To: Kerm Yerman who wrote (8631 ) 1/23/1998 1:54:00 PM From: Herb Duncan Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 15196
CORP / Denbury Resources Announces Year-end Proved Reserves TSE, NYSE SYMBOL: DNR JANUARY 23, 1998 DALLAS, TEXAS and CALGARY, ALBERTA--On January 22, 1998, Denbury Resources Inc. filed an amendment to its registration statement covering the proposed sale of $87.6 million of common shares and $125 million of Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008. In connection with the amendment, the Company updated its estimates of proved reserves to December 31, 1997. Total proved reserves were 52.0 million barrels of oil and 77.2 Bcf of gas, or 64.9 million BOEs on an equivalent basis, including 27.6 million BOEs relating to the properties recently acquired from Chevron. This compares to a total of 27.4 million BOEs as of December 31, 1996. The present value of these proved reserves at December 31, 1997 is $361 million, calculated in accordance with SEC requirements on an unescalated basis using year-end 1997 prices and a 10 percent discount rate ("PV10 Value"). The 1997 reserve report was based on a West Texas Intermediate oil price of $16.18 per Bbl and a NYMEX Henry Hub price of $2.58 per MMBtu, a price decline of 31 percent and 34 percent for oil and gas respectively, from the prior year-end prices. Using consistent oil and gas pricing, the PV10 Value would have increased 35 percent (excluding the properties acquired from Chevron) between December 31, 1996 and December 31, 1997. The reserves were estimated by Netherland, Sewell and Associates, an independent engineering firm located in Dallas, Texas. Denbury is a growing independent oil and gas company engaged in acquisitions, development and exploration activities primarily in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.