Organization and Business

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Organization and Business

Organization and Business

1. Organization and Business

        Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. engages in the business of drilling for, and the production of, oil, natural gas liquids ("NGLs") and natural gas in Oklahoma and Texas. Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. was incorporated pursuant to the laws of the State of Delaware on October 25, 2011 to become a holding company for Midstates Petroleum Company LLC ("Midstates Sub"), which was previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of Midstates Petroleum Holdings LLC ("Holdings LLC"). Pursuant to the terms of a corporate reorganization that was completed in connection with the closing of Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc.'s initial public offering, all of the interests in Midstates Petroleum Holdings LLC were exchanged for newly issued common shares of Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc., and as a result, Midstates Petroleum Company LLC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. and Midstates Petroleum Holdings LLC ceased to exist as a separate entity. The terms "Company," "we," "us," "our," and similar terms when used in the present tense, prospectively or for historical periods since April 25, 2012, refer to Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. and its subsidiary.

        On March 5, 2014, the Company executed a Purchase and Sale Agreement ("PSA") to sell all of its ownership interest in developed and undeveloped acreage in the Pine Prairie field area of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana to a private buyer for net proceeds of $147.7 million in cash (the "Pine Prairie Disposition"). Acreage subject to the transaction did not include acreage and production in the western part of Louisiana in Beauregard or Calcasieu Parishes or other undeveloped acreage held outside the Pine Prairie field. The sale closed on May 1, 2014.

        On April 21, 2015, the Company closed the sale of all of its ownership interest in its Dequincy assets, which constituted its remaining producing and proved reserve properties in Louisiana (the "Dequincy Divestiture") to Pintail Oil and Gas LLC. The net proceeds, inclusive of amounts placed in escrow, were approximately $42.4 million. With the completion of the Dequincy Divestiture, the Company no longer has any operations in the Louisiana/Gulf Coast area, although it continues to have approximately 4,431 net acres of undeveloped acreage under lease in Louisiana.

        On February 3, 2016, the Company received notice from the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") that the Company's common stock no longer met the NYSE continued listing requirements. As a result, the Company's common stock was automatically delisted from the NYSE and began trading on an over the counter exchange under the symbol "MPOY". On April 30, 2016, we filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. On October 21, 2016, in connection with our emergence from Chapter 11 as discussed further below, our existing common shares traded under the symbol MPOY were cancelled and on October 24, 2016, our new common shares issued in connection with our successful reorganization and emergence from Chapter 11 were listed and began trading on the NYSE MKT under the symbol "MPO".