CIVI Civitas Resources Inc

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

Current Report
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 4, 2023

 

 

Civitas Resources, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware		001-35371		61-1630631
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S Employer Identification No.)

 

555 17th Street, Suite 3700

Denver, Colorado 80202

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (720) 440-6100

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨    Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

¨    Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

¨    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

¨    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

  

Title of each class		Trading Symbol		Name of  exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share		CIVI		New York Stock Exchange

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company ¨

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

 

 

 

Item 8.01.

Other Events.

 

The reserve report of DeGolyer and MacNaughton relating to the Vencer Energy, LLC’s estimated oil and gas reserves at December 31, 2022 is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

The reserve report of Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. relating to Hibernia Energy III, LLC’s and Hibernia Energy III-B, LLC’s proved reserves and future revenue at December 31, 2022 is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.2 and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

The reserve report of Ryder Scott Company, L.P. relating to estimates of the proved reserves, future production, and income attributable to certain consolidated leasehold and royalty interests of Tap Rock Resources, LLC, Tap Rock Resources II, LLC and Tap Rock NM10 Holdings, LLC estimated oil and gas reserves at December 31, 2022 is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.3 and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)       Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.		Description
23.1		Consent of DeGolyer and MacNaughton.
23.2		Consent of Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
23.3		Consent of Ryder Scott Company, L.P.
99.1		DeGolyer and MacNaughton Reserve Report of Vencer Energy, LLC as of December 31, 2022.
99.2		Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. Reserve Report of Hibernia Energy III, LLC and Hibernia Energy III-B, LLC as of December 31, 2022.
99.3		Ryder Scott Company, L.P. Reserve Report of Tap Rock Resources, LLC, Tap Rock Resources II, LLC and Tap Rock NM10 Holdings, LLC as of December 31, 2022.
104		Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL).

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

	Civitas Resources, Inc.
Date: October 4, 2023	By:	/s/ Travis L. Counts
	Name:	Travis L. Counts
	Title:	Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.1

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

5001 Spring Valley Road

Suite 800 East

Dallas, Texas 75244

 

October 4, 2023

Vencer Energy, LLC

11750 Katy Freeway, Suite 200

Houston, Texas 77079

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have issued our report entitled “Report as of December 31, 2022 on Reserves and Revenue of Certain Properties with interests attributable to Vencer Energy, LLC SEC,” dated October 2, 2023 (the “Report”), on estimates, as of December 31, 2022, of the extent and value of the proved oil, condensate, natural gas liquids, and gas reserves of certain properties of Vencer Energy, LLC (“Vencer”). As independent oil and gas consultants, we hereby consent to the inclusion of our Report and the information contained therein included in or made part of this Current Report on Form 8-K of Civitas Resources, Inc. (the “Company”). DeGolyer and MacNaughton hereby consents to the incorporation by reference in the Company’s Registration Statements on Form S-3 (File No. 333-263753) and Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-260881, 333-257295, 333-229431 and 333-217545) of all references to our firm and information from our Report, relating to the oil and gas reserves of Vencer.

 

	Very truly yours,
	/s/ DeGOLYER and MacNAUGHTON
	DeGOLYER and MacNAUGHTON
	Texas Registered Engineering Firm F-716

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.2

 

 

 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ENGINEERS AND GEOLOGISTS

 

We have issued a report, dated October 2, 2023, estimates of the proved reserves and future revenue to the combined interests of Hibernia Energy III, LLC and Hibernia Energy III-B, LLC (collectively, “Hibernia”), as of December 31, 2022. As independent oil and gas consultants, we hereby consent to the inclusion of our report and the information contained therein included in or made part of this Current Report on Form 8-K of Civitas Resources, Inc. (the “Company”). Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. hereby consents to the incorporation by reference in the Company’s Registration Statements on Form S-3 (File No. 333-263753) and Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-260881, 333-257295, 333-229431 and 333-217545) of all references to our firm and information from our report, dated October 2, 2023, relating to the oil and gas reserves of Hibernia. 

 

	NETHERLAND, SEWELL & ASSOCIATES, INC.
	By:	/s/ Eric J. Stevens, P.E.
		Eric J. Stevens, P.E.
		President and Chief Operating Officer

 

Dallas, Texas

October 4, 2023

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.3

 

 

TBPELS REGISTERED ENGINEERING FIRM F-1580

FAX (713) 651-0849

633 17TH STREET SUITE 1700

DENVER, COLORADO 80202

TELEPHONE (303) 339-8110

 

Consent of Independent Petroleum Engineers

 

We have issued our report, dated October 2, 2023, on estimates of the proved reserves, future production, and income attributable to certain consolidated leasehold and royalty interests of Tap Rock Resources, LLC, Tap Rock Resources II, LLC and Tap Rock NM10 Holdings, LLC (collectively, “Tap Rock”) exclusive of the Olympus Area as of December 31, 2022. As independent oil and gas consultants, we hereby consent to the inclusion of our report and the information contained therein included in or made part of this Current Report on Form 8-K of Civitas Resources, Inc. (the “Company”). Ryder Scott Company, L.P. hereby consents to the incorporation by reference in the Company’s Registration Statements on Form S-3 (File No. 333-263753) and Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-260881, 333-257295, 333-229431 and 333-217545) of all references to our firm and information from our report, dated October 2, 2023, relating to the oil and gas reserves of Tap Rock.

 

/s/ RYDER SCOTT COMPANY, L.P.

 

RYDER SCOTT COMPANY, L.P.

TBPELS Firm Registration No. F-1580

 

Denver, Colorado

October 4, 2023

 

SUITE 2800, 350 7TH AVENUE, S.W.	CALGARY, ALBERTA T2P 3N9	TEL (403) 262-2799
1100 LOUISIANA, SUITE 4600	HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002	TEL (713) 651-9191

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.1

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

5001 Spring Valley Road

Suite 800 East

Dallas, Texas 75244

 

October 2, 2023

 

 

Vencer Energy, LLC

11750 Katy Freeway

Suite 200

Houston, Texas 77079

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Pursuant to your request, this report of third party presents an independent evaluation, as of December 31, 2022, of the extent and value of the estimated net proved oil, condensate, natural gas liquids (NGL), and gas reserves of certain properties in which Vencer Energy, LLC (Vencer) has represented it holds an interest. This evaluation was completed on October 2, 2023. The properties evaluated herein are located in the Midland Basin in Texas. Vencer has represented that these properties account for 100 percent on a net equivalent barrel basis of Vencer’s net proved reserves as of December 31, 2022. The net proved reserves estimates have been prepared in accordance with the reserves definitions of Rules 4–10(a) (1)–(32) of Regulation S–X of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This report was prepared in accordance with guidelines specified in Item 1202 (a)(8) of Regulation S–K and is to be used for inclusion in certain SEC filings by Vencer.

 

Reserves estimates included herein are expressed as net reserves. Gross reserves are defined as the total estimated petroleum remaining to be produced from these properties after December 31, 2022. Net reserves are defined as that portion of the gross reserves attributable to the interests held by Vencer after deducting all interests held by others.

 

Values for proved reserves in this report are expressed in terms of future gross revenue, future net revenue, and present worth. Future gross revenue is defined as that revenue which will accrue to the evaluated interests from the production and sale of the estimated net reserves. Future net revenue is calculated by deducting production taxes, ad valorem taxes, operating expenses, capital costs, and abandonment costs from future gross revenue. Operating expenses include field operating expenses, transportation and processing expenses, and an allocation of overhead that directly relates to production activities. Capital costs include drilling and completion costs, facilities costs, and field maintenance costs. Abandonment costs are represented by Vencer to be inclusive of those costs associated with the removal of equipment, plugging of wells, and reclamation and restoration associated with the abandonment. At the request of Vencer, future income taxes were not taken into account in the preparation of these estimates. Present worth is defined as future net revenue discounted at a specified discount rate of 10 percent compounded monthly over the expected period of realization. Present worth should not be construed as fair market value because no consideration was given to additional factors that influence the prices at which properties are bought and sold.

 

 

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

 

Estimates of reserves and revenue should be regarded only as estimates that may change as further production history and additional information become available. Not only are such estimates based on that information which is currently available, but such estimates are also subject to the uncertainties inherent in the application of judgmental factors in interpreting such information.

 

This report was prepared in October 2023; therefore, certain events that may have occurred before the preparation of this report but after the “as-of” date of December 31, 2022, which might have affected the estimates presented herein, were not taken into account.

 

Information used in the preparation of this report was obtained from Vencer and from public sources. Additionally, this information includes data supplied by IHS Markit Inc; Copyright 2022 IHS Markit Inc. In the preparation of this report we have relied, without independent verification, upon information furnished by Vencer with respect to the property interests being evaluated, production from such properties, current costs of operation and development, current prices for production, agreements relating to current and future operations and sale of production, and various other information and data that were accepted as represented. A field examination was not considered necessary for the purposes of this report.

 

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

 

Definition of Reserves

 

Petroleum reserves estimated in this report are classified by degree of proof as proved. Reserves classifications used in this report are in accordance with the reserves definitions of Rules 4–10(a)(1)–(32) of Regulation S–X of the SEC. Reserves are judged to be economically producible in future years from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating conditions and assuming continuation of current regulatory practices using conventional production methods and equipment. In the analyses of production-decline curves, reserves were estimated only to the limit of economic rates of production under existing economic and operating conditions using prices and costs consistent with the effective date of this report, including consideration of changes in existing prices provided only by contractual arrangements but not including escalations based upon future conditions. The petroleum reserves are classified as follows:

 

Proved oil and gas reserves – Proved oil and gas reserves are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible—from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations—prior to the time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates that renewal is reasonably certain, regardless of whether deterministic or probabilistic methods are used for the estimation. The project to extract the hydrocarbons must have commenced or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project within a reasonable time.

 

(i) The area of the reservoir considered as proved includes:

 

(A) The area identified by drilling and limited by fluid contacts, if any, and (B) Adjacent undrilled portions of the reservoir that can, with reasonable certainty, be judged to be continuous with it and to contain economically producible oil or gas on the basis of available geoscience and engineering data.

 

(ii) In the absence of data on fluid contacts, proved quantities in a reservoir are limited by the lowest known hydrocarbons (LKH) as seen in a well penetration unless geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establishes a lower contact with reasonable certainty.

 

 

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(iii) Where direct observation from well penetrations has defined a highest known oil (HKO) elevation and the potential exists for an associated gas cap, proved oil reserves may be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir only if geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establish the higher contact with reasonable certainty.

 

(iv) Reserves which can be produced economically through application of improved recovery techniques (including, but not limited to, fluid injection) are included in the proved classification when:

 

(A) Successful testing by a pilot project in an area of the reservoir with properties no more favorable than in the reservoir as a whole, the operation of an installed program in the reservoir or an analogous reservoir, or other evidence using reliable technology establishes the reasonable certainty of the engineering analysis on which the project or program was based; and (B) The project has been approved for development by all necessary parties and entities, including governmental entities.

 

(v) Existing economic conditions include prices and costs at which economic producibility from a reservoir is to be determined. The price shall be the average price during the 12-month period prior to the ending date of the period covered by the report, determined as an unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within such period, unless prices are defined by contractual arrangements, excluding escalations based upon future conditions.

 

Developed oil and gas reserves – Developed oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that can be expected to be recovered:

 

(i) Through existing wells with existing equipment and operating methods or in which the cost of the required equipment is relatively minor compared to the cost of a new well; and

 

 

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(ii) Through installed extraction equipment and infrastructure operational at the time of the reserves estimate if the extraction is by means not involving a well.

 

Undeveloped oil and gas reserves – Undeveloped oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that are expected to be recovered from new wells on undrilled acreage, or from existing wells where a relatively major expenditure is required for recompletion.

 

(i) Reserves on undrilled acreage shall be limited to those directly offsetting development spacing areas that are reasonably certain of production when drilled, unless evidence using reliable technology exists that establishes reasonable certainty of economic producibility at greater distances.

 

(ii) Undrilled locations can be classified as having undeveloped reserves only if a development plan has been adopted indicating that they are scheduled to be drilled within five years, unless the specific circumstances justify a longer time.

 

(iii) Under no circumstances shall estimates for undeveloped reserves be attributable to any acreage for which an application of fluid injection or other improved recovery technique is contemplated, unless such techniques have been proved effective by actual projects in the same reservoir or an analogous reservoir, as defined in [section 210.4–10 (a) Definitions], or by other evidence using reliable technology establishing reasonable certainty.

 

Methodology and Procedures

 

Estimates of reserves were prepared by the use of appropriate geologic, petroleum engineering, and evaluation principles and techniques that are in accordance with the reserves definitions of Rules 4–10(a) (1)–(32) of Regulation S–X of the SEC and with practices generally recognized by the petroleum industry as presented in the publication of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) entitled “Standards Pertaining to the Estimating and Auditing of Oil and Gas Reserves Information (revised June 2019) Approved by the SPE Board on 25 June 2019” and in Monograph 3 and Monograph 4 published by the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. The method or combination of methods used in the analysis of each reservoir was tempered by experience with similar reservoirs, stage of development, quality and completeness of basic data, and production history.

 

 

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Based on the current stage of field development, production performance, the development plans provided by Vencer, and analyses of areas offsetting existing wells with test or production data, reserves were classified as proved.

 

The undeveloped reserves estimates were based on opportunities identified in the plan of development provided by Vencer.

 

Vencer has represented that its senior management is committed to the development plan provided by Vencer and that Vencer has the financial capability to execute the development plan, including the drilling and completion of wells and the installation of equipment and facilities.

 

For the evaluation of unconventional reservoirs, a performance-based methodology integrating the appropriate geology and petroleum engineering data was utilized for this report. Performance-based methodology primarily includes (1) production diagnostics, (2) decline-curve analysis, and (3) model-based analysis (if necessary, based on availability of data). Production diagnostics include data quality control, identification of flow regimes, and characteristic well performance behavior. These analyses were performed for all well groupings (or type-curve areas).

