Harvest Energy Trust
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| Harvest Energy Trust | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public (NYSE: HTE) TSX: HTE.UN |
| Founded | Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2002) |
| Headquarters | Headquarters in Calgary; oil and gas wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and refinery in Newfoundland |
| Key people | John Zahary, President & CEO |
| Industry | Oil and natural gas |
| Products | Oil and natural gas; royalty trust |
| Website | Harvest Energy |
The Harvest Energy Trust (TSX: HTE.UN, NYSE: HTE) is a Canadian oil and natural gas royalty trust based in Calgary, Alberta. Unlike many oil and gas trusts, which consist only of production fields, Harvest has both "upstream" (oil and gas wells) and "downstream" (refining and distilling) components. It operates as an open-ended investment trust in Canada, and is one of the equities known as "Canroys" – short for "Canadian royalty trusts."[1][2]
Harvest's oil fields are mainly in Alberta, with two in Saskatchewan; it also has assets in northern British Columbia known as the Hay River Field. Tar sand deposits and all natural gas properties were in Alberta. As of the end of 2007, Harvest claimed a production of 61,000 BOE/d (barrels or equivalent per day), and a probable lifespan of existing assets of about ten years, before depletion. It claims a total original oil in place (OOIP) amount of 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m³), and another 1 billion barrels (160,000,000 m³) in oil sands. Future plans include drilling approximately 1,000 new oil and gas wells on about 880,000 acres (3,600 km²) of land which has previously not been developed for oil and gas production.[3][4]
Harvest Energy Trust was formed in July, 2002. In 2006 it purchased the 115,000 bbl/d (18,300 m³/d) North Atlantic Refinery in Come By Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador from Vitol Refining Group, B.V., and in so doing became the first Canadian energy trust to own its own refinery.[5] Harvest had 924 employees and a market capitalization of US$ 3.22 billion at the end of 2007.[6]
The Harvest Energy Trust pays a high dividend, yielding an annual rate of 16.0% in early 2008; in addition, it pays out monthly, a relative rarity for equities listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Its dividend payments are not taxed at the regular dividend rate, but rather at a 15% "Qualified Dividends" rate; this is an additional tax advantage in the United States, and applies to many royalty trusts.[7][8]
[edit] References and notes
- ^ About Harvest
- ^ Article on Canadian royalty trusts at Dividend Detective
- ^ About Harvest: overall description
- ^ Upstream operations description
- ^ North Atlantic Refinery description
- ^ Company profile and financial information at Yahoo! Finance
- ^ Wall Street Journal information page on HTE
- ^ Explanation in Form 10-K on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
