PDC Energy Inc. Q1 2023 Earnings Call

May 4, 2023

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Good day and thank you for standing by welcome to the PDC Energy first quarter 2023 conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation. There will be a question and answer session to ask a question. During the session you will need to press star one on your telephone you will then hear an automated.

Chip I think that your hand is right to withdraw your question. Please press star one again, please be advised that today's conference is being recorded I would now like to hand, the conference over to your speaker today Eric.

You may begin.

Thank you and good morning, everyone on today's call, we have president and CEO , Bart Brookman Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Scott Meyers Executive Vice President Lance Lauck Senior Vice President of operations, Dave Lillo.

Yesterday afternoon, we issued our press release and posted a presentation that accompanies our remarks today.

We also filed our Form 10-Q.

The press release and presentation are available on the Investor Relations page of our website at Www Dot PVC Dot com.

On today's call, we will reference about forward looking statements and non U S. GAAP financial measures the appropriate disclosures and reconciliations including discussions of risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward looking statements can be found on slide two and the appendix of that presentation with that I will turn the call over to our CEO .

Bart Brookman.

Thank you Erin and good morning, everyone.

Let me begin with a big callout to the PDC operating teams in Texas and Colorado.

And our <unk> group.

Both basins are approaching five years with no lost time injuries to PDC employees, an exceptional accomplishment.

Thank you for your sincere commitment to safety.

The first quarter of solid performance for the company production of 22 million barrels of oil equivalent or 244000 Boe per day in line with our expectations free.

Free cash flow for the quarter of $100 million.

On a capital spend of approximately $415 million capex coming in better than our expectations as we are seeing per well cost improvements in both basins.

David Scott will provide more detail on this encouraging trend in a moment.

Cost for the company remain in check.

LOE for the quarter $3 33 per Boe.

G&A of $1 89 per Boe.

With metrics, beating our expectations.

We are we exited the quarter with a 0.5 times leverage ratio and an extremely strong balance sheet and during the quarter. The company returned $170 million of capital to our shareholders with the retirement of $2 1 million shares of our stock and a <unk> 40 per share a fixed dividend.

Again.

Great results a solid quarter.

With solid execution.

Now.

An exciting update on our outlook for the second quarter and the balance of the year April is experiencing record production for both basins.

A result of exceptional midstream and individual well performance along with an accelerated Q1 turned in line schedule or two thirds of the quarter to quarterly Tal's occurred in March.

We're pleased that the outlook for the second quarter production has been increased to a range of 265 to 277000 Boe per day, and our 2023 annual production guidance is now anticipated to be near the upper end of our guidance range.

Also with the improved well costs I mentioned earlier, our 2023 capital spend has been amended downward to a range of 135 billion to $1 $45 billion.

Resulting in an anticipated 2023 free cash flow of $875 million, an increase of $50 million from prior guidance.

These are encouraging improvements in our outlook for production.

Capital spend free cash flow and overall capital efficiency laying the groundwork for a very strong second quarter and a successful 23.

Now for more details around the company's operations I'll turn this call over to Dave Lula.

Thanks Bart.

Jumping on to slide five I want to review some of the operational achievements for the quarter as Mark pointed out our first quarter was the most operationally intense quarter of the year running four drilling rigs and three completion crews across the asset base for.

For the quarter, we invested approximately $415 million.

Below the midpoint of our guidance.

This is a result of a slight push of capital from the first quarter into the second quarter, but more significantly reflecting some of the pass through cost savings primarily associated with steel sand and fuel costs, we've begun to see in the field.

Total production for the quarter came in at 22 million Boe.

We're approximately 244000 Boe per day.

Oil production for the quarter was $6 9 million barrels or approximately 77000 barrels per day.

Oil production for the quarter was slightly below guidance expectation as a result of turn in lines in two large pads.

I guess in the quarter in the black oil south acreage in the DJ.

Although the timing delays were a matter of days per our compared to our guidance forecast they took a bit longer to hit peak production.

