UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 10-Q
x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2009
or
o TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD ____________ TO ____________
Commission File Number 000-53201
Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
West Virginia | 20-0208835 |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
1775 Sherman Street, Suite 3000, Denver, Colorado 80203
(Address of principal executive offices) (zip code)
(303) 860-5800
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes £ No £
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See the definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
Large accelerated filer o | Accelerated filer o |
Non-accelerated filer o | Smaller reporting company x |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No x
As of October 31, 2009, the Partnership had 4,470 units of limited partnership interest and no units of additional general partnership interest outstanding.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
INDEX TO REPORT ON FORM 10-Q
Page | |||
PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION | |||
Item 1. | Condensed Financial Statements (unaudited) | ||
1 | |||
2 | |||
3 | |||
4 | |||
Item 2. | 15 | ||
Item 3. | 25 | ||
Item 4T. | 25 | ||
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION | |||
Item 1. | 27 | ||
Item 1A. | 27 | ||
Item 2. | 27 | ||
Item 3. | 27 | ||
Item 4. | 27 | ||
Item 5. | 27 | ||
Item 6. | 28 | ||
29 |
PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. | Condensed Financial Statements (unaudited) |
Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership | ||||||||
Condensed Balance Sheets | ||||||||
(unaudited) | ||||||||
September 30, | December 31, | |||||||
2009 | 2008* | |||||||
Assets | ||||||||
Current assets: | ||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 4,258 | $ | 1,352,993 | ||||
Accounts receivable | 1,176,272 | 2,801,449 | ||||||
Oil inventory | 33,962 | 44,562 | ||||||
Due from Managing General Partner-derivatives | 5,106,082 | 12,096,394 | ||||||
Due from Managing General Partner-other, net | 1,884,283 | 8,849,169 | ||||||
Total current assets | 8,204,857 | 25,144,567 | ||||||
Oil and gas properties, successful efforts method | 118,635,803 | 117,325,135 | ||||||
Drilling advances to Managing General Partner | - | 719,724 | ||||||
Oil and gas properties, at cost | 118,635,803 | 118,044,859 | ||||||
Less: Accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization | (28,598,085 | ) | (16,028,595 | ) | ||||
Oil and gas properties, net | 90,037,718 | 102,016,264 | ||||||
Due from Managing General Partner-derivatives | 415,920 | 3,957,702 | ||||||
Total noncurrent assets | 90,453,638 | 105,973,966 | ||||||
Total Assets | $ | 98,658,495 | $ | 131,118,533 | ||||
Liabilities and Partners' Equity | ||||||||
Current liabilities: | ||||||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses | $ | 190,507 | $ | 750,904 | ||||
Due to Managing General Partner-derivatives | 1,834,523 | - | ||||||
Total current liabilities | 2,025,030 | 750,904 | ||||||
Due to Managing General Partner-derivatives | 4,935,522 | 421,364 | ||||||
Asset retirement obligations | 437,109 | 416,110 | ||||||
Total liabilities | 7,397,661 | 1,588,378 | ||||||
Commitments and contingent liabilities | ||||||||
Partners' equity: | ||||||||
Managing General Partner | 28,572,561 | 42,962,019 | ||||||
Limited Partners - 4,470.00 units issued and outstanding | 62,688,273 | 86,568,136 | ||||||
Total Partners' equity | 91,260,834 | 129,530,155 | ||||||
Total Liabilities and Partners' Equity | $ | 98,658,495 | $ | 131,118,533 |
*Derived from audited December 31, 2008 balance sheet contained in the Partnership’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed financial statements.
Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership
Condensed Statements of Operations
(unaudited)
Three months ended September 30, | Six months ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | 2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||||
Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
Oil and gas sales | $ | 4,074,965 | $ | 17,786,256 | $ | 13,807,111 | $ | 35,482,979 | ||||||||
Oil and gas price risk management (loss) gain, net | (2,133,977 | ) | 28,569,002 | (5,766,350 | ) | 1,997,522 | ||||||||||
Total revenues | 1,940,988 | 46,355,258 | 8,040,761 | 37,480,501 | ||||||||||||
Operating costs and expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
Production and operating costs | 952,391 | 2,334,959 | 3,701,518 | 4,517,208 | ||||||||||||
Direct costs - general and administrative | 80,510 | 118,067 | 392,646 | 377,891 | ||||||||||||
Depreciation, depletion and amortization | 3,693,079 | 5,205,649 | 12,569,490 | 9,299,183 | ||||||||||||
Accretion of asset retirement obligations | 7,000 | 6,556 | 20,999 | 14,885 | ||||||||||||
Total operating costs and expenses | 4,732,980 | 7,665,231 | 16,684,653 | 14,209,167 | ||||||||||||
(Loss) income from operations | (2,791,992 | ) | 38,690,027 | (8,643,892 | ) | 23,271,334 | ||||||||||
Interest expense | (3,779 | ) | - | (3,779 | ) | - | ||||||||||
Interest income | - | 12,758 | 19,295 | 88,392 | ||||||||||||
Net (loss) income | $ | (2,795,771 | ) | $ | 38,702,785 | $ | (8,628,376 | ) | $ | 23,359,726 | ||||||
Net (loss) income allocated to partners | $ | (2,795,771 | ) | $ | 38,702,785 | $ | (8,628,376 | ) | $ | 23,359,726 | ||||||
Less: Managing General Partner interest in net (loss) income | (1,034,435 | ) | 14,320,030 | (3,192,499 | ) | 8,643,098 | ||||||||||
Net (loss) income allocated to Investor Partners | $ | (1,761,336 | ) | $ | 24,382,755 | $ | (5,435,877 | ) | $ | 14,716,628 | ||||||
Net (loss) income per Investor Partner unit | $ | (394 | ) | $ | 5,455 | $ | (1,216 | ) | $ | 3,292 | ||||||
Investor Partner units outstanding | 4,470.00 | 4,470.00 | 4,470.00 | 4,470.00 |
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed financial statements.
Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership
Condensed Statements of Cash Flows
(unaudited)
Nine months ended September 30, | ||||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||
Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||
Net (loss) income | $ | (8,628,376 | ) | $ | 23,359,726 | |||
Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash provided by operating activities: | ||||||||
Depreciation, depletion and amortization | 12,569,490 | 9,299,183 | ||||||
Accretion of asset retirement obligations | 20,999 | 14,885 | ||||||
Unrealized loss (gain) on derivative transactions | 16,880,775 | (4,860,127 | ) | |||||
Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable | 1,625,177 | (3,956,887 | ) | |||||
Decrease in interest receivable | - | 531,867 | ||||||
Decrease (increase) in oil inventory | 10,600 | (34,154 | ) | |||||
(Decrease) increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses | (560,397 | ) | 1,442,187 | |||||
Decrease (increase) in due from Managing General Partner - other, net | 6,964,886 | (11,891,911 | ) | |||||
Net cash provided by operating activities | 28,883,154 | 13,904,769 | ||||||
Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||||
Capital expenditures for oil and gas properties | (590,944 | ) | - | |||||
Net cash used in investing activities | (590,944 | ) | - | |||||
Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||||
Distributions to Partners | (29,640,945 | ) | (13,347,286 | ) | ||||
Net cash used in financing activities | (29,640,945 | ) | (13,347,286 | ) | ||||
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents | (1,348,735 | ) | 557,483 | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period | 1,352,993 | 783,845 | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period | $ | 4,258 | $ | 1,341,328 | ||||
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash activity: | ||||||||
Asset retirement obligation, with corresponding change to oil and gas properties | $ | - | $ | 333,263 |
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed financial statements.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
Note 1−General and Basis of Presentation
The Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership (the “Partnership” or the “Registrant”) was organized as a limited partnership on May 22, 2007 (date of inception), in accordance with the laws of the State of West Virginia for the purpose of engaging in the exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties. Upon completion of the sale of Partnership units on August 31, 2007, the Partnership was funded and commenced its business operations. The Partnership owns natural gas and oil wells located in Colorado and from the wells, the Partnership produces and sells natural gas and oil.
Purchasers of partnership units subscribed to and fully paid for 38.5 units of limited partner interests and 4,431.5 units of additional general partner interests at $20,000 per unit. In accordance with the terms of the Limited Partnership Agreement (the “Agreement”), Petroleum Development Corporation, a Nevada Corporation, is the Managing General Partner of the Partnership (hereafter, the “Managing General Partner,” “MGP” or “PDC”) and has a 37% Managing General Partner ownership in the Partnership. Upon completion of the drilling phase of the Partnership's wells, all additional general partners units were converted into units of limited partner interests and thereafter became limited partners of the Partnership. Throughout the term of the Partnership, revenues, costs, and cash distributions are allocated 63% to the limited and additional general partners (collectively, the “Investor Partners”), which are shared pro rata based upon the portion of units owned in the Partnership, and 37% to the Managing General Partner. As of September 30, 2009, there were 1,772 Investor Partners who own 4,470 outstanding units of Partnership interests.
The Managing General Partner, under the terms of the Drilling and Operating Agreement (the “D&O Agreement”), has full authority to conduct the Partnership’s business and actively manage the Partnership.
The accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared without audit in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or U.S., for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. Accordingly, pursuant to certain rules and regulations, certain notes and other financial information included in audited financial statements have been condensed or omitted. In the Partnership’s opinion, the accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements contain all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring adjustments) necessary to present fairly the Partnership's financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented. The interim results of operations and cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year or any other future period.
The accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the Partnership's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as filed with the SEC on March 31, 2009 (“the 2008 Form 10-K”).
