Gulfport Energy Pays $12,500 per Acre for 24K OH Utica Acres
Gulfport Energy announced yesterday they've picked up 24,000 dry gas acres in the "core" of the Utica play--in Belmont and Jefferson counties in Ohio. The lease seller is Paloma Partners III, a small energy & exploration company headquartered in Houston and backed by Encap Investments and Macquarie Americas. According to the Paloma website, they own(ed) 24,000 in the Utica and had planned on drilling "in late 2015." We're assuming they added a few thousand acres to that total since the web page was last updated and that they will now not drill at all--since they've just sold all of their Utica acreage to Gulfport. The purchase price was $300 million. Doing the math, Gulfport paid Paloma $12,500 per acre--which is perhaps the highest such deal price per acre we've seen to date. Here's the full update from Gulfport on the Paloma acreage purchase, along with production numbers from 1Q15 which show a 161% increase from 1Q14...
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