Of our 61 turn in lines for the quarter 36 occurred in the month of March due to a larger pad development and results of lumpy quarter production.

To give a window into this production ramp already well underway. Our March production averaged 253000 Boe per day with oil production, averaging 81000 barrels per day and our April production has been even stronger as.

We set PDC field records almost.

Every day.

Across both basins.

Today in the Wattenberg, all the guests and quorum wells are online and meeting or slightly exceeding expectations.

We have upwardly revised our second quarter production outlook to reflect this timing change and Scott will cover this in more detail shortly.

As we work through a busy quarter, our team maintained great focus and managing costs on our low side.

For the quarter was $3 33.

<unk> per Boe.

And then all in G&A expense totaling $1 89 per Boe.

In Wattenberg field, we invested approximately $330 million.

To run three drilling rigs and two completion crews during the quarter.

We spud 64 wells and turned in line 55.

For the quarter production in the Wattenberg averaged 216000 Boe.

Bo per day.

Of which approximately 31% was oil.

LOE for the basin came in at $2 83.

<unk> per Boe, highlighting our low cost nature of our operations.

In Delaware, we invested approximately $85 million running one completion crew and maintaining our one full time drilling rig activity level level focused on batch drilling.

Production for the Delaware Basin averaged 28000.

Bo per day.

Of which approximately 36% was oil.

LOE for the basin came in at $7 14 per Boe.

And the reserves collective our continued workover activity during the quarter.

Moving to slide six.

I want to take a little time to Dubai.

Dive into our Wattenberg field operations and highlight some of the innovations in technology.

That was driving value for us for the quarter. The team has done a great job at continuing to look at all parts of our operations and then identifying opportunities for improvement.

First to give you an update on our three mile laterals as our 10, well Wayne pad has been online for more than 120 days now our team has seen no degradation in production results per lateral foot to date as we move to three miles of completed lateral length.

We highlighted in the chart at the bottom of the slide our per well NPV 10 by lateral length and you can see.

A very linear relationship moving from one mile to three miles at this point.

Continued success in development with longer laterals provide ongoing opportunities for step change improvements in efficiencies as well as opportunities to recover incremental resources as.

As we continue to test the bounds of increased lateral length. Our results to date give us good confidence to continue to complete three mile laterals.

Going forward.

In 2023, we have our Brandt pad made up of nine wells and are spinning well pad, which.

We are currently drilling three mile laterals.

Additionally, we have plans to test a six well pad with four mile laterals later this year.

Moving to the use of local sand in the DJ operations during the quarter, 25% of our Frac activity utilize this local sand and we have subsequently been working to move that percentage up based on availability and allocations.

Not only does this move to.

To local sand reduced total completions cost there is a sustainability benefit from sourcing this in basin and not having to ship it in.

Lastly on this slide I want to highlight our continued progress to electrify our operations.

We have started using an E fleet for our completions and moving from diesel to onsite electrical generation and grid power beginning this week Adil.

Additionally, we have continued to utilize grid power for drilling and changed out one of our existing rigs for a brand new E drilling rig in March we.

We anticipate using 80% grid power for our drilling operations in 2023.

This electrification is not only setting us up for successful operations and our cap acreage planned at the beginning of next year.

We also.

Receive incremental cost benefits today from insulating ourself from diesel costs, and realizing environmental benefits on emissions and reduce noise levels.

Finally on slide seven.

I want to point out an update of our.

Wattenberg, our Delaware operations.

As you can recall from prior calls our team has made.

Has been actively finding ways to economically extend inventory in the basin.

Through acreage swaps and drill to earn opportunities.

One of these drill to earn opportunities executed in 2022 resulted in a six well read horn pad that we completed in March of this year.

For the first month of production the individual wells averaged 1000 Boe per day of oil and 55 million cubic feet of gas.

These are very strong highly.

<unk> wells that we are excited to have in our inventory today.

And the other inventory expansion opportunities. We recently finished drilling two third bone spring carb shale tests in our northern central acreage and anticipate completions at the end of May.