 

Characteristic rate-decline profiles from diagnostic interpretation were translated to modified hyperbolic rate profiles, including one or multiple b-exponent values followed by an exponential decline. Based on the availability of data, model-based analysis may be integrated to evaluate long-term decline behavior, the effect of dynamic reservoir and fracture parameters on well performance, and complex situations sourced by the nature of unconventional reservoirs.

 

In the evaluation of undeveloped reserves, type-well analysis was performed using well data from analogous reservoirs for which more complete historical performance data were available.

 

Data provided by Vencer from wells drilled through December 31, 2022, and made available for this evaluation were used to prepare the reserves estimates herein. These reserves estimates were based on consideration of daily and monthly production data available through December 31, 2022. Cumulative production, as of December 31, 2022, was deducted from the estimated gross ultimate recovery to estimate gross reserves.

 

 

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Oil and condensate reserves estimated herein are those to be recovered by normal field separation. NGL reserves estimated herein include pentanes and heavier fractions (C₅₊) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which consists primarily of propane and butane fractions, and are the result of low-temperature plant processing. Oil, condensate, and NGL reserves included in this report are expressed in thousands of barrels (Mbbl). In these estimates, 1 barrel equals 42 United States gallons. For reporting purposes, oil and condensate reserves have been estimated separately and are presented herein as a summed quantity.

 

Gas quantities estimated herein are expressed as sales gas. Sales gas is defined as the total gas to be produced from the reservoirs, measured at the point of delivery, after reduction for fuel usage, flare, and shrinkage resulting from field separation and processing. Gas reserves estimated herein are reported as sales gas. Gas quantities are expressed at a temperature base of 60 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) and at a pressure base of 14.65 pounds per square inch absolute (psia). Gas quantities included in this report are expressed in millions of cubic feet (MMcf).

 

Gas quantities are identified by the type of reservoir from which the gas will be produced. Nonassociated gas is gas at initial reservoir conditions with no oil present in the reservoir. Associated gas is both gas-cap gas and solution gas. Gas-cap gas is gas at initial reservoir conditions and is in communication with an underlying oil zone. Solution gas is gas dissolved in oil at initial reservoir conditions. Gas quantities estimated herein include both associated and nonassociated gas.

 

At the request of Vencer, sales gas reserves estimated herein were converted to oil equivalent using an energy equivalent factor of 6,000 cubic feet of gas per 1 barrel of oil equivalent.

 

 

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Primary Economic Assumptions

 

Revenue values in this report were estimated using initial prices, expenses, and costs provided by Vencer. Future prices were estimated using guidelines established by the SEC and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The following economic assumptions were used for estimating the revenue values reported herein:

 

Oil, Condensate, and NGL Prices

 

Vencer has represented that the oil, condensate, and NGL prices were based on a reference price, calculated as the unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within the 12-month period prior to the end of the reporting period, unless prices are defined by contractual agreements. Vencer supplied differentials to a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) reference price of $93.67 per barrel and the prices were held constant thereafter. The volume-weighted average prices attributable to the estimated proved reserves over the lives of the properties were $95.70 per barrel of oil and condensate and $34.75 per barrel of NGL.

 

Gas Prices

 

Vencer has represented that the gas prices were based on a reference price, calculated as the unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within the 12-month period prior to the end of the reporting period, unless prices are defined by contractual agreements. Vencer supplied differentials to a Henry Hub reference price of $6.36 per million Btu and the prices were held constant thereafter. Btu factors provided by Vencer were used to convert prices from dollars per million Btu to dollars per thousand cubic feet. The volume-weighted average price attributable to the estimated proved reserves over the lives of the properties was $4.794 per thousand cubic feet of gas.

 

Production and Ad Valorem Taxes

 

Production taxes were calculated using the tax rates for Texas. Ad valorem taxes were calculated using rates provided by Vencer based on recent payments.

 

 

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Operating Expenses, Capital Costs, and Abandonment Costs

 

Estimates of operating expenses, provided by Vencer and based on current expenses, were held constant for the lives of the properties. Future capital expenditures were estimated using 2022 values, provided by Vencer, and were not adjusted for inflation. Abandonment costs, which are those costs associated with the removal of equipment, plugging of wells, and reclamation and restoration associated with the abandonment, were provided by Vencer for all properties and were not adjusted for inflation. At the request of Vencer, abandonment costs and any associated negative future net revenue have been included herein for those proved developed properties for which reserves were estimated to be zero. Operating expenses, capital costs, and abandonment costs were considered, as appropriate, in determining the economic viability of the undeveloped reserves estimated herein.

 

In our opinion, the information relating to estimated proved reserves, estimated future net revenue from proved reserves, and present worth of estimated future net revenue from proved reserves of oil, condensate, NGL, and gas contained in this report has been prepared in accordance with Paragraphs 932-235-50-4, 932-235-50-6, 932-235-50-7, 932-235-50-9, 932-235-50-30, and 932-235-50-31(a), (b), and (e) of the Accounting Standards Update 932-235-50, Extractive Industries – Oil and Gas (Topic 932): Oil and Gas Reserve Estimation and Disclosures (January 2010) of the FASB and Rules 4–10(a) (1)–(32) of Regulation S–X and Rules 302(b), 1201, 1202(a) (1), (2), (3), (4), (8), and 1203(a) of Regulation S–K of the SEC; provided, however, that (i) future income tax expenses have not been taken into account in estimating the future net revenue and present worth values set forth herein and (ii) estimates of the proved developed and proved undeveloped reserves are not presented at the beginning of the year.

 

To the extent the above-enumerated rules, regulations, and statements require determinations of an accounting or legal nature, we, as engineers, are necessarily unable to express an opinion as to whether the above-described information is in accordance therewith or sufficient therefor.

 

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

 

Summary of Conclusions

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton has performed an independent evaluation of the extent and value of the estimated net proved oil, condensate, NGL, and gas reserves of certain properties in which Vencer has represented it holds an interest. The estimated net proved reserves, as of December 31, 2022, of the properties evaluated herein were based on the definition of proved reserves of the SEC and are summarized as follows, expressed in thousands of barrels (Mbbl), millions of cubic feet (MMcf), and thousands of barrels of oil equivalent (Mboe):

 

	Estimated by DeGolyer and MacNaughton Net Proved Reserves as of December 31, 2022
		Oil and Condensate (Mbbl)				NGL (Mbbl)				Sales Gas (MMcf)				Oil Equivalent (6,000 cf/bbl) (Mboe)
Proved Developed			44,561				39,276				250,320				125,651
Proved Undeveloped			165,308				123,727				598,433				388,774
Total Proved			209,869				163,050				849,037				514,425

 

Note:

Sales gas reserves estimated herein were converted to oil equivalent using an energy equivalent factor of 6,000 cubic feet of gas per 1 barrel of oil equivalent.

 

The estimated future revenue to be derived from the production and sale of the net proved reserves, as of December 31, 2022, of the properties evaluated using the guidelines established by the SEC is summarized as follows, expressed in thousands of dollars (M$):

 

		Proved Developed (M$)				Total Proved (M$)
Future Gross Revenue			6,827,524				29,821,570
Production and Ad Valorem Taxes			506,714				2,315,751
Operating Expenses			939,041				3,208,598
Capital and Abandonment Costs			67,145				3,008,253
Future Net Revenue			5,314,624				21,288,968
Present Worth at 10 Percent			2,751,708				8,530,370

 

Note:

Future income taxes have not been taken into account in the preparation of these estimates.

 

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

 

While the oil and gas industry may be subject to regulatory changes from time to time that could affect an industry participant’s ability to recover its reserves, we are not aware of any such governmental actions which would restrict the recovery of the December 31, 2022, estimated reserves.

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton is an independent petroleum engineering consulting firm that has been providing petroleum consulting services throughout the world since 1936. DeGolyer and MacNaughton does not have any financial interest, including stock ownership, in Vencer. Our fees were not contingent on the results of our evaluation. This report has been prepared at the request of Vencer. DeGolyer and MacNaughton has used all assumptions, data, procedures, and methods that it considers necessary and appropriate to prepare this report.

 

	Submitted,
	/s/ DeGolyer and MacNaughton
	DeGOLYER and MacNAUGHTON Texas Registered Engineering Firm F-716

 

 

	/s/ Dilhan Ilk
	Dilhan Ilk, P.E.
	Executive Vice President
	DeGolyer and MacNaughton

 

 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

 

CERTIFICATE of QUALIFICATION

 

I, Dilhan Ilk, Petroleum Engineer with DeGolyer and MacNaughton, 5001 Spring Valley Road, Suite 800 East, Dallas, Texas, 75244 U.S.A., hereby certify:

 

1.

That I am an Executive Vice President with DeGolyer and MacNaughton, which firm did prepare this report of third party addressed to Vencer dated October 2, 2023, and that I, as Executive Vice President, was responsible for the preparation of this report of third party.

 

2.

That I attended Istanbul Technical University, and that I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering in the year 2003, a Master of Science degree from Texas A&M University in 2005, and a Doctor in Philosophy degree from Texas A&M University in 2010; that I am a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas; that I am a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers; and that I have in excess of 12 years of experience in oil and gas reservoir studies and reserves evaluations.

 

 

	/s/ Dilhan Ilk
	Dilhan Ilk, P.E.
	Executive Vice President
	DeGolyer and MacNaughton

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.2

 

 

October 2, 2023

 

Mr. Embry Canterbury

Hibernia Resources III, LLC

5599 San Felipe Street, Suite 1200

Houston, Texas 77056

 

Dear Mr. Canterbury:

 

In accordance with your request, we have estimated the proved reserves and future revenue, as of December 31, 2022, to the combined interests of Hibernia Energy III, LLC (Hibernia) and Hibernia Energy III-B, LLC (collectively referred to herein as "Hibernia Resources") in certain oil and gas properties located in Texas. We completed our evaluation on February 16, 2023. The estimates in this report have been prepared in accordance with the definitions and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and conform to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 932, Extractive Activities—Oil and Gas, except that future income taxes are excluded for all properties and, as requested, per-well overhead expenses are excluded for the operated properties. Definitions are presented immediately following this letter. This report has been prepared for Civitas Resources, Inc.'s use in filing with the SEC; in our opinion the assumptions, data, methods, and procedures used in the preparation of this report are appropriate for such purpose.

 

We estimate the net reserves and future net revenue to the Hibernia Resources interest in these properties, as of December 31, 2022, to be:

 

		Net Reserves												Future Net Revenue (M$)
		Oil				NGL				Gas								Present Worth
Category		(MBBL)				(MBBL)				(MMCF)				Total				at 10%
Proved Developed Producing			25,176.3				22,713.0				118,382.6				2,897,309.7				1,606,242.4
Proved Developed Non-Producing			9,739.3				12,107.8				61,012.3				1,304,755.9				768,190.5
Proved Undeveloped			41,031.9				34,202.9				172,351.6				3,860,051.8				1,777,082.2
Total Proved			75,947.6				69,023.7				351,746.5				8,062,117.4				4,151,515.0

 

Totals may not add because of rounding.

 

The oil volumes shown include crude oil and condensate. Oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) volumes are expressed in thousands of barrels (MBBL); a barrel is equivalent to 42 United States gallons. Gas volumes are expressed in millions of cubic feet (MMCF) at standard temperature and pressure bases.

 

Reserves categorization conveys the relative degree of certainty; reserves subcategorization is based on development and production status. No study was made to determine whether probable or possible reserves might be established for these properties. The estimates of reserves and future revenue included herein have not been adjusted for risk. This report does not include any value that could be attributed to interests in undeveloped acreage beyond those tracts for which undeveloped reserves have been estimated.

 

Gross revenue is Hibernia's share of the gross (100 percent) revenue from the properties prior to any deductions. Future net revenue is after deductions for Hibernia's share of production taxes, ad valorem taxes, capital costs, abandonment costs, and operating expenses but before consideration of any income taxes. The future net revenue has been discounted at an annual rate of 10 percent to determine its present worth, which is shown to indicate the effect of time on the value of money. Future net revenue presented in this report, whether discounted or undiscounted, should not be construed as being the fair market value of the properties.

 

 

 

 

 

Prices used in this report are based on the 12-month unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month in the period January through December 2022. For oil and NGL volumes, the average West Texas Intermediate spot price of $94.14 per barrel is adjusted for quality, transportation fees, and market differentials. For gas volumes, the average Henry Hub spot price of $6.357 per MMBTU is adjusted for energy content, transportation fees, and market differentials. All prices are held constant throughout the lives of the properties. The average adjusted product prices weighted by production over the remaining lives of the properties are $95.54 per barrel of oil, $31.48 per barrel of NGL, and $4.541 per MCF of gas.

 

Operating costs used in this report are based on operating expense records of Hibernia. For the nonoperated properties, these costs include the per-well overhead expenses allowed under joint operating agreements along with estimates of costs to be incurred at and below the district and field levels. As requested, operating costs for the operated properties include only direct lease- and field-level costs. Operating costs have been divided into per-well costs and per-unit-of-production costs. For all properties, headquarters general and administrative overhead expenses of Hibernia are not included. Operating costs are not escalated for inflation.

 

Capital costs used in this report were provided by Hibernia and are based on authorizations for expenditure and actual costs from recent activity. Capital costs are included as required for new development wells and production equipment. Based on our understanding of future development plans, a review of the records provided to us, and our knowledge of similar properties, we regard these estimated capital costs to be reasonable. Abandonment costs used in this report are Hibernia's estimates of the costs to abandon the wells and production facilities, net of any salvage value. Capital costs and abandonment costs are not escalated for inflation.

