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“During the past 35 years, we have developed significant technical experience and have successfully discovered and produced properties on the conventional shelf and in the deep waters across the Gulf of Mexico. We believe we have assembled a premier set of assets that generates a solid foundation of cash flow with significant upside. As we look to the future, we believe that market conditions in the Gulf are very favorable for acquisitions. We will look at opportunities that add production, reserves and cash flow and believe that we are very well positioned with a stronger balance sheet, improved financial liquidity and a successful track record of making accretive acquisitions that will allow us to benefit from the current acquisition market. Our management team’s interests are aligned with those of our shareholders through our 33% stake in the Company’s equity. This alignment of interest ensures that we are truly incentivized to maximize shareholder value and mitigate risk, rather than simply focusing on shorter term metrics,” concluded Mr. Krohn.
For the fourth quarter of 2018, W&T reported net income of $138.8 million, or $0.96 per share. Excluding primarily a $55.3 million unrealized commodity derivative gain and a $47.1 millionnon-cash gain on debt refinancing, the Company’s Adjusted Net Income was $32.0 million, or $0.22 per share. In the fourth quarter of 2017, W&T reported Net Income of $23.4 million, or $0.16 per share, and Adjusted Net Income of $24.2 million or $0.17 per share. W&T reported Net Income for full year 2018 of $248.8 million, or $1.72 per share and Adjusted Net Income of $146.2 million, or $1.01 per share. For the full year 2017, W&T reported Net Income of $79.7 million, or $0.56 per share, and Adjusted Net Income of $79.7 million, or $0.56 per share.
Adjusted EBITDA totaled $82.3 million for the fourth quarter 2018, an increase of 13% compared to $72.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2017. The Company generated $344.2 million in Adjusted EBITDA for the full year 2018, an increase of 28% compared to $268.4 million in 2017. Adjusted EBITDA margin in 2018 was 59%, compared to Adjusted EBITDA margin of 55% for 2017.
Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA arenon-GAAP financial measures, which are described in more detail and reconciled to net income, their most comparable GAAP measure, in the attached tables below under“Non-GAAP Information.”
Production, Prices and Revenues: Production for the fourth quarter of 2018 was 35.0 MBOEPD or 3.2 MMBOE, down slightly versus 3.5 MMBOE in the fourth quarter of 2017. Fourth quarter 2018 production was comprised of 1.7 million barrels of oil, 0.3 million barrels of natural gas liquids (“NGLs”) and 7.3 billion cubic feet (“Bcf”) of natural gas. Total liquids production comprised 62% of production in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to 58% of production in the fourth quarter of 2017. Production for the fourth quarter of 2018 was near themid-point of production guidance despite the impact of hurricane, pipeline and facility downtime during the period.
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