Long-Term Debt

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Long-Term Debt

(6)          Long-Term Debt

    The Company's long-term debt consisted of the following (in thousands):

	March 31, 2022		December 31, 2021
Credit Facility Borrowings (1)	$	200,000	$	227,000
Second Lien Notes due 2026	150,000		150,000
	350,000		377,000
Unamortized discount on Second Lien Notes due 2026	(1,016)		(1,061)
Unamortized debt issuance cost on Second Lien Notes due 2026	(2,981)		(3,114)
Long-Term Debt, net	$	346,003	$	372,825

(1) Unamortized debt issuance costs on our Credit Facility borrowings are included in “Other Long-Term Assets” in our consolidated balance sheet. As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, we had $3.3 million and $3.6 million, respectively, in unamortized debt issuance costs on our Credit Facility borrowings.

Revolving Credit Facility. Amounts outstanding under our Credit Facility (defined below) were $200.0 million and $227.0 million as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. The Company is a party to a First Amended and Restated Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and certain lenders party thereto, as amended (such agreement, the “Credit Agreement” and the borrowing facility provided thereby, the “Credit Facility”). Subsequent to the first quarter 2022 and in conjunction with its regularly scheduled semi-annual redetermination, the Company entered into the Ninth Amendment to the Credit Facility, effective April 12, 2022 (the “Ninth Amendment”), which increased the borrowing base under the Credit Facility to $525.0 million from $460.0 million.

The Credit Facility matures April 19, 2024 and provides for a maximum credit amount of $1.0 billion, subject to the current borrowing base of $525.0 million as of April 12, 2022. The borrowing base is regularly redetermined in or about May and November of each calendar year and is subject to additional adjustments from time to time, including for asset sales, elimination or reduction of hedge positions and incurrence of other debt. Additionally, the Company and the administrative agent may request an unscheduled redetermination of the borrowing base between scheduled redeterminations. The amount of the borrowing base is determined by the lenders, in their discretion, in accordance with their oil and gas lending criteria at the time of the relevant redetermination. The Company may also request the issuance of letters of credit under the Credit Agreement in an aggregate amount up to $25.0 million, which reduces the amount of available borrowings under the borrowing base in the amount of such issued and outstanding letters of credit. There were no outstanding letters of credit as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021. Maintaining or increasing our borrowing base under our Credit Facility is dependent on many factors, including commodity prices, our hedge positions, changes in our lenders' lending criteria and our ability to raise capital to drill wells to replace produced reserves.

Interest under the Credit Facility accrues at the Company’s option either at an Alternate Base Rate plus the applicable margin (“ABR Loans”), the Adjusted Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus the applicable margin (“Term Benchmark Loans”) or Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR plus the applicable margin (“RFR Loans”). Effective November 12, 2021, the applicable margin ranged from 2.25% to 3.25% for ABR Loans and 3.25% to 4.25% for Term Benchmark Loans and RFR Loans. The Alternate Base Rate and SOFR are defined, and the applicable margins are set forth, in the Credit Agreement. Undrawn amounts under the Credit Facility are subject to a 0.5% commitment fee. To the extent that a payment default exists and is continuing, all amounts outstanding under the Credit Facility will bear interest at 2.0% per annum above the rate and margin otherwise applicable thereto.

The obligations under the Credit Agreement are secured, subject to certain exceptions, by a first priority lien on substantially all assets of the Company and its subsidiary, including a first priority lien on properties attributed with at least 90% of estimated proved reserves of the Company and its subsidiary.

The Credit Agreement contains the following financial covenants:

•a ratio of total debt to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”), as defined in the Credit Agreement, for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters, not to exceed (i) 3.25 to 1.00 as of the last day of each fiscal quarter for any fiscal quarter ending on or before December 31, 2021 and (ii) 3.00 to 1.00 as of the last day of each fiscal quarter, commencing with fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2022; and

•a current ratio, as defined in the Credit Agreement, which includes in the numerator available borrowings undrawn under the borrowing base, of not less than 1.00 to 1.00 as of the last day of each fiscal quarter.

    As of March 31, 2022, the Company was in compliance with all financial covenants under the Credit Agreement.

    Additionally, the Credit Agreement contains certain representations, warranties and covenants, including but not limited to, limitations on incurring debt and liens, limitations on making certain restricted payments, limitations on investments, limitations on asset sales and hedge unwinds, limitations on transactions with affiliates and limitations on modifying organizational documents and material contracts. The Credit Agreement contains customary events of default. If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the lenders may declare all amounts outstanding under the Credit Facility to be immediately due and payable.

