MIDLAND, TX, Aug. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mexco Energy Corporation (NYSE American: MXC) today reported net income of $1,298,672, or $0.59 per diluted share, for the quarter ending June 30, 2022, the Company’s first quarter of fiscal 2023, an increase of 340% versus $395,006 or $0.19 per diluted share, for the comparable quarter ending June 30, 2021.
Operating revenues in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 increased 94% to $2,449,973 from $1,264,198 for the first quarter of fiscal 2022. This increase resulted from an 18% increase in barrels of oil equivalent (“BOE”) production volumes as well as the average sales price of oil and natural gas for the quarter ending June 30, 2022 to $109.62 per barrel (a 71% increase) and $6.61 per Mcf (a 122% increase), respectively.
The Company currently plans to participate in the drilling and completion of approximately 52 horizontal wells at an estimated aggregate cost of approximately $3,800,000 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023 an increase of 198% over fiscal 2022. During the first quarter of fiscal 2023, Mexco participated with various percentage interests in the drilling of 19 of these wells in the Delaware Basin located in the western portion of the Permian Basin in Lea and Eddy Counties, New Mexico and 12 of these wells in the Midland Basin located in the eastern portion of the Permian Basin in Reagan County, Texas with aggregate costs of approximately $2,800,000 to date.
The Company also expended…