Reclassifications
Certain amounts in the prior period have been reclassified to conform to the current year classifications with no effect on previously reported net income loss or Partners’ equity. For more information on these reclassifications, see Note 3, −Transactions with Managing General Partner and Affiliates.
Note 2−Recent Accounting Standards
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
Accounting Standards Codification
In June 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, issued the FASB Accounting Standards Codification™ (the “Codification”), thereby establishing the Codification as the source of authoritative accounting principles recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities in the preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. The FASB will no longer issue new standards in the form of Statements, FASB Staff Positions, or Emerging Issues Task Force Abstracts; instead, the FASB will issue Accounting Standards Updates. Accounting Standards Updates will not be authoritative in their own right as they will only serve to update the Codification. These changes and the Codification itself do not change GAAP. Effective July 1, 2009, the Partnership adopted the Codification. Other than the manner in which new accounting guidance is referenced, the adoption of the Codification did not have any impact on the Partnership’s accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
Subsequent Events
In May 2009, the FASB issued changes regarding subsequent events, which establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued. Specifically, the guidance sets forth the period after the balance sheet date during which the Managing General Partner should evaluate events or transactions that may occur for potential recognition or disclosure in the Partnership’s financial statements, the circumstances under which the Partnership should recognize events or transactions occurring after the balance sheet date in the Partnership’s financial statements, and the disclosures that the Partnership should make about events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date. The Partnership adopted the guidance as of June 30, 2009. See Note 7, Subsequent Events.
Business Combinations
In December 2007, the FASB issued changes regarding the accounting for business combinations. The new changes require:
· | an acquirer to recognize the assets acquired, the liabilities assumed and any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree at their acquisition-date fair values; |
· | disclosure of the information necessary for investors and other users to evaluate and understand the nature and financial effect of the business combination; |
· | acquisition-related costs be expensed as incurred. |
The changes also amend the accounting for income taxes to require the acquirer to recognize changes in the amount of its deferred tax benefits recognizable due to a business combination either in income from continuing operations in the period of the combination or directly in contributed capital, depending on the circumstances. Further, the changes amend the accounting for income taxes to require, subsequent to a prescribed measurement period, changes to acquisition-date income tax uncertainties to be reported in income from continuing operations and changes to acquisition-date acquiree deferred tax benefits to be reported in income from continuing operations or directly in contributed capital, depending on the circumstances.
In April 2009, the FASB again issued changes to the accounting for business combinations. These changes apply to all assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination that arise from contingencies and require:
· | an acquirer to recognize at fair value, at the acquisition date, an asset acquired or liability assumed in a business combination that arises from a contingency if the acquisition-date fair value of that asset or liability can be determined during the measurement period otherwise the asset or liability should be recognized at the acquisition date if certain defined criteria are met; |
· | contingent consideration arrangements of an acquiree assumed by the acquirer in a business combination be recognized initially at fair value; |
· | subsequent measurements of assets and liabilities arising from contingencies be based on a systematic and rational method depending on their nature and contingent consideration arrangements be measured subsequently; and |
· | disclosures of the amounts and measurements basis of such assets and liabilities and the nature of the contingencies. |
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
The changes above became effective for acquisitions completed on or after January 1, 2009; however, the income tax changes became effective as of that date for all acquisitions, regardless of the acquisition date. The Partnership adopted these changes effective January 1, 2009, for which they will be applied prospectively in the Partnership’s accounting for future acquisitions, if any. This adoption had no impact on the Partnership’s accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements.
Consolidation – Noncontrolling Interest in a Subsidiary
In December 2007, the FASB issued changes regarding the nature and classification of the noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary in the consolidated financial statements. The changes require the accounting and reporting for minority interests be recharacterized as noncontrolling interests and classified as a component of equity. Additionally, the changes establish reporting requirements that provide sufficient disclosures which clearly identify and distinguish between the interests of the parent and the interests of the noncontrolling owners. The Partnership adopted these changes effective January 1, 2009. The Partnership’s adoption of this guidance had no material impact on the Partnership’s accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements.
Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures
In February 2008, the FASB delayed by one year (to January 1, 2009) the fair value measurements and disclosure requirements for nonfinancial assets and liabilities, except those that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring basis (at least annually). The January 1, 2009, adoption of the fair value measurements and disclosure requirements for the Partnership’s nonfinancial assets and liabilities did not have a material impact on the Partnership’s accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements. See Note 4, Fair Value Measurements.
Derivatives and Hedging Disclosures
In March 2008, the FASB issued changes regarding the disclosure requirements for derivative instruments and hedging activities. Pursuant to the changes, enhanced disclosures are required to provide information about (a) how and why the Partnership uses derivative instruments, (b) how the Partnership accounts for derivative instruments and related hedged items and (c) how derivative instruments and related hedged items affect the Partnership’s financial position, financial performance and cash flows. The Partnership adopted these changes effective January 1, 2009. The adoption did not have a material impact on the Partnership’s accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements. See Note 5, Derivative Financial Instruments.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures
In August 2009, the FASB issued changes regarding fair value measurements and disclosures to reduce potential ambiguity in financial reporting when measuring the fair value of liabilities. These changes clarify existing guidance that in circumstances in which a quoted price in an active market for the identical liability is not available, an entity is required to measure fair value using either a valuation technique that uses a quoted price of either a similar liability or a quoted price of an identical or similar liability when traded as an asset, or another valuation technique that is consistent with the principles of fair value measurements, such as an income approach (e.g., present value technique). This guidance also states that both a quoted price in an active market for the identical liability and a quoted price for the identical liability when traded as an asset in an active market when no adjustments to the quoted price of the asset are required are Level 1 fair value measurements. These changes become effective for the Partnership on October 1, 2009. The Partnership has not determined the impact, if any, that these changes will have on the Partnership’s financial statements.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
Consolidation – Variable Interest Entities
In June 2009, the FASB issued changes surrounding an entity’s analysis to determine whether any of its variable interests constitute controlling financial interests in a variable interest entity. This analysis identifies the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity as the enterprise that has both of the following characteristics:
· | the power to direct the activities of a variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance and |
· | the obligation to absorb losses of the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity or the right to receive benefits from the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity. |
Additionally, the entity is required to assess whether it has an implicit financial responsibility to ensure that a variable interest entity operates as designed when determining whether it has the power to direct the activities of the variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance. The guidance also requires ongoing reassessments of whether an enterprise is the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity. These changes are effective for the Partnership’s financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2009, with earlier adoption prohibited. The Partnership is evaluating the impact that the adoption of these changes will have on the Partnership’s financial statements, related disclosure and management’s discussion and analysis.
Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting
In January 2009, the SEC published its final rule regarding the modernization of oil and gas reporting, which modifies the SEC’s reporting and disclosure rules for oil and natural gas reserves. The most notable changes of the final rule include the replacement of the single day period-end pricing to value oil and natural gas reserves to a 12-month average of the first day of the month price for each month within the reporting period. The final rule also permits voluntary disclosure of probable and possible reserves, a disclosure previously prohibited by SEC rules. The revised reporting and disclosure requirements are effective for the Partnership’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2009. Early adoption is not permitted. The Partnership is evaluating the impact that adoption of this final rule will have on the Partnership’s financial statements, related disclosure and management’s discussion and analysis.
Note 3−Transactions with Managing General Partner and Affiliates
The Managing General Partner transacts business on behalf of the Partnership under the authority of the D&O Agreement. Revenues and other cash inflows received on behalf of the Partnership are distributed to the Partners net of (after deducting) corresponding operating costs and other cash outflows incurred on behalf of the Partnership.
The fair value of the Partnership’s portion of unexpired derivative instruments is recorded on the balance sheet under the captions “Due from Managing General Partner–derivatives,” in the case of net unrealized gains or “Due to Managing General Partner–derivatives,” in the case of net unrealized losses. The fair value of derivative instruments previously reported at December 31, 2008, in which individual contracts held by each counterparty were aggregated, or netted, for determining presentation as a net asset or net liability of the Partnership, have been reclassified to conform to the current year individual contract presentation methodology.
Undistributed oil and natural gas revenues collected by the Managing General Partner from the Partnership’s customers in the amount of $1,469,950 and $5,820,033 as of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively, are included in the balance sheet caption “Due from Managing General Partner - other, net.” This $5,820,033 portion of undistributed oil and natural gas revenues at December 31, 2008 has been reclassified from “Accounts Receivable” to “Due from Managing General Partner – other, net” to conform to the current year presentation. Realized gains or losses from derivative transactions that have not yet been distributed to the Partnership are included in the balance sheet captions “Due from Managing General Partner-other, net” or “Due to Managing General Partner-other, net,” respectively. Undistributed realized gains amounted to $1,684,385 and $5,028,480 as of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively. All other unsettled transactions between the Partnership and the Managing General Partner are recorded net on the balance sheet under the caption “Due from (to) Managing General Partner – other, net.”
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
The following table presents transactions with the Managing General Partner and its affiliates for the periods described below. “Well operations and maintenance” and “Gathering, compression and processing fees” are included in “Production and operating costs” on the Statements of Operations. Additionally, refer to Note 5, Derivative Financial Instruments for derivative transactions between the Partnership and the Managing General Partner.
Three months ended September 30, | Nine months ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | 2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||||
Well operations and maintenance | $ | 507,108 | $ | 403,330 | $ | 2,179,142 | $ | 1,161,984 | ||||||||
Gathering, compression and processing fees | 170,467 | 284,131 | 433,264 | 308,210 | ||||||||||||
Direct costs - general and administrative | 80,510 | 118,067 | 392,646 | 377,891 | ||||||||||||
Cash distributions* | 3,375,268 | 2,897,082 | 11,196,959 | 4,938,996 |
*Partnership cash distributions commenced in May 2008. PDC has repurchased no Investor Partner units as of September 30, 2009. Accordingly, cash distributions represent amounts allocable to PDC solely as Managing General Partner.