 

For the purposes of this report, we did not perform any field inspection of the properties, nor did we examine the mechanical operation or condition of the wells and facilities. We have not investigated possible environmental liability related to the properties; therefore, our estimates do not include any costs due to such possible liability.

 

We have made no investigation of potential volume and value imbalances resulting from overdelivery or underdelivery to the Hibernia Resources interest. Therefore, our estimates of reserves and future revenue do not include adjustments for the settlement of any such imbalances; our projections are based on Hibernia Resources receiving its net revenue interest share of estimated future gross production. Additionally, we have made no specific investigation of any firm transportation contracts that may be in place for these properties; our estimates of future revenue include the effects of such contracts only to the extent that the associated fees are accounted for in the historical field- and lease-level accounting statements.

 

The reserves shown in this report are estimates only and should not be construed as exact quantities. Proved reserves are those quantities of oil and gas which, by analysis of engineering and geoscience data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible; probable and possible reserves are those additional reserves which are sequentially less certain to be recovered than proved reserves. Estimates of reserves may increase or decrease as a result of market conditions, future operations, changes in regulations, or actual reservoir performance. In addition to the primary economic assumptions discussed herein, our estimates are based on certain assumptions including, but not limited to, that the properties will be developed consistent with current development plans as provided to us by Hibernia, that the properties will be operated in a prudent manner, that no governmental regulations or controls will be put in place that would impact the ability of the interest owner to recover the reserves, and that our projections of future production will prove consistent with actual performance. If the reserves are recovered, the revenues therefrom and the costs related thereto could be more or less than the estimated amounts. Because of governmental policies and uncertainties of supply and demand, the sales rates, prices received for the reserves, and costs incurred in recovering such reserves may vary from assumptions made while preparing this report.

 

 

 

 

For the purposes of this report, we used technical and economic data including, but not limited to, well test data, production data, historical price and cost information, and property ownership interests. The reserves in this report have been estimated using deterministic methods; these estimates have been prepared in accordance with the Standards Pertaining to the Estimating and Auditing of Oil and Gas Reserves Information promulgated by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Standards). We used standard engineering and geoscience methods, or a combination of methods, including performance analysis and analogy, that we considered to be appropriate and necessary to categorize and estimate reserves in accordance with SEC definitions and regulations. A substantial portion of these reserves are for undeveloped locations; such reserves are based on analogy to properties with similar geologic and reservoir characteristics. As in all aspects of oil and gas evaluation, there are uncertainties inherent in the interpretation of engineering and geoscience data; therefore, our conclusions necessarily represent only informed professional judgment.

 

The data used in our estimates were obtained from Hibernia, public data sources, and the nonconfidential files of Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) and were accepted as accurate. Supporting work data are on file in our office. We have not examined the titles to the properties or independently confirmed the actual degree or type of interest owned. The technical person primarily responsible for preparing the estimates presented herein meets the requirements regarding qualifications, independence, objectivity, and confidentiality set forth in the SPE Standards. Michael B. Begland, a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, has been practicing consulting petroleum engineering at NSAI since 1993 and has over 8 years of prior industry experience. We are independent petroleum engineers, geologists, geophysicists, and petrophysicists; we do not own an interest in these properties nor are we employed on a contingent basis.

 

	Sincerely,
	NETHERLAND, SEWELL & ASSOCIATES, INC.
	Texas Registered Engineering Firm F-2699
	By:	/s/ Richard B. Talley, Jr.
		Richard B. Talley, Jr., P.E.
		Chief Executive Officer
	By:	/s/ Michael B. Begland
		Michael B. Begland, P.E. 104898
		Vice President
	Date Signed: October 2, 2023

 

MBB:LEE

 

 

 

 

DEFINITIONS OF OIL AND GAS RESERVES

Adapted from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Section 210.4-10(a)

 

The following definitions are set forth in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation S-X Section 210.4-10(a). Also included is supplemental information from (1) the 2018 Petroleum Resources Management System approved by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, (2) the FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 932, Extractive Activities—Oil and Gas, and (3) the SEC's Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations.

 

(1) Acquisition of properties. Costs incurred to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire a property, including costs of lease bonuses and options to purchase or lease properties, the portion of costs applicable to minerals when land including mineral rights is purchased in fee, brokers' fees, recording fees, legal costs, and other costs incurred in acquiring properties.

 

(2) Analogous reservoir. Analogous reservoirs, as used in resources assessments, have similar rock and fluid properties, reservoir conditions (depth, temperature, and pressure) and drive mechanisms, but are typically at a more advanced stage of development than the reservoir of interest and thus may provide concepts to assist in the interpretation of more limited data and estimation of recovery. When used to support proved reserves, an "analogous reservoir" refers to a reservoir that shares the following characteristics with the reservoir of interest:

 

(i)

Same geological formation (but not necessarily in pressure communication with the reservoir of interest);

(ii)

Same environment of deposition;

(iii)

Similar geological structure; and

(iv)

Same drive mechanism.

 

Instruction to paragraph (a)(2): Reservoir properties must, in the aggregate, be no more favorable in the analog than in the reservoir of interest.

 

(3) Bitumen. Bitumen, sometimes referred to as natural bitumen, is petroleum in a solid or semi-solid state in natural deposits with a viscosity greater than 10,000 centipoise measured at original temperature in the deposit and atmospheric pressure, on a gas free basis. In its natural state it usually contains sulfur, metals, and other non-hydrocarbons.

 

(4) Condensate. Condensate is a mixture of hydrocarbons that exists in the gaseous phase at original reservoir temperature and pressure, but that, when produced, is in the liquid phase at surface pressure and temperature.

 

(5) Deterministic estimate. The method of estimating reserves or resources is called deterministic when a single value for each parameter (from the geoscience, engineering, or economic data) in the reserves calculation is used in the reserves estimation procedure.

 

(6) Developed oil and gas reserves. Developed oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that can be expected to be recovered:

 

(i)

Through existing wells with existing equipment and operating methods or in which the cost of the required equipment is relatively minor compared to the cost of a new well; and

(ii)

Through installed extraction equipment and infrastructure operational at the time of the reserves estimate if the extraction is by means not involving a well.

 

Supplemental definitions from the 2018 Petroleum Resources Management System:

Developed Producing Reserves – Expected quantities to be recovered from completion intervals that are open and producing at the effective date of the estimate. Improved recovery Reserves are considered producing only after the improved recovery project is in operation.

Developed Non-Producing Reserves – Shut-in and behind-pipe Reserves. Shut-in Reserves are expected to be recovered from (1) completion intervals that are open at the time of the estimate but which have not yet started producing, (2) wells which were shut-in for market conditions or pipeline connections, or (3) wells not capable of production for mechanical reasons. Behind-pipe Reserves are expected to be recovered from zones in existing wells that will require additional completion work or future re-completion before start of production with minor cost to access these reserves. In all cases, production can be initiated or restored with relatively low expenditure compared to the cost of drilling a new well.

 

(7) Development costs. Costs incurred to obtain access to proved reserves and to provide facilities for extracting, treating, gathering and storing the oil and gas. More specifically, development costs, including depreciation and applicable operating costs of support equipment and facilities and other costs of development activities, are costs incurred to:

 

(i)

Gain access to and prepare well locations for drilling, including surveying well locations for the purpose of determining specific development drilling sites, clearing ground, draining, road building, and relocating public roads, gas lines, and power lines, to the extent necessary in developing the proved reserves.

(ii)

Drill and equip development wells, development-type stratigraphic test wells, and service wells, including the costs of platforms and of well equipment such as casing, tubing, pumping equipment, and the wellhead assembly.

 

 

 

 

DEFINITIONS OF OIL AND GAS RESERVES

Adapted from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Section 210.4-10(a)

 

(iii)

Acquire, construct, and install production facilities such as lease flow lines, separators, treaters, heaters, manifolds, measuring devices, and production storage tanks, natural gas cycling and processing plants, and central utility and waste disposal systems.

(iv)

Provide improved recovery systems.

 

(8) Development project. A development project is the means by which petroleum resources are brought to the status of economically producible. As examples, the development of a single reservoir or field, an incremental development in a producing field, or the integrated development of a group of several fields and associated facilities with a common ownership may constitute a development project.

 

(9) Development well. A well drilled within the proved area of an oil or gas reservoir to the depth of a stratigraphic horizon known to be productive.

 

(10) Economically producible. The term economically producible, as it relates to a resource, means a resource which generates revenue that exceeds, or is reasonably expected to exceed, the costs of the operation. The value of the products that generate revenue shall be determined at the terminal point of oil and gas producing activities as defined in paragraph (a)(16) of this section.

 

(11) Estimated ultimate recovery (EUR). Estimated ultimate recovery is the sum of reserves remaining as of a given date and cumulative production as of that date.

 

(12) Exploration costs. Costs incurred in identifying areas that may warrant examination and in examining specific areas that are considered to have prospects of containing oil and gas reserves, including costs of drilling exploratory wells and exploratory-type stratigraphic test wells. Exploration costs may be incurred both before acquiring the related property (sometimes referred to in part as prospecting costs) and after acquiring the property. Principal types of exploration costs, which include depreciation and applicable operating costs of support equipment and facilities and other costs of exploration activities, are:

 

(i)

Costs of topographical, geographical and geophysical studies, rights of access to properties to conduct those studies, and salaries and other expenses of geologists, geophysical crews, and others conducting those studies. Collectively, these are sometimes referred to as geological and geophysical or "G&G" costs.

(ii)

Costs of carrying and retaining undeveloped properties, such as delay rentals, ad valorem taxes on properties, legal costs for title defense, and the maintenance of land and lease records.

(iii)

Dry hole contributions and bottom hole contributions.

(iv)

Costs of drilling and equipping exploratory wells.

(v)

Costs of drilling exploratory-type stratigraphic test wells.

 

(13) Exploratory well. An exploratory well is a well drilled to find a new field or to find a new reservoir in a field previously found to be productive of oil or gas in another reservoir. Generally, an exploratory well is any well that is not a development well, an extension well, a service well, or a stratigraphic test well as those items are defined in this section.

 

(14) Extension well. An extension well is a well drilled to extend the limits of a known reservoir.

 

(15) Field. An area consisting of a single reservoir or multiple reservoirs all grouped on or related to the same individual geological structural feature and/or stratigraphic condition. There may be two or more reservoirs in a field which are separated vertically by intervening impervious strata, or laterally by local geologic barriers, or by both. Reservoirs that are associated by being in overlapping or adjacent fields may be treated as a single or common operational field. The geological terms "structural feature" and "stratigraphic condition" are intended to identify localized geological features as opposed to the broader terms of basins, trends, provinces, plays, areas-of-interest, etc.

 

(16) Oil and gas producing activities.

 

(i)

Oil and gas producing activities include:

 

(A)

The search for crude oil, including condensate and natural gas liquids, or natural gas ("oil and gas") in their natural states and original locations;

(B)

The acquisition of property rights or properties for the purpose of further exploration or for the purpose of removing the oil or gas from such properties;

(C)

The construction, drilling, and production activities necessary to retrieve oil and gas from their natural reservoirs, including the acquisition, construction, installation, and maintenance of field gathering and storage systems, such as:

(1)

Lifting the oil and gas to the surface; and

(2)

Gathering, treating, and field processing (as in the case of processing gas to extract liquid hydrocarbons); and

(D)

Extraction of saleable hydrocarbons, in the solid, liquid, or gaseous state, from oil sands, shale, coalbeds, or other nonrenewable natural resources which are intended to be upgraded into synthetic oil or gas, and activities undertaken with a view to such extraction.

 

 

 

 

DEFINITIONS OF OIL AND GAS RESERVES

Adapted from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Section 210.4-10(a)

 

Instruction 1 to paragraph (a)(16)(i): The oil and gas production function shall be regarded as ending at a "terminal point", which is the outlet valve on the lease or field storage tank. If unusual physical or operational circumstances exist, it may be appropriate to regard the terminal point for the production function as:

 

a.

The first point at which oil, gas, or gas liquids, natural or synthetic, are delivered to a main pipeline, a common carrier, a refinery, or a marine terminal; and

b.

In the case of natural resources that are intended to be upgraded into synthetic oil or gas, if those natural resources are delivered to a purchaser prior to upgrading, the first point at which the natural resources are delivered to a main pipeline, a common carrier, a refinery, a marine terminal, or a facility which upgrades such natural resources into synthetic oil or gas.

 

Instruction 2 to paragraph (a)(16)(i): For purposes of this paragraph (a)(16), the term saleable hydrocarbons means hydrocarbons that are saleable in the state in which the hydrocarbons are delivered.

 

(ii)

Oil and gas producing activities do not include:

 

(A)

Transporting, refining, or marketing oil and gas;

(B)

Processing of produced oil, gas, or natural resources that can be upgraded into synthetic oil or gas by a registrant that does not have the legal right to produce or a revenue interest in such production;

(C)

Activities relating to the production of natural resources other than oil, gas, or natural resources from which synthetic oil and gas can be extracted; or

(D)

Production of geothermal steam.

 

(17) Possible reserves. Possible reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than probable reserves.

 

(i)

When deterministic methods are used, the total quantities ultimately recovered from a project have a low probability of exceeding proved plus probable plus possible reserves. When probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 10% probability that the total quantities ultimately recovered will equal or exceed the proved plus probable plus possible reserves estimates.

(ii)

Possible reserves may be assigned to areas of a reservoir adjacent to probable reserves where data control and interpretations of available data are progressively less certain. Frequently, this will be in areas where geoscience and engineering data are unable to define clearly the area and vertical limits of commercial production from the reservoir by a defined project.

(iii)

Possible reserves also include incremental quantities associated with a greater percentage recovery of the hydrocarbons in place than the recovery quantities assumed for probable reserves.

