added: The Company determined its asset retirement obligation by calculating the present value of estimated cash flows related to the liability.
+Added: The asset retirement obligation is recorded as a liability at its estimated present value at its inception, with an offsetting increase to producing properties.
Periodic accretion of discount of the estimated liability is recorded as an expense in the statement of operations.
−Removed: The Companys liability is determined using significant assumptions, including current estimates of plugging and abandonment costs, annual inflation of
−Removed: these costs, the productive life of wells and a risk-adjusted interest rate.
+Added: The Company’s liability is determined using significant assumptions, including current estimates of plugging and abandonment costs, annual inflation of these costs, the productive life of wells and a risk-adjusted interest rate.
Changes in any of these assumptions can result in significant revisions to the estimated asset retirement obligation.
−Removed: Revisions to the asset retirement obligation are
−Removed: recorded with an offsetting change to producing properties, resulting in prospective changes to depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and accretion of discount.
−Removed: Because of the subjectivity of assumptions and the relatively long life of
−Removed: most of the Companys wells, the costs to ultimately retire the wells may vary significantly from previous estimates.
+Added: Revisions to the asset retirement obligation are recorded with an offsetting change to producing properties, resulting in prospective changes to depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and accretion of discount.
+Added: Because of the subjectivity of assumptions and the relatively long life of most of the Company’s wells, the costs to ultimately retire the wells may vary significantly from previous estimates.
Auditing the Company’s ARO is complex and highly judgmental because of the significant estimation by management in determining the obligation.
−Removed: particular, the estimate was sensitive to significant subjective assumptions such as retirement cost estimates and the estimated timing of settlements, which are both affected by expectations about future market and economic
+Added: In particular, the estimate was sensitive to significant subjective assumptions such as retirement cost estimates and the estimated timing of settlements, which are both affected by expectations about future market and economic conditions.
How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit
−Removed: We obtained an understanding and evaluated the design of the Companys internal controls over its ARO estimation process, including managements review of the significant assumptions that have a material effect on the
−Removed: determination of the obligations.
−Removed: To test the ARO for the Company, our audit procedures included, among others, assessing the significant assumptions and inputs used in the valuation, such as retirement cost estimates and timing of settlement
−Removed: Additionally, we compared the ARO against historical results, reviewed the reasonableness of the discount rate utilized in the estimate, considered the reasonableness of the current and long-term portion of the obligation by comparing
−Removed: the accretion expense trends, and considered the completeness of the properties included in the estimate by comparing to the Companys reserve reports.
+Added: We obtained an understanding and evaluated the design of the Company’s internal controls over its ARO estimation process, including management’s review of the significant assumptions that have a material effect on the determination of the obligations.
+Added: To test the ARO for the Company, our audit procedures included, among others, assessing the significant assumptions and inputs used in the valuation, such as retirement cost estimates and timing of settlement assumptions.
+Added: Additionally, we compared the ARO against historical results, reviewed the reasonableness of the discount rate utilized in the estimate, considered the reasonableness of the current and long-term portion of the obligation by comparing the accretion expense trends, and considered the completeness of the properties included in the estimate by comparing to the Company’s reserve reports.
GRASSI & CO., CPAs, P.C.
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 1989.
−Removed: York, New York
+Added: New York, New York
April 21, 2022
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Prepaid obligations
−Removed: Derivative asset short-term
Other current assets
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Asset Retirement Obligations
+Added: Derivative Liability Long-Term
Deferred Income Taxes
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Commitments and Contingencies
−Removed: Common stock, $.10 par value;
+Added: Common stock, $.
+Added: 10 par value;
2021 and 2020:
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1,994,177 shares .
−Removed: Paid-in capital
Retained earnings
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817,923 shares;
−Removed: 811,022 shares
Total Stockholders’ Equity – PrimeEnergy
−Removed: Non-controlling interest
+Added: Non-controlling
Total Liabilities and Equity
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Gain on Sale and Exchange of Assets
−Removed: (Loss) Income from Operations
+Added: Income (Loss) from Operations
Other Income and Expenses
Interest expense
−Removed: Interest income
−Removed: (Loss) Income Before (Benefit from) Provision for Income Taxes
−Removed: (Benefit from) Provision for Income Taxes
−Removed: Net (Loss) Income
−Removed: Net (Loss) Income Attributable to Non-Controlling
−Removed: Net (Loss) Income Attributable to PrimeEnergy
−Removed: Basic (Loss) Income Per Common Share
−Removed: Diluted (Loss) Income Per Common Share
+Added: Income (Loss) Before Provision for (Benefit from) Income Taxes
+Added: Provision (Benefit from) Income Taxes
+Added: Net Income (Loss)
+Added: Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Non-Controlling
+Added: Net Income (Loss) Attributable to PrimeEnergy
+Added: Basic Income (Loss) Per Common Share
+Added: Diluted Income (Loss) Per Common Share
The accompanying Notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements
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Purchase 4,801 shares of common stock
−Removed: Purchase of non-controlling interest
−Removed: Distributions to non-controlling interest
+Added: Purchase of non-controlling
+Added: Distributions to non-controlling
Balance at December 31, 2020
Purchase 2,100 shares of common stock
−Removed: Purchase of non-controlling interest
−Removed: Distributions to non-controlling interest
+Added: Purchase of non-controlling
+Added: Distributions to non-controlling
Balance at December 31, 2021
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Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
−Removed: Net (Loss) Income
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash provided by operating activities:
+Added: Net Income (Loss)
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion on discounted liabilities
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Unrealized loss (gain) on derivative instruments
+Added: PPP Loan forgiveness
Provision for deferred income taxes
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Purchase of stock for treasury
−Removed: Purchase of non-controlling interests
+Added: Purchase of non-controlling
Increase in long-term bank debt and other long-term obligations
Repayment of long-term bank debt and other long-term obligations
−Removed: Distribution to non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net Cash (used in) provided by Financing Activities
−Removed: Cash and Cash Equivalents Period Decrease
+Added: Distribution to non-controlling
+Added: Net Cash (used in) Financing Activities
+Added: Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and Cash Equivalents at the Beginning of the Year
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Interest paid during the year
−Removed: Non-Cash Disclosures:
−Removed: Purchase of non-controlling interest
−Removed: Distribution of non-controlling interest in liquidated partnerships
+Added: Purchase of non-controlling
+Added: Distribution of non-controlling
+Added: interest in liquidated partnerships
The accompanying Notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements
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Nature of Operations:
−Removed: PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation (PERC), a Delaware corporation, was organized in March 1973 and is engaged in the development,
−Removed: acquisition and production of oil and natural gas properties.
−Removed: PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation and its subsidiaries are herein referred to as the Company. The Company owns leasehold, mineral and royalty interests in producing and non-producing oil and gas properties across the United States, primarily in Oklahoma, and Texas.
+Added: PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation (“PERC”), a Delaware corporation, was organized in March 1973 and is engaged in the development, acquisition and production of oil and natural gas properties.
+Added: PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation and its subsidiaries are herein referred to as the “Company.” The Company owns leasehold, mineral and royalty interests in producing and non-producing
+Added: oil and gas properties across the United States, primarily in Oklahoma, and Texas.
The Company operates approximately 710 active wells and owns non-operating
−Removed: interests and royalties in approximately 800 additional wells.
−Removed: Additionally, the Company provides well-servicing support operations, site-preparation and construction services for oil and gas drilling and reworking operations, both in connection
−Removed: with the Companys activities and providing contract services for third parties.
−Removed: The Company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol PNRG. PERC owns Eastern Oil Well Service Company (EOWSC) and EOWS Midland
−Removed: Company (EMID) which perform oil and gas field servicing.
+Added: interests and royalties in approximately 822
+Added: additional wells.
+Added: Additionally, the Company provides well-servicing support operations, site-preparation and construction services for oil and gas drilling and reworking operations, both in connection with the Company’s activities and providing contract services for third parties.
+Added: The Company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol “PNRG.” PERC owns Eastern Oil Well Service Company (“EOWSC”) and EOWS Midland Company (“EMID”) which perform oil and gas field servicing.
PERC also owns Prime Operating Company (“POC”), which serves as operator for most of the producing oil and gas properties owned by the Company and affiliated entities.
−Removed: PrimeEnergy Management Corporation (PEMC), a wholly-owned subsidiary, acts as the managing general partner, providing administration, accounting and tax preparation services for 1 limited partnership and 1 trust (collectively, the
−Removed: Partnerships).
