Overview of Vanguard Natural Resources Upstream oil & gas LLC, headquartered in Houston, Texas Initial Public Offering VNR October 2007 (Total Enterprise Value of 240mm) Fifteen strategic acquisitions totaling 2.1bn expanded…
Geographically Diversified Reserve Base Core Areas Overview Big Horn Basin Williston Basin Proved Reserves: 24.0 MMBoe 136.2 MMBoe proved reserves Proved Reserves: 5.8 MMBoe 85% oil and 96% Proved Developed 93% oil and 95%…
How We Spend Capital Disciplined approach to capital spending focus on maintaining cash flow from mature, long lived fields By contrast, resource players invest in growth to support equity valuation The nature of our capital program…
Our Acquisition Strategy The U.S. has a large inventory of mature oil and natural gas basins which provide significant opportunity for future growth and consolidation Current E&P opportunity set is comprised of an estimated 1.5…
Our Successful Acquisition Track Record We acquire developed, proved properties in established oil and gas basins We review between 125-150 and evaluate approximately 50 acquisition candidates each year Adj. Effective Purchase…
What Encore Did For Us Largest acquisition to date at 1.2 billion Increased exposure to crude oil for VNR unitholders Significantly increased size and scale, overall operating reach and cash flow stability Improved ability to…
Arkoma Basin Acquisition Woodford Shale Fayetteville Shale Operated Acreage Non-operated Acreage Assets located in the Woodford Shale and Fayetteville Shale plays Total proved reserves of 402 Bcfe (57% PDP) Current net…
Pro Forma Reserve Summary Total Reserves of 136 MMBoe (817 Bcfe) PDP reserves of 94 MMBoe (569 Bcfe) is 69% of total reserves Oil NGL Gas Total (MMBl) (MMBl) (Bcf) (MMBoe) PDP 37 9 291 95 PDNP 2 0 11 4 PUD 5 10 138 38 Total…
Our Successful Execution of the E&P MLP Strategy Geographically diverse portfolio of long life assets, well positioned in most of the mature US basins High Quality, Low 136 MMBoe total proved reserves, 72% proved developed and 15 year…
Disciplined Financial Strategy Maintain conservative capital structure and sufficient liquidity Availability under Revolver as of August 1, 2012 of 250 million Target Debt / EBITDA of less than 3.0x Active management of debt…
Hedging Philosophy Hedge commodity prices on estimated production from acquisitions for three to five years upon signing the Purchase and Sale Agreement to protect rate of return from price fluctuations Opportunistic hedging program…
Locking in Margins Provides Stability Through the use of hedging, Vanguard is able to lock in significant acquisition margins for the foreseeable future, helping to insure distribution stability 98.49 100.00 92.82 92.27 93.42…
Hedges Mitigate Commodity Price Risk Approximately 80% of expected crude oil production (total proved) thru 2014 Approximately 85% of expected natural gas production (total proved) thru the first half of 2017 Weighted average…
Vanguards Value Proposition Vanguard has the highest distribution growth rate since its IPO in October 2007 However, Vanguard is still trading at a higher yield than many of its peers Typically, MLPs with a track record of…
Price Performance Since 2009 The results have been great. VNR has outperformed US Royalty Trusts, C-Corps and other E&P MLPs. The strategy works. 600% 500% +368.0% 400% Price Performance (%) 300% +162.4% +121.0%…
Key Investor Considerations Management and unitholders are well aligned High quality, long lived reserves Asset base generates stable cash flow Multi-year hedge program mitigates commodity risk Geographic and commodity…
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Experienced Management Team Years of Name Title Prior Affiliations Experience Ensource Energy Scott W. Smith President and CEO The Wiser Oil Company 32 San Juan Partners Enbridge USA Richard A. Robert EVP and CFO Midcoast Energy…
Permian Basin Acquired producing assets from Apache in December 2007 Established Permian Basin as an operating area, with approximately 50 operated wells in 7 fields Encore acquisition added 16.9 MMBoe of proved reserves (37% oil,…
Big Horn Basin Majority of Big Horn Basin properties located in Elk Basin and Gooseberry Field Elk Basin Major producing horizons include Embar- Tensleep, Madison, Frontier Formations Gooseberry Field Active waterflood project…
South Texas Acquired properties from Lewis Energy in July 2008 Webb County, TX and July 2009 Most of the South Texas properties are located in two fields Gold River North Field (Webb County, TX) Sun TSH Field (La Salle County, TX)…
Williston Basin Located in North Dakota and Montana Williston Basin properties include: Horse Creek, Charlson Madison Unit, Cedar Creek MT, Lookout Butte East, Pine, Beaver Creek and others Bakken activity began in 2011.…
Mississippi Acquired producing assets in Mississippi, Texas and New Mexico in May 2010 Inventory of PDNP opportunities and recompletions designed to maintain production in 2012 Majority of production comes from Parker Creek Field…