EX-99.2 5 d123119dex992.htm EXHIBIT 99.2 d123119dex992
 
 
 
 
Exhibit 99.2
 
 
DeGolyer and MacNaughton
5001 Spring Valley
 
Road
Suite 800 East
Dallas, Texas 75244
 
 
February 18, 2020
 
 
ConocoPhillips
 
925 N. Eldridge Parkway
Houston, Texas 77079
 
 
Re: SEC Process Review
 
 
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
Pursuant to your
 
request, DeGolyer and
 
MacNaughton has performed a
 
process review of
 
the processes and
controls used within
 
ConocoPhillips in preparing
 
its internal estimates
 
of proved
 
reserves, as of
 
December 31, 2019.
This process review,
 
which is contemplated by Item
 
1202 (a)(8) of Regulation
 
S–K of the United States
 
Securities and
Exchange Commission
 
(SEC), has been
 
performed specifically
 
to address the
 
adequacy and
 
effectiveness of
ConocoPhillips’ internal processes
 
and controls relative to
 
its estimation
 
of proved reserves in compliance with
Rules 4–10(a) (1)–(32) of Regulation S–X of the SEC.
 
DeGolyer and
 
MacNaughton has
 
participated as
 
an independent
 
member of
 
the internal
 
ConocoPhillips
Reserves Compliance Assessment Team
 
in reviews and
 
discussions with each
 
of the relevant
 
ConocoPhillips business
units relative
 
to SEC
 
proved reserves
 
estimation. DeGolyer
 
and MacNaughton
 
has participated
 
in the
 
review of
 
all
major fields
 
in all
 
countries in
 
which ConocoPhillips
 
has proved
 
reserves worldwide,
 
which ConocoPhillips
 
has
indicated represents over 90 percent of its estimated total proved reserves as of December 31, 2019.
 
 
The reviews with ConocoPhillips’ technical
 
staff involved presentations and
 
discussions of a) basic reservoir
data, including seismic
 
data, well-log data,
 
pressure and production
 
tests, core analysis,
 
pressure-volume-temperature
data, and production history, b) technical methods employed
 
in SEC proved reserves estimation, including performance
analysis, geology,
 
mapping, and volumetric
 
estimates, c) economic analysis,
 
and d) commercial assessment,
 
including
the legal
 
basis for
 
the interest
 
in the
 
reserves, primarily
 
related to
 
lease agreements
 
and other
 
petroleum license
agreements, such as concession and production sharing agreements.
 
A field examination of the properties was not considered necessary for the purposes of this review of
ConocoPhillips’ processes and controls.
 
 
 
It is DeGolyer and MacNaughton’s
 
opinion that ConocoPhillips’ estimates of proved
 
reserves for the
properties reviewed were
 
prepared by the
 
use of recognized
 
geologic and engineering
 
methods generally accepted
 
by
the petroleum industry.
 
The method or combination of
 
methods used in the analysis
 
of each reservoir was tempered
 
by
ConocoPhillips’ experience with
 
similar reservoirs, stage
 
of development, quality
 
and completeness of basic
 
data, and
production history.
 
It is DeGolyer
 
and MacNaughton’s
 
opinion that the
 
general processes and
 
controls employed by
ConocoPhillips in
 
estimating its
 
December 31,
 
2019, proved
 
reserves for
 
the properties
 
reviewed are in
 
accordance
with the SEC reserves definitions.
 
This process
 
review of
 
ConocoPhillips’ procedures
 
and methods
 
does not
 
constitute a
 
review, study,
 
or
independent audit
 
of ConocoPhillips’ estimated
 
proved reserves and
 
corresponding future net
 
revenues. This
 
process
review is not intended
 
to indicate that DeGolyer
 
and MacNaughton is offering
 
any opinion as to
 
the reasonableness of
the reserves estimates reported by ConocoPhillips.
 
DeGolyer and MacNaughton
 
is an independent
 
petroleum engineering consulting
 
firm that has
 
been
providing petroleum consulting services throughout the world since 1936. Neither DeGolyer and MacNaughton nor any
employee who
 
participated in
 
this project
 
has any
 
financial interest,
 
including stock
 
ownership, in
 
ConocoPhillips.
 
DeGolyer and MacNaughton’s fees were not contingent on the results of its evaluation.
 
 
Very
 
truly yours,
 
 
/s/ DeGolyer and MacNaughton
 
DeGOLYER and MacNAUGHTON
Texas Registered Engineering Firm F-716
 
 
/s/ Charles F.
 
Boyette
 
Charles F. Boyette, P.E.
President
DeGolyer and MacNaughton