INCOME

GROWTH

2013 Annual Report
OPERATIONS OVERVIEW

3DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Table of Contents

2 Denbury’s CO2 Cycle

4 Letter to Shareholders

6 Tertiary Operations Map

11 Board of Directors

12 Officers

Form 10-K

Corporate Information (Inside Back Cover)

Forward-Looking Statements

The data contained in this annual report that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such statements 

may relate to, among other things: long-term strategy; anticipated levels of future dividends and rate of dividend growth; forecasts of capital expenditures, drilling 

activity and development activities; timing of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) injections and initial production response to such tertiary flooding projects; estimated timing of 

pipeline construction or completion or the cost thereof; dates of completion of to-be-constructed industrial plants and their first date of capture of anthropogenic CO2 ; 

estimates of costs, forecasted production rates or peak production rates and the growth thereof; estimates of hydrocarbon reserve quantities and values, CO2

reserves, helium reserves, future hydrocarbon prices or assumptions; future cash flows or uses of cash, availability of capital or borrowing capacity; rates of return and 

overall economics; estimates of potential or recoverable reserves and anticipated production growth rates in our CO2 models; estimated production and capital 

expenditures for full-year 2014 and periods beyond; and availability and cost of equipment and services. These forward-looking statements are generally accompanied 

by words such as “estimated”, “preliminary”, “projected”, “potential”, “anticipated”, “forecasted”, “expected”, “assume” or other words that convey the uncertainty of 

future events or outcomes. These statements are based on management’s current plans and assumptions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties as 

further outlined in our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from the expectations, estimates or 

assumptions expressed in or implied by any forward-looking statement herein made by or on behalf of the Company.

Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors — Current SEC rules regarding oil and gas reserve information allow oil and gas companies to disclose in filings with the SEC not only 

proved reserves, but also probable and possible reserves that meet the SEC’s definitions of such terms. We disclose only proved reserves in our filings with the SEC. 

Denbury’s proved reserves as of December 31, 2013 were estimated by DeGolyer & MacNaughton, an independent petroleum engineering firm. In this annual report, we 

make reference to probable and possible reserves, some of which have been estimated by our independent engineers and some of which have been estimated by 

Denbury’s internal staff of engineers. In this annual report, we also refer to estimates of original oil in place, resource or reserves “potential”, barrels recoverable, or 

other descriptions of volumes potentially recoverable, which in addition to reserves generally classifiable as probable and possible (2P and 3P reserves), include 

estimates of reserves that do not rise to the standards for possible reserves, and which SEC guidelines strictly prohibit us from including in filings with the SEC. These 

estimates, as well as the estimates of probable and possible reserves, are by their nature more speculative than estimates of proved reserves and are subject to greater 

uncertainties, and accordingly the likelihood of recovering those reserves is subject to substantially greater risk.
2013 ANNUAL REPORT 1OPERATIONS OVERVIEW

DISCIPLINED GROWTH

Denbury is a growing, dividend-paying, 

domestic oil and natural gas company. 

Our primary focus is on enhanced 

oil recovery utilizing carbon dioxide 

(CO2 EOR). Our goal is to increase the

value of acquired properties through a 

combination of exploitation, drilling and 

proven engineering extraction practices, 

with the most significant emphasis 

relating to tertiary recovery operations.
~9.3

TRILLION

CUBIC FEET

GROSS PROVED 

CO2RESERVES

AS OF 12/31/2013

STEP

1 CO2 SOURCES & CAPTURE

OVEr

1,100 

Carbon Dioxide Pipeline

MILES

The first step in implementing a CO2 EOR project is to secure 

access to substantial volumes of CO2. We source our CO2

from both naturally occurring underground reservoirs and 

anthropogenic (man-made) sources. The proven CO2 reserves 

associated with our naturally occurring sources are located 

in Jackson Dome in Mississippi and LaBarge Field in Wyoming. 

We source our anthropogenic CO2 from industrial facilities 

which capture, purify, dry and then compress the CO2 for 

delivery into our pipeline network.

STEP

2 CO2 Transportation

The second step in implementing a CO2 EOR project is transporting the CO2

from the source to the oil field. We operate or control over 1,100 miles of CO2

pipelines and are continually expanding this network to transport natural and 

anthropogenic CO2 to our tertiary fields. We currently utilize ~ 70 million cubic 

feet of anthropogenic CO2 per day and anticipate an additional ~115 million 

cubic feet of anthropogenic CO2 per day from currently planned or future 

construction of facilities in our Gulf Coast region.

Denbury’s CO2 Cycle

~70

MILLION

CUBIC FEET PER DAY

 ANTHROPOGENIC CO2
2013 ANNUAL REPORT

3

STEP

3 CO2 INJECTION

The third step in implementing a CO2 EOR project 

is to inject the carbon dioxide into the oil-bearing 

reservoir through a wellbore. The injected CO2

moves through the reservoir, mixing with the 

crude oil trapped there. The CO2 acts to separate 

the oil from the reservoir rock and increase the 

oil’s mobility within the reservoir. The mixture is 

driven through the formation into a producing 

wellbore, where it then comes to the surface, 

increasing the field’s oil production. To date, 

our CO2 EOR operations have resulted in the 

gross production of over 100 million barrels of 

otherwise stranded oil.

STEP

4 CO2 EOR Benefits & STORAGE

CO2 EOR operations provide considerable economic, environmental and political 

benefits. The economic benefits of CO2 EOR include the creation of jobs due 

to large cash investments required to implement and operate a CO2 EOR project 

along with tax payments to local governments. Our CO2 EOR operations also 

provide an environmentally responsible method of utilizing and ultimately 

storing CO2 in underground oil reservoirs while also making our nation more 

energy secure.

38,477

Bbls/d

TERTIARY

PRODUCTION

IN 2013
LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS

4DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

45

75

135

195

255

15

105

165

225

During 2013, we started the transition of our 

company from one focused purely on growth to one 

that supplements both Growth & Income (dividends), 

the theme of this year’s annual report. We are able 

to do this because of the unique production and cash 

flow profile of our assets, which are all either current 

carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (“CO2 EOR”) 

projects, future CO2 EOR projects or assets that 

produce much of the CO2 that we use in our projects. 

We anticipate that our unique capability among 

oil and gas independents will enhance shareholder 

value and returns in the coming years.

In preparation for this transition to Growth & Income, 

over the last few years we made a series of tax efficient 

acquisitions and dispositions that sharpened our 

operational focus and made us a pure CO2 EOR play.

Proved Tertiary Reserves(1)

Dear Fellow Shareholders:

Since CO2 EOR is limited to areas with large CO2

quantities, our ownership of significant CO2 resources 

and pipeline infrastructure needed to transport CO2

gives us a significant competitive advantage in the areas 

in which we operate. We have chosen to utilize and 

maximize our strategic advantage, and therefore have 

made CO2 EOR our core strategy and business. 

To enable the expansion of our strategy from 

growth to Growth & Income, we modified our future 

development plans and flattened out our anticipated 

annual capital spending levels for the remainder of 

the decade. This adjustment, combined with our view 

that these changes would not significantly reduce our 

anticipated oil and gas production and reserve growth 

rates, allowed us to bring forward our free cash flow 

by a few years. This, in turn, allowed us to accelerate 

our objective of providing returns to our shareholders 

through cash dividend payments.

27.9

35.3

50.5

59.8

62.2

69.5

125.8

134.5

163.3

147.6

200.9

230.4

02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13

December 31,

Proved Reserves (MMBOEs)

Bell Creek 

oyster Bayou

tinsley

Delhi

heidelberg

Hastings

Mature Fields

(1) Proved tertiary reserves based on SEC pricing for the respective years.
2013 ANNUAL REPORT

5LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS

» We delivered our first tertiary oil production and 

proved reserves in the Rocky Mountain region. 

Since establishing our position in the Rocky 

Mountain region in 2010, our team has worked 

diligently to initiate our first CO2 flood in the 

region. The milestones we have attained since late 

2012 include: completion of the 20-inch Greencore 

Pipeline in Wyoming, our first CO2 pipeline in the 

Rocky Mountain region; the first receipt, delivery, 

and injection of CO2 into Bell Creek and Grieve 

fields; the first tertiary oil production at Bell Creek 

Field; and the completion of an interconnect 

between a third party’s CO2 pipeline and our 

Greencore Pipeline, which allows us to transport 

our CO2 volumes from ExxonMobil’s Shute Creek gas 

processing plant to Bell Creek Field. With tertiary 

production now established and growing in the 

Rocky Mountain region, we look forward to the 

continued expansion of our tertiary operations in 

the region, at both Bell Creek Field and Grieve Field.

With the declaration of our first-ever cash 

dividend on January 28, 2014, we began the process 

of distributing free cash flow generated from our 

operations to shareholders. Our first quarterly 

dividend of $0.0625 per common share, or a rate of 

$0.25 per share on an annualized basis, was paid to 

stockholders on March 25, 2014. Based on our current 

financial projections and commodity price outlook, 

we expect to grow our regular annual dividend rate to 

between $0.50 per share and $0.60 per share in 2015 and 

at a sustainable rate thereafter.

Of course, the expansion of our shareholder 

return strategy to include both Growth & Income

is made possible by the many accomplishments of 

our operations team over the last few years. Let me 

touch on a few of these achievements over the past 

twelve months:

» We delivered average production of 70,243 barrels 

of oil equivalent per day in 2013, which was just 

slightly above the mid-point of the estimated 

range we presented in the prior year. Our tertiary 

oil production increased by 9% between 2012 and 

2013. Our non-tertiary production, after the closing 

of our Cedar Creek Anticline acquisition in March 

of 2013, was down only modestly from levels prior 

to our Bakken area asset sale and exchange in late 

2012. Our tertiary production growth in 2013 was 

driven by our newest CO2 floods at Oyster Bayou 

and Hastings fields in the Houston area, and we 

anticipate additional growth at both of these 

fields in 2014. Going forward, we expect to deliver 

4% to 8% annual production growth through the 

end of this decade without needing to acquire any 

additional properties.

FIRST 

CASH DIVIDEND 

PAID IN 2014

The first cash dividend in Denbury’s history was 

paid to stockholders on March 25, 2014, making 

the expansion of the Company’s shareholder 

value proposition to include quarterly cash 

dividends. We remain focused on developing our 

significant inventory of enhanced oil recovery 

projects in order to increase shareholder value.
OPERATIONS OVERVIEW

6DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Headquarters

TX

LA

MS AL

Our oil and natural gas properties are concentrated 

in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions of the 

United States. Currently our properties with proved and 

producing reserves in the Gulf Coast region are situated 

in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, and in the 

Hastings

60–80 MMBbls

Webster

60–75 MMBbls

Thompson

30–60 MMBbls

Tertiary & Total Company Potential (MMBOEs)

Tertiary

 Proved(1) 230

 Potential(2) 680

 Produced-to-Date(3) 85

Total Tertiary(2) 995

Total Company Potential(4) 1,250

Heidelberg

44 MMBbls

Tinsley

46 MMBbls

Delhi 

45 MMBOEs

Mature Area

170 MMBbls

Oyster Bayou

20–30 MMBbls Conroe

130 MMBbls

Houston Area

150–215 MMBbls

Tertiary Operations Map

Rocky Mountain region in Montana, North Dakota and 

Wyoming. Our primary focus is using CO2 in EOR and we 

expect the development plan for our current portfolio of 

CO2 EOR projects will allow us to grow our oil production 

for the remainder of the decade.

Jackson 

Dome

Delta Pipeline

Sonat MS 

Pipeline

Lake Charles

Cogeneration

Free State 

Pipeline

NEJD Pipeline

Green Pipeline

PCS Nitrogen

Other Plants

Air Products

Mississippi 

Power

Gulf Coast Region: Potential Tertiary Reserves(1)
2013 ANNUAL REPORT

7OPERATIONS OVERVIEW

(1) Potential, proved and produced-to-date tertiary reserves estimated as of 12/31/13 based on a range of recovery factors. Proved 

reserves based on year-end 12/31/13 SEC reporting.

(2) Using mid-points of ranges.

(3) Produced-to-date is cumulative tertiary production through 12/31/13.

(4) Proved and potential conventional and tertiary reserves including other conventional reserves estimated as of 12/31/13 based on a 

range of recovery factors. Excludes tertiary production to date.

Headquarters

Existing Denbury CO2Pipelines

Denbury Proposed CO2Pipelines

CO2Pipelines Not Owned or 

Operated by Denbury

Denbury CO2EOR Fields

Denbury Future CO2EOR Fields

CO2Resources Owned or Contracted

Anthropogenic CO2Sources: Producing or Pending Startup

Anthropogenic CO2Sources: Contracted with Future Construction

WY

MT ND

Rocky Mountain Region: Potential Tertiary Reserves(1)

Cedar Creek 

Anticline

260–290 

MMBbls

Bell Creek

40–50 

MMBbls

Hartzog

Draw

20–30 

MMBbls

Grieve

6 MMBbls

2013 ANNUAL REPORT

7

Lost Cabin

Riley Ridge

LaBarge Area

Shute Creek

Greencore 

Pipeline
8DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

» We increased our proved oil and natural gas 

reserves to 468 million barrels of oil equivalent 

(“MMBOE”) as of December 31, 2013, compared to 

409 MMBOE at December 31, 2012. We added 85 

MMBOE of estimated proved reserves during 2013, 

including tertiary reserves of 34 MMBOE at Bell 

Creek Field during the fourth quarter, non-tertiary 

reserves of 42 MMBOE from the acquisition of 

additional interests in CCA during the first quarter, 

and 9 MMBOE of other additions or revisions. We 

estimate our total proved and potential reserves 

at December 31, 2013, were 1,250 MMBOE, including 

an estimated 910 MMBOE associated with the 

planned future CO2 EOR development of fields 

we currently operate. We plan to convert these 

potential reserves to proved reserves as we develop 

these oil fields.

» We placed our Riley Ridge gas processing facility 

into service. We acquired our initial interest in 

the Riley Ridge gas processing facility and the 

LaBarge Field in southwestern Wyoming in 2010 

with the goal of making it our “Jackson Dome” of 

the Rockies. LaBarge Field is estimated to hold 

significantly more CO2 than Jackson Dome, but it 

is mixed with other gases, including methane and 

helium. With the startup of the plant and our sales 

of both methane and helium, we will generate cash 

flow on our investment, although the bigger prize 

will be realized later this decade when we add CO2

separation equipment, connect this plant to our 

existing CO2 pipelines, and make Riley Ridge our 

anchor source of CO2 in the Rocky Mountain region.

» We purchased and used man-made CO2 in our 

operations. Starting in late 2012, we began 

purchasing and utilizing anthropogenic (manmade) CO2 in our tertiary operations. In the Gulf 

Coast region, we are currently receiving CO2 from 

two plants and anticipate, adding a third source in 

2014. We expect the new facility to be our largest 

man-made source in the region, with other sources 

expected throughout the remainder of this decade. 

These projects illustrate our unique ability to use 

and store captured CO2 that would otherwise be 

released into the atmosphere.

While we had many accomplishments in 2013, we 

did face several challenges, particularly at Delhi Field 

in northern Louisiana. In June, a release of well fluids, 

consisting of a mixture of carbon dioxide, saltwater, 

natural gas and oil, was discovered and reported within 

Delhi Field. We immediately took remedial action to 

stop the release and contain and recover well fluids in 

the affected area. We have determined that the release 

originated from one or more wells in the affected 

area of the field that we believe had previously been 

improperly plugged and abandoned by a prior operator 

of the field. While we completed our remediation 

efforts during the fourth quarter of 2013, the halting of 

CO2 injections into the directly impacted area reduced 

the field’s oil production and required significant 

corporate resources. We have taken numerous steps to 

mitigate the risk of something similar occurring in the 

future, including a more thorough review of plugged 

and abandoned wells, more stringent criteria for what 

is an acceptable plugged and abandoned well, and 

assignment of additional, dedicated staff and capital 

LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS
2013 ANNUAL REPORT

9LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS

CO2 EOR is one of the most efficient 

tertiary oil recovery methods, delivering 

almost as much production as each of 

primary and secondary recovery. To date, 

Denbury has produced over 100 million 

barrels (gross) of oil from CO2 EOR.

Our long-term growth strategy is focused on 

our CO2 tertiary recovery operations, made 

possible by strategic acquisitions & infrastructure 

developments. We have a substantial asset 

base with excellent visibility on long-term 

production growth.

The acquisition and construction of strategic 

assets has yielded a competitive advantage: 

large amounts of naturally occurring and 

man-made CO2 supply, over 1,100 miles of CO2

pipelines and a large inventory of oil fields.

CO2 EOR is a proven method to extract significant 

additional amounts of oil from mature oil fields. 

The unique production profile of CO2 EOR projects 

allows for the generation of substantial amounts 

of free cash flow after the up-front investments 

are made in CO2 supply, pipelines, and facilities to 

initiate them.

A Premier Growth & Income Company

PROVEN & REPEATABLE PROCESS

LARGE PORTFOLIO OF LOWER RISK 

GROWTH PROJECTS

STRATEGIC & COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

UNIQUE PRODUCTION & CASH FLOW PROFILE

resources to administer this program. I am confident 

that the lessons learned and applied from the incident 

will make Denbury a better company in the future.

On the financial front, we generated $1.36 billion 

of cash flow from operations, more than enough to 

fund the $1.14 billion we spent on oil and natural 

gas development, CO2 supply, pipelines, and plant 

capital expenditures. The excess cash flow was used to 

partially fund our common stock repurchase program, 

which our Board first authorized in 2011. We believe 

our stock has been undervalued, even today, trading 

below the net asset value of our proved oil and natural 

gas reserves and at levels that completely ignore the 

significant incremental value of our potential CO2 EOR 

reserves. We have spent over $940 million through the 

first quarter of 2014 to repurchase approximately 

15% of the shares we had outstanding when we 

initiated the program in 2011. We’ve repurchased 
LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS 10DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

production growth in our two core regions, our solid 

balance sheet provides us tremendous financial 

flexibility, and our workforce of highly technical, 

dedicated, and motivated employees is focused on 

executing our unique strategy.

We strongly believe in our strategy and its long-term 

economic benefits and are committed to creating 

value for our shareholders through a combination of 

production and proved reserve growth, dividends and 

share repurchases. We look forward to executing our 

value-driven strategy in 2014 and beyond.

between 3.5% and 4.2% of shares outstanding every 

year starting in 2011 and have repurchased over 

3% thus far in 2014, all while maintaining a solid 

capital structure. The repurchases have improved 

our per-share metrics and have been completed 

at attractive prices that we believe make them very 

accretive for our shareholders. Our repurchase 

program remains in place with approximately 

$220 million still authorized as of the date of this letter. 

We intend to be opportunistic with this program.

In summary, it has been another eventful and 

productive year at Denbury. We remain focused 

on increasing shareholder value by optimizing the 

development of our attractive asset base. We are aware 

that we have had unfavorable operating and capital 

cost trends in 2013 and recent years, and as a result are 

implementing several internal initiatives that we expect 

will result in meaningful cost reductions in the future. 

We believe that we can make significant improvements 

in our cost structure and reverse the recent negative 

trends. We have excellent visibility on long-term oil 

Sincerely,

Phil Rykhoek

President and Chief Executive Officer

March 28, 2014

are committed to creating value for our 

shareholders through a combination of 

production and proved reserve growth, 

dividends and share repurchases. 

“WE

”
2013 ANNUAL REPORT 11BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board of Directors

Our corporate governance guidelines, as well as the charters for our nominating/corporate governance committee; compensation 

committee; audit committee; and reserves and health, safety and environmental committee can be found on the Company website 

at www.denbury.com. The website also contains other corporate governance information such as our code of ethics for our directors, 

officers and employees; our hotline number to report any abnormalities; and other data.

You may contact our board members by addressing a letter to Denbury Resources Inc., Attn: Corporate Secretary, or by email 

to secretary@denbury.com.

Kevin O. Meyers

Independent 

Consultant

Anchorage, Alaska

John P. Dielwart

Vice-Chairman 

ARC Financial Corp.

Calgary, Alberta

Gregory L. McMichael

Independent 

Consultant

Denver, Colorado

Ronald G. Greene

Principal 

Tortuga Investment Corp.

Calgary, Alberta

Randy Stein

Independent 

Consultant

Denver, Colorado

Laura A. Sugg

Independent 

Consultant

Houston, Texas

Wieland F. Wettstein

Chairman of the Board

President 

Finex Financial 

Corporation, Ltd.

Calgary, Alberta

Michael L. Beatty

Chairman and Chief 

Executive Officer

Beatty & Wozniak, P.C.

Denver, Colorado

Michael B. Decker

Partner 

Wingate Partners

Dallas, Texas

Phil Rykhoek

Director, President and 

Chief Executive Officer

Denbury Resources Inc.

Plano, Texas
OFFICERS 12DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Officers

Barry Schneider

Vice President — 

North Region

Whitney Shelley

Vice President and 

Chief Human Resources 

Officer

Alan Rhoades

Vice President and 

Chief Accounting 

Officer

Phil Webb

Vice President — 

East Region

Steve McLaurin

Vice President and 

Chief Information 

Officer

Dan E. Cole

Vice President — 

Marketing, Business 

Development and 

Government Relations

Matt Elmer

Vice President — 

West Region

John Filiatrault

Vice President — 

CO2

 Supply and 

Pipeline

James S. Matthews

Vice President, General 

Counsel and Secretary 

Charlie Gibson

Senior Vice President — 

Planning, Technology 

and CO2 Supply 

Jeff Marcel

Vice President — 

Drilling

Phil Rykhoek

Director, President 

and Chief Executive 

Officer

Mark C. Allen

Senior Vice President, 

Chief Financial Officer, 

Treasurer and Assistant 

Secretary

K. Craig McPherson

Senior Vice President 

and Chief Operating 

Officer 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

2013 Form 10-K

(Mark One)

 3 Annual report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 

OR

 Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the transition period from _______________________ to _______________________

Commission file number 1-12935

DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware 20-0467835

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

5320 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX 75024

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (972) 673-2000

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class: Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered:

Common Stock $.001 Par Value New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. 

Yes 3 No 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. 

Yes No 3 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required 

to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes 3 No 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, 

every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 

12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes 3 No 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and 

will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by 

reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. 3 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a 

small reporting company. See definition of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, and “small reporting company” in 

Rule 12-b2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer 3 Accelerated filer Non-accelerated filer Smaller reporting company 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 12b-2). 

Yes No 3 

The aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates, based on the closing price of the 

registrant’s common stock as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter 

was $5,625,842,252.

The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s Common Stock as of January 31, 2014, was 355,982,927.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Document: Incorporated as to: 

1. Notice and Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting 1. Part III, Items 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

of Shareholders to be held May 20, 2014.
2

Table of Contents

Page

 Glossary and Selected Abbreviations ............................................................................................... 3

PART I

Item 1. Business and Properties.................................................................................................................... 4

Item 1A. Risk Factors....................................................................................................................................... 23

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments ............................................................................................................. 31

Item 2. Properties.......................................................................................................................................... 31

Item 3. Legal Proceedings............................................................................................................................. 31

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.................................................................................................................... 31

PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and 

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities ............................................................................................... 32

Item 6. Selected Financial Data..................................................................................................................... 34

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.............. 36

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk............................................................. 60

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Information ..................................................................... 60

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure............. 96

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures................................................................................................................... 96

Item 9B. Other Information.............................................................................................................................. 96

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance ................................................................. 97

Item 11. Executive Compensation................................................................................................................... 97

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and 

Related Stockholder Matters ............................................................................................................. 97

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence................................... 97

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services............................................................................................ 97

PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules..................................................................................... 98

 Signatures......................................................................................................................................... 104

table of contents DENBURY RESOURCES INC.
32013 ANNUAL REPORT GLOSSARY AND SELECTED ABBREVIATIONS

Glossary and Selected Abbreviations

Bbl One stock tank barrel, of 42 U.S. gallons liquid volume, used herein in reference to crude oil or 

other liquid hydrocarbons.

Bbls/d Barrels of oil or other liquid hydrocarbons produced per day.

Bcf One billion cubic feet of natural gas, CO2 or helium.

BOE One barrel of oil equivalent, using the ratio of one barrel of crude oil, condensate or natural gas 

liquids to 6 Mcf of natural gas.

BOE/d BOEs produced per day.

Btu British thermal unit, which is the heat required to raise the temperature of a one-pound mass of 

water from 58.5 to 59.5 degrees Fahrenheit (°F).

CO2 Carbon dioxide.

EOR Enhanced oil recovery.

Finding and development costs The average cost per BOE to find and develop proved reserves during a given period. It is 

calculated by dividing (a) costs, which include the sum of (i) the total acquisition, exploration and 

development costs incurred during the period plus (ii) future development and abandonment 

costs related to the specified property or group of properties, by (b) the sum of (i) the change in 

total proved reserves during the period plus (ii) total production during that period.

GAAP Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

MBbls One thousand barrels of crude oil or other liquid hydrocarbons.

MBOE One thousand BOEs.

Mbtu One thousand Btus.

Mcf One thousand cubic feet of natural gas, CO2 or helium at a temperature base of 60 degrees 

Fahrenheit (°F) and at the legal pressure base (14.65 to 15.025 pounds per square inch absolute) 

of the state or area in which the reserves are located or sales are made.

Mcf/d One thousand cubic feet of natural gas, CO2 or helium produced per day.

MMBbls One million barrels of crude oil or other liquid hydrocarbons.

MMBOE One million BOEs.

MMBtu One million Btus.

MMcf One million cubic feet of natural gas, CO2 or helium.

MMcf/d One million cubic feet of natural gas, CO2 or helium per day.

Noncash fair value The net change during the period in the fair market value of commodity derivative positions. 

adjustments on up only a portion of “Derivatives expense (income)” in the Consolidated Statements of

commodity derivatives Operations, which also includes the impact of cash settlements on commodity derivatives during

 the period. Its use is further discussed in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial 

Condition – Results of Operations – Operating Results Table.

NYMEX The New York Mercantile Exchange. In the context of our oil and natural gas sales, NYMEX pricing 

represents the West Texas Intermediate benchmark price for crude oil and Henry Hub benchmark 

price for natural gas.

Probable Reserves* Reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves but which, together with 

proved reserves, are as likely as not to be recovered.

Proved Developed Reserves* Reserves that can be expected to be recovered through existing wells with existing equipment and 

operating methods.

Proved Reserves* Reserves that geological and engineering data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be 

recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating 

conditions.

Proved Undeveloped Reserves* Reserves that are expected to be recovered from new wells on undrilled acreage or from existing 

wells, in each case where a relatively major expenditure is required.

PV-10 Value The estimated future gross revenue to be generated from the production of proved reserves, net 

of estimated future production, development and abandonment costs, and before income taxes, 

discounted to a present value using an annual discount rate of 10%. PV-10 Values were prepared 

using average hydrocarbon prices equal to the unweighted arithmetic average of hydrocarbon 

prices on the first day of each month within the 12-month period preceding the reporting date. 

PV-10 Value is a non-GAAP measure and its use is further discussed in footnote 4 to the table 

included in Item 1, Estimated Net Quantities of Proved Oil and Natural Gas Reserves and Present 

Value of Estimated Future Net Revenues – Oil and Natural Gas Reserve Estimates.

Tcf One trillion cubic feet of natural gas, CO2 or helium.

Tertiary Recovery A term used to represent techniques for extracting incremental oil out of existing oil fields 

(as opposed to primary and secondary recovery or “non-tertiary” recovery). In the context of our 

oil and natural gas production, tertiary recovery is also referred to as EOR.

* This definition is an abbreviated version of the complete definition set forth in Rule 4-10(a) of Regulation S-X. For the complete definition see:

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Item 1. Business and Properties

GENERAL

Denbury Resources Inc., a Delaware corporation, is a growing, dividend-paying, domestic oil and natural gas 

company with 468.3 MMBOE of estimated proved oil and natural gas reserves as of December 31, 2013, of which 83% 

is oil. Our primary focus is on enhanced oil recovery utilizing CO2, and our operations are focused in two key 

operating areas: the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. Our goal is to increase the value of acquired properties 

through a combination of exploitation, drilling and proven engineering extraction practices, with the most significant 

emphasis relating to tertiary recovery operations.

As part of our corporate strategy, we believe in the following fundamental principles:

• focus in specific regions where we either have, or believe we can create, a competitive advantage as a result of 

our ownership or use of CO2 reserves, oil fields and CO2 infrastructure;

• acquire properties where we believe additional value can be created through tertiary recovery operations and a 

combination of other exploitation, development, exploration and marketing techniques;

• acquire properties that give us a majority working interest and operational control or where we believe we can 

ultimately obtain it;

• maximize the value and cash flow generated from our operations by increasing production and reserves while 

controlling costs;

• optimize the timing and allocation of capital among our investment opportunities to maximize the rates of return 

on our investments;

• return a portion of the cash flow generated from our operations to shareholders through regular quarterly 

dividend payments, and repurchases of our common stock made from time to time; and

• maintain a highly competitive team of experienced and incentivized personnel.

Denbury has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 1997. Our corporate headquarters is 

located at 5320 Legacy Drive, Plano, Texas 75024, and our phone number is 972-673-2000. At December 31, 2013, we 

had 1,501 employees, 807 of whom were employed in field operations or at our field offices. We make our annual 

report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports, 

filed or furnished pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, available free of charge 

on or through our Internet website, www.denbury.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file 

such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. The SEC also maintains a website, www.sec.gov, which contains 

reports, proxy and information statements and other information filed by Denbury. Throughout this Annual Report on 

Form 10-K (“Form 10-K”) we use the terms “Denbury,” “Company,” “we,” “our,” and “us” to refer to Denbury 

Resources Inc. and, as the context may require, its subsidiaries.

2012 AND 2013 MAJOR PROPERTY EXCHANGES AND ACQUISITIONS

We set the stage for our 2013 business developments with two major transactions. In December 2012, we closed a 

sale and exchange transaction with Exxon Mobil Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary XTO Energy Inc, 

(collectively, “ExxonMobil”) under which we sold to ExxonMobil our Bakken area assets in North Dakota and Montana 

in exchange for (1) $1.3 billion in cash, (2) operating interests in Hartzog Draw and Webster fields in Wyoming and 

Texas, respectively, and (3) an overriding royalty interest equivalent to an approximate one-third ownership interest in 

ExxonMobil’s CO2 reserves in LaBarge Field in Wyoming (the “Bakken Exchange Transaction”). We utilized cash 

received in this exchange to fund our March 2013 acquisition of producing assets in the Cedar Creek Anticline (“CCA”) 

in Montana and North Dakota from ConocoPhillips Company (“ConocoPhillips”) for $1.05 billion in cash, before 

closing adjustments.

Taken together, these two asset transactions nearly replaced the production of the sold assets with production 

from the acquired assets, exchanged proved reserves with a high proved undeveloped component in the Bakken 

for reserves that were nearly all proved developed in CCA, increased our Rocky Mountain CO2 reserves by 1.3 Tcf 

and our CO2 deliverability by up to 115 MMcf/d, and positioned us to provide dividends to our stockholders as 

discussed below.

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52013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART I

2013 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS

In the fourth quarter of 2013, following a comprehensive review of our long-term plans, we announced our 

intention to expand our shareholder value proposition to include both growth and income. The expansion includes 

the initiation of regular quarterly cash dividend payments to our shareholders starting with $0.0625 per share 

(a rate of $0.25 per share on an annualized basis). The first quarterly cash dividend of $0.0625 was declared on 

January 28, 2014, payable March 25, 2014, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 25, 2014. 

Based on our current financial projections and commodity price outlook, we expect to grow our annual dividend 

rate to between $0.50 per share and $0.60 per share in 2015 and at a sustainable rate thereafter. All dividends are 

discretionary and subject to declaration by Denbury’s Board of Directors.

To expand our free cash flow, we adjusted certain of our development plans and timelines for various capital 

projects, principally in the Rocky Mountain region, in order to reduce our spending on certain major infrastructure 

projects over the next few years. These adjustments allowed us to accelerate our plan of providing a return to our 

shareholders through a growing cash dividend, while still growing our reserves and production. Our focused strategy, 

significant inventory of development projects and proven track record of value creation give us confidence that we 

can deliver a long-term cash flow profile that is unique among independent oil companies and successfully execute 

on our value-driven growth and income strategy in 2014 and beyond.

2013 business developments also include the following:

• Increased our average tertiary oil production to 38,477 Bbls/d in 2013, a 9% increase from average tertiary 

production in 2012, primarily due to continued field development and expansion of facilities in our existing CO2

floods at Delhi, Hastings, Heidelberg and Oyster Bayou fields.

• Added total proved reserves of 84.6 MMBOE including estimated proved tertiary reserves of 34.0 MMBbls at 

Bell Creek Field, proved non-tertiary reserves of 42.2 MMBOE (added through our 2013 acquisition of interests at 

CCA) and 8.4 MMBOE of other additions or revisions. 

• Added estimated proved CO2 reserves of 350 Bcf as a result of successful drilling in the Jackson Dome area, our 

primary source of CO2 for the Gulf Coast region.

• Continued our share repurchase program, under which we repurchased a total of 16.5 million shares of Denbury 

common stock for $277.8 million during 2013. We have purchased a total of 59.4 million shares of Denbury 

common stock (approximately 14.8% of our outstanding shares of common stock at September 30, 2011) for 

$931.2 million, or an average of $15.68 per share, since commencement of the share repurchase program 

in October 2011 and continuing through February 20, 2014. As of February 20, 2014, we had $230.7 million 

remaining for future purchases under our authorized share repurchase program.

• Commenced injection of CO2 into our first two tertiary floods in the Rocky Mountain region, Bell Creek Field in 

Montana and Grieve Field in Wyoming during the first half of 2013, and commenced our first tertiary oil 

production in that region from Bell Creek Field during the third quarter of 2013.

• Placed our Riley Ridge gas processing facility into service in the fourth quarter of 2013.

• Commenced a horizontal oil drilling program at Hartzog Draw Field in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming 

targeting the Shannon formation. We expect the horizontal wells to increase the field’s non-tertiary oil 

production and reserves and to eventually be utilized in our planned future CO2 flood of the field.

• Issued $1.2 billion of 45/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2023 in February 2013. The net proceeds of 

approximately $1.18 billion were used to repurchase or redeem our 91⁄2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 

and our 93⁄4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, and to pay down a portion of outstanding borrowings on 

our bank credit facility.

• Closed our acquisition of producing assets in the CCA in Montana and North Dakota in March 2013 from a 

wholly-owned subsidiary of ConocoPhillips for $1.05 billion in cash, before closing adjustments. The assets 

purchased include both additional interests in certain of our existing operated fields in CCA, as well as operating 

interests in other CCA fields.
6 FORM 10-K PART I DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

OIL AND NATURAL GAS OPERATIONS

Summary. Our oil and natural gas properties are concentrated in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions of 

the United States. Currently our properties with proved and producing reserves in the Gulf Coast region are situated 

in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, and in the Rocky Mountain region in Montana, North Dakota and 

Wyoming. Our primary focus is using CO2 in EOR, and we expect the development plan for our current portfolio of 

CO2 EOR projects will allow us to grow our oil production for the remainder of the decade.

We have been conducting and expanding EOR operations on our assets in the Gulf Coast region since 1999, and as 

a result, we currently have many more CO2 EOR projects in this region than in the Rocky Mountain region. In the 

Gulf Coast region, we own what is, to our knowledge, its only significant naturally occurring source of CO2. These 

large volumes of naturally occurring CO2 have allowed us to significantly grow our production in that region. In 

addition to the sources of CO2 we currently own, in 2013 we began to purchase and use anthropogenic (man-made) 

CO2 in our tertiary operations. We believe these man-made sources of CO2 will help us recover additional oil 

from mature oil fields while also providing an economical way to reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions through the 

concurrent underground storage of CO2 from our oil-producing EOR operations, and expect the amount of 

anthropogenic CO2 we use in such operations to grow in the future.

Through December 31, 2013, we have invested a total of $3.5 billion in our tertiary fields in the Gulf Coast region 

(including allocated acquisition costs and amounts assigned to goodwill), have recovered all of these costs, and have 

generated $1.5 billion of excess net cash flow (revenue less operating expenses and capital expenditures, excluding 

capital expenditures related to pipelines and CO2 source fields). Of this total invested amount, approximately 

$206.7 million (6%) has been spent on fields that did not yet have any appreciable proved reserves at December 31, 2013. 

The proved oil reserves in our Gulf Coast tertiary oil fields have a year-end 2013 PV-10 Value of $6.1 billion. 

Including the Green Pipeline, which currently serves our Hastings and Oyster Bayou fields, we have invested a total 

of $2.1 billion in CO2-producing assets and pipelines in the Gulf Coast region.

We began operations in the Rocky Mountain region in 2010 as part of our merger with Encore Acquisition Company 

(“Encore”). In late 2012, we completed construction of the first section of the 20-inch Greencore Pipeline, our first 

CO2 pipeline in the Rocky Mountain region, and received our first CO2 deliveries from the Lost Cabin gas plant in 

central Wyoming during the first quarter of 2013. We also began injecting CO2 into Grieve Field in Wyoming early 

in 2013 and currently expect initial tertiary oil production from Grieve Field in 2015. We started injections at our Bell 

Creek Field in Montana during the second quarter of 2013, with tertiary oil production from this field commencing 

in the third quarter of 2013. In addition to our current tertiary floods in the Rocky Mountain region, we currently have 

long-term plans to flood Hartzog Draw Field and CCA after we perform additional non-tertiary development of 

these fields. CCA is a geological structure over 126 miles in length consisting of 14 different operating areas. Our 

Riley Ridge Field acquisitions in 2010 and 2011 and acquisition of an interest in CO2 reserves from ExxonMobil 

in 2012 are expected to provide us the CO2 necessary for our current inventory of CO2 EOR projects in the Rocky 

Mountain region.
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Field Summary Table. The following table provides a summary by field and region of selected proved oil and 

natural gas reserve information, including total proved reserve quantities and the associated PV-10 Value of those 

reserves as of December 31, 2013, and average daily production and net revenue interest (“NRI”) for 2013. The 

reserve estimates for all years presented were prepared by DeGolyer and MacNaughton, independent petroleum 

engineers located in Dallas, Texas. We serve as operator of virtually all of our significant properties, in which we 

also own most of the interests, although typically less than a 100% working interest, and a lesser NRI due to royalties 

and other burdens. For additional oil and natural gas reserves information, see Estimated Net Quantities of 

Proved Oil and Natural Gas Reserves and Present Value of Estimated Future Net Revenues below.

 2013 Average

Proved Reserves as of December 31, 2013(1) Daily Production

 % of Company PV-10

Oil Natural Gas Total Value(2) Oil Natural Gas Average

(MBbls) (MMcf) MBOEs MBOEs (000’s) (Bbls/d) (Mcf/d) 2013 NRI

Tertiary oil properties

Gulf Coast region

Mature properties:

 Brookhaven 10,069 — 10,069 2.2% $ 363,644 2,223 — 81.2%

 Eucutta 8,074 — 8,074 1.7% 267,583 2,514 — 83.6%

 Mallalieu 5,700 — 5,700 1.2% 220,759 2,050 — 78.0%

 Other mature properties (3) 24,756 — 24,756 5.3% 747,767 7,016 — 73.8%

Total mature properties 48,599 — 48,599 10.4% 1,599,753 13,803 — 77.2%

Delhi 26,449 17,856 29,425 6.3% 747,334 5,149 — 76.3%

Hastings 43,424 — 43,424 9.3% 1,106,246 3,984 — 81.7%

Heidelberg 34,496 — 34,496 7.3% 1,097,130 4,466 — 81.4%

Oyster Bayou 15,132 — 15,132 3.2% 550,025 2,968 — 87.0%

Tinsley 25,344 — 25,344 5.4% 1,018,938 8,051 — 81.1%

 Total Gulf Coast region 193,444 17,856 196,420 41.9% 6,119,426 38,421 — 79.5%

Rocky Mountain region

Bell Creek 34,015 — 34,015 7.3% 739,019 56 — 84.8%

 Total Rocky Mountain region 34,015 — 34,015 7.3% 739,019 56 — 84.8%

 Total tertiary properties 227,459 17,856 230,435 49.2% 6,858,445 38,477 — 79.5%

Non-tertiary oil and gas properties

Gulf Coast region

Mississippi 4,514 33,290 10,062 2.1% 195,138 1,234 8,766 26.1%

Texas 30,988 18,105 34,006 7.3% 814,609 5,549 5,946 79.1%

Other 6,609 1,386 6,840 1.5% 147,406 983 686 26.4%

 Total Gulf Coast region 42,111 52,781 50,908 10.9% 1,157,153 7,766 15,398 48.7%

Rocky Mountain region

Cedar Creek Anticline (4) 105,396 6,043 106,403 22.7% 2,335,966 16,406 997 79.6%

Riley Ridge — 399,373 66,562 14.2% 27,810 — 64 61.4%

Other 11,693 13,901 14,010 3.0% 254,409 3,637 7,283 29.4%

 Total Rocky Mountain region 117,089 419,317 186,975 39.9% 2,618,185 20,043 8,344 60.5%

 Total non-tertiary properties 159,200 472,098 237,883 50.8% 3,775,338 27,809 23,742 56.2%

Company Total 386,659 489,954 468,318 100% $10,633,783 66,286 23,742 68.2%

(1) The reserves were prepared in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification (“FASC”) Topic 932, Extractive Industries – 

Oil and Gas, using the arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month NYMEX commodity price for each month during 2013. These prices were 

$96.94 per Bbl for crude oil and $3.67 per MMBtu for natural gas, both of which were adjusted for market differentials by field.

(2) PV-10 Value is a non-GAAP measure and is different from the Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows (“Standardized 

Measure”) in that PV-10 Value is a pre-tax number and the Standardized Measure is an after-tax number. The Standardized Measure was $7.1 billion 

at December 31, 2013. A comparison of PV-10 Value to the Standardized Measure is included in the reserves table in Estimated Net Quantities 

of Proved Oil and Natural Gas Reserves and Present Value of Estimated Future Net Revenues below. The information used to calculate PV-10 

Value is derived directly from data determined in accordance with FASC Topic 932. See the definition of PV-10 Value in the Glossary and 

Selected Abbreviations.

(3) Other mature properties include Cranfield, Little Creek, Lockhart Crossing, Martinville, McComb and Soso fields in Mississippi and Lockhart 

Crossing in Louisiana.

(4) The Cedar Creek Anticline consists of a series of 14 different operating areas.
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Enhanced Oil Recovery Overview. CO2 used in EOR is one of the most efficient tertiary recovery mechanisms for 

producing crude oil. When injected at pressure into underground, oil-bearing rock formations, CO2 acts somewhat like 

a solvent as it travels through the reservoir rock, mixing with and modifying the characteristics of the oil so it can 

be produced and sold. CO2 tertiary floods are unique in that they require large volumes of CO2. The terms “tertiary 

flood,” “CO2 flood” and “CO2 EOR” are used interchangeably throughout this document.

While enhanced oil recovery projects utilizing CO2 have been successfully performed by numerous oil and gas 

companies in a wide range of oil-bearing reservoirs in different oil-producing basins, we apply what we have learned 

and developed over the years to fields to improve and increase sweep efficiency within the CO2 EOR projects we 

operate, which include (1) well evaluation and monitoring methods, (2) monitoring the flood and striving to direct the 

CO2 to all economically recoverable portions of the oil-bearing reservoirs, (3) new completion techniques, (4) varied 

operating equipment and operating methods, and (5) application of intense reservoir management and production 

techniques. We began our CO2 operations in August 1999, when we acquired Little Creek Field, followed by our 

acquisition of Jackson Dome CO2 reserves and the NEJD pipeline in 2001. Based upon our success at Little Creek and 

the ownership of the CO2 reserves, we began to transition our capital spending and acquisition efforts to focus a 

greater percentage on CO2 EOR and, over time, transformed our strategy to focus primarily, and now almost 

exclusively, on owning and operating oil fields that are well suited for CO2 EOR projects, although prior to tertiary 

flooding, we strive to maximize the currently sizeable primary and secondary production from our prospective tertiary 

fields and from fields in which tertiary floods have commenced but still contain significant non-tertiary production. 