Distributions to partners in September 2009, were impacted by a non-recurring item. The Partnership’s payment to the Managing General Partner for royalty settlement costs of $0.1 million decreased distributions during the period. This amount had been previously accrued by the Partnership in “Due from Managing General Partner – other, net.” For more information on the Colorado Royalty Settlement see Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies.
Note 4−Fair Value Measurements
Determination of Fair Value. The Partnership’s fair value measurements are estimated pursuant to a fair value hierarchy that requires the Partnership to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability as of the measurement date, giving the highest priority to quoted prices in active markets (Level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable data (Level 3). In some cases, the inputs used to measure fair value might fall in different levels of the fair value hierarchy. The lowest level input that is significant to a fair value measurement in its entirety determines the applicable level in the fair value hierarchy. Assessing the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, considering factors specific to the asset or liability, and may affect the valuation of the assets and liabilities and their placement within the fair value hierarchy levels. The three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value are defined as:
· | Level 1 – Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Included in Level 1 are commodity derivative instruments for New York Mercantile Exchange, or NYMEX, based natural gas swaps. |
· | Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are either directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability, including (i) quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, (ii) quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets, (iii) inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability and (iv) inputs that are derived from observable market data by correlation or other means. |
· | Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, including situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability. Included in Level 3 are the Partnership’s commodity derivative instruments for Colorado Interstate Gas, or CIG, based fixed-price natural gas swaps, collars and floors, oil swaps and natural gas basis protection swaps. |
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
Derivative Financial Instruments. The Partnership measures fair value based upon quoted market prices, where available. The valuation determination includes: (1) identification of the inputs to the fair value methodology through the review of counterparty statements and other supporting documentation, (2) determination of the validity of the source of the inputs, (3) corroboration of the original source of inputs through access to multiple quotes, if available, or other information and (4) monitoring changes in valuation methods and assumptions. The methods described above may produce a fair value calculation that may not be indicative of future fair values. The valuation determination also gives consideration to nonperformance risk on Partnership liabilities in addition to nonperformance risk on PDC’s own business interests and liabilities, as well as the credit standing of derivative instrument counterparties. The Managing General Partner primarily uses two investment grade financial institutions as counterparties to its derivative contracts, who hold the majority of the Managing General Partner’s derivative assets. The Managing General Partner has evaluated the credit risk of the Partnership’s derivative assets from counterparties holding its derivative assets using relevant credit market default rates, giving consideration to amounts outstanding for each counterparty and the duration of each outstanding derivative position. Based on the Managing General Partner’s evaluation, the Partnership has determined that the impact of counterparty non-performance on the fair value of the Partnership’s derivative instruments is insignificant. As of September 30, 2009, no adjustment for credit risk was recorded by the Partnership. Furthermore, while the Managing General Partner believes these valuation methods are appropriate and consistent with that used by other market participants, the use of different methodologies, or assumptions, to determine the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a different estimate of fair value.
The following table presents, by hierarchy level, the Partnership’s derivative financial instruments, including both current and non-current portions, measured at fair value for the periods described.
Level 1 | Level 3 | Total | ||||||||||
As of December 31, 2008 | ||||||||||||
Assets: | ||||||||||||
Commodity based derivatives | $ | - | $ | 16,054,096 | $ | 16,054,096 | ||||||
Total assets | - | 16,054,096 | 16,054,096 | |||||||||
Liabilities: | �� | |||||||||||
Basis protection derivative contracts | - | (421,364 | ) | (421,364 | ) | |||||||
Total liabilities | - | (421,364 | ) | (421,364 | ) | |||||||
Net asset | $ | - | $ | 15,632,732 | $ | 15,632,732 | ||||||
As of September 30, 2009 | ||||||||||||
Assets: | ||||||||||||
Commodity based derivatives | $ | 16,986 | $ | 5,505,016 | $ | 5,522,002 | ||||||
Total assets | 16,986 | 5,505,016 | 5,522,002 | |||||||||
Liabilities: | ||||||||||||
Commodity based derivatives | (656,803 | ) | (271,532 | ) | (928,335 | ) | ||||||
Basis protection derivative contracts | - | (5,841,710 | ) | (5,841,710 | ) | |||||||
Total liabilities | (656,803 | ) | (6,113,242 | ) | (6,770,045 | ) | ||||||
Net liability | $ | (639,817 | ) | $ | (608,226 | ) | $ | (1,248,043 | ) |
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
The following table sets forth the changes of the Partnership’s Level 3 derivative financial instruments measured on a recurring basis:
Nine months ended | ||||
September 30, 2009 | ||||
Fair value, net asset, as of December 31, 2008 | $ | 15,632,732 | ||
Changes in fair value included in statement of operations line item: | ||||
Oil and gas price risk management loss, net | (5,126,533 | ) | ||
Settlements | (11,114,425 | ) | ||
Fair value, net liability, as of September 30, 2009 | $ | (608,226 | ) | |
Change in unrealized gains (losses) relating to assets (liabilities) still held as of September 30, 2009, included in statement of operations line item: | ||||
Oil and gas price risk management, net | $ | (6,639,335 | ) |
See Note 5, Derivative Financial Instruments, for additional disclosure related to the Partnership’s derivative financial instruments.
Non-Derivative Assets and Liabilities. The carrying values of the financial instruments comprising “Cash and cash equivalents,” “Accounts receivable,” “Accounts payable and accrued expenses” and “Due to (from) Managing General Partner-other, net,” approximate fair value due to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
The Partnership periodically assesses its proved oil and gas properties for possible impairment, upon a triggering event, by comparing net capitalized costs to estimated undiscounted future net cash flows on a field-by-field basis using estimated production based upon estimated prices at which the Partnership reasonably estimates the commodity to be sold. The estimates of future prices may differ from current market prices of oil and natural gas. Certain events, including but not limited to, downward revisions in estimates to the Partnership’s reserve quantities, expectations of falling commodity prices or rising operating costs may result in a triggering event and, therefore, a possible impairment of the Partnership’s oil and natural gas properties. If, when assessing impairment, net capitalized costs exceed undiscounted future net cash flows, the measurement of impairment is based on estimated fair value utilizing a future discounted cash flow analysis and is measured by the amount by which the net capitalized costs exceed their fair value. During the nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, there were no triggering events; therefore, no impairment of oil and gas properties was recognized.
The Partnership accounts for asset retirement obligations by recording the estimated fair value of the plugging and abandonment obligations when incurred, at the time the well is completely drilled. The Partnership estimates the fair value of the plugging and abandonment obligations based on a discounted cash flows analysis. Upon initial recognition of an asset retirement obligation, the Partnership increases the carrying amount of the long-lived asset by the same amount as the liability. Periodically, the liabilities are accreted for the change in present value, through charges to “Accretion of asset retirement obligations” on the statement of operations. The initial capitalized costs are depleted based on the useful lives of the related assets, through charges to depreciation, depletion and amortization, or DD&A. If the fair value of the estimated asset retirement obligation changes, an adjustment is recorded to both the asset retirement obligation and the asset retirement cost. Revisions in estimated liabilities can result from revisions of estimated inflation rates, escalating retirement costs and changes in the estimated timing of settling asset retirement obligations.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
Note 5−Derivative Financial Instruments
The Partnership is exposed to the effect of market fluctuations in the prices of oil and natural gas. Price risk represents the potential risk of loss from adverse changes in the market price of oil and natural gas commodities. The Managing General Partner employs established policies and procedures to manage the risks associated with these market fluctuations using derivative instruments. Partnership policy prohibits the use of oil and natural gas derivative instruments for speculative purposes.
The Partnership recognizes all derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities on the accompanying interim unaudited condensed balance sheets at fair value. The Partnership has elected not to designate any of the Partnership’s derivative instruments as hedges. Accordingly, changes in the fair value of those derivative instruments allocated to the Partnership are recorded in the Partnership’s statements of operations. Changes in the fair value of derivative instruments related to the Partnership’s oil and gas sales activities are recorded in “Oil and gas price risk management, net.”
Valuation of a contract’s fair value is performed internally. While the Managing General Partner uses common industry practices to develop the Partnership’s valuation techniques, changes in pricing methodologies or the underlying assumptions could result in different fair values. See Note 4, Fair Value Measurements, for a discussion of how the Managing General Partner determines the fair value of the Partnership’s derivative instruments.
As of September 30, 2009, the Managing General Partner had derivative contracts in place for a portion of the Partnership’s anticipated production through 2012 for a total of 3,575 MMbtu of natural gas and 157 MBbls of crude oil. During late October 2009, the Managing General Partner entered into additional NYMEX fixed-price gas swaps ($6.67 to $7.11) and NYMEX gas collars ($6.00-$6.10 floor: $8.27-$8.60 ceiling) covering all monthly periods from November 2010 to December 2013. The Partnership will be allocated positions by the Managing General Partner for MMbtu’s equal to the number of remaining MMbtu’s of basis protection swaps at September 30, 2009 which were not previously covered by NYMEX fixed-price gas swaps or gas collars.
Derivative Strategies. The Partnership’s results of operations and operating cash flows are affected by changes in market prices for oil and natural gas. To mitigate a portion of the exposure to adverse market changes, the Managing General Partner has entered into various derivative contracts.