And we continue.

To be encouraged by our results from offset operators.

Based on successful preliminary results, we believe the potential to drill three more additional wells in the second half of the year exist.

If successful this could add up to 20 additional wells are in additional drilling here to our inventory in the basin.

Lastly, I want to highlight some of the three mile lateral development, we are doing in Delaware.

In April we placed on flowback, our six well last key pad, although we don't have many days of production I can share that we are very encouraged by the early results, which this helped along with the Red Horn to set new production targets in the basin.

I look forward to updating the market with more details on our progress in the basin and upcoming quarters.

With that I'll turn it over to Scott Meyers.

Thank you Dave starting on slide nine our free cash flow profile is extremely robust.

In a quarter, where we operated three completion crews and for drilling length as Dave has highlighted we generated more than $100 million of free cash flow. This is quite strong considering the elevated capital level.

And the current natural gas price environment to dive into some parts of our free cash flow result.

Pre hedged realized price of approximately $37 per Boe.

While our lease operating expense came in at $3 33 per BOE and our G&A came in as expected at $1 89 per Boe.

Total production for the quarter was 244000 BOE per day oil production came in at 77000 barrels per day.

For the second quarter, we've increased the midpoint of our production guidance and now expect total production to be in the range of 265000.

277000.

BOE per day, and 87 to 92000 barrels of oil per day.

The increase is primarily the result of the turn in line activity at the end of the first quarter as well as the early well results Dave just outlined.

Capital investment for the second quarter are expected to be approximately 325 to 400 million unchanged from prior guidance as the realized savings.

We are expecting are offset by a slight push up capital from the first quarter to the second quarter.

As we ramp production in the second quarter and the back half of the year and we continue to see cost savings flow through our operations. We now anticipate generating approximately $875 million of free cash flow from the for the year up from $8 25 estimate last quarter.

Moving to slide 10, I'd like to highlight a few details on our shareholder return program.

In the first quarter alone, we returned approximately $170 million through our share buyback and our 40% base dividend.

During the quarter, we spent approximately $135 million to repurchase two 1 million shares or nearly two 5% of the company.

The shareholder return program is intended to be an annual program and we feel comfortable being ahead of our 60 plus percent in the first quarter as we expect incremental free cash flow to be driven from lighter capital activity for the remainder of the year.

With our increased free cash flow estimate of approximately $875 million. We are now expected to return inclusive of our base dividend more than $575 million to shareholders. This year.

The share buyback remains our preferred tool on executing on our tremendous return of 60 plus percent of our annual post base dividend free cash flow to shareholders.

Finally on slide 11, I want to wrap up our prepared comments by highlighting our progress in the first quarter has set us up well to execute on our 2023 plans.

We have reduced our anticipated full year 2023 capital investment range to 135 to 145 billion to reflect savings we've already locked in for the second half of the year.

We have reaffirmed our total annual production guidance of 255000 to 265000 BOE per day with an oil range of 82000 to 86000 barrels per day.

Though it's early in the year current production performance and midstream run times gives us comfort putting folks the higher part of that range.

As we sit today PDC continues to set weekly production records in both DJ and Delaware.

And as well as continue to come on in the second quarter.

We are on we are on track to further reduce debt in the back half of the year and are encouraged by our free cash flow profile in the quarters to come.

I am proud that we have positioned PTC and its shareholders to thrive in nearly every part of the commodity cycle, though we cannot predict the ever changing macro environment with our long lived inventory of tier one assets PVC is ready for the continued volatility to come I'll now turn the call over to the operator.

As a reminder to ask a question. Please press star one on your telephone to withdraw your question. Please press star one again, please standby, while we compile the Q&A roster.

And one on the <unk> question.

Yes.

And our first question will come from Bertran Jones Your line is open.

Hi, good morning, guys.

Just on the maybe you could go into detail on the timing of the turn in line activities and <unk> I think it impacted volumes a little bit I just wanted to see.

What happened there and if you caught up on all of that activity.