With the sale of our Bakken area assets in 2012, our asset base today almost entirely consists of, or otherwise relates 

to, oil fields that we are currently flooding with CO2 or plan to flood with CO2 in the future, or assets that produce 

CO2. We believe our investments, experience and acquired knowledge give us a strategic and competitive advantage 

in the areas in which we operate.

Our tertiary operations have grown so that (1) 49% of our proved reserves at December 31, 2013 are proved tertiary 

oil reserves; (2) 55% of our 2013 production was related to tertiary oil operations (on a BOE basis); and (3) 77% of 

our 2013 capital expenditures (excluding acquisitions) were related to our tertiary oil operations. At year-end 2013, the 

proved oil reserves in our tertiary recovery oil fields had an estimated PV-10 Value of approximately $6.9 billion, or 

64% of our total PV-10 Value. In addition, there are significant probable and possible reserves at several other fields 

for which tertiary operations are underway or planned. Although the up-front cost of tertiary production infrastructure 

and time to construct these pipelines and production facilities is greater than in primary oil recovery, we believe 

tertiary recovery has several favorable, offsetting and unique attributes, including (1) a lower exploration risk, as we 

are operating oil fields that have significant historical production and reservoir and geological data, (2) a reasonable 

rate of return at relatively low oil prices (we currently estimate our economic break-even point before corporaterelated overhead, based on currently estimated expenses, occurs at oil prices in the low-to-mid $40-per-barrel range, 

depending on the specific field and area), (3) limited competition for this recovery method in our geographic 

regions, (4) our EOR operations are generally less disruptive to new habitats in comparison to other oil and natural 

gas development because we further develop existing (as opposed to new) oil fields, and (5) through our oilproducing EOR operations, we concurrently store anthropogenic CO2 in the same underground formations that had 

previously trapped and stored oil and natural gas.

Tertiary Oil Properties

Gulf Coast Region

CO2 Sources and Pipelines

Jackson Dome. Our primary Gulf Coast CO2 source, Jackson Dome, located near Jackson, Mississippi, was 

discovered during the 1970s by oil and gas companies that were exploring for hydrocarbons. This large and relatively 

pure source of naturally occurring CO2 (98% CO2) is, to our knowledge, the only significant underground deposit 

of CO2 in the United States east of the Mississippi River, and we believe that it, together with the related CO2 pipeline 

infrastructure, provides us a significant strategic advantage in the acquisition of other properties in Mississippi, 

Louisiana and southeastern Texas that are well suited for CO2 EOR.

We acquired Jackson Dome in February 2001 in a purchase that also gave us ownership and control of the NEJD 

CO2 pipeline and provided us with a reliable supply of CO2 at a reasonable and predictable cost for our Gulf Coast 

CO2 tertiary recovery operations. Since February 2001, we have acquired and drilled numerous CO2-producing wells, 

significantly increasing our estimated proved Gulf Coast CO2 reserves from approximately 800 Bcf at the time of 

acquisition to approximately 6.1 Tcf as of December 31, 2013. The CO2 reserve estimates are based on a gross 

working interest of the CO2 reserves, of which our net revenue interest is approximately 4.8 Tcf, and is included in the 
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evaluation of proved CO2 reserves prepared by our outside reserves engineer, DeGolyer and MacNaughton. In 

discussing our available CO2 reserves, we make reference to the gross amount of proved and probable reserves, 

as this is the amount that is available both for our own tertiary recovery programs and for industrial users who 

are customers of Denbury and others, as we are responsible for distributing the entire CO2 production stream.

In addition to the proved reserves, we estimate that we have 2.5 Tcf of probable CO2 reserves at Jackson Dome. 

The majority of our probable reserves at Jackson Dome are located in structures that have been drilled and tested in 

the area but are not currently capable of producing or are not considered proved reserves because (1) the original 

well is plugged; (2) they are located in fault blocks that are immediately adjacent to fault blocks with proved reserves; 

(3) they are in undrilled structures where we have sufficient subsurface data, and seismic and geophysical attributes 

that provide a high degree of certainty that CO2 is present; or (4) they are reserves associated with increasing the 

ultimate recovery factor from our existing reservoirs with proved reserves. Our historically high drilling success rate, 

coupled with our seismic data across the undrilled structures, provide us with a reasonably high degree of 

certainty that additional proved CO2 reserves will be discovered and developed.

Although our current proved CO2 reserves are quite large, in order to continue our tertiary development of oil 

fields in the Gulf Coast region, incremental deliverability of CO2 is required. In order to obtain additional CO2

deliverability, we have conducted several 3D seismic surveys in the Jackson Dome area over the past several years, 

and anticipate drilling one development well in 2014 that is intended to increase the area’s productive capacity. 

In addition to our drilling at Jackson Dome, we continue to expand our processing and dehydration capacities, and 

we continue to install pipelines and/or pumping stations necessary to transport the CO2 through our controlled 

pipeline network. We expect our current proved reserves of CO2, coupled with a risked drilling program at Jackson 

Dome and expected anthropogenic sources, to provide sufficient quantities of CO2 for us to develop our proved 

and probable EOR reserves in the Gulf Coast region. Additionally, in the future, we believe that once a CO2 flood in a 

field reaches its productive economic limit, we could recycle a portion of any CO2 that remains in that reservoir and 

utilize it for oil production in another tertiary flood.

In the Gulf Coast region, we also currently sell CO2 to third-party industrial users under contracts of various terms 

and currently have three CO2 volumetric production payment contracts. Approximately 91% of our average daily 

CO2 produced or acquired from anthropogenic sources in 2013, 2012 and 2011 was used in our tertiary recovery 

operations, with the balance delivered to third-party industrial users. During 2013, we used an average of 

913 MMcf/d of CO2 (including CO2 from anthropogenic sources) for our tertiary activities.

Gulf Coast Anthropogenic CO2 Sources. In addition to our natural source of CO2, we are currently party to four 

long-term contracts to purchase man-made CO2 from four plants. We currently purchase anthropogenic CO2 from an 

industrial facility in Port Arthur, Texas and from a plant in Geismar, Louisiana, and we anticipate taking deliveries 

in late 2014 from Mississippi Power’s Kemper County Energy Facility. We estimate these three sources will supply, in 

the aggregate, approximately 185 MMcf/d of CO2 to our EOR operations, although under certain circumstances they 

could provide higher or lower volumes. If the fourth plant for which we have a long-term CO2 purchase contract were 

also to be built (targeted for the 2018 time frame), we currently estimate this source in Lake Charles, Louisiana 

could potentially add another 200 MMcf/d of CO2 volumes to our anthropogenic sources. Construction of this remaining 

plant is considered probable, although such construction is contingent on the satisfactory resolution of various 

matters, including financing. Additionally, we are in ongoing discussions with other parties who have plans to construct 

plants near the Green Pipeline.

In addition to the potential CO2 sources discussed above, we continue to have ongoing discussions with owners of 

existing plants of various types that emit CO2 that we may be able to purchase and/or transport. In order to capture 

such volumes, we (or the plant owner) would need to install additional equipment, which includes, at a minimum, 

compression and dehydration facilities. Most of these existing plants emit relatively small volumes of CO2, 

generally less than our contracted sources, but such volumes may still be attractive if the source is located near CO2

pipelines. The capture of CO2 could also be influenced by potential federal legislation, which could impose 

economic penalties for atmospheric CO2 emissions. We believe that we are a likely purchaser of CO2 captured in our 

areas of operation because of the scale of our tertiary operations and our CO2 pipeline infrastructure.

Gulf Coast CO2 Pipelines. We acquired the 183-mile NEJD CO2 pipeline that runs from Jackson Dome to near 

Donaldsonville, Louisiana, as part of the 2001 acquisition of our Jackson Dome source. Since 2001 we have acquired 

or constructed nearly 750 miles of CO2 pipelines, which give us the ability to deliver CO2 throughout the Gulf Coast 

region. As of December 31, 2013, we have access to over 940 miles of CO2 pipelines in the Gulf Coast region. 

In addition to the NEJD CO2 pipeline, the major pipelines are the Free State Pipeline (90 miles), the Delta Pipeline 

(110 miles), the Green Pipeline Texas (120 miles), and the Green Pipeline Louisiana (200 miles).
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Completion of the Green Pipeline allowed for the first CO2 injection into Hastings Field, located near Houston, 

Texas, in 2010, and gives us the ability to deliver CO2 to oil fields all along the Gulf Coast from Baton Rouge, 

Louisiana, to Alvin, Texas. At the present time, most of the CO2 flowing in the Green Pipeline is delivered from the 

Jackson Dome area, but we began receiving anthropogenic CO2 from an industrial facility in Port Arthur, Texas 

in 2012, and are currently transporting a third party’s CO2 for a fee to the sales point at Hastings Field. We expect the 

volume of CO2 transported through the Green Pipeline to increase in future years as we develop our inventory of 

CO2 EOR projects in the Houston area.

Tertiary Properties with Tertiary Production and Proved Tertiary Reserves at December 31, 2013

Mature properties. Mature properties include our longest-producing properties which are generally located along 

our NEJD CO2 pipeline in southwest Mississippi and Louisiana and our Free State pipeline in east Mississippi. This 

group of properties includes our initial CO2 field, Little Creek, as well as several other fields (Brookhaven, Cranfield, 

Eucutta, Lockhart Crossing, Mallalieu, Martinville, McComb and Soso fields). These fields accounted for 36% of 

our total 2013 CO2 EOR production and approximately 21% of our year-end proved tertiary reserves. These fields have 

been producing for some time, and their production is generally declining. Many of these fields contain multiple 

reservoirs that are amenable to CO2 EOR. In 2014, we plan to invest approximately $115 million to further develop our 

mature tertiary properties.

In order to improve the oil recovery of our more mature CO2 EOR projects, we have experimented with various 

techniques such as cement squeezes (injection and producing wells), chemical squeezes, perforation design, 

mechanical isolation assemblies and operating pressure controls. We have also utilized water-alternating-gas 

injections, where water is substituted for the CO2 for a given volume and then CO2 is injected behind the water. 

Each one of these processes has had some success, and we plan to continue to utilize them in the future 

where appropriate.

From the time we originally acquired these properties through December 31, 2013, we have recovered all our costs 

relating to our mature properties, and the excess net cash flow (revenue less operating expenses and capital 

expenditures, including the acquisition costs) from the mature properties through that date was $1.9 billion. As of 

December 31, 2013, the estimated PV-10 Value of our mature properties was $1.6 billion.

Delhi Field. Delhi Field is located east of Monroe, Louisiana. During May 2006, we purchased Delhi for $50 million, 

plus an approximate 25% reversionary interest to the seller after we receive $200 million in “total net cash flow,” 

as defined. We began well and facility development in 2008 and began delivering CO2 to the field in the fourth 

quarter of 2009 via the Delta Pipeline, which runs from Tinsley Field to Delhi Field. First tertiary production 

occurred at Delhi Field in the first quarter of 2010. Production from Delhi in the fourth quarter of 2013 averaged 

4,793 Bbls/d, down from 5,237 Bbls/d in the fourth quarter of 2012. This decline in production is primarily related to 

our efforts to remediate a release of well fluids within an area of Delhi Field in the second quarter of 2013, 

consisting of a mixture of carbon dioxide, saltwater, natural gas and oil. During 2013, we recorded $114.0 million of 

lease operating expenses in our Consolidated Statement of Operations related to this incident. Costs incurred 

as a result of the release, together with lower production levels, are currently expected to delay the effective date 

of the reversionary interest into 2014, the specific timing of which is dependent upon, among other things, the 

amount and timing of any potential insurance proceeds received and their application to the calculation of “total 

net cash flow,” as well as oil prices, production, and production costs. We currently estimate that the reversionary 

date could occur as late as the fourth quarter of 2014. See Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of 

Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Overview – Delhi Field Release and Note 11, Commitments and 

Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of this matter. In 2014, we plan 

to invest approximately $40 million in this field, primarily to install a natural gas liquids extraction plant, which we 

anticipate will be operational in 2015.

From inception through December 31, 2013, we had not yet recovered our investment in this field, and the 

remaining investment to be recovered (revenue less operating expenses and capital expenditures, including 

acquisition costs) from Delhi Field was $111 million. As of December 31, 2013, the estimated PV-10 Value of Delhi Field 

was $747.3 million.
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Hastings Field. Hastings Field is located south of Houston, Texas. We acquired a majority interest in this field in 

February 2009 for $247 million. We initiated CO2 injection in the West Hastings Unit during the fourth quarter of 2010 

upon completion of the construction of the Green Pipeline. Due to the large vertical oil column that exists in 

the field, we are developing the Frio reservoir using dedicated CO2 injection and producing wells for each of the 

major sand intervals. We began producing oil from our EOR operations at Hastings Field in the first quarter of 2012, 

and we booked initial proved tertiary reserves for the West Hastings Unit in 2012. During the fourth quarter of 2013, 

tertiary production from Hastings Field averaged 4,270 Bbls/d, compared to 3,409 Bbls/d in the fourth quarter of 2012. 

In 2014, we plan to invest approximately $75 million to continue developing the West Hastings Unit, including the 

development of additional patterns and expansion of the processing facilities.

From inception through December 31, 2013, we had not yet recovered our investment in this field, and the 

remaining investment to be recovered (revenue less operating expenses and capital expenditures, including the 

acquisition cost) from Hastings Field was $336 million. As of December 31, 2013, the estimated PV-10 Value of 

Hastings Field was $1.1 billion.

Heidelberg Field. Heidelberg Field is located in Mississippi and consists of an East Unit and a West Unit. 

Construction of the CO2 facility, connecting pipeline and well work commenced on the West Heidelberg Unit during 

2008, with our first CO2 injections into the Eutaw zone in the fourth quarter of 2008. Our first tertiary oil 

production occurred in the second quarter of 2009, and during 2010, we added injection patterns and expanded the 

central processing facility. In 2013, we began flooding the Christmas zone. During the fourth quarter of 2013, 

tertiary production at Heidelberg Field averaged 5,206 Bbls/d, compared to 3,930 Bbls/d in the fourth quarter of 2012. 

In 2014, we plan to invest approximately $120 million to continue developing the East and West Heidelberg Units, 

including an expansion of our development of the Eutaw and Christmas zones and adjustments to our CO2 floods of 

existing zones to better direct the CO2 through the zones and optimize oil recovery from the field.

From inception through December 31, 2013, we had not yet recovered our costs relating to the CO2 flood at 

Heidelberg Field, and the remaining investment to be recovered (revenue less operating expenses and capital 

expenditures, including the acquisition costs) from the field was $10 million. As of December 31, 2013, the estimated 

PV-10 Value of Heidelberg Field was $1.1 billion.

Oyster Bayou Field. We acquired a majority interest in Oyster Bayou Field in 2007. The field is located in southeast 

Texas, east of Galveston Bay. We began CO2 injections into Oyster Bayou in the second quarter of 2010. Oyster 

Bayou Field is somewhat unique when compared to our other CO2 EOR projects because the field covers a relatively 

small area of 3,912 acres. We commenced tertiary production from Oyster Bayou Field in the fourth quarter of 2011 

from the Frio A-1 zone and booked initial proved tertiary reserves for the field in 2012. During the fourth quarter 

of 2013, tertiary production at Oyster Bayou Field averaged 3,869 Bbls/d, compared to 1,826 Bbls/d in the fourth 

quarter of 2012. In 2014, we plan to invest approximately $50 million to develop the Frio A-2 zone and optimize 

our Frio A-1 zone development.

From inception through December 31, 2013, we had not yet recovered our investment in this field, and the 

remaining investment to be recovered (revenue less operating expenses and capital expenditures, including 

the acquisition costs) from Oyster Bayou Field was $98 million. As of December 31, 2013, the estimated PV-10 Value 

of Oyster Bayou Field was $550.0 million.

Tinsley Field. We acquired Tinsley Field in 2006. The field is located in Mississippi, was discovered and first 

developed in the 1930s and is separated into different fault blocks. As is the case with the majority of fields in 

Mississippi, Tinsley produces from multiple reservoirs. Our CO2 enhanced oil recovery operations at Tinsley have 

thus far targeted the Woodruff formation, although there is additional potential in the Perry sandstone and other 

smaller reservoirs. We commenced tertiary oil production from Tinsley Field in the second quarter of 2008. In 2014, 

we expect to invest approximately $50 million to continue our development of the North Fault Block and to 

develop dedicated injection wells in the East Fault Block. We currently expect our development of the Woodruff to be 

substantially complete by the end of 2014. During the fourth quarter of 2013, the average tertiary oil production 

was 7,809 Bbls/d, compared to 8,166 Bbls/d in the fourth quarter of 2012.

From inception through December 31, 2013, we have recovered all our costs in this field, and our tertiary operations 

at Tinsley Field have generated excess net cash flow (revenue less operating expenses and capital expenditures, 

including the acquisition costs) of $340 million. As of December 31, 2013, the estimated PV-10 Value of Tinsley Field 

was $1.0 billion.
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Future Tertiary Properties with No Tertiary Production or Proved Tertiary Reserves at December 31, 2013

Webster Field. We acquired our interest in Webster Field in the fourth quarter of 2012 as part of the Bakken 

Exchange Transaction. The field is located in Texas, approximately eight miles northeast of our Hastings Field, which 

we are currently flooding with CO2. At December 31, 2013, Webster Field had estimated proved non-tertiary 

reserves of approximately 3.2 MMBOE, net to our acquired interest. During the fourth quarter of 2013, non-tertiary 

production at Webster Field averaged 1,036 BOE/d. Webster Field is geologically similar to our Hastings Field, 

producing oil from the Frio zone at similar depths; as a result, we believe it is well suited for CO2 EOR. In 2014, we 

plan to invest approximately $105 million to drill or recomplete injection and production wells and begin water 

injections to re-pressurize the reservoir. We currently expect to commence CO2 injections at Webster Field in 2015, 

with first tertiary production expected late that same year.

Conroe Field. Conroe Field, our largest potential tertiary flood in the Gulf Coast region, is located north of 

Houston, Texas. We acquired a majority interest in this field in 2009 for $271 million in cash and 11.6 million shares 

of Denbury common stock, for a total aggregate value of $439 million. Conroe Field had estimated proved nontertiary reserves of approximately 12.3 MMBOE at December 31, 2013, net to our interest, nearly all of which are 

proved developed. During the fourth quarter of 2013, production at Conroe Field averaged 2,697 BOE/d, compared 

to 2,745 BOE/d in the fourth quarter of 2012. Given the size of the Conroe Field (approximately 20,000 acres), the 

volume of CO2 that could be injected is quite sizable, and much larger than any field we have developed to date. 

Therefore, the pace of development will be dictated in part by the amount of available CO2.

A pipeline must be constructed so that CO2 can be delivered to Conroe Field. This pipeline, which is planned 

as an extension of our Green Pipeline, is preliminarily estimated to cover approximately 90 miles at a cost of 

approximately $220 million. We currently expect to begin construction of this pipeline in 2016 and to commence CO2

injections at Conroe Field in 2017, with first tertiary production currently expected in 2018. In 2014, we plan to 

continue work on pipeline route selection, right-of-way acquisition, engineering, and regulatory permits while building 

our CO2 EOR development plan for Conroe Field. In 2014, we also plan to invest approximately $30 million on 

non-tertiary well recompletions and to begin water injections into the area of the field in which we plan to commence 

CO2 injections to begin building reservoir pressure.

Thompson Field. We acquired our interest in Thompson Field in June 2012 for $366 million. The field is located in 

Texas, approximately 18 miles west of our Hastings Field. Thompson Field had estimated proved non-tertiary 

reserves of approximately 15.4 MMBOE at December 31, 2013, net to our interest, of which approximately 54% are 

proved developed. During the fourth quarter of 2013, non-tertiary production at Thompson Field averaged 

1,331 BOE/d net to our interest, compared to 1,517 BOE/d in the fourth quarter of 2012. Thompson Field is geologically 

similar to Hastings Field, producing oil from the Frio zone at similar depths and we therefore believe it is well 

suited for CO2 EOR. Under the terms of the Thompson Field acquisition agreement, after the initiation of CO2

injection, the seller will retain approximately a 5% gross revenue interest (less severance taxes) once average monthly 

oil production exceeds 3,000 Bbls/d. In 2014, we plan to invest approximately $15 million on non-tertiary drilling 

opportunities and facility upgrades. We currently plan to commence CO2 injections at Thompson Field in 2018, with 

first tertiary production expected in 2020.

Rocky Mountain Region

CO2 Sources and Pipelines

LaBarge Field. We acquired an overriding royalty interest equivalent to an approximate one-third ownership 

interest in ExxonMobil’s CO2 reserves in LaBarge Field in the fourth quarter of 2012 as part of the Bakken Exchange 

Transaction. LaBarge Field is located in southwestern Wyoming. The gas composition from LaBarge Field is 

expected to be approximately 65% CO2, approximately 18% to 20% methane, less than one percent helium, and the 

remainder various other gases.

During December 2013, we received approximately 41 MMcf/d from ExxonMobil’s Shute Creek gas processing plant 

at LaBarge Field. Based on current capacity, and subject to availability of CO2, we currently expect to ultimately 

receive up to 65 MMcf/d of CO2 in 2014, rising to approximately 115 MMcf/d of CO2 by 2021 from such plant. We pay 

ExxonMobil a fee to process and deliver the CO2, which we plan to use in our Rocky Mountain region CO2 floods. 

As of December 31, 2013, our interest in LaBarge Field consisted of approximately 1.3 Tcf of proved CO2 reserves.

The Riley Ridge Federal Unit is also located in southwestern Wyoming and produces gas from the same LaBarge 

Field. In a series of two acquisitions in 2010 and 2011, we acquired 100% of the operating interests in Riley Ridge 

for $347 million. These purchases included a gas processing facility that was under construction at the purchase dates 

to separate the helium and natural gas from the gas stream. We placed our gas processing facility at Riley Ridge 

into service in the fourth quarter of 2013.
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As of December 31, 2013, our interest in Riley Ridge and minor surrounding acreage contained net proved reserves 

of 399 Bcf (67 MMBOE) of natural gas and 2.0 Tcf of CO2 reserves. The CO2 reserve estimates are based on the 

gross working interest of the CO2 reserves, in which our net revenue interest is approximately 1.6 Tcf. The helium 

reserves at Riley Ridge are owned primarily by the U.S. government; however, we have the right to produce and sell 

the helium reserves to a third party on behalf of the government. In exchange for this right, we pay the U.S. 

government a fee that fluctuates based upon realized sales proceeds. Our helium extraction agreement with the U.S. 

government has a minimum term extending 20 years from first production and continuing thereafter until either 

party terminates the contract. Reserve volumes presented herein assume that the term of this helium extraction 

agreement continues beyond 20 years, given the benefit to both parties to the agreement. As of December 31, 2013, 

we estimate that Riley Ridge contains proved helium reserves of 13.3 Bcf, which volume estimate is reduced 

to reflect the related fee we will remit to the U.S. government. In addition, we believe there is significant reserve 

potential in other acreage surrounding Riley Ridge in which we also own an interest.

The gas processing facility at Riley Ridge will separate for sale the natural gas and helium from the full well 

stream, and the remaining gases, including CO2, will be re-injected into the producing formation or a deeper 

formation until we complete construction of a planned CO2 capture facility and pipeline later this decade. We currently 

project that we will start to use CO2 from Riley Ridge around 2020, following completion of the capture facility 

and planned CO2 pipeline connecting Riley Ridge to our existing Greencore Pipeline.

Other Rocky Mountain CO2 Sources. We began purchasing and receiving CO2 from the Lost Cabin plant in central 

Wyoming in the first quarter of 2013, under a contract that provides us as much as 50 MMcf/d of CO2 for use in our 

Rocky Mountain region CO2 floods. Our volumes received from the plant averaged approximately 22 MMcf/d in 2013. 

We plan to continue to pursue additional sources for CO2 supply in the Rocky Mountain region.

Greencore Pipeline. The 20-inch Greencore Pipeline in Wyoming is the first CO2 pipeline we have constructed 

in the Rocky Mountain region. We plan to use the pipeline as our trunk line in the Rocky Mountain region, eventually 

connecting our Lost Cabin, LaBarge and Riley Ridge CO2 sources (see Rocky Mountain Region CO2 Sources and 

Pipelines above) to the Cedar Creek Anticline in eastern Montana. The initial 232-mile section of the Greencore Pipeline 

begins at the Lost Cabin gas plant in Wyoming and terminates at Bell Creek Field in Montana. We completed 

construction of this section of the pipeline in the fourth quarter of 2012 and received our first CO2 deliveries from the 

Lost Cabin gas plant during the first quarter of 2013. In the first quarter of 2014, we completed construction of an 

interconnect between our Greencore Pipeline and an existing third-party CO2 pipeline in Wyoming, which will enable 

us to transport CO2 from LaBarge Field to our Bell Creek Field.

Tertiary Properties with Tertiary Production and Proved Tertiary Reserves at December 31, 2013

Bell Creek Field. Bell Creek Field is located in southeast Montana. The oil-producing reservoir in Bell Creek Field is 

a sandstone reservoir with characteristics similar to those we have successfully flooded with CO2 in the Gulf Coast 

region; as a result, we believe it is well suited for CO2 EOR. We acquired our interest in Bell Creek Field through the 

Encore merger in 2010 and have worked since that time to commence a CO2 EOR project in the field. We began 

first CO2 injections during the second quarter of 2013, recorded our first tertiary oil production in the third quarter of 

2013, and booked initial proved tertiary reserves in the fourth quarter of 2013. Tertiary production, net to our 

interest, during the fourth quarter of 2013 averaged 177 Bbls/d. In 2014, we plan to invest approximately $55 million 

to expand our CO2 flood of Bell Creek Field.

From inception through December 31, 2013, we had not yet recovered our investment in this field, and the remaining 

investment to be recovered (revenue less operating expenses and capital expenditures, including the acquisition 

costs) from Bell Creek Field was $432 million. As of December 31, 2013, the estimated PV-10 Value of Bell Creek Field 

was $739.0 million. 

Future Tertiary Properties with No Tertiary Production or Proved Tertiary Reserves at December 31, 2013

Cedar Creek Anticline. CCA is the largest potential EOR property that we own and currently our largest producing 

property. The field is primarily located in Montana but covers such a large area (approximately 126 miles) that it 

also extends into North Dakota. CCA is a series of 14 producing areas, each of which could be considered a field by 

itself. We acquired our initial interest in CCA as part of the Encore merger in 2010 and acquired additional interests 

(the “CCA Acquisition”) from a wholly-owned subsidiary of ConocoPhillips in the first quarter of 2013. See 2013 

Business Developments above and Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for 

further discussion of this transaction and information as to other recent acquisitions and divestitures by Denbury. 
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The 2013 CCA Acquisition added 42.2 MMBOE of incremental proved reserves. Production from CCA, net to our 

interest, averaged 18,601 BOE/d during the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to pro forma production during the 

fourth quarter of 2012 of 19,493 BOE/d (including production associated with our newly acquired CCA assets of 

approximately 11,000 BOE/d and production from our previously owned CCA assets of 8,493 BOE/d). The non-tertiary 

proved reserves associated with CCA were 105.4 MMBbls of oil and 6.0 Bcf of gas as of December 31, 2013.

CCA is located approximately 110 miles north of Bell Creek Field, and we currently expect to ultimately connect 

this field to our Greencore Pipeline. In 2014, we plan to invest approximately $110 million to improve waterfloods, drill 

new wells, and recomplete existing wells. We currently plan to commence CO2 injections at CCA after 2020.

Grieve Field. In the second quarter of 2011, we entered into a farm-in agreement, under which we will obtain a 

65% working interest in Grieve Field, located in Natrona County, Wyoming, in exchange for developing the Grieve Field 

CO2 flood. We completed a three-mile CO2 pipeline to deliver CO2 from an existing CO2 pipeline to the 

Grieve Field in the fourth quarter of 2012, and are preparing for construction of the field’s CO2 recycle facility. We 

began injecting CO2 into Grieve Field during the first quarter of 2013 and currently expect tertiary production to 

commence in 2015.

Hartzog Draw Field. We acquired our interest in Hartzog Draw Field in the fourth quarter of 2012 as part of the 

Bakken Exchange Transaction. The field is located in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming, approximately 

12 miles from our Greencore Pipeline. Hartzog Draw Field had estimated proved reserves of approximately 

5.2 MMBOE at December 31, 2013, net to our acquired interest, 1.9 MMBOE of which relate to the natural gas producing 

Big George coal zone. During the fourth quarter of 2013, non-tertiary production averaged 2,204 BOE/d. We 

believe the oil reservoir characteristics of Hartzog Draw Field make it well suited for CO2 EOR. In 2014, we plan to 

invest approximately $40 million to drill and complete six horizontal wells in the Shannon formation and re-frac 

eight existing wells. We anticipate drilling additional horizontal wells in the Shannon formation over the next several 

years. The drilling of these wells is expected to generate near-term cash flow, as well as complement our planned 

future CO2 EOR project in the field. We must obtain regulatory approval and construct a CO2 pipeline from our 

existing Greencore Pipeline to Hartzog Draw Field before we can commence our planned CO2 EOR project. We currently 

plan to commence CO2 injections at Hartzog Draw Field after 2020.

Other Non-Tertiary Oil Properties

Although almost all of our oil and natural gas properties are either existing or planned future tertiary floods 

(discussed above), we also produce oil and natural gas either from fields that are not amenable to EOR or out of 

specific reservoirs (within an existing tertiary field) that are not amenable to EOR. For example, at Heidelberg Field, 

we produce natural gas from the Selma Chalk reservoir, which is separate from the Christmas and Eutaw reservoirs 

currently being flooded with CO2. Production from these other non-tertiary properties totaled 6,994 BOE/d during 

the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 18,615 BOE/d during the fourth quarter of 2012. Production during the fourth 

quarter of 2012 includes 10,064 BOE/d of production from our Bakken area assets that were sold during that period.
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OIL AND GAS ACREAGE, PRODUCTIVE WELLS AND DRILLING ACTIVITY

In the data below, “gross” represents the total acres or wells in which we own a working interest and “net” 

represents the gross acres or wells multiplied by our working interest percentage. For the wells that produce 

both oil and gas, the well is typically classified as an oil or natural gas well based on the ratio of oil to natural 

gas production.

Oil and Gas Acreage

The following table sets forth our acreage position at December 31, 2013:

Developed Undeveloped Total

Gross Net Gross Net Gross Net

Gulf Coast region 250,732 211,058 390,678 40,383 641,410 251,441

Rocky Mountain region 362,163 311,687 188,055 83,647 550,218 395,334

Total 612,895 522,745 578,733 124,030 1,191,628 646,775

The percentage of our net undeveloped acreage that is subject to expiration over the next three years, if not 

renewed, is approximately 3% in 2014, 12% in 2015 and 12% in 2016.

Productive Wells

The following table sets forth our gross and net productive oil and natural gas wells as of December 31, 2013:

Producing Producing 

Oil Wells Natural Gas Wells Total

Gross Net Gross Net Gross Net

Operated wells:

Gulf Coast region 1,233 1,140.1 212 192.6 1,445 1,332.7

Rocky Mountain region 1,160 1,039.0 201 111.2 1,361 1,150.2

Total 2,393 2,179.1 413 303.8 2,806 2,482.9

Non-operated wells:

Gulf Coast region 33 0.9 — — 33 0.9

Rocky Mountain region 72 8.7 101 37.5 173 46.2

Total 105 9.6 101 37.5 206 47.1

Total wells:

Gulf Coast region 1,266 1,141.0 212 192.6 1,478 1,333.6

Rocky Mountain region 1,232 1,047.7 302 148.7 1,534 1,196.4

Total 2,498 2,188.7 514 341.3 3,012 2,530.0

Drilling Activity

The following table sets forth the results of our drilling activities over the last three years. As of December 31, 2013, 

we had 5 gross (4.8 net) wells in progress.

Year Ended December 31, 

2013 2012 2011

Gross Net Gross Net Gross Net

Exploratory wells: (1)

Productive (2) — — 1 — — —

Non-productive (3) — — — — 1 0.7

Development wells: (1)

Productive (2) 49 44.3 201 87.4 221 116.6

Non-productive (3)(4) 1 1.0 5 3.2 — —

 Total 50 45.3 207 90.6 222 117.3

(1) An exploratory well is a well drilled to find a new field or to find a new reservoir in a field previously found to be productive of oil or natural gas in 

another reservoir. Generally, an exploratory well is any well that is not a development well, an extension well, a service well or a stratigraphic test 

well. A development well is a well drilled within the proved area of an oil or gas reservoir to the depth of a stratigraphic horizon known to be 

productive.

(2) A productive well is an exploratory or development well found to be capable of producing either oil or natural gas in sufficient quantities to justify 

completion as an oil or natural gas well.

(3) A non-productive well is an exploratory or development well that is not a productive well.

(4) During 2013, 2012 and 2011, an additional 43, 56 and 46 wells, respectively, were drilled for water or CO2 injection purposes.
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The following table summarizes sales volumes, sales prices and production cost information for our net oil and 

natural gas production for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011:

 Year Ended December 31,

 2013 2012 2011

Net sales volume:

Gulf Coast region

 Oil (MBbls) 16,858 15,621 14,635

 Natural gas (MMcf) 5,620 5,907 7,934

 Total Gulf Coast region (MBOE) 17,795 16,606 15,957

Rocky Mountain region

 Oil (MBbls) 7,336 8,841 7,534

 Natural gas (MMcf) 3,046 4,747 2,849

 Total Rocky Mountain region (MBOE) 7,844 9,632 8,009

 Total Company (MBOE) 25,639 26,238 23,966

Average sales price:

Gulf Coast region

 Oil (per Bbl) $105.34 $105.59 $105.23

 Natural gas (per Mcf) 3.74 2.79 4.31

Rocky Mountain region

 Oil (per Bbl) $ 89.95 $ 82.33 $ 89.93

 Natural gas (per Mcf) 3.15 3.38 6.12

Total Company

 Oil (per Bbl) $100.67 $ 97.18 $100.03

 Natural gas (per Mcf) 3.53 3.05 4.79

Average production cost (per BOE sold): (1)

Gulf Coast region (2) $ 32.34 $ 24.96 $ 24.51

Rocky Mountain region 19.78 12.23 14.52

 Total Company (2) 28.50 20.29 21.17

(1) Excludes oil and natural gas ad valorem and production taxes.

(2) Production costs include $114 million of lease operating expenses recorded during 2013 to remediate an area of Delhi Field. Excluding estimated 

Delhi Field remediation costs, average production costs in 2013 totaled $25.93 per BOE for the Gulf Coast Region and $24.05 per BOE for the 

Company as a whole.

PRODUCTION AND UNIT PRICES

Further information regarding average production rates, unit sale prices and unit costs per BOE are set forth under 

Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Results of Operations – 

Operating Results Table, included herein.

TITLE TO PROPERTIES

As is customary in the oil and natural gas industry, Denbury conducts a limited title examination at the time of its 

acquisition of properties or leasehold interests targeted for enhanced recovery, and curative work is performed with 

respect to significant defects on higher-value properties of the greatest significance. We believe that title to our oil 

and natural gas properties is good and defensible, subject only to such exceptions that we believe do not materially 

interfere with the use of such properties, including encumbrances, easements, restrictions and royalty, overriding 

royalty and other similar interests.

SIGNIFICANT OIL AND GAS PURCHASERS AND PRODUCT MARKETING

Oil and gas sales are made on a day-to-day basis under short-term contracts at the current area market price. The 

loss of any single purchaser would not be expected to have a material adverse effect upon our operations; however, 

the loss of a large single purchaser could potentially reduce the competition for our oil and natural gas production, 

which in turn could negatively impact the prices we receive. For the year ended December 31, 2013, three purchasers 

accounted for 10% or more of our oil and natural gas revenues: Marathon Petroleum Company (33%), Plains 

Marketing LP (15%), and Eighty-Eight Oil LLC (10%). For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, two purchasers 

accounted for 10% or more of our oil and natural gas revenues: Marathon Petroleum Company (39% and 43% in 

2012 and 2011, respectively) and Plains Marketing LP (17% and 16% in 2012 and 2011, respectively).
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Our ability to market oil and natural gas depends on many factors beyond our control, including the extent of 

domestic production and imports of oil and gas, the proximity of our oil and natural gas production to pipelines, the 

available capacity in such pipelines, the demand for oil and natural gas, the effects of weather, and the effects of 

state and federal regulation. Our production in the Gulf Coast region is primarily from developed fields close to major 

pipelines or refineries and established infrastructure. Our production in the Rocky Mountain region is dependent 

on, among other factors, limited transportation options caused by oversubscribed pipelines and market centers that 

are distant from producing properties. As of December 31, 2013, we have not experienced significant difficulty in 

finding a market for all of our production as it becomes available or in transporting our production to those markets; 

however, there is no assurance that we will always be able to market all of our production or obtain favorable prices.

Oil Marketing

Over the past couple of years, the oil produced in the Gulf Coast region has benefited from strong pricing 

differentials in relation to NYMEX and, where possible, we have attached our production to Louisiana Light Sweet 

(“LLS”) pricing. During 2013, LLS pricing and NYMEX pricing have been much closer together, with the fourth 

quarter of 2013 quarterly average LLS-to-NYMEX differential (on a trade-month basis) narrowing to a positive 

$2.58 per Bbl, suggesting a return to historical spreads compared to the wider-than-normal positive LLS-to-NYMEX 

spreads we experienced during 2012 and 2011. During 2013, our light sweet oil production in this area, on average, 

sold for $7.44 per Bbl over NYMEX compared to more than $11.50 per Bbl over NYMEX in 2012 and 2011. The pricing 

of other Gulf Coast grades was relatively consistent with NYMEX pricing in 2013, with our light and medium sour 

crude production selling at a premium to NYMEX of $0.08 per Bbl. The market dynamics of the region suggest the 

possibility that differentials to NYMEX will narrow due to the influx of light sweet crude and condensate from 

producing regions outside of the Gulf Coast region by rail and publicly announced major pipeline projects. Our 

current markets, at various sales points along the Gulf Coast, have sufficient demand to accommodate our 

production, but there can be no assurance of future demand. We are, therefore, monitoring the marketplace for 

opportunities to strategically enter into long-term marketing arrangements.

The marketing of our Rocky Mountain region oil production is dependent on transportation through local pipelines 

to market centers in Guernsey, Wyoming; Clearbrook, Minnesota; and Wood River, Illinois. Shipments on some of 

the pipelines are oversubscribed and subject to apportionment. We currently have access to sufficient pipeline 

capacity to move our oil production; however, there can be no assurance that we will be allocated sufficient pipeline 

capacity to move all of our oil production in the future. Expansion of pipeline and newly built rail infrastructure 

in the Rocky Mountain region is ongoing and, we believe, has improved the overall stability of oil differentials in the 

area. However, because local demand for production is small in comparison to current production levels, much of 

the production in the Rocky Mountain region is transported to coastal markets. Therefore, prices in the Rocky Mountain 

region are further influenced by fluctuations in prices (primarily Brent and LLS) in those coastal markets. For the 

year ended December 31, 2013, the discount for our oil production in the Rocky Mountain region averaged $8.10 per 

Bbl, compared to $11.86 per Bbl during 2012 and $5.15 per Bbl during 2011. Excluding the Bakken area assets 

that we sold during the fourth quarter of 2012, our oil production in the Rocky Mountain region sold at a discount to 

NYMEX of $8.43 per Bbl during the year ended December 31, 2012. 

Overall, during 2013, we sold approximately 46% of our crude oil at prices based on the LLS index price, 

approximately 23% at prices partially tied to the LLS index price, and the balance at prices based on various other 

indexes tied to NYMEX prices, primarily in the Rocky Mountain region. 

Natural Gas Marketing

Virtually all of our natural gas production in the Gulf Coast region is close to existing pipelines; consequently, we 

generally have a variety of options to market our natural gas. However, our natural gas production in the Rocky 

Mountain region, like our oil production, is dependent on, among other factors, limited transportation options that 

can affect our ability to find markets for it. We sell the majority of our natural gas on one-year contracts, with prices 

fluctuating month to month based on published pipeline indices and with slight premiums or discounts to the index. 

We currently receive near NYMEX or Henry Hub prices for most of our natural gas sales in Mississippi. For the 

year ended December 31, 2013, the amount received for our Mississippi natural gas production averaged $0.12 per 

Mcf over NYMEX prices. In the Texas Gulf Coast region, due primarily to its location, the price we received for 

the year ended December 31, 2013 averaged $0.12 per Mcf below NYMEX prices. The CCA natural gas production in 

the Rocky Mountain region is sold at the wellhead on a percent-of-proceeds basis. We receive a percentage 

of proceeds on both the residue natural gas volumes and the natural gas liquids volumes. The natural gas has a 

significant component of propane, butanes and other higher-density hydrocarbons, resulting in a measurable natural 

gas liquids stream. In addition, we have coal bed methane production in the Hartzog Draw that is sold at the 
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Cheyenne Hub. For the year ended December 31, 2013, we averaged $0.57 per Mcf below NYMEX prices for our 

Rocky Mountain region natural gas production due primarily to its location, the natural gas liquids extracted from the 

CCA gas stream (resulting in a decreased net price), and the quality of the coal bed methane gas in Wyoming.

Helium Marketing

We placed the Riley Ridge gas processing facility in service in the fourth quarter of 2013. During 2014, we expect 

to begin to supply helium to a third party purchaser under a 20-year helium supply arrangement. Helium will be sold 

under the contract at a price that will fluctuate based on helium deliveries, CPI and other factors over the 20-year 

term.

COMPETITION AND MARKETS

We face competition from other oil and natural gas companies in all aspects of our business, including acquisition 

of producing properties, oil and gas leases, drilling rights, and CO2 properties; marketing of oil and natural gas; 

and obtaining and maintaining goods, services and labor. Many of our competitors have substantially larger financial 

and other resources. Factors that affect our ability to acquire producing properties include available liquidity, 

available information about prospective properties and our expectations for earning a minimum projected return on 

our investments. Because of the primary nature of our core assets (our tertiary operations) and our ownership of 

relatively uncommon significant natural sources of CO2 in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions, we believe 

that we are effective in competing in the market and have less competition than our peers in certain aspects 

of our business.

The demand for qualified and experienced field personnel to drill wells and conduct field operations and for 

geologists, geophysicists, engineers and other professionals in the oil and gas industry can fluctuate significantly, 

often in correlation with commodity prices, causing periodic shortages in such personnel. In recent years, the 

competition for qualified technical personnel has been extensive, and our personnel costs have been escalating. 

There have also been periods with shortages of drilling rigs and other equipment, as demand for rigs and equipment 

has increased along with the number of wells being drilled. These factors also cause significant increases in costs 

for equipment, services and personnel. We cannot be certain when we will experience these issues, and these types 

of shortages or price increases could significantly decrease our profit margin, cash flow and operating results, and 

cause significant delays in our development operations.

FEDERAL AND STATE REGULATIONS

Numerous federal, state and local laws and regulations govern the oil and gas industry. Additions or changes to 

these laws and regulations are often made in response to the current political or economic environment. Compliance 

with this evolving regulatory burden is often difficult, and substantial penalties may be incurred for noncompliance. 

Additionally, the future annual cost of complying with all laws and regulations applicable to our operations is 

uncertain and will be ultimately determined by several factors, including future changes to legal and regulatory 

requirements. Management believes that continued compliance with existing laws and regulations applicable to our 

operations and future compliance therewith will not have a materially adverse effect on our consolidated financial 

position, results of operations or cash flows, although such laws and regulations, and compliance therewith, could 

cause significant delays or otherwise impede operations, which may, among other things, cause our expected 

production rates and cash flows to be less than anticipated.

