Hyperion Exploration Corp. Announces Garrington and Buck Lake Light Oil Focused Asset Acquisitions and Bought Deal Financing
Hyperion Exploration Corp. Announces Garrington and Buck Lake Light Oil Focused Asset Acquisitions and Bought Deal Financing
CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwire – Mar 3, 2011) -
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Hyperion Exploration Corp. (“Hyperion” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:HYX) is gratified to make well well known which it has entered in to a contracting agreement on dual peculiarity light oil focused item acquisitions and a point paid for understanding financing.
ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTS
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Hyperion has entered in to a definitive agreement with an arm’s length open association to take high working interest, operated resources now producing 350 boe/day in the Garrington area of west executive Alberta (the “Garrington Assets”) for total care of $22.0 million (the “Garrington Acquisition”). Currently prolongation is from one Cardium plane light oil good plus light oil and liquids abounding gas prolongation from the Ellerslie and Elkton formations.
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Hyperion has additionally entered in to a minute agreement with an arm’s length open association to take 4.0 sum (2.6 net) sections of land rarely impending for Cardium plane light oil training in the Buck Lake area of west executive Alberta (the “Buck Lake Assets”) for sum care of $4.25 million (the “Buck Lake Acquisition” and, collectively with the Garrington Acquisition, the “Acquisitions”). The execution of the Buck Lake Acquisition is theme to the execution of a decisive agreement on or prior to Mar 4, 2011.
- Hyperion is additionally gratified to make well well known a point paid for understanding financing with a associate of underwriters for an offering, on a in siege chain basis, of 22,000,000 subscription profits (“Subscription Receipts”) at a cost of $1.50 per Subscription Receipt and 1,111,150 usual shares (“Common Shares”) to be expelled on a “flow-through” basement (“Flow-Through Shares”) at a cost of $1.80 per Flow-Through Share to lift sum sum deduction of we estimate $35.0 million (the “Offering”).
The Acquisitions supplement 18.5 net tall peculiarity Cardium plane light oil locations to the Company’s register and 9.5 net tall peculiarity multi-zone opportunities for Glauconitic plane light oil development, Ellerslie light oil expansion and Elkton plane liquids abounding gas development.
When sum with the existent inventory, the Company will have 74.5 net tall stroke light oil locations and 10 liquids abounding healthy gas locations. This poignant and multi-year training register provides estimable expansion intensity for both haven and prolongation growth.
The Garrington Acquisition is approaching to tighten on or about Mar 21, 2011, and will be redeeming on prevalent regulatory approvals, including, but limitation, the TSX Venture Exchange, and alternative conditions standard for this sort of transaction. The Buck Lake Acquisition is approaching to tighten on or about Mar 4, 2011.
STRATEGIC RATIONALE AND ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTS
The Acquisitions serve accelerate the Company’s expansion and have been deputy of the Company’s plan to take and feat light oil opportunities. The Acquisitions element the Company’s tide positions for Cardium Horizontal light oil expansion in the areas of North Pembina, Niton, and Boundary Lake oil expansion at Paradise, British Columbia. These areas share characteristics of tall quality, prolonged reason up prolongation with low risk, scalable and repeatable training opportunities. The acquired properties have been 100% operated with tall operative interests, have 3-D seismic coverage, homogeneous good carry out and straight and plane good prolongation story and carry out of internal producing infrastructure with 4,200 net acres of underdeveloped land.
Garrington Acquisition
The Garrington Assets, operated with we estimate 90% operative interest, have been now producing 125 bbl/day (net) of light oil, 70 bbl/day (net) of healthy gas liquids and 930 mcf/day (net) of healthy gas (350 boe/day net).
The sum squeeze cost for the Garrington Assets is $22.0 million money with an in effect date of Jan 1, 2011. The proven and active lands to be acquired suggest multi-zone light oil opportunities from the Cardium, Glauconitic, and Ellerslie formations and liquids abounding gas from the Elkton formation. Included in these prolongation totals is a Cardium plane light oil good (100% operative interest) which was brought on tide in late 2010.
The primary thirty day prolongation rate for this good was 183 bbl/day of light oil and 68 mcf/day of healthy gas (194 boe/day). On the 4 net sections of land being acquired, regulating straight good carry out and 3-D seismic, Hyperion’s group has identified eleven sum (8.5 net) Cardium plane oil locations, 4 sum (3.5 net) Glauconitic plane oil locations, 2 sum (2 net) Ellerslie oil locations and 5 sum (5 net) Elkton plane liquids abounding gas locations.
Buck Lake Acquisition
The Buck Lake Assets, 4 sum (2.6 net) sections of land and internal tube infrastructure, have been being purchased for $4.25 million money with an in effect date of Feb 1, 2011.
The Buck Lake Acquisition adds to the Company’s tide land on all sides in the area. Based on brand new attention success with Cardium plane light oil expansion in the area and the Company’s technical research of the lands, Hyperion’s group has identified sixteen sum (10 net) Cardium plane light oil locations exhibiting identical mercantile qualities as the Company’s 33 net existent North Pembina Cardium locations.
