North European Oil Royalty Trust Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Feb 25, 2011
North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2011-01-31.

North European Oil Rylty has a market cap of $288.8 million; its shares were traded at around $31.42 with a P/E ratio of 15.1 and P/S ratio of 14.7. The dividend yield of North European Oil Rylty stocks is 7%. North European Oil Rylty had an annual average earning growth of 4.2% over the past 10 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Under one set of rights covering the western part of the Oldenburg

concession (approximately 662,000 acres), the Trust receives a royalty payment

of 4% on gross receipts from sales by Mobil Erdgas of gas well gas, oil well

gas, crude oil and condensate (the "Mobil Agreement"). Under the Mobil

Agreement, there is no deduction of costs prior to the calculation of

royalties from gas well gas and oil well gas, which together account for

approximately 99% of all the royalties under this agreement. Historically,

as compared to the OEG Agreement described below, the Trust has received

significantly greater royalty payments under the Mobil Agreement due to the

higher royalty rate specified by that agreement.



Under another set of rights covering the entire Oldenburg

concession and pursuant to the agreement with OEG, the Trust receives

royalties at the rate of 0.6667% on gross receipts from sales by BEB of gas

well gas, oil well gas, crude oil, condensate and sulfur (removed during the

processing of sour gas) less a certain allowed deduction of costs (the "OEG

Agreement"). Under the OEG Agreement, 50% of the field handling, treatment

and transportation costs, as reported for state royalty purposes, are

deducted from the gross sales receipts prior to the calculation of the

royalty to be paid to the Trust. NV Nederlandse Gasunie (the state owned



For the first quarter of fiscal 2011, the Trust's net income was

$5,084,139, an increase of 10.13% from the net income of $4,616,291 for the

first quarter of fiscal 2010. Gross royalties received for the first quarter

of fiscal 2011 were $5,396,283, an increase of 10.25% as compared to

$4,894,409 for the first quarter of fiscal 2010. Royalties received during

the first quarter of fiscal 2011 were derived from sales of gas, sulfur and

oil from the Trust's overriding royalty areas in Germany during the fourth

calendar quarter of 2010. A distribution of $0.55 per unit was paid on

February 23, 2011 to owners of record as of February 11, 2011.





1st Fiscal Qtr. 1st Fiscal Qtr. Percentage

Mobil Agreement Ended 1/31/2011 Ended 1/31/2010 Change

- - - -

Gas Sales (Bcf) 11.707 11.861 - 1.30%

Gas Prices (Ecents/Kwh) 2.3753 1.6491 + 44.04%

Gas Prices ($/Mcf) $ 9.16 $ 6.88 + 33.14%

Average Exchange Rate 1.3431 1.4493 - 7.33%



1st Fiscal Qtr. 1st Fiscal Qtr. Percentage

OEG Agreement Ended 1/31/2011 Ended 1/31/2010 Change

- - - -

Gas Sales (Bcf) 30.213 30.616 - 1.32%

Gas Prices (Ecents/Kwh) 2.5404 1.9151 + 32.65%

Gas Prices ($/Mcf) $ 9.55 $ 7.74 + 23.39%

Average Exchange Rate 1.3436 1.4405 - 6.73%



Excluding the effects of differences in prices and average exchange

rates, the combination of royalty rates on gas sold from western Oldenburg

results in an effective royalty rate approximately seven times higher than

the royalty rate on gas sold from eastern Oldenburg. This is of particular

significance to the Trust since gas sold from western Oldenburg provides the

bulk of royalties paid to the Trust. For the quarter just ended, gas sales

from western Oldenburg accounted for only 38.75% of all gas sales.

However, royalties on these gas sales provided approximately 81.39% or

$4,259,728 out of a total of $5,233,878 in Oldenburg royalties attributable

to gas.



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