(iv)

The proved plus probable and proved plus probable plus possible reserves estimates must be based on reasonable alternative technical and commercial interpretations within the reservoir or subject project that are clearly documented, including comparisons to results in successful similar projects.

(v)

Possible reserves may be assigned where geoscience and engineering data identify directly adjacent portions of a reservoir within the same accumulation that may be separated from proved areas by faults with displacement less than formation thickness or other geological discontinuities and that have not been penetrated by a wellbore, and the registrant believes that such adjacent portions are in communication with the known (proved) reservoir. Possible reserves may be assigned to areas that are structurally higher or lower than the proved area if these areas are in communication with the proved reservoir.

(vi)

Pursuant to paragraph (a)(22)(iii) of this section, where direct observation has defined a highest known oil (HKO) elevation and the potential exists for an associated gas cap, proved oil reserves should be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir above the HKO only if the higher contact can be established with reasonable certainty through reliable technology. Portions of the reservoir that do not meet this reasonable certainty criterion may be assigned as probable and possible oil or gas based on reservoir fluid properties and pressure gradient interpretations.

 

(18) Probable reserves. Probable reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves but which, together with proved reserves, are as likely as not to be recovered.

 

(i)

When deterministic methods are used, it is as likely as not that actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the sum of estimated proved plus probable reserves. When probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 50% probability that the actual quantities recovered will equal or exceed the proved plus probable reserves estimates.

 

 

 

 

DEFINITIONS OF OIL AND GAS RESERVES

Adapted from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Section 210.4-10(a)

 

(ii)

Probable reserves may be assigned to areas of a reservoir adjacent to proved reserves where data control or interpretations of available data are less certain, even if the interpreted reservoir continuity of structure or productivity does not meet the reasonable certainty criterion. Probable reserves may be assigned to areas that are structurally higher than the proved area if these areas are in communication with the proved reservoir.

(iii)

Probable reserves estimates also include potential incremental quantities associated with a greater percentage recovery of the hydrocarbons in place than assumed for proved reserves.

(iv)

See also guidelines in paragraphs (a)(17)(iv) and (a)(17)(vi) of this section.

 

(19) Probabilistic estimate. The method of estimation of reserves or resources is called probabilistic when the full range of values that could reasonably occur for each unknown parameter (from the geoscience and engineering data) is used to generate a full range of possible outcomes and their associated probabilities of occurrence.

 

(20) Production costs.

 

(i)

Costs incurred to operate and maintain wells and related equipment and facilities, including depreciation and applicable operating costs of support equipment and facilities and other costs of operating and maintaining those wells and related equipment and facilities. They become part of the cost of oil and gas produced. Examples of production costs (sometimes called lifting costs) are:

 

(A)

Costs of labor to operate the wells and related equipment and facilities.

(B)

Repairs and maintenance.

(C)

Materials, supplies, and fuel consumed and supplies utilized in operating the wells and related equipment and facilities.

(D)

Property taxes and insurance applicable to proved properties and wells and related equipment and facilities.

(E)

Severance taxes.

 

(ii)

Some support equipment or facilities may serve two or more oil and gas producing activities and may also serve transportation, refining, and marketing activities. To the extent that the support equipment and facilities are used in oil and gas producing activities, their depreciation and applicable operating costs become exploration, development or production costs, as appropriate. Depreciation, depletion, and amortization of capitalized acquisition, exploration, and development costs are not production costs but also become part of the cost of oil and gas produced along with production (lifting) costs identified above.

 

(21) Proved area. The part of a property to which proved reserves have been specifically attributed.

 

(22) Proved oil and gas reserves. Proved oil and gas reserves are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible—from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations—prior to the time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates that renewal is reasonably certain, regardless of whether deterministic or probabilistic methods are used for the estimation. The project to extract the hydrocarbons must have commenced or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project within a reasonable time.

 

(i)

The area of the reservoir considered as proved includes:

 

(A)

The area identified by drilling and limited by fluid contacts, if any, and

(B)

Adjacent undrilled portions of the reservoir that can, with reasonable certainty, be judged to be continuous with it and to contain economically producible oil or gas on the basis of available geoscience and engineering data.

 

(ii)

In the absence of data on fluid contacts, proved quantities in a reservoir are limited by the lowest known hydrocarbons (LKH) as seen in a well penetration unless geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establishes a lower contact with reasonable certainty.

(iii)

Where direct observation from well penetrations has defined a highest known oil (HKO) elevation and the potential exists for an associated gas cap, proved oil reserves may be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir only if geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establish the higher contact with reasonable certainty.

 

 

 

 

DEFINITIONS OF OIL AND GAS RESERVES

Adapted from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Section 210.4-10(a)

 

(iv)

Reserves which can be produced economically through application of improved recovery techniques (including, but not limited to, fluid injection) are included in the proved classification when:

 

(A)

Successful testing by a pilot project in an area of the reservoir with properties no more favorable than in the reservoir as a whole, the operation of an installed program in the reservoir or an analogous reservoir, or other evidence using reliable technology establishes the reasonable certainty of the engineering analysis on which the project or program was based; and

(B)

The project has been approved for development by all necessary parties and entities, including governmental entities.

 

(v)

Existing economic conditions include prices and costs at which economic producibility from a reservoir is to be determined. The price shall be the average price during the 12-month period prior to the ending date of the period covered by the report, determined as an unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within such period, unless prices are defined by contractual arrangements, excluding escalations based upon future conditions.

 

(23) Proved properties. Properties with proved reserves.

 

(24) Reasonable certainty. If deterministic methods are used, reasonable certainty means a high degree of confidence that the quantities will be recovered. If probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 90% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the estimate. A high degree of confidence exists if the quantity is much more likely to be achieved than not, and, as changes due to increased availability of geoscience (geological, geophysical, and geochemical), engineering, and economic data are made to estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) with time, reasonably certain EUR is much more likely to increase or remain constant than to decrease.

 

(25) Reliable technology. Reliable technology is a grouping of one or more technologies (including computational methods) that has been field tested and has been demonstrated to provide reasonably certain results with consistency and repeatability in the formation being evaluated or in an analogous formation.

 

(26) Reserves. Reserves are estimated remaining quantities of oil and gas and related substances anticipated to be economically producible, as of a given date, by application of development projects to known accumulations. In addition, there must exist, or there must be a reasonable expectation that there will exist, the legal right to produce or a revenue interest in the production, installed means of delivering oil and gas or related substances to market, and all permits and financing required to implement the project.

 

Note to paragraph (a)(26): Reserves should not be assigned to adjacent reservoirs isolated by major, potentially sealing, faults until those reservoirs are penetrated and evaluated as economically producible. Reserves should not be assigned to areas that are clearly separated from a known accumulation by a non-productive reservoir (i.e., absence of reservoir, structurally low reservoir, or negative test results). Such areas may contain prospective resources (i.e., potentially recoverable resources from undiscovered accumulations).

 

 

 

 

 

DEFINITIONS OF OIL AND GAS RESERVES

Adapted from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Section 210.4-10(a)

 

(27) Reservoir. A porous and permeable underground formation containing a natural accumulation of producible oil and/or gas that is confined by impermeable rock or water barriers and is individual and separate from other reservoirs.

 

(28) Resources. Resources are quantities of oil and gas estimated to exist in naturally occurring accumulations. A portion of the resources may be estimated to be recoverable, and another portion may be considered to be unrecoverable. Resources include both discovered and undiscovered accumulations.

 

(29) Service well. A well drilled or completed for the purpose of supporting production in an existing field. Specific purposes of service wells include gas injection, water injection, steam injection, air injection, salt-water disposal, water supply for injection, observation, or injection for in-situ combustion.

 

(30) Stratigraphic test well. A stratigraphic test well is a drilling effort, geologically directed, to obtain information pertaining to a specific geologic condition. Such wells customarily are drilled without the intent of being completed for hydrocarbon production. The classification also includes tests identified as core tests and all types of expendable holes related to hydrocarbon exploration. Stratigraphic tests are classified as "exploratory type" if not drilled in a known area or "development type" if drilled in a known area.

 

(31) Undeveloped oil and gas reserves. Undeveloped oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that are expected to be recovered from new wells on undrilled acreage, or from existing wells where a relatively major expenditure is required for recompletion.

 

(i)

Reserves on undrilled acreage shall be limited to those directly offsetting development spacing areas that are reasonably certain of production when drilled, unless evidence using reliable technology exists that establishes reasonable certainty of economic producibility at greater distances.

(ii)

Undrilled locations can be classified as having undeveloped reserves only if a development plan has been adopted indicating that they are scheduled to be drilled within five years, unless the specific circumstances, justify a longer time.

 

 

(iii)

Under no circumstances shall estimates for undeveloped reserves be attributable to any acreage for which an application of fluid injection or other improved recovery technique is contemplated, unless such techniques have been proved effective by actual projects in the same reservoir or an analogous reservoir, as defined in paragraph (a)(2) of this section, or by other evidence using reliable technology establishing reasonable certainty.

 

(32) Unproved properties. Properties with no proved reserves.

 

 

Exhibit 99.3

 

TAP ROCK RESOURCES, LLC

TAP ROCK RESOURCES II, LLC

TAP ROCK NM10 HOLDINGS, LLC

CONSOLIDATED INTERESTS LESS OLYMPUS AREA

 

 

Estimated

 

Future Reserves and Income

 

Attributable to Certain

 

Leasehold and Royalty Interests

 

 

SEC Parameters

 

 

As of

 

December 31, 2022

 

	/s/ Clark D. Parrott
	Clark D. Parrott, P.E. Colorado License No. 35262 Vice President   RYDER SCOTT COMPANY, L.P. TBPELS Firm Registration No. F-1580

 

RYDER SCOTT COMPANY      PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS

 

 

TAP ROCK CONSOLIDATED INTERESTS LESS OLYMPUS AREA

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

DISCUSSION

PETROLEUM RESERVES DEFINITIONS

 

			TABLE NO.
GRAND SUMMARIES
TOTAL PROVED			1
PROVED PRODUCING			2
PROVED NON-PRODUCING			3
PROVED UNDEVELOPED			4

 

RYDER SCOTT COMPANY PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS - TBPE FIRM LICENSE No. F-1580

 

 

 

TBPELS REGISTERED ENGINEERING FIRM F-1580

633 17TH STREET   SUITE 1700

DENVER, COLORADO 80202

TELEPHONE (303) 339-8110

 

October 2, 2023

 

Tap Rock Resources, LLC 

523 Park Point Drive, Suite 200 

Golden, CO 80401

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

At your request, Ryder Scott Company, L.P. (Ryder Scott) has prepared an estimate of the proved reserves, future production, and income as of December 31, 2022 attributable to certain consolidated leasehold and royalty interests acquired from Tap Rock Resources, LLC, Tap Rock Resources II, LLC and Tap Rock NM10 Holdings, LLC (collectively, Tap Rock) exclusive of the Olympus Area by Civitas Resources, Inc. (Civitas). This revised report supersedes our prior report dated June 14, 2023 as of December 31, 2022, in order to provide additional required public disclosures for filings made with the SEC. The reserves and income data, as well as the underlying assumptions, in this report are the same as those included in our prior report; however this report was prepared for public disclosure by Civitas in filings made with the SEC in accordance with the disclosure requirements set forth in the SEC regulations. The subject properties are located in the states of New Mexico and Texas. The reserves and income data were estimated based on the definitions and disclosure guidelines of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) contained in Title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting, Final Rule released January 14, 2009 in the Federal Register (SEC regulations).

 

The properties evaluated by Ryder Scott account for a portion of Civitas’s total net proved liquid hydrocarbon and gas reserves as of December 31, 2022. Based on information provided by Civitas, the third party estimate conducted by Ryder Scott addresses approximately 18 percent of the total proved net reserves of Civitas on a barrel of oil equivalent, BOE basis as of December 31, 2022. Natural gas is converted to oil equivalent using a factor of 6,000 cubic feet of natural gas per one barrel of oil equivalent.

 

The estimated reserves and future net income amounts presented in this report, as of December 31, 2022 are related to hydrocarbon prices. The hydrocarbon prices used in the preparation of this report are based on the average prices during the 12-month period prior to the “as of date” of this report, determined as the unweighted arithmetic averages of the prices in effect on the first-day-of-the-month for each month within such period, as required by the SEC regulations. Actual future prices may vary considerably from the prices required by SEC regulations. The reserves volumes and the income attributable thereto have a direct relationship to the hydrocarbon prices actually received; therefore, volumes of reserves actually recovered and the amounts of income actually received may differ significantly from the estimated quantities presented in this report. The results of this study are summarized as follows.

 

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SEC Parameters 

Estimated Net Reserves and Income Data 

Certain Leasehold and Royalty Interests of 

Tap Rock Consolidated Interests Less Olympus Area 

As of December 31, 2022

 

		Proved
		Developed												Total
		Producing				Non-Producing(1)				Undeveloped				Proved
Net Reserves
Oil/Condensate – Mbbl			52,357				0				19,911				72,268
Plant Products – Mbbl			22,406				0				6,661				29,067
Gas – MMcf			138,324				0				44,197				182,521
Income Data ($M)
Future Gross Revenue		$	6,243,919			$	0			$	2,265,791			$	8,509,710
Deductions			1,960,547				705				1,106,523				3,067,775
Future Net Income (FNI)		$	4,283,372			$	(705	)		$	1,159,268			$	5,441,935
Discounted FNI @ 10%		$	2,657,160			$	(641	)		$	588,875			$	3,245,394

 

(1) Negative values for Future Net Income and Discounted FNI are due to abandonment liability.

 

Liquid hydrocarbons are expressed in standard 42 U.S. gallon barrels and shown herein as thousands of barrels (Mbbl). All gas volumes are reported on an “as sold basis” expressed in millions of cubic feet (MMcf) at the official temperature and pressure bases of the areas in which the gas reserves are located. In this report, the revenues, deductions, and income data are expressed as thousands of U.S. dollars ($M).