For Partnership oil and gas sales, the Managing General Partner enters into, for a portion of the Partnership’s production, derivative contracts to protect against price declines in future periods. While these derivatives are structured to reduce exposure to changes in price associated with the derivative commodity, they also limit the benefit the Partnership might otherwise have received from price increases in the physical market. The Partnership believes the derivative instruments in place continue to be effective in achieving the risk management objectives for which they were intended.
As of September 30, 2009, the Partnership’s oil and natural gas derivative instruments were comprised of commodity collars, commodity swaps and basis protection swaps.
· | Collars contain a fixed floor price (put) and ceiling price (call). If the market price falls below the fixed put strike price, PDC, as Managing General Partner, receives the market price from the purchaser and receives the difference between the put strike price and market price from the counterparty. If the market price exceeds the fixed call strike price, PDC, as Managing General Partner, receives the market price from the purchaser and pays the difference between the call strike price and market price to the counterparty. If the market price is between the call and put strike price, no payments are due to or from the counterparty. |
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
· | Swaps are arrangements that guarantee a fixed price. If the market price is below the fixed contract price, PDC, as Managing General Partner, receives the market price from the purchaser and receives the difference between the market price and the fixed contract price from the counterparty. If the market price is above the fixed contract price, PDC, as Managing General Partner, receives the market price from the purchaser and pays the difference between the market price and the fixed contract price to the counterparty. |
· | Basis protection swaps are arrangements that guarantee a price differential for natural gas from a specified delivery point. For CIG basis protection swaps, which traditionally have negative differentials to NYMEX, PDC, as Managing General Partner, receives a payment from the counterparty if the price differential is greater than the stated terms of the contract and pays the counterparty if the price differential is less than the stated terms of the contract. |
The following table summarizes the location and fair value amounts of the Partnership’s derivative instruments in the accompanying condensed balance sheets as of September 30, 2009, and December 31, 2008.
Fair Value | |||||||||||
Balance Sheet | September 30, | December 31, | |||||||||
Derivative instruments not designated as hedge (1): | Line Item | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||||
Derivative Assets: | Current | ||||||||||
Commodity contracts | Due from Managing General Partner-derivatives | $ | 5,106,082 | $ | 12,096,394 | ||||||
Non Current | |||||||||||
Commodity contracts | Due from Managing General Partner-derivatives | 415,920 | 3,957,702 | ||||||||
Total Derivative Assets | $ | 5,522,002 | $ | 16,054,096 | |||||||
Derivative Liabilities: | Current | ||||||||||
Commodity contracts | Due to Managing General Partner-derivatives | $ | (584,609 | ) | $ | - | |||||
Basis protection contracts | Due to Managing General Partner-derivatives | (1,249,914 | ) | - | |||||||
Non Current | |||||||||||
Commodity contracts | Due to Managing General Partner-derivatives | (343,726 | ) | - | |||||||
Basis protection contracts | Due to Managing General Partner-derivatives | (4,591,796 | ) | (421,364 | ) | ||||||
Total Derivative Liabilities | �� | $ | (6,770,045 | ) | $ | (421,364 | ) |
(1) As of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, none of the Partnership’s derivative instruments were designated hedges.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
The following table summarizes the impact of the Partnership’s derivative instruments on the Partnership’s accompanying statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008.
Three months ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Statement of operations line item | Reclassification of Realized Gains (Losses) Included in Prior Periods Unrealized | Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) For the Current Period | Total | Reclassification of Realized Gains (Losses) Included in Prior Periods Unrealized | Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) For the Current Period | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Oil and gas price risk management, net | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Realized gains (losses) | $ | 2,580,531 | $ | 21,153 | $ | 2,601,684 | $ | (3,499,320 | ) | $ | 2,494,979 | $ | (1,004,341 | ) | ||||||||||
Unrealized (losses) gains | (2,580,531 | ) | (2,155,130 | ) | (4,735,661 | ) | 3,499,320 | 26,074,023 | 29,573,343 | |||||||||||||||
Total oil and gas price risk management (loss) gain, net | $ | - | $ | (2,133,977 | ) | $ | (2,133,977 | ) | $ | - | $ | 28,569,002 | $ | 28,569,002 |
Nine months ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Statement of operations line item | Reclassification of Realized Gains (Losses) Included in Prior Periods Unrealized | Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) For the Current Period | Total | Reclassification of Realized Gains (Losses) Included in Prior Periods Unrealized | Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) For the Current Period | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Oil and gas price risk management, net | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Realized gains (losses) | $ | 9,330,098 | $ | 1,784,327 | $ | 11,114,425 | $ | (483,758 | ) | $ | (2,378,847 | ) | $ | (2,862,605 | ) | |||||||||
Unrealized (losses) gains | (9,330,098 | ) | (7,550,677 | ) | (16,880,775 | ) | 483,758 | 4,376,369 | 4,860,127 | |||||||||||||||
Total oil and gas price risk management (loss) gain, net | $ | - | $ | (5,766,350 | ) | $ | (5,766,350 | ) | $ | - | $ | 1,997,522 | $ | 1,997,522 |
Concentration of Credit Risk. A significant portion of the Partnership’s liquidity is concentrated in derivative instruments that enables the Partnership to manage a portion of its exposure to price volatility from producing oil and natural gas. These arrangements expose the Partnership to credit risk of nonperformance by the counterparties. The Managing General Partner primarily uses two financial institutions, who are also major lenders in the Managing General Partner’s credit facility agreement, as counterparties to the derivative contracts
Note 6−Commitments and Contingencies
Colorado Royalty Settlement. On May 29, 2007, Glen Droegemueller, individually and as representative plaintiff on behalf of all others similarly situated, filed a class action complaint against the Managing General Partner in the District Court, Weld County, Colorado alleging that the Managing General Partner underpaid royalties on natural gas produced from wells operated by the Managing General Partner in parts of the State of Colorado (the “Droegemueller Action”). The plaintiff sought declaratory relief and to recover an unspecified amount of compensation for underpayment of royalties paid by the Managing General Partner pursuant to leases. The Managing General Partner moved the case to Federal Court on June 28, 2007. On October 10, 2008, the court preliminarily approved a settlement agreement between the plaintiffs and the Managing General Partner, on behalf of itself and the Partnership. Although the Partnership was not named as a party in the suit, the lawsuit states that this action relates to all wells operated by the Managing General Partner, which includes a majority of the Partnership’s 75 wells in the Wattenberg field. The portion of the settlement relating to the Partnership’s wells for all periods through September 30, 2009 that has been expensed by the Partnership is approximately $125,000 including associated legal costs of approximately $11,000. This entire settlement of $114,663 was deposited by the Managing General Partner into an escrow account on November 3, 2008. Notice of the settlement was mailed to members of the class action suit in the fourth quarter of 2008. The final settlement was approved by the court on April 7, 2009. Settlement distribution checks were mailed in July 2009. During September 2009, all settlement costs were passed through to the Partners and related required judicial action from the settlement of the suit was implemented in this distribution.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2009
(unaudited)
Colorado Stormwater Permit. On December 8, 2008, the Managing General Partner received a Notice of Violation /Cease and Desist Order (the “Notice”) from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, related to the stormwater permit for the Garden Gulch Road. The Managing General Partner manages this private road for Garden Gulch LLC. The Managing General Partner is one of eight users of this road, all of which are oil and gas companies operating in the Piceance region of Colorado. Operating expenses, including amounts arising from this notice, if any, are allocated among the eight users of the road based upon their respective usage. The Partnership has 24 wells in this region. The Notice alleges a deficient and/or incomplete stormwater management plan, failure to implement best management practices and failure to conduct required permit inspections. The Notice requires corrective action and states that the recipient shall cease and desist such alleged violations. The Notice states that a violation could result in civil penalties up to $10,000 per day. The Managing General Partner’s responses were submitted on February 6, 2009, and April 8, 2009. No civil penalties have been imposed or requested at this time. Given the preliminary stage of this proceeding and the inherent uncertainty in administrative actions of this nature, the Managing General Partner is unable to predict the ultimate outcome of this administrative action at this time and therefore no amounts have been recorded on the Partnership’s financial records.
Derivative Contracts. The Partnership is exposed to oil and natural gas price fluctuations on underlying sales contracts should the counterparties to the Managing General Partner’s derivative instruments not perform. The Managing General Partner has had no counterparty default losses and expects full performance by the counterparties to these agreements in the future.
