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SEC 5-Year Drilling Window – Fact, Fiction and Gray Areas

CG&A

Introduction Drilling locations come with an expiration date once booked in a reserve report. For public filers and/or aspiring private companies heading towards IPO, this means that all drilling locations expire in 5 years from date of first booking, unless production starts. Lets run through using a fact or fiction? Fact or fiction?

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Proved Reserves Beyond Low (LKO) and High (HKO) Known Oil

CG&A

Without any other data, it would be difficult to book the volumes above the well completion as oil (Fig 1 – Updip Volume A).Of Of course, those volumes can be booked as gas based on the physics of fluid densities, but oil is preferred.It Proceed at your own risk! Reg S-X 210.4-10 10 (a)(22)(ii)).To Reg S-X 210.4-10

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What are the SEC Rules for Reserves, and where can I find them?

CG&A

Current Rules The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Society of Petroleum Engineers Reserves Management System publication in 2007, and the increased development of shale resources starting in the early 2000s paved the way for the SEC to revise those rules.On

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Whitecap Resources, Veren to combine to form C$15 billion Canadian energy giant

Oil & Gas 360º

Drilling Locations This press release discloses drilling inventory in two categories: (i) booked locations (proved and probable); and (ii) unbooked locations. Booked locations represent the summation of proved and probable locations, which are derived from McDaniel & Associates Consultants Ltd.’s

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