Maybe if anything youre going to flip from 23 to 24 as a result.

And then the second question is just you.

You have a pretty good diverse.

Inventory when it comes to product mix do you plan to change any activity based on the.

The current GAAP oil prices or is that all kind of locked in departments.

So I'll take the first one anyway.

So what was really pushed as far as capital spend.

And a little bit of our production was we had a dust pad 19 brand new wells nine old wells.

And then we had a <unk> <unk> or 26 brand new wells 10 wells.

That we're all so we had a 28 well pad the 36 well pad.

Our team is getting very familiar with the area that we're working in down in Adams County.

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We've been very good at implementing <unk> operations with two drill out rigs.

And at the same time, we have flowback.

What happened in this particular situation is that we had about half of our Kortum wells on at the end of the quarter. We finished up the work and now they're all online.

Basically it shouldn't.

Change any of our yearly production volumes, but the second quarter will benefit from this since they were turned on.

This month or last month, right and just to reiterate.

Great.

As a matter of a couple of days and when you're turning this many wells on this quickly.

Wheat.

Week delay and delay in production ends up being.

A little material, but the second quarter as Dave said its benefits and.

As we said in the quarter, we can now point to the top end of the 23 guidance. So there is nothing thats getting pushed to 'twenty four.

And then.

On your question around commodity mix.

In scheduling.

The rigs.

So I wouldn't expect any big changes in our plan, we have tremendous economics on the drilling projects.

<unk>.

The plan is the completions or drilling schedule everything is really well laid out by our planning group.

I don't see us, making any significant changes to that.

Particularly with the resilient nature of these drilling and completion projects.

And is there any change maybe year over year, and 24 versus 23 and Thats all I got thanks.

Yeah.

Again, I would say the only thing is.

And this is like 1% or 2% of your oil mix when we get to the cap area.

Which is our old summit in Plains area, we do get a little more gassy. That's just long returns from that area, but generally speaking over the next.

Five to 10 years, the oil mix is still going to be in that 30% to 32% range. So we feel very comfortable to do this year after year.

That's perfect. Thanks, guys.

Again, if you do have a question. Please press Star then one on your telephone again star and one for any questions.

I would now like to turn the call back over to Bart Brookman for closing remarks.

Thank you Latanya.

Probably the shortest.

Q&A session, we've ever had so.

Maybe that's a good thing.

Communications on our part.

A great quarter and.

Thank you for all those who did join in.

And we really are excited about the outlook for second quarter and the balance of the year and heading into next year. So I. Appreciate you joining us. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen that concludes today's conference. Thank you for your.

Participation you may now disconnect.

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Good day, and thank you for standing by and welcome to the PDC Energy first quarter 2023 conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation. There will be a question and answer session to ask a question. During the session you will need to press star one on your telephone you will then hear an automated.

Message advising that your hand is right to withdraw your question. Please press star one again, please be advised that today's conference is being recorded I would now like to hand, the conference over to your speaker today, Eric <unk> you may begin.

Thank you and good morning to everyone on today's call, we have president and CEO , Bart Brookman Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Scott Meyers Executive Vice President Lance Lauck Senior Vice President of operations, Dave Lillo.

Yesterday afternoon, we issued our press release and posted a presentation that accompanies our remarks today.

We also filed our Form 10-Q.

The press release and presentation are available on the Investor Relations page of our website at Www Dot PVC Dot com.

Brooklyn.

Thank you Erin and good morning, everyone.

Let me begin with a big call out to the PDC operating teams in Texas and Colorado.

And our <unk> group.

Both basins are approaching five years with no lost time injuries to PDC employees, an exceptional accomplishment.

Thank you for your sincere commitment to safety.

The first quarter.

A solid performance for the company production of 22 million barrels of oil equivalent or 244000 Boe per day in line with our expectations.

Free cash flow for the quarter of $100 million.

On a capital spend of approximately $415 million capex coming in better than our expectations as we are seeing per well cost improvements in both basins.