Note 7−Subsequent Events
The Partnership evaluated the Partnership’s activities subsequent to September 30, 2009, through November 13, 2009 (the date the financial statements were issued), and have concluded that no subsequent events have occurred that would require recognition in the Partnership’s financial statements or disclosure in the notes to the unaudited condensed financial statements.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Item 2. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This periodic report contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) regarding Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership’s (the “Partnership’s” or the “Registrant’s”) business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in and incorporated by reference into this report are forward-looking statements. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates” and similar expressions or variations of such words are intended to identify forward-looking statements herein, which include statements of estimated oil and natural gas production and reserves, drilling plans, future cash flows, anticipated liquidity, anticipated capital expenditures and the Managing General Partner Petroleum Development Corporation’s (“MGP’s” or “PDC’s”) strategies, plans and objectives. However, these are not the exclusive means of identifying forward-looking statements herein. Although forward-looking statements contained in this report reflect the Managing General Partner's good faith judgment, such statements can only be based on facts and factors currently known to the Managing General Partner. Consequently, forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties incidental to the development, production and marketing of natural gas and oil, and actual outcomes may differ materially from the results and outcomes discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:
· | changes in production volumes, worldwide demand, and commodity prices for oil and natural gas; |
· | risks incident to the operation of natural gas and oil wells; |
· | future production and development costs; |
· | the availability of sufficient pipeline and other transportation facilities to carry Partnership production and the impact of these facilities on price; |
· | the effect of existing and future laws, governmental regulations and the political and economic climate of the United States of America; |
· | the effect of natural gas and oil derivatives activities; |
· | conditions in the capital markets; and |
· | losses possible from pending or future litigation. |
Further, the Partnership urges you to carefully review and consider the cautionary statements made in this report, the Partnership’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 31, 2009 (“2008 Form 10-K”), and the Partnership’s other filings with the SEC and public disclosures. The Partnership cautions you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this report. The Partnership undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance occurring after the date of this report or currently unknown facts or conditions or the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Overview
Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership engages in the development, production and sale of oil and natural gas. The Partnership was organized on May 22, 2007 (date of inception), began oil and gas operations in August 2007 and currently operates 99 gross (97.9 net) wells located in the Rocky Mountain Region in the state of Colorado. The Managing General Partner markets the Partnership’s natural gas production to commercial end users, interstate or intrastate pipelines or local utilities, primarily under market sensitive contracts in which the price of natural gas sold varies as a result of market forces. PDC, on behalf of the Partnership through the D&O Agreement, may enter into multi-year fixed price contracts or utilize derivatives, including collars, swaps or basis protection swaps, in order to offset some or all of the commodity price variability for particular periods of time. Seasonal factors, such as effects of weather on prices received and costs incurred, and availability of pipeline capacity, owned by PDC or other third parties, may impact the Partnership's results. In addition, both sales volumes and prices tend to be affected by demand factors with a seasonal component.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Results of Operations
The following table sets forth selected information regarding the Partnership’s results of operations, including production volumes, oil and natural gas sales, average sales prices received, average sales price including realized derivative gains and losses, production and operating costs, depreciation, depletion and amortization costs, other operating income and expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, or the current three and nine month periods, and the three and nine months ended September 30, 2008, or the prior three and nine month periods.
Summary of Operating Results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Three months ended September 30, | Nine months ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | Change | 2009 | 2008 | Change | |||||||||||||||||||
Number of producing wells (end of period) | 99 | 98 | * | 99 | 98 | * | ||||||||||||||||||
Production: (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oil (Bbl) | 29,302 | 76,375 | -62 | % | 109,369 | 174,044 | -37 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Natural gas (Mcf) | 941,453 | 1,523,291 | -38 | % | 3,124,165 | 2,450,767 | 27 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Natural gas equivalents (Mcfe) (2) | 1,117,265 | 1,981,541 | -44 | % | 3,780,379 | 3,495,031 | 8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Average Selling Price (excluding realized gain (loss) on derivatives) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oil (per Bbl) | $ | 60.59 | $ | 107.25 | -44 | % | $ | 48.49 | $ | 105.77 | -54 | % | ||||||||||||
Natural gas (per Mcf) | 2.44 | 6.30 | -61 | % | 2.72 | 6.97 | -61 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Natural gas equivalents (per Mcfe) | 3.65 | 8.98 | -59 | % | 3.65 | 10.15 | -64 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Realized Gain (Loss) on Derivatives, net | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oil derivatives - realized gain (loss) | $ | 773,128 | $ | (1,136,859 | ) | 168 | % | $ | 3,449,778 | $ | (2,548,773 | ) | -235 | % | ||||||||||
Natural gas derivatives - realized gain (loss) | 1,828,556 | 132,518 | * | 7,664,647 | (313,832 | ) | * | |||||||||||||||||
Total realized gain (loss) on derivatives, net | $ | 2,601,684 | $ | (1,004,341 | ) | * | $ | 11,114,425 | $ | (2,862,605 | ) | * | ||||||||||||
Average Selling Price (including realized gain (loss) on derivatives) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oil (per Bbl) | $ | 86.98 | $ | 92.36 | -6 | % | $ | 80.03 | $ | 91.13 | -12 | % | ||||||||||||
Natural gas (per Mcf) | 4.38 | 6.39 | -31 | % | 5.18 | 6.84 | -24 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Natural gas equivalents (per Mcfe) | 5.98 | 8.47 | -29 | % | 6.59 | 9.33 | -29 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Average cost per Mcfe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production and operating costs (3) | $ | 0.85 | $ | 1.18 | -28 | % | $ | 0.98 | $ | 1.29 | -24 | % | ||||||||||||
Depreciation, depletion and amortization | 3.31 | 2.63 | 26 | % | 3.32 | 2.66 | 25 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oil and natural gas sales | $ | 4,074,965 | $ | 17,786,256 | -77 | % | $ | 13,807,111 | $ | 35,482,979 | -61 | % | ||||||||||||
Realized gain (loss) on derivatives, net | 2,601,684 | (1,004,341 | ) | * | 11,114,425 | (2,862,605 | ) | * | ||||||||||||||||
Unrealized (loss) gain on derivatives, net | (4,735,661 | ) | 29,573,343 | -116 | % | (16,880,775 | ) | 4,860,127 | * | |||||||||||||||
Total revenues | $ | 1,940,988 | $ | 46,355,258 | -96 | % | $ | 8,040,761 | $ | 37,480,501 | -79 | % | ||||||||||||
Operating costs and expenses: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production and operating costs | $ | 952,391 | $ | 2,334,959 | -59 | % | $ | 3,701,518 | $ | 4,517,208 | -18 | % | ||||||||||||
Direct costs - general and administrative | 80,510 | 118,067 | -32 | % | 392,646 | 377,891 | 4 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Depreciation, depletion and amortization | 3,693,079 | 5,205,649 | -29 | % | 12,569,490 | 9,299,183 | 35 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Accretion of asset retirement obligations | 7,000 | 6,556 | 7 | % | 20,999 | 14,885 | 41 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Total operating costs and expenses | $ | 4,732,980 | $ | 7,665,231 | -38 | % | $ | 16,684,653 | $ | 14,209,167 | 17 | % | ||||||||||||
(Loss) income from operations | $ | (2,791,992 | ) | $ | 38,690,027 | -107 | % | $ | (8,643,892 | ) | $ | 23,271,334 | -137 | % | ||||||||||
Interest expense | (3,779 | ) | - | * | (3,779 | ) | - | * | ||||||||||||||||
Interest income | - | 12,758 | -100 | % | 19,295 | 88,392 | -78 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Net (loss) income | $ | (2,795,771 | ) | $ | 38,702,785 | -107 | % | $ | (8,628,376 | ) | $ | 23,359,726 | -137 | % | ||||||||||
Cash distributions | $ | 9,122,346 | $ | 7,828,591 | 17 | % | $ | 29,640,945 | $ | 13,347,286 | 122 | % |
*Percentage change not meaningful, equal to or greater than 250% or not calculable. Amounts may not calculate due to rounding.
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(1) | Production is determined by multiplying the gross production volume of properties in which the Partnership has an interest by the percentage of the leasehold or other property interest the Partnership owns. |
(2) | A ratio of energy content of natural gas and oil (six Mcf of natural gas equals one Bbl of oil) was used to obtain a conversion factor to convert oil production into equivalent Mcf of natural gas. |
(3) | Production costs represent oil and gas operating expenses which include production taxes. |
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Definitions used throughout Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations:
· | Bbl – One barrel or 42 U.S. gallons liquid volume |
· | MBbl – One thousand barrels |
· | Mcf – One thousand cubic feet |
· | MMcf – One million cubic feet |
· | Mcfe – One thousand cubic feet of natural gas equivalents |
· | MMcfe – One million cubic feet of natural gas equivalents |
· | MMbtu – One million British Thermal Units |
Natural gas prices rebounded somewhat from earlier in 2009, through September 2009. The Partnership continued to experience the depressed natural gas prices from the significant declines in late July 2008 through the end of 2008. Although the Partnership’s production increased to 3,780 MMcfe for the 2009 nine-month period compared to 3,495 MMcfe for the same 2008 period, an increase of 8%, the Partnership’s average sales price declined $6.50 per Mcfe, a decrease of 64%. While the significant changes in commodity prices have impacted the Partnership’s results of operations, the Managing General Partner believes that it was successful in managing the Partnership’s operations to reduce the negative impacts of lower prices through the Partnership’s derivative positions. The Partnership’s realized derivative gains for the 2009 nine month period of $11.1 million added an average of $2.94 per Mcfe produced during the 2009 nine month period. At September 30, 2009, the Managing General Partner estimates the net fair value of the Partnership’s open derivative positions to be a net liability of $1.2 million.
There were two primary contributors to the $7.8 million decrease in oil and gas price risk management, net. A decrease in future prices at September 30, 2009 compared to December 30, 2008 resulted in a $21.8 million increase in unrealized derivative losses. This was partially offset by a 14.0 million increase in realized derivative gains which resulted from depressed commodity prices for the 2009 nine month period, as compared to the higher prices in the same 2008 period. Unrealized gains and losses are non-cash items and these non-cash charges to the Partnership’s statement of operations will continue to fluctuate with the fluctuation in commodity prices until the positions mature or are closed, at which time they will become realized or cash items. The Partnership has elected not to designate any of the Partnership’s derivative instruments as hedges. Under hedge accounting, changes in the fair value of derivatives less amounts reclassified to realized gains/losses are shown as other comprehensive income in the statement of equity and not in the statement of operations. While the required accounting treatment of recording all changes in the fair value of derivatives in the statement of operations, for derivatives that are not designated as hedges, may result in significant swings in operating results over the life of the derivatives, the combination of the settled derivative contracts and the revenue received from the oil and gas sales at delivery are expected to result in a more predictable cash flow stream than would the sales contracts without the associated derivatives.