 

The estimates of the reserves, future production, and income attributable to properties in this report were prepared using the economic software package PHDWin Petroleum Economic Evaluation Software, a copyrighted program of TRC Consultants L.C. The program was used at the request of Tap Rock. Ryder Scott has found this program to be generally acceptable, but notes that certain summaries and calculations may vary due to rounding and may not exactly match the sum of the properties being summarized. Furthermore, one line economic summaries may vary slightly from the more detailed cash flow projections of the same properties, also due to rounding. The rounding differences are not material.

 

The future gross revenue is after the deduction of production taxes. The deductions incorporate the normal direct costs of operating the wells, ad valorem taxes, development costs, and certain abandonment costs net of salvage. The future net income is before the deduction of state and federal income taxes and general administrative overhead, and has not been adjusted for outstanding loans that may exist nor does it include any adjustment for cash on hand or undistributed income.

 

Liquid hydrocarbon reserves account for approximately 90 percent and gas reserves account for the remaining 10 percent of total future gross revenue from proved reserves.

 

The discounted future net income shown above was calculated using a discount rate of 10 percent per annum compounded annually. Future net income was discounted at four other discount rates which were also compounded annually. These results are shown in summary form as follows.

 

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			Discounted Future Net Income ($M)
			As of December 31, 2022
Discount Rate			Total
Percent			Proved
5			$	4,050,038
8			$	3,521,611
9			$	3,377,220
15			$	2,728,429

 

The results shown above are presented for your information and should not be construed as our estimate of fair market value.

 

Reserves Included in This Report

 

The proved reserves included herein conform to the definitions as set forth in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulations Part 210.4-10(a). An abridged version of the SEC reserves definitions from 210.4-10(a) entitled “PETROLEUM RESERVES DEFINITIONS” is included as an attachment to this report.

 

The various reserves status categories are defined in the attachment entitled “PETROLEUM RESERVES STATUS DEFINITIONS AND GUIDELINES” in this report. The proved developed non-producing reserves included herein consist of the shut-in status category, including wells in the final stages of completions waiting on facilities.

 

No attempt was made to quantify or otherwise account for any accumulated gas production imbalances that may exist. The proved gas volumes presented herein do not include volumes of gas consumed in operations as reserves.

 

Reserves are “estimated remaining quantities of oil and gas and related substances anticipated to be economically producible, as of a given date, by application of development projects to known accumulations.” All reserves estimates involve an assessment of the uncertainty relating the likelihood that the actual remaining quantities recovered will be greater or less than the estimated quantities determined as of the date the estimate is made. The uncertainty depends primarily on the amount of reliable geologic and engineering data available at the time of the estimate and the interpretation of these data. The relative degree of uncertainty may be conveyed by placing reserves into one of two principal categories, either proved or unproved. Unproved reserves are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves and may be further sub-categorized as probable and possible reserves to denote progressively increasing uncertainty in their recoverability. At Tap Rock’s request, this report addresses only the proved reserves attributable to the properties evaluated herein.

 

Proved oil and gas reserves are “those quantities of oil and gas which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible from a given date forward.” The proved reserves included herein were estimated using deterministic methods. The SEC has defined reasonable certainty for proved reserves, when based on deterministic methods, as a “high degree of confidence that the quantities will be recovered.”

 

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Proved reserves estimates will generally be revised only as additional geologic or engineering data become available or as economic conditions change. For proved reserves, the SEC states that “as changes due to increased availability of geoscience (geological, geophysical, and geochemical), engineering, and economic data are made to the estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) with time, reasonably certain EUR is much more likely to increase or remain constant than to decrease.” Moreover, estimates of proved reserves may be revised as a result of future operations, effects of regulation by governmental agencies or geopolitical or economic risks. Therefore, the proved reserves included in this report are estimates only and should not be construed as being exact quantities, and if recovered, the revenues therefrom, and the actual costs related thereto, could be more or less than the estimated amounts.

 

Tap Rock’s operations may be subject to various levels of governmental controls and regulations. These controls and regulations may include, but may not be limited to, matters relating to land tenure and leasing, the legal rights to produce hydrocarbons, drilling and production practices, environmental protection, marketing and pricing policies, royalties, various taxes and levies including income tax and are subject to change from time to time. Such changes in governmental regulations and policies may cause volumes of proved reserves actually recovered and amounts of proved income actually received to differ significantly from the estimated quantities.

 

The estimates of reserves presented herein were based upon a detailed study of the properties in which Civitas has acquired an interest; however, we have not made any field examination of the properties. No consideration was given in this report to potential environmental liabilities that may exist nor were any costs included for potential liabilities to restore and clean up damages, if any, caused by past operating practices.

 

Estimates of Reserves

 

The estimation of reserves involves two distinct determinations. The first determination results in the estimation of the quantities of recoverable oil and gas and the second determination results in the estimation of the uncertainty associated with those estimated quantities in accordance with the definitions set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulations Part 210.4-10(a). The process of estimating the quantities of recoverable oil and gas reserves relies on the use of certain generally accepted analytical procedures. These analytical procedures fall into three broad categories or methods: (1) performance-based methods, (2) volumetric-based methods and (3) analogy. These methods may be used individually or in combination by the reserves evaluator in the process of estimating the quantities of reserves. Reserves evaluators must select the method or combination of methods which in their professional judgment is most appropriate given the nature and amount of reliable geoscience and engineering data available at the time of the estimate, the established or anticipated performance characteristics of the reservoir being evaluated, and the stage of development or producing maturity of the property.

 

In many cases, the analysis of the available geoscience and engineering data and the subsequent interpretation of this data may indicate a range of possible outcomes in an estimate, irrespective of the method selected by the evaluator. When a range in the quantity of reserves is identified, the evaluator must determine the uncertainty associated with the incremental quantities of the reserves. If the reserves quantities are estimated using the deterministic incremental approach, the uncertainty for each discrete incremental quantity of the reserves is addressed by the reserves category assigned by the evaluator. Therefore, it is the categorization of reserves quantities as proved, probable and/or possible that addresses the inherent uncertainty in the estimated quantities reported. For proved reserves, uncertainty is defined by the SEC as reasonable certainty wherein the “quantities actually recovered are much more likely to be achieved than not.” The SEC states that “probable reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves but which, together with proved reserves, are as likely as not to be recovered.” The SEC states that “possible reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than probable reserves and the total quantities ultimately recovered from a project have a low probability of exceeding proved plus probable plus possible reserves.” All quantities of reserves within the same reserves category must meet the SEC definitions as noted above.

 

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Estimates of reserves quantities and their associated reserves categories may be revised in the future as additional geoscience or engineering data become available. Furthermore, estimates of reserves quantities and their associated reserves categories may also be revised due to other factors such as changes in economic conditions, results of future operations, effects of regulation by governmental agencies or geopolitical or economic risks as previously noted herein.

 

The reserves for the properties included herein were estimated by performance methods or analogy. In general, the proved reserves attributable to producing wells and/or reservoirs were estimated by performance methods. These performance methods include, but may not be limited to, decline curve analysis which utilized extrapolations of historical production and pressure data available through November 2022 in those cases where such data were considered to be definitive. The data used in these analyses were furnished to Ryder Scott by Tap Rock or obtained from public data sources and were considered sufficient for the purpose thereof. In certain early-life cases, proved producing reserves were estimated by analogy. This method was used where there were inadequate historical performance data to establish a definitive trend and where the use of production performance data as a basis for the estimates was considered to be inappropriate.

 

The proved developed non-producing reserves included herein were based on the historical performance of the wells prior to being shut-in or analogy in the instance of new wells waiting to be put on production. Reserves attributable to the proved undeveloped status category included herein were estimated by analogy. The data utilized from the analogues were furnished to Ryder Scott by Tap Rock or obtained from public data sources and were considered sufficient for the purpose thereof.

 

To estimate economically producible proved oil and gas reserves and related future net cash flows, we consider many factors and assumptions including, but not limited to, the use of reservoir parameters derived from geological, geophysical and engineering data which cannot be measured directly, economic criteria based on current costs and SEC pricing requirements, and forecasts of future production rates. Under the SEC regulations 210.4-10(a)(22)(v) and (26), proved reserves must be anticipated to be economically producible from a given date forward based on existing economic conditions including the prices and costs at which economic producibility from a reservoir is to be determined. While it may reasonably be anticipated that the future prices received for the sale of production and the operating costs and other costs relating to such production may increase or decrease from those under existing economic conditions, such changes were, in accordance with rules adopted by the SEC, omitted from consideration in making this evaluation.

 

Tap Rock has informed us that they have furnished us all of the material accounts, records, geological and engineering data, and reports and other data required for this investigation. In preparing our forecast of future proved production and income, we have relied upon data furnished by Tap Rock with respect to consolidated property interests acquired by Civitas, production and well tests from examined wells, normal direct costs of operating the wells or leases, other costs such as transportation and/or processing fees, ad valorem and production taxes, development costs, development plans, abandonment costs after salvage, product prices based on the SEC regulations, adjustments or differentials to product prices and lease maps. Ryder Scott reviewed such factual data for its reasonableness; however, we have not conducted an independent verification of the data furnished by Tap Rock. We consider the factual data used in this report appropriate and sufficient for the purpose of preparing the estimates of reserves and future net revenues herein.

 

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In summary, we consider the assumptions, data, methods and analytical procedures used in this report appropriate for the purpose hereof, and we have used all such methods and procedures that we consider necessary and appropriate to prepare the estimates of reserves herein. The proved reserves included herein were determined in conformance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting; Final Rule, including all references to Regulation S-X and Regulation S-K, referred to herein collectively as the “SEC Regulations.” In our opinion, the proved reserves presented in this report comply with the definitions, guidelines and disclosure requirements as required by the SEC regulations.

 

Future Production Rates

 

For wells currently on production, our forecasts of future production rates are based on historical performance data. If no production decline trend has been established, future production rates were based on analogy. If a decline trend has been established, this trend was used as the basis for estimating future production rates.

 

The historical performance prior to being shut-in or the initial performance of analogous wells were used to estimate the anticipated initial production rates for those wells or locations that are not currently producing. For reserves not yet on production, sales were estimated to commence at an anticipated date furnished by Tap Rock. Wells or locations that are not currently producing may start producing earlier or later than anticipated in our estimates due to unforeseen factors causing a change in the timing to initiate production. Such factors may include delays due to weather, the availability of rigs, the sequence of drilling, completing wells, returning shut-in wells to production and/or constraints set by regulatory bodies.

 

The future production rates from wells currently on production or wells or locations that are not currently producing may be more or less than estimated because of changes including, but not limited to, reservoir performance, operating conditions related to surface facilities, compression and artificial lift, pipeline capacity and/or operating conditions, producing market demand and/or allowables or other constraints set by regulatory bodies.

 

Hydrocarbon Prices

 

The hydrocarbon prices used herein are based on SEC price parameters using the average prices during the 12-month period prior to the “as of date” of this report, determined as the unweighted arithmetic averages of the prices in effect on the first-day-of-the-month for each month within such period.

 

Tap Rock furnished us with the above mentioned average benchmark prices in effect on December 31, 2022. These initial SEC hydrocarbon prices were determined using the 12-month average first-day-of-the-month benchmark prices appropriate to the geographic area where the hydrocarbons are sold. These benchmark prices are prior to the adjustments for differentials as described herein. The table below summarizes the “benchmark prices” and “price reference” used for the geographic area included in the report.

 

The product prices that were actually used to determine the future gross revenue for each property reflect adjustments to the benchmark prices for gravity, quality, local conditions, and/or distance from market, referred to herein as “differentials.” The differentials used in the preparation of this report were furnished to us by Tap Rock. The differentials furnished by Tap Rock were reviewed by us for their reasonableness using information furnished by Tap Rock for this purpose.

 

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In addition, the table below summarizes the net volume weighted benchmark prices adjusted for differentials and referred to herein as the “average realized prices.” The average realized prices shown in the table below were determined from the total future gross revenue before production taxes and the total net reserves, by reserves category, for the geographic area and presented in accordance with SEC disclosure requirements for the geographic area included in the report.

 

							Average			Average
				Price			Benchmark			Realized
Geographic Area		Product		Reference			Prices			Prices
North America
United States		Oil/Condensate		WTI Cushing		$	93.67/bbl		$	94.49/bbl
		NGLs		Mont Belvieu,TX		$	47.88/bbl		$	48.67/bbl
		Gas		Henry Hub		$	6.36/MMBTU		$	4.98/Mcf

 

The effects of derivative instruments designated as price hedges of oil and gas quantities are not reflected in our individual property evaluations.

 

Costs

 

Operating costs for the leases and wells in this report were furnished by Tap Rock and are based on the operating expense reports of Tap Rock and include only those costs directly applicable to the leases or wells. The operating costs include a portion of general and administrative costs allocated directly to the leases and wells. For operated properties, the operating costs include an appropriate level of corporate general administrative and overhead costs. The operating costs for non-operated properties include the COPAS overhead costs that are allocated directly to the leases and wells under terms of operating agreements. Gathering and transportation costs are included as operating costs. The operating costs furnished to us were accepted as factual data and reviewed by us for their reasonableness; however, we have not conducted an independent verification of the operating cost data used by Tap Rock. No deduction was made for loan repayments, interest expenses, or exploration and development prepayments that were not charged directly to the leases or wells.

 

Development costs were furnished to us by Tap Rock and are based on authorizations for expenditure for the proposed work or actual costs for similar projects. The development costs furnished to us were accepted as factual data and reviewed by us for their reasonableness; however, we have not conducted an independent verification of these costs. The estimated net cost of abandonment after salvage was included for properties where abandonment costs net of salvage were material. The estimates of the net abandonment costs furnished by Tap Rock were accepted without independent verification.