−Removed: The markets for the Companys products are highly competitive, as oil and gas are commodity products and prices depend upon numerous factors beyond the control of the Company, such as economic, political and
−Removed: regulatory developments and competition from alternative energy sources.
+Added: The markets for the Company’s products are highly competitive, as oil and gas are commodity products and prices depend upon numerous factors beyond the control of the Company, such as economic, political and regulatory developments and competition from alternative energy sources.
Effects of Coronavirus on Business:
−Removed: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the Coronavirus
−Removed: (COVID-19), which continues to spread throughout the U.S.
−Removed: and the world, a pandemic.
−Removed: The outbreak is having an impact on the global economy, resulting in rapidly changing market and economic
−Removed: Similar to many businesses in the energy sector, our business has been impacted by the recent COVID-19 outbreak and associated restrictions that have been implemented.
−Removed: The Company temporarily
−Removed: implemented social distancing requirements and work from home accommodations where appropriate.
−Removed: The oversupply in the oil markets and
−Removed: related price volatility, depending on its duration may have an adverse impact on cash flows from operations and the valuation of capitalized costs related to oil and gas producing activities.
−Removed: The full extent to which
−Removed: COVID-19 will impact the Companys results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the
−Removed: virus and the actions to contain or treat its impact.
+Added: pandemic resulted in a severe worldwide economic downturn, significantly disrupting the demand for oil, throughout the world, and created significant volatility, uncertainty and turmoil in the oil and gas industry.
+Added: The decrease in demand for oil combined with pressures on the global supply-demand balance for oil and related products, resulted in oil prices declining significantly beginning in late February 2020.
+Added: Since mid-2020,
+Added: oil prices improved, with demand steadily increasing despite the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19
+Added: variants, which have continued to inhibit a full global demand recovery.
+Added: In addition, worldwide oil inventories are, from a historical perspective, very low and supply increases from OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations are not expected to be sufficient to meet forecasted oil demand growth in 2022 and 2023, with many OPEC countries not able to produce at their OPEC agreed upon quota levels due to their lack of capital investments over the past few years in developing incremental oil supplies.
+Added: Global oil price levels will ultimately depend on various factors and consequences beyond the Company’s control, such as (i) the effectiveness of responses to combat the COVID-19
+Added: virus and their impact on domestic and worldwide demand, (ii) the ability of OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations to manage the global oil supply, (iii) the timing and supply impact of any Iranian sanction relief on Iran’s ability to export oil, (iv) additional actions by businesses and governments in response to the pandemic, (v) the global supply chain constraints associated with manufacturing delays, and (vi) political stability of oil consuming countries.
+Added: The Company continues to assess the impact of the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic on the Company and may modify its response as the impact of COVID-19
+Added: continues to evolve.
+Added: Effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
+Added: The invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces at the end of February 2022 has created increased volatility in both natural gas and oil markets, resulting in increased prices and supply demands.
+Added: Changes in these markets will ultimately depend on various factors and consequences beyond the Company’s control.
+Added: The Company continues to assess the impact of these changes on the Company and may modify its response as these changes continue to evolve.
Consolidation and Presentation:
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, its subsidiaries and the Partnerships, using
−Removed: the full consolidation method for those partnerships which are controlled by the Company.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation, its subsidiaries and the Partnerships, using the full consolidation method for those partnerships which are controlled by the Company.
The Company’s reserve estimates are based on the full consolidation method.
−Removed: DD&A expense and evaluation of impairment may differ from the Partnership
−Removed: as the Companys cost basis for the Partnership interests acquired may be different than the cost basis at the Partnership level for properties acquired by the Partnership.
−Removed: All significant intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated
−Removed: in preparing the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: DD&A expense and evaluation of impairment may differ from the Partnership as the Company’s cost basis for the Partnership interests acquired may be different than the cost basis at the Partnership level for properties acquired by the Partnership.
+Added: All significant intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated in preparing the consolidated financial statements.
Reclassifications:
−Removed: Certain reclassifications have been made to prior year statements to conform with the current year presentation.
−Removed: These reclassifications have
−Removed: no impact on net income and no material impact on any other financial statement captions.
+Added: Certain reclassifications have been made to prior year statements to conform with the current year
+Added: presentation.
+Added: These reclassifications have no impact on net income and no material impact on any other financial statement captions.
Subsequent Events:
Subsequent events have been evaluated through the date that the consolidated financial statements were issued.
−Removed: During this period, there were
−Removed: no material subsequent items requiring disclosure other than as stated in footnote 4 to these financial statements.
+Added: During this period, there were no material subsequent items requiring disclosure other than as stated in footnotes 2 and 4 to these financial statements.
+Added: Use of Estimates:
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S.
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles requires
−Removed: management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses
−Removed: during the reporting period.
+Added: generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: Estimates of oil and gas reserves, as determined by independent petroleum engineers, are
−Removed: continually subject to revision based on price, production history and other factors.
+Added: Estimates of oil and gas reserves, as determined by independent petroleum engineers, are continually subject to revision based on price, production history and other factors.
Depletion expense, which is computed based on the units of production method, could be significantly impacted by changes in such estimates.
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generally accepted accounting principles require that if the expected future undiscounted cash flows from an asset are less than its carrying cost, that asset must be written down to its fair market value.
−Removed: As the fair market value of an oil and gas
−Removed: property will usually be significantly less than the total undiscounted future net revenues expected from that asset, slight changes in the estimates used to determine future net revenues from an asset could lead to the necessity of recording a
−Removed: significant impairment of that asset.
+Added: As the fair market value of an oil and gas property will usually be significantly less than the total undiscounted future net revenues expected from that asset, slight changes in the estimates used to determine future net revenues from an asset could lead to the necessity of recording a significant impairment of that asset.
Property and Equipment:
The Company follows the “successful efforts” method of accounting for its oil and gas properties.
−Removed: Under the successful efforts
−Removed: method, costs of acquiring undeveloped oil and gas leasehold acreage, including lease bonuses, brokers fees and other related costs are capitalized.
+Added: Under the successful efforts method, costs of acquiring undeveloped oil and gas leasehold acreage, including lease bonuses, brokers’ fees and other related costs are capitalized.
Provisions for impairment of undeveloped oil and gas leases are based on periodic evaluations.
Annual lease rentals and exploration expenses, including geological and geophysical expenses and exploratory dry hole costs, are charged against income as incurred.
−Removed: Costs of drilling and equipping productive wells, including development dry holes
−Removed: and related production facilities, are capitalized.
+Added: Costs of drilling and equipping productive wells, including development dry holes and related production facilities, are capitalized.
All other property and equipment are carried at cost.
−Removed: Depreciation and depletion of oil and gas production equipment and properties are determined under the unit-of-production method based on estimated proved developed recoverable oil and gas reserves.
−Removed: Depreciation of all other equipment is determined under the straight-line method using various rates based on
−Removed: useful lives generally ranging from 5 to 10 years.
+Added: Depreciation and depletion of oil and gas production equipment and properties are determined under the unit-of-production
+Added: method based on estimated proved developed recoverable oil and gas reserves.
+Added: Depreciation of all other equipment is determined under the straight-line method using various rates based on useful lives generally ranging from 5 to 10 years.
The cost of assets and related accumulated depreciation is removed from the accounts when such assets are disposed of, and any related gains or losses are reflected in current earnings.
Capitalization of Interest:
−Removed: Interest costs related to financing major oil and gas projects in progress are capitalized until the projects are evaluated or until the
−Removed: projects are substantially complete and ready for their intended use if the projects are evaluated and successful.
−Removed: Impairment of
−Removed: Long-Lived Assets:
−Removed: The Company reviews long-lived assets, including oil and gas properties, for impairment whenever events or
−Removed: changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts may not be recovered.
+Added: Interest costs related to financing major oil and gas projects in progress are capitalized until the projects are evaluated or until the projects are substantially complete and ready for their intended use if the projects are evaluated and successful.
+Added: Impairment of Long-Lived Assets:
+Added: The Company reviews long-lived assets, including oil and gas properties, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts may not be recovered.
If the carrying amounts are not expected to be recovered by undiscounted cash flows, the assets are impaired, and an impairment loss is recorded.
−Removed: The amount of
−Removed: impairment is based on the estimated fair value of the assets determined by discounting anticipated future net cash flows.
