Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

As reported in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") by Crescent Energy Company (the "Company") on December 7, 2021 (the "Original Crescent Form 8-K"), on December 7, 2021, the Company consummated the transactions (the "Transactions") contemplated by the Transaction Agreement, dated as of June 7, 2021, among Contango Oil & Gas Company ("Contango"), Independence Energy LLC ("Independence"), the Company, IE OpCo LLC, IE L Merger Sub LLC and IE C Merger Sub Inc., pursuant to which each of Contango and Independence became consolidated subsidiaries of the Company.

This Current Report on Form 8-K provides certain historical and pro forma financial statements, as described in Item 9.01 below, each of which are incorporated into this Item 2.02 by reference. The historical financial statements of Contango are consistent with the historical financial statements of Contango filed on the Original Crescent Form 8-K and the pro forma financial statements are consistent with the pro forma financial statements furnished by the Company on March 10, 2022, and in each case are being filed on this Current Report on Form 8-K for the purposes of incorporation by reference into the Registration Statement (as defined below). This Current Report on Form 8-K should be read in connection with the Original Crescent Form 8-K, which provides a more complete description of the Transactions.

Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

The information contained in Item 8.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.

The information contained in this Item 7.01 shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and is not incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended , or the Exchange Act.

Item 8.01 Other Events.

Historical and Pro Forma Financial Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K provides certain historical and pro forma financial statements, as described in Item 9.01 below, each of which are incorporated into this Item 8.01 by reference. The historical financial statements of Contango are consistent with the historical financial statements of Contango filed on the Original Crescent Form 8-K and the pro forma financial statements are consistent with the pro forma financial statements furnished by the Company on March 10, 2022, and in each case are being filed on this Current Report on Form 8-K for the purposes of incorporation by reference into the Registration Statement (as defined below). This Current Report on Form 8-K should be read in connection with the Original Crescent Form 8-K, which provides a more complete description of the Transactions.



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Registration Statement Disclosures

On or about the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, the Company intends to file a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the "Registration Statement") relating to the proposed offering by the Company of $75,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share. In connection with the filing of such Registration Statement, the Company is providing certain additional disclosures to potential investors, the relevant excerpts of which are set forth below. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Registration Statement



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Summary Reserve Data based on SEC Pricing

The following table provides historical reserves, PV-0, and PV-10 as of December 31, 2021 for the reserves acquired in the Uinta Acquisition, prepared in accordance with the SEC's rules regarding reserve reporting currently in effect, including the use of an average price, calculated as prices equal to the 12-month unweighted arithmetic average of the first day of the month prices for each of the preceding 12 months as adjusted for location and quality differentials, unless prices are defined by contractual arrangements, excluding escalations based on future conditions ("SEC Pricing"). The reserve estimates presented in the table below are based on a report prepared by Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc. ("CG&A").



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                                             Uinta Acquisition(1)
                                            As of December 31, 2021
Net Proved Reserves:
Oil (MBbls)                                                   42,924
Natural gas (MMcf)                                           139,329
NGLs (MBbls) (2)                                                  -
Total Proved Reserves (MBoe)                                  66,146
Standardized Measure (millions) (3)        $                   1,027
PV-0 (millions) (3)                        $                   1,524
PV-10 (millions) (3)                       $                   1,054
Net Proved Developed Reserves:
Oil (MBbls)                                                   24,871
Natural gas (MMcf)                                            92,094
NGLs (MBbls) (2)                                                  -
Total Proved Developed Reserves (MBoe)                        40,220
PV-0 (millions) (3)                        $                     954
PV-10 (millions) (3)                       $                     733
Net Proved Undeveloped Reserves:
Oil (MBbls)                                                   18,054
Natural gas (MMcf)                                            47,235
NGLs (MBbls) (2)                                                  -
Total Proved Undeveloped Reserves (MBoe)                      25,926
PV-0 (millions) (3)                        $                     571
PV-10 (millions) (3)                       $                     321



