Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Eli Columbus led a team of lawyers and professionals representing Contango Oil & Gas Company in the acquisition of assets from White Star Petroleum LLC and certain affiliates as a part of the White Star Chapter 11 bankruptcy 363 sales process. Contango announced on Nov. 4 that it had completed the acquisition.

Contango acquired from White Star approximately 15 Mboe/d of production, approximately 20 Mmboe of PDP reserves as of the July 1 effective date, and 315,000 net acres in Oklahoma split into the three operating districts, for a total purchase price of $132.5 million subject to normal and customary closing adjustments.

Columbus is a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group at Haynes and Boone. He was assisted by Haynes and Boone Partners Austin Elam and Matt Ferris; Associate Chris Reagen; and Professional Landman Randy Browne.

Contango Oil & Gas Company is a Houston, Texas-based, independent oil and natural gas company whose business is to maximize production and cash flow from its offshore properties in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and onshore properties in Texas and Wyoming and to use that cash flow to explore, develop, exploit, increase production from and acquire crude oil and natural gas properties in West Texas, the Texas Gulf Coast and the Rocky Mountain regions of the U.S.

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