−Removed: The Company follows the authoritative guidance that establishes a formal framework for measuring fair values of assets and
−Removed: liabilities in financial statements that are already required by U.S.
+Added: The amount of impairment is based on the estimated fair value of the assets determined by discounting anticipated future net cash flows.
+Added: The Company follows the authoritative guidance that establishes a formal framework for measuring fair values of assets and liabilities in financial statements that are already required by U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles to be measured at fair value.
−Removed: The guidance defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a
−Removed: liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit price).
−Removed: The transaction is based on a hypothetical transaction in the principal or most advantageous market considered from the perspective of the market
−Removed: participant that holds the asset or owes the liability.
−Removed: The Company utilizes market data or assumptions that market participants who are
−Removed: independent, knowledgeable and willing and able to transact would use in pricing the asset or liability, including assumptions about risk and the risks inherent in the inputs to the valuation technique.
−Removed: These inputs can be readily observable, market
−Removed: corroborated or generally unobservable.
+Added: The guidance defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit price).
+Added: The transaction is based on a hypothetical transaction in the principal or most advantageous market considered from the perspective of the market participant that holds the asset or owes the liability.
+Added: The Company utilizes market data or assumptions that market participants who are independent, knowledgeable and willing and able to transact would use in pricing the asset or liability, including assumptions about risk and the risks inherent in the inputs to the valuation technique.
+Added: These inputs can be readily observable, market corroborated or generally unobservable.
The Company attempts to utilize valuation techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.
−Removed: The Company is able to classify fair value balances based on the
−Removed: observability of those inputs.
+Added: The Company is able to classify fair value balances based on the observability of those inputs.
The guidance establishes a formal fair value hierarchy based on the inputs used to measure fair value.
−Removed: The hierarchy gives the highest priority to Level 1 inputs, which consist of unadjusted quoted prices for
−Removed: identical instruments in active markets.
+Added: The hierarchy gives the highest priority to Level 1 inputs, which consist of unadjusted quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets.
Level 2 inputs consist of quoted prices for similar instruments.
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Asset Retirement Obligation:
−Removed: The asset retirement obligation primarily represents the estimated present value of the amount the Company will incur to plug, abandon and
−Removed: remediate producing properties at the end of their productive lives, in accordance with applicable state laws.
+Added: The asset retirement obligation primarily represents the estimated present value of the amount the Company will incur to plug, abandon and remediate producing properties at the end of their productive lives, in accordance with applicable state laws.
The Company determined its asset retirement obligation by calculating the present value of estimated cash flows related to the liability.
The asset retirement obligation is recorded as a liability at its estimated present value at its inception, with an offsetting increase to producing properties.
−Removed: Periodic accretion of discount of the estimated liability is recorded as an expense in
−Removed: the statement of operations.
+Added: Periodic accretion of discount of the estimated liability is recorded as an expense in the statement of operations.
Income Taxes:
The Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes.
−Removed: Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are
−Removed: recorded for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis.
−Removed: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured
−Removed: using the tax rate in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to turn around.
+Added: Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recorded for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis.
+Added: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the tax rate in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to turn around.
The effect of a change in tax rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in the year of the enacted rate change.
−Removed: allowance is established to reduce deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not that the related tax benefits will not be realized.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020, and 2019, we had no valuation allowance.
−Removed: The Company is required to make judgments, including estimating reserves for potential adverse outcomes regarding tax positions that the
−Removed: Company has taken.
+Added: A valuation allowance is established to reduce deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not that the related tax benefits will not be realized.
+Added: As of December 31, 2021, and 2020,
+Added: had no valuation allowance.
+Added: The Company is required to make judgments, including estimating reserves for potential adverse outcomes regarding tax positions that the Company has taken.
The Company accounts for uncertainty in income taxes using a recognition and measurement threshold for tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return.
−Removed: The effective tax rate and the tax basis of assets and liabilities
−Removed: reflect managements estimates of the ultimate outcome of various tax uncertainties.
+Added: The effective tax rate and the tax basis of assets and liabilities reflect management’s estimates of the ultimate outcome
+Added: of various tax uncertainties.
General and Administrative Expenses:
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Earnings Per Common Share:
−Removed: Basic earnings per share are computed by dividing earnings available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares
−Removed: outstanding during the period.
+Added: Basic earnings per share are computed by dividing earnings available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
Diluted earnings per share reflect per share amounts that would have resulted if dilutive potential common stock had been converted to common stock in gain periods.
Statements of Cash Flows:
−Removed: For purposes of the consolidated statements of cash flows, the Company considers short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities
−Removed: of less than ninety days to be cash equivalents.
+Added: For purposes of the consolidated statements of cash flows, the Company considers short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of less than ninety days to be cash equivalents.
Concentration of Credit Risk:
The Company maintains significant banking relationships with financial institutions in the State of Texas.
−Removed: The Company limits its risk by
−Removed: periodically evaluating the relative credit standing of these financial institutions.
+Added: The Company limits its risk by periodically evaluating the relative credit standing of these financial institutions.
The Company’s oil and gas production purchasers consist primarily of independent marketers and major gas pipeline companies.
−Removed: Company periodically enters into oil and gas financial instruments to manage its exposure to oil and gas price volatility.
−Removed: The oil and gas reference prices upon which the price hedging instruments are based reflect various market indices that have a
−Removed: high degree of historical correlation with actual prices received by the Company.
−Removed: The financial instruments are accounted for in
−Removed: accordance with applicable accounting standards for derivative instruments and hedging activities.
−Removed: Such standards require that applicable derivative instruments be measured at fair market value and recognized as assets or liabilities in the balance
+Added: The Company periodically enters into oil and gas financial instruments to manage its exposure to oil and gas price volatility.
+Added: The oil and gas reference prices upon which the price hedging instruments are based reflect various market indices that have a high degree of historical correlation with actual prices received by the Company.
+Added: The financial instruments are accounted for in accordance with applicable accounting standards for derivative instruments and hedging activities.
+Added: Such standards require that applicable derivative instruments be measured at fair market value and recognized as assets or liabilities in the balance sheet.
The accounting for changes in the fair value of a derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation is generally established at the inception of a derivative.
−Removed: For derivatives designated as cash flow hedges
−Removed: and meeting applicable effectiveness guidelines, changes in fair value, to the extent effective, are recognized in other comprehensive income until the hedged item is recognized in earnings.
−Removed: Hedge effectiveness is measured at least quarterly
−Removed: based on the relative changes in fair value between the derivative contract and the hedged item over time.
−Removed: Any change in fair value of a derivative resulting from ineffectiveness or an excluded component of the gain/loss is recognized immediately in
−Removed: the statement of operations.
−Removed: New Pronouncements Issued But Not Yet Adopted:
−Removed: In October 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-10, Codification Improvements, which clarifies or
−Removed: improves disclosure requirements for various topics to align with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations.
−Removed: This update is effective for the Company beginning in the first quarter of 2021 and will be applied retrospectively.
−Removed: and implementation of this ASU will not have a material impact on the Companys financial statements.
−Removed: In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-04,
−Removed: Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848), which provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying U.S.
−Removed: GAAP to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions affected by the discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate
−Removed: (LIBOR) or by another reference rate expected to be discontinued.
−Removed: In January 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-01, which clarified the scope and application of the original guidance.
−Removed: The guidance was effective
−Removed: beginning March 12, 2020 and can be applied prospectively through December 31, 2022.
−Removed: The Company is evaluating whether to apply any of these expedients and, if elected, will adopt these standards when LIBOR is discontinued.
+Added: For derivatives designated as cash flow hedges and meeting applicable effectiveness guidelines, changes in fair value, to the extent effective, are recognized in other comprehensive income until the hedged item is recognized in earnings.
+Added: Hedge effectiveness is measured at least quarterly based on the relative changes in fair value between the derivative contract and the hedged item over time.
+Added: Any change in fair value of a derivative resulting from ineffectiveness or an excluded component of the gain/loss is recognized immediately in the statement of operations.
+Added: Pronouncements Issued But Not Yet Adopted:
+Added: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13,
+Added: Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326):
+Added: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.
+Added: The standard’s main goal is to improve financial reporting by
+Added: requiring earlier recognition of credit losses on financing receivables and other financial assets in scope.
+Added: This guidance is effective for Smaller Reporting Companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022
+Added: , including interim periods within those fiscal periods.
+Added: The adoption and implementation of this ASU will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.