Dave and Scott will provide more detail on this encouraging trend in a moment.

Cost for the company remain in check.

LOE for the quarter $3 33 per Boe.

G&A of $1 89 per Boe.

With metrics, beating our expectations.

We are we exited the quarter with a 0.5 times leverage ratio and an extremely strong balance sheet and during the quarter. The company returned $170 million of capital to our shareholders.

The retirement of $2 1 million shares of our stock and a <unk> 40 per share a fixed dividend.

Again.

Great results a solid quarter.

With solid execution.

Now in.

An exciting update on our outlook for the second quarter and the balance of the year.

<unk> is experiencing record production for both basins are.

The result of exceptional midstream and individual well performance along with an accelerated Q1 turn in line schedule or two thirds of the quarter to quarterly Tal's occurred in March.

Also with the improved well costs I mentioned earlier, our 2023 capital spend has been amended downward to a range of 135 billion to $1 $45 billion.

Resulting in anticipated 2023 free cash flow of $875 million, an increase of $50 million from prior guidance.

These are encouraging improvements in our outlook for production.

<unk> spend free cash flow and overall capital efficiency laying the groundwork for a very strong second quarter and a successful 23.

Now for more details around the company's operations I'll turn this call over to Dave Lula.

Thanks Bart.

For the quarter, we invested approximately $415 million.

Below the midpoint of our guidance.

Total production for the quarter came in at 22 million Boe.

Approximately 244000 BOE per day oil production for the quarter was $6 9 million barrels or approximately 77000 barrels per day.

Oil production for the quarter was slightly below guidance expectation as a result of turn in lines in two large pads.

In the quarter in the black oil south acreage in the DJ.

Although the timing delays were a matter of days per our compared to our guidance forecast they took a bit longer to hit peak production.

Of our 61 turn in lines for the quarter 36 occurred in the month of March due to a larger pad development and a result of lumpy quarter production.

To give a window into this production ramp already well underway. Our March production averaged 253000 Boe per day with oil production averaged 81000 barrels per day and our April production has been even stronger as.

We set PDC field records almost.

Every day.

Across both basins.

Today in the Wattenberg, all the guests and quorum wells are online and meeting or slightly exceeding expectations.

We have upwardly revised our second quarter production outlook to reflect this timing change and Scott will cover this in more detail shortly.

As we work through a busy quarter, our team maintained great focus and managing costs on our low side.

For the quarter was $3 33.

<unk> per Boe.

And then all in G&A expense totaling $1 89 per Boe.

In the Wattenberg field, we invested approximately $330 million.

To run three drilling rigs and two completion crews during the quarter.

We spud 64 wells and turned in line 55.

For the quarter production in the Wattenberg averaged 216000 Boe.

Bo per day.

Of which approximately 31% was oil.

LOE for the basin came in at $2 83.

<unk> per Boe, highlighting our low cost nature of our operations.

In Delaware, we invested approximately $85 million running one completion crew and maintaining our one full time drilling rig activity logo level focused on batch drilling.

Production for the Delaware Basin averaged 28000.

OE per day.

Of which approximately 36% was oil.

LOE for the basin came in at $7 14 per Boe.

And there is very selective our continued workover activity during the quarter.

Moving to slide six.

I wanted to take a little time to Dubai to dive into our Wattenberg field operations and highlight some of the innovations in technology.

That was driving value for us for the quarter. The team has done a great job at continuing to look at all parts of our operations and identifying opportunities for improvement.

First to give you an update on our three mile laterals.

As our 10, well Wayne pad has been online for more than 120 days now our team has seen no degradation in production results per lateral foot to date as we move to three miles of completed lateral length.

We highlighted in the chart at the bottom of the slide our per well NPV 10 by lateral length and you can see.

A very linear relationship moving from one mile to three miles at this point continued.

Continued success in development with longer laterals provide ongoing opportunities for step change improvements in efficiencies as well as opportunities to recover incremental resources.

As we continue to test the bounds of increased lateral length. Our results to date give us good confidence to continue to complete three mile laterals.

