UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 13G
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No. _)*
SANDRIDGE ENERGY, INC.
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(Name of Issuer)
Common Stock $0.001 par value
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(Title of Class of Securities)
80007P307
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(CUSIP Number)
February 26, 2013
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(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of this Statement)
Check the appropriate box to designate the rule pursuant to which this Schedule
is filed:
[_] Rule 13d-1(b)
[X] Rule 13d-1(c)
[_] Rule 13d-1(d)
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* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting
person's initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of
securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which
would alter the disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be
deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of
that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the
Act (however, see the Notes).
Persons who respond to the collection of information contained in this form
are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
CUSIP No. 80007P307
1. Names of Reporting Persons/ I.R.S. Identification Nos. of Above Persons
(entities only):
LEON G. COOPERMAN
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2. Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)
(a) [_]
(b) [X]
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3. SEC Use Only
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4. Citizenship or Place of Organization: UNITED STATES
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Number of 5. Sole Voting Power: 16,370,768
Shares Bene-
ficially 6. Shared Voting Power 10,476,642
Owned by
Each Report- 7. Sole Dispositive Power: 16,370,768
ing Person
With 8. Shared Dispositive Power 10,476,642
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9. Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person:
26,847,410
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10. Check Box if the Aggregate Amount in Row (9) Excludes Certain Shares [_]
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11. Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (9): 5.5 %
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12. Type of Reporting Person: IN
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Item 1(a) Name of Issuer: SANDRIDGE ENERGY, INC. (the "Issuer").
Item 1(b) Address of the Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
123 Robert S. Kerr Avenue
Oklahoma City OK 73102
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Item 2 (a) Name of Person Filing:
This statement is filed on behalf of Leon G. Cooperman ("Mr. Cooperman").
Mr. Cooperman is the Managing Member of Omega Associates, L.L.C.
("Associates"), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the
State of Delaware. Associates is a private investment firm formed to invest in
and act as general partner of investment partnerships or similar investment
vehicles. Associates is the general partner of limited partnerships organized
under the laws of Delaware known as Omega Capital Partners, L.P. ("Capital LP"),
Omega Capital Investors, L.P.("Investors LP"), and Omega Equity Investors, L.P.
("Equity LP") and also the general partner of Omega Charitable Partnership L.P.
("Charitable LP"), an exempted limited partnership registered in the Cayman
Islands. These entities are private investment firms engaged in the purchase and
sale of securities for investment for their own accounts.
Mr. Cooperman is the President and majority stockholder of Omega Advisors,
Inc. ("Advisors"), a Delaware corporation, engaged in providing investment
management services and is deemed to control said entity. Advisors serves as the
investment manager to Omega Overseas Partners, Ltd. ("Overseas"), a Cayman
Island exempted company, with a business address at British American Tower,
Third Floor, Jennrett Street, Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island, British West
Indies. Mr. Cooperman has investment discretion over portfolio investments of
Overseas and is deemed to control such investments.
Advisors also serves as a discretionary investment advisor to a limited
number of institutional clients (the "Managed Accounts"). As to the Shares owned
by the Managed Accounts, there would be shared power to dispose or to direct the
disposition of such Shares because the owners of the Managed Accounts may be
deemed beneficial owners of such Shares pursuant to Rule 13d-3 under the Act as
a result of their right to terminate the discretionary account within a period
of 60 days.
Mr. Cooperman is the ultimate controlling person of Associates, Capital LP,
Investors LP, Equity LP, Charitable LP, and Advisors.
Item 2 (a) Name of Person Filing (cont.):
Item 2(b) Address of Principal Business Office or, if None, Residence:
The address of the principal business office of Mr. Cooperman is 2700 No.
Military Trail, Suite 230, Boca Raton FL 33431 and the principal business office
of each Capital LP, Equity LP, Investors LP, Charitable LP, Overseas, and
Advisors is 88 Pine Street, Wall Street Plaza - 31st Floor, New York, NY 10005.
Item 3. Statement is filed pursuant to Sections 240.13d-1(b) or 240.13d-2(b) or
(c):
This Item 3 is not applicable.
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Item 4. Ownership:
Item 4(a) (b) Amount Beneficially Owned and Percent of Class:
Mr. Cooperman may be deemed the beneficial owner of 26,847,410 Shares which
constitutes approximately 5.5% of the total number of Shares deemed outstanding.
This has been calculated based on 490,475,672 Shares outstanding as reported on
the Issuer's Form 10-Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2012.
This consists of 5,842,179 Shares owned by Capital LP; 1,648,400 Shares
owned by Investors LP; 2,385,062 Shares owned by Equity LP; 5,495,127 Shares
owned by Overseas; 1,000,000 owned by Charitable LP, and 10,476,642 Shares owned
by the Managed Accounts
Item 4(c). Number of Shares as to which such person has:
(i) Sole power to vote or to direct the vote: 16,370,768
(ii) Shared power to vote or to direct the vote: 10,476,642
(iii) Sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: 16,370,768
(iv) Shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: 10,476,642
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class:
This Item 5 is not applicable.
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person:
This Item 6 is not applicable.
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired the
Security Being Reported on by the Parent Holding Company:
This Item 7 is not applicable.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the Group:
This Item 8 is not applicable.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group:
This Item 9 is not applicable.
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Item 10. Certification:
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
the securities referred to above were not acquired and are not held for the
purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of the
Issuer of the securities and were not acquired and are not held in connection
with or as a participant in any transaction having such purpose or effect.
SIGNATURE
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify
that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
DATED: March 6, 2013
LEON G. COOPERMAN
By /s/ ALAN M. STARK
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Alan M. Stark
Attorney-in-Fact
ATTENTION: INTENTIONAL MISSTATEMENTS OR OMISSIONS OF FACT CONSTITUTE FEDERAL
CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS (SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001).
Exhibit A
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that LEON G. COOPERMAN ("Mr. Cooperman") does
hereby make, constitute and appoint ALAN M. STARK his true and lawful attorney,
to execute and deliver in his name and on his behalf whether he is acting
individually or as representative of others, any and all filings required to be
made by the Mr. Cooperman under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, (as
amended, the "Act"), with respect to securities which may be deemed to be
beneficially owned by the Mr. Cooperman under the Act, giving and granting unto
said attorney-in-fact power and authority to act in the premises as fully and to
all intents and purposes as Mr. Cooperman might or could do if personally
present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY shall remain in full force and effect until revoked in
writing by the undersigned. Mr. Cooperman has the unrestricted right to
unilaterally revoke this Power of Attorney.
This Power of Attorney shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the laws of the State of New York, without regard to rules of conflicts of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly subscribed these presents as of
March 1, 2013.
/s/ LEON G. COOPERMAN
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LEON G. COOPERMAN
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