Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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Overall, we can see strong performance from this field
With the breakdown of the price correlation among commodities and the outsized effect of regionalized pricing, having exposure to multiple commodities in multiple markets has proven superior, to the pure play, single-basin, single-commodity strategy of the past
In building this base, our balance sheet has remained rock solid, and we've had no material dilution
Plus, we've got this fantastic team here, which I would be remiss in not mentioning now has Kelly Beatty as our Chief Accounting Officer
So I mean, ultimately, we have a very solid estimate, for what the reduced purchase price will be
We have a track record of paying dividends with stronger yields than the S&P 500 and our peers, returning cash to shareholders of over $3.33 per share over the last 10 years
The SCOOP/STACK acquisitions that we expect to close, I think next week, I think we're going to have some of the strongest production we've really ever had
Even though it is early in the cleanup process, we are encouraged by its performance
We view this as crucial to enhancing our ability to credibly maintain or increase production, at an attractive rate of return, for years to come
As mentioned on the last earnings call, we brought on two new infill wells at Delhi and are very pleased with the results, and hope to see more future proposed locations
The heat exchanger installed last year performed very well, during the recent pull of war-tank that hit Northern Louisiana, and we did not experience any cold weather interruptions at the plant
Largely in the past to maintain, or increase production, we needed to be in an acquisition market that, had more favorable trade winds, which by the way, we have a terrific record of doing that
I mean, I'll tell you, here at Evolution, we're really excited about what we have going on
And our recent successes at Delhi and our Williston Puds
It should absolutely, we think it will have a positive effect on the differentials for Hamilton Dome
Delhi production increased, despite more downtime than expected at the NGL plant
This asset is a perfect fit for our evolving strategy of both adding on long life production based on current commodity pricing during the downswings and adding undeveloped locations by making acquisitions through the drill business
So, yes, we're happy here and I appreciate everyone joining us on the call today
So anyway, we're excited about that
We are building our company, into one which can cover our dividend, and our capital spending in a much lower commodity price environment, like we see today, while maintaining ample capacity to return cash to shareholders
And obviously with what's going on at Chaveroo with the exciting drilling program there and the hundreds of low working interest upside SCOOP/STACK locations
John White Yes, so it's good to see Chaveroo going well
So, I'd say the reaction time of that was pretty good
So that was great
These six major transactions have added oil, natural gas and NGLs, all of which gain us exposure into different, largely uncorrelated markets, both by product and locations, many of which recently have experienced outsized favorable pricing versus other sales points
We have built and continue to build a diverse, resilient set of assets strategically designed to facilitate and complement our consistent approach to returning cash to shareholders
So, while our methods to execute our strategy have evolved and will continue to be enhanced, our goal remains the same as it has been since 2013, the year we paid our first of 41 and counting consecutive dividends
But we are - we're excited with what we have here Jeff Robertson Great
We now have some really significant investment flexibility
At Evolution, we accomplish our strategy of maximizing total shareholder returns, by carefully weighing the use of every dollar we put to work, for all of our stakeholders, always with an eye towards increasing, or extending the runway of our dividend for many years to come
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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I think actually at the Bakken, kind of almost shockingly, but it was only, I think, for a couple of days, but like statewide Bakken production fell like 50% for a couple of days, because the freeze was so bad and effected the LNG processing, I think, or something
Earnings per share was also negatively impacted by $0.01
In past years, one of the problems that has been in the Barnett is, they were unable to get production back on as fast, but this time they got everything back on really quickly
And so, you got this like excess Canadian production that's actually seems like it's put some downward pressure on the regional pricing in North Dakota
For our Williston Basin assets, production was impacted by reduced gas sales due to the ONEOK Grassland System being shut down for almost three weeks and down time of a few wells in November
At our Barnett asset, although inlet continued to experience issues with some of the gathering facilities, production was not significantly impacted and production for the Barnett has flattened back, to its normal historical decline rate
So in mid-January there was some fairly severe winter freeze weather conditions that hit North Dakota and also Texas and Louisiana
These adjustments affected the top line and therefore reduced revenue, net income before taxes and adjusted EBITDA, each by approximately $500,000
We plan to remain below our leverage target of one times pro forma EBITDA
But now we're seeing sort of just the opposite, where that capacity was expected to come online? So the producers in Alberta started ramping production, but then that pipeline capacity got delayed
So, I think there's only upside potential with that
Then there was, I think, a mile and a half section, where I think they ran into some First Nations issue, which caused a delay
So yes, our Williston differential was affected this quarter a little bit versus past quarters
I don't think they were as extreme as some maybe we've seen in the past, but there were, Reuters and some other, outlets talking about impacts
At the Hamilton Dome field, our current quarter production was affected somewhat by well work, but we expected all these wells to be back online during our fiscal third quarter
An actually, this year the winter storm, like that you're referring to it was - it didn't affect us as much as the winter storms have in the past
Negatively impacting this quarter, were approximately $500,000 adjustments related to ownership updates, received from the operator over Barnett properties covering a 22-month period beginning in September, 2021
Hopefully that's not too confusing
I can't think of anything negative that would happen because of it
So, I just want to acknowledge my error there
   

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