Going forward.

In 2023, we have our Brandt pad made up of nine wells and are spinning well pad, which both we are currently drilling three mile laterals.

Additionally, we have plans to test a six well pad with four mile laterals later this year.

Moving to the use of local sand in the DJ operations during the quarter.

25% of our Frac activity utilize this local sand and we have subsequently been working to move that percentage up based on availability and allocations not only does this move.

Two local sand reduced total completions cost there is a sustainability benefit from sourcing this in basin and not having to ship it in.

Lastly on this slide I want to highlight our continued progress to electrify our operations.

We have started using an E fleet for our completions and moving from diesel to onsite electrical generation and grid power beginning this week.

Additionally, we have continued to utilize grid power for drilling and changed out one of our existing rigs for a brand new E drilling rig in March.

We anticipate using 80% grid power for our drilling operations in 2023.

This electrification is not only setting us up for successful operations and our cap acreage planned at the beginning of next year.

We also.

Receive incremental cost benefits today from insulating ourself from diesel costs, and realizing environmental benefits on emissions and reduce noise levels.

Finally on slide seven.

I want to point out an update of our.

Wattenberg, our Delaware operations.

As you can recall from prior calls our team has made.

Has been actively finding ways to economically extend inventory in the basin.

Through acreage swaps and drill to earn opportunities.

One of these drill to earn opportunities executed in 2022 resulted in a six well read horn pad that we completed in March of this year.

For the first month of production the individual wells averaged 1000 Boe per day of oil and 55 million cubic feet of gas.

These are very strong highly economic wells that we are excited to have in our inventory today.

And other inventory expansion opportunities. We recently finished drilling two third bone spring carb shale tests in our northern central acreage and anticipate completions at the end of May.

And we continue.

To be encouraged by our results from offset operators.

Based on successful preliminary results, we believe the potential to drill three more additional wells in the second half of the year exist.

If successful this could add up to 20 additional wells or an additional drilling here to our inventory in the basin.

Lastly, I want to highlight some of the three mile lateral development, we are doing in Delaware.

In April we placed on flowback, our six well loss key pad, although we don't have many days of production I can share that we are very encouraged by the early results, which this helped along with the Red Horn to set new production targets in the basin.

I look forward to updating the market with more details on our progress in the basin in upcoming quarters.

With that I'll turn it over to Scott Meyers.

Thank you Dave starting on slide nine our free cash flow profile is extremely robust.

In a quarter, where we operated three completion crews and for drilling lengths as Dave has highlighted we generated more than $100 million of free cash flow. This is quite strong considering the elevated capital level.

And the current natural gas price environment to dive into some parts of our free cash flow result.

Pre hedged realized price of approximately $37 per Boe.

While our lease operating expense came in at $3 33 per BOE and our G&A came in as expected at $1 89 per Boe.

Total production for the quarter was 244000 BOE per day, our oil production came in at 77000 barrels per day.

For the second quarter, we've increased the midpoint of our production guidance and now expect total production to be in the range of 265000.

277000.

BOE per day and 87%.

92000 barrels of oil per day.

The increase is primarily the result of the turn in line activity at the end of the first quarter as well as the early well results Dave just outlined.

Capital investment for the second quarter are expected to be approximately 325 to 400 million unchanged from prior guidance as the realized savings we are expecting our.

Offset by a slight push up capital from the first quarter to the second quarter.

Moving to slide 10, I'd like to highlight a few details on our shareholder return program.

In the first quarter alone, we returned approximately $170 million through our share buyback and our 40 base dividend.

During the quarter, we spent approximately $135 million to repurchase two 1 million shares or nearly two 5% of the company.

With our increased free cash flow estimate of approximately $875 million. We are now expected to return inclusive of our base dividend more than $575 million to shareholders. This year.

The share buyback remains our preferred tool on executing on our tremendous return of 60 plus percent of our annual post base dividend free cash flow to shareholders.

