EXCO: No Marcellus Drilling in 2015/2016, NYSE Threatens Delisting

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EXCO Resources, once a sizable player in the Marcellus--with 145,000 net acres in the Marcellus and having drilled and operating 124 horizontal Marcellus wells--has pretty much abandoned the Marcellus at this point. The company filed its fourth quarter and full year 2015 financial and operational update yesterday. In picking through the report, we find that EXCO didn't drill a single new well in the Marcellus in 2015, and has no plans to do so in 2016. Instead, the company is concentrating their meager $103 million 2016 budget on drilling new wells in North Louisiana and East Texas. According to EXCO they get their highest rate of return (35%) in that area. Buried (and we mean buried) in the report is the news that the New York Stock Exchange has threatened the company with delisting its stock (share price is averaging under $1). The company's proposed "fix" for the low stock price is a reverse split, combining 10 shares of existing stock into one share of new stock. Zooming out to focus on the company's financial health, EXCO shows a $1.2 billion loss for 2015--but as with other companies, most of it was a paper loss due to impairments or write-downs of the value for its assets, rather than out-of-pocket money loss. Here's selected portions of yesterday's update...

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