The following sections describe some specific laws and regulations that may affect us. We cannot predict the cost 

or impact of these or other future legislative or regulatory initiatives.

Regulation of Natural Gas and Oil Exploration and Production

Our operations are subject to various types of regulation at the federal, state and local levels. Such regulation 

includes requiring permits for drilling wells; maintaining bonding requirements in order to drill or operate wells and 

regulating the location of wells; the method of drilling and casing wells; the surface use and restoration of properties 

upon which wells are drilled; the plugging and abandoning of wells; and the composition or disposal of chemicals 

and fluids used in connection with operations. Our operations are also subject to various conservation laws and 

regulations. These include regulation of the size of drilling, spacing or proration units and the density of wells that 

may be drilled in those units, and the unitization or pooling of oil and gas properties. In addition, state conservation 

laws, which establish maximum rates of production from oil and gas wells, generally prohibit or restrict the venting 

or flaring of natural gas and impose certain requirements regarding the ratability of production. The effect of 
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these laws and regulations may limit the amount of oil and natural gas we can produce from our wells and may limit 

the number of wells or the locations at which we can drill. The regulatory burden on the oil and gas industry increases 

our costs of doing business and, consequently, affects our profitability.

Federal Regulation of Sales Prices and Transportation

The transportation of, and certain sales with respect to, natural gas in interstate commerce are heavily regulated 

by agencies of the U.S. federal government and are affected by, among other things, the availability, terms and cost 

of transportation. Notably, the price and terms of access to pipeline transportation are subject to extensive U.S. 

federal and state regulation. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) is continually proposing and 

implementing new and/or modified rules and regulations affecting the natural gas industry, some of which may 

adversely affect the availability and reliability of interruptible transportation service on interstate pipelines. While our 

sales of crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids are not currently subject to FERC regulation, our ability to 

transport and sell such products is dependent on certain pipelines whose rates, terms and conditions of service are 

subject to FERC regulation. Additional proposals and proceedings that might affect the natural gas industry are 

considered from time to time by Congress, FERC, state regulatory bodies and the courts, and we cannot predict when 

or if any such proposals or proceedings might become effective and their effect or impact, if any, on our operations.

Federal Energy and Climate Change Legislation and Regulation

In early 2012, the President signed the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011. This act, 

among other things, updates federal pipeline safety standards, increases penalties for violations of such standards, 

gives the Department of Transportation (the “DOT”) authority for new damage prevention and incident notification, 

and directs the DOT to prescribe new minimum safety standards for CO2 pipelines, which safety standards could 

affect our operations and the costs thereof. While the DOT has adopted or proposed to adopt a number of new 

regulations to implement this act, no such new minimum safety standards have been proposed or adopted for CO2

pipelines. In the future, Congress may create new incentives for alternative energy sources and may also consider 

legislation to reduce emissions of CO2 or other greenhouse gases which legislation, if enacted, could (1) impose a tax 

or other economic penalty on the production of fossil fuels that, when used, ultimately release CO2, (2) reduce the 

demand for, and uses of, oil, gas and other minerals, and/or (3) increase the costs incurred by us in our exploration 

and production activities. The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has promulgated regulations requiring 

permitting for certain sources of greenhouse gas emissions, along with requirements for wells used for geologic 

sequestration. At the same time, legislation to reduce the emissions of CO2 or other greenhouse gases could also 

create economic incentives for technologies and practices that reduce or avoid such emissions, including processes 

that sequester CO2 in geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs.

Natural Gas Gathering Regulations

State regulation of natural gas gathering facilities generally includes various safety, environmental and, in some 

circumstances, nondiscriminatory-take requirements. With the increase in construction and operation of natural gas 

gathering lines in various states, natural gas gathering is receiving greater regulatory scrutiny from state regulatory 

agencies, which is likely to continue in the future.

Federal, State or Indian Leases

Our operations on federal, state or Indian oil and gas leases, especially those in the Rocky Mountain region, are 

subject to numerous restrictions, including nondiscrimination statutes. Such operations must be conducted 

pursuant to certain on-site security regulations and other permits and authorizations issued by the Bureau of Land 

Management, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and other federal and state stakeholder agencies.

Environmental Regulations

Our oil and natural gas production, saltwater disposal operations, injection of CO2, and the processing, handling 

and disposal of materials such as hydrocarbons and naturally occurring radioactive materials (“NORM”) are subject to 

stringent regulation. We could incur significant costs, including cleanup costs resulting from a release of product, 

third-party claims for property damage and personal injuries, or penalties and other sanctions as a result of any 

violations or liabilities under environmental or other laws applicable to our operations. Changes in, or more stringent 

enforcement of, environmental laws and other laws applicable to our operations could also result in delays or 

additional operating costs and capital expenditures.
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Various federal, state and local laws and regulations controlling the discharge of materials into the environment, or 

otherwise relating to the protection of the environment, directly impact our oil and gas exploration, development and 

production operations. These include, among others, (1) regulations adopted by the EPA and various state agencies 

regarding approved methods of disposal for certain hazardous and nonhazardous wastes; (2) the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and analogous state laws that regulate the removal or 

remediation of previously disposed wastes (including wastes disposed of or released by prior owners or operators), 

property contamination (including groundwater contamination), and remedial plugging operations to prevent future 

contamination; (3) the Clean Air Act and comparable state and local requirements already applicable to our operations 

and new restrictions on air emissions from our operations, including those that could discourage the production of 

fossil fuels that, when used, ultimately release CO2; (4) the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which contains numerous 

requirements relating to the prevention of, and response to, oil spills into waters of the United States; (5) the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which is the principal federal statute governing the treatment, storage and 

disposal of hazardous wastes; (6) the Endangered Species Act and counterpart state legislation, which protects 

certain species (and their related habitats), including certain species that could be present on our leases, as 

threatened or endangered; and (7) state regulations and statutes governing the handling, treatment, storage and 

disposal of NORM.

Management believes that we are currently in substantial compliance with existing applicable environmental laws 

and regulations, and does not currently anticipate that future compliance will have a materially adverse effect on our 

consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows, although such laws and regulations, and 

compliance therewith, could cause significant delays or otherwise impede operations, which may, among other 

things, cause our expected production rates and cash flows to be less than anticipated.

Hydraulic Fracturing

During 2013, we fracture stimulated one operated well at Hartzog Draw and two CO2 source wells at Jackson Dome, 

in each case utilizing water-based fluids with no diesel fuel component. In 2014, we currently plan to hydraulically 

fracture approximately seven additional wells at Hartzog Draw using similar techniques. We are familiar with the 

laws and regulations applicable to hydraulic fracturing operations and take steps to ensure compliance with 

these requirements.

ESTIMATED NET QUANTITIES OF PROVED OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESERVES 

AND PRESENT VALUE OF ESTIMATED FUTURE NET REVENUES

Internal Controls Over Reserve Estimates

Reserve information in this report is based on estimates prepared by DeGolyer and MacNaughton (“D&M”), an 

independent petroleum engineering consulting firm located in Dallas, Texas, utilizing data provided by our internal 

reservoir engineering team and is the responsibility of management. We rely on D&M’s expertise to ensure that 

our reserve estimates are prepared in compliance with SEC rules and regulations and that appropriate geologic, 

petroleum engineering, and evaluation principles and techniques are applied in accordance with practices generally 

recognized by the petroleum industry as presented in the publication of the Society of Petroleum Engineers 

entitled “Standards Pertaining to the Estimating and Auditing of Oil and Gas Reserves Information (Revision as of 

February 19, 2007)”. The person responsible for the preparation of the reserve report is a Senior Vice President 

at D&M; he is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 

Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University in 1974, and he has in excess of 39 years of experience in oil and 

gas reservoir studies and evaluations. Our Senior Vice President – Planning, Technology and CO2 Supply is primarily 

responsible for overseeing the independent petroleum engineering firm during the process. Our Senior Vice 

President – Planning, Technology and CO2 Supply has a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from 

Louisiana State University and over 32 years of industry experience working with petroleum reserve estimates. 

D&M relies on various data provided by our internal reservoir engineering team in preparing its reserve estimates, 

including such items as oil and natural gas prices, ownership interests, production information, operating costs, 

planned capital expenditures and other technical data. Our internal reservoir engineering team consists of qualified 

petroleum engineers who maintain the Company’s internal evaluation of reserves and compare the Company’s 

information to the reserves prepared by D&M. Management is responsible for designing the internal control 

procedures used in the preparation of our oil and gas reserves, which include verification of data input into reserve 

forecasting and economics evaluation software, as well as multi-discipline management reviews. The internal 
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reservoir engineering team reports directly to our Senior Vice President – Planning, Technology and CO2 Supply. 

In addition, our Board of Directors’ Reserves and Health, Safety and Environment (“HSE”) Committee, on behalf of 

the Board of Directors, oversees the qualifications, independence, performance and hiring of our independent 

petroleum engineering firm and reviews the final report and subsequent reporting of our oil and natural gas reserve 

estimates. The Chairman of the Reserves and HSE Committee holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics from Capital University 

in Ohio. He has 34 years of industry experience, with responsibilities including reserves preparation and approval.

Oil and Natural Gas Reserve Estimates

D&M prepared estimates of our net proved oil and natural gas reserves as of December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011. 

See the summary of D&M’s report as of December 31, 2013, included as an exhibit to this Form 10-K. These estimates 

of reserves were prepared using an average price equal to the unweighted arithmetic average of hydrocarbon prices 

on the first day of each month within the 12-month period in accordance with rules and regulations of the SEC. These 

oil and natural gas reserve estimates do not include any value for probable or possible reserves that may exist, 

nor do they include any value for undeveloped acreage. The reserve estimates represent our net revenue interest in 

our properties. During 2013, we provided oil and gas reserve estimates for 2012 to the United States Energy 

Information Agency that were substantially the same as the reserve estimates included in our Form 10-K for the year 

ended December 31, 2012.

Our proved nonproducing reserves primarily relate to reserves that are to be recovered from productive zones that 

are currently behind pipe. Since a majority of our properties are in areas with multiple pay zones, these properties 

typically have both proved producing and proved nonproducing reserves.

As of December 31, 2013, our estimated proved undeveloped reserves totaled approximately 179.9 MMBOE, or 

approximately 38% of our estimated total proved reserves, an increase of 17.2 MMBOE from December 31, 2012 

levels. Our proved undeveloped oil reserves primarily relate to our CO2 tertiary operations (92.8 MMBOE), and our 

proved undeveloped natural gas reserves are primarily located in our Riley Ridge Field (66.6 MMBOE). We consider 

the CO2 tertiary proved undeveloped reserves to be lower risk than other proved undeveloped reserves that require 

drilling at locations offsetting existing production, because all of these proved undeveloped reserves are associated 

with tertiary recovery operations in fields and reservoirs that historically produced substantial volumes of oil under 

primary production.

During 2013, we spent approximately $260 million to convert 16.7 MMBOE of proved undeveloped reserves to 

proved developed reserves, primarily as a result of tertiary development activities at Heidelberg, Hastings, and 

Tinsley fields. During 2013, we added 30.0 MMBOE of proved undeveloped reserves, including 27.3 MMBOE related 

to our tertiary operations at Bell Creek Field, and recognized net positive proved undeveloped reserve revisions of 

3.9 MMBOE.

As of December 31, 2013, 26.7 MMBOE of our total proved undeveloped reserves are not scheduled to be 

developed within five years of initial booking, 26.1 MMBOE of which are part of CO2 EOR projects. We believe 

these reserves satisfy the conditions to be included as proved reserves because (1) we have established and continue 

to follow the previously adopted development plan for each of these projects; (2) we have significant ongoing 

development activities in each of these CO2 EOR projects and (3) we have a historical record of completing the 

development of comparable long-term projects.
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December 31,

2013 2012 2011

Estimated proved reserves (1)

Oil (MBbls) 386,659 329,124 357,733

Natural gas (MMcf) 489,954 481,641 625,208

Oil equivalent (MBOE) 468,318 409,398 461,934

Reserve volumes categories

Proved developed producing:

 Oil (MBbls) 245,722 208,745 189,904

 Natural gas (MMcf) 68,976 60,832 116,562

 Oil equivalent (MBOE) 257,218 218,884 209,331

Proved developed non-producing:

 Oil (MBbls) 30,670 27,264 49,837

 Natural gas (MMcf) 3,119 3,359 9,408

 Oil equivalent (MBOE) 31,190 27,824 51,405

Proved undeveloped:

 Oil (MBbls) 110,267 93,115 117,992

 Natural gas (MMcf) 417,859 417,450 499,238

 Oil equivalent (MBOE) 179,910 162,690 201,198

Percentage of total MBOE:

Proved developed producing 55% 53% 45%

Proved developed non-producing 7% 7% 11%

Proved undeveloped 38% 40% 44%

Representative oil and natural gas prices: (2)

Oil – NYMEX $ 96.94 $ 94.71 $ 96.19

Natural gas – Henry Hub 3.67 2.85 4.16

Present values (in thousands): (3)

Discounted estimated future net cash flow 

 before income taxes (PV-10 Value) (4) $10,633,783 $9,909,592 $10,559,139

Standardized measure of discounted estimated future 

 net cash flow after income taxes (“Standardized Measure”) $ 7,128,744 $ 6,414,380 $ 7,007,605

(1) Estimated proved reserves as of December 31, 2012 reflect the sale of reserves associated with our Bakken area assets sold in 2012 

(approximately 109 MMBOE). Year-end 2012 reserves reflect CCA reserves acquired in 2010 as part of the Encore merger, but do not include 

reserves of 42.2 MMBOE related to the CCA Acquisition, which closed during the first quarter of 2013.

(2) The reference prices were based on the arithmetic average of the first-day-of-the-month NYMEX commodity prices for each month during the 

respective year. These prices do not reflect adjustments for market differentials by field that are utilized in the preparation of our reserve report to 

arrive at the appropriate net price we receive. See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – 

Results of Operations – Operating Results Table for details of oil and natural gas prices received, both including and excluding the impact of 

derivative settlements.

(3) Determined based on the average first-day-of-the-month prices for each month, adjusted to prices received by field in accordance with standards 

set forth in the FASC.

(4) PV-10 Value is a non-GAAP measure and is different from the Standardized Measure in that PV-10 Value is a pre-tax number and the Standardized 

Measure is an after-tax number. The information used to calculate PV-10 Value is derived directly from data determined in accordance with 

FASC Topic 932. The difference between these two amounts, the discounted estimated future income tax was $3.505 billion at December 31, 2013; 

$3.495 billion at December 31, 2012; and $3.552 billion at December 31, 2011. We believe that PV-10 Value is a useful supplemental disclosure 

to the Standardized Measure because the Standardized Measure can be impacted by a company’s unique tax situation, and it is not practical to 

calculate the Standardized Measure on a property-by-property basis. Because of this, PV-10 Value is a widely used measure within the industry 

and is commonly used by securities analysts, banks and credit rating agencies to evaluate the estimated future net cash flows from proved 

reserves on a comparative basis across companies or specific properties. PV-10 Value is commonly used by us and others in our industry to 

evaluate properties that are bought and sold and to assess the potential return on investment in our oil and gas properties. PV-10 Value is not a 

measure of financial or operating performance under GAAP, nor should it be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the Standardized 

Measure. Our PV-10 Value and the Standardized Measure do not purport to represent the fair value of our oil and natural gas reserves. See 

Glossary and Selected Abbreviations for the definition of “PV-10 Value” and see Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited), to the 

Consolidated Financial Statements for additional disclosures about the Standardized Measure.

There are numerous uncertainties inherent in estimating quantities of proved oil and natural gas reserves and 

their values, including many factors beyond our control. See Item 1A, Risk Factors – Estimating our reserves, 

production and future net cash flows is difficult to do with any certainty. See also Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas 

Disclosures (Unaudited), to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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Item 1A. Risk Factors

Oil and natural gas prices are volatile. A substantial decrease in oil and natural gas prices could adversely affect 

our financial results.

Our future financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and the carrying value of our oil and natural 

gas properties depend primarily upon the prices we receive for our oil and natural gas production. Oil and natural 

gas prices historically have been volatile and may continue to be volatile in the future. Substantial decreases in 

commodity prices in the future could require us to record full cost ceiling test write-downs. The amount of any future 

write-down is difficult to predict and will depend upon oil and natural gas prices, the incremental proved reserves 

that might be added during each period and additional capital spent.

Our cash flow from operations is highly dependent on the prices that we receive for oil. This price volatility also 

affects the amount of our cash flow available for capital expenditures and our ability to borrow money or raise 

additional capital. Oil prices currently affect us more than natural gas prices because oil comprised approximately 

94% of our 2013 production and 83% of our proved reserves at December 31, 2013.

The prices for oil and natural gas are subject to a variety of additional factors that are beyond our control. These 

factors include the supply of, and demand for, these commodities, which fluctuate with changes in market and 

economic conditions and other factors, including:

• the level of worldwide consumer demand for oil and natural gas;

• the domestic and foreign supply of oil and natural gas;

• the degree to which domestic oil and natural gas production decreases U.S. imports of crude oil;

• the ability of the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to agree to and maintain oil 

price and production controls;

• domestic governmental regulations and taxes;

• the price and availability of alternative fuel sources;

• storage levels of oil and natural gas;

• weather conditions, including hurricanes and tropical storms in and around the Gulf of Mexico that can 

damage oil and natural gas facilities and delivery systems and disrupt operations, and winter conditions and 

forest fires in the Rocky Mountains that can delay or impede operations;

• market uncertainty;

• worldwide political events and conditions, including actions taken by foreign oil and natural gas producing 

nations; and

• worldwide economic conditions.

These factors and the volatility of the energy markets generally make it extremely difficult to predict future oil and 

natural gas price movements. Also, prices for oil and prices for natural gas do not necessarily move in tandem. 

Declines in oil or natural gas prices would not only reduce revenue but could reduce the amount of oil and natural 

gas that we can produce economically. If the oil and natural gas industry experiences significant price declines, 

we may, among other things, be unable to meet all of our financial obligations or make planned expenditures.

Over the past six years oil prices have fluctuated significantly, reaching record highs of approximately $145 per 

Bbl in July 2008, declining precipitously during the last half of 2008, and ending that year at a NYMEX price of 

$44.60 per Bbl. Since 2008, oil prices have continued to fluctuate, ending 2013 at a NYMEX price of $98.42 per Bbl. 

If substantial volatility of oil prices continues, oil prices could decline to a level that makes some or all of our tertiary 

projects uneconomical. If that were to happen, we may decide to suspend future expansion projects, and if prices 

were to drop below our cash break-even point for an extended period of time, we may further decide to shut-in 

existing production, both of which could have a material adverse effect on our operations. We may also be required 

to reduce our capital expenditures in the event of declining commodity prices in order to compensate for diminished 

cash flow, which could reduce or eliminate our growth. Since operating costs do not decrease as quickly as 

commodity prices, it is difficult to determine a precise break-even point for our tertiary projects; however, based on 

prior history, we currently estimate our economic break-even point (before corporate-related overhead and based 

on currently estimated expenses relative to these tertiary projects) occurs at oil prices in the low-to-mid $40-per-barrel 

range, depending on the specific field and area.
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We have a current practice of hedging approximately 18 months to two years (from the current quarter) of forecasted 

production to mitigate the risks associated with price fluctuations (see Management’s Discussion and Analysis 

of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Market Risk Management and Note 9, Commodity Derivative 

Contracts, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for details regarding our commodity derivative contracts). As of 

February 20, 2014, we have oil derivative contracts in place covering 58,000 Bbls/d during 2014 and 58,000 Bbls/d 

during the first three quarters of 2015. 

The prices we receive for our crude oil often do not correlate with NYMEX prices and can vary from such prices 

depending on, among other factors, the quality of the crude oil we sell, the location of our crude oil production and 

the related markets to which we sell, variations in prices paid based upon different indices used, and the pricing 

contracts and indices at which we sell production. Our NYMEX differentials on a field-by-field basis over the last few 

years have ranged from approximately $25 per Bbl above NYMEX to approximately $25 per Bbl below NYMEX. 

On a corporate-wide basis, our NYMEX differentials over the last few years have ranged from approximately 

$11 per Bbl above NYMEX oil prices to approximately $5 per Bbl below NYMEX oil prices. These variances have been 

due to various factors and are difficult to forecast or anticipate, but they have a direct impact on the net oil price 

we receive.

Natural gas price volatility has been severe over the last few years as a result of, among other things, weak 

demand, increased production of natural gas, and significant natural gas storage in place, leading to excess gas 

supply. NYMEX natural gas prices averaged $4.03 per MMBtu during 2011, $2.82 per MMBtu during 2012, and 

$3.72 per MMBtu during 2013, and ended 2013 at $4.23 per MMBtu. As of February 20, 2014, we have natural gas 

derivative contracts in place covering 14,000 MMBtu/d during 2014 and 6,000 MMBtu/d during 2015 (see 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Market Risk Management

and Note 9, Commodity Derivative Contracts, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for details regarding our 

commodity derivative contracts).

Our production will decline if our access to sufficient amounts of carbon dioxide is limited.

Our long-term strategy is focused on our CO2 tertiary recovery operations. The crude oil production from our 

tertiary recovery projects depends, in large part, on having access to sufficient amounts of CO2. Our ability to 

produce oil from these projects would be hindered if our supply of CO2 was limited due to, among other things, 

problems with our current CO2 producing wells and facilities, including compression equipment, or catastrophic 

pipeline failure. This could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash 

flows. Our anticipated future crude oil production from tertiary operations is also dependent on the timing, 

volumes and location of CO2 injections and, in particular, on our ability to increase our combined purchased and 

produced volumes of CO2 and inject adequate amounts of CO2 into the proper formation and area within each of 

our tertiary oil fields.

Our planned tertiary operations and the related construction of necessary CO2 pipelines could be delayed by 

difficulties in obtaining pipeline rights-of-way and/or permits, and/or by the listing of certain species as threatened 

or endangered.

The production of crude oil from our planned tertiary operations is dependent upon having access to pipelines 

to transport available CO2 to our oil fields at a cost that is economically viable. Our current and future construction of 

CO2 pipelines will require us to obtain rights-of-way from private landowners and from the federal government in 

certain areas. Certain states where we operate are considering the adoption of laws and regulations that would limit 

or eliminate a state’s (and, accordingly, its legislative delegates’) ability to exercise eminent domain over private 

property, in addition to possible judicially imposed constraints on, and additional requirements for, the exercise of 

eminent domain. We also conduct operations on federal and other oil and natural gas leases inhabited by 

species, such as the sage grouse, that could be listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species 

Act, which listing could lead to material restrictions as to federal land use. These laws and regulations, together 

with any other changes in law related to the use of eminent domain or the listing of certain species as threatened or 

endangered, could inhibit or eliminate our ability to secure rights-of-way or otherwise access land for current 

or future pipeline construction projects. As a result, obtaining rights-of-way or other means of access may require 

additional regulatory and environmental compliance, and increased costs in connection therewith, which could 

delay our CO2 pipeline construction schedule and initiation of our pipeline operations, and/or increase the costs of 

constructing our pipelines.
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Our level of indebtedness may adversely affect operations and limit our growth.

As of December 31, 2013, our outstanding senior indebtedness consisted of $2.6 billion principal amount of 

subordinated notes, virtually all of which have maturity dates between 2020 and 2023 at interest rates ranging from 

4.625% to 8.25% per annum at a weighted average interest rate of 6.29% per annum, and $340.0 million principal 

amount outstanding under our bank credit facility. We currently have a borrowing base of $1.6 billion under our bank 

credit facility and, at December 31, 2013, availability with respect to such borrowing base of $1.2 billion. Our bank 

borrowing base is adjusted semi-annually and upon requested special redeterminations, in each case at the banks’ 

discretion, and the amount is established and based, in part, upon certain external factors, such as commodity 

prices, over which we have no control. If the outstanding credit under our bank credit facility exceeds the then 

effective and redetermined borrowing base, we will be required to repay the excess amount over a period not to 

exceed four months.

We may incur additional indebtedness in the future under our bank credit facility in connection with, among 

other things, our acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties. Further, as our cash flow from 

operations is highly dependent on the prices that we receive for oil and natural gas, if oil and natural gas prices 

decrease substantially and remain at depressed levels for an extended period of time, our degree of leverage could 

increase significantly. The level of our indebtedness could have important consequences, including but not limited 

to the following:

• our level of indebtedness may impair our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, 

capital expenditures, acquisitions or general corporate and other purposes;

• our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions may be greater as a result of our level of 

indebtedness, and increases in interest rates thereon, potentially restricting us from making acquisitions, 

introducing new technologies or exploiting business opportunities;

• our interest expense may increase in the event of increases in market interest rates;

• a substantial portion of our cash flows from operations may be dedicated to servicing our indebtedness and 

would not be available for capital expenditures or other purposes;

• our ability to, among other things, borrow additional funds, dispose of assets, pay dividends and make certain 

investments may be limited by the covenants contained in the agreements governing our outstanding 

indebtedness; and

• our debt covenants contained in the agreements governing our outstanding indebtedness may also affect our 

flexibility in planning for, and reacting to, changes in the economy and in our industry, and our failure to comply 

with such covenants could result in an event of default under such debt instruments which, if not cured or 

waived, could have a material adverse effect on us.

If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds necessary to make required payments 

on our indebtedness, or if we otherwise fail to comply with the various covenants related to such indebtedness, 

including covenants in our bank credit facility, we would be in default under our debt instruments. This default could 

permit the holders of such indebtedness to accelerate the maturity of such indebtedness and could cause 

defaults under other indebtedness, which could have a material adverse effect on us. Our ability to meet our 

obligations under our debt instruments will depend, in part, upon our future performance, which will be subject 

to prevailing economic conditions, commodity prices, and financial, business and other factors, including factors 

beyond our control.

Commodity derivative contracts may expose us to potential financial loss.

To reduce our exposure to fluctuations in the prices of oil and natural gas, we enter into commodity derivative 

contracts in order to economically hedge a substantial portion of our oil and natural gas production. Derivative 

contracts expose us to risk of financial loss in some circumstances, including when there is a change in the expected 

differential between the underlying price in the hedging agreement and actual prices received, or when the 

counterparty to the derivative contract defaults on its contractual obligations. In addition, these derivative contracts 

may limit the benefit we would otherwise receive from increases in the prices for oil and natural gas. Information 

as to these activities is set forth under Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and 

Results of Operations – Market Risk Management, and in Note 9, Commodity Derivative Contracts, to the Consolidated 

Financial Statements.
26FORM 10-K PART I DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

There are no assurances of our ability to pay dividends in the future and at what level.

On January 28, 2014, we declared our first quarterly cash common stock dividend of $0.0625 per share, payable 

March 25, 2014, to shareholders of record on February 25, 2014. We currently intend to pay regular quarterly cash 

dividends in the future; however, our ability to pay dividends may be adversely affected if certain of the risks 

described herein were to occur. Our payment of dividends is subject to, and conditioned upon, among other things, 

compliance with the covenants and restrictions contained in our bank credit facility and the indentures governing 

our subordinated notes. All dividends will be paid at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon 

many factors, including our earnings, financial condition and such other factors as our Board of Directors may 

deem relevant from time to time. There are no assurances as to our ability to pay dividends in the future or the 

level thereof.

A worldwide financial downturn or negative credit market conditions may have lasting effects on our liquidity, 

business and financial condition that we cannot control or predict.

Liquidity is essential to our business. Our liquidity could be substantially negatively affected by an inability to 

obtain capital in the long-term or short-term debt capital markets or equity capital markets or an inability to access 

bank financing. A prolonged credit crisis, including a sovereign debt crisis in Europe or turmoil in the global 

financial system, could materially affect our liquidity, business and financial condition. These conditions have 

adversely impacted financial markets and have created substantial volatility and uncertainty, and may continue to do 

so, with the related negative impact on global economic activity and the financial markets. Negative credit market 

conditions could materially affect our liquidity and may inhibit our lenders from fully funding our bank credit facility 

or cause them to make the terms of our bank credit facility more costly and more restrictive. We are subject to 

semiannual, as well as unscheduled, reviews and redeterminations of our borrowing base under our bank credit 

facility, and we do not know, nor can we control, the results of such redeterminations or the effect of then-current 

oil and natural gas prices on any such redetermination. A negative economic situation could also adversely affect the 

collectability of our trade receivables or performance by our suppliers and cause our commodity hedging 

arrangements to be ineffective if our counterparties are unable to perform their obligations or otherwise seek 

bankruptcy protection. Additionally, negative economic conditions could lead to reduced demand for oil and natural 

gas, or lower prices for oil and natural gas, which could have a negative impact on our revenues.

Our future performance depends upon our ability to find or acquire additional oil and natural gas reserves that are 

economically recoverable.

Unless we can successfully replace the reserves that we produce, our reserves will decline, resulting eventually in 

a decrease in oil and natural gas production and lower revenues and cash flows from operations. We have historically 

replaced reserves through both acquisitions and internal organic growth activities. In the future, we may not be 

able to continue to replace reserves at acceptable costs. The business of exploring for, developing or acquiring reserves 

is capital intensive. We may not be able to make the necessary capital investment to maintain or expand our oil 

and natural gas reserves if our cash flows from operations are reduced, whether due to lower oil or natural gas prices 

or otherwise, or if external sources of capital become limited or unavailable. Further, the process of using CO2 for 

tertiary recovery, and the related infrastructure, requires significant capital investment up to five years prior to any 

resulting and associated production and cash flows from these projects, heightening potential capital constraints. 

If we do not continue to make significant capital expenditures, or if outside capital resources become limited, we may 

not be able to maintain our growth rate or otherwise meet expectations.

During the last few years, we have acquired several fields at a substantial cost because we believe that they have 

significant additional production potential through tertiary flooding, and we plan to continue acquiring other oil 

fields that we believe are tertiary flood candidates. We are investing significant amounts of capital as part of this 

strategy. If we are unable to successfully develop and produce the potential oil in these acquired fields, it would 

negatively affect our return on investment relative to these acquisitions and could significantly reduce our ability to 

obtain additional capital for the future or fund future acquisitions, and also negatively affect our financial results to 

a significant degree.

Oil and natural gas development and producing operations involve various risks.

Our operations are subject to all the risks normally incident and inherent to the operation and development of oil 

and natural gas properties and the drilling of oil and natural gas wells, including, without limitation, well blowouts; 

cratering and explosions; pipe failure; fires; formations with abnormal pressures; uncontrollable flows of oil, natural 

gas, brine or well fluids; release of contaminants into the environment and other environmental hazards and risks.
272013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART I

The nature of these risks is such that some liabilities could exceed our insurance policy limits or otherwise be 

excluded from, or limited by, our insurance coverage, as in the case of environmental fines and penalties, for example, 

which are excluded from coverage as they cannot be insured. We could incur significant costs related to these risks 

that could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Our CO2 tertiary recovery projects require a significant amount of electricity to operate the related facilities. If these 

costs were to increase significantly, it could have an adverse effect upon the profitability of these operations. 

Additionally, a portion of our production activities involves CO2 injections into fields with wells plugged and abandoned 

by prior operators. Although it is often difficult (or impracticable) to determine whether a well has been properly 

plugged prior to commencing injections and pressuring the oil reservoirs, we have budgeted $50 million for this 

effort for 2014. We may incur significant costs in connection with remedial plugging operations to prevent 

environmental contamination and to otherwise comply with federal, state and local regulation relative to the plugging 

and abandoning of our oil, natural gas and CO2 wells. In addition to the increased costs, if wells have not been 

properly plugged, modification to those wells may delay our operations and reduce our production.

While mitigated somewhat by our significant emphasis on tertiary recovery operations in fields and reservoirs that 

have historically produced substantial volumes of oil under primary production, development activities are subject 

to many risks, including the risk that new wells drilled by us will not result in the discovery of commercially 

productive reservoirs or the risk that we will not recover all or any portion of our investment in such wells. Drilling 

for oil and natural gas may involve unprofitable efforts, not only from dry wells but also from wells that are 

productive but do not produce sufficient net reserves to return a profit after deducting drilling, operating and other 

costs. The cost of drilling, completing and operating a well is often uncertain, and cost factors can adversely 

affect the economics of a project. Further, our drilling operations may be curtailed, delayed or canceled as a result of 

numerous factors, including:

• unexpected drilling conditions;

• title problems;

• pressure or irregularities in formations;

• equipment failures or accidents;

• adverse weather conditions, including hurricanes and tropical storms in and around the Gulf of Mexico that can 

damage oil and natural gas facilities and delivery systems and disrupt operations, and winter conditions and 

forest fires in the Rocky Mountain region that can delay or impede operations;

• compliance with environmental and governmental requirements; and

• the cost of, or shortages or delays in the availability of, drilling rigs, equipment, pipelines and services.

Certain of our operations may be limited during certain periods due to severe weather conditions and other regulations.

Certain of our operations in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, including the construction of CO2 pipelines, the 

drilling of new wells and production from existing wells, are conducted in areas subject to extreme weather 

conditions, including severe cold, snow and rain, which conditions may cause such operations to be hindered or 

delayed, or otherwise require that they be conducted only during non-winter months, and depending on the severity of 

the weather, could have a negative effect on our results of operations in these areas. Further, certain of our operations 

in these areas are confined to certain time periods due to environmental regulations, federal restrictions on when 

drilling can take place on federal lands, and lease stipulations designed to protect certain wildlife, which regulations, 

restrictions and limitations could slow down our operations, cause delays, increase costs and have a negative effect 

on our results of operations.

Shortages of oil field equipment, services and qualified personnel could reduce our cash flow and adversely affect 

results of operations.

The demand for qualified and experienced field personnel, geologists, geophysicists, engineers and other 

professionals in the oil and natural gas industry can fluctuate significantly, often in correlation with oil and natural 

gas prices, causing periodic shortages in such personnel. In recent years, the competition for qualified technical 

personnel has been fierce, and our personnel costs have been escalating at a rate higher than general inflation. 

During periods of high oil and natural gas prices, we have experienced shortages of oil field and other necessary 

equipment, as well as drilling rigs, as demand for equipment and rigs has increased in tandem with higher 

commodity prices. Additionally, higher oil and natural gas prices generally stimulate increased demand, which results 

in increased prices for drilling rigs, crews and associated supplies, oilfield equipment and services, and personnel 
28FORM 10-K PART I DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

in our exploration and production operations. These types of shortages or price increases could significantly 

decrease our profit margin, cash flow and operating results and/or restrict or delay our ability to drill wells and 

conduct those operations that we currently have planned and budgeted, causing us to miss our forecasts 

and projections.

The marketability of our production is dependent upon transportation lines and other facilities, certain of 

which we do not control. When these facilities are unavailable, our operations can be interrupted and our 

revenues reduced.

The marketability of our oil and natural gas production depends, in part upon the availability, proximity and 

capacity of transportation lines owned by third parties. In general, we do not control these transportation facilities, 

and our access to them may be limited or denied. A significant disruption in the availability of, and access to, 

these transportation lines or other production facilities could adversely impact our ability to deliver to market or 

produce our oil and thereby cause a significant interruption in our operations.

Governmental laws and regulations relating to environmental protection are costly and stringent.

Our exploration, production, and marketing operations are subject to complex and stringent federal, state, and local 

laws and regulations governing, among other things, the discharge of substances into the environment or otherwise 

relating to environmental protection. These laws and regulations and related public policy considerations affect the 

costs, manner, and feasibility of our operations and require us to make significant expenditures in order to comply. 

Failure to comply with these laws and regulations may result in the assessment of administrative, civil, and criminal 

penalties, the imposition of investigatory and remedial obligations, and the issuance of injunctions that could limit 

or prohibit our operations. In addition, some of these laws and regulations may impose joint and several, strict liability 

for contamination resulting from spills, discharges, and releases of substances, including petroleum hydrocarbons 

and other wastes, without regard to fault or the legality of the original conduct. Under such laws and regulations, we 

could be required to remove or remediate previously disposed substances and property contamination, including 

wastes disposed or released by prior owners or operators. Changes in, or additions to, environmental laws and 

regulations occur frequently, and any changes or additions that result in more stringent and costly waste handling, 

storage, transport, disposal, cleanup or other environmental protection requirements could have a material adverse 

effect on our operations and financial position.

Enactment of legislative or regulatory proposals under consideration could negatively affect our business.

Numerous legislative and regulatory proposals affecting the oil and gas industry have been introduced, are 

anticipated to be introduced, or are otherwise under consideration, by Congress and various federal agencies. 

Among these proposals are: (1) climate change/carbon tax legislation introduced in Congress, and EPA regulations 

to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; (2) proposals contained in the President’s budget, along with legislation 

introduced in Congress (none of which have passed), to impose new taxes on, or repeal various tax deductions 

available to, oil and gas producers, such as the current tax deductions for intangible drilling and development costs 

and qualified tertiary injectant expenses which deductions, if eliminated, could raise the cost of energy production, 

reduce energy investment and affect the economics of oil and gas exploration and production activities; 

(3) legislation previously considered by Congress (but not adopted) that would subject the process of hydraulic 

fracturing to federal regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and new or anticipated Department of Interior and 

EPA regulations to impose new and more stringent regulatory requirements on hydraulic fracturing activities, 

particularly those performed on federal lands, and to require disclosure of the chemicals used in the fracturing process; 

and (4) the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act enacted in 2011, which increases penalties, 

grants new authority to impose damage prevention and incident notification requirements, and directs the 

Department of Transportation to prescribe minimum safety standards for CO2 pipelines. Any of the foregoing 

described proposals could affect our operations and the costs thereof. The trend toward stricter standards, increased 

oversight and regulation and more extensive permit requirements, along with any future laws and regulations, 

could result in increased costs or additional operating restrictions that could have an effect on demand for oil and 

natural gas or prices at which it can be sold. However, until such legislation or regulations are enacted or 

adopted into law and thereafter implemented, it is not possible to gauge their impact on our future operations or 

our results of operations and financial condition.
292013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART I

Certain federal income tax deductions currently available with respect to natural gas and oil exploration and 

development may be eliminated, and additional state taxes on natural gas extraction may be imposed, as a result of 

future legislation.

In recent years, legislation has been proposed that would, if enacted into law, make significant changes to U.S. 

federal income tax laws, including the elimination of certain U.S. federal income tax benefits and deductions currently 

available to oil and gas companies. Such changes include, but are not limited to, (1) the repeal of the percentage 

depletion allowance for oil and gas properties, (2) the increase of the amortization period of geological and geophysical 

expenses, (3) the elimination of current deductions for intangible drilling and development costs and qualified 

tertiary injectant expenses, and (4) the elimination of the deduction for certain U.S. production activities. It is 

currently unclear whether any such proposals will be enacted into law and, if so, what form such laws might possibly 

take or impact they may have; however, the passage of such legislation or any other similar change in U.S. federal 

income tax law could eliminate, reduce or postpone certain tax deductions that are currently available to us, and any 

such legislation or change could negatively affect our financial condition and results of operations.

The derivatives market regulations promulgated under the Dodd-Frank Act could have an adverse effect on our 

ability to hedge risks associated with our business.

The Dodd-Frank Act requires the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and the SEC to promulgate 

rules and regulations establishing federal oversight and regulation of the over-the-counter derivatives market and 

entities that participate in that market, including swap clearing and trade execution requirements. Our derivative 

transactions are not currently subject to such swap clearing and trade execution requirements; however, in the event 

our derivative transactions potentially become subject to such requirements, we believe that our derivative transactions 

would qualify for the “end-user” exception. New or modified rules, regulations or requirements may increase the 

cost and availability to our counterparties of their hedging and swap positions that they can make available to us, and 

may further require the counterparties to our derivative instruments to spin off some of their derivative activities to 

separate entities that may not be as creditworthy as the current counterparties. In addition, for uncleared swaps, the 

CFTC or federal banking regulators may require end-users to enter into credit support documentation or post margin 

collateral. Any changes in the regulations of swaps may result in certain market participants deciding to curtail or cease 

their derivative activities. 

While many rules and regulations have been promulgated and are already in effect, other rules and regulations, 

including the proposed margin rules, remain to be finalized or effectuated; therefore, the impact of those rules and 

regulations on us is uncertain at this time. The Dodd-Frank Act, and the rules promulgated thereunder, could 

(1) significantly increase the cost, or decrease the liquidity, of energy-related derivatives we use to hedge against 

commodity price fluctuations (including through requirements to post collateral), (2) materially alter the terms of 

derivative contracts, (3) reduce the availability of derivatives to protect against risks we encounter, and (4) increase 

our exposure to less creditworthy counterparties. If we reduce our use of derivatives as a result of the 

Dodd-Frank Act and applicable rules and regulations, our cash flow may become more volatile and less predictable, 

which could adversely affect our ability to plan for and fund capital expenditures.

The loss of one or more of our large oil and natural gas purchasers could have an adverse effect on our operations.

For the year ended December 31, 2013, three purchasers individually accounted for 10% or more of our oil 

and natural gas revenues and, in the aggregate, for 58% of such revenues. The loss of a large single purchaser could 

adversely impact the prices we receive or the transportation costs we incur.

Estimating our reserves, production and future net cash flows is difficult to do with any certainty.

Estimating quantities of proved oil and natural gas reserves is a complex process. It requires interpretations of 

available technical data and various assumptions, including assumptions relating to economic factors such as future 

commodity prices, production costs, severance and excise taxes, capital expenditures and workover and remedial 

costs, and the assumed effect of governmental rules and regulations. There are numerous uncertainties about when 

a property may have proved reserves as compared to potential or probable reserves, particularly relating to our 

tertiary recovery operations. Forecasting the amount of oil reserves recoverable from tertiary operations, and the 

production rates anticipated therefrom, requires estimates, one of the most significant being the oil recovery 

factor. Actual results most likely will vary from our estimates. Also, the use of a 10% discount factor for reporting 

purposes, as prescribed by the SEC, may not necessarily represent the most appropriate discount factor, given 

actual interest rates and risks to which our business, and the oil and natural gas industry in general, are subject. Any 

significant inaccuracies in these interpretations or assumptions, or changes of conditions, could result in a 

reduction of the quantities and net present value of our reserves.
30FORM 10-K PART I DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

The reserves data included in documents incorporated by reference represent estimates only. Quantities of proved 

reserves are estimated based on economic conditions, including first-day-of-the-month average oil and natural 

gas prices for the 12-month period preceding the date of the assessment. Our reserves and future cash flows may be 

subject to revisions based upon changes in economic conditions, including oil and natural gas prices, as well 

as due to production results, results of future development, operating and development costs, and other factors. 

Downward revisions of our reserves could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and operating results. 

Actual future prices and costs may be materially higher or lower than the prices and costs used in our estimates.

As of December 31, 2013, approximately 38% of our estimated proved reserves were undeveloped. Recovery of 

undeveloped reserves requires significant capital expenditures and may require successful drilling operations. The 

reserves data assumes that we can and will make these expenditures and conduct these operations successfully, but 

these assumptions may not be accurate, and these expenditures and operations may not occur.

Significant acquisitions or other transactions could require substantial external capital and could change our risk 

and property profile.

To finance acquisitions, we may need to substantially alter or increase our capitalization through the use of our 

bank credit facility, the issuance of debt or equity securities, the sale of production payments, or by other means. 

Such changes in capitalization could significantly affect our risk profile. Additionally, significant acquisitions or 

other transactions can change the character of our operations and business. The character of the new properties may 

be substantially different in operating or geological characteristics or geographic location from that of our 

existing properties.

Our results of operations could be negatively affected as a result of goodwill impairments.

At December 31, 2013, the Company’s goodwill balance totaled $1.3 billion and represented approximately 10.9% 

of our total assets. Goodwill is not amortized; rather it is tested for impairment annually during the fourth quarter 

and when facts or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the Company’s goodwill may be impaired, 

requiring an estimate of the fair values of the reporting unit’s assets and liabilities. An impairment of goodwill could 

significantly reduce earnings during the period in which the impairment occurs and would result in a 

corresponding reduction to goodwill and equity. See Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial 

Condition and Results of Operations – Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates – Impairment Assessment of Goodwill.

