Press Release

DBRS Morningstar Finalizes Provisional Rating on Tourmaline Oil Corp.’s Senior Unsecured Notes

Energy
January 25, 2021

DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) finalized its provisional rating of BBB with a Stable trend on Tourmaline Oil Corp.’s (Tourmaline; rated BBB with a Stable trend by DBRS Morningstar) $250 million 2.077% Senior Unsecured Notes, Series 1 due 2028 (the Notes). DBRS Morningstar notes that Tourmaline plans to use the net proceeds from the Notes offering primarily for refinancing its existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar considers ESG factors within the DBRS Morningstar analytical framework and its methodologies can be found at: https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/357792.

Notes:
All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.

The principal methodologies are Rating Companies in the Oil and Gas and Oilfield Services Industries (August 17, 2020), DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Rating Corporate Holding Companies and Parent/Subsidiary Rating Relationships (November 2, 2020), and DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Guarantees and Other Forms of Support (January 14, 2021), which can be found on dbrsmorningstar.com under Methodologies & Criteria.

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