The Acquisitions have been accretive to Hyperion on sure key metrics, together with money upsurge per share (fully diluted) and prolongation per share (fully diluted).
None of the intensity pot compared with the upside locations described on top of have been enclosed in the list below.
Highlights of the Acquisitions have been as follows:
| Garrington | Buck Lake | Total | ||
| Proved grown producing pot (mboe) (1) | 675 | - | 675 | |
| Operating Netback/boe(2) | $24.28 | - | ||
| Proved grown producing RLI (years) | 5.3 | nm | nm | |
| Effective Date | 1-Jan-11 | 1-Mar-11 | ||
| January, 2011 oil and NGL approx. prolongation (bbls/d) | 195 | - | 195 | |
| January, 2011 healthy gas approx. prolongation (mcf/d) | 930 | - | 930 | |
| January, 2011 approx. prolongation (boe/d) | 350 | - | 350 | |
| Total land (net acres) | 2,560 | 1,664 | 4,224 | |
| Cardium oil focused training locations (net) | 8.5 | 10 | 28.5 | |
| Glauc oil focused training locations (net) | 3.5 | - | 3.5 | |
| Ellerslie oil focused training locations (net) | 2.0 | - | 2.0 | |
| Elkton liquids abounding gas focused training locations (net) | 4.0 | - | 4.0 | |
| Total training locations (net) | 18.0 | 10 | 28.5 | |
| Total contract worth ($mm) | $ 22.00 | $ 4.25 | $ 26.25 | |
| Cost for prolongation (total contract value/boe/d) | $ 62,857 | - | $ 75,000 | |
| Notes: |
| (1) Reserves evaluated by GLJ Petroleum Consultants Ltd. as at Jul 1, 2010. Gross Company Reserves equates to the Company’s operative seductiveness pot prior to the calculation of royalties, and prior to the care of the Company’s kingship interests. |
| (2) Based on Feb 5, 2011 brazen frame pricing reduction royalties and handling costs. |
THE OFFERING
Hyperion has entered in to an agreement, on a paid for understanding in siege chain basis, with GMP Securities L.P. and Canaccord Genuity Corp., as co-lead underwriters, for an offering, on a in siege chain basis, of 22,000,000 Subscription Receipts at a cost of $1.50 per Subscription Receipt and 1,111,150 Flow-Through Shares at a cost of $1.80 per Flow-Through Share to lift sum sum deduction of we estimate $35,000,070.
Closing of the Offering is approaching to start on or about Mar 18, 2011, and is theme to prevalent conditions and regulatory approvals, together with the capitulation of the TSX Venture Exchange. The net deduction from the sale of the Subscription Receipts will be used to account the squeeze cost on credit by Hyperion for the Acquisitions. Gross deduction from the sale of the Flow-Through Shares will be used to account ongoing activities which will validate as Canadian Exploration Expense, which will be renounced to the subscribers for the 2011 taxation year.
The sum deduction from the sale of the Subscription Receipts will be reason in escrow tentative the execution of the Acquisitions. If the Acquisitions have been finished on or prior to Mar 28, 2011, the deduction will be expelled to Hyperion. If the Acquisitions have been not finished on or prior to Mar 28, 2011, or the decisive agreement in apply oneself of possibly of the Acquisitions is consummated at an progressing time, holders of Subscription Receipts will embrace a money remuneration next to to the charity cost of the Subscription Receipts and any seductiveness which was warranted thereon during the tenure of the escrow.
Each Subscription Receipt will grant the hilt thereof to embrace one Common Share on the deemed practice of the Subscription Receipt. The Subscription Receipts will be deemed to be exercised on the progressing of: (a) 4 months and a day following the shutting of the in siege placement, and (b) which day on which a taking is expelled by the bonds regulatory authorities in any of the provinces of Canada, solely Quebec, for a last short form handbill subordinate the Common Shares to be expelled on the practice of the Subscription Receipts. Hyperion shall make make use of of the in accord with blurb efforts to acquire such taking for the practice of the Subscription Receipts inside of thirty days of shutting of the Acquisitions (the “Qualification Deadline”). If a taking is not performed on or prior to the Qualification Deadline, Hyperion shall emanate to any hilt of Subscription Receipts, for no one more care and but any serve movement on the partial of the holder, an one more 0.1 of a Common Share for any Common Share to be expelled to such hilt on the deemed practice of the Subscription Receipts. Until the taking is expelled for such prospectus, the Subscription Receipts as good as the Common Shares issuable on practice thereof will be theme to a 4 month reason duration underneath germane Canadian bonds laws. The Flow-Through Shares will be theme to a 4 month reason duration underneath germane Canadian bonds laws.
Hyperion is a publically traded, tall expansion youth oil and gas association ensuing from the recapitalization of Triple 8 Energy Ltd. in Jul 2010. Hyperion’s commercial operation plan is to grow by acquisitions which lead to reduce risk, scalable and repeatable expansion training projects. Currently Hyperion has 81 net training locations identified (71 oil, 10 healthy gas), together with 40 Cardium plane light oil prospects. The usual shares of the Company traffic on the TSX Venture Exchange underneath the trade pitch “HYX”.