 

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The proved developed non-producing and undeveloped reserves in this report have been incorporated herein in accordance with Tap Rock’s plans to develop these reserves as of December 31, 2022. The implementation of Tap Rock’s development plans as presented to us and incorporated herein is subject to the approval process adopted by Tap Rock’s management. As the result of our inquiries during the course of preparing this report, Tap Rock has informed us that the development activities included herein have been subjected to and received the internal approvals required by Tap Rock’s management at the appropriate local, regional and/or corporate level. In addition to the internal approvals as noted, certain development activities may still be subject to specific partner AFE processes, Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) requirements or other administrative approvals external to Tap Rock. Tap Rock has provided written documentation supporting their commitment to proceed with the development activities as presented to us. Additionally, Tap Rock has informed us that they are not aware of any legal, regulatory, or political obstacles that would significantly alter their plans. While these plans could change from those under existing economic conditions as of December 31, 2022, such changes were, in accordance with rules adopted by the SEC, omitted from consideration in making this evaluation.

 

Current costs used by Tap Rock were held constant throughout the life of the properties.

 

Standards of Independence and Professional Qualification

 

Ryder Scott is an independent petroleum engineering consulting firm that has been providing petroleum consulting services throughout the world since 1937. Ryder Scott is employee- owned and maintains offices in Houston, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We have approximately eighty engineers and geoscientists on our permanent staff. By virtue of the size of our firm and the large number of clients for which we provide services, no single client or job represents a material portion of our annual revenue. We do not serve as officers or directors of any privately-owned or publicly- traded oil and gas company and are separate and independent from the operating and investment decision-making process of our clients. This allows us to bring the highest level of independence and objectivity to each engagement for our services.

 

Ryder Scott actively participates in industry-related professional societies and organizes an annual public forum focused on the subject of reserves evaluations and SEC regulations. Many of our staff have authored or co-authored technical papers on the subject of reserves related topics. We encourage our staff to maintain and enhance their professional skills by actively participating in ongoing continuing education.

 

Prior to becoming an officer of the Company, Ryder Scott requires that staff engineers and geoscientists receive professional accreditation in the form of a registered or certified professional engineer’s license or a registered or certified professional geoscientist’s license, or the equivalent thereof, from an appropriate governmental authority or a recognized self-regulating professional organization. Regulating agencies require that, in order to maintain active status, a certain amount of continuing education hours be completed annually, including an hour of ethics training. Ryder Scott fully supports this technical and ethics training with our internal requirement mentioned above.

 

We are independent petroleum engineers with respect to Tap Rock and Civitas. Neither we nor any of our employees have any financial interest in the subject properties and neither the employment to do this work nor the compensation is contingent on our estimates of reserves for the properties which were reviewed.

 

The results of this study, presented herein, are based on technical analyses conducted by teams of geoscientists and engineers from Ryder Scott. The professional qualifications of the undersigned, the technical person primarily responsible for overseeing the evaluation of the reserves information discussed in this report, are included as an attachment to this letter.

 

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Terms of Usage

 

The results of our third party study, presented in report form herein, were prepared in accordance with the disclosure requirements set forth in the SEC regulations and intended for public disclosure as an exhibit in filings made with the SEC by Civitas.

 

Civitas makes current filings on Form 8-K with the SEC under the 1934 Exchange Act. Furthermore, Civitas has certain registration statements filed with the SEC under the 1933 Securities Act into which any subsequently filed Form 8-K is incorporated by reference. We have consented to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements on Form S-3 and S-8 of Civitas, of the references to our name, as well as to the references to our third party report for Civitas, which appears in the Form 8-K of Civitas to be filed with the SEC on or around October 4, 2023. Our written consent for such use is included as a separate exhibit to the filings made with the SEC by Civitas.

 

We have provided Tap Rock with a digital version of the original signed copy of this report letter. In the event there are any differences between the digital version included in filings made by Civitas and the original signed report letter, the original signed report letter shall control and supersede the digital version.

 

The data and work papers used in the preparation of this report are available for examination by authorized parties in our offices. Please contact us if we can be of further service.

 

 

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	RYDER SCOTT COMPANY, L P.
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Professional Qualifications of Primary Technical Person

 

The conclusions presented in this report are the result of technical analysis conducted by teams of geoscientists and engineers from Ryder Scott Company, L.P. Clark D. Parrott was the primary technical person responsible for overseeing the estimate of the reserves, future production and income prepared by Ryder Scott presented herein.

 

Mr. Parrott, an employee of Ryder Scott Company, L.P. (Ryder Scott) since 2013 is a Vice President responsible for coordinating and supervising staff and consulting engineers of the company in ongoing reservoir evaluation studies throughout North America. Before joining Ryder Scott, Mr. Parrott served in a number of engineering positions with operators in the Rocky Mountain and Mid Continent regions. For more information regarding Mr. Parrott’s geographic and job specific experience, please refer to the Ryder Scott Company website at www.ryderscott.com/Company/Employees.

 

Mr. Parrott earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 1987 and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

 

Based on his educational background, professional training and more than 30 years of practical experience in the estimation and evaluation of petroleum reserves, Mr. Parrott has attained the professional qualifications as a Reserves Estimator and Reserves Auditor set forth in Article III of the “Standards Pertaining to the Estimating and Auditing of Oil and Gas Reserves Information” promulgated by the Society of Petroleum Engineers as of June 2019.

 

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PETROLEUM RESERVES DEFINITIONS

 

As Adapted From:

RULE 4-10(a) of REGULATION S-X PART 210

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC)

 

PREAMBLE

 

On January 14, 2009, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published the “Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting; Final Rule” in the Federal Register of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The “Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting; Final Rule” includes revisions and additions to the definition section in Rule 4-10 of Regulation S-X, revisions and additions to the oil and gas reporting requirements in Regulation S-K, and amends and codifies Industry Guide 2 in Regulation S-K. The “Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting; Final Rule”, including all references to Regulation S-X and Regulation S- K, shall be referred to herein collectively as the “SEC regulations”. The SEC regulations take effect for all filings made with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as of December 31, 2009, or after January 1, 2010. Reference should be made to the full text under Title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, Regulation S- X Part 210, Rule 4-10(a) for the complete definitions (direct passages excerpted in part or wholly from the aforementioned SEC document are denoted in italics herein).

 

Reserves are estimated remaining quantities of oil and gas and related substances anticipated to be economically producible, as of a given date, by application of development projects to known accumulations. All reserve estimates involve an assessment of the uncertainty relating the likelihood that the actual remaining quantities recovered will be greater or less than the estimated quantities determined as of the date the estimate is made. The uncertainty depends primarily on the amount of reliable geologic and engineering data available at the time of the estimate and the interpretation of these data. The relative degree of uncertainty may be conveyed by placing reserves into one of two principal categories, either proved or unproved. Unproved reserves are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves and may be further sub-categorized as probable and possible reserves to denote progressively increasing uncertainty in their recoverability. Under the SEC regulations as of December 31, 2009, or after January 1, 2010, a company may optionally disclose estimated quantities of probable or possible oil and gas reserves in documents publicly filed with the SEC. The SEC regulations continue to prohibit disclosure of estimates of oil and gas resources other than reserves and any estimated values of such resources in any document publicly filed with the SEC unless such information is required to be disclosed in the document by foreign or state law as noted in §229.1202 Instruction to Item 1202.

 

Reserves estimates will generally be revised only as additional geologic or engineering data become available or as economic conditions change.

 

Reserves may be attributed to either natural energy or improved recovery methods. Improved recovery methods include all methods for supplementing natural energy or altering natural forces in the reservoir to increase ultimate recovery. Examples of such methods are pressure maintenance, natural gas cycling, waterflooding, thermal methods, chemical flooding, and the use of miscible and immiscible displacement fluids. Other improved recovery methods may be developed in the future as petroleum technology continues to evolve.

 

Reserves may be attributed to either conventional or unconventional petroleum accumulations. Petroleum accumulations are considered as either conventional or unconventional based on the nature of their in-place characteristics, extraction method applied, or degree of processing prior to sale. Examples of unconventional petroleum accumulations include coalbed or coalseam methane (CBM/CSM), basin-centered gas, shale gas, gas hydrates, natural bitumen and oil shale deposits. These unconventional accumulations may require specialized extraction technology and/or significant processing prior to sale.

 

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Reserves do not include quantities of petroleum being held in inventory.

 

Because of the differences in uncertainty, caution should be exercised when aggregating quantities of petroleum from different reserves categories.

 

RESERVES (SEC DEFINITIONS)

 

Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X §210.4-10(a)(26) defines reserves as follows:

 

Reserves. Reserves are estimated remaining quantities of oil and gas and related substances anticipated to be economically producible, as of a given date, by application of development projects to known accumulations. In addition, there must exist, or there must be a reasonable expectation that there will exist, the legal right to produce or a revenue interest in the production, installed means of delivering oil and gas or related substances to market, and all permits and financing required to implement the project.

 

Note to paragraph (a)(26): Reserves should not be assigned to adjacent reservoirs isolated by major, potentially sealing, faults until those reservoirs are penetrated and evaluated as economically producible. Reserves should not be assigned to areas that are clearly separated from a known accumulation by a non-productive reservoir (i.e., absence of reservoir, structurally low reservoir, or negative test results). Such areas may contain prospective resources (i.e., potentially recoverable resources from undiscovered accumulations).

 

PROVED RESERVES (SEC DEFINITIONS)

 

Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X §210.4-10(a)(22) defines proved oil and gas reserves as follows:

 

Proved oil and gas reserves. Proved oil and gas reserves are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible—from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations—prior to the time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates that renewal is reasonably certain, regardless of whether deterministic or probabilistic methods are used for the estimation. The project to extract the hydrocarbons must have commenced or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project within a reasonable time.

 

(i)

The area of the reservoir considered as proved includes:

 

(A)

The area identified by drilling and limited by fluid contacts, if any, and

 

(B) Adjacent undrilled portions of the reservoir that can, with reasonable certainty, be judged to be continuous with it and to contain economically producible oil or gas on the basis of available geoscience and engineering data.

 

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(ii) In the absence of data on fluid contacts, proved quantities in a reservoir are limited by the lowest known hydrocarbons (LKH) as seen in a well penetration unless geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establishes a lower contact with reasonable certainty.

 

(iii) Where direct observation from well penetrations has defined a highest known oil (HKO) elevation and the potential exists for an associated gas cap, proved oil reserves may be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir only if geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establish the higher contact with reasonable certainty.

 

(iv) Reserves which can be produced economically through application of improved recovery techniques (including, but not limited to, fluid injection) are included in the proved classification when:

 

(A) Successful testing by a pilot project in an area of the reservoir with properties no more favorable than in the reservoir as a whole, the operation of an installed program in the reservoir or an analogous reservoir, or other evidence using reliable technology establishes the reasonable certainty of the engineering analysis on which the project or program was based; and

 

(B) The project has been approved for development by all necessary parties and entities, including governmental entities.

 

(v) Existing economic conditions include prices and costs at which economic producibility from a reservoir is to be determined. The price shall be the average price during the 12-month period prior to the ending date of the period covered by the report, determined as an unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within such period, unless prices are defined by contractual arrangements, excluding escalations based upon future conditions.

 

PROBABLE RESERVES (SEC DEFINITIONS)

 

Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X §210.4-10(a)(18) defines probable oil and gas reserves as follows:

 

Probable reserves. Probable reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves but which, together with proved reserves, are as likely as not to be recovered.

 

(i) When deterministic methods are used, it is as likely as not that actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the sum of estimated proved plus probable reserves. When probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 50% probability that the actual quantities recovered will equal or exceed the proved plus probable reserves estimates.

 

(ii) Probable reserves may be assigned to areas of a reservoir adjacent to proved reserves where data control or interpretations of available data are less certain, even if the interpreted reservoir continuity of structure or productivity does not meet the reasonable certainty criterion. Probable reserves may be assigned to areas that are structurally higher than the proved area if these areas are in communication with the proved reservoir.

 

(iii) Probable reserves estimates also include potential incremental quantities associated with a greater percentage recovery of the hydrocarbons in place than assumed for proved reserves.

 

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(iv) See also guidelines in paragraphs (a)(17)(iv) and (a)(17)(vi) of this section.

 

POSSIBLE RESERVES (SEC DEFINITIONS)

 

Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X §210.4-10(a)(17) defines possible oil and gas reserves as follows:

 

Possible reserves. Possible reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than probable reserves.

 

(i) When deterministic methods are used, the total quantities ultimately recovered from a project have a low probability of exceeding proved plus probable plus possible reserves. When probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 10% probability that the total quantities ultimately recovered will equal or exceed the proved plus probable plus possible reserves estimates.

 

(ii) Possible reserves may be assigned to areas of a reservoir adjacent to probable reserves where data control and interpretations of available data are progressively less certain. Frequently, this will be in areas where geoscience and engineering data are unable to define clearly the area and vertical limits of commercial production from the reservoir by a defined project.

 

(iii) Possible reserves also include incremental quantities associated with a greater percentage recovery of the hydrocarbons in place than the recovery quantities assumed for probable reserves.

 

(iv) The proved plus probable and proved plus probable plus possible reserves estimates must be based on reasonable alternative technical and commercial interpretations within the reservoir or subject project that are clearly documented, including comparisons to results in successful similar projects.

 

(v) Possible reserves may be assigned where geoscience and engineering data identify directly adjacent portions of a reservoir within the same accumulation that may be separated from proved areas by faults with displacement less than formation thickness or other geological discontinuities and that have not been penetrated by a wellbore, and the registrant believes that such adjacent portions are in communication with the known (proved) reservoir. Possible reserves may be assigned to areas that are structurally higher or lower than the proved area if these areas are in communication with the proved reservoir.