We may lose executive officers or other key management personnel, which could endanger the future success of 

our operations.

Our success depends to a significant degree upon the continued contributions of our executive officers and other 

key management personnel. Our employees, including our executive officers, are employed at will and do not 

have employment agreements. If one or more members of our management team dies, becomes disabled or 

voluntarily terminates employment with us, there is no assurance that we will find a suitable or comparable 

substitute. We believe that our future success depends, in large part, upon our ability to hire and retain highly skilled 

managerial personnel. Competition for persons with these skills is intense, and we cannot assure that we will be 

successful in attracting and retaining such skilled personnel. The loss of any of our management personnel could 

adversely affect our operations.

A cyber incident could occur and result in information theft, data corruption, operational disruption, and/or 

financial loss.

Our business has become increasingly dependent on digital technologies to conduct day-to-day operations, 

including certain of our exploration, development and production activities. We depend on digital technology to 

estimate quantities of oil and gas reserves, process and record financial and operating data, analyze seismic and 

drilling information and in many other activities related to our business. Our technologies, systems and networks may 

become the target of cyber attacks or information security breaches that could result in the disruption of our 

business operations. For example, unauthorized access to our seismic data, reserves information or other proprietary 

information could lead to data corruption, communication interruption, or other operational disruptions in our 

drilling or production operations.

To date we have not experienced any material losses relating to cyber attacks, but there can be no assurance that 

we will not suffer such losses in the future. As cyber threats continue to evolve, we may be required to expend 

significant additional resources to continue to modify or enhance our protective measures or to investigate and 

remediate any cyber vulnerabilities.
312013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART I

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

There are no unresolved written SEC staff comments regarding our periodic or current reports under the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 received 180 days or more before the end of the fiscal year to which this annual 

report on Form 10-K relates.

Item 2. Properties

Information regarding the Company’s properties called for by this item is included in Item 1, Business and Properties – 

Oil and Natural Gas Operations. We also have various operating leases for rental of office space, office and field 

equipment, and vehicles. See Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of 

Operations – Capital Resources and Liquidity – Off-Balance Sheet Agreements, and Note 11, Commitments and 

Contingencies, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for the future minimum rental payments. Such information 

is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

We are involved in various lawsuits, claims and regulatory proceedings incidental to our businesses. While we 

currently believe that the ultimate outcome of these proceedings, individually and in the aggregate, will not have a 

material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position or overall trends in results of operations or cash 

flows, litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties. If an unfavorable ruling in one of these lawsuits or proceedings 

were to occur, there exists the possibility of a material adverse impact on our net income in the period in which 

the ruling occurs. We provide accruals for litigation and claims if we determine that we may have a range of legal 

exposure that would require accrual.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.
32FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, 

Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases 

of Equity Securities

Common Stock Trading Summary

The following table summarizes the high and low reported sales prices on days in which there were trades of 

Denbury’s common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) for each quarterly period for the last two fiscal 

years. As of January 31, 2014, based on information from the Company’s transfer agent, American Stock Transfer 

and Trust Company, the number of holders of record of Denbury’s common stock was 1,687. On February 27, 2014, 

the last reported sale price of Denbury’s common stock, as reported on the NYSE, was $16.22 per share.

2013 2012

High Low High Low

First Quarter $19.11 $16.50 $20.91 $16.29

Second Quarter 19.48 16.68 19.50 13.46

Third Quarter 18.55 16.90 17.65 13.74

Fourth Quarter 19.44 15.98 16.76 14.32

On January 28, 2014, the Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.0625 per share on our common stock, to 

stockholders of record at the close of business on February 25, 2014. While we currently expect to continue to pay a 

regular quarterly dividend on our common stock, the declaration and payment of dividends are at the discretion of 

our Board of Directors and will depend on our results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements, level of 

indebtedness, and other factors deemed relevant by the Board of Directors. Our Bank Credit Agreement and senior 

subordinated note indentures require us to meet certain financial covenants at the time dividend payments are made. 

For further discussion, see Note 5, Long-Term Debt, to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Prior to 2014, we 

had not historically paid dividends on our common stock. No unregistered securities were sold by the Company 

during 2013.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

Approximate

Dollar Value of

Total Number of Shares that May

Shares Purchased Yet Be Purchased

Total Number Average as Part of Publicly Under the Plans

of Shares Price Paid Announced Plans or Programs

Month Purchased (1) per Share or Programs (in millions)(2)

October 2013 7,567 $18.83 — $109.3

November 2013 18,636 19.11 — 250.0

December 2013 4,801,979 16.22 4,793,461 422.3 (3)

Total 4,828,182 4,793,461

(1) Stock repurchases during the fourth quarter of 2013 other than those under our common stock repurchase program were made in connection 

with delivery by our employees of shares to us to satisfy their tax withholding requirements related to the vesting of restricted shares and the 

exercise of stock appreciation rights.

(2) In October 2011, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a common stock repurchase program for up to $500 million of Denbury’s 

common stock, which was increased by an additional $271.2 million in November 2012, $140.7 million in November 2013, and $250.0 million in 

December 2013, for a total authorization under the program of $1.162 billion. The program has no pre-established ending date and may be 

suspended or discontinued at any time. We are not obligated to repurchase any dollar amount or specific number of shares of our common 

stock under the program.

(3) Amounts shown do not give effect to the repurchase of an additional 11.8 million shares of Denbury common stock from January 1, 2014 through 

February 20, 2014 under the share repurchase program for $191.6 million, or $16.17 per share.

Between early October 2011, when we announced the commencement of a common share repurchase program, 

and December 31, 2013, we repurchased 47,559,266 shares of Denbury common stock (approximately 11.8% of our 

outstanding shares of common stock at September 30, 2011) for $739.7 million, or $15.55 per share.
332013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

Share Performance Graph

The following Performance Graph and related information shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or to be 

“filed” with the SEC, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filings under the 

Securities Act of 1933 or Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended, except to the extent that the Company 

specifically incorporates it by reference into such filings.

The following graph illustrates changes over the five-year period ended December 31, 2013, in cumulative total 

stockholder return on our common stock as measured against the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Index 

and the Dow Jones U.S. Exploration and Production Index. The graph tracks the performance of a $100 investment 

in our common stock and in each index (with the reinvestment of all dividends for the index securities) from 

December 31, 2008 to December 31, 2013.

Comparison of 5-Year Cumulative Total Return

$240

$220

$200

$180

$160

$140

$120

$100

$80

12/08 12/09 12/10 12/11 12/12 12/13

December 31,

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

$100.00 $135.53 $174.82 $138.28 $148.35 $150.46

 100.00 126.46 145.51 148.59 172.37 228.19

 100.00 140.56 164.09 157.22 166.37 219.35

Denbury Resources Inc.

S&P 500

Dow Jones U.S. Exploration and Production
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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per-share data or otherwise noted 2013 2012 2011 2010 (1) 2009

Consolidated Statements of Operations data:

Revenues and other income:

Oil, natural gas, and related product sales $ 2,466,234 $ 2,409,867 $ 2,269,151 $1,793,292 $ 866,709

Other 50,893 46,605 40,173 128,499 22,441

Total revenues and other income $ 2,517,127 $ 2,456,472 $ 2,309,324 $1,921,791 $ 889,150

Net income (loss) attributable to Denbury 

stockholders 409,597 525,360 573,333 271,723 (75,156)

Net income (loss) per common share:

Basic 1.12 1.36 1.45 0.73 (0.30)

Diluted 1.11 1.35 1.43 0.72 (0.30)

Weighted average number of common shares outstanding:

Basic 366,659 385,205 396,023 370,876 246,917

Diluted 369,877 388,938 400,958 376,255 246,917

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows data:

Cash provided by (used by):

Operating activities $ 1,361,195 $ 1,410,891 $ 1,204,814 $ 855,811 $ 530,599

Investing activities (1,275,309) (1,376,841) (1,605,958) (354,780) (969,714)

Financing activities (172,210) 45,768 37,968 (139,753) 442,637

Production (average daily):

Oil (Bbls) 66,286 66,837 60,736 59,918 36,951

Natural gas (Mcf) 23,742 29,109 29,542 78,057 68,086

BOE (6:1) 70,243 71,689 65,660 72,927 48,299

Unit sales prices – 

excluding impact of derivative settlements:

Oil (per Bbl) $ 100.67 $ 97.18 $ 100.03 $ 75.97 $ 57.75

Natural gas (per Mcf) 3.53 3.05 4.79 4.63 3.54

Unit sales prices – 

including impact of derivative settlements:

Oil (per Bbl) $ 100.64 $ 96.77 $ 98.90 $ 71.69 $ 68.63

Natural gas (per Mcf) 3.53 5.67 7.34 6.45 3.54

Costs per BOE:

Lease operating expenses (2) $ 28.50 $ 20.29 $ 21.17 $ 17.67 $ 17.85

Taxes other than income 6.87 6.10 6.16 4.53 2.45

General and administrative expenses 5.66 5.49 5.24 5.04 5.77

Depletion, depreciation and amortization 19.89 19.34 17.07 16.32 13.52

Proved oil and natural gas reserves: (3)

Oil (MBbls) 386,659 329,124 357,733 338,276 192,879

Natural gas (MMcf) 489,954 481,641 625,208 357,893 87,975

MBOE (6:1) 468,318 409,398 461,934 397,925 207,542

Proved carbon dioxide reserves:

Gulf Coast region (MMcf) (4) 6,070,619 6,073,175 6,685,412 7,085,131 6,302,836

Rocky Mountain region (MMcf) (5) 3,272,428 3,495,534 2,195,534 2,189,756 —

Proved helium reserves associated with 

Denbury’s production rights: (6)

Rocky Mountain region (MMcf) 13,251 12,712 12,004 7,159 —

Consolidated Balance Sheets data:

Total assets $11,788,737 $11,139,342 $10,184,424 $9,065,063 $4,269,978

Total long-term liabilities 5,812,132 5,408,032 4,716,659 4,105,011 1,903,951

Stockholders’ equity 5,301,406 5,114,889 4,806,498 4,380,707 1,972,237
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(1) On March 9, 2010, we acquired Encore Acquisition Company (“Encore”). We consolidated Encore’s results of operations beginning March 9, 2010.

(2) Lease operating expenses for the year ending December 31, 2013 include estimated costs to remediate an area of Delhi Field. Excluding these costs, 

lease operating expenses totaled $616.6 million and lease operating expense per BOE averaged $24.05 for the year ended December 31, 2013.

(3) Estimated proved reserves as of December 31, 2012 reflect the disposition of reserves associated with our Bakken area assets sold in late 2012 

(approximately 109 MMBOE). Year-end 2012 reserves reflect CCA reserves acquired in 2010 as part of the Encore merger, but do not include 

then-estimated reserves of approximately 42.2 MMBOE related to the CCA Acquisition, which closed during the first quarter of 2013. See Note 2, 

Acquisitions and Divestitures, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of these transactions.

(4) Proved CO2 reserves in the Gulf Coast region consist of reserves from our reservoirs at Jackson Dome and are presented on a gross or 8/8ths 

working interest basis, of which our net revenue interest was approximately 4.8 Tcf, 4.8 Tcf, 5.3 Tcf, 5.6 Tcf and 5.0 Tcf at December 31, 2013, 2012, 

2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and include reserves dedicated to volumetric production payments of 28.9 Bcf, 57.1 Bcf, 84.7 Bcf, 100.2 Bcf 

and 127.1 Bcf at December 31, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively. (See Supplemental CO2 and Helium Disclosures (Unaudited), to the 

Consolidated Financial Statements.)

(5) Proved CO2 reserves in the Rocky Mountain region consist of our reserves at Riley Ridge (presented on a gross working interest basis) and our 

overriding royalty interest in LaBarge Field, of which our net revenue interest was approximately 2.9 Tcf, 2.9 Tcf, 1.6 Tcf and 0.9 Tcf at December 31, 

2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

(6) Reserves associated with helium production rights include helium reserves located in the acreage in the Rocky Mountain region for which we have 

the contractual right to extract the helium on behalf of the U.S. government, who owns the helium. Our extraction agreement with the U.S. 

government gives us the ability to produce the helium on behalf of the U.S. government in exchange for a fee, which amount fluctuates based upon 

the realized sales proceeds we receive for the helium. The estimate of helium reserves is reduced to reflect the estimated fee we will remit to the 

U.S. government. Our extraction agreement with the U.S. government has a minimum term extending 20 years from first production and continuing 

thereafter until either party terminates the contract. Reserve volumes presented herein assume that the term of this helium extraction agreement 

continues beyond 20 years, given the benefit to both parties to the agreement.
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis 

of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Financial Statements 

and Notes thereto included in Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Information. Our discussion and 

analysis includes forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties and should be read in conjunction 

with Risk Factors under Item 1A of this Form 10-K, along with Forward-Looking Information at the end of this section 

for information on the risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to be materially different from our 

forward-looking statements.

OVERVIEW

Denbury is a growing, dividend-paying, domestic oil and natural gas company. Our primary focus is on enhanced 

oil recovery utilizing CO2, and our operations are focused in two key operating areas: the Gulf Coast and Rocky 

Mountain regions. Our goal is to increase the value of acquired properties through a combination of exploitation, 

drilling and proven engineering extraction practices, with the most significant emphasis relating to tertiary 

recovery operations.

Adoption of Growth and Income Strategy. In the fourth quarter of 2013, following a comprehensive review of our 

long-term plans, we announced our intention to expand our shareholder value proposition to include both growth 

and income. Our focused strategy, significant inventory of development projects and proven track record of value 

creation give us confidence that we can deliver a long-term cash flow profile to stockholders that is unique among 

independent oil companies. To enable our shift to a growth and income company in 2014, we modified our previous 

development timeline for future capital projects principally in the Rocky Mountain region, making our anticipated 

capital spending levels more consistent over the next five to ten years. This smoothing effect on our anticipated 

capital expenditures allows us to accelerate our expected free cash flow. These changes reduce our capital spending 

on major infrastructure projects over the next few years, accelerating our plan of providing a return to our 

shareholders through a dividend, while still growing our oil and natural gas reserves and production at nearly the 

previously anticipated growth rate.

With the declaration of the first cash dividend in our history on January 28, 2014, we have begun this program of 

distributing free cash flow to stockholders. Our first quarterly dividend of $0.0625 per common share (a rate of 

$0.25 per share on an annualized basis) will be paid on March 25, 2014 to shareholders of record as of the close of 

business on February 25, 2014. Based on our current financial projections and commodity price outlook, we expect 

to grow our regular annual dividend rate to between $0.50 per share and $0.60 per share in 2015 and at a sustainable 

rate thereafter. All dividends are subject to declaration by Denbury’s Board of Directors.

2013 Operating Highlights. Our net income was $409.6 million, or $1.11 per diluted common share, during 2013, 

compared to net income of $525.4 million, or $1.35 per diluted common share, during 2012. Although we had a 

$56.4 million increase in oil and natural gas revenues in 2013 compared to 2012 levels, driven by higher realized 

prices, this increase in revenues was more than offset by increases in expenses, including (1) a $198.2 million 

increase in lease operating expense in the current year, $114.0 million of which constitutes remediation costs incurred 

or estimated for an area of Delhi Field, (2) an increase of $45.9 million in commodity derivatives expense, $27.3 

million of which relates to a change in the noncash fair value adjustments on our commodity derivatives, a non-GAAP 

measure, between the two periods and (3) a $44.7 million loss on early extinguishment of debt. These matters 

are further described throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis. Our cash flow from operations was 

$1.4 billion in both 2013 and 2012.

During 2013, our oil and natural gas production, which was 94% oil, averaged 70,243 BOE/d, compared to 

71,689 BOE/d produced during 2012. This slight decline in production was primarily due to the inclusion of 11 months 

of production in 2012 from the Bakken area assets sold in the Bakken Exchange Transaction (defined below), versus 

only nine months of production in 2013 from the purchase of additional interests in the Cedar Creek Anticline (“CCA”). 

This decline was offset in part by a 9% increase in our tertiary oil production. See Results of Operations – 

Production for more information.
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Our average realized oil price per barrel, excluding the impact of commodity derivative contracts, was $100.67 per 

Bbl during 2013, or about 4% higher than our average realized oil price of $97.18 per Bbl during 2012. Our realized 

oil price during 2013 was $2.62 per Bbl above NYMEX oil prices compared to $2.99 per Bbl above NYMEX oil prices 

in 2012. The lower premium to NYMEX in 2013 is primarily due to a decline in Louisiana Light Sweet (“LLS”) oil 

pricing relative to NYMEX prices, which LLS-to-NYMEX differential averaged a positive $11.10 in 2013 compared 

to positive $16.46 in 2012, partially offset by improved differentials in the Rocky Mountain region, which 

were positively impacted by the sale of the Bakken area assets late in 2012, which assets generally sold at a more 

significant discount to NYMEX than the CCA assets we acquired in early 2013. See Results of Operations – Oil and 

Natural Gas Revenues below for more information.

Cedar Creek Anticline Acquisition. On March 27, 2013, we closed our acquisition of producing assets in the CCA 

of Montana and North Dakota in a purchase from a wholly-owned subsidiary of ConocoPhillips Company 

(“ConocoPhillips”) for $1.0 billion in cash, after final closing adjustments (the “CCA Acquisition”). We funded the 

acquisition with a portion of the cash proceeds from the late-2012 Bakken Exchange Transaction. The assets 

purchased include both additional interests in certain of our then-existing operated fields in CCA, as well as 

operating interests in other CCA fields. In conjunction with this acquisition, we added 42.2 MMBOE of estimated 

proved reserves.

Rocky Mountain Tertiary Operations Startup. In late 2012, we completed construction of the first section of the 

20-inch Greencore Pipeline in Wyoming, our first CO2 pipeline in the Rocky Mountain region, and received our first 

CO2 deliveries from the Lost Cabin gas plant in central Wyoming during the first quarter of 2013. In December 2012, 

we completed the three-mile CO2 pipeline required to deliver CO2 from our source at LaBarge Field to Grieve Field 

in Wyoming, and began injecting CO2 into Grieve Field during the first quarter of 2013. We currently expect tertiary 

production from Grieve Field to commence in 2015. We started injections at our Bell Creek Field in Montana during 

the second quarter of 2013, with the first tertiary oil production from this field during the third quarter of 2013. 

During the first quarter of 2014, we completed the pipeline interconnect between a third party’s existing CO2 pipeline 

and our Greencore pipeline, which will allow us to transport additional volumes of CO2 to Bell Creek Field.

Riley Ridge Plant. During the fourth quarter of 2013, we placed our Riley Ridge gas processing facility in Wyoming 

into service.

Proved Oil and Natural Gas Reserves. Our estimated proved oil and gas reserves were 468.3 MMBOE as of 

December 31, 2013, compared to 409.4 MMBOE at December 31, 2012. We added total proved reserves of 84.6 MMBOE 

during 2013, including estimated proved tertiary reserves of 34.0 MMBbls at Bell Creek Field during the fourth 

quarter, 42.2 MMBOE from the acquisition of additional interests in CCA during the first quarter and 8.4 MMBOE of 

other additions or revisions.

Addition of Proved CO2 Reserves. During the year ended December 31, 2013, we added approximately 350 Bcf 

of estimated proved CO2 reserves as a result of successful drilling in the Jackson Dome area, our primary source of 

CO2 for the Gulf Coast region, replacing our 2013 CO2 production.

Debt Refinancing. In February 2013, we issued $1.2 billion of 45/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2023 (the 

“2023 Notes”). The net proceeds of approximately $1.18 billion were used to repurchase or redeem our 91⁄2% Senior 

Subordinated Notes due 2016 (the “91⁄2% Notes”) and our 93⁄4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 (the 

“93⁄4% Notes”), and to pay down a portion of outstanding borrowings on our bank credit facility. We recognized a 

loss associated with the redemption of our 91⁄2% Notes and 93⁄4% Notes of $44.7 million during the year ended 

December 31, 2013, which is included in our Consolidated Statement of Operations under the caption “Loss on early 

extinguishment of debt”. See Note 5, Long-Term Debt, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional details 

surrounding the repurchase and redemption of our 91⁄2% Notes and 93⁄4% Notes.

Delhi Field Release. In June 2013, a release of well fluids, consisting of a mixture of carbon dioxide, saltwater, 

natural gas and oil, was discovered and reported within an area of the Denbury-operated Delhi Field located in 

northern Louisiana. Denbury immediately took remedial action to stop the release and contain and recover well fluids 

in the affected area. We have determined that the release originated from one or more wells in the affected area 

of the field that we believed had been previously and properly plugged and abandoned by a prior operator of the field. 

We completed our remediation efforts during the fourth quarter of 2013; however, we will continue to monitor the 

area to ensure the remediation efforts were successful.

During the year ended December 31, 2013, we recorded $114.0 million of lease operating expenses related to this 

release in our Consolidated Statement of Operations. These expenses represent our current estimate of the costs 

related to the release, including remediation costs, based on actual costs incurred through December 31, 2013 of 

approximately $92.0 million, plus the Company’s estimate of future costs related to the satisfaction of known claims 
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and liabilities. Due to the possibility of new claims being asserted in the future in connection with the release, 

as well as variability in the estimated cost to continue to monitor the area to ensure the remediation efforts were 

successful, we cannot reliably determine at this time the full extent of the costs that may ultimately be incurred 

by the Company related to this release. Although the Company maintains insurance policies that we believe cover 

certain of the costs, damages and claims related to the release, and we currently and preliminarily estimate that 

one-third to two-thirds of our current cost estimate may be recoverable under such insurance policies, we have not 

reached any agreement with our insurance carriers as to recoverable amounts, and accordingly have not recognized 

any insurance recoveries in our financial statements as of December 31, 2013. See Note 11, Commitments and 

Contingencies, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion.

Costs incurred as a result of the release, together with lower production levels during the second half of 2013, are 

currently expected to delay into 2014 the effective date of the approximate 25% reversionary interest to the third 

party that sold the Delhi Field interest to us, the specific timing of which is dependent upon, among other things, the 

amount and timing of any potential insurance proceeds received and their application to the calculation of “total 

net cash flow” which determines the reversionary date, as well as oil prices, production, and production costs. We 

currently estimate that the reversionary date could occur as late as the fourth quarter of 2014.

Bakken Exchange Transaction. In late 2012, we closed a sale and exchange transaction with Exxon Mobil 

Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. (collectively, “ExxonMobil”) under which we sold to 

ExxonMobil our Bakken area assets in North Dakota and Montana in exchange for (1) $1.3 billion in cash, (2) operating 

interests in Hartzog Draw and Webster fields in Wyoming and Texas, respectively, and (3) an overriding royalty 

interest equivalent to an approximate one-third ownership interest in ExxonMobil’s CO2 reserves in LaBarge Field in 

Wyoming (the “Bakken Exchange Transaction”). The magnitude of the Bakken Exchange Transaction and the CCA 

Acquisition discussed above impact the comparability of our 2012 and 2013 financial results in many ways, 

including oil and natural gas production, revenues, and operating expenses. Our financial results for the year ended 

December 31, 2013 include the results from the CCA Acquisition beginning late in the first quarter of 2013.

CAPITAL RESOURCES AND LIQUIDITY

Overview. Our primary sources of capital and liquidity are our cash flows from operations and borrowings under 

our bank credit facility. Our business is capital intensive, and it is common for oil and natural gas companies our size 

to reinvest most or all of their cash flow into developing new assets. We generally attempt to balance our capital 

spending with cash flow from operations, and we have repurchased 59.4 million shares of our common stock 

(approximately 14.8% of our outstanding shares at September 30, 2011) since commencement of our share repurchase 

program in October 2011 through February 20, 2014. During 2013, we purchased $277.8 million of our common stock, 

which was funded with a combination of cash flow from operations and incremental borrowings. In early 2013, we 

refinanced two of our high-rate subordinated notes with ten-year notes carrying an interest rate of 45/8%, lowering 

our interest expense and reducing our outstanding bank borrowings with a portion of the proceeds. We project that 

we will have more than adequate capital resources and liquidity for the foreseeable future because (1) we have 

refinanced our bank debt with low-cost subordinated debt, leaving significant borrowing capacity on our bank line; 

(2) we have oil hedges in place for a substantial portion of our forecasted proven oil production for the next two 

years, including fixed price swap derivative contracts for 2014 (see Note 9, Commodity Derivative Contracts, to the 

Consolidated Financial Statements for further details regarding the prices and volumes of our commodity derivative 

contracts); (3) we expect to fund our projected capital expenditures for the next few years with cash flow from 

operations, which means that our expected growth in production and cash flow will gradually reduce our leverage 

(assuming oil prices are relatively consistent with current levels); (4) we expect to fund our planned dividends 

with cash flow from operations, (5) depending on the amount of shares of our common stock we repurchase in 

2014, we might defer a portion of our planned 2014 capital expenditures, and (6) we can significantly reduce 

our capital expenditures for extended periods of time if necessary and still maintain current production levels as a 

result of our unique EOR operations.
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2014 Capital Spending. We anticipate that our 2014 capital budget, excluding acquisitions, will be $1.0 billion, 

plus approximately $125 million in capitalized internal acquisition, exploration and development costs; capitalized 

interest; and pre-production costs associated with new tertiary floods. This combined 2014 capital budget amount of 

$1.125 billion, excluding acquisitions, is comprised of the following:

• $680 million allocated for tertiary oil field expenditures;

• $220 million allocated for other areas, primarily non-tertiary oil field expenditures;

• $60 million for pipeline construction;

• $40 million to be spent on CO2 sources; and

• $125 million for other capital items such as capitalized internal acquisition, exploration and development costs; 

capitalized interest; and pre-production start-up costs associated with new tertiary floods.

Based on oil and natural gas commodity futures prices in early February 2014, our current production forecast, and 

our fixed-price swaps covering a substantial portion of our anticipated 2014 production, we believe our anticipated 

2014 cash flow from operations should be adequate to cover our combined 2014 capital budget and planned dividend 

payments. If prices were to decrease or changes in operating results were to cause us to have a significant 

reduction in anticipated 2014 cash flows, we have ample availability on our bank credit facility to cover any potential 

shortfall, and we also have the ability to reduce our capital expenditures.

If we reduce our capital spending due to lower cash flows or to fund share repurchases, any sizeable reduction 

could lower our anticipated production levels in future years. For 2014 and some future years, we have contracted for 

certain capital expenditures; therefore, we cannot eliminate all of our capital commitments without penalties (see 

Commitments and Obligations for further information regarding these commitments).

Stock Repurchase Program. Our Board of Directors has approved a common share repurchase program for 

up to $1.162 billion of Denbury common stock. As of February 20, 2014, we had spent $931.2 million to repurchase 

59.4 million shares of our common stock under this program. Our share repurchases are based on various 

parameters and, therefore, may be less than the remaining approved balance under the program, for which there 

is no set expiration date. We anticipate that repurchases during 2014 will be primarily funded with excess cash flow 

from operations or with borrowings under our bank credit facility or a reduction in capital spend. See Note 7, 

Stockholders’ Equity, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion.

Bank Credit Facility. We have a $1.6 billion bank credit facility that is secured by substantially all of our oil and 

natural gas properties. As part of our semiannual bank review in late October 2013, the borrowing base for our bank 

credit facility was reaffirmed at $1.6 billion. Our next borrowing base redetermination is scheduled on or around 

May 1, 2014. We currently do not anticipate any reduction in our borrowing base as part of that redetermination, and 

we believe, based on current commodity prices and our proved reserves, that we could obtain lender approval to 

significantly increase the borrowing base under our bank credit facility above the current $1.6 billion level if we 

desired to do so. As of February 21, 2014, we had $645.0 million outstanding under our $1.6 billion bank credit facility 

and estimated cash of approximately $85.4 million, leaving us significant liquidity to fund capital expenditures and 

future dividends.

2014 Commencement of Payment of Dividends. On January 28, 2014, our Board of Directors declared a dividend 

of $0.0625 per share on our common stock, to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 25, 2014. 

We expect this dividend payment to be approximately $22 million and to be paid on March 25, 2014. The declaration 

and payment of future dividends is at the discretion of our Board of Directors, and the amount thereof will depend 

on our results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements, level of indebtedness, and other factors deemed 

relevant by the Board of Directors.
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Capital Expenditure Summary. The following table summarizes our 2013 capital expenditures by project area. 

Amounts include accrued capital expenditures:

 Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Capital expenditures by project

Tertiary oil fields $ 534,878 $ 449,226 $ 487,383

Non-tertiary fields 224,556 543,162 558,545

Capitalized interest and internal costs (1) 114,197 93,663 105,849

 Oil and natural gas capital expenditures 873,631 1,086,051 1,151,777

CO2 pipelines 57,136 181,873 163,464

CO2 sources (2) 163,710 238,613 158,303

CO2 capitalized interest and other 49,021 47,628 27,181

 Capital expenditures before acquisitions 1,143,498 1,554,165 1,500,725

Less: recoveries from sale/leaseback transactions — (35,102) (70,332)

 Net capital expenditures excluding acquisitions 1,143,498 1,519,063 1,430,393

Property acquisitions (3) 1,032,218 942,359 250,084

 Capital expenditures, net of sale/leaseback transactions $2,175,716 $2,461,422 $1,680,477

(1) Includes capitalized internal acquisition, exploration and development costs; capitalized interest; and pre-production start-up costs associated 

with new tertiary floods.

(2) Includes capital expenditures related to the Riley Ridge gas processing facility.

(3) Property acquisitions during the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 include capital expenditures of approximately $1.0 billion and 

$0.2 billion, respectively, related to acquisitions during the period that are not reflected as an Investing Activity on our Consolidated Statements 

of Cash Flows due to the movement of proceeds through a qualified intermediary to facilitate like-kind-exchange treatment under federal income 

tax rules. In addition, property acquisitions in 2012 shown above include capital expenditures of approximately $0.6 billion representing the 

aggregate fair value of net assets acquired, excluding cash, in the Bakken Exchange Transaction. See Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures, to the 

Consolidated Financial Statements.

Our 2013 capital expenditures, other than those for property acquisitions, were funded with $1.4 billion of cash flow 

from operations, and those for property acquisitions were funded with proceeds from the Bakken Exchange 

Transaction. Our 2012 capital expenditures were funded primarily with $1.4 billion of cash flow from operations, and 

our property acquisitions were funded with proceeds from the sale of non-core assets and the Bakken Exchange 

Transaction. Our 2011 capital expenditures, excluding the Riley Ridge acquisition, were funded with $1.2 billion of 

cash flow from operations and cash on hand at the beginning of the period. The Riley Ridge acquisition was 

funded with incremental bank debt.
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Commitments and Obligations. A summary of our obligations at December 31, 2013 is presented in the 

following table:

Payments Due by Period

In thousands 2014 2015 and 2016 2017 and 2018 Thereafter Total

Contractual obligations:

Bank Credit Agreement $ — $ 340,000 $ — $ — $ 340,000

Estimated interest payments on bank credit 

 facility and subordinated debt 174,491 341,514 326,535 411,467 1,254,007

Subordinated debt 1,072 485 2,250 2,596,273 2,600,080

Operating lease obligations 11,695 25,052 25,504 67,832 130,083

Pipeline and capital lease obligations 62,929 123,073 106,159 280,272 572,433

Other obligations (1) 168,938 220,139 193,609 750,835 1,333,521

Commodity derivative liabilities (2) 53,822 3,413 — — 57,235

Asset retirement obligations (3) 5,307 2,933 107 493,880 502,227

 Total contractual obligations $478,254 $1,056,609 $654,164 $4,600,559 $6,789,586

(1) Represents future cash commitments under contracts in place as of December 31, 2013, primarily for pipe, anthropogenic CO2 purchase contracts, 

drilling rig services and well-related costs. As is common in our industry, we commit to make certain expenditures on a regular basis as part 

of our ongoing development and exploration program. These commitments generally relate to projects that occur during the subsequent several 

months and are usually part of our normal operating expenses or part of our capital budget (see 2014 Capital Spending above). In certain cases we 

have the ability to terminate contracts for equipment or supplies, in which case we would be liable only for the cost incurred by the vendor up to 

that point; however, as we currently do not anticipate canceling those contracts, these amounts include our estimated payments under those 

contracts. We also have recurring expenditures for such things as accounting, engineering and legal fees; software maintenance; subscriptions; and 

other overhead-type items. Normally these expenditures do not change materially on an aggregate basis from year to year and are part of our 

general and administrative expenses. We have not attempted to estimate the amounts of these types of recurring expenditures in this table, as 

most could be quickly canceled with regard to any specific vendor, even though the expense itself may be required for our ongoing normal 

operations. Other obligations exclude approximately $980 million of potential costs for periods after 2017 to buy anthropogenic CO2 in accordance 

with purchase contracts under which we may not become obligated, as construction of the plants which may emit CO2 has not yet begun.

(2) Commodity derivative liabilities represent the fair value of our commodity derivatives presented as liabilities in our Consolidated Balance Sheet as 

of December 31, 2013. The ultimate settlement amounts of our derivative obligations are unknown because they are subject to continuing market 

fluctuations. See further discussion of our commodity derivative contracts and their market price sensitivities in Market Risk Management below in 

this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and in Note 9, Commodity Derivative Contracts, to the 

Consolidated Financial Statements.

(3) Represents the estimated future asset retirement obligations on an undiscounted basis. The present value of the discounted asset retirement 

obligation is $126.3 million, as determined under the Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations topic of the FASC, and is further discussed in 

Note 3, Asset Retirement Obligations, to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements. We have several operating leases relating to office space and other minor 

equipment leases. At December 31, 2013, we had a total of $11.7 million of letters of credit outstanding under our 

bank credit facility. Additionally, we have obligations that are not currently recorded on our balance sheet relating 

to various obligations for development and exploratory expenditures that arise from our normal capital expenditure 

program or from other transactions common to our industry. These obligations are further described in 

Commitments and Obligations above. In addition, in order to recover our undeveloped proved reserves, we must also 

fund the associated future development costs estimated in our proved reserve reports. For a further discussion 

of our future development costs, see Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited), to the Consolidated 

Financial Statements.

Financial Overview of Tertiary Operations

As discussed in Item 1, Business and Properties – Oil and Natural Gas Operations – Enhanced Oil Recovery 

Overview above, our tertiary operations represent a significant portion of our overall operations and have become our 

primary strategic focus. The economics of a tertiary field and the related impact on our financial statements differ 

from a conventional oil and gas play and are explained further below.

While it is difficult to accurately forecast future production, we believe our tertiary recovery operations provide 

significant long-term production growth potential at reasonable rates of return, with relatively low risk. Our rate of 

return from our tertiary operations has generally been higher than our rate of return on traditional oil and gas 

operations. Generally, finding and development costs are lower and operating costs are higher than traditional oil 

and gas operations. We have been developing tertiary oil properties for over 14 years, and the financial impact 

of such operations is reflected in our historical financial statements. The summary below highlights our observations 

regarding how tertiary operations have impacted our financial statements.
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Finding and Development Costs. We currently expect finding and development costs (including future 

development and abandonment costs but excluding CO2 pipeline infrastructure capital expenditures) over the life of 

each field to be lower than the industry average costs for other oil properties. See the definition of finding and 

development costs in the Glossary and Selected Abbreviations.

Timing of Capital Costs. There is a significant delay between the initial capital expenditures on tertiary oil fields 

and the resulting production increases. We must build facilities, and often a CO2 pipeline to the field, before CO2

flooding can commence, and it usually takes six to twelve months before the field responds to the injection of CO2

(i.e., oil production commences). Further, we may spend significant amounts of capital before we can recognize any 

proved reserves from fields we flood and, even after a field has proved reserves, significant amounts of additional 

capital will usually be required to fully develop the field.

Recognition of Proved Reserves. In order to recognize proved tertiary oil reserves, we must either demonstrate 

production resulting from the tertiary process or the field must be analogous to an existing tertiary flood. The 

magnitude of proved reserves that we can book in any given year will depend on our progress with new floods, the 

timing of the production response from new floods and the performance of our existing floods. Typically, a 

high percentage of the potential reserves for a tertiary field are recognized when a production response is initially 

observed, and generally only modest increases are made thereafter.

Production Rates. The production growth rate at a tertiary flood can vary from quarter to quarter, as a tertiary 

field’s production may increase rapidly when wells respond to the CO2, plateau temporarily, and then resume growth 

as additional areas of the field are developed. During a tertiary flood life cycle, facility capacity is increased from time 

to time, which occasionally requires temporary shutdowns during installation, thereby causing temporary declines 

in production. We also find it difficult to precisely predict when any given well will respond to the injected CO2, as the 

CO2 seldom travels through the rock consistently due to heterogeneity in the oil-bearing formations. We find all of 

these fluctuations to be normal, and generally expect oil production at a tertiary field to increase over time until the 

entire field is developed, albeit sometimes in inconsistent patterns. 

Operating Costs. Tertiary projects may be more expensive to operate than traditional industry operations because 

of the cost of injecting and recycling the CO2 (primarily due to the cost of the CO2 and the significant energy 

requirements to re-compress the CO2 back into a near-liquid state for re-injection purposes). The costs of our CO2

and the electricity required to recycle and inject this CO2 comprise almost half of our typical tertiary operating 

expenses. Since these costs vary along with commodity and commercial electricity prices, they are highly variable 

and will increase in a high-commodity-price environment and decrease in a low-price environment. Most of our CO2

operating costs are allocated to our tertiary oil fields and recorded as lease operating expenses (following the 

commencement of tertiary oil production) at the time the CO2 is injected. These costs have historically represented 

approximately 20% to 25% of the total operating costs for our tertiary operations. Since we expense all of the 

operating costs to produce and inject our CO2 (following the commencement of tertiary oil production), operating 

costs per barrel for a new flood will be higher at the inception of CO2 injection projects because of minimal related oil 

production at that time.
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Operating Results Table

Certain of our operating results and statistics for each of the last three years are included in the following table.

 Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per share and unit data 2013 2012 2011

Operating results

Net income $ 409,597 $ 525,360 $ 573,333

Net income per common share – basic 1.12 1.36 1.45

Net income per common share – diluted 1.11 1.35 1.43

Net cash provided by operating activities 1,361,195 1,410,891 1,204,814

Average daily production volumes

Bbls/d 66,286 66,837 60,736

Mcf/d 23,742 29,109 29,542

BOE/d 70,243 71,689 65,660

Operating revenues

Oil sales $2,435,625 $2,377,337 $2,217,529

Natural gas sales 30,609 32,530 51,622

 Total oil and natural gas sales $2,466,234 $2,409,867 $2,269,151

Commodity derivative contracts (1)

Cash receipt (payment) on settlements of commodity derivatives $ (662) $ 17,880 $ 2,377

Noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives (2) (40,362) (13,046) 50,120

 Commodity derivatives income (expense) $ (41,024) $ 4,834 $ 52,497

Unit prices – excluding impact of derivative settlements

Oil price per Bbl $ 100.67 $ 97.18 $ 100.03

Natural gas price per Mcf 3.53 3.05 4.79

Unit prices – including impact of derivative settlements (1)

Oil price per Bbl $ 100.64 $ 96.77 $ 98.90

Natural gas price per Mcf 3.53 5.67 7.34

Oil and natural gas operating expenses

Lease operating expenses (3) $ 730,574 $ 532,359 $ 507,397

Marketing expenses, net of third-party purchases 37,754 41,936 26,047

Production and ad valorem taxes 162,791 149,919 139,170

Oil and natural gas operating revenues and expenses per BOE

Oil and natural gas revenues $ 96.19 $ 91.85 $ 94.68

Lease operating expenses (3) 28.50 20.29 21.17

Marketing expenses, net of third-party purchases 1.47 1.60 1.09

Production and ad valorem taxes 6.35 5.71 5.81

CO2 sources – revenues and expenses

CO2 sales and transportation fees $ 27,950 $ 26,453 $ 22,711

CO2 discovery and operating expenses (4) (16,916) (14,694) (14,258)

 CO2 revenue and expenses, net $ 11,034 $ 11,759 $ 8,453

(1) See also Market Risk Management below for information concerning our commodity derivative transactions.

(2) Noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives is a non-GAAP measure and is different from “Commodity derivatives expense 

(income)” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations in that the noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives represents only the 

net change between periods of the fair market values of commodity derivative positions, and excludes the impact of cash settlements on 

commodity derivatives during the period, which were cash receipts (payments) on settlements of $(0.7) million, $17.9 million and $2.4 million for the 

years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. We believe that noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives is a useful 

supplemental disclosure to “Commodity derivatives expense (income)” in order to differentiate noncash fair market value adjustments from cash 

settlements on commodity derivatives during the period. This supplemental disclosure is widely used within the industry and by securities 

analysts, banks and credit rating agencies in calculating EBITDA and in adjusting net income to present those measures on a comparative basis 

across companies, as well as to assess compliance with certain debt covenants. Noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives is not a 

measure of financial or operating performance under GAAP, nor should it be considered in isolation or as a substitute for “Commodity 

derivatives expense (income)” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. See also the Glossary and Selected Abbreviations for the definition of 

noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives.

(3) Excluding estimated lease operating expenses recorded during 2013 to remediate an area of Delhi Field, lease operating expenses totaled 

$616.6 million and lease operating expense per BOE averaged $24.05 for the year ended December 31, 2013.

(4) Includes $0.8 million, $9.5 million, and $7.5 million of exploratory costs incurred in 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.
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Production

Average daily production by area for 2013, 2012 and 2011, and for each of the quarters of 2013, is shown below:

Average Daily Production (BOE/d)

2013 Quarters

First Second Third Fourth Year Ended December 31,

Operating Area Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter 2013 2012 2011

Tertiary oil production

Gulf Coast region

Mature properties:

 Brookhaven 2,305 2,339 2,224 2,026 2,223 2,692 3,255

 Eucutta 2,636 2,642 2,504 2,280 2,514 2,868 3,121

 Mallalieu 2,116 2,157 2,042 1,886 2,050 2,338 2,693

 Other mature properties (1) 7,800 7,233 6,761 6,287 7,016 7,707 8,955

Total mature properties 14,857 14,371 13,531 12,479 13,803 15,605 18,024

Delhi 5,827 5,479 4,517 4,793 5,149 4,315 2,739

Hastings 3,956 4,010 3,699 4,270 3,984 2,188 —

Heidelberg 3,943 4,149 4,553 5,206 4,466 3,763 3,448

Oyster Bayou 2,252 2,518 3,213 3,869 2,968 1,388 5

Tinsley 8,222 8,225 7,951 7,809 8,051 7,947 6,743

 Total Gulf Coast region 39,057 38,752 37,464 38,426 38,421 35,206 30,959

Rocky Mountain region

Bell Creek — — 49 177 56 — —

 Total Rocky Mountain region — — 49 177 56 — —

Total tertiary oil production 39,057 38,752 37,513 38,603 38,477 35,206 30,959

Non-tertiary oil and gas production

Gulf Coast region

Mississippi 3,013 2,367 2,692 2,711 2,695 3,930 5,486

Texas 6,692 6,932 6,548 5,994 6,540 4,737 4,133

Other 1,153 1,108 1,087 1,041 1,097 1,235 1,336

 Total Gulf Coast region 10,858 10,407 10,327 9,746 10,332 9,902 10,955

Rocky Mountain region

Cedar Creek Anticline (2) 8,745 19,935 18,872 18,601 16,572 8,503 8,968

Other 5,163 4,958 4,819 4,516 4,862 3,231 2,968

 Total Rocky Mountain region 13,908 24,893 23,691 23,117 21,434 11,734 11,936

Total non-tertiary production 24,766 35,300 34,018 32,863 31,766 21,636 22,891

Total continuing production 63,823 74,052 71,531 71,466 70,243 56,842 53,850

Properties disposed:

Bakken area assets (3) — — — — — 14,395 9,340

Non-core asset divestitures (4) — — — — — 452 2,470

 Total production 63,823 74,052 71,531 71,466 70,243 71,689 65,660

(1) Other mature properties include Cranfield, Little Creek, Lockhart Crossing, Martinville, McComb and Soso fields.