Forward Looking and Cautionary Statements
This press recover contains sure forward-looking statements (forecasts) underneath germane bonds laws relating to destiny events or destiny performance. Forward-looking statements have been indispensably formed on assumptions and judgements with apply oneself to the destiny including, but not singular to, the opinion for commodity markets and collateral markets, the opening of producing wells and reservoirs, good expansion and handling performance, ubiquitous mercantile and commercial operation conditions, weather, the regulatory and authorised sourroundings and alternative risks compared with oil and gas operations. In a little cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by vernacular such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “expect”, “projects”, “plans”, “anticipates” and identical expressions. These statements paint management’s expectations or ideology concerning, between alternative things, destiny handling formula and assorted components thereof inspiring the mercantile opening of Hyperion. Undue faith should not be placed on these forward-looking statements which have been formed on management’s assumptions and have been theme to well well known and different risks and uncertainties, together with the commercial operation risks discussed above, which might means tangible opening and monetary formula in destiny durations to talk about materially from any projections of destiny opening or formula voiced or pragmatic by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers have been cautioned which events or resources could means formula to talk about materially from those predicted.
In the seductiveness of on condition which Hyperion shareholders and intensity investors with report per the Company, together with management’s comment of Hyperion’s destiny skeleton and operation, sure statements via this press recover consecrate brazen seeking statements. All forward-looking statements have been formed on the Company’s ideology and assumptions formed on report accessible at the time the arrogance was made. The make make use of of of any of the difference “anticipate”, “continue”, “estimate”, “expect”, “may”, “will”, “project”, “should”, “believe” and identical expressions have been dictated to brand brazen seeking statements. By the nature, such forward-looking report involves well well known and different risks, uncertainties and alternative factors which might means tangible formula or events to talk about materially from those expected in such brazen seeking statements. Hyperion believes the expectations reflected in those brazen seeking statements have been in accord with but no declaration can be since which these expectations will infer to be scold and such brazen seeking statements contained via this press recover should not be unduly relied upon. These statements verbalise usually as of the date specified in the statements.
In particular, this press recover might enclose brazen seeking statements regarding to the following:
- the Offering;
- the Garrington Acquisition and the Garrington Assets;
- the Buck Lake Acquisition and the Buck Lake Assets;
- the performance characteristics of the Company’s oil and healthy gas properties;
- oil and natural gas prolongation levels;
- capital expenditure programs;
- the quantity of the Company’s oil and healthy gas pot and anticipated future money flows from such reserves;
- projections of commodity prices and costs;
- supply and direct for oil and healthy gas;
- expectations regarding the capability to lift collateral and to ceaselessly supplement to reserves through acquisitions and development; and
- treatment under bureaucratic regulatory regimes.
The element assumptions in creation these forward-looking statements embody sure assumptions disclosed in the Company’s most brand new management’s contention and research enclosed in the element accessible on this press release.
The Company’s tangible formula could talk about materially from those expected in the brazen seeking statements contained via this press recover as a outcome of the element risk factors set onward below, and elsewhere in this press release:
- volatility in marketplace prices for oil and natural gas;
- liabilities fundamental in oil and healthy gas operations;
- uncertainties compared with calculating approximately oil and natural gas reserves;
- competition for, between alternative things, capital, acquisitions of reserves, underdeveloped lands and learned personnel;
- incorrect assessments of the worth of acquisitions and scrutiny and expansion programs;
- geological, technical, training and processing problems;
- fluctuations in unfamiliar sell or interest rates and batch marketplace volatility;
- failure to comprehend the expected benefits of acquisitions;
- general commercial operation and marketplace conditions; and
- changes in income taxation laws or changes in tax laws and inducement programs relating to the oil and gas industry.
These factors should not be construed as exhaustive. Unless compulsory by law, Hyperion does not commence any requisite to publicly refurbish or correct any brazen seeking statements, either as a outcome of brand new information, destiny events or otherwise.
Barrels of oil homogeneous (boe) might be misleading, quite if used in isolation. A boe acclimatisation comparative measure of 6 thousand cubic feet (mcf) of healthy gas to one tub (bbl) of oil is formed on an appetite acclimatisation process essentially germane at the burner tip and is not dictated to paint a worth equivalency at the wellhead. All boe conversions in this press recover have been subsequent by converting healthy gas to oil in the comparative measure of 6 thousand cubic feet of healthy gas to one tub of oil. Certain monetary amounts have been presented on a per boe basis, such measurements might not be unchanging with those used by alternative companies.
This press recover shall not consecrate an suggest to sell or the questionnaire of an suggest to buy the bonds in any jurisdiction. The Subscription Receipts and the Common Shares issuable on practice of the Subscription Receipts have not and will not be purebred underneath the United States Securities Act of 1933, as nice (the “U.S. Securities Act”) or any state bonds laws and most not be offering or sole in the United States solely in sure exchange free from the registration mandate of the U.S. Securities Act and germane states bonds laws.
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