The table below, which demonstrates the markets’ expected volatility in commodity pricing, sets forth the average NYMEX and CIG prices for the next 24 months (forward curve) from the selected dates:
September 30, | March 31, | September 30, | October 31, | |||||||||||||||
Commodity | Index | 2008 | 2009 | 2009 | 2009 | |||||||||||||
Natural gas: (per MMbtu) | ||||||||||||||||||
NYMEX | $ | 8.21 | $ | 5.44 | $ | 6.25 | $ | 6.00 | ||||||||||
CIG | 5.46 | 4.15 | 5.64 | 5.49 | ||||||||||||||
Oil: (per Bbl) | NYMEX | 103.63 | 59.35 | 74.64 | 81.26 |
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Oil and Natural Gas Sales
Overall Partnership production on an Mcfe, or energy-equivalency basis, increased to 3,780 MMcfe for the current year nine month period from 3,495 MMcfe for the prior year nine month period, an increase in Mcfe volumes of 8%. Although current year nine month period natural gas production increased to 3,124 MMcf, oil production decreased to 109 MBbls for the current year nine month period, compared from volumes produced during the same period last year. This change in production volumes is consistent with the historically declining production curves for wells drilled in the Wattenberg and Grand Valley Fields. The period-to-period increase in natural gas volumes of 27% and decrease in oil volumes of 37%, respectively, reflects the historically steeper decline in oil production volumes during the earlier portions of the production life cycle as compared to natural gas.
The Partnership’s oil and gas sales revenue, excluding price risk management impacts, for the current nine month period, decreased $21.7 million due to the significant decline in both oil and natural gas prices which was partially offset by overall increased volumes, on a Mcfe basis. Approximately $24.6 million of the decrease in oil and natural gas sales revenue for the current nine month period was due to pricing which was partially offset by a $2.9 million revenue increase due to increased production volumes on a Mcfe basis.
Partnership production decreased to 1,117 MMcfe, for the current year three month period, from 1,982 MMcfe for the prior year three month period, a decrease in Mcfe volumes of 44%. However, both natural gas and oil production for the current year three month period decreased, to 941 MMcf, a decline of 38%, and 29 MBbls, a decline of 62%, respectively, over natural gas and oil volumes produced during the comparable period last year. The more significant decline in oil production than natural gas was expected based on the historical production curves for oil and gas wells in the Partnership’s fields of operation but was also indicative of third quarter 2008 production results which represent the first quarter that substantially all Partnership wells were in production.
The Partnership’s oil and gas sales revenue, excluding price risk management impacts, for the current three month period, decreased $13.7 million, due to a significant decline in both oil and natural gas prices and decreased volumes when compared to the same period last year. Approximately $5.9 million of the decrease in oil and natural gas sales revenue for the current three month period was due to pricing and $7.8 million was due to decreased production volumes.
The Partnership expects to experience continued declines in both oil and natural gas production volumes over the wells’ life cycles until such time that the Partnership’s Wattenberg wells may be successfully recompleted. Subsequent to a successful recompletion, production will once again begin to decline.
Oil and Natural Gas Pricing
Financial results depend upon many factors, particularly the price of oil and natural gas and the Partnership’s ability to market its production effectively. Oil and natural gas prices are among the most volatile of all commodity prices. These price variations have a material impact on the Partnership’s financial results. Oil and natural gas prices also vary by region and locality, depending upon the distance to markets, and the supply and demand relationships in that region or locality. This can be especially true in the Rocky Mountain Region. The combination of increased drilling activity and the lack of local markets have resulted in a local market oversupply situation from time to time. Like most producers in the region, the Partnership relies on major interstate pipeline companies to construct these pipelines to increase capacity, rendering the timing and availability of these facilities and transportation capacity beyond the Partnership’s control.
The price the Partnership receives for the natural gas produced in the Rocky Mountain Region is based on a variety of prices, which primarily includes natural gas sold at CIG prices with a portion sold at Mid-Continent, San Juan Basin, Southern California or other nearby region prices. The CIG Index, and other indices for production delivered to other Rocky Mountain pipelines, has historically been less than the price received for natural gas produced in the eastern regions, which is NYMEX based. This negative differential has narrowed in recent months and has even more recently become a positive differential. CIG was $1.79 lower than NYMEX in January 2009, narrowed to close at $0.37 lower in October 2009 and has more recently closed at $0.02 higher than NYMEX for November 2009.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Oil and Gas Price Risk Management, Net
The Managing General Partner uses oil and natural gas derivative instruments to manage price risk for PDC as well as sponsored drilling partnerships. The Managing General Partner sets these instruments for PDC, and the various partnerships managed by PDC. Prior to September 30, 2008, as volumes produced changed, the mix between PDC and the partnerships changed on a pro-rata basis. As of September 30, 2008, PDC has fixed the allocation of the derivative positions between PDC and each partnership. Existing positions are allocated based on fixed quantities for each position and new positions will have specific designations relative to the applicable partnership.
The following table presents the primary composition of “Oil and gas price risk management, net” for the periods described:
Three months ended September 30, | Nine months ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
Oil and gas price risk management, net | 2009 | 2008 | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||||||||
Realized gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||||
Oil | $ | 773,128 | $ | (1,136,859 | ) | $ | 3,449,778 | $ | (2,548,773 | ) | ||||||
Natural Gas | 1,828,556 | 132,518 | 7,664,647 | (313,832 | ) | |||||||||||
Total realized gain (loss), net | 2,601,684 | (1,004,341 | ) | 11,114,425 | (2,862,605 | ) | ||||||||||
Unrealized gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||||
Reclassification of realized (gains) losses included in prior periods unrealized | (2,580,531 | ) | 3,499,320 | (9,330,098 | ) | 483,758 | ||||||||||
Unrealized (loss) gain for the period | (2,155,130 | ) | 26,074,023 | (7,550,677 | ) | 4,376,369 | ||||||||||
Total unrealized (loss) gain, net | (4,735,661 | ) | 29,573,343 | (16,880,775 | ) | 4,860,127 | ||||||||||
Oil and gas price risk management (loss) gain, net | $ | (2,133,977 | ) | $ | 28,569,002 | $ | (5,766,350 | ) | $ | 1,997,522 |
Realized gains recognized in the current year three and nine month periods, are a result of lower oil and gas commodity prices at settlement date compared to the respective contract price. During the current year three month period, the Partnership recorded unrealized derivative losses on the Partnership’s CIG basis swaps of $1.3 million, as the forward basis differential between NYMEX and CIG has continued to narrow and unrealized losses on the Partnership’s collars of $ 0.5 million and natural gas swaps of $0.3 million as pricing curves have rebounded slightly from prior periods. During the current year nine month period, the Partnership recorded unrealized derivative losses on its oil swaps of $1.5 million, as the forward strip price of oil rebounded during the quarter, and on the Partnership’s CIG basis swaps of $5.4 million, for the same reason cited above. The Partnership also recorded unrealized losses on the Partnership’s collars of approximately $0.1 and natural gas swaps of $0.6 million as natural gas prices, which had declined in previous quarters, have risen slightly above those price levels reflected in previous forward curves.
Oil and gas price risk management, net includes realized gains and losses and unrealized changes in the fair value of derivative instruments related to the Partnership’s oil and natural gas production. See Note 4, Fair Value Measurements and Note 5, Derivative Financial Instruments, to the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements for additional details of the Partnership’s derivative financial instruments.
Oil and Natural Gas Sales Derivative Instruments. The Managing General Partner uses various derivative instruments to manage fluctuations in oil and natural gas prices. The Partnership has in place a series of collars, fixed-price swaps and basis protection swaps on a portion of the Partnership’s oil and natural gas production as set forth in the following table.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
This table identifies the Partnership’s derivative positions related to oil and gas sales activities in effect as of September 30, 2009, on the Partnership’s production. The Partnership’s production volumes for the three months ended September 30, 2009 were 29,302 Bbls of oil and 941,453 Mcf of natural gas.
Collars | Fixed-Price Swaps | Basis Protection Swaps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floors | Ceilings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quantity | Weighted | Quantity | Weighted | Quantity | Weighted | Quantity | Weighted | Fair Value | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commodity/ | (Gas- | Average | (Gas- | Average | (Gas- | Average | (Gas- | Average | At | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating Area/ | MMbtu | Contract | MMbtu | Contract | MMbtu | Contract | MMbtu | Contract | September 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Index | Oil-Bbls) | Price | Oil-Bbls) | Price | Oil-Bbls) | Price | Oil-Bbls) | Price | 2009(1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CIG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4Q 2009 | 419,378 | $ | 6.61 | 419,378 | $ | 8.21 | 145,030 | $ | 9.20 | - | $ | - | $ | 1,658,407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | 448,513 | 6.65 | 448,513 | 8.10 | 217,545 | 9.20 | 1,332,076 | 1.88 | (259,569 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | 207,438 | 4.75 | 207,438 | 9.45 | - | - | 1,421,008 | 1.88 | (1,568,116 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,402,282 | 1.88 | (1,447,988 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,238,582 | 1.88 | (1,187,822 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYMEX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | 51,001 | 5.75 | 51,001 | 8.30 | 1,255,297 | 5.62 | - | - | (659,514 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | 67,527 | 5.75 | 67,527 | 8.30 | 387,399 | 6.96 | - | - | 10,213 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | - | - | - | - | 375,572 | 6.96 | - | - | (17,376 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Natural Gas | (3,471,765 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NYMEX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4Q 2009 | - | - | - | - | 34,786 | 90.52 | - | - | 675,942 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | - | - | - | - | 93,844 | 92.96 | - | - | 1,729,052 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | - | - | - | - | 28,043 | 70.75 | - | - | (181,272 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Oil | 2,223,722 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Natural Gas and Oil | $ | (1,248,043 | ) |
(1) Approximately 49% of the total fair value of the derivative instruments was measured using significant unobserved inputs (Level 3 assets and liabilities). See Note 4, Fair Value Measurements, to the accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements.