(1) The Uinta Acquisition's reserves and present value (discounted at ten


    percent, or PV-10) were determined using average first-day-of-the-month
    prices for the prior 12 months in accordance with SEC guidance. The base SEC
    oil and gas prices calculated for December 31, 2021 were $66.56 per Bbl and
    $3.598 per MMBtu, respectively. As specified by the SEC, a company must use a
    12-month average price, calculated as the unweighted arithmetic average of
    the first-day-of-the-month price for each month within the 12-month period
    prior to the end of the reporting period. The base oil price is based upon
    WTI-Cushing spot prices (EIA) during 2021 and the base gas price is based
    upon Henry Hub spot prices (Gas Daily) during 2021. Adjustments to oil and
    gas prices were calculated by the Company and applied as received by CG&A.
    For all properties, oil price differentials were forecast at -$10.26 per Bbl
    and gas price differentials were forecast at -$1.51 per Mcf. Adjustments may
    include treating costs, transportation charges, plant processing, and/or
    crude quality and gravity corrections. After these adjustments, the net
    realized prices over the life of the proved properties was estimated to be
    $56.30 per Bbl for oil and $2.088 per Mcf for gas. All economic factors were
    held constant in accordance with SEC guidelines.

(2) Natural gas reserves acquired in the Uinta Acquisition are shown in "wet"


    MMcf, which includes NGLs. The Company uses three-stream reserve information,
    with NGL reserves reported separately. As a result, reserve estimates of the
    Company are not comparable to reserve estimates for the Uinta Acquisition.

(3) Present value (discounted at PV-0 and PV-10) is not a financial measure


    calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
    ("GAAP") because it does not include the effects of income taxes on future
    net revenues. None of PV-0 and PV-10 represent an estimate of the fair market
    value of our oil and natural gas properties. Our PV-0 measurement does not
    provide a discount rate to estimated future cash flows. PV-0 therefore does
    not reflect the risk associated with future cash flow projections like PV-10
    does. PV-0 should therefore only be evaluated in connection with an
    evaluation of our PV-10 of discounted future net cash flows. We believe that
    the presentation of PV-0 and PV-10 is relevant and useful to its investors as
    supplemental disclosure to the standardized measure of future net cash flows,
    or after tax amount, because it presents the discounted future net cash flows
    attributable to our reserves prior to taking into account future income taxes
    and our specific tax characteristics. Standardized measure for the Uinta
    Acquisition is shown pro forma as if the assets acquired in the Uinta
    Acquisition had been owned by Crescent Energy Company as of December 31,
    2021. The PV-0 and PV-10 income tax amounts included in the net proved
    standardized measure but not included in PV-0 and PV-10 were $39.8 million
    and $27.1 million, respectively. We and others in our industry use PV-0 and
    PV-10 as a measure to compare the relative size and value of proved reserves
    without regard to specific tax characteristics. Investors should be cautioned
    that none of PV-0 and PV-10 represent an estimate of the fair market value of
    our proved reserves.


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Summary Reserve Data based on NYMEX Pricing

The following table provides historical reserves, PV-0, and PV-10 as of December 31, 2021 for the Company and the reserves acquired in the Uinta Acquisition using average annual NYMEX forward-month contract pricing in effect as of March 31, 2022 ("NYMEX Pricing"). We have included this reserve sensitivity in order to provide a measure that is more reflective of the fair value of our assets and the cash flows that we expect to generate from those assets based on the market's forward-looking pricing expectations as of March 31, 2022. The historical 12-month pricing average in our 2021 disclosures under the heading "Summary Reserve Data based on SEC Pricing" does not reflect the oil and natural gas futures. We believe that the use of forward prices provides investors with additional useful information about our reserves, as the forward prices are based on the market's forward-looking pricing expectations as of December 31, 2021. The historical 12-month pricing average in our 2021 disclosures under the heading "Summary Reserve Data based on SEC Pricing" does not reflect the oil and natural gas futures. We believe that the use of forward prices provides investors with additional useful information about our reserves, as the forward prices are based on the market's



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forward-looking expectations of oil and natural gas prices as of a certain date. In addition, we believe strip pricing provides relevant and useful information because it is widely used by investors in our industry as a basis for comparing the relative size and value of our proved reserves to our peers and in particular addresses the impact of differentials compared with our peers. Our estimated historical reserves, PV-0, and PV-10 based on NYMEX futures were otherwise prepared on the same basis as our SEC reserves for the comparable period. Reserve estimates using NYMEX Pricing are based on the internal estimates of the management of the Company and have not been prepared or audited by an independent, third-party reserve engineer.



