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| I'll just say we're doing a good job around that |
| Some of the excess cash may accrue the balance sheet, helping us to opportunistically pursue bolt-on, attractive bolt-on oil and gas property acquisitions that improve the business, which help to sustain our returns and enhance the dividend per share payout capacity |
| Our organic proved developed F&D costs declined by approximately 40% compared to last year as a result of our well cost reduction efforts and strong well results |
| On Slide 16, Magnolia had a very successful organic drilling program during last year |
| Magnolia has the benefit of a very strong balance sheet and we ended the quarter with zero net debt and $401 million of cash on the balance sheet |
| Giddings production represented approximately 71% of overall Magnolia volumes last year and the Giddings area continues to see operating efficiency improvements in the field, such as fewer drilling days per well and realizing significant gains in stimulation stages per day |
| So I remain real optimistic about our prospects going forward for the fields and what it's going to mean to Magnolia going forward |
| I think the results are pretty good over three-year, five-year type period |
| Slides 7 and 8 demonstrate that Magnolia is best-in-class when coupling one of the lowest leverage profiles in the industry with some of the highest operating margins |
| Our high quality asset base allows for a low reinvestment rate while still providing moderate growth for the business over time |
| So where this is headed is we've got a sizable position, more than half a million acres, and we've done some recent acquisitions, and I think that's improved our position and will help us learn some more |
| We expect this year's plan to deliver similarly strong results at current product prices |
| We have a strong five-year history of demonstrated operating and financial results and expect our business model to enhance per share value over time |
| Together with the acquisitions completed last year, these accomplishments have strengthened our position into 2024 and we expect high single-digit growth, high margin, and high margin total company production growth with our oil volumes growing at similar rates |
| Slide 5 shows that Magnolia has had one of the lowest capital reinvestment rates compared to most other EMP companies while achieving a superior compound annual rate of growth in terms of production per share over the past three years |
| The actions we took last year to reduce our well costs helped to significantly reduce our capital, improve our operating margins, and generate additional free cash flow |
| Turning to Slide 6, our corporate level returns or return on capital employed continue to be some of the best in the upstream energy sector, highlighting our strategy of disciplined capital spending, including last year's success in reducing our well costs and the beneficial impact of our ongoing share repurchases |
| On the specific areas or items, we did a terrific job around efficiencies last year, especially on the completion side and completion -- and stages per day |
| So I think the opportunity set is reasonably good |
| While this activity level is similar to last year's operating plan, lower well costs combined with improved operating efficiencies allow for more net wells to be drilled, completed, and turned in line helping to support Magnolia's overall high margin growth |
| I think you all did a great job last year in being able to exceed initial expectations |
| This results in significant free cash flow generation and we strive to return a significant portion of this to our shareholders in the form of share repurchases and a safe, sustainable, and growing dividend |
| As we have often expressed, Magnolia's primary objectives are to be the most efficient operator of best-in-class oil and gas assets, generating the highest returns on those assets while employing the least amount of capital for drilling and completing wells |
| Brian Corales And Geoff, if -- I'll just maybe add one thing, and Chris talked about a little bit, is we did a really, really good job on stages per day on the completion side |
| GP&T, actually, I think we're doing a pretty good job there and we'll see how that goes |
| Fourth quarter production volumes grew 16% year-over-year to 85,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day |
| This is a powerful combination allowing us to maximize our free cash flow generation |
| So there are meaningful benefits there as well |
| For the full year, production volumes grew 9% to 82,300 barrels of oil equivalent per day |
| Despite the transitory weather impact last month, our production is fully recovered and it is running normally and we are confident in our full year plan and guidance of high single-digit production growth for the year |
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| We've also heard some concerns on Ship Channel widening out further given increasing Permian volumes flow into the Gulf |
| The year-over-year decrease in pre-tax operating margins was driven by the significant decrease in commodity prices |
| Our adjusted EBITDAX for the quarter was $240 million with total capital associated with drilling, completions and associated facilities of $91 million or just 38% of our adjusted EBITDAX and below our guidance |
| Chris, I'm at risk of frustrating you |
| CapEx 17% lower for nearly inline production volumes |
| Turning to Slide 15, and looking at our per unit cash costs and operating income margins, total revenue per BOE declined due to the substantial decrease in product prices and especially natural gas prices when compared to fourth quarter of 2022 |
| If you do the math on that 205 million for the first quarter, it seemed a little light |
| And that's about 20% lower than a year ago |
| I guess when I saw in the press release that the cost of Giddings, well costs were down about 20% |
| You've probably seen already some of the comments from some of the independent producers, the gassier producers here, maybe reducing their activity a bit |
| And when you roll forward from last year, which had significantly higher pricing, you do lose reserves |
| Our total adjusted cash and operating costs including G&A were $10.55 per BOE in the fourth quarter of 2023, a decrease of $1.60 per BOE, or 13% compared to year-ago levels |
| But it didn't just happen |
| If we look at the Giddings asset in general, you've seen oil cuts, call it kind of mid-30s |
| And then my hope and view is that we're going to try to attack this and manage it to the point where we could see some decline later into the year |
| Total production for the first quarter is estimated to be approximately 84,000 to 85,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, which incorporates the impact of production and facilities downtime caused by severe winter weather conditions in January |
| The fully diluted share count for the first quarter of 2024 is expected to be approximately 205 million shares, which is 4% lower than first quarter 2023 levels |
| Magnolia's weighted average fully diluted share count declined by more than 2 million shares sequentially, averaging 206.5 million shares during the fourth quarter |
| In fact, maybe you sort of see things flat to a little bit lower or softer, considering where gas prices are |
| For the second half of the year, it doesn't seem to me as if activity is just going to soar away higher |
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