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| Our Oil and Gas Royalty segment reported continued growth in the 2023 quarter, resulting in record production volumes, underscoring the success of recent acquisitions in core parts of the prolific Permian basin |
| We are encouraged by improving coal export market fundamentals based on recent international benchmark pricing |
| Total coal sales price per ton rose to $64.94 per ton for the 2023 quarter, an increase of 8.3% versus the 2022 quarter, and continues to reflect the positive impacts of our contracted order book |
| And we expect that the market pricing for exports going to be better than the domestic market |
| As we looked at next year as we've said previously, we believe we have a strong domestic market share for right at 30 million tons |
| We remain focused on finishing the year strong and gearing up for what should be another successful year in 2024 |
| I am proud of all that has been accomplished through the first three quarters of the year as we are on track to achieve another record year, beating last year's full year’s revenue and net income numbers |
| Our Royalty portfolio is well positioned to provide significant cash flow via hedge-free exposure to commodity pricing cost free organically growth |
| A theme that continues to favorably impact year-to-date results, particularly with regards to EBITDA and net income |
| Our well contracted coal order book enabled us to navigate an otherwise challenging operating environment during the 2023 quarter |
| With regard to the distribution, which you guys continue to maintain, very solid distribution, obviously where the units are trading now, dividend yield is very attractive |
| In closing, I am proud of ARLP’s performance year-to-date and encouraged by the opportunities in front of us |
| The strong cash flow generation of our underlying businesses positions us to continue improving our balance sheet and pursue the highest and best uses for our capital |
| At projected pricing levels, we believe that our export potential in 2024 will improve markedly as compared to the back half of 2023 |
| We expect additional growth and production will lead to record production volumes in 2024 as we continue to invest in minerals |
| That's opened a new market for some workers that we're starting to see some increased applicant flow that's encouraging for our River View Mine |
| Our Coal segment achieved higher realized pricing per ton sold relative to both the 2022 and sequential quarters |
| That's being broadened internationally and we believe that has growth potential and we're booking orders for 2024 and that specific area of Matrix |
| David Marsh That's certainly very compelling for divesting away from the core business and making it a little bit more interesting with some potential upside kickers |
| Sequentially, Coal Royalty Revenue per ton was up 3.7% and oil and gas royalties average sales prices were up 2.1% per barrel of oil equivalent |
| So that's compelling |
| We think that within that technology company we have, there are a lot of exciting things that there are indeed group are looking at that we think will be adding meaningfully as we look over the next five to six years, meaningfully growing that particular segment to hopefully it will be large enough to be a segment in three to four years if we can bring these things to market like we're currently anticipating |
| And then maybe continue the export theme for a second you mentioned improving export cold demand then you're based on our recent trends in the API 2 price as well as emerging opportunities in the markets |
| But at all other mines, we're expecting that we'll be fully staffed to be able to meet our production levels that we're able to do this year and continue into next year |
| We are actually seeing some improvement in Illinois Basin |
| On a sequential basis, coal sales price per ton was 3.2% higher |
| The modest year-over-year improvement was driven primarily by higher transportation and other revenues, partially offset by lower oil and gas royalties |
| An increase of 13.8% and 8 .8% respectively versus the 2022 in sequential quarters |
| We believe there could be some incremental sales opportunities in late 2023 in the export markets |
| We believe Infinitum's patented air core motor technology has significant market potential, and our technology division, Matrix, is actively exploring opportunities to collaborate with Infinitum and incorporate the technology into our current mining operations |
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| The balance of the Appalachia cost increase during the 2023 quarter was due to a 20% drop in production at our MC Mining operation and adverse mining conditions and equipment availability at our Tunnel Ridge Mine, which resulted in several large unit shifts during the 2023 quarter |
| Coal sales volumes in Appalachia were down 15.2% compared to the sequential quarters due to lock outages, customer plant maintenance, a reduction in operating shifts at our MC mining operation, and challenging geologic conditions at our Mettiki longwall operation that has delayed development of a new longwall district |
| EBITDA for the quarter was $227.6 million, down 10.3% as compared to the prior year period |
| However, we did face some difficult mining conditions in Appalachia at all three mines during the 2023 quarter, which resulted in higher operating cost and fewer tons produced versus previous expectations |
| I think from a production standpoint, our production impact for the quarter in both Mettiki and MC Mining is going to continue into the fourth quarter so we've had some people trying to retain sufficient people and our MC Mining has been a challenge for us so we had to reduce a unit of production at MC Mining Towards the back end of the last quarter that's going to continue into the fourth quarter and then at Mettiki as Cary mentioned the longwall is not expected to start until the end of November |
| Compared to the sequential quarter, coal sales volumes decreased 5% due to lower sales volumes in our Appalachia segment |
| And then you also mentioned in the call just some challenges around labor and equipment in the quarter |
| Our net income in 2023 was $153.7 million, 8.4% lower as compared to the 2022 quarter |
| All those averages realized that pricing per BOE during the 2023 quarter was lower compared to near record levels in the 2022 quarter |
| Mild weather experienced in the first half of the year, combined with lower natural gas prices throughout the year, have impacted coal consumption in 2023, preventing us from topping last year's record coal sales volumes |
| As it relates to volume, coal production decreased 7% to 8.4 million tons, while coal sales volumes decreased 7.9% to 8.5 million tons compared to the 2022 quarter |
| We do think, however, in 2024 that there's still continuing overhang of inventory at our utilities |
| In our Royalty segment, total revenues were $53.1 million, down 9% year-over-year but up 6.2% sequentially |
| So we'll pick up a little bit of tons with the longwall production, but still we are, our production is limiting our ability to ship some export tons coming out of those two operations |
| I'm not complaining but it's still out there, it's still an issue |
| You mentioned some of the issues we've had this year with high utility stockpiles and net gas prices |
| I don't think with our domestic customers there are any concerns about barge availability, water, et cetera but it's more on the export side to where we could have some timing issues on vessel loadings |
| So that's the primary logistical issue that we'd be faced |
| At MC Mining, we've had new deliveries for equipment to replace the older equipment that were delayed, that caused some of the impact on production |
| From a regulatory standpoint, the big issues related to our customers |
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