Finally on slide 11, I want to wrap up our prepared comments by highlighting our progress in the first quarter has set us up well to execute on our 2023 plants.

We have reduced our anticipated full year 2023 capital investment range to 135 to 145 billion to reflect savings we've already locked in for the second half of the year.

We have reaffirmed our total annual production guidance of 255000.

To 265000 BOE per day with an oil range of 82000 to 86000 barrels per day, although it's early in the year current production performance and midstream run times gives us comfort putting folks the higher part of that range.

As we sit today PDC continues to set weekly production records in both DJ and Delaware.

And as well as continued to come on in the second quarter.

We are on track to further reduce debt in the back half of the year and are encouraged by our free cash flow profile in the quarters to come.

I am proud that we are positioned PTC and its shareholders to thrive in nearly every part of the commodity cycle, though we cannot predict the ever changing macro environment with our long lived inventory of tier one assets PDC is ready for the continued volatility to come I will now turn the call over to the operator.

Certainly as a reminder to ask a question. Please press star one on your telephone to withdraw your question. Please press star one again, please standby, while we compile the Q&A roster.

And one on the <unk> question.

Yes.

And our first question will come from Bertran Jones Your line is open.

Hi, good morning, guys.

Just on the just start off maybe you could go into detail on the timing of the turn in line activities and <unk> I think it impacted volumes a little bit I just wanted to see if.

What happened there and if you caught up on all of that activity.

Maybe if anything is going to flip from 'twenty three to 'twenty four as a result.

And then the second question is just you have a pretty good diverse.

Inventory when it comes to product mix do you plan to change any activity based on the.

The current GAAP oil prices or is that all kind of locked in departments.

Both of these days so I'll take the first one anyway.

So what was really pushed as far as capital spend.

And a little bit of our production was we had a dust pad 19 brand new wells nine old Wells and then we had a <unk> <unk> or 26 brand new wells 10 wells.

But we're all so we had a 28 well pad the 36 well pad.

Our team is getting very familiar with the area that we're working in down in Adams County, we've.

We've been very good at implementing <unk> operations with two drill out rigs.

At the same time, we have flowback.

What happened in this particular situation is that we had about half of our Kortum wells on at the end of the quarter. We finished up the work and now they're all online.

Basically it shouldnt.

Change any of our yearly production volumes, but the second quarter will benefit from this since they were turned on.

This month or last month, right and just to reiterate that this is a matter of a couple of days and when you're turning this many wells on this quickly.

<unk> week delay and delay in production ends up being.

A little material, but the second quarter as Dave said its benefits and as we said in the quarter. We can now point to the top end of the 23 guidance. So there is nothing thats getting pushed to 'twenty four.

And then.

On your question around commodity mix.

In scheduling.

On the rigs.

So I wouldn't expect any big changes in our plan, we have tremendous economics on the drilling projects.

<unk>.

The plan is the completions or drilling schedule everything is really well laid out by our planning group.

I don't see us, making any significant changes to that.

Particularly with the resilient nature of these drilling and completion projects.

And is there any change maybe year over year, and 24 versus 23 and Thats all I got thanks.

Okay.

Again, I would say the only thing is.

And this is like 1% or 2% of your oil mix when we get to the cap.

Area.

Which is our old summit in Plains area, we do get a little more gassy. That's just long returns from that area, but generally speaking over the next.

Five to 10 years, the oil mix is still going to be in that 30% to 32% range. So we feel very comfortable to do this year after year.

That's perfect. Thanks, guys.

Again, if you do have a question. Please press Star then one on your telephone again star and one for any questions.

I would now like to turn the call back over to Bart Brookman for closing remarks.

Thank you latona.

Probably the shortest.

Q&A session, we've ever had so.

Maybe that's a good thing good communications on our part in the <unk>.

Great quarter and.

Thank you for all those who did join.

And we really are excited about the outlook for second quarter and the balance of the year and into next year. So I. Appreciate you joining us. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen that concludes today's conference. Thank you for your.

Participation you may now disconnect.

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