                                            Crescent Energy Company              Uinta Acquisition
                                                          As of December 31, 2021(1)
Net Proved Reserves:
Oil (MBbls)                                                  211,497                         43,252
Natural gas (MMcf)                                         1,533,009                        141,439
NGLs (MBbls) (3)                                              78,790                              -
Total Proved Reserves (MBoe)                                 545,788                         66,825
PV-0 (millions) (2)                        $                  11,931            $             2,025
PV-10 (millions) (2)                       $                   6,781            $             1,466
Net Proved Developed Reserves:
Oil (MBbls)                                                  159,332                         25,162
Natural gas (MMcf) (3)                                     1,467,322                         94,028
NGLs (MBbls) (3)                                              68,653                              -
Total Proved Developed Reserves
(MBoe)                                                       472,539                         40,833
PV-0 (millions) (2)                        $                   9,681            $             1,300
PV-10 (millions) (2)                       $                   5,658            $             1,029
Net Proved Undeveloped Reserves:
Oil (MBbls)                                                   52,164                         18,090
Natural gas (MMcf)                                            65,687                         47,411
NGLs (MBbls) (3)                                              10,137                              -
Total Proved Undeveloped Reserves
(MBoe)                                                        73,429                         25,992
PV-0 (millions) (2)                        $                   2,249            $               725
PV-10 (millions) (2)                       $                   1,123            $               437



(1) The NYMEX reserves, PV-0, and PV-10 of the Company and the Uinta Acquisition


    were determined using index prices for oil and natural gas, respectively,
    without giving effect to derivative transactions and were calculated based on
    settlement prices to better reflect the market expectations as of that date,
    as adjusted for our estimates of quality, transportation fees, and market
    differentials. The five-year average strip pricing for the reserve
    calculations based on NYMEX futures pricing at closing on March 31, 2022 were
    $79.71 per Bbl of oil and $4.267 per MMBtu of natural gas. We believe that
    the use of forward prices provides investors with additional useful
    information about our reserves, as the forward prices are based on the
    market's forward-looking expectations of oil and natural gas prices as of a
    certain date. NYMEX futures prices are not necessarily a projection of future
    oil and gas prices. Investors should be careful to consider forward prices in
    addition to, and not as a substitute for, SEC prices, when considering our
    oil, natural gas and NGL reserves. While we believe the NYMEX forward-month
    contract pricing is the most accurate indicator of commodity prices as of the
    applicable date, commodity prices are volatile. As a result, actual future
    prices may vary significantly from the NYMEX prices used herein. The future
    value of the reserves eventually recovered and the amounts of reserves
    actually recovered may be more or less than the estimated amounts.

(2) Present value (discounted at PV-0 and PV-10) is not a financial measure

calculated in accordance with GAAP because it does not include the effects of

income taxes on future net revenues. Neither PV-0 nor PV-10 represent an . . .

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(b) Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired



         •   Audited consolidated financial statements of Contango as of and for
             the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the related notes to
             the consolidated financial statements, included in Contango's Annual
             Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, attached as
             Exhibit 99.1 hereto;



         •   Unaudited consolidated financial statements of Contango as of
             September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 and for the three and nine
             months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, and the related notes to the
             condensed consolidated financial statements, included in Contango's
             Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
             2021, attached as Exhibit 99.2 hereto;

(b) Pro Forma Financial Information

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of the Company, giving effect to the Transactions, attached as Exhibit 99.3 hereto:



         •   Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations for the
             year ended December 31, 2021; and



  •   Notes to the Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements.


(d)  Exhibits.

Exhibit                                  Description

23.1          Consent of Grant Thornton LLP, relating to the financial statements
            of Contango Oil & Gas Company.

23.2          Consent of Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc.

23.3          Consent of William M. Cobb & Associates, Inc.

23.4          Consent of W.D. Von Gonten and Company.

99.1          Historical audited consolidated financial statements of Contango
            Oil & Gas Company as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 and for the years
            ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.

99.2          Historical unaudited consolidated financial statements of Contango
            Oil & Gas Company as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 and
            for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020.

99.3          Unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information for the
            year ended December 31, 2021.

99.4          Report of Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc. - Uinta, as of
            December 31, 2021.

99.5          Report of William M. Cobb & Associates, Inc.

99.6          Report of W.D. Von Gonten and Company.

104         Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL
            document).



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