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Exhibit 99.2
February 7, 2011
Director of Reserves and Production Services
Williams
One Williams Center
Suite 2600
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172
Williams
One Williams Center
Suite 2600
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172
Re: | Audit of | |||
Reserves and Future Net Revenues | ||||
As of December 31, 2010 | ||||
Fruitland Coal San Juan Basin | ||||
SEC Price Case |
Dear Sir or Madam:
At your request, Miller and Lents, Ltd. (MLL) performed an audit of the estimates of proved
reserves of gas and the future net revenues associated with these reserves that Williams
Production Company, LLC (WPC) attributes to its net interests in properties located in New Mexico
and Colorado in the Fruitland Coal formation as of December 31, 2010. The audit report was
prepared for the use of WPC in its annual financial and reserves reporting and was completed on
January 31, 2011. WPCs estimates, shown below, are in accordance with the definitions contained
in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation S-X, Rule 4-10(a) as shown in the Appendix.
Reserves and Future Net Revenues as of December 31, 2010
Future Net Revenues | ||||||||||||||||
Net Reserves | Discounted at | |||||||||||||||
Liquids, | Gas, | Undiscounted, | 10% Per Year, | |||||||||||||
Reserves Category | MBbls. | MMcf | M$ | M$ | ||||||||||||
Proved Developed |
0 | 54,905 | 85,726 | 62,829 | ||||||||||||
Proved Undeveloped |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Total Proved |
0 | 54,905 | 85,726 | 62,829 |
We prepared independent estimates of 100 percent of the properties represented by the above
proved reserves reported by WPC. Based on our investigations and subject to the limitations
described hereinafter, it is our judgment that (1) the reserves estimation methods employed by WPC
were appropriate, and its classification of such reserves was appropriate to the relevant SEC
reserve definitions, (2) its reserves estimation processes were comprehensive and of sufficient
depth, (3) the data upon which WPC relied were adequate and of sufficient quality, and (4) the
results of those estimates and projections are, in the aggregate, reasonable.
Director of Reserves and Production Services | February 7, 2011 | |
Williams | Page 2 |
WPCs reserves estimates were based on decline curve extrapolations, volumetric calculations,
analogies, or combinations of these methods for each well, or reservoir. Reserves estimates from
volumetric calculations and from analogies are often less certain than reserves estimates based on
well performance obtained over a period during which a substantial portion of the reserves were
produced.
All reserves discussed herein are located within the Continental United States in the
Fruitland Coal formation in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado. Gas volumes for each
property were estimated at 14.73 pounds per square inch pressure base. Total gas reserves were
obtained by summing the reserves for all the individual properties.
WPC represents that the future net revenues reported herein were computed based on prices for
gas, utilizing the 12-month average of the first-day-of-the- month prices, and are in accordance
with SEC guidelines. WPC used a benchmark price $4.098 per MMBtu based on the El Paso Natural Gas
Co., San Juan Basin Index for its reserves estimates. Price adjustments were made on each property
for gas Btu content and gathering charges. The present value of future net revenues was computed by
discounting the future net revenues at 10 percent per year. Estimates of future net revenues and
the present value of future net revenues are not intended and should not be interpreted to
represent fair market values for the estimated reserves.
In making its projections, WPC did not include cost estimates for well abandonment and well
site reclamation. WPCs estimates include no adjustments for production prepayments, exchange
agreements, gas balancing, or similar arrangements. We were provided with no information concerning
these conditions, and we have made no investigations of these matters as such was beyond the scope
of this investigation.
In conducting this evaluation, we relied upon, without independent verification, WPCs
representation of (1) ownership interests, (2) production histories, (3) accounting and cost data,
(4) geological, geophysical, and engineering data, and (5) development schedules. These data were
accepted as represented and were considered appropriate for the purpose of the audit report. To a
lesser extent, nonproprietary data existing in the files of Miller and Lents, Ltd., and data
obtained from commercial services were used. We employed all methods, procedures, and assumptions
considered necessary in utilizing the data provided to prepare the report.
The evaluations presented in this report, with the exceptions of those parameters specified by
others, reflect our informed judgments and are subject to the inherent uncertainties associated
with interpretation of geological, geophysical, and engineering information. These uncertainties
include but are not limited to (1) the utilization of analogous or indirect data and (2) the
application of professional judgments. Government policies and market conditions different from
those employed in this study may cause (1) the total quantity of gas to be recovered, (2) actual
production rates, (3) prices received, or (4) operating and capital costs to vary from those
presented in this report. At this time, MLL is not aware of any regulations that would affect WPCs
ability to recover the estimated reserves.