 

(vi) Pursuant to paragraph (a)(22)(iii) of this section, where direct observation has defined a highest known oil (HKO) elevation and the potential exists for an associated gas cap, proved oil reserves should be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir above the HKO only if the higher contact can be established with reasonable certainty through reliable technology. Portions of the reservoir that do not meet this reasonable certainty criterion may be assigned as probable and possible oil or gas based on reservoir fluid properties and pressure gradient interpretations.

 

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PETROLEUM RESERVES STATUS DEFINITIONS AND GUIDELINES

 

As Adapted From:

RULE 4-10(a) of REGULATION S-X PART 210

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC)

 

and

 

2018 PETROLEUM RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (SPE-PRMS)

Sponsored and Approved by:

SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS (SPE)

WORLD PETROLEUM COUNCIL (WPC)

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS (AAPG)

SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM EVALUATION ENGINEERS (SPEE)

SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS (SEG)

SOCIETY OF PETROPHYSICISTS AND WELL LOG ANALYSTS (SPWLA)
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOSCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS (EAGE)

 

Reserves status categories define the development and producing status of wells and reservoirs. Reference should be made to Title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, Regulation S-X Part 210, Rule 4-10(a) and the SPE-PRMS as the following reserves status definitions are based on excerpts from the original documents (direct passages excerpted from the aforementioned SEC and SPE-PRMS documents are denoted in italics herein).

 

DEVELOPED RESERVES (SEC DEFINITIONS)

 

Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X §210.4-10(a)(6) defines developed oil and gas reserves as follows:

 

Developed oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that can be expected to be recovered:

 

(i) Through existing wells with existing equipment and operating methods or in which the cost of the required equipment is relatively minor compared to the cost of a new well; and

 

(ii) Through installed extraction equipment and infrastructure operational at the time of the reserves estimate if the extraction is by means not involving a well.

 

Developed Producing (SPE-PRMS Definitions)

 

While not a requirement for disclosure under the SEC regulations, developed oil and gas reserves may be further sub-classified according to the guidance contained in the SPE-PRMS as Producing or Non-Producing.

 

Developed Producing Reserves

 

Developed Producing Reserves are expected quantities to be recovered from completion intervals that are open and producing at the effective date of the estimate.

 

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Improved recovery reserves are considered producing only after the improved recovery project is in operation.

 

Developed Non-Producing

 

Developed Non-Producing Reserves include shut-in and behind-pipe Reserves.

 

Shut-In

 

Shut-in Reserves are expected to be recovered from:

 

(1)

completion intervals that are open at the time of the estimate but which have not yet started producing;

 

(2)

wells which were shut-in for market conditions or pipeline connections; or

 

(3)

wells not capable of production for mechanical reasons.

 

Behind-Pipe

 

Behind-pipe Reserves are expected to be recovered from zones in existing wells that will require additional completion work or future re-completion before start of production with minor cost to access these reserves.

 

In all cases, production can be initiated or restored with relatively low expenditure compared to the cost of drilling a new well.

 

UNDEVELOPED RESERVES (SEC DEFINITIONS)

 

Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X §210.4-10(a)(31) defines undeveloped oil and gas reserves as follows:

 

Undeveloped oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that are expected to be recovered from new wells on undrilled acreage, or from existing wells where a relatively major expenditure is required for recompletion.

 

(i)

Reserves on undrilled acreage shall be limited to those directly offsetting development spacing areas that are reasonably certain of production when drilled, unless evidence using reliable technology exists that establishes reasonable certainty of economic producibility at greater distances.

 

(ii) Undrilled locations can be classified as having undeveloped reserves only if a development plan has been adopted indicating that they are scheduled to be drilled within five years, unless the specific circumstances, justify a longer time.

 

(iii) Under no circumstances shall estimates for undeveloped reserves be attributable to any acreage for which an application of fluid injection or other improved recovery technique is contemplated, unless such techniques have been proved effective by actual projects in the same reservoir or an analogous reservoir, as defined in paragraph (a)(2) of this section, or by other evidence using reliable technology establishing reasonable certainty.

 

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	TAP ROCK CONSOLIDATED INTERESTS LESS OLYMPUS AREA ESTIMATED FUTURE RESERVES AND INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO CERTAIN LEASEHOLD AND ROYALTY INTERESTS SEC PRICING AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2022	TABLE 1
GRAND SUMMARY		TOTAL PROVED
		ALL CATEGORIES

 

					REVENUE INTEREST									PRODUCT PRICES									DISCOUNTED
		Expense			Oil/			Plant						Oil/Cond			Plt. Prod.			Gas			FUTURE NET INCOME - $M
		Interest			Condensate			Products			Gas			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)			COMPOUNDED ANNUALLY
INITIAL																							5.00	%		4,050,038
FINAL																							8.00	%		3,521,611
REMARKS																							9.00	%		3,377,220
																							10.00	%		3,245,394
																							15.00	%		2,728,429

 

					ESTIMATED 8/8THS PRODUCTION									COMPANY NET PRODUCTION									AVERAGE PRICES
		Number			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Sales Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plt Prod.			Gas
Year		of Wells			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)
2023		329			20,722			8,484			74,125			9,967			3,982			24,317			94.49			48.67			4.98
2024		340			15,853			6,583			57,750			7,239			2,883			17,726			94.49			48.67			4.98
2025		361			14,771			5,637			50,070			7,319			2,563			16,045			94.49			48.67			4.98
2026		378			12,847			5,102			46,160			5,944			2,251			14,421			94.49			48.67			4.98
2027		381			10,665			4,464			40,855			4,665			1,873			12,037			94.49			48.67			4.98
2028		379			8,510			3,714			33,710			3,808			1,569			10,012			94.49			48.67			4.98
2029		378			7,282			3,231			29,227			3,278			1,366			8,690			94.49			48.67			4.98
2030		377			6,444			2,888			26,063			2,906			1,219			7,742			94.49			48.67			4.98
2031		377			5,802			2,615			23,570			2,618			1,102			6,990			94.49			48.67			4.98
2032		376			5,289			2,394			21,550			2,385			1,007			6,378			94.49			48.67			4.98
2033		375			4,818			2,189			19,694			2,173			919			5,819			94.49			48.67			4.98
2034		371			4,418			2,013			18,103			1,992			844			5,339			94.49			48.67			4.98
2035		371			4,064			1,856			16,679			1,832			777			4,911			94.49			48.67			4.98
2036		369			3,750			1,716			15,424			1,689			717			4,532			94.49			48.67			4.98
2037		368			3,442			1,576			14,165			1,548			656			4,144			94.49			48.67			4.98
Sub-Total					128,676			54,463			487,144			59,363			23,729			149,104			94.49			48.67			4.98
Remainder					28,428			13,283			118,838			12,905			5,337			33,417			94.49			48.67			4.98
Total Future					157,104			67,746			605,982			72,268			29,067			182,521			94.49			48.67			4.98
Cumulative					74,529			11,009			300,469
Ultimate					231,633			78,755			906,451

 

		COMPANY FUTURE GROSS REVENUE (FGR) - $M															PRODUCTION TAXES - $M									FGR AFTER
		From			From			From									Oil/			Plant Prod./						PRODUCTION
Year		Oil/Condensate			Plant Products			Gas			Other			Total			Condensate			Other			Gas			TAXES - $M
2023		941,744			193,801			121,012			0			1,256,557			64,353			13,740			9,579			1,168,884
2024		683,969			140,320			88,210			0			912,499			45,939			9,949			6,968			849,643
2025		691,611			124,749			79,844			0			896,204			47,609			8,845			6,318			833,433
2026		561,660			109,570			71,765			0			742,995			38,802			7,768			5,682			690,742
2027		440,767			91,181			59,899			0			591,847			30,446			6,465			4,744			550,193
2028		359,773			76,361			49,825			0			485,959			24,838			5,414			3,946			451,761
2029		309,728			66,485			43,246			0			419,458			21,384			4,714			3,425			389,936
2030		274,602			59,345			38,529			0			372,476			18,962			4,208			3,051			346,255
2031		247,376			53,657			34,786			0			335,819			17,084			3,804			2,755			312,175
2032		225,377			49,012			31,740			0			306,128			15,571			3,475			2,514			284,568
2033		205,333			44,749			28,956			0			279,038			14,191			3,173			2,293			259,381
2034		188,259			41,085			26,570			0			255,914			13,013			2,913			2,104			237,884
2035		173,123			37,798			24,438			0			235,358			11,968			2,680			1,936			218,774
2036		159,611			34,888			22,553			0			217,053			11,041			2,474			1,786			201,752
2037		146,284			31,914			20,623			0			198,822			10,122			2,263			1,633			184,803
Sub-Total		5,609,217			1,154,912			741,997			0			7,506,126			385,323			81,883			58,734			6,980,186
Remainder		1,219,362			259,754			166,294			0			1,645,410			84,300			18,417			13,169			1,529,524
Total Future		6,828,579			1,414,667			908,290			0			9,151,536			469,623			100,300			71,903			8,509,710

 

		DEDUCTIONS - $M															FUTURE NET INCOME BEFORE TAXES - $M
		Operating			Ad Valorem			Development									Undiscounted						Discounted
Year		Costs			Taxes			Costs			Other			Total			Annual			Cumulative			@ 10.00%
2023		204,488			25,707			174,379			0			404,574			764,310			764,310			729,325
2024		165,508			18,871			74,736			0			259,114			590,529			1,354,838			514,847
2025		157,976			18,276			147,905			0			324,156			509,277			1,864,115			400,582
2026		143,839			15,112			62,564			0			221,514			469,228			2,333,343			336,297
2027		120,553			12,036			436			0			133,025			417,168			2,750,511			272,311
2028		103,759			9,885			130			0			113,774			337,987			3,088,498			200,423
2029		94,842			8,532			30			0			103,404			286,532			3,375,030			154,421
2030		88,282			7,575			2			0			95,860			250,395			3,625,425			122,657
2031		82,563			6,829			0			0			89,392			222,784			3,848,209			99,210
2032		78,558			6,224			100			0			84,881			199,687			4,047,896			80,836
2033		75,544			5,672			100			0			81,316			178,065			4,225,960			65,521
2034		73,007			5,201			189			0			78,397			159,487			4,385,447			53,354
2035		70,897			4,783			0			0			75,680			143,094			4,528,541			43,522
2036		68,808			4,410			104			0			73,321			128,431			4,656,973			35,511
2037		66,405			4,039			100			0			70,544			114,259			4,771,232			28,717
Sub-Total		1,595,029			153,151			460,774			0			2,208,954			4,771,232						3,137,534
Remainder		805,701			33,445			19,675			0			858,822			670,703			5,441,935			107,860
Total Future		2,400,730			186,596			480,449			0			3,067,775			5,441,935						3,245,394

 

Life of summary is: 46.02 years.

 

These data are part of a Ryder Scott report and are subject to the conditions in the text of the report.

 

 

	TAP ROCK CONSOLIDATED INTERESTS LESS OLYMPUS AREA ESTIMATED FUTURE RESERVES AND INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO CERTAIN LEASEHOLD AND ROYALTY INTERESTS SEC PRICING AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2022	TABLE 2
GRAND SUMMARY		PROVED
		PRODUCING

 

					REVENUE INTEREST									PRODUCT PRICES									DISCOUNTED
		Expense			Oil/			Plant						Oil/Cond			Plt. Prod.			Gas			FUTURE NET INCOME - $M
		Interest			Condensate			Products			Gas			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)			COMPOUNDED ANNUALLY
INITIAL																							5.00	%		3,252,816
FINAL																							8.00	%		2,861,638
REMARKS																							9.00	%		2,754,751
																							10.00	%		2,657,160
																							15.00	%		2,274,258

 

					ESTIMATED 8/8THS PRODUCTION									COMPANY NET PRODUCTION								AVERAGE PRICES
		Number			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Sales Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plt Prod.			Gas
Year		of Wells			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)
2023		300			17,824			7,565			66,422			8,626			3,552			21,789			94.49			48.67			4.98
2024		300			11,867			5,212			45,976			5,590			2,332			14,359			94.49			48.67			4.98
2025		299			9,211			4,124			36,447			4,278			1,801			11,119			94.49			48.67			4.98
2026		298			7,638			3,468			30,680			3,515			1,494			9,237			94.49			48.67			4.98
2027		297			6,565			3,018			26,717			3,002			1,288			7,979			94.49			48.67			4.98
2028		295			5,793			2,691			23,838			2,637			1,142			7,080			94.49			48.67			4.98
2029		294			5,173			2,422			21,468			2,347			1,023			6,352			94.49			48.67			4.98
2030		293			4,691			2,209			19,582			2,124			930			5,776			94.49			48.67			4.98
2031		293			4,291			2,027			17,972			1,940			851			5,286			94.49			48.67			4.98
2032		292			3,952			1,872			16,594			1,784			783			4,866			94.49			48.67			4.98
2033		291			3,622			1,721			15,259			1,634			719			4,464			94.49			48.67			4.98
2034		287			3,334			1,588			14,080			1,502			662			4,109			94.49			48.67			4.98
2035		287			3,072			1,467			13,000			1,383			610			3,785			94.49			48.67			4.98
2036		285			2,837			1,358			12,033			1,275			563			3,494			94.49			48.67			4.98
2037		284			2,603			1,246			11,045			1,167			514			3,188			94.49			48.67			4.98
Sub-Total					92,473			41,988			371,112			42,805			18,263			112,884			94.49			48.67			4.98
Remainder					21,154			10,505			92,695			9,552			4,142			25,440			94.49			48.67			4.98
Total Future					113,627			52,493			463,807			52,356			22,406			138,324			94.49			48.67			4.98
Cumulative					74,040			10,080			269,410
Ultimate					187,667			62,573			733,217

 