Acquisitions and Dispositions
−Removed: Historically, the Company has repurchased the non-controlling interests of the partners and trust unit holders in certain of the Partnerships,
−Removed: which consist primarily of oil and gas interests.
−Removed: The Company purchased such non-controlling interests in an amount totaling $22,000 in 2020 and $499,000 in 2019.
−Removed: Such purchases resulted in the non-cash acquisition of non-controlling equity
−Removed: interests of $36,000 and $111,000 respectively.
−Removed: In 2020 the Company liquidated three partnerships for total cash payments of $720,000 resulting in the non-cash distribution of non-controlling interest of $1,550 million.
−Removed: During 2020 the Company acquired 232 net acres, along with 15% to 16.6% working interest ownership in 53 oil and gas wells and one commercial
−Removed: salt water disposal well operated by the Company, all located in Reagan County, Texas, for $343,000.
+Added: Historically, the
+Added: Company has repurchased the non-controlling
+Added: interests of the partners and trust unit holders in certain of the Partnerships, w hich
+Added: consist primarily of oil and gas interests.
+Added: The Company purchased such non-controlling
+Added: interests in an amount totaling $ 44,000 in 2021 and $ 22,000 in 2020.
+Added: Such purchases resulted in the non-cash
+Added: acquisition of non-controlling
+Added: equity interests of $ 14,000 and $ 36,000 respectively.
+Added: During 2021 and 2020 the Company liquidated partnerships for total cash payments of $ 632,000 and $ 720,000 respectively, resulting in the non-cash
+Added: distribution of non-controlling
+Added: interest of $ 647,000 and $ 1,550 million, respectively .
+Added: Effective December 31, 2021, all managed partnerships and trusts have been liquidated.
+Added: During 2020 the Company acquired 232 net acres, along with 15 % to 16.6 % working interest ownership in 53 oil and gas wells and one commercial salt water disposal well operated by the Company, all located in Reagan County, Texas, for $ 343,000 .
In addition, we acquired 9.36 net acre in Upton County, Texas at a cost of $ 5,100 .
−Removed: During 2020 and 2019 the Company sold or farmed out interests in certain non-core undeveloped and
−Removed: developed oil and natural gas properties through a number of individually negotiated transactions in exchange for cash and a royalty or working interest in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming and West Virginia.
−Removed: Proceeds under these agreements were
−Removed: approximately $10.9 million and $4.3 million, respectively.
+Added: During 2021 the Company acquired 5.9 net acres, located in Midland county, Texas, for approximately
+Added: $ 29,500 and sold or farmed out interests in certain non-core
+Added: undeveloped and developed oil and natural gas properties in Oklahoma.
+Added: In Texas, the Company divested approximately 116 net mineral acres (NMA) located in Martin County, Texas for proceeds of
+Added: $ 1.45 million.
+Added: In the first quarter of 2022, the Company has sold 1809 net leasehold acres in Reagan and Midland Counties, Texas through two separate transactions receiving gross proceeds of $ 14.1 million.
Additional Balance Sheet Information
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Oil and gas sales
−Removed: Tax refund receivable
Allowance for doubtful accounts
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Partner advances
−Removed: Accrued liabilities at December 31, 2020 and 2019 consisted of the following:
+Added: Accrued liabilities at December 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: consisted of the following:
(Thousands of dollars)
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Property costs
−Removed: Long-Term Debt
−Removed: February 15, 2017, the Company and its lenders entered into a Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the 2017 Credit Agreement) with a maturity date of February 15, 2021.
−Removed: The Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
−Removed: and subsequent amendments were amended and restated by the 2017 Credit Agreement.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the 2017 Credit Agreement, the Company has a revolving line of credit and letter of credit facility of up to $300 million
−Removed: subject to a borrowing base that is determined semi-annually by the lenders based upon the Companys financial statements and the estimated value of the Companys oil and gas properties, in accordance with the Lenders customary
−Removed: practices for oil and gas loans.
+Added: Long-Term Deb
+Added: On February 15, 2017 , the Company and its lenders entered into a Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “2017 Credit Agreement”) with a maturity date of February 15, 2021 .
+Added: the 2017 Credit Agreement, the Company has a revolving line of credit and letter of credit facility of up to $ 300 million subject to a borrowing base that is determined semi-annually by the lenders based upon the Company’s financial statements and the estimated value of the Company’s oil and gas properties, in accordance with the Lenders’ customary practices for oil and gas loans.
The credit facility is secured by substantially all of the Company’s oil and gas properties.
−Removed: The 2017 Credit Agreement includes terms and covenants that require the Company to maintain a minimum current ratio,
−Removed: total indebtedness to EBITDAX (earnings before depreciation, depletion, amortization, taxes, interest expense and exploration costs) ratio and interest coverage ratio, as defined, and restrictions are placed on the payment of dividends, the amount
−Removed: of treasury stock the Company may purchase, commodity hedge agreements, and loans and investments in its consolidated subsidiaries and limited partnerships.
−Removed: On December 22, 2017, the Company and its lenders entered into a First Amendment to the 2017 Credit Agreement.
−Removed: The credit agreement
−Removed: includes the addition of a new lender and retains all other aspects of the original credit agreement.
−Removed: As of the effective date of this amendment the Companys borrowing base was increased to $85 million.
−Removed: On July 17, 2018, the Company and its lenders entered into a Second Amendment to the
−Removed: 2017 Credit Agreement.
−Removed: The credit agreement includes modifications for the borrowing base utilization margins and rates by type of borrowing, revises minimum quantifications for individual borrowings, reduces the overall percentage required for
−Removed: commodity hedge agreements, modifies the requirements placed on the Companys ability to purchase equity interests and retains all other aspects of the original credit agreement.
−Removed: As of the effective date of this amendment the Companys
−Removed: borrowing base was increased to $90 million.
−Removed: On January 8, 2019, the Company and its lenders entered into a Third Amendment to
−Removed: the 2017 Credit Agreement.
−Removed: The credit agreement includes additions for a Beneficial Ownership Certification on the effective date of the amendment.
−Removed: The agreement includes further clarifications for potential LIBOR loan market rate issues, swap
−Removed: agreement modifications and retains all other aspects of the original credit agreement.
−Removed: As of the effective date of this amendment the Companys borrowing base was increased to $100 million.
−Removed: Pursuant to borrowing base redeterminations on
−Removed: June 26, 2019 and December 18, 2019, the borrowing base was set at $90 million and $72 million, respectively.
−Removed: May 8, 2020, the Company and its lenders entered into a Fourth Amendment to the 2017 Credit Agreement which added loans under the Paycheck Protection Program to the Permitted loans, as defined in the agreement.
−Removed: On September 4, 2020, the Company and its lenders entered into a Fifth Amendment to the 2017 Credit Agreement.
−Removed: As of the effective date
−Removed: of this amendment the Companys borrowing base was decreased to $50 million.
−Removed: The amendment included an automatic reduction of $666,666.67 to the borrowing base on October 1, 2020, November 1, 2020, and December 1, 2020.
−Removed: amendment also revised the applicable borrowing base utilization percentages for Eurodollar and ABR loans with a range of 2.5% to 3.5% and 1.5% to 2.5%, respectively.
−Removed: The agreement also adjusted percentages of title and mortgage guarantees supported
−Removed: by the oil and gas properties presented to the administrative agent at each borrowing redetermination as supported by the required reserve report.
−Removed: On December 31, 2020, the Company had a total of $37 million of borrowings outstanding under its revolving credit facility at a
−Removed: weighted-average interest rate of 4.00% and $11 million was available for future borrowings.
−Removed: The combined weighted average interest rate paid on outstanding bank borrowings subject to base rate and LIBO interest was 3.95% for the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020 as compared to 5.34% for year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: On February 11, 2021, the Company and its lenders
−Removed: entered into a Sixth Amendment to the 2017 Credit Agreement.
+Added: The 2017 Credit Agreement includes terms and covenants that require the Company to maintain a minimum current ratio and
+Added: total indebtedness to EBITDAX (earnings before depreciation, depletion, amortization, taxes, interest expense and exploration costs) ratio, as defined, and restrictions are placed on the payment of dividends, the amount of treasury stock the Company may purchase, commodity hedge agreements, and loans and investments in its consolidated subsidiaries and limited partnerships.
+Added: During 2020, the 2017 Credit Agreement was amended to add loans under the Paycheck Protection Program to the Permitted loans, as defined in the agreement.