During late October 2009, the Managing General Partner entered into additional NYMEX fixed-price gas swaps ($6.67 to $7.11) and NYMEX gas collars ($6.00-$6.10 floor: $8.27-$8.60 ceiling) covering all monthly periods from November 2010 to December 2013. The Partnership will be allocated positions by the Managing General Partner for MMbtu’s equal to the number of remaining MMbtu’s of basis protection swaps at September 30, 2009 which were not previously covered by NYMEX fixed-price gas swaps or gas collars.
Production and Operating Costs
Generally, production and operating costs vary either with total oil and natural gas sales or production volumes. Property and severance taxes are estimated by the Managing General Partner based on rates determined using historical information. These amounts are subject to revision based on actual amounts determined during future filings by the Managing General Partner with the taxing authorities. Property and severance taxes vary directly with total oil and natural gas sales. Transportation costs vary directly with production volumes. Fixed monthly well operating costs increase on a per unit basis as production decreases per the historical decline curve. General oil field services and all other costs vary and can fluctuate based on services required. These costs include water hauling and disposal, equipment repairs and maintenance, snow removal and service rig workovers.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the same period in 2008, oil and natural gas production, on an energy equivalency-basis, increased 8%. The 2009 production increase reflects the first full year of production for the Partnership’s 99 producing wells, which had been drilled, completed and connected to pipeline on a phased-in-basis during 2008, that was partially offset by current year production constraints due to higher Grand Valley Field well fluid build-up. Production and operating costs were lower by $0.8 million, or 18%, due to volume-associated increases of $0.4 million in production taxes, natural gas transport and lease operating expenses. Lower commodity valuations reduced production taxes by approximately $2.2 million which was slightly offset by higher lease operating expenses of $0.7 million due to higher Grand Valley Field fluid hauling and disposal expenditures and changing production mix from the larger Grand Valley Field to the smaller Wattenberg Field. Production and operating costs per Mcfe were $0.98 for the nine months ended September 30 of 2009 compared to $1.29 for the comparable period in 2008.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
For the three months ended September 30, 2009, compared to the same period in 2008, oil and natural gas production declined 44% which reduced volume-associated expenditures by $1.0 million. Additionally, a decrease of $0.7 million in production-related taxes, due to lower commodity valuations, was offset by higher lease operating expenses of approximately $0.3 million due to higher fluid hauling and disposal costs and the change in production mix by field, described above. Overall, production and operating costs declined by approximately $1.4 million for the current period compared to the prior year period. Production and operating costs per Mcfe were $0.85 and $1.18 for the three month period ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Direct Costs−General and Administrative
Direct costs – general and administrative consist primarily of professional fees for financial statement audits, income tax return preparation and legal matters. Direct costs remained substantially the same for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to previous year period.
Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization
Depreciation, depletion and amortization (DD&A) expense results solely from the depreciation, depletion and amortization of well equipment and lease costs. The calculation of DD&A expense is directly related to reserves and production volumes. DD&A expense is primarily based upon year-end proved developed producing oil and gas reserves. These reserves are priced at the price of oil and natural gas as of December 31 each year. If prices increase, the estimated volume of oil and gas reserves may increase, resulting in decreases in the rate of DD&A expense per unit of production. If prices decrease, as they did from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008, the estimated volumes of oil and gas reserves may decrease resulting in increases in the rate of DD&A expense per unit of production.
The DD&A rate per Mcfe increased to $3.31 and $3.32 for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009, respectively, compared to $2.63 and $2.66 during the same periods ended September 30, 2008. For the three months ended September 30, 2009, production level decreases of 44% were offset by an increase in the DD&A rate per Mcfe due to lower proved developed reserves at December 31, 2008 compared to December 31, 2007, which resulted in a $1.5 million DD&A expense decrease compared to same period in 2008. For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, production level increases of 8% combined with the increase in the DD&A rate per Mcfe, similarly due to the Partnership’s lower proved developed reserves described above, resulted in the $3.3 million DD&A expense increase compared to same period in 2008. While production and overall year-end reserves are expected to decline gradually year-to-year over the wells’ remaining life cycles, downward revisions to proved developed oil and natural gas reserves in the annual 2008 reserve report resulted in the increased DD&A unit cost increases during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009 as compared to the same periods in 2008.
Interest Expense
The Partnership incurred interest expense of approximately $3,800 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, related to amounts funded by the Managing General Partner in November 2008, into escrow on behalf of the Partnership, which were subsequently paid to Colorado Royalty Settlement litigants in July 2009. Interest rates paid by the Partnership were determined in accordance with the Applicable Federal Interest Rate applicable to Qualified Legal Settlements under Internal Revenue Code §468B. For more information on the Colorado Royalty Settlement, see Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies, to the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements and Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, Due from (to) Managing General Partner – other, net, to the 2008 Form 10-K.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Interest Income
Lower undistributed revenues held by the Managing General Partner, and significantly lower interest rates applied to those undistributed amounts, resulted in no interest income during the three months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Higher undistributed revenues held by the Managing General Partner but significantly lower interest rates applied to those undistributed amounts, resulted lower interest income for the nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to the previous year period.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Partnership may be unable to maintain its current level of oil and gas production and cash flows from operations if commodity prices remain in their current depressed state for a prolonged period beyond 2009. This decreased production would have a material negative impact on the Partnership’s operations and may result in reduced cash distributions to the Investor Partners in 2010 and beyond.
Working Capital
Working capital at September 30, 2009 was $6.2 million compared to working capital of $24.4 million at December 31, 2008. This decrease of $18.2 million was primarily due to a decrease in receivables from oil and gas sales at September 30, 2009 to $2.6 million as compared to $8.6 million at December 31, 2008. In addition, the receivables at September 30, 2009 for realized and short-term net unrealized derivative gains which decreased $1.7 million and $3.3 million, respectively, from the amounts at December 31, 2008 of $4.8 million and $12.1 million, respectively. In September 2009, there was a decrease in Due from Managing General Partner – other, net, of $0.1 million due to the Partnership’s settlement of the obligation for the Colorado Royalty Settlement of $0.1 million with the Managing General Partner. For more information on the Colorado Royalty Settlement see Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies to the accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements. The cash impact of this transaction decreased distributions by $0.1 million during the quarter.
Cash Flows From Investing Activities
For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, consistent with oil and gas industry practice and State of Colorado statue, the Partnership incurred approximately $0.6 million for oil and gas development reclamation activities subsequent to the phased-in completion and final tie-in during fourth quarter 2008, of the Partnership’s 99 producing wells. Reclamation costs consist of well pad and access road restoration of site stability and ecosystem functions. The Partnership also expects from time-to-time, to invest in additional equipment which supports treatment, delivery and measurement of oil and gas or environmental protection related to ongoing oil and natural gas producing operations.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Cash Flows From Financing Activities
The Partnership initiated monthly cash distributions to investors in May 2008 and has distributed $58.0 million through September 30, 2009. The table below sets forth the cash distribution to the Managing General Partner and Investor Partners for the periods described as follows:
Three months ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Managing | Investor | Managing | Investor | |||||||||||||||||||
General Partner | Partners | Total | General Partner | Partners | Total | |||||||||||||||||
Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | |||||||||||||||||
$ | 3,375,268 | $ | 5,747,078 | $ | 9,122,346 | $ | 2,897,082 | $ | 4,931,509 | $ | 7,828,591 |
Nine months ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Managing | Investor | Managing | Investor | |||||||||||||||||||
General Partner | Partners | Total | General Partner | Partners | Total | |||||||||||||||||
Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | Distributions | |||||||||||||||||
$ | 11,196,959 | $ | 18,443,986 | $ | 29,640,945 | $ | 4,938,996 | $ | 8,408,290 | $ | 13,347,286 |
PDC has repurchased no Investor Partner units as of September 30, 2009. Accordingly, cash distributions represent amounts allocable to PDC solely as Managing General Partner.
Cash Flows From Operating Activities
The Partnership’s operations are expected to be conducted with available funds and revenues generated from its oil and natural gas production activities. Changes in cash flow from operations are largely due to the same factors that affect the Partnership’s net income that are more fully discussed under Results of Operations, excluding the non-cash items depreciation, depletion and amortization and unrealized gains and losses on derivative transactions. Based on current oil and natural gas prices and prices set by derivatives, and the Partnership’s anticipated production, the Partnership expects positive cash flows from operations for the remainder of 2009.
Changes in market prices for oil and natural gas, the Partnership’s production levels, the impact of realized gains and losses on the Partnership’s oil and natural gas derivative instruments and changes in costs are the principal determinants of the level of the Partnership cash flow from operations. Oil and natural gas sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 were approximately 61% lower than the same period in the prior year, resulting from a 64% decrease in average oil and natural gas prices that was offset by an 8% increase in oil and natural gas production. While a decline in oil and natural gas prices would affect the amount of cash from operations that would be generated, the Partnership has oil and natural gas derivative positions in place, as of the date of this filing, covering substantially all of the Partnership’s expected oil production and 58% of its expected natural gas production for the remainder of 2009, at average prices of $90.52 per Bbl and $7.28 per MMbtu, respectively. These contracts reduce the impact of price changes on cash provided by operations for a substantial portion of the expected production for the remainder of 2009. However, the remaining 42% of estimated remaining 2009 natural gas production is not subject to the Partnership’s derivative instrument risk management; consequently, associated revenues will be directly impacted by changing commodity market prices.
