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Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation has reported an increase of 7.7 MMBoe or a 10.7% improvement in the quantity of the Company's estimated total proved oil and natural gas reserves at June 30, 2014, compared with total proved reserves just six months ago at December 31, 2013.
The present value of estimated future net cash flows, before income taxes, of the Company's estimated total proved reserves as of mid-year 2014, discounted at 10%, increased 10.2% or $84.9 million to $916.3 million, compared with the PV-10 of such reserves at year-end 2013 (information herein regarding the Company's proved reserves and associated PV-10 at year-end 2013 has been adjusted for previously reported divestitures of properties in Canada and Atascosa County, Texas that occurred in early 2014).
Magnum Hunter's estimated total proved reserves increased by 7.7 MMBoe to 79.8 MMBoe (38% crude oil and NGLs; 47% proved developed producing) at June 30, 2014, compared with 72.1 MMBoe (43% crude oil and NGLs; 52% proved developed producing) at December 31, 2013. Proved undeveloped reserves at mid-year 2014 increased 12% to 29.2 MMBoe, compared with those at year-end 2013. This was primarily due to the execution and continued delineation of the Company's existing leasehold acreage position in the Marcellus and Utica Shales in West Virginia and Ohio. The Company's reserve life (R/P ratio) of its proved reserves at mid-year 2014 based on current production is approximately 12 years.
At year-end 2013, the Company had booked proved reserves of only one Utica Shale well. At June 30, 2014, the Company was successful at booking proved developed non-producing reserves of one additional Utica Shale well and also booked proved undeveloped reserves of two Utica Shale wells. The Company expects to significantly increase proved reserves in the Utica Shale, where it presently owns over 118,000 net leasehold acres, during the remainder of 2014 as a result of "pad" drilling and further delineation of its leasehold acreage position in this region. At June 30, 2014, the Appalachian Basin (including properties in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale in West Virginia and Ohio and properties in Kentucky) accounted for approximately 80% of Magnum Hunter's total proved reserves volumes, the Williston Basin in North Dakota accounted for approximately 19% and other legacy assets accounted for the remaining 1%.