+Added: On February 11, 2021, the Company and its lenders entered into a Sixth Amendment to the 2017 Credit Agreement.
Under this amendment the Company’s borrowing base is $ 40 million.
−Removed: Borrowings under the 2017 Credit Agreement will bear interest at a base rate plus an applicable margin ranging
−Removed: from 2.00% to 3.00% or at the Companys option, at LIBOR plus an applicable margin ranging from 3.00% to 4.00%.
+Added: Borrowings under the 2017 Credit Agreement will bear interest at a base rate plus an applicable margin ranging from 2.00 % to 3.00 % or at the Company’s option, at LIBOR plus an applicable margin ranging from 3.00 % to 4.00 %.
The 2017 Credit Agreement will mature on February 11, 2023 .
−Removed: The Companys borrowings under this credit facility
−Removed: approximates fair value because the interest rates are variable and reflective of market rates.
+Added: The Company’s borrowings under this credit facility approximates fair value because the interest rates are variable and reflective of market rates.
+Added: On December 20, 2021 the company entered into a Seventh Amendment to the 2017 Credit Agreement.
+Added: At this time ,
+Added: Citibank N.A agreed to accept appointment as successor administrative agent from PNC Bank which was the successor to BBVA USA effective October 12, 2021.
+Added: Under this amendment the Company’s borrowing base is $ 50 million.
+Added: Borrowings under the 2017 .
+Added: Credit Agreement will bear interest at alternate base rate(ABR) plus an applicable margin ranging from 2.00 % to 3.00 % or at the Company’s option, at SOFR rate plus an applicable margin ranging from 3.00 % to 4.00 %.
+Added: SOFR means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator, in this case the Federal Reserve Bank of New York The 2017 Credit Agreement maturity date remains at February 11, 2023 .
+Added: The Company’s borrowings under this credit facility approximates fair value because the interest rates are variable and reflective of market rates.
+Added: On December 31, 2021, the Company had a total of $ 36 million of borrowings outstanding under its revolving credit facility at a weighted-average interest rate of 5.38 % and $ 14 million was available for future borrowings.
+Added: The combined weighted average interest rate paid on outstanding bank borrowings subject to ABR base rate and SOFR interest was 5.29 % for the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to 3.95 % for the year ended December
+Added: On March 31, 2022, the outstanding borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit facility were $ 9,000,000 .
Paycheck Protection Program Loans
−Removed: During May 2020, Prime Operating Company and Eastern Oil Well Services Corporation, subsidiaries of the Company received loan proceeds in the
−Removed: amount of $1.28 million and $0.47 million, respectively, under the Paycheck Protection Program (the PPP) of the CARES Act, which was enacted March 27, 2020.
−Removed: The PPP Loans are evidenced by a promissory note in favor of the
−Removed: Lender, which bears interest at the rate of 1.00% per annum.
−Removed: No payments of principal or interest are due under the note until the date on which the amount of loan forgiveness (if any) under the CARES Act, which can be up to 10 months after the end
−Removed: of the related notes covered period (which is defined as 24 weeks after the date of the loan) (the Deferral Period).
+Added: During May 2020, Prime Operating Company and Eastern Oil Well Services Corporation, subsidiaries of the Company received loan proceeds in the amount of $ 1.28 million and $ 0.47 million, respectively, under the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) of the CARES Act, which was enacted March 27, 2020.
+Added: The PPP Loans are evidenced by a promissory note in favor of the Lender, which bears interest at the rate of 1.00 % per annum.
+Added: No payments of principal or interest are due under the note until the date on which the amount of loan forgiveness (if any) under the CARES Act, which can be up to 10 months after the end of the related notes covered period (which is defined as 24 weeks after the date of the loan) (the “Deferral Period”).
The note may be prepaid at any time prior to maturity with no prepayment penalties.
−Removed: Funds from the PPP Loans may be used
−Removed: only for payroll and related costs, costs used to continue group health care benefits, mortgage payments, rent, utilities, and interest on other debt obligations that were incurred prior to February 15, 2020 (the Qualifying
+Added: Funds from the PPP Loans may be used only for payroll and related costs, costs used to continue group health care benefits, mortgage payments, rent, utilities, and interest on other debt obligations that were incurred prior to February 15, 2020 (the “Qualifying Expenses”).
Under the terms of the PPP Loans, certain amounts thereunder may be forgiven if they are used for Qualifying Expenses as described in and in compliance with the CARES Act.
−Removed: The Company utilized the PPP Loan proceeds exclusively for
−Removed: Qualifying Expenses during the 24-week coverage period and will submit its application for forgiveness in accordance with the terms of the CARES Act and related guidance.
−Removed: In the event the PPP Loan or any
−Removed: portion thereof is forgiven, the amount forgiven is applied to the outstanding principal.
−Removed: To the extent, if any, that any or all of the
−Removed: PPP loans are not forgiven, beginning one month following expiration of the Deferral Period, and continuing monthly until 24 months from the date of each applicable Note (the Maturity Date), the Company is obligated to make monthly
−Removed: payments of principal and interest to the Lender with respect to any unforgiven portion of the Note, in such equal amounts required to fully amortize the principal amount outstanding on such Note as of the last day of the applicable Deferral Period
−Removed: by the applicable Maturity Date.
−Removed: The Company accounts for these loans on the balance sheet as financial liabilities reported within the following lines:
−Removed: Current portion of long-term debt in the amount of $487 thousand and included as part of
−Removed: the long-term bank debt in the amount of $1.267 million.
−Removed: Equipment Loans:
−Removed: On July 29, 2014, the Company entered into additional equipment financing facilities (Additional Equipment Loans) totaling
−Removed: $6.0 million with JP Morgan Chase Bank.
−Removed: In August 2014, the Company drew down $4.8 million of this facility that is secured by field service equipment, carries an interest rate of 3.40% per annum, requires monthly payments (principal
−Removed: and interest) of $87,800, and has a final maturity date of July 31, 2019.
−Removed: The remaining $1.2 million under the Additional Equipment Loans was available for interim draws to finance the acquisition of any future field service equipment.
−Removed: December 2014, the Company made an interim draw of an additional $0.5 million on this facility that is secured by recently purchased field service equipment.
−Removed: Interim draws on this facility carried a floating interest rate;
−Removed: payable monthly at
−Removed: the LIBO published rate plus 2.50% and on June 26, 2015 converted into a fixed term loan, with a rate of 3.50% and requiring monthly payments (principal and interest) of $8,700 with a final maturity date of June 26, 2020.
−Removed: On January 12, 2018, the Company made a principal payment towards the third interim loan in the amount of $20,858.
−Removed: Effective with the
−Removed: payment due of January 26, 2018 the required monthly payments (principal and interest) on this loan changed to $7,986 with a continuing effective rate of 3.50% and a final maturity of June 26, 2020.
−Removed: On May 23, 2019, the Company made its final payment towards both the second and third loans.
−Removed: At this time, all equipment loans were paid
−Removed: in full and the field service equipment liens secured by these loans were cancelled and all titles returned to the Company.
+Added: The Company utilized the PPP Loan proceeds exclusively for Qualifying Expenses during the 24-week
+Added: coverage period and has
+Added: its application for forgiveness in accordance with the terms of the CARES Act and related guidance.
+Added: In the event the PPP Loan or any portion thereof is forgiven, the amount forgiven is applied to the outstanding principal
+Added: and accrued interest.
+Added: The PPP loans have been approved for forgiveness by the Small Business Administration ( SBA) in conjunction with our lender PNC Bank.
+Added: The effective date of February
+Added: 2022 for Eastern Oil Well Service Company in the amount of $
+Added: 481 thousand in
+Added: principal and interest paid to our lender PNC Bank.
+Added: The effective date of March 16, 2022 for Prime Operating Company in the amount of $ 1.2 million in principal and interest to our lender PNC Bank.
+Added: Effective December 31, 2021 ,
+Added: PPP debt and any accrued interest were reclassed from the consolidated balance sheet and recorded in other income on the
+Added: consolidated statement of operations.
Operating Leases:
The Company leases office facilities under operating leases and recognizes lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
−Removed: assets and liabilities are initially recorded at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term.
−Removed: A finance lease for office equipment is included in property and equipment, other current liabilities and other
−Removed: long-term liabilities.
−Removed: As most of the Companys lease contracts do not provide an implicit discount rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value
−Removed: of lease payments.
