Canaccord Genuity 2011 Global Energy Conference October 13, 2011 The Game Plan Robert Waters, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Enerplus Overview North American oil and gas producer focused on providing growth and income Current yield of over 8% 10 15% production growth expected through 2012 Diversified portfolio of oil and gas properties throughout…
Our Assets Low decline, cash generating 45% oil assets & liquids 62% oil Growing land & liquids position in liquids rich region Significant growth potential in Bakken Oil and Marcellus 75% oil Shale Gas & liquids *…
Growth Potential Fort Berthold: 74,000 net acres Total contingent resources of over 500 MMBOE Growth potential of 20,000 BOE/day in 4 years is almost 2x existing booked reserves Additional upside potential in Three Forks…
Production Growth Production growth of 10 15% over next 2 years 5% debt-adjusted growth/year beyond 2012 Oil production increases by over 20% through 2012 4
Crude Oil
North Dakota Bakken & Three Forks Potential Key Facts Net Acreage 74,500 (116 sections) 2P Reserves (Dec. 31, 2010) 22.4 million BOE Bakken Contingent Resource 60 million BOE 90 drilling locations Upside potential from the Three…
Significant Future Production Growth from Fort Berthold Manageable growth, self-funding in 2 3 years Growth potential of 20,000 25,000 500 Capital 25,000 BOE/day by 2014 Net Op Income 20,000 Production 400 Over 1 billion of…
Economics are Exceeding Type Curve Long laterals are 30% ahead of the avg type well estimate Short laterals are 45% ahead of the avg type well estimate Long Laterals (9,000 ft. 24 frac stages), 8.7 MM/well Type Actual Curve 5 Well…
Natural Gas
Marcellus Shale Gas Overview 65,000 net operated acres with 90% working interest 45,000 net non-operated acres Long lease tenure with 20% avg. working interest Focused on delineation in 2011 Major non-op partners: EXCO (22%…
Future Production Growth in the Marcellus Sizeable resource capture provides opportunity for material development Current contingent resource 180 Capital 300 estimate of 2.3 Tcf Net Op Income (MM) 150 Production (Annual Average)…
Improving Marcellus Performance 90% of recent wells in the NE PA area are outperforming 6 Bcfe type curve NE PA Well Performance Nearly 60 gross wells on 1,400,000 production in NE Pennsylvania Cumulative Production (Mcf)…
Marcellus Well Economics 4.0 Bcf Well 5.0 Bcf Well 6.0 Bcf Well * Assumes long-run well cost of 6.0 MM NYMEX Payout NPV 12% Payout NPV 12% Payout NPV 12% /MMbtu IRR (Years) (MM) IRR (Years) (MM) IRR (Years) (MM) 6.00 27% 3.4 2.51…
Summary
Positioned to Deliver Growth and Income High quality, diversified portfolio of low decline and growth potential assets Potential to double reserves through identified contingent resources in Bakken, Marcellus and Current yield of…
Supplemental Information The Game Plan
Attractive Valuation Enterprise Value* per BOE of Production Q2 2011 300,000 Peer Average: 98,074 250,000 EV/BOE/day 200,000 150,000 100,000 66,055 50,000 0 Talisman Ultra Bonavista Whiting…
Attractive Valuation Price to Cash Flow* per share 16 14 Peer Average: 7.0x P:CF per share 12 10 8 6.9x 6 4 2 0 Cabot Talisman EXCO Enerplus Brigham Range Pengrowth ARC…
Attractive Valuation Debt to Annualized Q2 Cash Flow* 3.0 Peer Average: 1.5x 2.5 2.0 D:CF 1.5 1.0 0.7 x 0.5 0.0 Continental Whiting Bonavista Penn West ARC Enerplus Southwestern Ultra…
Corporate Profile Enterprise Value (1) 5.0 billion Average Daily Trading Value (Q3 2011) 43.5 million 2011 Average Daily Production Guidance 76,000 78,000 BOE/day 2011 Exit Production Guidance 81,000 84,000 BOE/day Oil and…
Q2 Results Impacted By Weather, But Still On Track Production of 75,383 BOE/day, held at Q1 2011 level 145 million capital spending severe weather delayed execution of drilling programs Closed sale of a portion of our non-operated…
Revised 2011 Guidance Adjusted for Marcellus sale and impact of weather delays Increasing capital spending replacing exit volumes and building incremental production in 2012 Inflation, weather impacts in H1 2011 and increased costs…
Hedging The following is a summary of the financial contracts in place at July 27, 2011 expressed as a percentage of our forecasted net production volumes: Crude Oil (US/bbl) April 1, 2011 January 1, 2012 December 31, 2011 December…
2010 Year-End Reserves Summary Majority of decline in 2010 due to Oil Gas Properties Properties Total dispositions P+P Reserves (MMBOE) (Bcfe) (MMBOE) Development capital delivering Opening results Balance 171.8 1,039 344.9 All-in…
Supplemental Bakken Information
Fort Berthold Drilling Strategy 4 rigs currently under contract: 2 walking rigs for 2 years 2 conventional rigs through Q4 2011 and Q1 2012 Service contracts in place support execution Frac services and proppant agreements 2011…