The Partnership’s current derivatives positions could change based on changes in oil and natural gas futures markets, the investors’ view of underlying oil and natural gas supply and demand trends and changes in volumes produced. Partnership oil and natural gas derivatives as of September 30, 2009 are detailed in Note 5, Derivative Financial Instruments to the accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $28.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 compared to $13.9 million during the same period in 2008, an increase of $15.0 million. Variances between the two periods in cash provided by operating activities were due primarily to the following:
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
· | An increase in realized oil and gas price risk management, net of $14.0 million and a decrease in production and operating cost of $0.8 million or 18%, an increase in cash collections of $24.6 million, and |
· | A decrease in oil and gas sale revenue of $21.7 million, or 61%, and a decrease in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $2.0 million, and |
· | A decease in Due from Managing General Partner – other, net, of $0.1 million in September 2009, due to the Partnership’s $0.1 million payment to the Managing General Partner for royalty settlement costs. For more information on the Colorado Royalty Settlement see Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies to the accompanying interim unaudited condensed financial statements. |
Information related to the oil and gas reserves of the Partnership’s wells is discussed in detail in the Partnership’s Annual Report on Form 10-K Supplemental Oil and Gas Information−Unaudited, Net Proved Oil and Gas Reserves and Information and Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves.
No bank borrowings are anticipated until such time as recompletions of the Codell formation in the Wattenberg Field wells are undertaken by the Partnership that is expected to occur based on a favorable general economic environment and commodity price structure. Partnership well recompletions, which provide for additional reserve development and production, generally occur five to seven years after initial well drilling so that well resources are optimally utilized. There are no immediate plans to initiate recompletion activities in the Wattenberg Field wells owned by the Partnership. As the optimal period approaches, the Managing General Partner will re-evaluate the feasibility of commencing those recompletions based on engineering data and a favorable commodity price environment in order to maximize the financial benefit of the recompletion. However, no assurances can be given that recompletion activities will be feasible or economic.
Commitments and Contingencies
See Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies to the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements.
Recent Accounting Standards
See Note 2, Recent Accounting Standards to the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements, included in this report for recent accounting standards.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The preparation of the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to use judgment in making estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses.
The Partnership believes that the Partnership’s accounting policies for revenue recognition, derivatives instruments, fair value measurements, oil and natural gas properties and asset retirement obligations are based on, among other things, judgments and assumptions made by management that include inherent risks and uncertainties. There have been no significant changes to these policies or in the underlying accounting assumptions and estimates used in these critical accounting policies from those disclosed in the financial statements and accompanying notes contained in the Partnership’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008. Certain amounts reported at December 31, 2008, more fully detailed in Note 3, −Transactions with Managing General Partner and Affiliates to the accompanying financial statements have been reclassified on the Partnership’s balance sheet to conform to the current year classifications with no effect on previously reported net income or Partners’ equity. Reclassifications include amounts related to undistributed oil and gas revenues and the fair value of unexpired derivative instruments.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Item 3. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk |
Not Applicable
Item 4T | Controls and Procedures |
The Partnership has no direct management or officers. The management, officers and other employees that provide services on behalf of the Partnership are employed by the Managing General Partner.
2008 Material Weakness
As discussed in the Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting included in the Partnership’s 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K, the Partnership did not maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting as of December 31, 2008, over transactions that are directly related to and processed by the Partnership, in that the Partnership failed to maintain sufficient documentation to adequately assess the operating effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. More specifically, the Partnership’s financial close and reporting narrative failed to adequately describe the process, identify key controls and assess segregation of duties. This material weakness has not been remediated as of September 30, 2009. The 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K did not include an attestation report of the Partnership’s independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Item 308T (a)(4) of Regulation S-K. Pursuant to Final Order dated October 19, 2009, temporary Item 308T was extended through December 15, 2010. Accordingly, the Partnership will file the attestation report of the Partnership’s independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control with the Partnership’s Annual Report on Form 10-K as of December 31, 2010.
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of September 30, 2009, PDC, as Managing General Partner on behalf of the Partnership, carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of the Managing General Partner's management, including its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Partnership's disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e). This evaluation considered the various processes carried out under the direction of the Managing General Partner’s Disclosure Committee in an effort to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the SEC reports the Partnership files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Partnership’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Based upon that evaluation, the Managing General Partner’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Partnership’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of September 30, 2009 due to the existence of the material weakness described above in 2008 Material Weakness included in this Item 4 (T). Because of the nature of the material weakness noted, the Partnership is not able to quantify the dollar amounts of exposure or potential range of the dollar amount of potential revisions to the financial statements, from this material weakness.
(b) Remediation of Material Weakness in Internal Control
PDC, the Managing General Partner, with participation from the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors, has been addressing the material weakness disclosed in the Partnership’s 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K. The Managing General Partner believes that with effective implementation of planned changes in internal controls over financial reporting outlined below, that it will be able to remediate this known material weakness as of December 31, 2009. However, this control weakness will not be considered remediated until the changes in internal controls over financial reporting are operating effectively for a sufficient period of time and the Managing General Partner has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
The Partnership made the following changes in its internal control over financial reporting (such as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) during the quarter ended September 30, 2009.
The Partnership developed documentation that materially describes the business processes and identifies key controls for internal control over financial reporting that will assist the Managing General Partner in adequately assessing the control over financial reporting for the Partnership. In addition, the Partnership developed documentation to adequately assess segregation of duties. At present, the Partnership has not quantified the total cost of this initiative; however the majority of this cost is expected to be paid by the Managing General Partner.
Until PDC, the Managing General Partner, is able to conclude that the Partnership has remediated this known material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, the Managing General Partner will continue to perform additional analysis and procedures in order to ensure that the Partnership’s financial statements contained in its subsequent SEC filings are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.
(c) Other Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
During the 2009 third quarter, PDC made the following changes in PDC’s internal control over financial reporting (as such defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting:
· | Effective July 1, 2009, as part of PDC’s broader financial reporting system, PDC implemented a new partnership investor distribution accounting module to the existing accounting software. PDC has taken the necessary steps to monitor and maintain appropriate internal controls during this period of change. These steps included procedures to preserve the integrity of the data converted and a review by the business owners to validate data converted. Additionally, PDC provided training related to the business process changes and the financial reporting system software to individuals using the financial reporting system to carry out their job responsibilities, as well as, those who rely on the financial information. PDC anticipates that the implementation of this module will strengthen the overall systems of internal controls due to enhanced automation and integration of related processes. PDC is modifying the design and documentation of internal control process and procedures relating to the new module to supplement and complement existing internal control over financial reporting. The system changes were undertaken to integrate systems and consolidate information and were not undertaken in response to any actual or perceived deficiencies in PDC’s internal control over financial reporting. Testing of the controls related to these new systems is ongoing and is included in the scope of PDC’s assessment of its internal control over financial reporting for 2009. |
The Managing General Partner continues to evaluate the ongoing effectiveness and sustainability of the changes PDC made in internal control over financial reporting, and, as a result of the ongoing evaluation, may identify additional changes to improve internal control over financial reporting. Further information regarding the material weakness of the Partnership referenced above may be found in the Partnership’s Annual Report on 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 under Item 9A (T), Controls and Procedures − Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. | Legal Proceedings |
Information regarding the Registrant’s legal proceedings can be found in Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies, to the Partnership’s accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements.
Item 1A. | Risk Factors |
Not Applicable
Items 2, 3, 4 and 5 have been omitted as there is nothing to report.
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
Item 6. | Exhibits |
(a) Exhibit Index.
Incorporated by Reference | ||||||||||||
Exhibit Number | Exhibit Description | Form | SEC File Number | Exhibit | Filing Date | Filed Herewith | ||||||
3.1 | Limited Partnership Agreement | 10-12G/A Amend 1 | 000-53201 | 3 | 08/06/2008 | |||||||
3.2 | Certificate of limited partnership which reflects the organization of the Partnership under West Virginia law | 10-12G/A Amend 1 | 000-53201 | 3.1 | 08/06/2008 | |||||||
10.1 | Drilling and operating agreement between the Partnership and PDC, the Managing General Partner of the Partnership | 10-12G/A Amend 1 | 000-53201 | 10.2 | 08/06/2008 | |||||||
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(c) Certification of Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Development Corporation, the Managing General Partner of the Partnership as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. | X | |||||||||||
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(c) Certification of Chief Financial Officer of Petroleum Development Corporation, the Managing General Partner of the Partnership as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. | X | |||||||||||
Title 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 (Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) Certifications by Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Petroleum Development Corporation, the Managing General Partner of the Partnership. | X |
ROCKIES REGION 2007 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(A West Virginia Limited Partnership)
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Rockies Region 2007 Limited Partnership
By its Managing General Partner
Petroleum Development Corporation
By: /s/ Richard W. McCullough | ||
Richard W. McCullough Chairman and Chief Executive Officer November 13, 2009 |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signature | Title | Date | ||
/s/ Richard W. McCullough | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | November 13, 2009 | ||
Richard W. McCullough | Petroleum Development Corporation | |||
Managing General Partner of the Registrant | ||||
(Principal executive officer) | ||||
/s/ Gysle R. Shellum | Chief Financial Officer | November 13, 2009 | ||
Gysle R. Shellum | Petroleum Development Corporation | |||
Managing General Partner of the Registrant | ||||
(Principal financial officer) | ||||
/s/ R. Scott Meyers | Chief Accounting Officer | November 13, 2009 | ||
R. Scott Meyers | Petroleum Development Corporation | |||
Managing General Partner of the Registrant | ||||
(Principal accounting officer) |
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