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| We’re super excited about the portfolio we’ve built |
| We are very pleased with attracting and ultimately seeing a large fundamental investor grow their position into the company |
| That’s an investor that truly believes in the strategy of the company, the strong fundamentals that we have and the management team’s ability to execute on that strategy |
| And then as you walk into January, we were able to do a refinancing of our high-yield notes and extending our maturities and lowering our borrowing costs, and then we're super proud of that effort |
| I think hooking up two wells with a full subsea development from discovery to first oil in 13 months is a really big effort, and I'm proud of them and I'm proud of that execution |
| We’re proud of being a first mover |
| Overall, we feel like we have a very clean capital structure with very long data maturities and an attractive coupon associated with that capital structure that that’s going to serve us well going into the future |
| Now we're proud of being a first mover there and we're proud of the portfolio we've built |
| We think that puts us in a great position to execute the strategy that we believe in |
| That was a significant process that we went through and we are very pleased with the results |
| So we feel good about this estimate this year |
| It's a great fit operationally and strategically and it's a highly accretive transaction |
| And we hope that's aided by a recent joint venture with Helix that helps us have more cost efficiencies in our P&A capital program |
| We are still investing in the assets though, and we believe we’ve got the right mix of development and exploration in our portfolio to generate good organic value |
| And our belief is the increased scale that we achieved through the QuarterNorth transaction which, also increases our oil-weighted portfolio that we believe have high netback margins coupled with the reduced capital program, is going to achieve that goal of generating significant free cash flow |
| And we think there is a good portfolio of prospects, again, anchored by Katmai and a lot of the assets they have in the Mississippi Canyon core area for us |
| Now what’s interesting about that is we believe that most of the debt we actually utilized in the transaction gets paid back in the first nine months of owning the assets, should also generate a very competitive free cash flow yield across the E&P space |
| That is a very attractive commodity mix for Talos |
| And then obviously, we're super happy with what we did in the QuarterNorth transaction and how accretive that will be for our shareholders |
| And what we're noting and what we talked about in our release is this facility will now see the highest oil volumes in production through this facility than it's seen over the last 15 years |
| We have promise in Louisiana |
| Turning to Page 10 of the presentation, we are very pleased with the financing transactions that we executed earlier in this year |
| We refinanced our old bonds and raised additional capital to close on the QuarterNorth acquisition at very attractive rates |
| And I would tell you, we think we have a very accretive free cash flow generative transaction, and we talked about it on the call |
| I don't love it, and I think we've actually got a couple of other options that we're looking at, but I think it will yield the best results |
| So, we think that this is actually a very good investment that Talos should make, and that only represents $45 million to $55 million |
| And I think that's just the highest priority we can have for right now |
| So we’re pretty happy with that |
| So I think we're in a good spot there |
| Congrats on the strong quarter |
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| But – and I know it's frustrating for people following the company, and I can promise you it's frustrating for me |
| And if we look at P&A and decommissioning guidance, that we expect to be materially lower than we were in 2023 |
| And there's no doubt the pace of lease sales has slowed down |
| I mean, for us, just because of the level of competition has gone down |
| If we isolated upstream CapEx alone, that would be lower than that guide, the midpoint of that guide would be lower than we were in 2023 |
| Look, I think it's a project that – I'm always tend to have to guide it because it just had so many delays |
| And so, a big two-year rig obligation doesn't make sense for us |
| And if you can remember, in 2023, there were a lot of non-operated activity that we were not expecting that caught us by surprise |
| I think it's delayed for the benefit of the project |
| And we’re also accounting for some weather-related issues and some potential third-party downtimes that we don’t have visibility as of now but it may happen in there |
| The cost of entry on a lot of these leases has gone down |
| I think if I said yes, I expected to go down |
| So it's delayed, but I think it's delayed for the right reasons |
| But yet, our CapEx for 2024 we expect to go down |
| CapEx was $174 million, which is actually a little lighter than we expected, allowing us to generate $27 million of adjusted free cash flow |
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