DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matador Resources Company (NYSE: MTDR) announced today that it has closed the previously announced private offering of $175 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.875% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Additional Notes”). The Additional Notes were issued at 105.5% of par, plus accrued interest from October 15, 2016. Matador received net proceeds from this offering of approximately $182 million, after deducting the initial purchasers’ discounts and estimated offering expenses but excluding accrued interest paid by buyers of the Additional Notes.
Matador intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund the aggregate purchase price for approximately 4,600 net leasehold acres and estimated current net production of approximately 1,150 barrels of oil equivalent per day from wells producing on this acreage in Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico as well as approximately 475 net mineral acres in Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico, to fund the capital expenditures for a number of midstream initiatives in the Delaware Basin that are either in progress or that Matador expects to begin by the end of the first quarter of 2017, to repay outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility and for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures associated with the addition of a fourth drilling rig.
About Matador Resources Company
Matador is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the United States, with an emphasis on oil and natural gas shale and other unconventional plays. Its current operations are focused primarily on the oil and liquids-rich portion of the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring plays in the Delaware Basin in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Matador also operates in the Eagle Ford shale play in South Texas and the Haynesville shale and Cotton Valley plays in Northwest Louisiana and East Texas. Additionally, Matador conducts midstream operations in support of its exploration, development and production operations and provides natural gas processing, natural gas, oil and salt water gathering services and salt water disposal services to third parties on a limited basis.