(2) Beginning March 27, 2013, amounts include production from our purchase of additional interests in the CCA on that date.

(3) Includes production from certain Bakken area assets sold in the fourth quarter of 2012.

(4) Includes production from certain non-core Gulf Coast assets sold in late February 2012 and certain non-operated assets in the Greater Aneth 

Field in the Paradox Basin of Utah sold in April 2012.
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Total Production

We closed on our Bakken Exchange Transaction late in 2012 and utilized the proceeds from that transaction to 

purchase additional interests in CCA in late March 2013. Accordingly, total production decreased 1,446 BOE/d (2%) 

between 2012 and 2013, primarily due to the inclusion in 2012 of 11 months of production from our Bakken area 

assets, compared to the inclusion of only nine months of additional CCA production in our 2013 results. This 

decline in production due to timing of transactions was partially offset by a 9% increase in tertiary production.

Total production increased 6,029 BOE/d (9%) between 2011 and 2012. The increases were primarily due to 

production increases from our tertiary oil fields and increases from our Bakken area assets (which were sold late in 

the fourth quarter of 2012), offset by normal declines in most of our other non-tertiary properties.

Our production during 2013 was 94% oil compared to 93% for 2012 and 2011. The slight increase in oil production 

percentage in 2013 is due to increases in our tertiary production, which is primarily oil, as well as the sale of 

our Bakken area assets, which had a higher percentage of natural gas production than the CCA assets acquired. 

Tertiary Production

Oil production from our tertiary operations increased to record levels during 2013, averaging 38,477 Bbls/d, a 

9% increase over our 2012 tertiary production level of 35,206 Bbls/d, primarily due to production growth in response 

to continued field development and expansion of facilities in our tertiary floods at Delhi, Hastings, Heidelberg 

and Oyster Bayou fields. Offsetting these 2013 production gains were production declines in our more mature 

tertiary fields. Tertiary production during the fourth quarter of 2013 increased 3% over third-quarter levels, 

largely due to continued production growth at Heidelberg and Oyster Bayou fields, the completion of planned 

maintenance activities at Hastings Field, and increased CO2 injections into areas surrounding the impacted area of 

Delhi Field (see Overview – Delhi Field Release and Note 11, Commitments and Contingencies, to the Consolidated 

Financial Statements for further discussion of this matter). We started injections at our Bell Creek Field in 

Montana during the second quarter of 2013, with the first tertiary oil production from this field during the third 

quarter of 2013. The ramp up of production at Bell Creek Field has been slower than anticipated due to the 

delayed completion of a CO2 pipeline interconnect originally scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2013 and the 

interruptions in CO2 delivery from the Lost Cabin gas plant. With the completion of the pipeline interconnect 

during the first quarter of 2014, we have increased CO2 injections at Bell Creek Field and expect production at the 

field to increase at a faster pace during 2014.

Oil production from our tertiary operations averaged 35,206 Bbls/d during 2012, a 14% increase over our 2011 

tertiary production level of 30,959 Bbls/d, primarily due to production growth in response to continued expansion of 

the tertiary floods at Tinsley and Delhi fields and production at our Oyster Bayou and Hastings fields, which 

experienced their initial tertiary production response in late December 2011 and early January 2012, respectively. 

Offsetting 2012 tertiary production gains were declines in our more mature tertiary fields.

Non-Tertiary Production

Continuing production from our non-tertiary operations, which excludes production from our Bakken and other 

non-core assets divested during 2012, increased to an average of 31,766 BOE/d during 2013, an increase of 10,130 

BOE/d (47%) compared to 2012 continuing production levels. The non-tertiary continuing production increases were 

primarily due to production from newly acquired fields, specifically the additional interests in CCA acquired in 

March 2013, Webster and Hartzog Draw fields acquired in the Bakken Exchange Transaction in late 2012, and 

Thompson Field acquired in June 2012. With the exception of the impact of the production added from fields acquired 

during 2012 and 2013, production from our other non-tertiary properties is generally on decline, and in some 

instances the decline is pronounced due to the expansion of our tertiary floods, which causes non-tertiary production 

to be shut in for a period while the field is being pressured up. Continuing production from our non-tertiary 

operations during the fourth quarter of 2013 decreased 3% from third-quarter levels, partially due to severe weatherrelated issues during the fourth quarter. Continuing production from our non-tertiary operations decreased 5% 

from 2011 to 2012, due primarily to non-tertiary oil production declines as a result of the expansion of our tertiary 

floods in those areas. These declines were partially offset by production from acquisitions during 2012, which 

increased our production in Texas. 
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Oil and Natural Gas Revenues

Oil and natural gas revenues increased in each of the past two years. The increase in oil and natural gas revenues 

in 2013 was the result of increases in commodity prices, slightly offset by a small decline in production, whereas 

the increase in oil and natural gas revenues in 2012 was attributable to higher production volumes, slightly offset by 

a decline in commodity prices. The changes in revenues due to these factors, excluding any impact of our 

commodity derivative contracts, are reflected in the following table:

Year Ended December 31, Year Ended December 31,

2013 vs. 2012 2012 vs. 2011

 Percentage Percentage

Increase Increase Increase Increase

(Decrease) in (Decrease) in (Decrease) in (Decrease) in

In thousands Revenues Revenues Revenues Revenues

Change in revenues due to:

Increase (decrease) in production $(55,065) (2)% $215,150 9%

Increase (decrease) in commodity prices 111,432 4% (74,434) (3)%

 Total increase in oil and natural gas revenues $ 56,367 2% $140,716 6%

Excluding any impact of our commodity derivative contracts, our net realized commodity prices and NYMEX 

differentials were as follows during 2013, 2012 and 2011:

 Year Ended December 31,

 2013 2012 2011

Net realized prices:

Oil price per Bbl $100.67 $ 97.18 $100.03

Natural gas price per Mcf 3.53 3.05 4.79

Price per BOE 96.19 91.85 94.68

NYMEX differentials:

Oil per Bbl $ 2.62 $ 2.99 $ 4.95

Natural gas per Mcf (0.19) 0.23 0.76

As reflected in the table above, our average net realized oil price increased 4% during 2013 compared to the 

average price received during 2012. Company-wide average oil price differentials were $2.62 per Bbl above NYMEX 

in 2013, compared to an average differential of $2.99 per Bbl above NYMEX in 2012 and $4.95 per Bbl above 

NYMEX in 2011. During 2013, we sold approximately 46% of our crude oil at prices based on the LLS index price, 

approximately 23% at prices partially tied to the LLS index price, and the balance at prices based on various other 

indexes tied to NYMEX prices, primarily in the Rocky Mountain region. The net differential we received was primarily 

impacted by positive differentials in the Gulf Coast region, offset by unfavorable differentials in the Rocky Mountain 

region, each of which is discussed in further detail below.

We received favorable NYMEX differentials in the Gulf Coast region during 2013, 2012 and 2011, primarily due to 

the favorable differential for crude oil sold under LLS index prices. During 2013, the quarterly average LLS-to-NYMEX 

differential (on a trade-month basis) decreased in each quarter of 2013, from the first quarter average of $20.15 

per Bbl to $2.58 per Bbl in the fourth quarter. In 2012 and 2011, the quarterly average LLS-to-NYMEX differential (on a 

trade-month basis) ranged from a positive $9.28 per Bbl to $23.36 per Bbl.

NYMEX oil differentials in the Rocky Mountain region during 2013 were $8.10 per Bbl below NYMEX compared to 

an average differential of $11.86 per Bbl below NYMEX in 2012. The change in the differential between 2012 and 2013 

was largely impacted by the sale of our Bakken area assets in the fourth quarter of 2012, since oil from the Bakken 

area assets generally sold at a higher discount to NYMEX than the CCA production acquired in early 2013. 

Prices received in a regional market fluctuate frequently and can differ from NYMEX pricing due to a variety of 

reasons, including supply and/or demand factors and location differentials. During the fourth quarter of 2013, 

we observed a decline in the favorable LLS-to-NYMEX differential and a widening of the Rocky Mountain differential, 

causing our overall NYMEX oil differential to be a negative $4.57 per Bbl in the fourth quarter of 2013. This 

quarterly negative differential is the widest we have experienced in several years. Although we have seen the LLS 

and Rocky Mountain differentials improve somewhat in early 2014, we do not expect the LLS-to-NYMEX differential 

to return to more favorable levels we have experienced during the last few years due to the oil transportation 

capacity that has been added, which allows more oil production access to the LLS market.
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Our natural gas NYMEX differentials are generally caused by movement in the NYMEX natural gas prices during 

the month, as most of our natural gas is sold on an index price that is set near the first of each month. While the 

percentage change in NYMEX natural gas differentials can be quite large, these differentials are very seldom more 

than a dollar above or below NYMEX prices.

Commodity Derivative Contracts

From time to time, we enter into oil and natural gas derivative contracts to provide an economic hedge of our 

exposure to commodity price risk associated with anticipated future oil and natural gas production. These contracts 

have consisted of price floors, collars and fixed price swaps. The following table summarizes the impact our oil and 

natural gas derivative contracts had on our operating results for 2013, 2012 and 2011:

Non-Cash Fair Value Gain/(Loss)(1) Cash Settlements Receipt/(Payment)

In thousands 2013 2012 2011 2013 2012 2011

Crude oil derivative contracts:

First quarter $(11,929) $ (42,445) $(167,064) $ — $ (8,230) $ (5,028)

Second quarter 45,501 140,923 187,194 — (709) (16,972)

Third quarter (79,784) (60,726) 205,355 (662) (641) (1,857)

Fourth quarter 5,854 (26,848) (166,505) — (411) (1,271)

 Full Year $(40,358) $ 10,904 $ 58,980 $(662) $ (9,991) $ (25,128)

Natural gas derivative contracts:

First quarter $ — $ (1,640) $ (5,274) $ — $ 7,040 $ 6,616

Second quarter — (9,096) (3,348) — 7,991 6,030

Third quarter — (7,174) 229 — 6,910 6,427

Fourth quarter (4) (6,040) (467) — 5,930 8,432

 Full Year $ (4) $ (23,950) $ (8,860) $ — $ 27,871 $ 27,505

Total commodity derivative contracts:

First quarter $(11,929) $ (44,085) $(172,338) $ — $ (1,190) $ 1,588

Second quarter 45,501 131,827 183,846 — 7,282 (10,942)

Third quarter (79,784) (67,900) 205,584 (662) 6,269 4,570

Fourth quarter 5,850 (32,888) (166,972) — 5,519 7,161

 Full Year $(40,362) $ (13,046) $ 50,120 $(662) $ 17,880 $ 2,377

(1) Noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives is a non-GAAP measure. A reconciliation of noncash fair value adjustments on 

commodity derivatives to “Commodity derivatives expense (income)” is included in the Operating Results Table above. See also the Glossary and 

Selected Abbreviations for the definition of noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives.

Changes in commodity prices and the expiration of contracts cause fluctuations in the estimated fair value of our 

oil and natural gas derivative contracts. Because we do not utilize hedge accounting for our commodity derivative 

contracts, the period-to-period changes in the fair value of these contracts, as outlined above, are recognized in our 

statements of operations. The detail of our outstanding commodity derivative contracts at December 31, 2013 is 

included in Note 9, Commodity Derivative Contracts, to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Production Expenses

Lease operating expense

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per BOE data 2013 2012 2011

Lease operating expense

Tertiary – excluding Delhi Field remediation $358,281 $ 307,686 $272,066

Tertiary – Delhi Field remediation 114,000 — —

Non-tertiary 258,293 224,673 235,331

Total lease operating expense $ 730,574 $532,359 $ 507,397

Lease operating expense per BOE

Tertiary – excluding Delhi Field remediation $ 25.51 $ 23.88 $ 24.08

Tertiary – Delhi Field remediation 8.12 — —

Non-tertiary 22.28 16.83 18.58

Total lease operating expense per BOE (1) 28.50 20.29 21.17

(1) Excluding estimated lease operating expenses recorded during the year ended December 31, 2013 to remediate an area of Delhi Field, total lease 

operating expense per BOE averaged $24.05. See Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – 

Overview – Delhi Field Release, and Note 11, Commitments and Contingencies, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion 

of this matter.
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Total lease operating expense during 2013 increased on an absolute-dollar and per-BOE basis from 2012 primarily 

due to $114.0 million in incurred and estimated lease operating expenses recorded for the costs to remediate an area 

of Delhi Field impacted by a release of well fluids discovered during the second quarter (see Item 7, Management’s 

Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Overview – Delhi Field Release, and Note 11, 

Commitments and Contingencies, to the Consolidated Financial Statements). Excluding these incurred and estimated 

remediation expenses, lease operating expense increased $84.2 million (16%) or $3.76 per BOE during 2013 compared 

to 2012 levels due primarily to increased expenses resulting from the expansion of our tertiary floods, including our 

new tertiary flood at Bell Creek Field; increases in the cost and utilization of CO2 between the comparative periods; 

and higher lease operating expenses at the fields we acquired in the Bakken Exchange Transaction relative to the 

Bakken assets we sold. Lease operating expense increased 5% between 2011 and 2012 on an absolute-dollar basis 

due to the expansion of our tertiary floods and decreased 4% on a per-BOE basis primarily due to the higher 

production volumes in our tertiary floods and growth in our Bakken production, which had a relatively low operating 

cost per barrel. 

Excluding the incurred and estimated Delhi Field remediation expense, tertiary lease operating expense increased 

$50.6 million (16%) or $1.63 per Bbl during 2013 compared to 2012. The increase was primarily a result of the 

expansion of our tertiary floods, including our new tertiary flood at Bell Creek Field, and increased CO2 expenses due 

to increases in the cost of CO2 and an increase in CO2 volumes injected into tertiary floods between years. During 

2012, tertiary lease operating expense increased 13% on an absolute-dollar basis compared to 2011 levels, but 

decreased slightly on a per-BOE basis. The decrease in tertiary operating costs per barrel was due to the 14% increase 

in tertiary production, which more than offset the higher total tertiary operating expenses resulting from the increase 

in the number of our active tertiary floods due to the tertiary floods at Hastings and Oyster Bayou fields. For any 

specific field, we expect our tertiary lease operating expense per barrel to be high initially, as we experienced in 2013 

with our Bell Creek flood, and then decrease as production increases, ultimately leveling off until production begins 

to decline in the later life of the field, when operating expense per barrel will again increase. One of our most 

substantial costs in our tertiary operations is our cost for fuel and utilities, averaging $6.64 per Bbl in 2013, $6.51 per 

Bbl in 2012 and $6.31 per Bbl in 2011, which has increased on a per-barrel basis due to the higher cost of these items 

and the continued expansion of our tertiary floods.

Currently, our CO2 expense comprises approximately one-fourth of our typical Gulf Coast tertiary operating 

expenses, and for the CO2 reserves we already own, consists of our CO2 production expenses, and for the CO2

reserves we do not own, consists of our purchase of CO2 from royalty and working interest owners and 

anthropogenic (man-made) sources. During the year ended December 31, 2013, approximately 69% of the CO2 utilized 

in our Gulf Coast region CO2 floods consisted of CO2 owned and produced by us, and we purchased the 

remaining portion from third-party owners (primarily royalty owners). The price we pay others for CO2 varies by 

source and is generally indexed to oil prices. When combining the production cost of the CO2 we own with what 

we pay third parties for CO2, our average cost of CO2 for the Gulf Coast region during 2013 was approximately 

$0.33 per Mcf, including taxes paid on CO2 production but excluding depletion and depreciation of capital expended 

at our Jackson Dome source and CO2 pipelines. This rate during 2013 was higher than the $0.26 per Mcf spent during 

2012 and 2011 primarily due to higher oil prices (to which the cost of CO2 is partially tied) and increased volumes 

purchased from anthropogenic sources during 2013, which volumes have a higher purchase price but require a 

smaller capital outlay than CO2 we obtain from the Jackson Dome area. Including depletion expense related to the 

Jackson Dome CO2 production, but excluding depreciation of our CO2 pipelines, our cost of CO2 was $0.42 per Mcf 

in 2013, $0.33 per Mcf in 2012 and $0.31 per Mcf in 2011.

Non-tertiary lease operating expense increased 15% on an absolute-dollar basis during 2013, compared to the prior 

year period, as declines resulting from the sale of our Bakken area assets were more than offset by increases in 

newly acquired fields, including Thompson field acquired in the second quarter of 2012, Webster and Hartzog Draw 

fields acquired in the Bakken Exchange Transaction in late 2012, and additional interests in CCA acquired in the 

first quarter of 2013. On a per-BOE basis, non-tertiary lease operating expense increased 32% from 2012 to 2013 due 

to increases in newly acquired fields, which have a higher per-BOE operating cost than the properties disposed in 

the Bakken Exchange Transaction. Non-tertiary lease operating expense decreased 5% on an absolute-dollar basis 

and decreased 9% on a per-BOE basis during 2012 compared to 2011. The lower operating expense per BOE was 

largely driven by increased production related to our Bakken area assets (which had lower operating costs than our 

other properties), and the sale of certain non-core assets during the first half of 2012, which had a higher operating 

cost per BOE compared to the average of our other properties.
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Taxes other than income

Taxes other than income includes ad valorem, production and franchise taxes. Taxes other than income increased 

$16.2 million between 2012 and 2013 and increased $12.5 million between 2011 and 2012. The change in each period 

is generally aligned with fluctuations in oil and natural gas revenues. The increase during 2013 is further impacted by 

the change in the mix of properties subject to production and ad valorem taxes as a result of the Bakken Exchange 

Transaction and CCA acquisition.

General and Administrative Expenses (“G&A”)

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per BOE data and employees 2013 2012 2011

Gross cash compensation and administrative costs $324,580 $296,696 $ 246,112

Gross stock-based compensation 42,091 37,897 39,875

Operator labor and overhead recovery charges (166,012) (141,358) (125,466)

Capitalized exploration and development costs (55,448) (49,216) (34,996)

 Net G&A expense $ 145,211 $ 144,019 $125,525 

G&A per BOE:

Net administrative costs $ 4.47 $ 4.48 $ 3.98

Net stock-based compensation 1.19 1.01 1.26

 Net G&A expense $ 5.66 $ 5.49 $ 5.24

Employees as of December 31 1,501 1,432 1,308

On an absolute-dollar basis, net G&A expense increased slightly between 2012 and 2013 and increased 15% 

between 2011 and 2012 and on a per-BOE basis increased 3% between 2012 and 2013 and 5% between 2011 and 2012.

Gross cash compensation and administrative costs increased $27.9 million (9%) between 2012 and 2013 and $50.6 

million (21%) between 2011 and 2012. The increase in both comparative periods is due to higher compensationrelated costs from increases in headcount, annual merit increases and other employee-related costs such as health 

insurance. Employee bonus expense was relatively unchanged from 2012 to 2013 despite the 5% increase in 

headcount, as bonuses were paid at a lower rate in 2013 than in 2012, but contributed to the increase in gross 

administrative cost between 2011 and 2012.

Gross stock-based compensation costs increased in 2013 compared to 2012 due to the increased number of 

employees during 2013 compared to 2012. The increase to gross stock-based compensation as a result of additional 

headcount during 2012 compared to 2011 was more than offset by a shift in the mix of compensation to more 

cash-based compensation. Stock-based compensation, net of amounts capitalized or reclassified to field operations, 

was approximately $30.4 million in 2013, $26.5 million in 2012 and $30.3 million in 2011.

Our well operating agreements allow us, when we are the operator, to charge a well with a specified overhead rate 

during the drilling phase and also to charge a monthly fixed overhead rate for each producing well. In addition, 

salaries associated with field personnel are initially recorded as gross cash compensation and administrative costs 

and are subsequently reclassified to lease operating expenses or capitalized to field development costs to the 

extent those individuals are dedicated to oil and natural gas production, exploration, and development activities. As a 

result of additional operated wells, increased compensation expense and an increase in the COPAS overhead rate, 

the amount we recovered as operator labor and overhead recovery charges increased by 17% between 2012 and 

2013, and 13% between 2011 and 2012. Capitalized exploration and development costs also increased between the 

periods, primarily due to increased compensation costs subject to capitalization.

Interest and Financing Expenses

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per BOE data and interest rates 2013 2012 2011

Cash interest expense $ 205,938 $ 216,205 $ 207,727

Noncash interest expense 14,024 14,808 18,219

Less: Capitalized interest (79,253) (77,432) (61,586)

Interest expense, net $ 140,709 $ 153,581 $ 164,360

Interest expense, net per BOE $ 5.49 $ 5.85 $ 6.86

Average debt outstanding $3,257,686 $2,935,485 $2,470,682

Average interest rate (1) 6.3% 7.4% 8.4%

(1) Includes commitment fees but excludes debt issue costs and amortization of discount or premium.
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Interest expense, net decreased 8% between 2012 and 2013. The decrease in interest expense is due to a lower 

average interest rate, partially offset by higher average debt outstanding and higher capitalized interest. The decrease 

in the average interest rate between 2012 and 2013 is a result of refinancing our 91⁄2% Notes and 93⁄4% Notes with our 

2023 Notes, which carry a rate of 45/8% (see Overview – Debt Refinancing above). During 2014, we expect capitalized 

interest to decline due to the completion of various development projects during the fourth quarter of 2013.

Interest expense, net decreased 7% between 2011 and 2012, largely due to higher capitalized interest, offset in part 

by higher cash interest expense resulting from an increase in average debt outstanding during the period. 

Capitalized interest increased 26% during 2012, compared to 2011 primarily due to incremental capitalized interest on 

the Riley Ridge gas processing facility and Greencore Pipeline construction projects.

Depletion, Depreciation and Amortization (“DD&A”)

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per BOE data 2013 2012 2011

Depletion and depreciation of oil and natural gas properties $392,603 $420,094 $362,788

Depletion and depreciation of CO2 properties 27,783 23,843 18,220

Asset retirement obligations 8,450 7,228 6,287

Depreciation of pipelines, plants and other property and equipment 81,107 56,373 21,901

 Total DD&A $509,943 $ 507,538 $ 409,196

DD&A per BOE:

Oil and natural gas properties $ 15.64 $ 16.28 $ 15.40

CO2 and other fixed assets 4.25 3.06 1.67

 Total DD&A cost per BOE $ 19.89 $ 19.34 $ 17.07

We adjust our DD&A rate each quarter for significant changes in our estimates of oil and natural gas reserves and 

costs. In addition, under full cost accounting rules, the divestiture of oil and natural gas properties generally does 

not result in gain or loss recognition; instead, the proceeds of the disposition reduce the full cost pool. As such, our 

DD&A rate has changed significantly over time, and it may continue to change in the future. Depletion and 

depreciation of oil and natural gas properties decreased 7% on an absolute-dollar basis and 4% on a per-BOE basis 

between 2012 and 2013. These decreases were primarily due to the Bakken Exchange Transaction in late 2012, 

which resulted in a decrease in capitalized costs relating to the sales proceeds credited to the full cost pool and a 

significant reduction in future development costs relating to the sold proved reserves, partially offset by the 

reduction in total proved reserves. This decrease in DD&A was partially offset by the impact of the CCA Acquisition 

in the first quarter of 2013 and the movement of Bell Creek reserves from unevaluated to proved reserves during 

the fourth quarter of 2013.

Depletion and depreciation of oil and natural gas properties increased 16% on an absolute-dollar basis and 6% on a 

per-BOE basis between 2011 and 2012. During the first nine months of 2012, our DD&A rate for our oil and natural 

gas properties was $16.90 per BOE, which was higher than 2011 levels due to higher finding and development costs 

related to our Bakken capital program. However, in the fourth quarter of 2012, our DD&A rate for our oil and natural 

gas properties decreased to $14.39 per BOE due to the Bakken Exchange Transaction.

During 2013, we added 84.6 MMBOE of estimated proved reserves, including tertiary reserves of 34.0 MMBbls at 

Bell Creek Field based on the field’s response to CO2 injections, 42.2 MMBOE from the acquisition of additional 

interests in CCA Fields and 8.4 MMBOE of other additions and revisions. We reclassified approximately $417.6 million 

from unevaluated properties to the full cost pool relating to Bell Creek Field, representing the acquisition costs and 

development expenditures incurred on the field prior to recognizing proved reserves. Our depletion and depreciation 

rate of oil and natural gas properties increased to $16.90 per BOE during the fourth quarter of 2013, primarily as a 

result of the reclassification of Bell Creek costs to the full cost pool, increased finding and development costs, and the 

related recognition of additional proved reserves.

Depletion and depreciation of our CO2 properties, pipelines, plants, and other property and equipment increased on 

an absolute-dollar and per-BOE basis during 2013 from 2012 levels, primarily due to an increase in CO2 properties, 

pipelines and plants subject to depreciation as a result of continued development. The increase in 2013 was further 

impacted by a change in classification of our equipment leases from operating to capital during the second quarter 

of 2012, and the amount on a per-BOE basis was also impacted by lower oil and natural gas production during 2013. 

Depletion and depreciation of our CO2 properties increased on an absolute-dollar and per-BOE basis in 2012 

compared to 2011 due to increased drilling activity at Jackson Dome, and depreciation of other fixed assets increased 

during the same period due to incremental pipeline depreciation and the change in classification of our 

equipment leases.
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Under full cost accounting rules, we are required each quarter to perform a ceiling test calculation. Under these 

rules, the full cost ceiling value is calculated using a 12-month average price based on the first-day price of every 

month during the period. We did not have a ceiling test write-down during 2013, 2012 or 2011. However, if oil prices 

were to decrease significantly in subsequent periods, we may be required to record write-downs under the full cost 

pool ceiling test in the future. The possibility and amount of any future write-down is difficult to predict, and 

will depend, in part, upon oil and natural gas prices, the incremental proved reserves that may be added each period, 

revisions to previous reserve estimates and future capital expenditures, as well as additional capital spent.

Income Taxes

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per BOE amounts and tax rates 2013 2012 2011

Current income tax expense $ 10,257 $ 75,754 $ 8,249

Deferred income tax expense 222,526 255,743 342,463

Total income tax expense $ 232,783 $ 331,497 $ 350,712 

Average income tax expense per BOE $ 9.08 $ 12.63 $ 14.63

Effective tax rate 36.2% 38.7% 38.0%

Total net deferred tax liability $2,346,540 $2,124,296 $1,868,420

Our income tax provisions for 2013 and 2011 were based on an estimated statutory rate of approximately 38%, 

while the 2012 tax provision was based on an estimated statutory rate of approximately 38.5%. The fluctuation in our 

statutory rate is significantly driven by a shift in the amount of revenues we earn in each state due to acquisitions 

and divestitures and other production changes. Our 2013 effective tax rate was lower than our statutory rate due to 

the revaluation of our deferred taxes as a result of the lower overall statutory rate compared to 2012, as well as 

the change in treatment of certain items between our 2012 tax provision and our 2012 tax returns. Our effective tax 

rate was consistent with our estimated statutory rates in 2012 and 2011.

During 2012, for federal income tax purposes, we structured the divestitures of our Bakken area assets and certain 

non-core assets as like-kind-exchange transactions for interests acquired in Thompson, Webster, Hartzog Draw and 

LaBarge fields as well as the CCA Acquisition in 2013 (see Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures, to the Consolidated 

Financial Statements), thereby deferring the majority of the taxable gain on those divestitures. The increase in current 

income tax expense during 2012 included $42 million of current taxes resulting from the taxable gain recognized in 

the Bakken Exchange Transaction that we were unable to defer through a like-kind exchange transaction. Current 

income tax expense during 2013 is primarily related to state income taxes while current income tax during 2012 and 

2011 also includes our alternative minimum cash taxes that we cannot offset with enhanced oil recovery credits, as 

well as state income taxes. We currently expect our cash taxes in the future to increase over 2013 cash taxes. Our 

current income tax expense during 2011 was offset by a net benefit due to the change in treatment for certain items 

between our 2010 tax provision and our 2010 filed tax return. This change in treatment resulted in a reclassification 

of approximately $16.9 million from current to deferred taxes.

As of December 31, 2013, we had an estimated $15.0 million of enhanced oil recovery credits to carry forward 

related to our tertiary operations, and $34.8 million of alternative minimum tax credits that can be utilized to reduce 

our current income taxes during 2014 or future years. These enhanced oil recovery credits do not begin to expire 

until 2025. Since the ability to earn additional enhanced oil recovery credits is based upon the level of oil prices, 

we would not currently expect to earn additional enhanced oil recovery credits unless oil prices were to 

significantly deteriorate.
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Per-BOE Data

The following table summarizes our cash flow, DD&A and results of operations on a per-BOE basis for the 

comparative periods. Each of the individual components is discussed above.

Year Ended December 31,

Per-BOE data 2013 2012 2011

Oil and natural gas revenues $ 96.19 $ 91.85 $ 94.68

Cash receipt (payment) on settlements of commodity derivatives (0.03) 0.68 0.10

Lease operating expenses – excluding Delhi Field remediation (24.05) (20.29) (21.17)

Lease operating expenses – Delhi Field remediation (4.45) — —

Production and ad valorem taxes (6.35) (5.71) (5.81)

Marketing expenses, net of third party purchases (1.47) (1.60) (1.09)

Production netback 59.84 64.93 66.71

CO2 sales, net of operating and exploration expenses 0.43 0.45 0.36

General and administrative expenses (5.66) (5.49) (5.24)

Interest expense, net (5.49) (5.85) (6.86)

Other 0.48 (1.44) 1.77

Changes in assets and liabilities relating to operations 3.49 1.17 (6.47)

Cash flow from operations 53.09 53.77 50.27

DD&A (19.89) (19.34) (17.07)

Deferred income taxes (8.68) (9.75) (14.29)

Loss on early extinguishment of debt (1.74) — (0.67)

Noncash fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives (1.57) (0.50) 2.09

Impairment of assets — (0.67) (0.96)

Other noncash items (5.23) (3.49) 4.55

Net income $15.98 $ 20.02 $ 23.92

Market Risk Management

Restricted Cash

Restricted cash on our Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2012 consisted of proceeds from the Bakken 

Exchange Transaction (see Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures, to the Consolidated Financial Statements) 

previously held by a qualified intermediary and which were restricted for application towards future potential 

acquisitions to enable a like-kind-exchange transaction for federal income tax purposes. We managed and 

controlled counterparty credit risk related to this restricted cash using a trust agreement, whereby the assets held in 

trust must be segregated from the financial institution’s assets, and in the event of its bankruptcy, the funds would 

not be subject to payments to the creditors of the financial institution.

Debt

We finance some of our acquisitions and other expenditures with fixed and variable rate debt. These debt 

agreements expose us to market risk related to changes in interest rates. At December 31, 2013, we had $340.0 million 

in outstanding borrowings on our bank credit facility. None of our existing debt has any triggers or covenants 

regarding our debt ratings with rating agencies, although under the NEJD financing lease, in the event of significant 

downgrades of our corporate credit rating by the rating agencies, certain credit enhancements can be required 

from us, and possibly other remedies made available under the lease. The fair value of our senior subordinated debt 
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is based on quoted market prices. The following table presents the principal cash flows and fair values of our 

outstanding debt at December 31, 2013:

 Fair

In thousands 2014 2015 2016 2017 2020 2021 2023 Total Value

Variable rate debt:

Bank credit facility 

(weighted average interest 

rate of 1.9% at 

December 31, 2013) $ — $ — $340,000 $ — $ — $ — $ — $ 340,000 $ 340,000

Fixed rate debt:

81⁄4% Senior Subordinated

Notes due 2020 — — — — 996,273 — — 996,273 1,097,096

6 3/8% Senior Subordinated

Notes due 2021 — — — — — 400,000 — 400,000 425,000

4 5/8% Senior Subordinated

Notes due 2023 — — — — — — 1,200,000 1,200,000 1,092,000

Other Subordinated Notes 1,072 485 — 2,250 — — — 3,807 2,735

See Note 5, Long-Term Debt, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for details regarding our long-term debt.

Oil and Natural Gas Derivative Contracts

From time to time, we enter into oil and natural gas derivative contracts to provide an economic hedge of our 

exposure to commodity price risk associated with anticipated future oil and natural gas production. These contracts 

have consisted of price floors, collars and fixed price swaps. We do not hold or issue derivative financial instruments 

for trading purposes. The production that we hedge has varied from year to year, depending on our levels of debt 

and financial strength and expectation of future commodity prices. We currently employ a strategy to hedge a portion 

of our forecasted production for approximately 18 months to two years in the future from the current quarter, as 

we believe it is important to protect our future cash flow for that time in order to give us time to adjust to commodity 

price fluctuations, particularly since many of our expenditures have long lead times (see Capital Resources and 

Liquidity above). Now that we are paying a dividend, we may look to extend the periods covered by our hedges 

further into the future, possibly for periods up to three years, in order to provide greater certainty around oil and 

natural gas prices and projected cash flows. Also, in December 2013, we converted our 2014 oil collars to fixed-price 

swaps and in early 2014, we converted a portion of our 2015 oil collars to fixed-price swaps. See Note 9, Commodity 

Derivative Contracts, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding our commodity 

derivative contracts.

All of the mark-to-market valuations used for our oil and natural gas derivatives are provided by external sources. 

We manage and control market and counterparty credit risk through established internal control procedures that are 

reviewed on an ongoing basis. We attempt to minimize credit risk exposure to counterparties through formal credit 

policies, monitoring procedures and diversification. All of our commodity derivative contracts are with parties that are 

lenders under our bank credit facility. We have included an estimate of nonperformance risk in the fair value 

measurement of our oil and natural gas derivative contracts, which we have measured for nonperformance risk based 

upon credit default swaps or credit spreads.

For accounting purposes, we do not apply hedge accounting to our oil and natural gas derivative contracts. 

This means that any changes in the fair value of these commodity derivative contracts will be charged to earnings 

on a quarterly basis instead of charging the effective portion to other comprehensive income and the ineffective 

portion to earnings.

At December 31, 2013, our commodity derivative contracts were recorded at their fair value, which was a net 

liability of approximately $47.3 million, a $40.4 million increase from the $6.9 million net liability recorded at 

December 31, 2012. This change is primarily related to the expiration of oil derivative contracts during 2013, new 

commodity derivative contracts we entered into during 2013 for future periods, and to the oil and natural gas 

futures prices as of December 31, 2013.
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Commodity Derivative Sensitivity Analysis

Based on NYMEX and LLS crude oil futures prices and natural gas futures prices as of December 31, 2013, and 

assuming both a 10% increase and decrease thereon, we would expect to make or receive payments on our crude oil 

and natural gas derivative contracts as shown in the following table:

 Crude Oil Natural Gas

 Derivative Derivative

 Contracts Contracts

 Receipt/ Receipt/

In thousands (Payment) (Payment)

Based on:

NYMEX futures prices as of December 31, 2013 $ (58,377) $ —

 10% increase in prices (286,016) (930)

 10% decrease in prices 167,853 1,348

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles requires that 

we select certain accounting policies and make certain estimates and judgments regarding the application of those 

policies. Our significant accounting policies are included in Note 1, Significant Accounting Policies, to the Consolidated 

Financial Statements. These policies, along with the underlying assumptions and judgments by our management 

in their application, have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements. Following is a discussion of 

our most critical accounting estimates, judgments and uncertainties that are inherent in the preparation of our 

financial statements.

Full Cost Method of Accounting, Depletion and Depreciation and Oil and Natural Gas Properties

Businesses involved in the production of oil and natural gas are required to follow accounting rules that are 

unique to the oil and gas industry. We apply the full cost method of accounting for our oil and natural gas properties. 

Another acceptable method of accounting for oil and natural gas production activities is the successful efforts 

method of accounting. In general, the primary differences between the two methods are related to the capitalization 

of costs and the evaluation for asset impairment. Under the full cost method, all geological and geophysical costs, 

exploratory dry holes and delay rentals are capitalized to the full cost pool, whereas under the successful efforts 

method such costs are expensed as incurred. In the assessment of impairment of oil and natural gas properties, the 

successful efforts method follows the FASB guidance under the Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of LongLived Assets topic of the FASC, under which the net book value of assets is measured for impairment against the 

undiscounted future cash flows using commodity prices consistent with management expectations. Under the full 

cost method, the full cost pool (net book value of oil and natural gas properties) is measured against future cash 

flows discounted at 10% using the average first-day-of-the-month oil and natural gas price for each month during the 

12-month period ended as of each quarterly reporting period. The financial results for a given period could be 

substantially different depending on the method of accounting that an oil and gas entity applies. Further, we do not 

designate our oil and natural gas derivative contracts as hedge instruments for accounting purposes under the

Derivatives and Hedging topic of the FASC (see below), and as a result, these contracts are not considered in the full 

cost ceiling test.

We make significant estimates at the end of each period related to accruals for oil and natural gas revenues, 

production, capitalized costs and operating expenses. We calculate these estimates with our best available data, 

which includes, among other things, production reports, price posting, information compiled from daily drilling 

reports and other internal tracking devices, and analysis of historical results and trends. While management is not 

aware of any required revisions to its estimates, there will likely be future adjustments resulting from such things as 

changes in ownership interests, payouts, joint venture audits, re-allocations by the purchaser/pipeline, or other 

corrections and adjustments common in the oil and gas industry, many of which will require retroactive application. 

These types of adjustments cannot be currently estimated or determined and will be recorded in the period during 

which the adjustment occurs.
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Under full cost accounting, the estimated quantities of proved oil and natural gas reserves used to compute 

depletion and the related present value of estimated future net cash flows therefrom used to perform the full cost 

ceiling test have a significant impact on the underlying financial statements. The process of estimating oil and 

natural gas reserves is very complex, requiring significant decisions in the evaluation of all available geological, 

geophysical, engineering and economic data. The data for a given field may also change substantially over time as a 

result of numerous factors, including additional development activity, evolving production history and continued 

reassessment of the viability of production under varying economic conditions. As a result, material revisions to 

existing reserve estimates may occur from time to time. Although every reasonable effort is made to ensure that the 

reported reserve estimates represent the most accurate assessments possible, including the hiring of independent 

engineers to prepare reported estimates, the subjective decisions and variances in available data for various fields 

make these estimates generally less precise than other estimates included in our financial statement disclosures. 

Over the last four years, annual revisions to our reserve estimates have averaged approximately 2.0% of the previous 

year’s estimates and have been both positive and negative.

Changes in commodity prices also affect our reserve quantities. Between 2011 and 2012, oil and natural gas prices 

used to calculate reserve quantities in our year-end proved reserve report decreased, resulting in a decrease in our 

proved reserves of 6.7 MMBOE. Between 2012 and 2013, oil and natural gas prices used to calculate year-end proved 

reserves increased, resulting in an increase in our proved reserves of 3.0 MMBOE. These changes in quantities 

affect our DD&A rate, and the combined effect of changes in quantities and commodity prices impacts our full cost 

ceiling test calculation. For example, we estimate that a 5% increase in our estimate of proved reserves quantities 

would have lowered our fourth quarter 2013 DD&A rate from $16.90 per BOE to approximately $16.12 per BOE, and a 

5% decrease in our proved reserve quantities would have increased our DD&A rate to approximately $17.76 per BOE. 

Also, reserve quantities and their ultimate values, determined solely by our lenders, are the primary factors in 

determining the maximum borrowing base under our bank credit facility.

Under full cost accounting rules, we are required each quarter to perform a ceiling test calculation. The net 

capitalized costs of oil and natural gas properties are limited to the lower of unamortized cost or the cost center ceiling. 

The cost center ceiling is defined as (1) the present value of our future net revenues from proved reserves before 

future abandonment costs calculated using the average first-day-of-the-month oil and natural gas price for each 

month during the 12-month period then ended, discounted at 10%; plus (2) the cost of properties not being amortized; 

plus (3) the lower of cost or estimated fair value of unproved properties included in the costs being amortized, if 

any; less (4) related income tax effects. Our future net revenues from proved reserves are not reduced for development 

costs related to the cost of drilling for and developing CO2 reserves nor for those related to the cost of constructing 

CO2 pipelines, as those costs have already been incurred by the Company. Therefore, we include in the ceiling test, 

as a reduction of future net revenues, that portion of our capitalized CO2 costs related to CO2 reserves and CO2

pipelines that we estimate will be consumed in the process of producing our proved oil and natural gas reserves. The 

fair value of our oil and natural gas derivative contracts is not included in the ceiling test, as we do not designate 

these contracts as hedge instruments for accounting purposes.

We did not have a full cost pool ceiling test write-down in 2013, 2012 or 2011. Crude oil prices decreased between 

2011 and 2012, and increased during 2013, with first-day-of-the-month NYMEX oil prices during 2013 averaging 

$96.94 per Bbl during the year. First-day-of-the-month unweighted average NYMEX natural gas prices during 2013 

of $3.67 per Mcf were higher than unweighted average natural gas prices for 2012. Commodity prices have 

historically been volatile and are expected to continue to be so in the future. If oil and natural gas prices should 

decrease, we may be required to record write-downs due to the full cost ceiling test. The amount of any future 

write-down is difficult to predict and will depend upon the oil and natural gas prices utilized in the ceiling test, the 

incremental proved reserves that might be added during each period and additional capital spent.

Tertiary Injection Costs

Our tertiary operations are conducted in reservoirs that have already produced significant amounts of oil over 

many years; however, in accordance with the rules for recording proved reserves, we cannot recognize proved 

reserves associated with enhanced recovery techniques such as CO2 injection until we can demonstrate production 

resulting from the tertiary process or unless the field is analogous to an existing flood. Our costs associated with 

the CO2 we produce (or acquire) and inject are principally our cash out-of-pocket costs of production, transportation 

and acquisition, and to pay royalties.
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We capitalize, as a development cost, injection costs in fields that are in their development stage, which means we 

have not yet seen incremental oil production due to the CO2 injections (i.e., a production response). These 

capitalized development costs will be included in our unevaluated property costs if there are not already proved tertiary 

reserves in that field. After we see a production response to the CO2 injections (i.e., the production stage), injection 

costs will be expensed as incurred, and any previously deferred unevaluated development costs will become subject 

to depletion upon recognition of proved tertiary reserves. During 2013, 2012 and 2011, we capitalized $38.7 million, 

$36.8 million and $65.3 million, respectively, of tertiary injection costs associated with our tertiary projects.

Income Taxes

We make certain estimates and judgments in determining our income tax expense for financial reporting 

purposes. These estimates and judgments occur in the calculation of certain tax assets and liabilities that arise from 

differences in the timing and recognition of revenue and expense for tax and financial reporting purposes. Our 

federal and state income tax returns are generally not prepared or filed before the consolidated financial statements 

are prepared; therefore, we estimate the tax basis of our assets and liabilities at the end of each period as well as 

the effects of tax rate changes, tax credits and net operating loss carryforwards. Adjustments related to these 

estimates are recorded in our tax provision in the period in which we finalize our income tax returns. Further, we 

must assess the likelihood that we will be able to recover or utilize our deferred tax assets (primarily our enhanced 

oil recovery credits and state loss carryforwards). If recovery is not likely, we must record a valuation allowance 

against such deferred tax assets for the amount we would not expect to recover, which would result in an increase 

to our income tax expense. As of December 31, 2013, we believe that all of our deferred tax assets recorded on our 

Consolidated Balance Sheet will ultimately be recovered. If our estimates and judgments change regarding our 

ability to utilize our deferred tax assets, our tax provision would increase in the period it is determined that recovery 

is not likely. A 1% increase in our effective tax rate would have increased our calculated income tax expense 

by approximately $6.4 million, $8.6 million and $9.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, 

respectively. See Note 6, Income Taxes, to the Consolidated Financial Statements and see Income Taxes above for 

further information concerning our income taxes.

