Chord Energy Corporation (NASDAQ:CHRD) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Daniel Brown: Well, I think from a development program standpoint, so for new wells that we’re doing, we’re probably we’re likely see really the impact of that 2025, not in 2026. And so that we’ve been working as separate organizations as as is appropriate until close, we won’t really get to a full new integrated development plan foot to gathering to post close. And so internally, we’ve been we used the phrase coiling the spring. So we’re calling this spring here, getting ready to wear a jump on this as soon as we close, we’ve done as much integration planning as we can. Until that point, once we close, we’ll put a full integrated development plans together, which I anticipate will go largely into effect in 2025. So I think you’ll see really those those benefits, at least from a practice standpoint, move through 2025.

So a lot of those synergy captures and 20 and 2025. Now with respect to reap permitting and replanning, that process obviously takes a little longer. And so we’ll need to put the acreage together, play there, geometry gains of of of replanning out. So maybe the impact of moving from currently planned two-mile laterals to future plans. Three-mile laterals may be a little later in the process. But from a from an activity standpoint, we should see that synergy savings roll through in, I’d say, early early 20, 25, maybe the opportunity for replanning into three mile laterals and moving some of that development plan over maybe later and later in the year.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of John Guinee with Stifel.

John Guinee: Hey, good morning, guys, and thanks for taking my questions. For my first one, staying on the synergies under plus has been active on the CMO, correct front. And if I’m not mistaken, that’s one area called it hasn’t really leaned into yet. Can you provide your thoughts on incorporating simul-frac development program and the potential cost savings associated with it?

Daniel Brown: Sure thing, happy to do that. So you’re exactly right in our Plus has done a great job implementing simul-fracs as well as they recycle more produced water in their frac operations than we do. And so those are some learnings that we we intend to implement immediately, really a mid mid year this year going forward. And so the savings when you combine the recycling, the water along with simul-frac is probably going to work out plus or minus $100,000 per well savings from other things that are plusses done really well as the use of more vapor recovery units. And as far as capturing gas off of their facilities. And that’s something that you’ll see core to implement as well to help with our gas capture going forward.

John Guinee: Makes sense. And a quick clarification or those savings are ready included in the 150 million synergy target? The of the savings I’ve talked about are in those numbers. Makes sense for my follow up. With the four mile laterals planned for later this year. Can you offer any preliminary expectations regarding potential cost savings and ultimate you are either from the subsurface work you have done or analogs across the basin?

Daniel Brown: So I think from a four mile lateral standpoint, obviously, it’s sort of early days for us and that we would anticipate that similar to as we underwrite of four mile lateral program will obviously be looking at some some incremental degradation on the Ford mile delivery, just like we’ve looked at incremental degradation in addition of a three mile delivery as opposed to two mile. And so I think we’re encouraged that maybe we’ve been a little too conservative on that from a two to three mile standpoint. Again, we’ll provide some more clarity on that as we get a little more data and as we get toward the end of the year. But as we increase our learnings through the three-month process will plow that into Fourmile. I’d say that the from a drilling perspective, we’re very confident that the now that the four miles shouldn’t provide too much of a technical challenge for us from a plot out profit placement standpoint, we feel confident we can place our profit appropriately out the four mile.

I think the clean out is probably the technical challenge that we have most just with existing coiled. Certainly coil tubing clean out will be a big challenge for us in a lateral that’s long and probably will require some stick pipe. But we do anticipate sort of similar to move from two and three miles. You can think about there’s still huge advantages and leveraging the vertical section of the well, the facilities that you’ve got, the roads that bringing to the pad, et cetera. And so if you can imagine, going from a two-mile from a two-mile development program 0.214 mile development program that provides a real opportunity. And so I’m not sure how much we’re envisioning for miles replacing three miles, but where we got geometry that doesn’t lend itself to three-mile development, but really is lending itself to two-mile development.

Certainly a formal well instead of a two mile, well could be a big uplift for us. And so that’s what we’re that’s really what we’re excited about. And John, just to add to that a little bit, the three-mile on a cord standalone, we’ve been talking about 60% of our inventory is in that three mile category, which means that 40% is open to being able to continue to extend on a combined basis were about 40% in the three-mile identified category. So the four mile lateral will just give us more opportunities, as Dana mentioned, that have more more shapes, if you will, to get a larger portion of that inventory into either three or four mile, thus increasing the capital efficiency across the program. So there’s there’s a lot of opportunity left in the program and and we think the format will just add to that.

Operator: [Operator Instructions]. Sean McGowan, Daniel Energy Partners.

Sean McGowan: Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question. You guys had impressive improvement on an oil-linked terrestrial time is a shell for sorry about that drill times year over year. Is this improvement around more of the size of the hammer are well designed in the form of drilling fluids, drilling, mud, et cetera?