+Added: Leases assets and liabilities are initially recorded at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term .
+Added: A new finance lease for office equipment is included in property and equipment, other current liabilities and other long-term liabilities this quarter.
+Added: As most of the Company’s lease contracts do not provide an implicit discount rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.
The weighted average discount rate used was 5.5 %.
−Removed: Certain leases may contain variable costs above the minimum required payments and are not included in the
−Removed: right-of-use assets or liabilities.
+Added: Certain leases may contain variable costs above the minimum required payments and are not included in the right-of-use
+Added: assets or liabilities.
Leases may include renewal, purchase or termination options that can extend or shorten the term of the lease.
−Removed: The exercise of those
−Removed: options is at the Companys sole discretion and is evaluated at inception and throughout the contract to determine if a modification of the lease term is required.
−Removed: Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance
−Removed: Operating lease costs for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020 were $574 thousand.
−Removed: Cash payments included in the
−Removed: operating lease cost for twelve months ended December 31, 2020 were $616 thousand.
+Added: The exercise of those options is at the Company’s sole discretion and is evaluated at inception and throughout the contract to determine if a modification of the lease term is required.
+Added: Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet.
+Added: Operating lease
+Added: costs for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $ 577 thousand.
+Added: Cash payments included in the operating lease cost for year ended December 31, 2021 was $ 599 thousand.
The weighted-average remaining operating lease terms is 15 months.
−Removed: The amortization and interest expense for financing lease amounted to $7,165 and the
−Removed: cash payment for the lease was $7,655 and the lease term remaining was for 4 months.
−Removed: The payment schedule for the Companys
−Removed: operating and financing lease obligations as of December 31, 2020 is as follows:
+Added: The Company amended certain leases for office space in Texas providing for payments of $ 599,000 in 2021, $ 601,000 in 2022 and $ 150,000 in 2023.
+Added: Rent expense for office space the year s
+Added: ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 was $ 653,000 and $ 663,000 , respectively.
+Added: The payment schedule for the Company’s operating lease obligations as of December 31, 2021 is as follows:
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Net operating lease liabilities
−Removed: The Company amended certain leases for office space in Texas and Oklahoma providing for payments of
−Removed: $461 thousand and $89 thousand in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: Rent expense for office space for the years ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $663,000 and $594,000, respectively.
Asset Retirement Obligation:
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Asset retirement obligation at end of period
−Removed: The Companys liability is determined using significant assumptions, including current estimates of
−Removed: plugging and abandonment costs, annual inflation of these costs, the productive life of wells and a risk-adjusted interest rate.
+Added: The Company’s liability is determined using significant assumptions, including current estimates of plugging and abandonment costs, annual inflation of these costs, the productive life of wells and a risk-adjusted interest rate.
Changes in any of these assumptions can result in significant revisions to the estimated asset retirement obligation.
Revisions to the asset retirement obligation are recorded with an offsetting change to producing properties, resulting in prospective changes to depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and accretion of discount.
−Removed: Because of the subjectivity
−Removed: of assumptions and the relatively long life of most of the Companys wells, the costs to ultimately retire the wells may vary significantly from previous estimates.
+Added: Because of the subjectivity of assumptions and the relatively long life of most of the Company’s wells, the costs to ultimately retire the wells may vary significantly from previous estimates.
Contingent Liabilities
−Removed: as managing general partner of the affiliated Partnerships, is responsible for all Partnership activities, including the drilling of development wells and the production and sale of oil and gas from productive wells.
−Removed: The Company also provides the
−Removed: administration, accounting and tax preparation work for the Partnerships, and is liable for all debts and liabilities of the affiliated Partnerships, to the extent that the assets of a given limited Partnership are not sufficient to satisfy its
The Company is subject to environmental laws and regulations.
−Removed: Management believes that future expenses, before recoveries
−Removed: from third parties, if any, will not have a material effect on the Companys financial condition.
−Removed: This opinion is based on expenses incurred to date for remediation and compliance with laws and regulations, which have not been material to the
−Removed: Companys results of operations.
−Removed: From time to time, the Company is party to certain legal actions arising in the ordinary course of
+Added: Management believes that future expenses, before recoveries from third parties, if any, will not have a material effect on the Company’s financial condition.
+Added: This opinion is based on expenses incurred to date for remediation and
+Added: compliance with laws and regulations, which have not been material to the Company’s results of operations.
+Added: From time to time, the Company is party to certain legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business.
While the outcome of these events cannot be predicted with certainty, management does not expect these matters to have a materially adverse effect on the financial position or results of operations of the Company.
Stock Options and Other Compensation
−Removed: In May 1989, non-statutory stock options were granted by the Company to four key executive officers for
−Removed: the purchase of shares of common stock.
+Added: In May 1989, non-statutory
+Added: stock options were granted by the Company to four key executive officers for the purchase of shares of common stock.
At December 31, 2021 and 2020, options on 767,500 shares were outstanding and exercisable at prices ranging from $ 1.00 to $ 1.25 .
According to their terms, the options have no expiration date.
−Removed: The components of the
−Removed: provision (benefit) for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 are as follows:
+Added: The components of the provision (benefit) for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
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Total current
−Removed: Year Ended December 31,
−Removed: (Thousands of dollars)
Total deferred
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Derivative Contracts
−Removed: Alternative minimum tax credits
State Net operating loss carry-forwards
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Deferred Tax Liabilities:
−Removed: Basis differences relating to managed partnerships
+Added: Partnership basis difference
Depletion and depreciation
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Net deferred tax liabilities
−Removed: The total provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: varies from the federal statutory tax rate as a result of the following:
+Added: The total provision (benefit) for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 varies from the federal statutory tax rate as a result of the following:
Year Ended December 31,
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Expected tax expense
−Removed: Executive Compensation
+Added: Net changes in deferred assets and liabilities
+Added: Permanent differences
State income tax, net of federal benefit
−Removed: Percentage depletion
−Removed: AMT and Marginal Well Credits
+Added: Provision to return adjustment
Total income tax provision (benefit)
−Removed: Deferred income taxes reflect the impact of temporary differences between the amount of assets and liabilities
−Removed: recognized for financial reporting purposes and such amounts recognized for tax purposes.
+Added: Deferred income taxes reflect the impact of temporary differences between the amount of assets and liabilities recognized for financial reporting purposes and such amounts recognized for tax purposes.
On December 22, 2017, the U.S.
−Removed: into legislation the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 Tax Act).
−Removed: Under the 2017 Tax Act, the company may use alternative minimum tax (AMT) credits to fully offset any regular tax liability.
−Removed: In addition, a portion of the AMT credit which exceeds the
−Removed: regular tax liability is refundable in future years.
+Added: enacted into legislation the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 Tax Act).
+Added: Under the 2017 Tax Act, the company may use alternative minimum tax (AMT) credits to fully offset any regular tax
+Added: In addition, a portion of the AMT credit which exceeds the regular tax liability is refundable in future years.
The refundable portion was 50 % of any excess credit in the years 2019 through 2020 and 100 % in 2021.
−Removed: The Company expected to receive a refund of $1.720 million in 2020 based on refundable
−Removed: credits claimed on the 2019 return, and additional $1.720 million refunds of previously paid taxes on its tax returns for the years 2020 and 2021.
−Removed: On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic
−Removed: Security Act (CARES Act).
−Removed: The CARES Act, among other things, includes provisions relating to refundable payroll tax credits, deferment of employer social security payments, net operating loss carryback periods, AMT credit refunds,
−Removed: modifications to the net interest deduction limitations and technical corrections to tax depreciation methods for qualified improvement property.
−Removed: Under the CARES Act the refundable portion of AMT credits was increased to 100% therefore the Company
−Removed: received a full refund of such credits in 2020.
−Removed: The Company is entitled to percentage depletion on certain of its wells, which is
−Removed: calculated without reference to the basis of the property.
+Added: The Company expected to receive a refund of $ 1.720 million in 2020 based on refundable credits claimed on the 2019 return, and additional $ 1.720 million refunds of previously paid taxes on its tax returns for the years 2020 and 2021.
+Added: On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”).
+Added: The CARES Act, among other things, includes provisions relating to refundable payroll tax credits, deferment of employer social security payments, net operating loss carryback periods, AMT credit refunds, modifications to the net interest deduction limitations and technical corrections to tax depreciation methods for qualified improvement property.