Fair Value Estimates

The FASC defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair 

value measurements. It does not require us to make any new fair value measurements, but rather establishes a fair 

value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to the valuation techniques used to measure fair value. Level 1 inputs 

are given the highest priority in the fair value hierarchy, as they represent observable inputs that reflect unadjusted 

quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets as of the reporting date, while Level 3 inputs are 

given the lowest priority, as they represent unobservable inputs that are not corroborated by market data. Valuation 

techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs are favored. See Note 10, Fair Value Measurements, to the 

Consolidated Financial Statements for disclosures regarding our recurring fair value measurements.

Significant uses of fair value measurements include:

• allocation of the purchase price paid to acquire businesses to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in 

those acquisitions;

• assessment of impairment of long-lived assets;

• assessment of impairment of goodwill; and

• recorded value of commodity derivative instruments.

Acquisitions

Under the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations, the purchase price paid to acquire a 

business is allocated to its assets and liabilities based on the estimated fair values of the assets acquired and 

liabilities assumed as of the date of acquisition. The FASC Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures topic defines fair 

value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction 

between market participants at the measurement date (often referred to as the “exit price”). A fair value 

measurement is based on the assumptions of market participants and not those of the reporting entity. Therefore, 

entity-specific intentions do not impact the measurement of fair value unless those assumptions are consistent 

with market participant views.
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The excess of the purchase price over the fair value (as defined by the FASC Fair Value Measurements and 

Disclosures topic) of the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. A significant 

amount of judgment is involved in estimating the individual fair values involving long-term tangible assets, 

identifiable intangible assets and long-term asset retirement obligations. We use all available information to estimate 

the fair values of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in an acquisition and engage a third-party consultant to 

review certain assumptions utilized in our valuations.

Specifically, the FASC Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures topic requires us to value oil properties recoverable 

through enhanced oil recovery by estimating the cost a third party market participant would pay for CO2. A third 

party’s economics and access to CO2 is substantially different in our operating regions than our own, as CO2

is limited and there may be no known CO2 available in a given area except through our own sources. These factors 

generally result in our estimation of the cost of CO2 to a market participant being higher than our cost. Because 

of our strategic advantage relating to CO2 supply and associated infrastructure, a third party’s economics (the required 

basis for allocating values) for a potential EOR flood will be less than ours. Therefore, we cannot attribute much, if 

any, of our purchase price relating to the future EOR flood to unevaluated properties, even though we may have 

attributed value to the future flood when we made the purchase decision. As such, we must attribute the unallocated 

purchase price to goodwill, which has resulted in our recognition of more goodwill than most of our industry peers.

The fair values used to allocate the purchase price of an acquisition are often estimated using the expected present 

value of future cash flows method, which requires us to project related future cash inflows and outflows and apply 

an appropriate discount rate. The estimates used in determining fair values are based on assumptions believed to be 

reasonable but that are inherently uncertain. Accordingly, actual results may differ from the projected results used 

to determine fair value.

Impairment Assessment of Goodwill

We test goodwill for impairment annually during the fourth quarter, or between annual tests if an event occurs 

or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying 

amount. The need to test for impairment can be based on several indicators, including a significant reduction in 

prices of oil or natural gas, a full-cost ceiling write-down of oil and natural gas properties, unfavorable adjustments to 

reserves, significant changes in the expected timing of production, other changes to contracts or changes in the 

regulatory environment.

Goodwill is tested for impairment at the reporting unit level. Denbury applies SEC full cost accounting rules, 

under which the acquisition cost of oil and gas properties is recognized on a cost center basis (country), of which 

Denbury has only one cost center (United States). Goodwill is assigned to this single reporting unit.

In each period that a goodwill impairment test is performed, we have the option to assess qualitative factors to 

determine if it is more likely than not that our reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount. The 

following events and circumstances are certain of the qualitative factors we consider in evaluating whether it is more 

likely than not the fair value of our reporting unit is less than its carrying amount:

• Macroeconomic conditions, such as deterioration in general economic conditions, limitations on accessing 

capital, or other developments in equity and credit markets;

• Industry and market conditions, such as deterioration in the environment in which we operate, including 

significant declines in oil prices, inability to access oil field equipment and/or qualified personnel and regulations 

impacting the oil and natural gas industry, among others;

• Cost factors, such as increases in power and labor costs;

• Overall financial performance, such as negative or declining cash flows or a decline in actual or forecasted 

revenues or earnings;

• Other relevant Company-specific events, such as material changes in management or key personnel, a change 

in strategy or litigation;

• Material events, such as a change in the composition or carrying amount of our reporting unit’s net assets, 

including acquisitions and dispositions; and

• Consideration of the relationship of our market capitalization to our book value, as well as a sustained decrease 

in our share price.
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If we determine that it is more likely than not that our reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount, 

we will proceed to step 1 of the 2-step quantitative goodwill assessment, in which we perform a calculation to 

compare the fair value of our reporting unit to its carrying cost. In any given period, we have the option to bypass the 

qualitative assessment and proceed directly to step 1 of the 2-step quantitative goodwill impairment test.

Fair value calculated for the purpose of testing for impairment of our goodwill is estimated using the expected 

present value of future cash flows method, and comparative market prices and net asset value when appropriate. 

The Company also takes into consideration the Company’s market capitalization, including a control premium. 

A significant amount of judgment is involved in performing these fair value estimates for goodwill, since the results 

are based on forecasted assumptions. Significant assumptions include projections of future oil and natural gas 

prices, projections of estimated quantities of oil and natural gas reserves, projections of future rates of production, 

timing and amount of future development and operating costs, projected availability and cost of CO2, projected 

recovery factors of tertiary reserves and risk-adjusted discount rates. We base our fair value estimates on projected 

financial information that we believe to be reasonable. However, actual results may differ from those projections.

We completed our goodwill impairment assessment during the fourth quarter of 2013 and did not record any 

goodwill impairment during 2013, nor have we recorded a goodwill impairment historically.

Oil and Natural Gas Derivative Contracts

We enter into oil and natural gas derivative contracts to mitigate our exposure to commodity price risk associated 

with future oil and natural gas production. These contracts have historically consisted of options, in the form of 

price floors or collars, and fixed price swaps. We do not designate these commodity derivative contracts as hedge 

instruments for accounting purposes under the FASC Derivatives and Hedging topic. This means that any changes 

in the fair value of these commodity derivative contracts will be charged to earnings on a quarterly basis instead of 

charging the effective portion to other comprehensive income and the balance to earnings. While we may experience 

more volatility in our net income than if we were to apply hedge accounting treatment as permitted by the FASC 

Derivatives and Hedging topic, we believe that for us the benefits associated with applying hedge accounting do not 

outweigh the cost, time and effort to comply with hedge accounting.

Environmental and Litigation Contingencies

The Company makes judgments and estimates in recording liabilities for contingencies such as environmental 

remediation or ongoing litigation. Liabilities are recorded when it is both probable that a loss has been incurred and 

such loss is reasonably estimable. Assessments of liabilities are based on information obtained from independent 

and in-house experts, loss experience in similar situations, actual costs incurred, and other case-by-case factors. 

Actual costs can vary from such estimates for a variety of reasons. The costs of environmental remediation or 

litigation can vary from estimates due to new developments regarding the facts and circumstances of each event, 

including in the case of environmental remediation, the timing of remediation, our understanding of the 

environmental impact, remediation methods available, and regulatory requirements, and in the case of litigation, 

differing interpretations of laws and facts and assessments of damages asserted and/or incurred.

Use of Estimates

See Note 1, Significant Accounting Policies, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of our use 

of estimates.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 1, Significant Accounting Policies, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of the effects 

of recently issued and recently adopted accounting pronouncements.

FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.
592013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

The statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K that are not historical facts, including, but not limited 

to, statements found in the sections entitled “Business” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial 

Condition and Results of Operations,” are forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in Section 21E of the 

Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forwardlooking statements may be or may concern, among other things, forecasted capital expenditures, drilling activity or 

methods including the timing and location thereof, estimated timing of pipeline construction or completion 

or the cost thereof, dates of completion of to-be-constructed industrial plants and the initial date of capture of 

anthropogenic CO2 from such plants, timing of CO2 injections and initial production responses in tertiary flooding 

projects, acquisition plans and proposals and dispositions, development activities, finding costs, cost savings, capital 

budgets, production rates and volumes or forecasts thereof, assumptions regarding payment of future cash 

dividends to shareholders, the rate thereof, or the sustainability or growth of future payments, hydrocarbon reserve 

quantities and values, CO2 reserves, helium reserves, potential reserves, percentages of recoverable original oil in 

place, hydrocarbon prices, pricing or cost assumptions based on current and projected oil and gas prices, liquidity, 

cash flows, availability of capital, borrowing capacity, regulatory matters, prospective legislation affecting the oil and 

gas industry, mark-to-market values, competition, long-term forecasts of production, finding costs, rates of return, 

estimated costs, or changes in costs, future capital expenditures and overall economics and other variables 

surrounding our operations and future plans. Such forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words 

such as “plan,” “estimate,” “expect,” “predict,” “anticipate,” “projected,” “should,” “assume,” “believe,” “target” 

or other words that convey the uncertainty of future events or outcomes. Such forward-looking information is based 

upon management’s current plans, expectations, estimates and assumptions and is subject to a number of risks 

and uncertainties that could significantly affect current plans, anticipated actions, the timing of such actions and our 

financial condition and results of operations. As a consequence, actual results may differ materially from 

expectations, estimates or assumptions expressed in or implied by any forward-looking statements made by us or 

on our behalf. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are fluctuations of the prices 

received or demand for our oil and natural gas; effects of our indebtedness; success of our risk management 

techniques; inaccurate cost estimates; availability of and fluctuations in the prices of goods and services; the uncertainty 

of drilling results and reserve estimates; operating hazards; disruption of operations and damages from hurricanes 

or tropical storms; acquisition risks; requirements for capital or its availability; conditions in the financial and credit 

markets; general economic conditions; competition and government regulations; and unexpected delays, as well 

as the risks and uncertainties inherent in oil and gas drilling and production activities or that are otherwise discussed 

in this annual report, including, without limitation, the portions referenced above, and the uncertainties set forth 

from time to time in our other public reports, filings and public statements.
60FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures 

About Market Risk

The information required by Item 7A is set forth under Market Risk Management in Item 7, Management’s 

Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

Item 8. Financial Statements and 

Supplementary Information

Page

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.......................................................................................... 61

Consolidated Balance Sheets ............................................................................................................................................. 62

Consolidated Statements of Operations........................................................................................................................... 63

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Operations ............................................................................................. 64

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.......................................................................................................................... 65

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity .................................................................................... 66

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

1. Significant Accounting Policies ........................................................................................................................ 67

2. Acquisitions and Divestitures ........................................................................................................................... 73

3. Asset Retirement Obligations........................................................................................................................... 75

4. Property and Equipment.................................................................................................................................... 76

5. Long-Term Debt................................................................................................................................................... 77

6. Income Taxes....................................................................................................................................................... 80

7. Stockholders’ Equity........................................................................................................................................... 81

8. Stock Compensation Plans................................................................................................................................ 82

9. Commodity Derivative Contracts..................................................................................................................... 86

10. Fair Value Measurements .................................................................................................................................. 87

11. Commitments and Contingencies.................................................................................................................... 89

12. Additional Balance Sheet Details ..................................................................................................................... 91

13. Supplemental Cash Flow Information............................................................................................................. 91

14. Subsequent Events ............................................................................................................................................. 91

Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited)........................................................................................ 92

Supplemental CO2 and Helium Disclosures (Unaudited)............................................................................................... 95

Unaudited Quarterly Information....................................................................................................................................... 95
612013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Denbury Resources Inc.:

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements listed in the accompanying index present fairly, in all material 

respects, the financial position of Denbury Resources Inc. and its subsidiaries at December 31, 2013 and 2012, and 

the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2013 

in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, 

the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 

2013, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (1992) issued by the Committee of 

Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company’s management is responsible for these 

financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of 

the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over 

Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements 

and on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our integrated audits. We conducted our 

audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those 

standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial 

statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting 

was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of the financial statements included examining, on a test basis, 

evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles 

used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. 

Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over 

financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and 

operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such 

other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable 

basis for our opinions.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance 

regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in 

accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting 

includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, 

accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable 

assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance 

with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being 

made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable 

assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the 

company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect 

misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that 

controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the 

policies or procedures may deteriorate.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Dallas, Texas

February 28, 2014
62FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

 December 31,

In thousands, except par value and share data 2013 2012

Assets

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents $ 12,187 $ 98,511

Restricted cash — 1,050,015

Accrued production receivable 262,047 253,131

Trade and other receivables, net 78,295 81,971

Derivative assets 5 19,477

Deferred tax assets 52,754 29,156

Other current assets 9,271 10,493

 Total current assets 414,559 1,542,754

Property and equipment

Oil and natural gas properties (using full cost accounting)

 Proved properties 8,945,326 6,963,211

 Unevaluated properties 780,481 809,154

CO2 properties 1,117,167 1,032,653

Pipelines and plants 2,209,560 2,035,126

Other property and equipment 466,969 417,207

Less accumulated depletion, depreciation, amortization and impairment (3,668,225) (3,180,241)

 Net property and equipment 9,851,278 8,077,110

Derivative assets 9,942 36

Goodwill 1,283,590 1,283,590

Other assets 229,368 235,852

 Total assets $11,788,737 $11,139,342 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

Current liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 410,543 $ 414,668

Oil and gas production payable 174,677 161,945

Derivative liabilities 53,822 2,842

Current maturities of long-term debt 36,157 36,966

 Total current liabilities 675,199 616,421

Long-term liabilities

Long-term debt, net of current portion 3,260,625 3,104,462

Asset retirement obligations 119,888 102,730

Derivative liabilities 3,413 23,781

Deferred tax liabilities 2,399,294 2,153,452

Other liabilities 28,912 23,607

 Total long-term liabilities 5,812,132 5,408,032

Commitments and contingencies (Note 11)

Stockholders’ equity

Preferred stock, $.001 par value, 25,000,000 shares authorized, 

 none issued and outstanding — —

Common stock, $.001 par value, 600,000,000 shares authorized; 409,215,573 

 and 406,163,194 shares issued, respectively 409 406

Paid-in capital in excess of par 3,186,714 3,136,461

Retained earnings 2,844,432 2,434,835

Accumulated other comprehensive loss (276) (348)

Treasury stock, at cost, 46,710,896 and 30,601,262 shares, respectively (729,873) (456,465)

 Total stockholders’ equity 5,301,406 5,114,889

 Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $11,788,737 $11,139,342

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
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Consolidated statements of operations

 Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per share data 2013 2012 2011

Revenues and other income

Oil, natural gas, and related product sales $2,466,234 $2,409,867 $ 2,269,151

CO2 sales and transportation fees 27,950 26,453 22,711

Interest income and other income 22,943 20,152 17,462

 Total revenues and other income 2,517,127 2,456,472 2,309,324

Expenses

Lease operating expenses 730,574 532,359 507,397

Marketing expenses 49,246 52,836 26,047

CO2 discovery and operating expenses 16,916 14,694 14,258

Taxes other than income 176,231 160,016 147,534

General and administrative expenses 145,211 144,019 125,525

Interest, net of amounts capitalized of $79,253, $77,432 and 

 $61,586, respectively 140,709 153,581 164,360

Depletion, depreciation and amortization 509,943 507,538 409,196

Commodity derivatives expense (income) 41,024 (4,834) (52,497)

Loss on early extinguishment of debt 44,651 — 16,131

Impairment of assets — 17,515 22,951

Other expenses 20,242 21,891 4,377

 Total expenses 1,874,747 1,599,615 1,385,279

Income before income taxes 642,380 856,857 924,045

Income tax provision 232,783 331,497 350,712

Net Income $ 409,597 $ 525,360 $ 573,333

Net income per common share

Basic $ 1.12 $ 1.36 $ 1.45

Diluted $ 1.11 $ 1.35 $ 1.43

Weighted average common shares outstanding

Basic 366,659 385,205 396,023

Diluted 369,877 388,938 400,958

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
64FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Operations

 Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Net income $409,597 $525,360 $573,333

Other comprehensive income, net of income tax:

 Interest rate lock derivative contracts reclassified to income, 

 net of tax of $40, $43 and $43, respectively 72 70 70

Total other comprehensive income 72 70 70

Comprehensive income $409,669 $525,430 $573,403

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
652013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

 Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Cash flow from operating activities

Net income $ 409,597 $ 525,360 $ 573,333

Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash flow 

 from operating activities

 Depletion, depreciation and amortization 509,943 507,538 409,196

 Deferred income taxes 222,526 255,743 342,463

 Stock-based compensation 33,003 29,310 33,190

 Commodity derivatives expense (income) 41,024 (4,834) (52,497)

 Cash receipt (payment) on settlements of commodity derivatives (662) 17,880 2,377

 Loss on early extinguishment of debt 44,651 — 16,131

 Amortization of debt issuance costs and discounts 14,023 14,695 16,954

 Impairment of assets — 17,515 22,951

 Other, net (2,318) 16,917 (4,190)

Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions

 Accrued production receivable (15,085) 36,234 (74,781)

 Trade and other receivables 4,981 45,836 (55,470)

 Other current and long-term assets 10,462 7,688 (15,817)

 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 91,816 5,828 (35,462)

 Oil and natural gas production payable 12,731 (23,460) 54,391

 Other liabilities (15,497) (41,359) (27,955)

Net cash provided by operating activities 1,361,195 1,410,891 1,204,814

Cash flow used for investing activities

 Oil and natural gas capital expenditures (900,221) (1,122,615) (1,082,853)

 Acquisitions of oil and natural gas properties (9,243) (156,082) (35,305)

 Cash paid in Riley Ridge acquisition — — (199,263)

 Bakken exchange transaction (10,385) 281,669 —

 CO2 capital expenditures (93,744) (131,043) (84,789)

 Pipelines and plants capital expenditures (184,286) (330,417) (236,133)

 Purchases of other assets (65,987) (25,765) (28,838)

 Net proceeds from sales of oil and natural gas properties 

 and equipment 8,037 34,750 69,370

 Net proceeds from sale of short-term investments — 83,545 —

 Other (19,480) (10,883) (8,147)

Net cash used for investing activities (1,275,309) (1,376,841) (1,605,958)

Cash flow provided by (used for) financing activities

 Bank repayments (1,550,000) (1,555,000) (330,000)

 Bank borrowings 1,190,000 1,870,000 715,000

 Repayment of senior subordinated notes (651,270) — (525,000)

 Premium paid on repayment of senior subordinated notes (36,475) — (13,137)

 Net proceeds from issuance of senior subordinated notes 1,200,000 — 400,000

 Costs of debt financing (20,161) (34) (13,123)

 Common stock repurchase program (281,958) (251,480) (195,227)

 Other (22,346) (17,718) (545)

Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities (172,210) 45,768 37,968

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents (86,324) 79,818 (363,176)

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year 98,511 18,693 381,869

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year $ 12,187 $ 98,511 $ 18,693

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
66FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Consolidated Statements of stockholders’ equity

 Paid-In Accumulated 

 Common Stock Capital in Other Treasury Stock

($.001 Par Value) Excess of Retained Comprehensive (at cost) Total

Dollar amounts in thousands Shares Amount Par Earnings Income (Loss) Shares Amount Equity

Balance – December 31, 2010 400,291,033 $400 $3,045,937 $1,336,142 $(488) 78,524 $ (1,284) $4,380,707

Stock Repurchase Program — — — — — 14,112,610 (195,227) (195,227)

Issued or purchased pursuant to employee stock 

compensation plans 2,623,962 3 4,685 — — — — 4,688

Issued pursuant to employee stock purchase plan 11,330 — (1,623) — — (666,867) 12,858 11,235

Issued pursuant to directors’ compensation plan 19,745 — 309 — — — — 309

Stock-based compensation — — 40,187 — — — — 40,187

Income tax benefit from equity awards — — 879 — — — — 879

Tax withholding – stock compensation — — — — — 441,406 (9,683) (9,683)

Derivative contracts, net — — — — 70 — — 70

Net income — — — 573,333 — — — 573,333

Balance – December 31, 2011 402,946,070 403 3,090,374 1,909,475 (418) 13,965,673 (193,336) 4,806,498

Stock Repurchase Program — — — — — 16,978,008 (266,657) (266,657)

Issued or purchased pursuant to employee stock 

compensation plans 3,197,476 3 6,021 — — — — 6,024

Issued pursuant to employee stock purchase plan — — 1,607 — — (815,385) 11,653 13,260

Issued pursuant to directors’ compensation plan 19,648 — 321 — — — — 321

Stock-based compensation — — 37,897 — — — — 37,897

Income tax benefit from equity awards — — 241 — — — — 241

Tax withholding – stock compensation — — — — — 472,966 (8,125) (8,125)

Derivative contracts, net — — — — 70 — — 70

Net income — — — 525,360 — — — 525,360

Balance – December 31, 2012 406,163,194 406 3,136,461 2,434,835 (348) 30,601,262 (456,465) 5,114,889

Stock Repurchase Program — — — — — 16,468,648 (277,768) (277,768)

Issued or purchased pursuant to employee stock 

compensation plans 3,038,767 3 5,486 — — — — 5,489

Issued pursuant to employee stock purchase plan — — 1,844 — — (860,901) 13,260 15,104

Issued pursuant to directors’ compensation plan 13,612 — 344 — — — — 344

Stock-based compensation — — 42,091 — — — — 42,091

Income tax benefit from equity awards — — 488 — — — — 488

Tax withholding – stock compensation — — — — — 501,887 (8,900) (8,900)

Derivative contracts, net — — — — 72 — — 72

Net income — — — 409,597 — — — 409,597

Balance – December 31, 2013 409,215,573 $409 $3,186,714 $2,844,432 $(276) 46,710,896 $(729,873) $5,301,406

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
672013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

Note 1. Significant Accounting Policies

Organization and Nature of Operations

Denbury Resources Inc., a Delaware corporation, is a growing, dividend-paying, domestic oil and natural gas 

company. Our primary focus is on enhanced oil recovery utilizing CO2, and our operations are focused in two key 

operating areas: the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. Our goal is to increase the value of our acquired 

properties through a combination of exploitation, drilling and proven engineering extraction practices, with the most 

significant emphasis relating to tertiary recovery operations.

Principles of Reporting and Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements herein have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles 

generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) and include the accounts of Denbury and entities in which we hold 

a controlling financial interest. Undivided interests in oil and gas joint ventures are consolidated on a proportionate 

basis. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and 

assumptions that affect the reported amount of certain assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and 

liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during each 

reporting period. Management believes its estimates and assumptions are reasonable; however, such estimates 

and assumptions are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially 

from such estimates. Significant estimates underlying these financial statements include (1) the fair value of 

financial derivative instruments; (2) the estimated quantities of proved oil and natural gas reserves used to compute 

depletion of oil and natural gas properties, the related present value of estimated future net cash flows therefrom 

and the ceiling test; (3) the estimated quantities of proved and probable CO2 reserves used to compute depletion of 

CO2 properties; (4) accruals related to oil and natural gas sales volumes and revenues, capital expenditures and 

lease operating expenses; (5) the estimated costs and timing of future asset retirement obligations; (6) estimates 

made in the calculation of income taxes; and (7) estimates made in determining the fair values for purchase price 

allocations, including goodwill. While management is not aware of any significant revisions to any of its estimates, 

there will likely be future revisions to its estimates resulting from matters such as revisions in estimated oil and 

natural gas volumes, changes in ownership interests, payouts, joint venture audits, re-allocations by purchasers or 

pipelines, or other corrections and adjustments common in the oil and natural gas industry, many of which require 

retroactive application. These types of adjustments cannot be currently estimated and will be recorded in the period 

in which the adjustment occurs.

Reclassifications

Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. Such 

reclassifications had no impact on our reported net income, current assets, total assets, current liabilities, total 

liabilities or stockholders’ equity.

Cash Equivalents

We consider all highly liquid investments to be cash equivalents if they have maturities of three months or less at 

the date of purchase.

Restricted Cash

Restricted cash at December 31, 2012 consisted of proceeds from the exchange of oil and gas properties with 

Exxon Mobil Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, XTO Energy Inc., (see Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures) 

previously held by a qualified intermediary and which were restricted for application towards future acquisitions 

to enable like-kind-exchange transactions for federal income tax purposes, which exchange transactions took place 

in 2013.
68FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Oil and Natural Gas Properties

Capitalized Costs. We follow the full cost method of accounting for oil and natural gas properties. Under this 

method, all costs related to acquisitions, exploration and development of oil and natural gas reserves are capitalized 

and accumulated in a single cost center representing our activities, which are undertaken exclusively in the 

United States. Such costs include lease acquisition costs, geological and geophysical expenditures, lease rentals on 

undeveloped properties, costs of drilling both productive and nonproductive wells, capitalized interest on 

qualifying projects, and general and administrative expenses directly related to exploration and development 

activities, and do not include any costs related to production, general corporate overhead or similar activities. 

We assign the purchase price of oil and natural gas properties we acquire to proved and unevaluated properties 

based on the estimated fair values as defined in the Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification (“FASC”) 

Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures topic. Proceeds received from disposals are credited against accumulated 

costs except when the sale represents a significant disposal of reserves, in which case a gain or loss would be 

recognized. A disposal of 25% or more of our proved reserves would be considered significant.

Depletion and Depreciation. The costs capitalized, including production equipment and future development costs, 

are depleted or depreciated using the unit-of-production method, based on proved oil and natural gas reserves as 

determined by independent petroleum engineers. Oil and natural gas reserves are converted to equivalent units on a 

basis of 6,000 cubic feet of natural gas to one barrel of crude oil.

Under full cost accounting, we may exclude certain unevaluated costs from the amortization base pending 

determination of whether proved reserves can be assigned to such properties. The costs classified as unevaluated are 

transferred to the full cost amortization base as the properties are developed, tested and evaluated.

Ceiling Test. The net capitalized costs of oil and natural gas properties are limited to the lower of unamortized cost 

or the cost center ceiling. The cost center ceiling is defined as (1) the present value of estimated future net revenues 

from proved oil and natural gas reserves before future abandonment costs (discounted at 10%), based on the average 

first-day-of-the-month oil and natural gas price for each month during the 12-month period prior to the end of a 

particular reporting period; plus (2) the cost of properties not being amortized; plus (3) the lower of cost or estimated 

fair value of unproved properties included in the costs being amortized, if any; less (4) related income tax effects. 

Our future net revenues from proved oil and natural gas reserves are not reduced for development costs related to 

the cost of drilling for and developing CO2 reserves nor those related to the cost of constructing CO2 pipelines, as 

those costs have previously been incurred by the Company. Therefore, we include in the ceiling test, as a reduction 

of future net revenues, that portion of our capitalized CO2 costs related to CO2 reserves and CO2 pipelines that we 

estimate will be consumed in the process of producing our proved oil and natural gas reserves. The fair value of our 

oil and natural gas derivative contracts is not included in the ceiling test, as we do not designate these contracts 

as hedge instruments for accounting purposes. The cost center ceiling test is prepared quarterly. We did not have a 

ceiling test write-down during the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 or 2011.

Joint Interest Operations. Substantially all of our oil and natural gas exploration and production activities are 

conducted jointly with others. These financial statements reflect only our proportionate interest in such activities, and 

any amounts due from other partners are included in trade receivables.

Tertiary Injection Costs. Our tertiary operations are conducted in reservoirs that have already produced significant 

amounts of oil over many years; however, in accordance with the SEC rules and regulations for recording proved 

reserves, we cannot recognize proved reserves associated with enhanced recovery techniques, such as CO2 injection, 

until there is a production response to the injected CO2, or unless the field is analogous to an existing flood. 

We capitalize, as a development cost, injection costs in fields that are in their development stage, which means we 

have not yet seen incremental oil production due to the CO2 injections (i.e., a production response). These 

capitalized development costs are included in our unevaluated property costs if there are not already proved tertiary 

reserves in that field. After we see a production response to the CO2 injections (i.e., the production stage), 

injection costs are expensed as incurred, and once proved reserves are recognized, previously deferred unevaluated 

development costs become subject to depletion.

CO2 Properties

We own and produce CO2 reserves, a non-hydrocarbon resource, that are used in our tertiary oil recovery 

operations on our own behalf and on behalf of other interest owners in enhanced recovery fields, with a portion sold 

to third-party industrial users. We record revenue from our sales of CO2 to third parties when it is produced and 

sold. Expenses related to the production of CO2 are allocated between volumes sold to third parties and volumes 
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consumed internally that are directly related to our tertiary production. The expenses related to third-party sales are 

recorded in “CO2 discovery and operating expenses,” and the expenses related to internal use are recorded in 

“Lease operating expenses” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, or are capitalized as oil and gas properties 

in our Consolidated Balance Sheets, depending on the stage of the tertiary flood that is receiving the CO2 (see 

Tertiary Injection Costs above for further discussion).

Costs incurred to search for CO2 are expensed as incurred until proved or probable reserves are established. Once 

proved or probable reserves are established, costs incurred to obtain those reserves are capitalized and classified 

as “CO2 properties” on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Capitalized CO2 costs are aggregated by geologic formation 

and depleted on a unit-of-production basis over proved and probable reserves.

During 2010 and 2011, we acquired interests in the Riley Ridge Federal Unit (“Riley Ridge”), which contains helium 

and CO2 reserves (non-hydrocarbon resources) as well as natural gas reserves (a hydrocarbon resource). It is not 

possible to separately identify the capitalized costs related to the development of each product in the commingled 

gas stream; thus, these costs are allocated to each product based on the relative future revenue value of each 

product line and classified accordingly on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The portion of our capitalized CO2 costs related to CO2 reserves and CO2 pipelines that we estimate will be 

consumed in the process of producing our proved oil reserves is included in the ceiling test as a reduction to future 

net revenues. The remaining net capitalized CO2 properties, equipment and pipelines balance is evaluated for 

impairment by comparing the net carrying costs to the expected future net revenues from (1) the production of our 

probable and possible tertiary oil reserves and (2) the sale of CO2 to third-party industrial users.

Pipelines and Plants

CO2 used in our tertiary floods is transported to our fields through CO2 pipelines. Costs of CO2 pipelines under 

construction are not depreciated until the pipelines are placed into service. Pipelines are depreciated on a straight-line 

basis over their estimated useful lives, which range from 15 to 50 years.

Pipelines and plants include the Riley Ridge gas processing facility in southwestern Wyoming. We placed the 

Riley Ridge gas processing facility in service in the fourth quarter of 2013. Individual components of the plant are 

depreciated on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, which range from 20 to 50 years.

Property and Equipment – Other

Other property and equipment, which includes furniture and fixtures, vehicles, computer equipment and software, 

and capitalized leases, is depreciated principally on a straight-line basis over each asset’s estimated useful life. 

Vehicles and furniture and fixtures are generally depreciated over a useful life of five to ten years, and computer 

equipment and software are generally depreciated over a useful life of three to five years. Leasehold improvements 

are amortized over the shorter of the estimated useful life or the remaining lease term.

Leased property meeting certain capital lease criteria is capitalized, and the present value of the related lease 

payments is recorded as a liability. Amortization of capitalized leased assets is computed using the straight-line 

method over the shorter of the estimated useful life or the initial lease term.

Maintenance and repair costs that do not extend the useful life of the property or equipment are charged to expense 

as incurred.

Asset Retirement Obligations

In general, our future asset retirement obligations relate to future costs associated with plugging and abandoning 

our oil, natural gas and CO2 wells, removing equipment and facilities from leased acreage, and returning land to 

its original condition. The fair value of a liability for an asset retirement obligation is recorded in the period in which 

it is incurred, discounted to its present value using our credit-adjusted-risk-free interest rate, and a corresponding 

amount capitalized by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset. The liability is accreted each 

period, and the capitalized cost is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. Revisions to estimated 

retirement obligations will result in an adjustment to the related capitalized asset and corresponding liability. If the 

liability is settled for an amount other than the recorded amount, the difference is recorded to the full cost pool, 

unless significant.
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Asset retirement obligations are estimated at the present value of expected future net cash flows and are discounted 

using our credit-adjusted-risk-free rate. We utilize unobservable inputs in the estimation of asset retirement 

obligations that include, but are not limited to, costs of labor and materials, profits on costs of labor and materials, 

the effect of inflation on estimated costs, and the discount rate. Accordingly, asset retirement obligations are 

considered a Level 3 measurement under the FASC Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures topic.

Commodity Derivative Contracts

We utilize oil and natural gas derivative contracts to mitigate our exposure to commodity price risk associated with 

our future oil and natural gas production. These derivative contracts have historically consisted of options, in the 

form of price floors or collars, and fixed price swaps. Our derivative financial instruments are recorded on the balance 

sheet as either an asset or a liability measured at fair value. We do not apply hedge accounting to our oil and 

natural gas derivative contracts; accordingly, the changes in the fair value of these instruments are recognized in our 

Consolidated Statements of Operations in the period of change.

Financial Instruments with Off-Balance-Sheet Risk and Concentrations of Credit Risk

Our financial instruments that are exposed to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash equivalents, 

trade and accrued production receivables, and the derivative instruments discussed above. Our cash equivalents 

represent high-quality securities placed with various investment-grade institutions. This investment practice limits our 

exposure to concentrations of credit risk. Our trade and accrued production receivables are dispersed among 

various customers and purchasers; therefore, concentrations of credit risk are limited. We evaluate the credit ratings 

of our purchasers, and if customers are considered a credit risk, letters of credit are the primary security obtained

to support lines of credit. We attempt to minimize our credit risk exposure to the counterparties of our oil and natural 

gas derivative contracts through formal credit policies, monitoring procedures and diversification. All of our 

derivative contracts are with banks, which are part of the syndicate of banks in our bank credit facility, or with their 

affiliates. There are no margin requirements with the counterparties of our derivative contracts.

Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net assets acquired in 

the acquisition of a business. Goodwill is not amortized; rather, it is tested for impairment annually during the fourth 

quarter and when events or changes in circumstances indicate that it is more likely than not the fair value of a 

reporting unit with goodwill has been reduced below its carrying value. The impairment test requires allocating 

goodwill and other assets and liabilities to reporting units. However, we have only one reporting unit. To assess 

impairment, we have the option to qualitatively assess if it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting 

unit is less than the carrying value. Absent a qualitative assessment, or, through the qualitative assessment, 

if we determine it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the carrying value, a 

quantitative assessment is prepared to calculate the fair market value of the reporting unit. If it is determined that 

the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the carrying value, the recorded goodwill is impaired to its implied fair 

value with a charge to operating expense. We completed our annual goodwill impairment assessment during the 

fourth quarter of 2013 and did not record any goodwill impairment during 2013, nor have we recorded a goodwill 

impairment historically.

The following table summarizes the changes in goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012:

 Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012

Beginning of year balance $1,283,590 $1,236,318

Goodwill related to the Thompson Field acquisition — 47,272

End of year balance $1,283,590 $1,283,590
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Our intangible assets subject to amortization primarily consist of amounts assigned in purchase accounting to 

helium production rights at the Riley Ridge Federal Unit in Wyoming and a CO2 purchase contract with ConocoPhillips 

to offtake CO2 from the Lost Cabin gas plant in Wyoming. We amortize our helium production rights on a unit-ofproduction basis over estimated helium reserves and amortize the CO2 contract intangible asset on a straight-line 

basis over the contract term. Total amortization expense related to these assets was $1.3 million during the year 

ended December 31, 2013. The following table summarizes the intangible asset value and related accumulated 

amortization as of December 31, 2013 and 2012:

 Helium CO2

 Production Purchase

In thousands Rights Contract Total

December 31, 2013

Intangible asset value $ 55,266 $33,931 $89,197

Accumulated amortization — (1,319) (1,319)

 Net book value as of December 31, 2013 $ 55,266 $32,612 $ 87,878

December 31, 2012

Intangible asset value $ 55,266 $ 33,901 $89,167

Accumulated amortization — — —

 Net book value as of December 31, 2012 $ 55,266 $ 33,901 $89,167

At December 31, 2013, our estimated amortization expense for our intangible assets subject to amortization over 

the next five years is as follows:

In thousands

2014 $2,748

2015 2,843

2016 2,915

2017 2,915

2018 3,568

The recoverability of the carrying amount of intangible assets is assessed whenever events or changes in 

circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the asset or asset group may not be recoverable. An impairment 

loss would be assessed when estimated undiscounted future cash flows from the operation and disposition of the 

asset group are less than the carrying amount of the asset group. Measurement of an impairment loss is based on 

the excess of the carrying amount of the asset group over its fair value. Fair value is measured using discounted cash 

flows or independent appraisals, as appropriate.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue Recognition. Revenue is recognized at the time oil and natural gas is produced and sold. Any amounts 

due from purchasers of oil and natural gas are included in accrued production receivable.

We follow the sales method of accounting for our oil and natural gas revenue, whereby we recognize revenue on 

all oil or natural gas sold to our purchasers regardless of whether the sales are proportionate to our ownership in 

the property. A receivable or liability is recognized only to the extent that we have an imbalance on a specific 

property greater than the expected remaining proved reserves. As of December 31, 2013 and 2012, our aggregate oil 

and natural gas imbalances were not material to our consolidated financial statements.

We recognize revenue and expenses of purchased producing properties at the time we assume effective control, 

commencing from either the closing or purchase agreement date, depending on the underlying terms and 

agreements. We follow the same methodology in reverse when we sell properties by recognizing revenue and 

expenses of the sold properties until the closing date.

Significant Oil and Natural Gas Purchasers. Oil and natural gas sales are made on a day-to-day basis or under 

short-term contracts at the current area market price. We do not expect that the loss of any purchaser would have a 

material adverse effect upon our operations. For the year ended December 31, 2013, three purchasers accounted for 

10% or more of our oil and natural gas revenues: Marathon Petroleum Company (33%), Plains Marketing LP (15%), and 

Eighty-Eight Oil LLC (10%). For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, two purchasers accounted for 10% 

or more of our oil and natural gas revenues: Marathon Petroleum Company (39% and 43% in 2012 and 2011, 

respectively) and Plains Marketing LP (17% and 16% in 2012 and 2011, respectively).
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Income Taxes

Income taxes are accounted for using the asset and liability method, under which deferred income taxes are 

recognized for the future tax effects of temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and 

the tax basis of existing assets and liabilities using the enacted statutory tax rates in effect at year end. The effect 

on deferred taxes for a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. 

A valuation allowance for deferred tax assets is recorded when it is more likely than not that the benefit from the 

deferred tax asset will not be realized.

We recognize the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position 

will be sustained upon examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax 

benefits recognized in the financial statements from such a position are measured based on the largest benefit that 

has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement.

Net Income Per Common Share

Basic net income per common share is computed by dividing the net income attributable to common stockholders 

by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted net income 

per common share is calculated in the same manner, but includes the impact of potentially dilutive securities. 

Potentially dilutive securities consist of stock options, stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), nonvested restricted stock 

and nonvested performance equity awards. For each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2013, 

there were no adjustments to net income for purposes of calculating basic and diluted net income per common share.

The following is a reconciliation of the weighted average shares used in the basic and diluted net income per 

common share calculations for the periods indicated:

 Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Basic weighted average common shares 366,659 385,205 396,023

Potentially dilutive securities:

Restricted stock, stock options, SARs and 

 performance-based equity awards 3,218 3,733 4,935

Diluted weighted average common shares 369,877 388,938 400,958

Basic weighted average common shares excludes shares of nonvested restricted stock. As these restricted shares 

vest, they will be included in the shares outstanding used to calculate basic net income per common share (although 

all restricted stock is issued and outstanding upon grant). For purposes of calculating diluted weighted average 

common shares, the nonvested restricted stock is included in the computation using the treasury stock method, with 

the deemed proceeds equal to the average unrecognized compensation during the period, adjusted for any 

estimated future tax consequences recognized directly in equity. Stock options and SARs of 3.6 million, 4.1 million 

and 5.0 million shares for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively, were not included in 

the computation of diluted net income per share as their effect would have been antidilutive.

Environmental and Litigation Contingencies

The Company makes judgments and estimates in recording liabilities for contingencies such as environmental 

remediation or ongoing litigation. Liabilities are recorded when it is both probable that a loss has been incurred and 

such loss is reasonably estimable. Assessments of liabilities are based on information obtained from independent 

and in-house experts, loss experience in similar situations, actual costs incurred, and other case-by-case factors. Any 

related insurance recoveries are recognized in our financial statements during the period received or at the time 

receipt is determined to be virtually certain.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Balance Sheet-Offsetting Assets and Liabilities. In December 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board 

(“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2011-11, Disclosure about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities

(“ASU 2011-11”). ASU 2011-11 requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to 

enable users of its financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on its financial position. In 

January 2013, the FASB issued ASU 2013-01, Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities

(“ASU 2013-01”). The update clarifies that the scope of ASU 2011-11 applies to derivatives accounted for in 

accordance with the Derivatives and Hedging topic of the FASC, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, 
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repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, and securities borrowing and securities lending 

transactions that are either offset or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. 

ASU 2011-11 and ASU 2013-01 became effective for our fiscal year beginning January 1, 2013, and have been 

applied retrospectively for all comparative periods presented. The adoption of ASU 2011-11 and ASU 2013-01 did 

not affect our consolidated financial statements, but required additional disclosures in the notes thereto.

Note 2. Acquisitions and Divestitures

Fair Value

The FASC Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures topic defines fair value as the price that would be received 

to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement 

date (often referred to as the “exit price”). The fair value measurement is based on the assumptions of market 

participants and not those of the reporting entity. Therefore, entity-specific intentions do not impact the measurement 

of fair value unless those assumptions are consistent with market participant views.

The fair value of oil and natural gas properties is based on significant inputs not observable in the market, which 

the FASC Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures topic defines as Level 3 inputs. Key assumptions may include 

(1) NYMEX oil and natural gas futures (this input is observable); (2) dollar-per-acre values of recent sale transactions 

(this input is observable); (3) projections of the estimated quantities of oil and natural gas reserves, including those 

classified as proved, probable and possible; (4) estimated oil and natural gas pricing differentials; (5) projections of 

future rates of production; (6) timing and amount of future development and operating costs; (7) projected costs 

of CO2 (to a market participant); (8) projected reserve recovery factors; and (9) risk-adjusted discount rates.

2013 Acquisition

Cedar Creek Anticline Acquisition. In January 2013, we entered into an agreement to acquire producing assets 

in the Cedar Creek Anticline (“CCA”) of Montana and North Dakota from a wholly-owned subsidiary of ConocoPhillips 

Company (“ConocoPhillips”) for $1.05 billion ($1.0 billion after final closing adjustments primarily for revenues 

and costs of the purchased properties from the January 1, 2013 effective date to the closing date). We closed the 

acquisition on March 27, 2013, funding the purchase price with a portion of the cash proceeds from the Bakken 

Exchange Transaction (described below). This acquisition meets the definition of a business under the FASC Business 

Combinations topic. Accordingly, we estimated the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the 

closing date of the acquisition, using a discounted future net cash flow model.

We finalized our estimate of the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed during 2013, after 

consideration of final closing adjustments, evaluation of oil and natural gas properties, other assets and related asset 

retirement obligations. The following table presents a summary of the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities 

assumed in the CCA acquisition:

In thousands

Consideration

Cash consideration (1) $1,001,707

Fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed

Oil and natural gas properties

 Proved properties 783,507

 Unevaluated properties 222,820

Other assets 2,589

Asset retirement obligations (7,209)

 $1,001,707

(1) See Note 6, Income Taxes, for additional information regarding the like-kind-exchange transaction utilized to fund this purchase and Note 13, 

Supplemental Cash Flow Information, for supplemental cash flow information regarding the cash payment.

