UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 8-K

 


 

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):   January 31, 2017

 


 

Centennial Resource Development, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware

 

001-37697

 

47- 5381253

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)

 

(Commission
File Number)

 

(IRS. Employer
Identification No.)

 

1401 Seventeenth Street, Suite 1000
Denver, Colorado 80202
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

(720) 441-5515
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

N/A
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 


 

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Item 8.01.                                         Other Events.

 

As previously announced, on December 28, 2016, Centennial Resource Development, Inc. together with its affiliates, including Centennial Resource Production, LLC (the “Company”) completed the acquisition of leasehold interests and related upstream assets in Reeves County, Texas from Silverback Exploration, LLC and Silverback Operating, LLC (collectively, “Silverback”).  The acquired acreage included 11,694 net acres subject to an area of mutual interest (the “AMI”) among certain third parties (the “AMI Counterparties”) and the Company, pursuant to which the AMI Counterparties collectively had the right to acquire an aggregate of 80.75% of the interests that the Company acquired from Silverback in the acreage subject to the AMI.

 

On January 31, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing that the AMI Counterparties did not exercise their purchase rights as to the 11,694 net acres within the AMI prior to the expiration of those rights on January 30, 2017, and the AMI Counterparties have no further right to participate in the acquisition of the interests acquired from Silverback.  A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.

 

Item 9.01                                            Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d) Exhibits

 

The exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K are listed in the Exhibit Index, which appears at the end of this report and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

CENTENNIAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT,
INC.

 

 

 

Date: January 31, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ George S. Glyphis

 

Name:

George S. Glyphis

 

Title:

Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant
Secretary

 

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Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

99.1

 

Press release dated January 31, 2017.

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Centennial Resource Development Provides Update Regarding
Its Acquisition of the Upstream Assets of Silverback Exploration

 

DENVER, CO, January 31, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As previously announced, on December 28, 2016, Centennial Resource Development, Inc. together with its affiliates, including Centennial Resource Production, LLC (“Centennial” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CDEV, CDEVW), completed the acquisition of leasehold interests and related upstream assets in Reeves County, Texas from Silverback Exploration, LLC and Silverback Operating, LLC (collectively, “Silverback”).  The acquired acreage included 11,694 net acres subject to an area of mutual interest (the “AMI”) among certain third parties (the “AMI Counterparties”) and Centennial, pursuant to which the AMI Counterparties collectively had the right to acquire an aggregate of 80.75% of the interests that Centennial acquired from Silverback in the acreage subject to the AMI.  Centennial has announced today that the AMI Counterparties did not exercise their purchase rights as to the 11,694 net acres within the AMI prior to the expiration of those rights on January 30, 2017, and the AMI Counterparties have no further right to participate in the acquisition of the interests acquired from Silverback.  Centennial currently owns over 77,000 contiguous net acres located primarily in Reeves County within the Delaware Basin.

 

About Centennial Resource Development, Inc.

 

Centennial Resource Development, Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the development and acquisition of unconventional oil and associated liquids-rich natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin. The Company’s assets and operations, which are held and conducted through Centennial Resource Production, LLC, are concentrated in the Delaware Basin, a sub-basin of the Permian Basin. For additional information about the Company, please visit www.cdevinc.com.

 

Contact:

 

Hays Mabry

Director, Investor Relations

(713) 357-1393

ir@cdevinc.com

 

SOURCE Centennial Resource Development, Inc.