HOUSTON, June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Energy Resource Technology,
Inc. (ERT) a wholly owned subsidiary of Cal Dive International, Inc.
(Nasdaq: CDIS), announced today that it has acquired a mature property package
on the Gulf of Mexico shelf from Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA
(Murphy), a wholly owned subsidiary of Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE: MUR).
The acquisition cost to ERT including both cash and assumed abandonment
liability was approximately $200 million.
The acquisition represents essentially all of Murphy's Gulf of Mexico
Shelf properties consisting of eight operated and eleven non-operated fields
with most of the value in the operated fields. Current net production from
the properties is approximately 20 MMCFD equivalent. ERT expects to
significantly improve production rates through capital investments to exploit
proved undeveloped and behind pipe reserves, the majority of which will be
spent over the next two years. ERT estimates proved reserves of the
acquisition to be approximately 75 BCF equivalent. The package has synergies
with existing ERT properties allowing ERT the opportunity to combine many of
the operations thereby reducing future operating expenses.
Cal Dive CEO, Owen Kratz stated, "We have been patient in our approach to
mature property acquisitions and feel that the Murphy properties fit well with
our ERT mature property strategy."
Cal Dive International, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is an
energy service company which provides alternate solutions to the oil and gas
industry worldwide for marginal field development, alternative development
plans, field life extension and abandonment, with service lines including
marine diving services, robotics, well operations, facilities ownership and
oil and gas production.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that
could be deemed "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, any
projections of revenue, gross margin, expenses, earnings or losses from
operations, or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies
and objectives of management for future operations; any statement concerning
developments, performance or industry rankings relating to services; any
statements regarding the economic conditions or performance; any statements of
expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the
foregoing. The risks, uncertainties and assumptions referred to above include
the performance of contracts by suppliers, customers and partners; employee
management issues; complexities of global political and economic developments,
and other risks described from time to time in our reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2004. We assume no obligation and
do not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Cal Dive International, Inc.
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http://www.caldive.com
CONTACT:
Wade Pursell, Chief Financial Officer of Cal
Dive International, Inc., +1-281-618-0400, or fax,
+1-281-618-0505
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