Penn West Energy Trust (PWE) Updates Corporate Restructuring Plan and Drilling Activity
Penn West Energy Trust released updated information on its corporate restructuring and an operational update on its oil and gas exploration and development activities. Penn West Energy Trust is currently operating under an income trust business model and is moving over the next few quarters to an exploration and production business model. This conversion involves the reduction of its dividend and the redeployment of the funds into oil and gas exploration and development. Penn West Energy Trust has reduced the company’s future monthly dividend payments from $0.15 per unit to $0.09 per unit. The company has also applied to the…