+Added: Under the CARES Act the refundable portion of AMT credits was increased to 100 % therefore the Company received a full refund of such credits in 2020.
+Added: The Company is entitled to percentage depletion on certain of its wells, which is calculated without reference to the basis of the property.
To the extent that such depletion exceeds a property’s basis, it creates a permanent difference, which lowers the Company’s effective rate.
−Removed: The availability of the percentage
−Removed: depletion deduction is phased out as an entitys production exceeds certain levels, and based on the Companys increasing production the percentage depletion deduction is becoming less significant.
+Added: The availability of the percentage depletion deduction is phased out as an entity’s production exceeds certain levels, and based on the Company’s increasing production the percentage depletion deduction is becoming less significant.
The Company is allowed a credit against the Texas Franchise Tax based on net operating losses incurred in prior periods.
−Removed: The credits allowed
−Removed: are $89 thousand in the years 2020 through 2026.
+Added: The credits allowed are $ 89 thousand in the years 2020 through 2026.
Any credits not utilized in a given year due to the allowable credit exceeding the tax liability may be carried forward.
No credit may be carried forward past 2026 .
−Removed: The value of the credit is
−Removed: calculated net of the federal income tax effect.
+Added: The value of the credit is calculated net of the federal income tax effect.
The Company has not recorded any provision for uncertain tax positions.
−Removed: files income tax returns in the U.S.
+Added: The Company files income tax returns in the U.S.
federal jurisdiction and various state and local jurisdictions.
The 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2017 federal income tax returns have been audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
−Removed: Returns for unexamined earlier
−Removed: years may be examined and adjustments made to the amount of percentage depletion and AMT credit carryforwards flowing from those years into an open tax year, although in general no assessment of income tax may be made for those years on which the
−Removed: statute has closed.
−Removed: State returns for the years 2018 through 2020 remain open for examination by the relevant taxing authorities
−Removed: Information and Major Customers
−Removed: The Company operates in one industry oil and gas exploration, development, operation and
+Added: Returns for unexamined earlier years may be examined and adjustments made to the amount of percentage depletion and AMT credit carryforwards flowing from those years into an open tax year, although in general no assessment of income tax may be made for those years on which the statute has closed.
+Added: State returns for the years 201 9
+Added: through 202 1
+Added: remain open for examination by the relevant taxing authorities
+Added: Segment Information and Major Customers
+Added: The Company operates in one industry – oil and gas exploration, development, operation and servicing.
The Company’s oil and gas activities are entirely in the United States.
−Removed: The Company sells its oil and natural gas and liquids production to a number of direct
−Removed: purchasers under direct contracts or through other operators under joint operating agreements.
+Added: The Company sells its oil and natural gas and liquids production to a number of direct purchasers under direct contracts or through other operators under joint operating agreements.
Listed below are the purchasers of the Company’s production which represented more than 10 % of the Company’s sales in the year 2021.
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Apache Corporation
−Removed: Targa Pipeline Mid-Continent West Tex, LLC
−Removed: Although there are no long-term oil and gas purchasing agreements with these purchasers, the Company believes
−Removed: that they will continue to purchase its oil and gas products and, if not, could be replaced by other purchasers.
+Added: Targa Pipeline Mid-Continent
+Added: West Tex, LLC
+Added: Although there are no long-term oil and gas purchasing agreements with these purchasers, the Company believes that they will continue to purchase its oil and gas products and, if not, could be replaced by other purchasers.
Financial Instruments
Fair Value Measurements:
−Removed: Authoritative guidance on fair value measurements defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and stipulates the
−Removed: related disclosure requirements.
+Added: Authoritative guidance on fair value measurements defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and stipulates the related disclosure requirements.
The Company follows a three-level hierarchy, prioritizing and defining the types of inputs used to measure fair value.
−Removed: The fair values of the Companys interest rate swaps, natural gas and crude oil price
−Removed: collars and swaps are designated as Level 3.
−Removed: The following fair value hierarchy table presents information about the Companys assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis at December 31, 2020 and
−Removed: December 31, 2019:
+Added: The fair values of the Company’s interest rate swaps, natural gas and crude oil price collars and swaps are designated as Level 3.
+Added: The following fair value hierarchy table presents information about the Company’s assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020:
December 31, 2021
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Commodity derivative contract
−Removed: Total liabilities
+Added: tal liabilities
The derivative contracts were measured based on quotes from the Company’s counterparties.
−Removed: have been derived using valuation models that consider various inputs including current market and contractual prices for the underlying instruments, quoted forward prices for natural gas and crude oil, volatility factors and interest rates, such as
−Removed: a LIBOR curve for a similar length of time as the derivative contract term as applicable.
+Added: Such quotes have been derived using valuation models that consider various inputs including current market and contractual prices for the underlying instruments, quoted forward prices for natural gas and crude oil, volatility factors and interest rates, such as a LIBOR curve for a similar length of time as the derivative contract term as applicable.
These estimates are verified using comparable NYMEX futures contracts or are compared to multiple quotes obtained from counterparties for reasonableness.
−Removed: The significant unobservable inputs for Level 3 derivative contracts include basis
−Removed: differentials and volatility factors.
−Removed: An increasee (decrease) in these unobservable inputs would result in an increase (decrease) in fair value, respectively.
−Removed: The Company does not have access to the specific assumptions used in its
−Removed: counterparties valuation models.
+Added: The significant unobservable inputs for Level 3 derivative contracts include basis differentials and volatility factors.
+Added: An increase (decrease) in these unobservable inputs would result in an increase (decrease) in fair value, respectively.
+Added: The Company does not have access to the specific assumptions used in its counterparties’ valuation models.
Consequently, additional disclosures regarding significant Level 3 unobservable inputs were not provided.
−Removed: The following table sets forth a reconciliation of changes in the fair value of financial assets and liabilities classified as Level 3 in
−Removed: the fair value hierarchy for the year ended December 2020.
+Added: The following table sets forth a reconciliation of changes in the fair value of financial assets and liabilities classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy for the year ended December 2021.
(Thousands of dollars)
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Net Liabilities — December 31, 2021
−Removed: Derivative instruments are reported in revenues as realized gain/loss and on a separately reported line item
−Removed: captioned unrealized gain/loss on derivative instruments.
+Added: Derivative instruments are reported in revenues as realized gain/loss and on a separately reported line item captioned unrealized gain/loss on derivative instruments.
Derivative Instruments:
−Removed: The Company is exposed to commodity price and interest rate risk, and management considers periodically the Companys exposure to cash
−Removed: flow variability resulting from the commodity price changes and interest rate fluctuations.
−Removed: Futures, swaps and options are used to manage the Companys exposure to commodity price risk inherent in the Companys oil and gas production
+Added: The Company is exposed to commodity price and interest rate risk, and management considers periodically the Company’s exposure to cash flow variability resulting from the commodity price changes and interest rate fluctuations.
+Added: Futures, swaps and options are used to manage the Company’s exposure to commodity price risk inherent in the Company’s oil and gas production operations.
The Company does not apply hedge accounting to any of its commodity-based derivatives.
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Natural gas commodity contracts
−Removed: Derivative asset short-term
−Removed: Natural gas liquid contracts
−Removed: Derivative asset short-term
−Removed: Crude oil commodity contracts
−Removed: Derivative asset short-term
−Removed: Natural gas commodity contracts
Derivative asset long-term and
−Removed: Crude oil commodity contracts
−Removed: Derivative asset short-term
−Removed: and other assets
Liability Derivatives:
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Derivative liability short-term
−Removed: Natural gas liquid contracts
−Removed: Derivative liability short-term
+Added: Crude oil commodity contracts
+Added: Derivative liability long-term
Natural gas commodity contracts
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Total derivative instruments
−Removed: The following table sets forth the effect of derivative instruments on the consolidated
−Removed: statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:
+Added: The following table sets forth the effect of derivative instruments on the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:
+Added: (Thousands of dollars)
Location of gain/loss recognized in income
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recognized in income
−Removed: (Thousands of dollars)
Derivatives not designated as cash-flow hedge instruments:
Natural gas commodity contracts
−Removed: Unrealized gain on derivative
−Removed: instruments, net
+Added: Unrealized (loss) gain on derivative instruments, net
Crude oil commodity contracts
−Removed: Unrealized gain (loss) on
−Removed: derivative instruments, net
−Removed: Natural gas liquids contracts
−Removed: Unrealized (loss) on
−Removed: derivative instruments, net
+Added: Unrealized (loss) gain on derivative instruments, net
Natural gas commodity contracts
−Removed: Realized (loss) gain on
−Removed: derivative instruments, net
+Added: Realized (loss) on derivative instruments, net
Crude oil commodity contracts
−Removed: Realized gain (loss) on
−Removed: derivative instruments, net
+Added: Realized (loss) gain on derivative instruments, net
Related Party Transactions
−Removed: The Company, as managing general partner or managing trustee, makes an annual offer to repurchase the interests of the partners and trust unit
−Removed: holders in certain of the Partnerships or Trusts.
