HOUSTON, July 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Hydrocarb Energy Corporation (OTCQB: HECC) announced that its new gas compression facility and related maintenance has been substantially completed and the company is now turning up production that has been mostly shut-in since the end of 2014. At that time the company realized salt water disposal and gas compression capacity limits that effectively shut down about 40% of its production. As of now all capacity issues have been resolved and the company plans to report substantially increased production results in the near future.
Hydrocarb is now focusing on the 2015 Development Program, a strategy targeted to shift all of its proved reserves into full production. By fully developing its producing assets it is believed that the company can again double its production over the newly turned up level. The company's production and development operations are conventional with fixed and sunk costs on production facilities that provide economies of scale, supporting up to 25,000 barrels per day of production. With any newly developed production, variable operating costs are expected to be a low percentage compared to the percentage production increase. As a result, all newly developed production revenue would be expected to dramatically increase positive net cash flow and income, even at current oil prices.
To support its development program, the company is raising capital to replace the senior bridge financing together with all short term strategic convertible debt. Successfully raising this equity will provide Hydrocarb with the ability to fully develop its Galveston Bay assets and help to focus on its 5.2 million acre concession in Namibia, Africa.
Charles Dommer, the Company's Chief Operating Officer commented, "While we are working to finance our development upside, opportunities are being presented to us whereby we can use our production infrastructure to earn participation in new drilling opportunities. We expect to have news about these new opportunities soon." He went on to say, "As we continue to develop our known reserves, there is real potential to find undiscovered reserves in deeper yet to be drilled zones within our 18,000+ Galveston Bay acres."
About Hydrocarb: Hydrocarb Energy Corporation is a publicly-traded Domestic and International Energy Exploration and Production Company targeting major under-explored oil and gas projects in emerging, highly prospective regions of the world. Hydrocarb focuses heavily on large reserve potential that can be explored and produced with conventional drilling and production technology. With exploration concessions in Africa and domestic production in Galveston Bay, we maintain offices in Houston, Texas, and Windhoek, Namibia.
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