W&T Offshore, Inc. Prices $275 Million Senior Second Lien Notes Offering
January 12, 2023 at 09:15 pm
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W&T Offshore, Inc. announced the pricing of its previously announced offering of $275 million in aggregate principal amount of 11.750% senior second lien notes due 2026 at par in a private offering that is exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The closing of the offering of the Notes is expected to occur on January 27, 2023, subject to customary closing conditions. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering, along with cash on hand, to redeem all of the Company's 9.75% Senior Second Lien Notes due 2023.
On January 9, 2023, the Company delivered a conditional redemption notice with respect to $552.5 million in principal amount of the Existing Second Lien Notes. This announcement is not an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to sell the Existing Second Lien Notes, and it does not constitute a notice of redemption of the Existing Second Lien Notes. The Notes and the related guarantees to be offered have not been registered under the Securities Act or any other securities laws, and the Notes and the related guarantees may not be offered or sold except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable securities laws.
The Notes and the related guarantees are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in the United States under Rule 144A and to non-U.S. investors outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S.
W&T Offshore, Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas producer. The Company is engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico. It has a working interest in over 53 offshore producing fields in federal and state waters (which include 44 fields in federal waters and nine in state waters). The Company has under lease approximately 597,100 gross acres (440,000 net acres) spanning across the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama, with approximately 435,600 gross acres on the conventional shelf, approximately 153,500 gross acres in the deepwater and 8,000 gross acres in Alabama onshore. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries consists of Aquasition Energy, LLC, Aquasition, LLC, Aquasition II, LLC, Aquasition III, LLC, Aquasition IV, LLC, Aquasition V, LLC, Green Hell, LLC, Seaquester, LLC, Seaquestration, LLC, and W & T Energy VI, LLC.