+Added: The Company, as managing general partner or managing trustee, makes an annual offer to repurchase the interests of the partners and trust unit holders in certain of the Partnerships or Trusts.
The Company purchased such interests in an amount totaling $ 676,000 during 2021 and $ 742,000 during 2020.
−Removed: Payables owed to related parties primarily represent receipts collected by the Company as agent for the joint venture partners, which may
−Removed: include members of the Companys Board of Directors, during a specific reporting year, for oil and gas sales net of expenses.
−Removed: Salary Deferral
−Removed: The Company maintains a salary deferral plan (the Plan) in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k),
−Removed: The Plan provides for matching contributions, of which $341,000 and $412,000 were made in 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Basic earnings per share are computed by dividing earnings available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of
−Removed: common shares outstanding during the period.
+Added: Payables owed to related parties primarily represent receipts collected by the Company as agent for the joint venture partners, which may include members of the Company’s Board of Directors, during a specific reporting year, for oil and gas sales net of expenses.
+Added: Salary Deferral Plan
+Added: The Company maintains a salary deferral plan (the “Plan”) in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k), as amended.
+Added: The Plan provides for matching contributions, of which $
+Added: 304,955 and $
+Added: 341,000 were made in 2021 and 2020, respectively
+Added: Earnings per Share
+Added: Basic earnings per share are computed by dividing earnings available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
Diluted earnings per share reflect per share amounts that would have resulted if dilutive potential common stock had been converted to common stock in gain periods.
−Removed: The following reconciles amounts
−Removed: reported in the financial statements:
+Added: The following reconciles amounts reported in the financial statements:
Year Ended December 31,
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EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
+Added: (Unaudited) cash flow sched
Year Ended December 31,
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RELATING TO PROVED OIL AND GAS RESERVES
−Removed: following are the principal sources of change in the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows during 2020 and 2019:
+Added: The following are the principal sources of change in the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows during 2021 and 2020:
Year Ended December 31,
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Converted to developed reserves
+Added: Reserves Sold
Total Proved Reserves at the End of the Year
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Total Costs and Expenses
−Removed: Results of Operations from Producing Activities (excluding corporate overhead and interest
+Added: Results of Operations from Producing Activities (excluding corporate overhead and interest costs)
See accompanying Notes to Supplementary Information
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NOTES TO SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
−Removed: Presentation of Reserve
−Removed: Disclosure Information
+Added: Presentation of Reserve Disclosure Information
Reserve disclosure information is presented in accordance with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: The Companys reserves include amounts attributable to non-controlling interests in the Partnerships.
+Added: The Company’s reserves include amounts attributable to non-controlling
+Added: interests in the Partnerships.
These interests represent less than 10 % of the Company’s reserves.
Determination of Proved Reserves
−Removed: estimates of the Companys proved reserves were determined by an independent petroleum engineer in accordance with U.S.
+Added: The estimates of the Company’s proved reserves were determined by an independent petroleum engineer in accordance with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: The estimates of proved reserves are inherently imprecise and are continually
−Removed: subject to revision based on production history, results of additional exploration and development and other factors.
−Removed: Estimated future net revenues were computed by reserves, less estimated future development and production costs based on current
−Removed: Proved reserve quantity estimates are subject to numerous uncertainties inherent in the estimation of quantities of proved
−Removed: reserves and in the projection of future rates of production and the timing of development expenditures.
+Added: The estimates of proved reserves are inherently imprecise and are continually subject to revision based on production history, results of additional exploration and development and other factors.
+Added: Estimated future net revenues were computed by reserves, less estimated future development and production costs based on current costs.
+Added: Proved reserve quantity estimates are subject to numerous uncertainties inherent in the estimation of quantities of proved reserves and in the projection of future rates of production and the timing of development expenditures.
The accuracy of such estimates is a function of the quality of available data and of engineering and geological interpretation and judgment.
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Further, the volumes considered to be commercially recoverable fluctuate with changes in prices and operating costs.
−Removed: Company emphasizes that proved reserve estimates are inherently imprecise and that estimates of new discoveries are more imprecise than those of currently producing oil and gas properties.
−Removed: Accordingly, these estimates are expected to change as
−Removed: additional information becomes available in the future.
+Added: The Company emphasizes that proved reserve estimates are inherently imprecise and that estimates of new discoveries are more imprecise than those of currently producing oil and gas properties.
+Added: Accordingly, these estimates are expected to change as additional information becomes available in the future.
Results of Operations from Oil and Gas Producing Activities
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Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves
−Removed: The standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows relating to proved oil and gas reserves and the changes of standardized measure of
−Removed: discounted future net cash flows relating to proved oil and gas reserves were prepared in accordance with U.S.
+Added: The standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows relating to proved oil and gas reserves and the changes of standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows relating to proved oil and gas reserves were prepared in accordance with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles.
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quantities of proved reserves.
−Removed: Future production and development costs are computed estimating the expenditures to be incurred in
−Removed: developing and producing the oil and gas reserves at year-end, based on year-end costs and assuming continuation of existing economic conditions.
+Added: Future production and development costs are computed estimating the expenditures to be incurred in developing and producing the oil and gas reserves at year-end,
+Added: based on year-end
+Added: costs and assuming continuation of existing economic conditions.
Future income tax expenses are calculated by applying the U.S.
−Removed: tax rate to future pre-tax cash
−Removed: inflows relating to proved oil and gas reserves, less the tax basis of properties involved.
+Added: tax rate to future pre-tax
+Added: cash inflows relating to proved oil and gas reserves, less the tax basis of properties involved.
Future income tax expenses give effect to permanent differences and tax credits and allowances relating to the proved oil and gas reserves.
−Removed: Future net cash flows are discounted at a rate of 10% annually (pursuant to applicable guidance) to derive the standardized measure of
−Removed: discounted future net cash flows.
−Removed: This calculation does not necessarily represent an estimate of fair market value or the present value of such cash flows since future prices and costs can vary substantially from
−Removed: year-end and the use of a 10% discount figure is arbitrary.
+Added: Future net cash flows are discounted at a rate of 10 % annually (pursuant to applicable guidance) to derive the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows.
+Added: This calculation does not necessarily represent an estimate of fair market value or the present value of such cash flows since future
+Added: prices and costs can vary substantially from year-end
+Added: and the use of a 10 % discount figure is arbitrary.
Changes in Reserves
−Removed: The 2020 and 2019 extensions and discoveries reflect the drilling activity in the Companys West Texas and
−Removed: Mid-Continent areas.
+Added: The 2021 and 2020 extensions and discoveries reflect the drilling activity in the Company’s West Texas and Mid-Continent
The Company is employing technologies to establish proved reserves that have been demonstrated to provide consistent results capable of repetition.
−Removed: The technologies and economic data being
−Removed: used in the estimation of its proved reserves include, but are not limited to, electrical logs, radioactivity logs, geologic maps, production data and well test data.
−Removed: The estimated reserves of wells with sufficient production history are estimated
−Removed: using appropriate decline curves.
+Added: The technologies and economic data being used in the estimation of its proved reserves include, but are not limited to, electrical logs, radioactivity logs, geologic maps, production data and well test data.
+Added: The estimated reserves of wells with sufficient production history are estimated using appropriate decline curves.
Estimated reserves of producing wells with limited production history and for undeveloped locations are estimated using performance data from analogous wells in the area.
−Removed: These wells are considered analogous based
−Removed: on production performance from the same formation and with similar completion techniques.
−Removed: Future development plans are reflective of the current commodity prices and have been established based on an expectation of available cash flows from
−Removed: operations and availability under our revolving credit facility.
+Added: These wells are considered analogous based on production performance from the same formation and with similar completion techniques.
+Added: Future development plans are reflective of the current commodity prices and have been established based on an expectation of available cash flows from operations and availability under our revolving credit facility.
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