Bakken & Three Forks Geology Middle Bakken Upper Three Forks Geological Age Mississippian Devonian Depth 10,500 11,000 ft 10,600 11,000 ft Thickness 35 45 ft 30 45 ft Porosity 5 - 6% 6 - 10% Overpressure 0.6 0.8 psi/ft 0.6 0.8…
Well Timelines 7 10 months Well application / permit Site Build Drilling Completion approval 4 - 6 months 1 - 2 months 1 month/well 1 month Environmental assessment Cannot begin Multi-well pads Have secured 42 required on…
Enerplus Well Design Methodology Typical rigs are 1,000 1,600 hp with top drive to improve performance; 2 of the rigs in the fleet are self moving (walkers) Measured depth of horizontal wells are 20,000 (TVD 10,700) and drill in…
Fort Berthold Production Gathering & Transportation Enerplus has committed to a field gathering system at the Fort Berthold Reservation which will: Aggregate production at a central collection point off the Reservation that will…
Fort Berthold Well Costs Total Cost 8.5 MM Total Cost 5.7 MM Completions - 125,000 lbs of proppant/stage, 1.3 - 1.5 MM for ceramic proppant - Water: 2,500 3,000 bbls/stage, 3 - 6/bbl for trucking & disposal fees Tie-in -…
U.S. Bakken Infrastructure Capacity 800,000 Current U.S. Bakken Plains Bakken Proposal 700,000 Keystone XL Market Link 50k production is 400 600,000 100k MBOE/day Belle Fourche Proposal 500,000 Enbridge Bakken 60k 500…
Supplemental Waterflood Information
Waterflood Upside - Improving and Enhancing Oil Recovery Contingent Resource Total 2010 YE 2P (MMBOE) OOIP Recovered Reserves Asset (MMBOE) (MMBOE) (MMBOE) IOR EOR Total Medicine Hat, AB 217 17 16.5 6.5 21.7 28.2 Giltedge, AB 126 16…
The Stages of Oil Recovery Stage Implications Waterflood Hold production steady, grow recovery Injecting high pressure water Facilities in place Maintenance costs increasing with age Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) Grow production &…
Low Decline, Crude Oil Waterfloods Key Facts P+P Reserves (Dec 31, 2010) 83.7 MMBOE (booked to 27%) Best Est. Contingent Resources 60.5 MMBOE Recovery to date 21% Average Oil Quality 30 API 2011E Annual Production 13.5 15.0…
Polymer Flood Polymer is chemical additive that increases viscosity of injected water Reduces residual oil saturation Improves sweep efficiency Works best with heavier crudes in high permeability reservoirs with low waterflood…
Giltedge EOR Project Area Key Facts OOIP 126 MMBOE Recovery Factor to Date 13% Polymer Cumulative Production 16.4 MMBOE Project Area P+P Reserves (Dec 31, 2010) 10.4 MMBOE (booked to 21%) Best Est. Contingent Resource 16.6 MMBOE…
Giltedge Production Production growth potential through EOR/polymer project 3000 2500 2000 Oil Production (BOE/day) 1500 1000 Expected Production Response from Polymer project (BOE/day) 500 Pool Base Production…
Freda/Skinner/Neptune, SK - Ratcliffe & Bakken Approximately 115,000 net acres of Ratcliffe rights Majority overlay Bakken rights Oungre/Ratcliffe zones at a 1,600 - 1,800 metre depth Current Ratcliffe production 1,900 BOE/day…
Freda Lake Ratcliffe Unit Key Facts Freda Lake Ratcliffe Voluntary Unit 1 OOIP 55 MMBOE 99.86% WI Recovery Factor to Date 14% Cumulative Production 8 MMBOE P+P Reserves (Dec. 31, 2010) 10.2 MMBOE (booked to 31%) Best Est.…
Freda Lake Ratcliffe Unit Production Up to 14 more HZ wells to drill in the unit 7 HZ wells drilled increased production from 500 BOE/day to over 1,300 BOE/day at year-end 43
Supplemental Marcellus Information
2011 Marcellus Plans 2011 capital program of 195 Non-operated activity focused in NE PA region: EXCO currently running 3 rigs with all activity focused in Lycoming County Over 40% Chief continue to run 3 rigs with activity…
Marcellus Well Timeline 6 8 months Well application / permit Waiting on Frac Site Build Drilling Fracing approval Crews 45 60 days in PA 45 90 days 25 35 30 - 60 days 7 - 14 days days/well 30 45 days in WV Cannot begin…
Moving Natural Gas Out of the Marcellus Enerplus has taken several steps to ensure we can move our growing Marcellus gas production to market: Entered into longer term (5 years +) firm must take contracts with creditworthy…
Supplemental Deep Basin Information
Liquids Rich Natural Gas Large, long tenure, high working interest land holdings Montney Potential 33,000 net acres of undeveloped land Over 110,000 net acres of high working interest Duvernay Potential undeveloped land with…
Disclaimers For information regarding the primary contingencies which currently prevent the classification of our disclosed contingent resources associated with our Marcellus shale gas assets as reserves and the positive and negative…