Director of Reserves and Production Services Williams |
February 7, 2011 Page 3 |
Miller and Lents, Ltd. is an independent oil and gas consulting firm. No director, officer, or
key employee of Miller and Lents, Ltd. has any financial ownership in WPC. Our compensation for the
required investigations and preparation of this report is not contingent on the results obtained
and reported, and we have not performed other work that would affect our objectivity. Production of
this report was supervised by Stephen M. Hamburg, P.E., an officer of the firm who is a licensed
Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and is professionally qualified, with more than 25
years of relevant experience, in the estimation, assessment, and evaluation of oil and gas
reserves.
If you have any questions regarding this evaluation, or if we can be of further assistance,
please contact us.
Very truly yours, MILLER AND LENTS, LTD. Texas Registered Engineering Firm No. F-1442 |
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By | ||||
Stephen M. Hamburg, P.E. | ||||
Senior Vice president | ||||
SMH/psh
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Reserves Definitions In Accordance With
Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X
Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X
Reserves
Reserves are estimated remaining quantities of oil and gas and related substances
anticipated to be economically producible, as of a given date, by application of
development projects to known accumulations. In addition, there must exist, or there must
be a reasonable expectation that there will exist, the legal right to produce or a revenue
interest in the production, installed means of delivering oil and gas or related substances
to market, and all permits and financing required to implement the project.
Reserves should not be assigned to adjacent reservoirs isolated by major, potentially
sealing, faults until those reservoirs are penetrated and evaluated as economically
producible. Reserves should not be assigned to areas that are clearly separated from a
known accumulation by a non-productive reservoir (i.e., absence of reservoir, structurally
low reservoir, or negative test results). Such areas may contain prospective resources
(i.e., potentially recoverable resources from undiscovered accumulations).
Proved Oil and Gas Reserves
Proved oil and gas reserves are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of
geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be
economically produciblefrom a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under
existing economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulationsprior to the
time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates
that renewal is reasonably certain, regardless of whether deterministic or probabilistic
methods are used for the estimation. The project to extract the hydrocarbons must have
commenced or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project
within a reasonable time.
1. | The area of the reservoir considered as proved includes: |
a. | The area identified by drilling and limited by fluid contacts, if any, and | ||
b. | Adjacent undrilled portions of the reservoir that can, with reasonable certainty, be judged to be continuous with it and to contain economically producible oil or gas on the basis of available geoscience and engineering data. |
2. | In the absence of data on fluid contacts, proved quantities in a reservoir are limited by the lowest known hydrocarbons (LKH) as seen in a well penetration unless geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establishes a lower contact with reasonable certainty. | ||
3. | Where direct observation from well penetrations has defined a highest known oil (HKO) elevation and the potential exists for an associated gas cap, proved oil reserves may be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir only if geoscience, engineering, or performance data and reliable technology establish the higher contact with reasonable certainty. | ||
4. | Reserves which can be produced economically through application of improved recovery techniques (including, but not limited to, fluid injection) are included in the proved classification when: |
a. | Successful testing by a pilot project in an area of the reservoir with properties no more favorable than in the reservoir as a whole, the operation of an installed program in the reservoir or an analogous reservoir, or other evidence using reliable technology establishes the reasonable certainty of the engineering analysis on which the project or program was based; and | ||
b. | The project has been approved for development by all necessary parties and entities, including governmental entities. |
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5. | Existing economic conditions include prices and costs at which economic producibility from a reservoir is to be determined. The price shall be the average price during the 12-month period prior to the ending date of the period covered by the report, determined as an unweighted arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within such period, unless prices are defined by contractual arrangements, excluding escalations based upon future conditions. |
Developed Oil and Gas Reserves
Developed oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that can be expected to be
recovered:
1. | Through existing wells with existing equipment and operating methods or in which the cost of the required equipment is relatively minor compared to the cost of a new well; and | ||
2. | Through installed extraction equipment and infrastructure operational at the time of the reserves estimate if the extraction is by means not involving a well. |
Undeveloped Oil and Gas Reserves
Undeveloped oil and gas reserves are reserves of any category that are expected to be
recovered from new wells on undrilled acreage, or from existing wells where a relatively
major expenditure is required for recompletion.