Total interest expense on the Credit Facility, which includes commitment fees and amortization of debt issuance costs, was $3.2 million and $2.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The amount of commitment fee amortization included in interest expense, net was $0.3 million and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

    Senior Secured Second Lien Notes. On December 15, 2017, the Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement for Senior Secured Second Lien Notes (as amended, the “Note Purchase Agreement,” and such second lien facility the “Second Lien”) among the Company as issuer, U.S. Bank National Association as agent and collateral agent, and certain holders that are a party thereto, and issued notes in an initial principal amount of $200.0 million, with a $2.0 million discount, for net proceeds of $198.0 million.

Effective November 12, 2021, the Company entered into the Second Amendment to the Note Purchase Agreement, which extended the maturity date from December 15, 2024 to December 15, 2026 subject to paying down the principal amount of the Second Lien from $200.0 million to $150.0 million. The Company made the $50.0 million redemption of the Second Lien Notes on November 29, 2021. The Company accounted for this paydown as a debt modification and incurred approximately $0.1 million in third party fees in connection with the amendment. The unamortized debt issuance cost and discount on the Second Lien Notes will be amortized through the new maturity date of December 15, 2026.

    Interest on the Second Lien is payable quarterly and accrues at LIBOR plus 7.5%; provided that if LIBOR ceases to be available, the Second Lien provides for a mechanism to use ABR (an alternate base rate) plus 6.5% as the applicable interest rate. The definitions of LIBOR and ABR are set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement. To the extent that a payment, insolvency, or, at the holders’ election, another default exists and is continuing, all amounts outstanding under the Second Lien will bear interest at 2.0% per annum above the rate and margin otherwise applicable thereto. Additionally, to the extent the Company were to default on the Second Lien, this would potentially trigger a cross-default under our Credit Facility.

    The Company has the right, to the extent permitted under the Credit Facility and subject to the terms and conditions of the Second Lien, to optionally prepay the notes, subject to a repayment fee of 1.0% of the principal amount of the Second Lien being prepaid through December 15, 2022; and thereafter, no premium. Additionally, the Second Lien contains customary mandatory prepayment obligations upon asset sales (including hedge terminations), casualty events and incurrences of certain debt, subject to, in certain circumstances, reinvestment periods. Management believes the probability of mandatory prepayment due to default is remote.

    The obligations under the Second Lien are secured, subject to certain exceptions and other permitted liens (including the liens created under the Credit Facility), by a perfected security interest, second in priority to the liens securing our Credit Facility, and mortgage lien on substantially all assets of the Company and its subsidiary, including a mortgage lien on oil and gas properties attributed with at least 90% of estimated PV-9 (defined below), of proved reserves of the Company and its subsidiary and 90% of the book value attributed to the PV-9 of the non-proved oil and gas properties of the Company. PV-9 is determined using commodity price assumptions by the administrative agent of the Credit Facility. PV-9 value is the estimated future net revenues to be generated from the production of proved reserves discounted to present value using an annual discount rate of 9%.

    The Second Lien contains an Asset Coverage Ratio, which is only tested (i) as a condition to issuance of additional notes and (ii) in connection with certain asset sales in order to determine whether the proceeds of such asset sale must be applied as a prepayment of the notes and includes in the numerator of the PV-10 (defined below), based on forward strip pricing, plus the swap mark-to-market value of the commodity derivative contracts of the Company and its restricted subsidiary and in the denominator the total net indebtedness of the Company and its restricted subsidiary, of not less than 1.25 to 1.0 as of each date of determination (the “Asset Coverage Ratio”). PV-10 value is the estimated future net revenues to be generated from the production of proved reserves discounted to present value using an annual discount rate of 10%.

    The Second Lien also contains a financial covenant measuring the ratio of total net debt-to-EBITDA, as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement, for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters, not to exceed 3.5 to 1.0 as of the last day of each fiscal quarter ending on or before December 31, 2021, (ii) and 3.25 to 1.0 as of the last day of each fiscal quarter, commencing with fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2022, and for any fiscal quarter thereafter. As of March 31, 2022, the Company was in compliance with all financial covenants under the Second Lien.

    The Second Lien contains certain customary representations, warranties and covenants, including but not limited to, limitations on incurring debt and liens, limitations on making certain restricted payments, limitations on investments, limitations on asset sales and hedge unwinds, limitations on transactions with affiliates and limitations on modifying organizational documents and material contracts. The Second Lien contains customary events of default. If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the lenders may declare all amounts outstanding under the Second Lien to be immediately due and payable.

    As of March 31, 2022, total net amounts recorded for the Second Lien were $146.0 million, net of unamortized debt discount and debt issuance costs. Interest expense on the Second Lien totaled $3.4 million and $4.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

Debt Issuance Costs. Our policy is to capitalize upfront commitment fees and other direct expenses associated with our line of credit arrangement and then amortize such costs ratably over the term of the arrangement, regardless of whether there are any outstanding borrowings.