特许权使用费利息按比例减少2%

据OGJ网站7月19日报道，美国油气生产巨头沃思堡的兰吉资源公司(Range Resources)报告称已同意将阿巴拉契亚西南部350，000净英亩的权益按比例减少2%，总收益为6亿美元。

这个单独交易今年3月1日生效，适用于现有和未来的马塞勒斯、尤蒂卡和上泥盆统开发的主题租约。这些交易排除了更浅、更深的前景。

这些资产在今年第一季度产生了19亿立方英尺天然气当量。 根据今年的上半年定价，与这些压倒一切的特许权使用费销售相关的年度现金流量预计将达到4800万美元。

另外，Range还完成了宾夕法尼亚州某些非生产用地的销售，总收益为3400万美元。该销售于6月结束。 出售的资产包括位于阿姆斯特朗西北部的2万英亩土地。Range表示，旨在将更多非核心资产货币化的销售过程仍在进行中。

特许权使用费利息交易定于本月结束，其收益将用于偿还公司循环信贷机制下的未偿款项。

Range称，总计6.34亿美元的总收益将使债务总额减少17%。预计年度利息支出将减少3000万美元，并抵消与特许权使用费销售有关的大量现金流量减少。

郝芬 译自 OGJ

原文如下：

Range divests assets in deals worth a total $634 million

Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, reported it has agreed to sell a 2% proportionately reduced overriding royalty interest in 350,000 net surface acres in southwest Appalachia for gross proceeds totaling $600 million.

Thetransaction, which are effective Mar. 1, apply to existing and future Marcellus, Utica, and Upper Devonian development on the subject leases. These deals exclude shallower and deeper horizons.

The properties produced 1.9 bcfd of natural gas equivalent in this year’s first quarter. Annualized cash flow associated with these overriding royalty sales is expected to reach $48 million, based on this year’s first-half pricing.

Separately, Range also completed the sale of certain nonproducing acreage in Pennsylvania for gross proceeds of $34 million. That sale closed in June. The properties sold included 20,000 acres in northwest Armstrong County. Sale processes to monetize additional noncore assets remain under way, Range said.

The royalty interest transactions are scheduled to close this month with proceeds utilized to repay amounts outstanding under the company’s revolving credit facility.

The combined gross proceeds of $634 million will reduce total debt by 17%, Range said. Annual interest expense is expected to decline by $30 million and offset a substantial amount of the cash flow reduction associated with the royalty sales.