1. | Reserves on undrilled acreage shall be limited to those directly offsetting development spacing areas that are reasonably certain of production when drilled, unless evidence using reliable technology exists that establishes reasonable certainty of economic producibility at greater distances. | ||
2. | Undrilled locations can be classified as having undeveloped reserves only if a development plan has been adopted indicating that they are scheduled to be drilled within five years, unless the specific circumstances, justify a longer time. | ||
3. | Under no circumstances shall estimates for undeveloped reserves be attributable to any acreage for which an application of fluid injection or other improved recovery technique is contemplated, unless such techniques have been proved effective by actual projects in the same reservoir or an analogous reservoir, as defined below, or by other evidence using reliable technology establishing reasonable certainty. | ||
Analogous Reservoir |
Analogous reservoirs, as used in resources assessments, have similar rock
and fluid properties, reservoir conditions (depth, temperature, and pressure)
and drive mechanisms, but are typically at a more advanced stage of development
than the reservoir of interest and thus may provide concepts to assist in the
interpretation of more limited data and estimation of recovery. When used to
support proved reserves, an analogous reservoir refers to a reservoir that
shares the following characteristics with the reservoir of interest:
1. | Same geological formation (but not necessarily in pressure communication with the reservoir of interest); | ||
2. | Same environment of deposition; | ||
3. | Similar geological structure; and | ||
4. | Same drive mechanism. |
Reservoir properties must, in aggregate, be no more favorable in the analog
than in the reservoir of interest.
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Probable Reserves
Probable reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered
than proved reserves but which, together with proved reserves, are as likely as not to be
recovered.
1. | When deterministic methods are used, it is as likely as not that actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the sum of estimated proved plus probable reserves. When probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 50% probability that the actual quantities recovered will equal or exceed the proved plus probable reserves estimates. | ||
2. | Probable reserves may be assigned to areas of a reservoir adjacent to proved reserves where data control or interpretations of available data are less certain, even if the interpreted reservoir continuity of structure or productivity does not meet the reasonable certainty criterion. Probable reserves may be assigned to areas that are structurally higher than the proved area if these areas are in communication with the proved reservoir. | ||
3. | Probable reserves estimates also include potential incremental quantities associated with a greater percentage recovery of the hydrocarbons in place than assumed for proved reserves. | ||
4. | See also guidelines in Items 4 and 6 under Possible Reserves. |
Possible Reserves
Possible reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than
probable reserves.
1. | When deterministic methods are used, the total quantities ultimately recovered from a project have a low probability of exceeding proved plus probable plus possible reserves. When probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 10% probability that the total quantities ultimately recovered will equal or exceed the proved plus probable plus possible reserves estimates. | ||
2. | Possible reserves may be assigned to areas of a reservoir adjacent to probable reserves where data control and interpretations of available data are progressively less certain. Frequently, this will be in areas where geoscience and engineering data are unable to define clearly the area and vertical limits of commercial production from the reservoir by a defined project. | ||
3. | Possible reserves also include incremental quantities associated with a greater percentage recovery of the hydrocarbons in place than the recovery quantities assumed for probable reserves. | ||
4. | The proved plus probable and proved plus probable plus possible reserves estimates must be based on reasonable alternative technical and commercial interpretations within the reservoir or subject project that are clearly documented, including comparisons to results in successful similar projects. | ||
5. | Possible reserves may be assigned where geoscience and engineering data identify directly adjacent portions of a reservoir within the same accumulation that may be separated from proved areas by faults with displacement less than formation thickness or other geological discontinuities and that have not been penetrated by a wellbore, and the registrant believes that such adjacent portions are in communication with the known (proved) reservoir. Possible reserves may be assigned to areas that are structurally higher or lower than the proved area if these areas are in communication with the proved reservoir. | ||
6. | Pursuant to Item 3 under Proved Oil and Gas Reserves, where direct observation has defined a highest known oil (HKO) elevation and the potential exists for an associated gas cap, proved oil reserves should be assigned in the structurally higher portions of the reservoir above the HKO only if the higher contact can be established with reasonable certainty through reliable technology. Portions of the reservoir that do not meet this reasonable certainty criterion may be assigned as probable and possible oil or gas based on reservoir fluid properties and pressure gradient interpretations. |
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