Jack Yetiv

Oil Price Helps Trusts Sustain Current Rate of Distribution

The idea of selling non-core assets is to get rid of assets providing a low ROI and replace them with something that offers a better return. For example, maybe these 16,000 barrells of production represent high-cost production due to their geology or location.

One speculation--PWE made the non-core asset deal a month or two months ago, when commodity prices were much higher. They may be able to replace those non-core assets with others at a lower price, and in places that "fit" their E & P activities better.

Until we know the terms, it's impossible to know if this sale was stupid, brilliant or somewhere in between.

Jack