For the period from March 27, 2013 to December 31, 2013, we recognized $268.3 million of oil, natural gas, 

and related product sales from the property interests acquired in the CCA acquisition; during that same period, 

we recognized $194.2 million of net field operating income (defined as oil, natural gas and related product 

sales less lease operating expenses, production and ad valorem taxes, and marketing expenses) related to the 

CCA acquisition.
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2012 Acquisitions and Divestitures

Bakken Exchange Transaction. In late 2012, we closed a sale and exchange transaction (the “Bakken Exchange 

Transaction”) with Exxon Mobil Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. (collectively, 

“ExxonMobil”) in which we sold to ExxonMobil our Bakken area assets in North Dakota and Montana in exchange for 

(1) $1.3 billion in cash (after closing adjustments), (2) ExxonMobil’s operating interests in Webster Field in Texas 

and Hartzog Draw Field in Wyoming, and (3) approximately a one-third overriding royalty ownership interest in 

ExxonMobil’s CO2 reserves in LaBarge Field in Wyoming.

This acquisition meets the definition of a business under the FASC Business Combinations topic. We finalized our 

estimate of the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed during 2013, after consideration of final closing 

adjustments and evaluation of reserves. The following table presents a summary of the fair value of assets acquired 

and liabilities assumed in the Bakken Exchange Transaction:

In thousands

Consideration

Fair value of net assets transferred $1,866,107

Less: Fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed

Cash (1) 1,277,041

Oil and natural gas properties

 Proved properties 182,289

 Unevaluated properties 90,690

CO2 properties 314,505

Other property and equipment 23,424

Other assets 477

Other liabilities (8,528)

Asset retirement obligations (13,791)

Fair value of net assets acquired $1,866,107

(1) See Note 13, Supplemental Cash Flow Information, for additional information regarding the placement of $1.05 billion of the proceeds in a qualified 

trust in order to enable a like-kind exchange transaction for federal income tax purposes.

Thompson Field Acquisition. In June 2012, we acquired a nearly 100% working interest and 84.7% net revenue 

interest in Thompson Field for $366.2 million after closing adjustments. The field is located in close proximity to 

Hastings Field (an enhanced oil recovery field that we are currently flooding with CO2), which is the current terminus 

of the Green Pipeline, which transports CO2 both from the Jackson Dome area near Jackson, Mississippi, and 

from various anthropogenic sources along the route of the pipeline. Thompson Field is similar to Hastings Field, 

producing oil from the Frio zone at similar depths, and is also a planned future tertiary field. Under the terms of 

the Thompson Field acquisition agreement, the seller will retain approximately a 5% gross revenue interest (less 

severance taxes) once average monthly oil production exceeds 3,000 Bbls/d after the initiation of CO2 injection.

This acquisition meets the definition of a business under the FASC Business Combinations topic. The fair values 

assigned to assets acquired and liabilities assumed in this acquisition have been finalized, and no adjustments have 

been made to fair value amounts previously disclosed in our Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2012. 

The following table presents a summary of the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the Thompson 

Field acquisition:

In thousands

Consideration

Cash consideration (1) $366,179

Less: Fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed

Oil and natural gas properties

 Proved properties 305,233

 Unevaluated properties 12,023

Pipelines and plants 2,000

Other assets 2,957

Asset retirement obligations (3,306)

 318,907

Goodwill $ 47,272

(1) See Note 6, Income Taxes, for additional information regarding the like-kind-exchange transaction utilized to fund this purchase and Note 13, 

Supplemental Cash Flow Information, for supplemental cash flow information regarding the cash payment.
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Unaudited Pro Forma Acquisition Information. The following combined pro forma total revenues and other 

income and net income are presented as if the previously discussed CCA acquisition, Bakken Exchange Transaction 

and Thompson Field acquisition had occurred on January 1, 2012:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per-share data 2013 2012

Pro forma total revenues and other income $2,599,301 $2,570,829

Pro forma net income 437,616 582,033

Pro forma net income per common share

Basic $ 1.19 $ 1.51

Diluted 1.18 1.50

Other 2012 Divestitures. In April 2012, we completed the sale of certain non-operated assets in the Paradox Basin 

of Utah for $68.5 million, after final closing adjustments. The sale had an effective date of January 1, 2012. In 

February 2012, we completed the sale of certain non-core assets primarily located in central and southern Mississippi 

and in southern Louisiana for net proceeds of $141.8 million, after final closing adjustments. The sale had an 

effective date of December 1, 2011. We did not record a gain or loss on these divestitures in accordance with the full 

cost method of accounting. Certain of our 2012 divestitures were structured as like-kind-exchange transactions for 

federal income tax purposes. See Note 6, Income Taxes, for further details.

Note 3. Asset Retirement Obligations

The following table summarizes the changes in our asset retirement obligations for the years ended December 31, 

2013 and 2012:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012

Beginning asset retirement obligation $106,430 $ 93,468

Liabilities incurred and assumed during period 22,216 50,956

Revisions in estimated retirement obligations 4,730 5,334

Liabilities settled and sold during period (15,523) (50,556)

Accretion expense 8,448 7,228

Ending asset retirement obligation 126,301 106,430

Less: current asset retirement obligation (1) (6,413) (3,700)

Long-term asset retirement obligation $119,888 $102,730

(1) Included in “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” in our Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Liabilities incurred and assumed generally relate to the drilling of incremental wells and liabilities assumed upon 

the purchase of additional interests in the CCA during 2013 and the acquisition of Thompson, Webster and Hartzog 

Draw fields during 2012. Liabilities settled and sold in 2012 include the plugging of old wells in the Tinsley Field 

and sales of non-core assets located in the Paradox Basin of Utah, Gulf Coast region and Bakken area assets in 

North Dakota and Montana.

We have escrow accounts that are legally restricted for certain of our asset retirement obligations. The balances of 

these escrow accounts were $36.0 million and $35.2 million at December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. These 

balances are primarily invested in U.S. Treasury bonds, are recorded at amortized cost and are included in “Other 

assets” in our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The carrying value of these investments approximates their estimated 

fair market value at December 31, 2013 and 2012.
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Note 4. Property and Equipment

The following table presents a summary of our net property and equipment balances as of December 31, 2013 

and 2012:

December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012

Oil and natural gas properties

Proved properties $ 8,945,326 $ 6,963,211

Unevaluated properties 780,481 809,154

 Total 9,725,807 7,772,365

Accumulated depletion and depreciation (3,219,500) (2,827,256)

 Net oil and natural gas properties 6,506,307 4,945,109

CO2 properties

CO2 properties 1,117,167 1,032,653

Accumulated depletion and depreciation (150,968) (119,784)

 Net CO2 properties 966,199 912,869

Pipelines and plants

CO2 pipelines (1) 1,681,774 1,632,255

Plants 527,786 402,871

 Total 2,209,560 2,035,126

Accumulated depletion and depreciation (134,697) (99,185)

 Net plants and pipelines 2,074,863 1,935,941

Other property and equipment

Other property and equipment 466,969 417,207

Accumulated depletion and depreciation (163,060) (134,016)

 Net other property and equipment 303,909 283,191

 Net property and equipment $ 9,851,278 $ 8,077,110

(1) Amounts include $48.4 million of CO2 pipelines at December 31, 2013 that were under construction and not subject to depreciation during 2013.

A summary of the unevaluated property costs excluded from oil and natural gas properties being amortized at 

December 31, 2013, and the year in which the costs were incurred follows:

December 31, 2013

Costs Incurred During:

In thousands 2013 2012 2011 2010 and Prior Total

Property acquisition costs $215,822 $109,275 $12,543 $ 317,226 $654,866

Exploration and development 41,157 22,080 7,408 10,825 81,470

Capitalized interest 25,222 12,084 6,018 821 44,145

Total $282,201 $143,439 $25,969 $328,872 $780,481

Our 2013 property acquisition costs were primarily related to the fair value allocated to the purchase of additional 

interests in the CCA. Our 2012 property acquisition costs were primarily related to the fair value allocated to our 

Hartzog Draw and Thompson fields. Property acquisition costs for 2010 and prior were primarily related to the fair 

value allocated to CO2 tertiary potential at our Cedar Creek Anticline properties, acquired as part of the merger 

with Encore Acquisition Company (“Encore”), as well as CO2 tertiary potential at Conroe Field. Exploration and 

development costs shown as unevaluated properties are primarily associated with our tertiary oil fields that are under 

development but did not have proved reserves at December 31, 2013. The most significant development costs 

incurred during 2013, 2012 and 2011 relate to development in preparation for the CO2 flood at Grieve field, which 

began in 2013. We have not yet recognized proved reserves in this field.

During 2013, we established proved reserves at Bell Creek Field and, as a result, transferred $417.6 million of costs 

incurred on these projects into the amortization base. Costs are transferred into the amortization base on an 

ongoing basis as projects are evaluated and proved reserves established or impairment determined. We review the 

excluded properties for impairment at least annually. We currently estimate that evaluation of most of these 

properties and the inclusion of their costs in the amortization base is expected to be completed within five to ten 

years. Until we are able to determine whether there are any proved reserves attributable to the above costs, we are 

not able to assess the future impact on the amortization rate of the full cost pool.
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Note 5. Long-Term Debt

The following long-term debt and capital lease obligations were outstanding as of December 31, 2013 and 2012:

December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012

Bank Credit Agreement $ 340,000 $ 700,000

91/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, including premium of $9,118 — 234,038

93/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, including discount of $13,569 — 412,781

81/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 996,273 996,273

63/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021 400,000 400,000

45/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2023 1,200,000 —

Other Subordinated Notes, including premium of $16 and $25, respectively 3,823 3,832

Pipeline financings 228,167 236,244

Capital lease obligations 128,519 158,260

Total 3,296,782 3,141,428

Less: current obligations (36,157) (36,966)

Long-term debt and capital lease obligations $ 3,260,625 $ 3,104,462

The ultimate parent company in our corporate structure, Denbury Resources Inc. (“DRI”), is the sole issuer of all 

of our outstanding senior subordinated notes. DRI has no independent assets or operations. Each of the subsidiary 

guarantors of such notes is 100% owned, directly or indirectly, by DRI; any subsidiaries of DRI other than the 

subsidiary guarantors are minor subsidiaries, and the guarantees of the notes are full and unconditional and joint 

and several.

$1.6 Billion Revolving Credit Agreement

In March 2010, we entered into a $1.6 billion revolving credit agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 

(“JPMorgan”), as administrative agent, and other lenders party thereto (as amended, the “Bank Credit Agreement”). 

Availability under the Bank Credit Agreement is subject to a borrowing base, which is redetermined semi-annually 

on or prior to May 1 and November 1 of each year, and additionally upon requested special redeterminations. 

The borrowing base is adjusted at the lenders’ discretion and is based in part upon external factors over which 

we have no control (including approval by the lenders party to the Bank Credit Agreement). If our outstanding 

credit under the Bank Credit Agreement exceeds the then effective borrowing base, we would be required to repay 

the excess amount over a period not to exceed four months. As part of the semi-annual review completed in 

October 2013 pursuant to the terms of the Bank Credit Agreement, our borrowing base was reaffirmed at $1.6 billion 

effective November 1, 2013, with approval by all of the lenders. The weighted average interest rate on borrowings 

outstanding as of December 31, 2013 under the Bank Credit Agreement was 1.9%. Loans under the Bank Credit 

Agreement mature in May 2016.

The Bank Credit Agreement is secured by substantially all of the proved oil and natural gas properties of DRI’s 

restricted subsidiaries (which does not include minor subsidiaries) and by the equity interests of such restricted 

subsidiaries. In addition, our obligations under the Bank Credit Agreement are guaranteed jointly and severally by 

DRI’s restricted subsidiaries.

The Bank Credit Agreement contains several restrictive covenants including, among others:

• a requirement to maintain a current ratio, as determined under the Bank Credit Agreement, of not less than 

1.0 to 1.0;

• a requirement to maintain a maximum permitted ratio of consolidated total debt to Consolidated EBITDA 

(as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement) of DRI and its restricted subsidiaries of not more than 4.25 to 1.0;

• a prohibition against incurring debt, subject to permitted exceptions; and

• a limitation on the aggregate amount of forecasted oil and natural gas production that can be economically 

hedged with oil or natural gas derivative contracts.
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Under the Bank Credit Agreement, we are permitted to make unlimited distributions in the form of repurchases of 

Denbury common stock and payments of cash dividends on Denbury common stock, provided that (1) prior to 

and after making any such distribution (a) no default or borrowing base deficiency exists, and (b) we are in 

compliance with the first two financial covenants described immediately above (calculated on a pro forma basis after 

giving effect to the making of any such distribution), and (2) we have minimum availability of at least 10% of our 

borrowing base on the date such distribution is made.

Loans under the Bank Credit Agreement are subject to varying rates of interest based on (1) the total outstanding 

credit in relation to the borrowing base and (2) whether the loan is a Eurodollar loan or a base rate loan. Eurodollar 

loans bear interest at the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate (as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement) plus the applicable 

margin in a range from 1.5% to 2.5% based on the ratio of outstanding credit to the borrowing base, and base rate 

loans bear interest at the Base Rate (as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement) plus the applicable margin in a range 

from 0.5% to 1.5% based on the ratio of outstanding credit to the borrowing base. The “Eurodollar rate” for any 

interest period (either one, two, three, six, and, if available to all lenders, nine or twelve months, as selected by us) 

is the rate per year equal to LIBOR, as published by Reuters or another source designated by JPMorgan, for 

deposits in dollars for a similar interest period. The “base rate” is calculated as the highest of (1) the annual rate of 

interest announced by JPMorgan as its “prime rate,” (2) the federal funds effective rate plus 0.5%, and (3) the 

Adjusted Eurodollar Rate (as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement) for a one-month interest period plus 1.0%. We 

incur a commitment fee of either 0.375% or 0.5%, based on the ratio of outstanding credit to the borrowing base, 

on the unused availability under the Bank Credit Agreement.

Senior Subordinated Notes

Repurchase and Redemption of 91⁄2% Notes and 93⁄4% Notes. In January 2013, we commenced cash tender 

offers to purchase the outstanding $426.4 million principal amount of our 93⁄4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 

(the “93⁄4% Notes”) at 105.425% of par and the outstanding $224.9 million principal amount of our 91⁄2% Senior 

Subordinated Notes due 2016 (the “91⁄2% Notes”) at 106.869% of par. During February 2013, we accepted for purchase 

$191.7 million principal amount of the outstanding 93⁄4% Notes and $186.7 million principal amount of the 

outstanding 91⁄2% Notes. The purchases under these tender offers were funded by a portion of the proceeds received 

in February 2013 from the issuance of our 45/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”). In 

March 2013, we repurchased all of the remaining $234.7 million principal amount outstanding of our 93⁄4% Notes at 

104.875% of par. In May 2013, we repurchased all of the remaining $38.2 million principal amount outstanding of 

our 91⁄2% Notes at 104.75% of par.

We recognized a loss associated with the debt repurchases of $44.7 million during the year ended December 31, 

2013, consisting of both premium payments made to repurchase or redeem the 93⁄4% Notes and 91⁄2% Notes and 

the elimination of unamortized debt issuance costs, discounts and premiums related to these notes. The loss is 

included in our Consolidated Statement of Operations under the caption “Loss on early extinguishment of debt”.

81⁄4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020. In February 2010, we issued $1.0 billion of 81⁄4% Senior Subordinated 

Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) for net proceeds after underwriting discounts and commissions of $980 million. 

The 2020 Notes, which carry a coupon rate of 8.25%, were sold at par. We subsequently redeemed $3.7 million 

principal amount of the 2020 Notes, as required under the indenture governing the 2020 Notes.

The 2020 Notes mature on February 15, 2020, and interest is payable on February 15 and August 15 of each year. 

We may redeem the 2020 Notes in whole or in part at our option beginning February 15, 2015, at a redemption price 

of 104.125% of the principal amount, and at declining redemption prices thereafter, as specified in the indenture. 

Prior to February 15, 2015, we may redeem 100% of the principal amount of the 2020 Notes at a price equal to 100% 

of the principal amount plus a “make-whole” premium and accrued and unpaid interest. The 2020 Notes are not 

subject to any sinking fund requirements.

63/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021. In February 2011, we issued $400 million of 6 3/8% Senior 

Subordinated Notes due 2021 (“2021 Notes”). The 2021 Notes, which carry a coupon rate of 6.375%, were sold at par. 

The net proceeds of $393 million were used to repurchase a portion of our 71⁄2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 

2013 (the “2013 Notes”) and 71⁄2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015 (the “2015 Notes”) (see 2011 Redemption of 

2013 Notes and 2015 Notes below).
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The 2021 Notes mature on August 15, 2021, and interest is payable on February 15 and August 15 of each year. 

We may redeem the 2021 Notes in whole or in part at our option beginning August 15, 2016 at a redemption price of 

103.188% of the principal amount, and at declining redemption prices thereafter, as specified in the indenture. 

Prior to August 15, 2014, we may at our option redeem up to an aggregate of 35% of the principal amount of the 2021 

Notes at a price of 106.375% of par with the proceeds of certain equity offerings. In addition, at any time prior to 

August 15, 2016, we may redeem 100% of the principal amount of the 2021 Notes at a price equal to 100% of the 

principal amount plus a “make-whole” premium and accrued and unpaid interest. The 2021 Notes are not subject 

to any sinking fund requirements.

45/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2023. In February 2013, we issued $1.2 billion of 2023 Notes. The 2023 

Notes, which carry a coupon rate of 4.625%, were sold at par. The net proceeds, after issuance costs, of $1.18 billion 

were used to repurchase or redeem our 91⁄2% Notes and 93⁄4% Notes (see Repurchase and Redemption of 91⁄2% Notes 

and 93⁄4% Notes above) and to pay down a portion of outstanding borrowings under our Bank Credit Agreement.

The 2023 Notes mature on July 15, 2023, and interest is payable on January 15 and July 15 of each year, 

commencing July 15, 2013. We may redeem the 2023 Notes in whole or in part at our option beginning January 15, 

2018, at a redemption price of 102.313% of the principal amount, and at declining redemption prices thereafter, as 

specified in the indenture. Prior to January 15, 2016, we may at our option redeem up to an aggregate of 35% of the 

principal amount of the 2023 Notes at a redemption price of 104.625% of par with the proceeds of certain equity 

offerings. In addition, at any time prior to January 15, 2018, we may redeem 100% of the principal amount of the 2023 

Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount plus a “make-whole” premium and accrued and 

unpaid interest.

Restrictive Covenants in Indentures for Senior Subordinated Notes. Each of the indentures for the 2020 Notes, 

2021 Notes and 2023 Notes contains certain covenants which are generally consistent and which restrict our ability 

and the ability of our restricted subsidiaries to take or permit certain actions, including restrictions on our ability and 

the ability of our restricted subsidiaries to (1) incur additional debt; (2) make investments; (3) create liens on our 

assets or the assets of our restricted subsidiaries; (4) create restrictions on the ability of our restricted subsidiaries to 

pay dividends or make other payments to DRI or other restricted subsidiaries; (5) engage in transactions with our 

affiliates; (6) transfer or sell assets or subsidiary stock; (7) consolidate, merge or transfer all or substantially all of our 

assets and the assets of our restricted subsidiaries; and (8) make restricted payments (which includes paying 

dividends on our common stock or redeeming, repurchasing or retiring such stock or subordinated debt), provided 

that the restricted payments covenant in the indenture for the 2023 Notes (the “2023 Indenture”) permits us in certain 

circumstances to make unlimited restricted payments so long as we maintain a ratio of total debt to EBITDA (both 

as defined in the 2023 Indenture) of at least 2.5 to 1 (both before and after giving effect to any restricted payment), 

although we will not be able to realize the practical benefit of the restricted payment covenant flexibility in the 2023 

Indenture until the 2020 Notes and 2021 Notes have been redeemed or retired.

2011 Redemption of 2013 Notes and 2015 Notes. Pursuant to cash tender offers, during 2011 we repurchased 

$225 million in principal of our 2013 Notes and $300 million in principal of our 2015 Notes. We recognized a $16.1 million 

loss during the year ended December 31, 2011 associated with the debt repurchases, which is included in our 

Consolidated Statement of Operations under the caption “Loss on early extinguishment of debt”.

Pipeline Financings

In May 2008, we closed two transactions with Genesis Energy, L.P. (“Genesis”) involving two of our pipelines. 

The NEJD Pipeline system included a 20-year financing lease, and the Free State Pipeline included a long-term 

transportation service agreement. We recorded both of these transactions as financing leases.

Debt Issuance Costs

In connection with the issuance of our outstanding long-term debt, we have incurred debt issuance costs, which 

are being amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of each related facility. 

Remaining unamortized debt issuance costs were $58.9 million and $56.5 million at December 31, 2013 and 2012, 

respectively. These balances are included in “Other assets” in our Consolidated Balance Sheets.
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Indebtedness Repayment Schedule

At December 31, 2013, our indebtedness, including our capital and financing lease obligations but excluding the 

discount and premium on our senior subordinated debt, is payable over the next five years and thereafter as follows:

In thousands

2014 $ 36,156

2015 37,634

2016 377,933

2017 36,855

2018 31,899

Thereafter 2,776,288

Total indebtedness $3,296,765

Note 6. Income Taxes

Our income tax provision (benefit) is as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Current income tax expense (benefit)

Federal $ 393 $ 57,720 $ (12,552)

State 9,864 18,034 20,801

 Total current income tax expense 10,257 75,754 8,249

Deferred income tax expense (benefit)

Federal 222,559 239,862 329,715

State (33) 15,881 12,748

 Total deferred income tax expense 222,526 255,743 342,463

 Total income tax expense $232,783 $331,497 $350,712

For federal income tax purposes, we structured the 2012 divestitures of our Bakken area assets and certain noncore assets as like-kind-exchange transactions for interests acquired in Thompson, Webster, Hartzog Draw and 

LaBarge fields in 2012 and the CCA Acquisition in 2013 (see Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures), thereby deferring 

the majority of the taxable gain on those divestitures. The increase in current taxes during 2012 is primarily 

due to the taxable gain recognized in the Bakken Exchange Transaction that we were unable to defer through a 

like-kind-exchange transaction.

At December 31, 2013, we had tax-effected federal net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) totaling 

$20.2 million, state NOLs totaling $41.4 million, an estimated $15.0 million of enhanced oil recovery credits to carry 

forward related to our tertiary operations, and $34.8 million of alternative minimum tax credits. Our state NOLs 

expire in various years, starting in 2018, although most do not begin to expire until 2024. Our enhanced oil recovery 

credits will begin to expire in 2025.

At December 31, 2013, we had $13.0 million of excess tax benefits related to stock-based compensation that was 

not recorded as an increase to additional paid-in capital in the period that the stock award vested and/or was 

exercised. At the time these excess tax benefits reduce current taxes payable and thus, are deemed to be realized by 

the Company, a corresponding increase to additional paid-in capital will be recognized.

Deferred income taxes reflect the available tax carryforwards and the temporary differences based on tax laws and 

statutory rates in effect at the December 31, 2013 and 2012 balance sheet dates. We believe that we will be able 

to realize all of our deferred tax assets at December 31, 2013, and therefore, have provided no valuation allowance 

against our deferred tax assets.
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Significant components of our deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2013 and 2012 are as follows:

December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012

Deferred tax assets

Loss carryforwards – federal $ 20,247 $ —

Loss carryforwards – state 41,379 35,007

Tax credit carryover 34,837 34,837

Derivative contracts 21,341 7,252

Enhanced oil recovery credit carryforwards 14,974 17,346

Stock-based compensation 34,635 28,387

Other 37,679 37,226

 Total deferred tax assets 205,092 160,055

Deferred tax liabilities

Property and equipment (2,541,426) (2,277,388)

Other (10,206) (6,963)

 Total deferred tax liabilities (2,551,632) (2,284,351)

 Total net deferred tax liability $ (2,346,540) $(2,124,296)

Our reconciliation of income tax expense computed by applying the U.S. federal statutory rate and the reported 

effective tax rate on income from continuing operations is as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Income tax provision calculated using the federal statutory income tax rate $224,833 $299,900 $323,416

State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit 13,518 30,955 29,555

Effect of statutory rate change (4,178) (429) (578)

Other (1,390) 1,071 (1,681)

Total income tax expense $232,783 $ 331,497 $350,712

We file consolidated and separate income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and in many state 

jurisdictions. Our income tax returns for tax years ending 2010 through 2012 currently remain subject to examination 

by the appropriate taxing authorities. We have not paid any significant interest or penalties associated with our 

income taxes.

Note 7. Stockholders’ Equity

Stock Repurchase Program

In October 2011, we commenced a common share repurchase program for up to $500 million of Denbury 

common shares, as approved by the Company’s Board of Directors. During 2012 and 2013, the Board of Directors 

increased the dollar amount of Denbury common shares that could be purchased under the program to an aggregate 

of $1.162 billion. The program has no pre-established ending date and may be suspended or discontinued at any 

time. We are not obligated to repurchase any dollar amount or specific number of shares of our common stock under 

the program. The following table presents a summary of repurchases under our share repurchase program:

 Total Repurchases Year Ended December 31,

Dollar amounts in thousands, except per-share data Since Inception 2013 2012 2011

Total amount repurchased $ 739,652 $ 277,768 $ 266,657 $ 195,227

Weighted average price per share $ 15.55 $ 16.87 $ 15.71 $ 13.83

Denbury common stock repurchased (shares) 47,559,266 16,468,648 16,978,008 14,112,610

As of December 31, 2013, we were authorized to repurchase an additional $422.3 million of common stock 

under this repurchase program. We account for treasury stock using the cost method and include treasury stock as 

a component of stockholders’ equity. See Note 14, Subsequent Events, for additional information.
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Employee Stock Purchase Plan

We have an Employee Stock Purchase Plan that is authorized to issue up to 11,900,000 shares of common stock. 

As of December 31, 2013, there were 1,601,230 authorized shares remaining to be issued under the plan. In accordance 

with the plan, eligible employees may contribute up to 10% of their base salary, and we match 75% of their 

contribution. The combined funds are used to purchase previously unissued Denbury common stock or treasury stock 

that we purchased in the open market for that purpose, in either case, based on the market value of our common 

stock at the end of each quarter. We recognize compensation expense for the 75% Company match portion, which 

totaled $6.5 million, $5.7 million and $4.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. 

This plan is administered by the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors.

401(k) Plan

We offer a 401(k) plan to which employees may contribute tax-deferred earnings subject to IRS limitations. We 

match 100% of an employee’s contribution, up to 6% of compensation, as defined by the plan, which is vested 

immediately. During 2013, 2012 and 2011, our matching contributions to the 401(k) Plan were approximately $9.0 million, 

$8.0 million and $7.1 million, respectively.

Note 8. Stock Compensation Plans

Stock Incentive Plans

We have two stock compensation plans. The first plan (providing only for the issuance of stock options) has been 

in existence since 1995 (the “1995 Plan”) and expired in August 2005 (although options granted under the 1995 Plan 

prior to that time can remain outstanding for up to 10 years). The second plan, the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive 

Plan (the “2004 Plan”), was approved by the stockholders in May 2004 and will expire in May 2024. The 2004 Plan 

provides for the issuance of incentive and non-qualified stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, 

SARs settled in stock, and performance awards that may be issued to officers, employees, directors and consultants. 

Awards covering a total of 34.5 million shares of common stock have been authorized for issuance pursuant to the 

2004 Plan, of which awards covering no more than 27.2 million shares may be issued in the form of restricted stock 

or performance-vesting awards. At December 31, 2013, 10.8 million shares were available under the 2004 Plan for 

future issuance of awards, all of which could be issued in the form of restricted stock or performance vesting awards. 

Our incentive compensation program is administered by the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors.

Prior to January 1, 2006, we granted incentive and non-qualified stock options to our employees. Effective January 

1, 2006, we completely replaced the use of stock options for employees with SARs settled in stock, as SARs are less 

dilutive to our stockholders while providing an employee with essentially the same economic benefits as stock 

options. The stock options and SARs generally become exercisable over a three- or four-year vesting period, with the 

specific terms of vesting determined at the time of grant based on guidelines established by the Compensation 

Committee of the Board of Directors. The stock options and SARs expire over terms not to exceed 10 years from the 

date of grant, 90 days after termination of employment, 90 days or one year after permanent disability, depending 

on the plan, or one year after the death of the optionee. The stock options and SARs are granted at the fair market 

value at the time of grant, which is defined in the 2004 Plan as the closing price on the NYSE on the date of grant.

Holders of restricted stock awards have the rights and privileges of owning the shares (including voting rights) 

except that the holders are not entitled to delivery of a portion thereof until certain requirements are met. Beginning 

in 2014, restricted stock awards granted by the Company provide the holders with forfeitable dividend rights until 

the award vests. Restricted stock awards vest over three-to-four-year vesting periods, with the specific terms of vesting 

determined at the time of grant.

Annually, the Board of Directors grants performance-based equity awards to officers of Denbury. These 

performance-based awards generally vest over 1.25 to 3.25 years and the number of performance-based shares earned 

(and eligible to vest) during the performance period will depend upon two sets of factors: (1) our level of success 

in achieving specifically identified performance targets (“Performance-based Operational Awards”) and (2) performance 

of our stock relative to that of a designated peer group (“Performance-based TSR Awards”). Generally, one-half 

of the maximum number of shares that could be earned under the performance-based awards will be earned for 

performance at the designated target levels (100% target vesting levels) or upon any earlier change of control, 

and twice the number of shares will be earned if the maximum target levels are met. If performance is below the 
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designated minimum levels for all performance targets, no performance-based shares will be earned. 

Performance-based Operational Awards are valued using the fair market value of Denbury stock on the grant date, 

and Performance-based TSR Awards are valued using a Monte Carlo simulation.

Stock-based compensation expense associated with our field employees is included in “Lease operating 

expense,” while such expense associated with non-field employees is included in “General and administrative 

expenses” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Stock-based compensation associated with our 

employees involved in exploration and drilling activities is capitalized as part of “Oil and natural gas properties” 

in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Stock-based compensation costs for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, are as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Stock-based compensation expensed:

General and administrative expenses $30,429 $26,463 $30,256

Lease operating expenses 2,574 2,847 2,621

Other expenses — — 313

 Total stock-based compensation expensed 33,003 29,310 33,190

Stock-based compensation capitalized 9,088 8,587 6,998

Total cost of stock-based compensation arrangements $42,091 $37,897 $40,188

Income tax benefit recognized for stock-based compensation arrangements $12,541 $11,284 $12,612

Stock Options and SARs

The fair value of each SAR award is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model 

with the assumptions noted in the following table. The risk-free rate for periods within the contractual life of the 

option is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant. The expected life of stock options and 

SARs granted was derived from examination of our historical option grants and subsequent exercises. The 

contractual terms (cliff vesting and graded vesting) are evaluated separately for the expected life, as the exercise 

behavior for each is different. Expected volatilities are based on the historical volatility of our common stock. Implied 

volatility was not used in this analysis, as our tradable call option terms are short and the trading volume is low.

 2013 2012 2011

Weighted average fair value of SARs granted $6.72 $8.90 $9.68

Risk-free interest rate 0.67% 0.79% 1.74%

Expected life 3.6 to 4.8 years 4.0 to 5.0 years 4.0 to 5.0 years

Expected volatility 50.4% 64.9% 63.3%

Dividend yield —% —% —%

The following is a summary of our stock option and SAR activity:

 Weighted

Average

Remaining Aggregate

Weighted Contractual Intrinsic

Number Average Life Value

of Awards Exercise Price (in years) (in thousands)

Outstanding at December 31, 2012 10,445,135 $14.75

Granted 720,859 16.95

Exercised (1,970,426) 9.33

Forfeited (113,509) 17.31

Expired (95,144) 22.74

Outstanding at December 31, 2013 8,986,915 16.00 3.3 $19,319

Exercisable at end of period 6,632,141 $15.51 2.7 $18,970
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The following is a summary of the total intrinsic value of stock options and SARs exercised and grant-date fair 

value of stock options and SARs vested:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Intrinsic value of stock options exercised $17,287 $17,315 $20,463

Grant-date fair value of stock options and SARs vested 12,852 26,391 11,416

As of December 31, 2013, there was $8.0 million of total compensation cost to be recognized in future periods 

related to nonvested stock option and SAR share-based compensation arrangements. The cost is expected to 

be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.7 years. The following is a summary of cash received from stock 

option exercises under share-based payment arrangements and tax benefits realized from the exercises of stock 

options and SARs:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Cash received from stock option exercises $5,487 $ 6,022 $4,685

Tax benefit realized for the exercises of stock options and SARs 437 458 539

Restricted Stock – 2004 Plan

As of December 31, 2013, there was $30.6 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to nonvested 

restricted stock grants. This unrecognized compensation cost is expected to be recognized over a weightedaverage period of 2.1 years. The following is a summary of the total vesting date fair value of restricted stock 

under the 2004 Plan:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Fair value of restricted stock vested $21,529 $22,332 $12,355

A summary of the status of our nonvested restricted stock grants issued under our 2004 Plan and the changes 

during the year ended December 31, 2013 is presented below:

 Weighted

 Average

 Number Grant-Date

 of Shares Fair Value

Nonvested at December 31, 2012 3,406,207 $15.60

Granted 1,805,467 16.96

Vested (1,310,347) 16.21

Forfeited (165,917) 17.23

Nonvested at December 31, 2013 3,735,410 15.97

Restricted Stock – Legacy Encore Plan

In February 2010, prior to the consummation of the merger with Encore, Encore issued a restricted stock grant to 

its employees under the Encore Acquisition Company 2008 Incentive Stock Plan (“Encore Plan”). At the time of the 

merger with Encore, the shares were converted into shares of Denbury restricted stock. The shares vest ratably over 

a four-year graded vesting period; however, legacy Encore employees who terminated their employment for Good 

Reason, as defined by Encore’s legacy Employee Severance Protection Plan, automatically vested in their awards 

upon termination. The remaining nonvested restricted stock issued under the Encore Plan is scheduled to vest during 

the first quarter of 2014. The following is a summary of the total vesting date fair value of restricted stock under the 

Encore Plan:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Fair value of restricted stock vested $512 $584 $2,259
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A summary of the status of the non-vested restricted stock grants under the Encore Plan and the changes during 

the year ended December 31, 2013 is presented below:

 Weighted

 Average

 Number Grant-Date

 of Shares Fair Value

Nonvested at December 31, 2012 56,258 $15.43

Vested (31,140) 15.43

Forfeited (3,377) 15.43

Nonvested at December 31, 2013 21,741 15.43

Performance-Based Equity Awards

During 2013 and 2012, we granted Performance-Based Operational Awards and Performance-Based TSR Awards to 

our officers. As of December 31, 2013, there was $5.4 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to 

nonvested performance-based equity awards. This unrecognized compensation cost is expected to be recognized 

over a weighted-average period of 1.6 years. The range of assumptions used in the Monte Carlo simulation valuation 

approach for Performance-based TSR Awards, which were granted for the first time during 2012, are as follows:

December 31,

 2013 2012

Weighted average fair value of Performance-based TSR Award granted $20.08 $24.68

Risk-free interest rate 0.41% 0.42%

Expected life 3.0 years 2.8 years

Expected volatility 42.3% 45.2%

Dividend yield —% —%

A summary of the status of the nonvested performance-based equity awards (presented at the target level) during 

the year ended December 31, 2013 is as follows:

Performance-Based Performance-Based

 Operational Awards TSR Awards

 Weighted Weighted

 Average Average

Number Grant-Date Number Grant-Date

of Awards Fair Value of Awards Fair Value

Nonvested at December 31, 2012 100,193 $17.27 86,917 $ 24.68

Granted 215,258 16.77 209,474 20.08

Vested (1) (100,193) 17.27 — —

Forfeited (5,784) 16.77 — —

Nonvested at December 31, 2013 209,474 16.77 296,391 21.43

(1) During 2013, the 2012 annual Performance-based Operational Awards vested, and award holders received shares equivalent to 136% of the 

number of target-level shares.

The following is a summary of the total vesting date fair value of performance-based equity awards:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Vesting date fair value of Performance-based Operational Awards $2,541 $2,191 $10,892
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Note 9. Commodity Derivative Contracts

We do not apply hedge accounting treatment to our oil and natural gas derivative contracts; therefore, the changes 

in the fair values of these instruments are recognized in income in the period of change. These fair value changes, 

along with the cash settlements of expired contracts, are shown under “Commodity derivatives expense (income)” in 

our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

From time to time, we enter into various oil and natural gas derivative contracts to provide an economic hedge of 

our exposure to commodity price risk associated with anticipated future oil and natural gas production. We do not 

hold or issue derivative financial instruments for trading purposes. These contracts have consisted of price floors, 

collars and fixed price swaps. The production that we hedge has varied from year to year depending on our levels of 

debt and financial strength and expectation of future commodity prices. We currently employ a strategy to hedge a 

portion of our forecasted production approximately 18 months to two years in the future from the current quarter, as 

we believe it is important to protect our future cash flow to provide a level of assurance for our capital spending in 

those future periods in light of current worldwide economic uncertainties and commodity price volatility.

We manage and control market and counterparty credit risk through established internal control procedures that 

are reviewed on an ongoing basis. We attempt to minimize credit risk exposure to counterparties through formal 

credit policies, monitoring procedures, and diversification, and all of our commodity derivative contracts are with 

parties that are lenders under our Bank Credit Agreement. As of December 31, 2013, all of our outstanding 

derivative contracts were subject to enforceable master netting arrangements whereby payables on those contracts 

can be offset against receivables from separate derivative contracts with the same counterparty. It is our policy 

to classify derivative assets and liabilities on a gross basis on our balance sheets, even if the contracts are subject 

to enforceable master netting arrangements.

The following table summarizes our commodity derivative contracts, none of which are classified as 

hedging instruments:

Contract Prices(1) 

 Type of Pricing Weighted Average Price 

Year Months Contract Index Volume(2) Range Swap Floor Ceiling

Oil Contracts:

2014 Jan – Mar Swap NYMEX 58,000 $ 91.67 – 95.95 $93.53 $ — $ —

 Apr – June Swap NYMEX 58,000 91.67 – 95.95 93.53 — —

 July – Sept Swap NYMEX 58,000 90.00 – 93.50 92.52 — —

 Oct – Dec Swap NYMEX 58,000 90.00 – 93.50 92.52 — —

2015 Jan – Mar Collar NYMEX 38,000 $ 80.00 – 100.90 $ — $80.00 $ 96.96

 Jan – Mar Collar LLS 20,000 85.00 – 104.00 — 85.00 101.45

 Apr – June Collar NYMEX 38,000 80.00 – 95.25 — 80.00 94.62

 Apr – June Collar LLS 20,000 85.00 – 103.00 — 85.00 102.01

 July – Sept Collar NYMEX 38,000 80.00 – 95.25 — 80.00 95.04

 July – Sept Collar LLS 20,000 85.00 – 102.60 — 85.00 100.69

Natural Gas Contracts:

2014 Jan – Dec Collar NYMEX 14,000 $ 4.00 – 4.47 $ — $ 4.00 $ 4.45

(1) Contract prices are stated in $/Bbl and $/MMBtu for oil and natural gas contracts, respectively.

(2) Contract volumes are stated in Bbl/d and MMBtu/d for oil and natural gas contracts, respectively.
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Note 10. Fair Value Measurements

The FASC Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures topic defines fair value as the price that would be received 

to sell an asset or would be paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the 

measurement date (exit price). We utilize market data or assumptions that market participants would use in 

pricing the asset or liability, including assumptions about risk and the risks inherent in the inputs to the valuation 

technique. These inputs can be readily observable, market corroborated or generally unobservable. We primarily 

apply the market approach for recurring fair value measurements and endeavor to utilize the best available 

information. Accordingly, we utilize valuation techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize 

the use of unobservable inputs. We are able to classify fair value balances based on the observability of those 

inputs. The FASC establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value. The 

hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities 

(Level 1 measurement) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurement). The three levels of 

the fair value hierarchy are as follows:

• Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities as of the reporting date.

• Level 2 — Pricing inputs are other than quoted prices in active markets included in Level 1, which are either 

directly or indirectly observable as of the reported date. Level 2 includes those financial instruments that are 

valued using models or other valuation methodologies. Instruments in this category include non-exchangetraded oil and natural gas derivatives that are based on NYMEX pricing. Our swap contracts are valued using a 

discounted cash flow model based upon forward commodity price curves. Our costless collars are valued 

using the Black-Scholes model, an industry standard option valuation model that takes into account inputs such 

as contractual prices for the underlying instruments, including maturity, quoted forward prices for 

commodities, interest rates, volatility factors and credit worthiness, as well as other relevant economic 

measures. Substantially all of these assumptions are observable in the marketplace throughout the full term of 

the instrument, can be derived from observable data or are supported by observable levels at which 

transactions are executed in the marketplace.

• Level 3 — Pricing inputs include significant inputs that are generally less observable from objective sources. 

These inputs may be used with internally developed methodologies that result in management’s best estimate 

of fair value. At December 31, 2013, instruments in this category include non-exchange-traded oil collars that 

are based on regional pricing other than NYMEX (i.e., Louisiana Light Sweet). Our costless collars are valued 

using the Black-Scholes model, which is described above. We obtain and ensure the appropriateness of the 

significant inputs to the calculation, including contractual prices for the underlying instruments, maturity, forward 

prices for commodities, interest rates, volatility factors and credit worthiness, and the fair value estimate is 

prepared and reviewed on a quarterly basis. Implied volatilities utilized in the valuation of Level 3 instruments 

are developed using a benchmark, which is considered a significant unobservable input. A one percent 

increase or decrease in implied volatility would result in a change of approximately $0.1 million in the fair value 

of these instruments as of December 31, 2013.

We adjust the valuations from the valuation model for nonperformance risk, using our estimate of the 

counterparty’s credit quality for asset positions and our credit quality for liability positions. We use multiple sources 

of third-party credit data in determining counterparty nonperformance risk, including credit default swaps.
88FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

The following table sets forth by level within the fair value hierarchy our financial assets and liabilities that were 

accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2013 and 2012:

 Fair Value Measurements Using:

Quoted Prices Significant Significant

in Active Other Observable Unobservable

Markets Inputs Inputs

In thousands (Level 1) (Level 2) (Level 3) Total

December 31, 2013

Assets:

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – current $ — $ 5 $ — $ 5

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – long-term — 3,034 6,908 9,942

 Total Assets $ — $ 3,039 $ 6,908 $ 9,947

Liabilities:

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – current $ — $(53,822) $ — $(53,822)

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – long-term — (3,214) (199) (3,413)

 Total Liabilities $ — $ (57,036) $ (199) $ (57,235)

December 31, 2012

Assets:

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – current $ — $ 19,477 $ — $ 19,477

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – long-term — 36 — 36

 Total Assets $ — $ 19,513 $ — $ 19,513

Liabilities:

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – current $ — $ (2,659) $ — $ (2,659)

Oil and natural gas derivative contracts – long-term — (23,781) — (23,781)

 Total Liabilities $ — $(26,440) $ — $(26,440)

The following table summarizes the changes in the fair value of our Level 3 assets and liabilities for the years 

ended December 31, 2013 and 2012:

December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012

Fair value of Level 3 instruments, beginning of year $ — $ 23,950

Fair value adjustments on commodity derivatives 6,709 3,921

Receipt on settlements of commodity derivatives — (27,871)

Fair value of Level 3 instruments, end of year $6,709 $ —

The amount of total gains for the period included in earnings attributable 

to the change in unrealized gains relating to assets still held at the reporting date $6,709 $ —

Since we do not use hedge accounting for our commodity derivative contracts, any gains and losses on our assets 

and liabilities are included in “Commodity derivatives expense (income)” in the accompanying Consolidated 

Statements of Operations.

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis

During 2012, we recorded a $15.1 million impairment charge for an investment in the preferred stock of an entity 

that was created to develop a gasification plant (in which we would offtake its CO2 to use in our tertiary oil 

operations) as a result of this project not moving forward. This charge is classified as “Impairment of assets” in the 

Consolidated Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2012.

