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Venoco, Inc.

Venoco, Inc. (“Venoco”) is offering for sale all of its Texas assets (the “Properties”) in three Packages: Gulf Coast, Manvel and Hastings. Macquarie Tristone has been retained to provide financial advisory services for this transaction. The preference is to sell the Properties as one transaction; however, Venoco will consider separate offers for each Package. Offering materials will include a DeGolyer and MacNaughton (“D&M”) Reserve Report on the Properties.

Gulf Coast Package — 878 BOEPD net (30% oil)

  • High-quality assets with a stable production base, low overall decline rate and high average working interest
  • Highlighted field areas include South Liberty/Barbers Hill, AWP, Word, Kurten/Madisonville West and Constitution
  • Low-risk upside includes development drilling, behind-pipe opportunities and reactivations
  • Exposure to developing Eagle Ford Shale and Bossier Shale plays

Manvel Package — 690 BOEPD net (96% oil)

  • Classic Gulf Coast domal structure with moderate depth production from high-quality Miocene and Frio Reservoirs
  • Stable operated production history with low decline rates and 100% working interest
  • Upside includes infill drilling, recompletions, reactivations, operational enhancements and CO2 potential
  • Close proximity to Hastings and similar reservoir characteristics make the field an attractive candidate for a CO2 flood

Hastings Package — Probable net reserves of approximately 24 MMBOE (100% oil)

  • Legacy Gulf Coast field with 1.3 billion barrels of original oil-in-place in stacked Frio sands
  • Venoco sold these assets to Denbury in February 2009 and retained a 2% overriding royalty interest with 22.3% working interest back-in after payout
  • Denbury currently undertaking a CO2 flood with first injection expected in fourth quarter of 2010
  • 55 BOEPD net ORRI prior to working interest back-in

Confidential information is available to qualified interested parties by executing the Confidentiality Agreement (“CA”). Executed CAs should be faxed to (713) 651-4202, Attn: Kristen Bednarz (Houston) or emailed to Kristen.Bednarz@macquarie.com.

Venoco Announcement (.pdf, 170KB)
Venoco OM (.pdf, 3MB)
Venoco CA (.pdf, 30KB)
Virtual Data Room (https://vdr.tristonecapital.com/)

For further information please contact:

Logan Magruder
Managing Director
Acquisitions & Divestments
+1 (713) 651-4229
logan.magruder@macquarie.com
David Hopkins
Vice President
Acquisitions & Divestments
+1 (713) 651-4220
david.hopkins@macquarie.com
Jon Goddard
Senior Vice President
Acquisitions & Divestments
+1 (713) 651-4233
jon.goddard@macquarie.com




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