Legacy Reserves (LGCY) Announces Suspension of Distribution; Offers FY16 Capital Budget
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Legacy Reserves LP ("Legacy") (Nasdaq: LGCY) announced that the Board of Directors of its general partner has approved the suspension of distributions to unitholders and distributions to both the 8% Series A and Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units. The Board also approved a 2016 capital budget of $37 million.
Paul T. Horne, President and Chief Executive Officer of Legacy's general partner, commented: "The continued collapse in oil and gas prices over the past few months has had a severe impact on our industry and Legacy is no different. While our estimated fourth quarter cash generation was well in excess of our prior $0.15 per unit quarterly distribution, further declining commodity price forecasts have eroded our projected future cash flow generation and we believe our best course of action today is to conserve cash and improve our balance sheet position. We anticipate, based on strip pricing, to be free cash flow positive in 2016 and we continue to work through select credit-accretive asset sale opportunities that will enhance that cash flow as well as our leverage metrics and liquidity. Importantly, we strongly believe that today’s commodity price environment is unsustainable for our industry and taking a more protective posture will help us ride out this storm. We will continue to monitor the industry environment and our situation, and look forward to reinstating distributions to our unitholders when things improve.
"I remain thankful for our hard-working employees. They have done a tremendous job executing our day-to-day business objectives and I look forward to providing investors more operational specifics and our 2016 outlook at our upcoming year-end earnings conference call."
Upcoming Earnings Release
Legacy will provide the details of its fourth quarter and 2015 operating and financial performance with its earnings report which is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, following the close of NASDAQ trading. A teleconference and webcast will be held on Thursday, February 25, 2016, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Central Time. Those wishing to participate in the conference call should dial 877-266-0479. A replay of the call will be available through Thursday, March 3, 2016, by dialing 855-859-2056 or 404-537-3406 and entering replay code 22745604. Those wishing to listen to the live or archived webcast via the Internet should go to the Investor Relations tab of our website at www.LegacyLP.com.
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