Other Fair Value Measurements

The carrying value of our revolving bank credit facility approximates fair value, as it is subject to short-term floating 

interest rates that approximate the rates available to us for those periods. We use a market approach to determine 

fair value of our fixed-rate debt using observable market data. The fair values of our senior subordinated notes 

are based on quoted market prices. The estimated fair value of our total long-term debt as of December 31, 2013 and 

2012, excluding pipeline financing and capital lease obligations, is $2,956.8 million and $2,956.9 million, respectively. 

We have other financial instruments consisting primarily of cash, cash equivalents, short-term receivables 

and payables that approximate fair value due to the nature of the instrument and the relatively short maturities.
892013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

Note 11. Commitments and Contingencies

Leases

We lease office space, equipment and vehicles that have non-cancelable lease terms. Currently, our outstanding 

leases have terms up to 12 years. We have subleased part of the office space included in our operating leases for 

which we received rental payments. The following table summarizes operating lease payments paid and received 

during the periods indicated:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Operating lease payments $37,211 $33,606 $52,317

Sublease rental receipts 2,237 2,685 2,398

In addition, we expect to receive approximately $14.6 million for 2014 through 2019 under these sublease agreements.

The following table summarizes by year the remaining non-cancelable future payments under these leases as of 

December 31, 2013:

 Pipeline

and Capital

In thousands Leases

2014 $ 62,929

2015 62,254

2016 60,819

2017 55,409

2018 50,750

Thereafter 280,272

Total minimum lease payments 572,433

Less: Amount representing interest (215,748)

 Present value of minimum lease payments $ 356,685

 Operating

In thousands Leases

2014 $ 11,695

2015 12,542

2016 12,510

2017 12,774

2018 12,730

Thereafter 67,832

Total minimum lease payments $130,083

Commitments

We have entered into long-term commitments to purchase CO2 that are either non-cancelable or cancelable only 

upon the occurrence of specified future events. The commitments continue for up to 20 years. The price we will 

pay for CO2 generally varies depending on the amount of CO2 delivered and the price of oil. Our annual commitment 

under these contracts could range from $100 million to $170 million per year, assuming a $90 per Bbl NYMEX 

oil price.

We are party to long-term contracts that require us to deliver CO2 to our industrial CO2 customers at various 

contracted prices, plus we have a CO2 delivery obligation to Genesis related to three CO2 volumetric production 

payments (“VPPs”). Based upon the maximum amounts deliverable as stated in the industrial contracts and the 

VPPs, we estimate that we may be obligated to deliver up to 367 Bcf of CO2 to these customers over the next 

15 years. The maximum volume required in any given year is approximately 119 MMcf/d, which we judge to be minor 

given the size of our Jackson Dome proven CO2 reserves at December 31, 2013, our current production capabilities 

and our projected levels of CO2 usage for our own tertiary flooding program.
90FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

In conjunction with the August 2011 Riley Ridge acquisition, we assumed the 20-year helium supply contract under 

which the original participants in Riley Ridge agreed to supply helium to a third-party purchaser. After the 

commencement date, the contract provides for the delivery of a minimum contracted quantity of helium, subject to 

adjustment after start-up of the Riley Ridge gas processing facility, which, if not supplied in accordance with the 

terms of the contract, may obligate us to compensate the third-party helium purchaser for the amount of the shortfall 

in an amount not to exceed $8.0 million per year, or $46.0 million over the term of the contract.

Delhi Field Release

In June 2013, a release of well fluids, consisting of a mixture of carbon dioxide, saltwater, natural gas and oil, was 

discovered and reported within an area of the Denbury-operated Delhi Field located in northern Louisiana. Denbury 

immediately took remedial action to stop the release and contain and recover well fluids in the affected area. We 

have determined that the release originated from one or more wells in the affected area of the field that we believed 

had been previously and properly plugged and abandoned by a prior operator of the field. We completed our 

remediation efforts during the fourth quarter of 2013; however, we will continue to monitor the area to ensure the 

remediation efforts were successful.

During the year ended December 31, 2013, we recorded $114.0 million of lease operating expenses related to 

this release in our Consolidated Statement of Operations, and as of December 31, 2013, we had a corresponding 

$22.0 million liability classified as “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” in our Consolidated Balance Sheet. 

These expenses represent our current estimate of the costs related to this release, including remediation costs, based 

on actual costs incurred through December 31, 2013 of approximately $92.0 million, plus the Company’s estimate 

of future costs related to the satisfaction of known claims and liabilities. Due to the possibility of new claims being 

asserted in the future in connection with the release, as well as variability in the estimated cost to continue to 

monitor the area to ensure the remediation efforts were successful, we cannot reliably estimate at this time the full 

extent of the costs that may ultimately be incurred by the Company related to this release. Although the Company 

maintains insurance policies that we believe cover certain of the costs, damages and claims related to the 

release, and we currently and preliminarily estimate that one-third to two-thirds of our current cost estimate may be 

recoverable under such insurance policies, we have not reached any agreement with our insurance carriers as to 

recoverable amounts, and accordingly have not recognized any insurance recoveries in our financial statements as of 

December 31, 2013. Insurance recoveries will be recognized in our financial statements during the period received 

or at the time receipt is determined to be virtually certain.

Litigation

We are involved in various lawsuits, claims and regulatory proceedings incidental to our businesses. While we 

currently believe that the ultimate outcome of these proceedings, individually and in the aggregate, will not have a 

material adverse effect on our financial position or overall trends in results of operations or cash flows, litigation 

is subject to inherent uncertainties. If an unfavorable ruling were to occur, there exists the possibility of a material 

adverse impact on our net income in the period in which the ruling occurs. We provide accruals for litigation and 

claims if we determine that a loss is probable and the amount can be reasonably estimated.

Other Contingencies

We are subject to audits in the various states in which we operate for sales and use taxes and severance taxes, 

and from time to time receive assessments for potential taxes that we may owe. In the past, settlement of these 

matters has not had a material adverse financial impact on us, and currently we have no material assessments for 

potential taxes.

We are subject to various possible contingencies that arise primarily from interpretation of federal and state laws 

and regulations affecting the oil and natural gas industry. Such contingencies include differing interpretations 

as to the prices at which oil and natural gas sales may be made, the prices at which royalty owners may be paid 

for production from their leases, environmental issues and other matters. Although we believe that we have 

complied with the various laws and regulations, administrative rulings and interpretations thereof, adjustments 

could be required as new interpretations and regulations are issued. In addition, production rates, marketing and 

environmental matters are subject to regulation by various federal and state agencies.
912013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

Note 12. Additional Balance Sheet Details

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We record an allowance for doubtful accounts for receivables that we determine to be uncollectible based on 

the specific identification basis. The allowance for doubtful accounts, which is netted against “Trade and other 

receivables” on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, was $0.3 million at December 31, 2013 and 2012.

Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities

December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012

Accrued exploration and development costs $100,564 $109,939

Accrued interest 68,871 60,698

Accounts payable 63,263 86,051

Accrued lease operating expenses 59,762 23,862

Accrued compensation 55,043 48,451

Taxes payable 28,019 27,523

Other 35,021 58,144

Total $410,543 $414,668

Note 13. Supplemental Cash Flow Information

Supplemental Cash Flow Information

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Supplemental cash flow information:

Cash paid for interest, expensed $ 117,442 $ 137,950 $137,259

Cash paid for interest, capitalized 79,253 77,432 60,540

Cash paid for income taxes 28,895 99,194 45,912

Cash received from income tax refunds (17,087) (38,004) (24,677)

Noncash investing activities:

Increase in asset retirement obligations 26,946 56,290 24,694

Increase (decrease) in liabilities for capital expenditures (18,321) (26,882) 74,697

Increase in restricted cash (1) — 1,262,559 —

Decrease in restricted cash (2) 1,050,328 212,544 —

(1) During 2012, $212.5 million of proceeds from the sale of certain non-core assets in the Gulf Coast Region and $1.05 billion of the cash proceeds 

from the Bakken Exchange Transaction were paid by the respective purchaser directly to a qualified intermediary to facilitate a like-kind-exchange 

transaction for federal income tax purposes. See Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures, for additional details regarding these transactions.

(2) During 2012 and 2013, proceeds from the sales of our oil and natural gas property dispositions in 2012, which were held by a qualified intermediary, 

were released in 2012 to fund the Thompson Field acquisition and in 2013 primarily to fund a portion of the CCA acquisition and certain post-closing 

costs under the Bakken Exchange Transaction. See Note 2, Acquisitions and Divestitures, for additional details regarding these transactions.

Note 14. Subsequent Events

Stock Repurchase Program

Between January 1, 2014 and February 20, 2014, the Company repurchased an additional 11.8 million shares 

of Denbury common stock under the share repurchase program for $191.6 million, or $16.17 per share. See Note 7, 

Stockholders’ Equity, for additional information regarding the Company’s share repurchase program.

Equity Award Grant

In January 2014, we granted equity incentive awards to our employees under the 2004 Plan. The grants included 

1,633,898 shares of restricted stock valued at $16.55 per share (the closing price of Denbury’s common stock on 

January 3, 2014). The awards generally vest 33% per year over a three-year period.
92FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Dividend Declaration

On January 28, 2014, the Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.0625 per share on our common stock, 

payable to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 25, 2014.

Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures (Unaudited)

Costs Incurred

The following table summarizes costs incurred and capitalized in oil and natural gas property acquisition, 

exploration and development activities. Property acquisition costs are those costs incurred to purchase, lease or 

otherwise acquire property, including both undeveloped leasehold and the purchase of reserves in place. Exploration 

costs include costs of identifying areas that may warrant examination and examining specific areas that are 

considered to have prospects containing oil and natural gas reserves, including costs of drilling exploratory wells, 

geological and geophysical costs, and carrying costs on undeveloped properties. Development costs are incurred 

to obtain access to proved reserve costs, including the cost of drilling development wells, and to provide facilities for 

extracting, treating, gathering and storing the oil and natural gas, and the cost of improved recovery systems.

We capitalize interest on unevaluated oil and natural gas properties that have ongoing development activities. 

Included in costs incurred in the table below is capitalized interest of $41.3 million in 2013, $36.5 million in 2012 and 

$44.9 million in 2011. Costs incurred also include new asset retirement obligations established, as well as 

changes to asset retirement obligations resulting from revisions in cost estimates or abandonment dates. Asset 

retirement obligations included in the table below were $17.1 million in 2013, $38.8 million in 2012 and $24.2 million 

in 2011. See Note 3, Asset Retirement Obligations, for additional information.

Costs incurred in oil and natural gas activities were as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Property acquisitions:

Proved $ 803,837 $ 491,041 $ 86,465

Unevaluated 221,173 115,270 17,858

Exploration 2,103 12,019 31,483

Development 913,093 1,111,314 1,144,243

Total costs incurred (1) $1,940,206 $1,729,644 $1,280,049

(1) Capitalized general and administrative costs that directly relate to exploration and development activities were $55.4 million, $49.2 million and 

$35.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Oil and Natural Gas Operating Results

Results of operations from oil and natural gas producing activities, excluding corporate overhead and interest 

costs, were as follows:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands, except per BOE data 2013 2012 2011

Oil, natural gas, and related product sales $2,466,234 $2,409,867 $2,269,151

Lease operating costs 730,574 532,359 507,397

Marketing expenses, net of third-party purchasers 37,754 41,936 26,047

Taxes other than income 162,791 149,919 138,419

Depletion, depreciation and amortization 426,668 448,424 369,075

CO2 properties and pipelines depletion and depreciation (1) 52,932 42,064 24,460

Commodity derivatives expense (income) 41,024 (4,834) (52,497)

Net operating income 1,014,491 1,199,999 1,256,250

Income tax provision 385,507 462,000 477,375

Results of operations from oil and natural gas producing activities $ 628,984 $ 737,999 $ 778,875

Depletion, depreciation and amortization per BOE $ 18.71 $ 18.69 $ 16.42

(1) Represents an allocation of the depletion, depreciation and amortization of our CO2 properties and pipelines associated with our tertiary oil 

producing activities.
932013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

Oil and Natural Gas Reserves

Net proved oil and natural gas reserve estimates for all years presented were prepared by DeGolyer and 

MacNaughton, independent petroleum engineers located in Dallas, Texas. These oil and natural gas reserve estimates 

do not include any value for probable or possible reserves that may exist, nor do they include any value for 

undeveloped acreage. The reserve estimates represent our net revenue interest in our properties. See Standardized

Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and Natural Gas Reserves 

below for a discussion of the effect of the different prices on reserve quantities and values. Operating costs, production 

and ad valorem taxes, and future development costs were based on current costs.

There are numerous uncertainties inherent in estimating quantities of proved reserves and in projecting the future 

rates of production and timing of development expenditures. The following reserve data represents estimates only 

and should not be construed as being exact. Moreover, the present values should not be construed as the current 

market value of our oil and natural gas reserves or the costs that would be incurred to obtain equivalent reserves. 

Estimates of reserves as of year-end 2013, 2012 and 2011 were prepared using an average price equal to the 

unweighted arithmetic average of hydrocarbon prices received on a field-by-field basis on the first day of each month 

within the applicable fiscal 12-month period. All of our reserves are located in the United States.

Estimated Quantities of Proved Reserves

Year Ended December 31,

2013 2012 2011

Oil Gas Total Oil Gas Total Oil Gas Total

(MBbl) (MMcf) (MBOE) (MBbl) (MMcf) (MBOE) (MBbl) (MMcf) (MBOE)

Balance at beginning of year 329,124 481,641 409,398 357,733 625,208 461,934 338,276 357,893 397,925

Revisions of previous 

estimates 4,704 60 4,714 (7,099) (16,720) (9,886) (4,478) (14,058) (6,821)

Revisions due to change 

in sales prices 665 14,100 3,015 (401) (37,969) (6,729) 2,558 485 2,639

Extensions and discoveries 118 — 118 14,910 10,005 16,579 42,936 52,339 51,658

Improved recovery (1) 34,015 — 34,015 69,543 — 69,543 264 — 264

Production (24,194) (8,666) (25,639) (24,462) (10,654) (26,238) (22,169) (10,783) (23,966)

Acquisition of minerals 

in place 42,227 2,819 42,697 24,677 20,598 28,110 346 239,332 40,235

Sales of minerals in place — — — (105,777) (108,827) (123,915) — — —

Balance at end of year 386,659 489,954 468,318 329,124 481,641 409,398 357,733 625,208 461,934

Proved Developed Reserves:

Balance at beginning of year 236,009 64,191 246,708 239,741 125,970 260,736 219,077 110,516 237,496

Balance at end of year 276,392 72,095 288,408 236,009 64,191 246,708 239,741 125,970 260,736

(1) Improved recovery reflects reserve additions that result from the application of secondary recovery methods such as water flooding, or tertiary 

recovery methods such as CO2 flooding. In order to recognize proved tertiary oil reserves, we must either have an oil production response to 

CO2 injections or the field must be analogous to an existing tertiary flood. The magnitude of proved reserves that we can book in any given year 

will depend on our progress with new floods and the timing of the production response.

Acquisitions of minerals in place during 2013 were primarily related to the acquisition of additional interests in 

certain of our existing operated fields in CCA, as well as operating interests in other CCA fields. Reserves added as a 

result of improved recovery represent initial proved tertiary oil reserves at Bell Creek Field.

We added 114.2 MMBOE of estimated proved reserves during 2012, including tertiary reserves of 69.5 MMBbls, 

primarily at Hastings and Oyster Bayou fields; 25.9 MMBOE from the acquisition of interests in the Thompson, 

Webster and Hartzog Draw fields; and 11.5 MMBOE from our Bakken area assets prior to their sale in the fourth 

quarter of 2012. These increases were offset by the disposition of 123.9 MMBOE of reserves associated with 

disposed properties, including our Bakken area assets, and non-core assets in the Gulf Coast region and Paradox 

Basin in Utah.

Acquisitions of minerals in place during 2011 were primarily related to the acquisition of the remaining interest in 

Riley Ridge, and extensions and discoveries that year primarily included proved undeveloped reserves added primarily 

through additional drilling in the Bakken.
94FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows and Changes Therein 

Relating to Proved Oil and Natural Gas Reserves

The Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows and Changes Therein Relating to Proved Oil and 

Natural Gas Reserves (“Standardized Measure”) does not purport to present the fair market value of our oil and 

natural gas properties. An estimate of such value should consider, among other factors, anticipated future prices of 

oil and natural gas, the probability of recoveries in excess of existing proved reserves, the value of probable reserves 

and acreage prospects, and perhaps different discount rates. It should be noted that estimates of reserve quantities, 

especially from new discoveries, are inherently imprecise and subject to substantial revision.

Under the Standardized Measure, future cash inflows were estimated by applying a first-day-of-the-month 

12-month average price to the estimated future production of year-end proved reserves. The product prices used 

in calculating these reserves have varied widely during the three-year period. These prices have a significant 

impact on both the quantities and value of the proved reserves, as reductions in oil and natural gas prices can cause 

wells to reach the end of their economic life much sooner and can make certain proved undeveloped locations 

uneconomical, both of which reduce the reserves. The following representative oil and natural gas prices were used 

in the Standardized Measure. These prices were adjusted by field to arrive at the appropriate corporate net price.

December 31,

 2013 2012 2011

Oil (NYMEX price per Bbl) $96.94 $94.71 $96.19

Natural Gas (Henry Hub price per Mcf) 3.67 2.85 4.16

Future cash inflows were reduced by estimated future production, development and abandonment costs based on 

current cost, with no escalation to determine pre-tax cash inflows. Our future net inflows do not include a reduction 

for cash previously expended on our capitalized CO2 assets that will be consumed in the production of proved tertiary 

reserves. Future income taxes were computed by applying the statutory tax rate to the excess of net cash inflows 

over our tax basis in the associated proved oil and natural gas properties. Tax credits and net operating loss 

carryforwards were also considered in the future income tax calculation. Future net cash inflows after income taxes 

were discounted using a 10% annual discount rate to arrive at the Standardized Measure.

December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Future cash inflows $ 40,065,019 $ 34,779,549 $ 38,165,122

Future production costs (16,053,734) (13,114,740) (12,570,015)

Future development costs (2,552,194) (2,034,174) (3,026,898)

Future income taxes (6,937,773) (6,672,857) (7,379,972)

Future net cash flows 14,521,318 12,957,778 15,188,237

10% annual discount for estimated timing of cash flows (7,392,574) (6,543,398) (8,180,632)

Standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows $ 7,128,744 $ 6,414,380 $ 7,007,605

The following table sets forth an analysis of changes in the Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash 

Flows from proved oil and natural gas reserves:

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

Beginning of year $ 6,414,380 $ 7,007,605 $ 4,917,927

Sales of oil and natural gas produced, net of production costs (1) (1,649,113) (1,673,253) (1,597,288)

Net changes in prices and production costs (170,571) (597,512) 4,231,076

Extensions and discoveries, less applicable future development 

and production costs 4,902 291,558 762,370

Improved recovery (2) 739,019 1,901,109 15,708

Previously estimated development costs incurred 393,537 376,199 354,228

Change in future development costs (301,162) (454,140) (591,570)

Revisions due to timing and other (446,586) (330,849) (666,703)

Accretion of discount 1,072,113 875,383 729,234

Acquisition of minerals in place 1,082,050 767,267 29,737

Sales of minerals in place — (1,805,309) —

Net change in income taxes (9,825) 56,322 (1,177,114)

End of year $ 7,128,744 $ 6,414,380 $ 7,007,605

(1) Production costs exclude $114 million of lease operating expenses recorded during the year ended December 31, 2013 related to the Delhi Field release.

(2) Improved recovery additions result from the application of secondary recovery methods such as water flooding or tertiary recovery methods such 

as CO2 flooding.
952013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART II

Supplemental CO2 And Helium Disclosures (Unaudited)

Based on engineering reports prepared by DeGolyer and MacNaughton, proved CO2 reserves, and helium reserves 

associated with our helium production rights, were estimated as follows (in MMcf):

Year Ended December 31,

In thousands 2013 2012 2011

CO2 reserves

Gulf Coast region (1) 6,070,619 6,073,175 6,685,412

Rocky Mountain region (2) 3,272,428 3,495,534 2,195,534

Helium reserves associated with Denbury’s production rights

Rocky Mountain region (3) 13,251 12,712 12,004

(1) Proved CO2 reserves in the Gulf Coast region consist of reserves from our reservoirs at Jackson Dome and are presented on a gross working 

interest (8/8ths) basis, of which our net revenue interest was approximately 4.8 Tcf, 4.8 Tcf and 5.3 Tcf at December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, 

respectively, and include reserves dedicated to volumetric production payments of 28.9 Bcf, 57.1 Bcf and 84.7 Bcf at December 31, 2013, 2012 and 

2011, respectively.

(2) Proved CO2 reserves in the Rocky Mountain region consist of our reserves at Riley Ridge (presented on a gross working interest (8/8ths) basis) and 

our overriding royalty interest in LaBarge Field, of which our net revenue interest was approximately 2.9 Tcf, 2.9 Tcf and 1.6 Tcf at December 31, 

2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

(3) Reserves associated with helium production rights include helium reserves located in acreage in the Rocky Mountain region for which we have the 

right to extract the helium on behalf of the U.S. government, who owns the helium. Our extraction agreement with the U.S. government gives us 

the ability to produce the helium on behalf of the U.S. government in exchange for a fee, which amount fluctuates based upon the realized sales 

proceeds we receive. The estimate of helium reserves is reduced to reflect the estimated fee we will remit to the U.S. government. Our extraction 

agreement with the U.S. government has a minimum term extending 20 years from first production and continuing thereafter until either party 

terminates the contract. Reserve volumes presented herein assume that the term of this helium extraction agreement continues beyond 20 years, 

given the benefit to both parties to the agreement.

Unaudited Quarterly Information

In thousands, except per share amounts March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31

2013

Revenues and other income $ 583,086 $ 650,084 $ 684,835 $ 599,122

Commodity derivatives expense (income) 11,929 (45,501) 80,446 (5,850)

Other expenses 429,222 484,279 445,024 475,198

Net income 87,571 129,980 102,054 89,992

Net income per share:

Basic 0.24 0.35 0.28 0.25

Diluted 0.23 0.35 0.28 0.25

Cash flow provided by operating activities 269,176 437,568 305,465 348,986

Cash flow used for investing activities (320,646) (344,927) (286,130) (323,606)

Cash flow provided by (used for) financing activities 15,228 (79,045) (68,652) (39,741)

2012

Revenues and other income $ 645,116 $ 601,781 $ 600,371 $ 609,204

Commodity derivatives expense (income) 45,275 (139,109) 61,631 27,369

Other expenses 420,529 398,089 399,361 386,470

Net income 113,467 211,865 85,367 114,661

Net income per share:

Basic 0.29 0.55 0.22 0.30

Diluted 0.29 0.54 0.22 0.30

Cash flow provided by operating activities 291,654 440,966 293,506 384,765

Cash flow used for investing activities (288,883) (560,341) (388,748) (138,869)

Cash flow provided by (used for) financing activities 55,902 70,122 91,163 (171,419)
96FORM 10-K PART II DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with

Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of the end of the period covered by this report, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation 

of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) was performed under 

the supervision and with the participation of management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief 

Financial Officer. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our 

disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2013, to ensure that information that is 

required to be disclosed in the reports the Company files and submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is 

recorded; that it is processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and 

forms; and that information that is required to be disclosed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and 

communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate 

to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Evaluation of Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our 

Chief Financial Officer, we have determined that, during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, there were no changes in 

our internal control over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, 

our internal control over financial reporting.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting 

as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Under the supervision 

and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, 

we assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of the end of the period covered by 

this report based on the framework in “Internal Control – Integrated Framework” (1992) issued by the Committee 

of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on that assessment, our Chief Executive Officer 

and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective to provide 

reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of our financial reporting and the preparation of our financial 

statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2013, has been audited 

by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in the report that 

appears herein.

Important Considerations

The effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting is 

subject to various inherent limitations, including cost limitations, judgments used in decision making, assumptions 

about the likelihood of future events, the soundness of our systems, the possibility of human error, and the risk 

of fraud. Moreover, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls 

may become inadequate because of changes in conditions and the risk that the degree of compliance with policies 

or procedures may deteriorate over time. Because of these limitations, there can be no assurance that any system 

of disclosure controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting will be successful in 

preventing all errors or fraud or in making all material information known in a timely manner to the appropriate 

levels of management.

Item 9B. Other Information

None.
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Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and 

Corporate Governance

Except as disclosed below, information as to Item 10 will be set forth in the Proxy Statement (“Proxy Statement”) 

for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held May 20, 2014 (“Annual Meeting”) and is incorporated herein 

by reference.

Code of Ethics

We have adopted a Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers and the Principal Executive Officer. This Code of 

Ethics, including any amendments or waivers, is posted on our website at www.denbury.com.

Item 11. Executive Compensation

Information as to Item 11 will be set forth in the Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting and is incorporated 

herein by reference.

Item 12. Security Ownership of 

Certain Beneficial Owners and Management 

and Related Stockholder Matters

Information as to Item 12 will be set forth in the Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting and is incorporated 

herein by reference.

Item 13. Certain Relationships and 

Related Transactions, and Director Independence

Information as to Item 13 will be set forth in the Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting and is incorporated 

herein by reference.

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

Information as to Item 14 will be set forth in the Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting and is incorporated 

herein by reference.
98FORM 10-K PART IV DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

Financial Statements and Schedules. Financial statements and schedules filed as a part of this report are 

presented on page 67. All financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are not applicable, or the 

required information is presented in the financial statements or the notes to consolidated financial statements.

Exhibits. The following exhibits are included as part of this report.

Exhibit No. Exhibit

2(a) Exchange Agreement, dated as of September 19, 2012, by and among Denbury Onshore, LLC, XTO 

Energy Inc., and Exxon Mobil Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of Form 8-K filed 

by the Company on September 25, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

2(b) Closing Agreement and Amendment, dated as of November 30, 2012, by and among Denbury 

Onshore, LLC, XTO Energy Inc., and Exxon Mobil Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 

2.2 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on December 6, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

2(c) Second Closing Agreement and Amendment, dated as of December 21, 2012, by and among Denbury 

Onshore, LLC, XTO Energy Inc., and Exxon Mobil Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 

2.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on December 26, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

2(d) Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of January 14, 2013, by and between Burlington Resources 

Oil & Gas Company LP and Denbury Onshore, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of Form 

8-K filed by the Company on January 15, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

3(a) Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Denbury Resources Inc. filed with the Delaware 

Secretary of State on August 21, 2012 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(a) of Form 10-Q filed by 

the Company on November 8, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

3(b) Amended and Restated Bylaws of Denbury Resources Inc. as of May 15, 2012 (incorporated by 

reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on May 21, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

4(a) Indenture for 9.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, dated as of February 13, 2009, by and 

among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust 

Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Form 8-K filed by the 

Company on February 17, 2009, File No. 001-12935).

4(b) First Supplemental Indenture for 9.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, dated as of June 30, 

2009, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and The Bank of New York 

Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(h) of Form 10-K filed 

by the Company on March 1, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(c)** 9.75% Senior Subordinated Note due 2016, issued on June 30, 2009, to Gareth Roberts (incorporated 

by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on July 7, 2009, File No. 001-12935).

4(d) Second Supplemental Indenture for 9.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, dated as of March 9, 

2010, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and The Bank of New York 

Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 of Form 8-K filed by 

the Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(e) Third Supplemental Indenture for 9.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, dated as of February 3, 

2011, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and The Bank of New York 

Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(p) of Form 10-K filed 

by the Company on March 1, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

4(f) Indenture for 81⁄4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020, dated as of February 10, 2010, by and 

among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National 

Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company 

on February 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).
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4(g) First Supplemental Indenture for 81⁄4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020, dated as of March 9, 

2010, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, 

National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 of Form 8-K filed by the 

Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(h) Second Supplemental Indenture for 81⁄4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020, dated as of 

February 3, 2011, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo 

Bank, National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(s) of Form 10-K filed 

by the Company on March 1, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

4(i) Indenture for 6.25% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2014, dated as of April 2, 2004, by and among 

Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, 

as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on 

March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(j) First Supplemental Indenture for 6.25% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2014, dated as of January 2, 

2008, by and among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, 

National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1.2 of Form 8-K filed by the 

Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(k) Second Supplemental Indenture for 6.25% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2014, dated as of January 

27, 2010, by and among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo 

Bank, National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1.3 of Form 8-K filed by 

the Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(l) Third Supplemental Indenture for 6.25% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2014, dated as of March 10, 

2010, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, 

National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1.4 of Form 8-K filed by the 

Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(m) Fourth Supplemental Indenture for 6.25% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2014, dated as of 

February 3, 2011, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo 

Bank, National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(x) of Form 10-K filed 

by the Company on March 1, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

4(n) Indenture for 6.0% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015, dated as of July 13, 2005, by and among 

Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, 

as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on 

March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(o) First Supplemental Indenture for 6.0% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015, dated as of January 2, 

2008, by and among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, 

National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2.2 of Form 8-K filed by 

the Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(p) Second Supplemental Indenture for 6.0% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015, dated as of January 

27, 2010, by and among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo 

Bank, National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2.3 of Form 8-K filed 

by the Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(q) Third Supplemental Indenture for 6.0% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015, dated as of March 10, 

2010, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, 

National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2.4 of Form 8-K filed by the 

Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(r) Fourth Supplemental Indenture for 6.0% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015, dated as of February 

3, 2011, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, 

National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(cc) of Form 10-K filed by the 

Company on March 1, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

Exhibit No. Exhibit
100FORM 10-K PART IV DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

4(s) Indenture for Subordinated Debt Securities, dated as of November 16, 2005, by and among Encore 

Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as 

Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on March 12, 

2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(t) First Supplemental Indenture for 7.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017, dated as of 

November 23, 2005, by and among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3.2 

of Form 8-K filed by the Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(u) Second Supplemental Indenture for 7.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017, dated as of 

January 2, 2008, by and among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells 

Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3.3 of 

Form 8-K filed by the Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(v) Third Supplemental Indenture for 9.5% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, dated as of April 27, 

2009, by and among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, 

National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3.4 of Form 8-K filed by 

the Company on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(w) Fourth Supplemental Indenture for Senior Subordinated Notes, dated as of January 27, 2010, by and 

among Encore Acquisition Company, certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National 

Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3.5 of Form 8-K filed by the Company 

on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(x) Fifth Supplemental Indenture for Senior Subordinated Notes, dated as of March 10, 2010, by and 

among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National 

Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3.6 of Form 8-K filed by the Company 

on March 12, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

4(y) Sixth Supplemental Indenture for Senior Subordinated Notes, dated as of February 3, 2011, by and 

among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National 

Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(jj) of Form 10-K filed by the Company 

on March 1, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

4(z) Seventh Supplemental Indenture for Senior Subordinated Notes, dated as of February 5, 2013, by 

and among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National 

Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of Form 8-K filed by the Company 

on February 5, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

4(aa) Indenture for 6 3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021, dated as of February 17, 2011, by and 

among Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National 

Association, as Trustee, (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company 

on February 22, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

4(bb) Indenture for 45/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2023, dated as of February 5, 2013, by and among 

Denbury Resources Inc., certain of its subsidiaries, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as 

Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on February 5, 

2013, File No. 001-12935).

10(a) Credit Agreement, dated as of March 9, 2010, by and among Denbury Resources Inc., as Borrower, 

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial institutions party thereto 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on March 12, 2010, File 

No. 001-12935).

10(b) First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of May 13, 2010, by and among Denbury Resources 

Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial institutions 

party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on 

May 19, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

Exhibit No. Exhibit
1012013 ANNUAL REPORT FORM 10-K PART IV

10(c) Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2010, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 10-Q filed by the 

Company on November 9, 2010, File No. 001-12935).

10(d) Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2010, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(d) of Form 10-K filed by the 

Company on March 1, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

10(e) Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2011, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(e) of Form 10-K filed by the 

Company on March 1, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

10(f) Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of May 19, 2011, by and among Denbury Resources 

Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial institutions 

party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on 

May 20, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

10(g) Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2011, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company 

on September 8, 2011, File No. 001-12935).

10(h) Seventh Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 11, 2012, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a) of Form 10-Q filed by the 

Company on May 10, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

10(i) Eighth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of July 26, 2012, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a) of Form 10-Q filed by the 

Company on August 8, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

10(j) Ninth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 2, 2012, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(a) of Form 10-Q filed by the 

Company on November 8, 2012, File No. 001-12935).

10(k) Tenth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 18, 2013, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(k) of Form 10-K filed by the 

Company on February 28, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

10(l)* Eleventh Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 8, 2013, by and among Denbury 

Resources Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the financial 

institutions party thereto.

10(m) Pipeline Financing Lease Agreement, dated as of May 30, 2008, by and between Genesis NEJD 

Pipeline, LLC, as Lessor, and Denbury Onshore, LLC, as Lessee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 

99.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on June 5, 2008, File No. 001-12935).

10(n) Transportation Services Agreement, dated as of May 30, 2008, by and between Genesis Free State 

Pipeline, LLC and Denbury Onshore, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 of Form 8-K filed 

by the Company on June 5, 2008, File No. 001-12935).

10(o)** Denbury Resources Inc. Amended and Restated Stock Option Plan, effective as of December 5, 2007 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on December 11, 2007, 

File No. 001-12935).

Exhibit No. Exhibit
102FORM 10-K PART IV DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

10(p)** Denbury Resources Inc. Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan, effective as of May 

22, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed by the Company on May 28, 

2013, File No. 001-12935).

10(q)** Form of Indemnification Agreement, dated as of July 28, 1999, by and between Denbury Resources 

Inc. and its officers and directors (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10 of Form 10-Q filed by the 

Company on August 11, 1999, File No. 001-12935).

10(r)* ** Denbury Resources Inc. Director Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended and restated effective as 

of December 12, 2013.

10(s)** Denbury Resources Inc. Severance Protection Plan, as amended and restated effective as of 

December 13, 2012 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(v) of Form 10-K filed by the Company on 

February 28, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

10(t)* ** Denbury Resources Inc. 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan, as amended and restated as of 

December 12, 2013.

10(u)** 2004 Form of Restricted Stock Award that vests on retirement for grants to officers pursuant to the 

2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan for Denbury Resources Inc. (incorporated by reference to 

Exhibit 10(l) of Form 10-K filed by the Company on March 15, 2005, File No. 001-12935).

10(v)** 2009 Form of Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement to certain officers that cliff vests on March 31, 

2012 pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan for Denbury Resources Inc. 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(f) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 11, 2009, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(w)** 2009 Form of Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement without change of control vesting pursuant to 

the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan for Denbury Resources Inc. (incorporated by reference to 

Exhibit 10(g) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 11, 2009, File No. 001-12935).

10(x)** 2011 Form of Performance Stock Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(a) to Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2011, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(y)** 2011 Form of Performance Cash Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(b) to Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2011, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(z)* ** Officer Resignation Agreement, effective as of December 31, 2013, by and between Denbury 

Resources Inc. and Robert L. Cornelius.

10(aa)** 2012 Form of Performance Stock Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(a) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2012, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(bb)** 2012 Form of Performance Cash Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(b) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2012, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(cc)** 2012 Form of TSR Performance Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(c) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2012, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(dd)** 2013 Form of Performance Share Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(a) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2013, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(ee)** 2013 Form of Performance Cash Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(b) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2013, 

File No. 001-12935).

Exhibit No. Exhibit
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10(ff)** 2013 Form of TSR Performance Award pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan 

(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(c) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2013, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(gg)** 2013 Form of Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and 

Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(e) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on 

May 10, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

10(hh)** 2013 Form of Restricted Share Award to officers pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock and Incentive 

Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(d) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on May 10, 2013, 

File No. 001-12935).

10(ii)** 2013 Form of Restricted Share Award to non-employee directors pursuant to the 2004 Omnibus Stock 

and Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(c) of Form 10-Q filed by the Company on 

August 6, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

10(jj)** 2013 Form of Deferred Stock Unit Award pursuant to the Director Deferred Compensation Plan 

(with respect to deferred long-term incentive awards) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(d) of 

Form 10-Q filed by the Company on August 6, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

10(kk)** 2013 Form of Deferred Stock Unit Agreement pursuant to the Director Deferred Compensation Plan 

(with respect to deferred director fees) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(e) of Form 10-Q filed 

by the Company on August 6, 2013, File No. 001-12935).

21* List of subsidiaries of Denbury Resources Inc.

23(a)* Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

23(b)* Consent of DeGolyer and MacNaughton.

31(a)* Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

31(b)* Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

32* Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the 

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

99* The summary of DeGolyer and MacNaughton’s Report as of December 31, 2013, on oil and gas 

reserves (SEC Case) dated January 31, 2014.

** Included herewith.

** Compensation arrangements.

Exhibit No. Exhibit
104FORM 10-K PART IV DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

/s/ Mark C. Allen February 28, 2014

Mark C. Allen

Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

/s/ Alan Rhoades February 28, 2014

Alan Rhoades

Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the 

following persons on behalf of Denbury Resources Inc. and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

/s/ Phil Rykhoek February 28, 2014

Phil Rykhoek

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Mark C. Allen February 28, 2014

Mark C. Allen

Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Alan Rhoades February 28, 2014

Alan Rhoades

Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer

(Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ Wieland F. Wettstein February 28, 2014

Wieland F. Wettstein

Director

/s/ Michael L. Beatty February 28, 2014

Michael L. Beatty

Director

/s/ Michael B. Decker February 28, 2014

Michael B. Decker

Director

/s/ John P. Dielwart February 28, 2014

John P. Dielwart

Director

/s/ Ronald G. Greene February 28, 2014

Ronald G. Greene

Director

/s/ Gregory L. McMichael February 28, 2014

Gregory L. McMichael

Director

/s/ Kevin O. Meyers February 28, 2014

Kevin O. Meyers

Director

/s/ Randy Stein February 28, 2014

Randy Stein

Director

/s/ Laura A. Sugg February 28, 2014

Laura A. Sugg

Director

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Denbury Resources 

Inc. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

DENBURY RESOURCES INC.
1052013 ANNUAL REPORT exhibit 21

Exhibit 21

LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES

Name Of Subsidiary Jurisdiction Of Organization

Denbury Operating Company Delaware

Denbury Onshore, LLC Delaware

Denbury Pipeline Holdings, LLC Delaware

Denbury Holdings, Inc. Delaware

Denbury Green Pipeline – Texas, LLC Delaware

Greencore Pipeline Company, LLC Delaware

Denbury Gulf Coast Pipelines, LLC Delaware
106FORM 10-K PART I DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Exhibit 23(a)

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Nos. 333-01006, 

333-27995, 333-55999, 333-70485, 333-39172, 333-39218, 333-39224, 333-63198, 333-90398, 333-106253, 

333-116249, 333-143848, 333-160178, 333-167480, 333-175273 and 333-189438) and Form S-3 (No. 333-186112) of 

Denbury Resources Inc. of our report dated February 28, 2014 relating to the consolidated financial statements 

and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in this Form 10-K.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Dallas, Texas

February 28, 2014

106exhibit 23(a) DENBURY RESOURCES INC.
1072013 ANNUAL REPORT exhibit 23(B)

Exhibit 23(b)

DEGOLYER AND MACNAUGHTON

5001 Spring Valley Road

Suite 800 East

Dallas, Texas 75244

February 26, 2014

Denbury Resources Inc.

5320 Legacy Drive

Plano, Texas 75024

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We hereby consent to the use of the name DeGolyer and MacNaughton, to references to DeGolyer and 

MacNaughton, to the inclusion of our Letter Report dated January 31, 2014, regarding the proved reserves of 

Denbury Resources, and to the inclusion of information taken from our “Appraisal Report as of December 31, 2013 

on Certain Properties owned by Denbury Resources Inc. SEC Case”, “Appraisal Report as of December 31, 2012 

on Certain Properties owned by Denbury Resources Inc. SEC Case”, and “Appraisal Report as of December 31, 2011 

on Certain Properties owned by Denbury Resources Inc. SEC Case”, in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of 

Denbury Resources Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2013.

Very truly yours,

/s/ DeGolyer and MacNaughton

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

Texas Registered Engineering Firm F-716
108exhibit 31(a) DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Exhibit 31(a) 

CERTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Phil Rykhoek, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this report on Form 10-K of Denbury Resources Inc. (the registrant);

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a 

material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such 

statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly 

present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as 

of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure 

controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over 

financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to 

be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including 

its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the 

period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial 

reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability 

of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with 

generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this 

report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of 

the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred 

during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an 

annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s 

internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal 

control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of 

directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over 

financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, 

summarize and report financial information; and

 (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant 

role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ Phil Rykhoek February 28, 2014 

Phil Rykhoek

President and Chief Executive Officer
1092013 ANNUAL REPORT exhibit 31(B)

Exhibit 31(b) 

CERTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 

I, Mark C. Allen, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this report on Form 10-K of Denbury Resources Inc. (the registrant);

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a 

material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such 

statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly 

present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as 

of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure 

controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over 

financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to 

be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including 

its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the 

period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial 

reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability 

of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with 

generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this 

report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of 

the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred 

during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an 

annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s 

internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal 

control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of 

directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over 

financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, 

summarize and report financial information; and

 (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant 

role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ Mark C. Allen February 28, 2014 

Mark C. Allen

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, 

and Assistant Secretary
110exhibit 32 DENBURY RESOURCES INC.

Exhibit 32

Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

In connection with the accompanying Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 (the 

Report) of Denbury Resources Inc. (Denbury) as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, each of the 

undersigned, in his capacity as an officer of Denbury, hereby certifies pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted 

pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to his knowledge:

1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 

1934, as amended; and

2. information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results 

of operations of Denbury.

/s/ Phil Rykhoek February 28, 2014 

Phil Rykhoek

President and Chief Executive Officer

/s/ Mark C. Allen February 28, 2014 

Mark C. Allen

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, 

and Assistant Secretary
2013 ANNUAL REPORT

4OPERATIONS OVERVIEW

Designed by Eisenberg And Associates 

Corporate Information

Stock Exchange Listing

New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”)

Ticker Symbol: DNR

Corporate Headquarters

Denbury Resources Inc.

5320 Legacy Drive

Plano, Texas 75024

972.673.2000

www.denbury.com

Stock Transfer Agent & Registrar

For questions concerning dividends, stock 

certificates, transfer procedures or address 

changes, please contact:

American Stock Transfer and Trust Company

6201 15th Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11219

800.937.5449

Email: info@amstock.com

www.amstock.com

Investor Inquiries

Phil Rykhoek

President & Chief Executive Officer

972.673.2000

Mark Allen

Senior Vice President & 

Chief Financial Officer

972.673.2000

Jack Collins

Executive Director, Finance and

Investor Relations

972.673.2028

Email: jack.collins@denbury.com

Annual Certifications

During 2013, our Chief Financial Officer 

certified to the NYSE that he is not 

aware of any violation by the Company 

of the NYSE’s corporate governance 

listing standards.

Financial Information Requests

For additional information and to receive 

additional copies of the Annual Report on 

Form 10-K as filed with the Securities and 

Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or to obtain 

other Denbury public documents, please 

contact: 

Denbury Resources Inc.

Investor Relations

5320 Legacy Drive

Plano, Texas 75024

972.673.2000

Email: ir@denbury.com 

Our Form 10-K filed with the SEC is 

included herein, excluding all exhibits 

other than our Section 302, 404 and 906 

certifications by the CEO and CFO. We will 

send shareholders our Form 10-K exhibits 

and any of our corporate governance 

documents, without charge, upon request. 

These documents are also available on our 

website at www.denbury.com.

Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be 

held on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at 3:00 P.M. CDT 

at the Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town 

Center, located at 7121 Bishop Road, Plano, 

Texas 75024.

Legal Counsel

Baker & Hostetler LLP

Bankers

J.P. Morgan (Agent)

Auditors

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Reserve Engineers

DeGolyer and MacNaughton
Denbury Resources Inc.

5320 Legacy Drive | Plano, Texas 75024 | 972.673.2000 | www.denbury.com