		COMPANY FUTURE GROSS REVENUE (FGR) - $M															PRODUCTION TAXES - $M									FGR AFTER
		From			From			From									Oil/			Plant Prod./						PRODUCTION
Year		Oil/Condensate			Plant Products			Gas			Other			Total			Condensate			Other			Gas			TAXES - $M
2023		815,038			172,878			108,432			0			1,096,348			57,669			12,257			8,609			1,017,814
2024		528,166			113,478			71,457			0			713,101			37,354			8,046			5,673			662,028
2025		404,182			87,665			55,332			0			547,178			28,579			6,215			4,393			507,991
2026		332,146			72,703			45,967			0			450,817			23,482			5,155			3,649			418,531
2027		283,702			62,705			39,706			0			386,113			20,058			4,446			3,152			358,458
2028		249,162			55,572			35,234			0			339,968			17,618			3,940			2,797			315,613
2029		221,794			49,808			31,609			0			303,212			15,682			3,531			2,509			281,488
2030		200,722			45,269			28,745			0			274,736			14,192			3,210			2,282			255,053
2031		183,334			41,422			26,306			0			251,063			12,963			2,937			2,088			233,075
2032		168,525			38,131			24,215			0			230,870			11,921			2,703			1,922			214,323
2033		154,358			34,983			22,214			0			211,555			10,924			2,480			1,764			196,387
2034		141,939			32,206			20,448			0			194,594			10,049			2,283			1,623			180,638
2035		130,726			29,668			18,836			0			179,230			9,256			2,103			1,495			166,374
2036		120,511			27,386			17,386			0			165,283			8,540			1,942			1,380			153,421
2037		110,309			25,006			15,865			0			151,180			7,821			1,773			1,260			140,327
Sub-Total		4,044,615			888,880			561,752			0			5,495,247			286,109			63,022			44,598			5,101,519
Remainder		902,539			201,598			126,598			0			1,230,735			63,990			14,293			10,052			1,142,400
Total Future		4,947,154			1,090,478			688,350			0			6,725,982			350,099			77,315			54,650			6,243,919

 

		DEDUCTIONS - $M															FUTURE NET INCOME BEFORE TAXES - $M
		Operating			Ad Valorem			Development									Undiscounted						Discounted
Year		Costs			Taxes			Costs			Other			Total			Annual			Cumulative			@ 10.00%
2023		183,826			21,953			0			0			205,779			812,035			812,035			778,413
2024		135,668			14,283			1,119			0			151,070			510,958			1,322,993			444,120
2025		112,715			10,961			0			0			123,676			384,315			1,707,308			303,457
2026		95,783			9,031			171			0			104,986			313,545			2,020,853			224,951
2027		79,377			7,735			31			0			87,144			271,314			2,292,167			176,925
2028		71,425			6,810			130			0			78,365			237,247			2,529,415			140,644
2029		67,787			6,074			30			0			73,891			207,598			2,737,013			111,857
2030		64,970			5,504			2			0			70,475			184,577			2,921,590			90,410
2031		62,499			5,029			0			0			67,528			165,546			3,087,136			73,717
2032		60,112			4,624			100			0			64,836			149,487			3,236,623			60,511
2033		57,878			4,236			100			0			62,214			134,173			3,370,796			49,368
2034		55,957			3,895			189			0			60,042			120,596			3,491,392			40,343
2035		54,367			3,587			0			0			57,954			108,420			3,599,812			32,975
2036		52,713			3,307			104			0			56,123			97,298			3,697,110			26,902
2037		50,722			3,024			100			0			53,846			86,481			3,783,591			21,736
Sub-Total		1,205,801			110,051			2,076			0			1,317,928			3,783,591						2,576,330
Remainder		602,892			24,615			15,112			0			642,619			499,781			4,283,372			80,830
Total Future		1,808,693			134,666			17,188			0			1,960,547			4,283,372						2,657,160

 

Life of summary is: 46.02 years.

 

These data are part of a Ryder Scott report and are subject to the conditions in the text of the report.

 

 

	TAP ROCK CONSOLIDATED INTERESTS LESS OLYMPUS AREA ESTIMATED FUTURE RESERVES AND INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO CERTAIN LEASEHOLD AND ROYALTY INTERESTS SEC PRICING AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2022	TABLE 3
GRAND SUMMARY		PROVED
		NON-PRODUCING

 

					REVENUE INTEREST									PRODUCT PRICES									DISCOUNTED
		Expense			Oil/			Plant						Oil/Cond			Plt. Prod.			Gas			FUTURE NET INCOME - $M
		Interest			Condensate			Products			Gas			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)			COMPOUNDED ANNUALLY
INITIAL																							5.00	%		-671
FINAL																							8.00	%		-653
REMARKS																							9.00	%		-647
																							10.00	%		-641
																							15.00	%		-613

 

					ESTIMATED 8/8THS PRODUCTION									COMPANY NET PRODUCTION								AVERAGE PRICES
		Number			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Sales Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plt Prod.			Gas
Year		of Wells			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)
2023		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0.00			0.00			0.00
2024		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0.00			0.00			0.00
Sub-Total					0			0			0			0			0			0			0.00			0.00			0.00
Remainder					0			0			0			0			0			0			0.00			0.00			0.00
Total Future					0			0			0			0			0			0			0.00			0.00			0.00
Cumulative					489			928			31,059
Ultimate					489			928			31,059

 

		COMPANY FUTURE GROSS REVENUE (FGR) - $M															PRODUCTION TAXES - $M									FGR AFTER
		From			From			From									Oil/			Plant Prod./						PRODUCTION
Year		Oil/Condensate			Plant Products			Gas			Other			Total			Condensate			Other			Gas			TAXES - $M
2023		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0
2024		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0
Sub-Total		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0
Remainder		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0
Total Future		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0

 

		DEDUCTIONS - $M															FUTURE NET INCOME BEFORE TAXES - $M
		Operating			Ad Valorem			Development									Undiscounted						Discounted
Year		Costs			Taxes			Costs			Other			Total			Annual			Cumulative			@ 10.00%
2023		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0
2024		0			0			705			0			705			-705			-705			-641
Sub-Total		0			0			705			0			705			-705						-641
Remainder		0			0			0			0			0			0			-705			0
Total Future		0			0			705			0			705			-705						-641

 

Life of summary is: 0.00 years.

 

These data are part of a Ryder Scott report and are subject to the conditions in the text of the report.

 

 

	TAP ROCK CONSOLIDATED INTERESTS LESS OLYMPUS AREA ESTIMATED FUTURE RESERVES AND INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO CERTAIN LEASEHOLD AND ROYALTY INTERESTS SEC PRICING AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2022	TABLE 4
GRAND SUMMARY		PROVED
		UNDEVELOPED

 

					REVENUE INTEREST									PRODUCT PRICES									DISCOUNTED
		Expense			Oil/			Plant						Oil/Cond			Plt. Prod.			Gas			FUTURE NET INCOME - $M
		Interest			Condensate			Products			Gas			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)			COMPOUNDED ANNUALLY
INITIAL																							5.00	%		797,893
FINAL																							8.00	%		660,625
REMARKS																							9.00	%		623,115
																							10.00	%		588,875
																							15.00	%		454,7783

 

					ESTIMATED 8/8THS PRODUCTION									COMPANY NET PRODUCTION									AVERAGE PRICES
		Number			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plant Products			Sales Gas			Oil/Cond.			Plt Prod.			Gas
Year		of Wells			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			(Mbbl)			(Mbbl)			(MMcf)			($/bbl)			($/bbl)			($/Mcf)
2023		29			2,898			919			7,703			1,341			430			2,528			94.49			48.67			4.98
2024		40			3,985			1,371			11,774			1,649			552			3,367			94.49			48.67			4.98
2025		62			5,560			1,513			13,622			3,042			762			4,926			94.49			48.67			4.98
2026		80			5,209			1,634			15,480			2,429			757			5,184			94.49			48.67			4.98
2027		84			4,100			1,447			14,139			1,662			585			4,058			94.49			48.67			4.98
2028		84			2,717			1,023			9,872			1,171			427			2,932			94.49			48.67			4.98
2029		84			2,109			809			7,759			931			343			2,338			94.49			48.67			4.98
2030		84			1,754			679			6,481			782			289			1,966			94.49			48.67			4.98
2031		84			1,511			588			5,598			678			251			1,704			94.49			48.67			4.98
2032		84			1,337			522			4,957			602			224			1,512			94.49			48.67			4.98
2033		84			1,196			468			4,435			539			201			1,355			94.49			48.67			4.98
2034		84			1,084			425			4,023			490			182			1,230			94.49			48.67			4.98
2035		84			991			389			3,679			449			167			1,126			94.49			48.67			4.98
2036		84			913			359			3,391			414			154			1,038			94.49			48.67			4.98
2037		84			839			330			3,120			381			142			956			94.49			48.67			4.98
Sub-Total					36,203			12,475			116,031			16,558			5,466			36,220			94.49			48.67			4.98
Remainder					7,274			2,778			26,143			3,353			1,195			7,977			94.49			48.67			4.98
Total Future					43,477			15,253			142,174			19,911			6,661			44,197			94.49			48.67			4.98
Cumulative					0			0			0
Ultimate					43,477			15,253			142,174

 

		COMPANY FUTURE GROSS REVENUE (FGR) - $M															PRODUCTION TAXES - $M									FGR AFTER
		From			From			From									Oil/			Plant Prod./						PRODUCTION
Year		Oil/Condensate			Plant Products			Gas			Other			Total			Condensate			Other			Gas			TAXES - $M
2023		126,706			20,923			12,580			0			160,209			6,684			1,483			970			151,070
2024		155,803			26,842			16,753			0			199,398			8,585			1,903			1,295			187,615
2025		287,429			37,084			24,512			0			349,026			19,030			2,629			1,925			325,442
2026		229,514			36,866			25,798			0			292,178			15,320			2,614			2,033			272,211
2027		157,065			28,476			20,193			0			205,734			10,388			2,019			1,591			191,736
2028		110,611			20,789			14,591			0			145,991			7,220			1,474			1,149			136,148
2029		87,934			16,676			11,637			0			116,247			5,702			1,182			915			108,447
2030		73,880			14,075			9,784			0			97,739			4,770			998			769			91,203
2031		64,041			12,235			8,480			0			84,756			4,121			867			667			79,101
2032		56,852			10,881			7,525			0			75,258			3,650			771			591			70,245
2033		50,975			9,766			6,742			0			67,483			3,267			692			530			62,995
2034		46,320			8,879			6,122			0			61,321			2,965			630			481			57,246
2035		42,396			8,130			5,602			0			56,128			2,712			576			440			52,400
2036		39,101			7,502			5,168			0			51,770			2,501			532			406			48,332
2037		35,975			6,907			4,759			0			47,641			2,301			490			374			44,476
Sub-Total		1,564,602			266,032			180,244			0			2,010,879			99,214			18,862			14,137			1,878,667
Remainder		316,822			58,156			39,696			0			414,675			20,310			4,123			3,117			387,125
Total Future		1,881,425			324,189			219,940			0			2,425,554			119,524			22,985			17,254			2,265,791

 

		DEDUCTIONS - $M															FUTURE NET INCOME BEFORE TAXES - $M
		Operating			Ad Valorem			Development									Undiscounted						Discounted
Year		Costs			Taxes			Costs			Other			Total			Annual			Cumulative			@ 10.00%
2023		20,661			3,754			174,379			0			198,795			-47,725			-47,725			-49,087
2024		29,840			4,588			72,912			0			107,340			80,275			32,550			71,367
2025		45,261			7,315			147,905			0			200,480			124,961			157,512			97,125
2026		48,055			6,080			62,393			0			116,528			155,683			313,194			111,346
2027		41,176			4,301			405			0			45,882			145,854			459,049			95,386
2028		32,334			3,075			0			0			35,409			100,740			559,788			59,778
2029		27,056			2,458			0			0			29,513			78,934			638,722			42,565
2030		23,313			2,072			0			0			25,384			65,818			704,540			32,247
2031		20,064			1,800			0			0			21,863			57,237			761,777			25,493
2032		18,445			1,600			0			0			20,045			50,200			811,977			20,326
2033		17,666			1,436			0			0			19,102			43,892			855,869			16,153
2034		17,049			1,306			0			0			18,356			38,890			894,760			13,011
2035		16,530			1,196			0			0			17,726			34,674			929,434			10,546
2036		16,095			1,103			0			0			17,198			31,134			960,567			8,608
2037		15,683			1,015			0			0			16,698			27,778			988,346			6,981
Sub-Total		389,228			43,099			457,994			0			890,321			988,346						561,845
Remainder		202,809			8,831			4,563			0			216,203			170,922			1,159,268			27,030
Total Future		592,037			51,930			462,557			0			1,106,524			1,159,268						588,875

 

Life of summary is: 39.09 years.

 

These data are part of a Ryder Scott report and are subject to the conditions in the text of the report.

 

 

v3.23.3

Cover	Oct. 04, 2023
Cover [Abstract]
Document Type	8-K
Amendment Flag	false
Document Period End Date	Oct. 04, 2023
Entity File Number	001-35371
Entity Registrant Name	Civitas Resources, Inc.
Entity Central Index Key	0001509589
Entity Tax Identification Number	61-1630631
Entity Incorporation, State or Country Code	DE
Entity Address, Address Line One	555 17th Street
Entity Address, Address Line Two	Suite 3700
Entity Address, City or Town	Denver
Entity Address, State or Province	CO
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code	80202
City Area Code	720
Local Phone Number	440-6100
Written Communications	false
Soliciting Material	false
Pre-commencement Tender Offer	false
Pre-commencement Issuer Tender Offer	false
Title of 12(b) Security	Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share
Trading Symbol	CIVI
Security Exchange Name	NYSE
Entity Emerging Growth Company	false

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