HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Constellation Energy Partners LLC (NYSE MKT: CEP) today announced that it has executed a definitive agreement to sell its Robinson’s Bend Field assets and operations, which are located in the Black Warrior Basin in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, to a subsidiary of Castleton Commodities International LLC (“CCI”).
The sale encompasses over 500 operating natural gas wells in the Robinson’s Bend Field together with related leasehold interests and infrastructure.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter 2013 and will have an effective date of December 1, 2012. The company anticipates that net proceeds received in the transaction will be used to reduce outstanding debt.
Lantana Oil & Gas Partners, Inc. was divestment advisor to CEP for the sales process. Stifel provided a fairness opinion to the company’s board of managers in connection with the transaction.
Additional details concerning the sale of the company’s Robinson’s Bend assets can be found in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and on the company’s Web site (http://www.constellationenergypartners.com).
About the Company
Constellation Energy Partners LLC is a limited liability company focused on the acquisition, development and production of oil and natural gas properties, as well as related midstream assets.
About CCI
CCI (formerly Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy) is a global commodities merchant with an integrated set of operations consisting of the marketing and merchandising of commodities and the ownership, operations, and development of commodities-related upstream and infrastructure assets. The Company markets a broad range of physical commodities including natural gas, natural gas liquids, refined products, crude oil, fuel oil, freight, petrochemicals, electric power and coal and financial instruments related to commodities. CCI is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with offices in Houston, Texas; Denver, Colorado, Calgary, Canada; Lausanne, Switzerland; Shanghai, China; Singapore; and Uruguay.
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