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Murphy Oil Corporation (MUR)

Q1 2016 Earnings Call· Thu, May 5, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Murphy Oil Corporation First Quarter 2016 Earnings Call. Today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kelly Whitley, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Kelly L. Whitley - Vice President-Investor Relations & Communications: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us on our call today. With me are Roger Jenkins, President and Chief Executive Officer; and John Eckart, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Please refer to the information on slides that we have placed on the Investor Relations section of our website, as you can follow along with the webcast today. John will begin by providing a review of first quarter financial results highlighting our strong balance sheet and liquidity position, following our most recently announced divestitures. Roger will then follow with an operational update and outlook, after which questions will be taken. Please keep in mind that some of the comments made during this call will be considered forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. As such, no assurances can be given that these events will occur or that the projections will be attained. A variety of factors exist that may cause actual results to differ. For further discussions of risk factors, see Murphy's 2015 Annual Report on Form 10-K on file with the SEC. Murphy takes no duty to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. I will now turn the call over to John for his comments. John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thank you very much, Kelly, and good afternoon, everyone. Murphy's consolidated results in the first quarter of 2016 were a loss of $198.8 million, which is $1.16 per diluted share,…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our first question will come from Paul Sankey from Wolfe Research.

Paul Sankey - Analyst, Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research

Hi, Roger. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Good afternoon, Paul.

Paul Sankey - Analyst, Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research

You've done a great job on retrenchments and a very low CapEx number for this year. I was wondering what would volumes look like in years two and three, if you like, in 2017 and 2018, if we were to hold down at this level. Thanks. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, thanks, Paul. I mean, we have a lot of recalibration going on in Murphy right now, because we're selling an asset that's a 13,000 barrels a day, 14,000 barrels a day type number, fairly flat. We've repositioned our-self into a new unconventional position once closed. We're very, very pleased about that, so we have a lot of comings and goings, Paul, as to that right now. And if we look out in the fourth quarter, 175,000 boe – 174,000 boe kind of a fourth quarter number for us. And take away Syncrude and add in the new unconventional project in Duvernay Shale, you don't (18:19) get ourselves into the 160,000s boe range, and I believe we can modestly grow that with some high 40,000s boe next year and kind of get back on the growth plan there. But our focus is trying to get back to cash flow, CapEx parity with all certainty, not necessarily looking to grow production, but to have the right types of returns and capital allocation among our enhancements in unconventionals that we're looking to do. And really believe we can have some growth there, again but it'll be a matter of what we want to do to get there and kind of pleased with that recalibration, but it's going to take some time to get our sales back organized to recover the sale of the Syncrude barrel, if you follow me there.

Paul Sankey - Analyst, Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research

I do. I understand that it's under accelerated (19:06) review at the moment or preview with – are we at a kind of level that you think what – is what you are saying that in a high-40,000s boe, you believe you're now balanced for 2017 with basically flat volumes? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yes, toward – we now look at the fourth quarter, and adjust for Syncrude, yes.

Paul Sankey - Analyst, Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research

Yeah, that's what I kind of derived from your answer, thanks. And where, assuming oil prices recover, would you want Murphy to be in three years' times, Roger? Will we ever go back to deepwater exploration or do you see it now as very much an unconventional push for you guys? Thank you. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: No, we make near $100 million of cash flow, cash margin in Malaysia this month and near $100 million in Eagle Ford, made a lot of money in the offshore business. We are seeing probably more review of discovery reserve opportunities where we bring our competitive advantage of executing wells, facilities in the offshore. Offshore is a little bit off the beaten path, I would say, today I'm probably not – if I get my three unconventionals organized between Duvernay Shale, Eagle Ford and Montney, I'm probably not looking for a fourth there and the future would be back to where we've delivered a lot of value, a lot of – and they're such a cash flow – shape of the curve so different between onshore and offshore, as you know, Paul. Put a lot of money upfront in offshore and take in a lot of cash as we've done for years. Onshore machines need a lot of cash for a while, so that's the thought basis there. And as far as exploration, I mean, there will be opportunities and a reduced capital plan, and even super-majors have reduced exploration, so we would too. And we have our thumb in a couple of nice places and we'll see how that goes and look to do that another day, but this year laying low and lowering our cost and keeping balance sheet as it is or improve it is our focus today.

Paul Sankey - Analyst, Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research

Thank you, sir. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Paul. See there (21:04).

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from Roger Read from Wells Fargo.

Roger D. Read - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst · Wells Fargo

Hey, good afternoon. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hey, Roger. How are you doing?

Roger D. Read - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst · Wells Fargo

I'm good. I'm good. Thank you, I hope you're doing well as well. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Sure.

Roger D. Read - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst · Wells Fargo

Kicking into kind of looking at that production level in the 160,000s boe. Can you talk to us a little bit about decline rates, kind of what you've seen and then what you would expect as you look at – I would think mostly your core Eagle Ford position, but also across what you still have in Malaysia? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Our offshore business is probably around – offshore Malaysia is probably a 13%, 15% kind of number and our Gulf is around a 20% number. Our Eagle Ford is very complex. Roger, as you know, we have – it depends on adding wells and how many wells you're adding and the space between them. It's probably in the 30%s for a new well and then after a couple of years, that gets into the 20%s and down into the 10%s, so it's a complex machine there when you start and stop your completion program in these shale plays. And – but we have a decline this quarter in Eagle Ford Shale because we're adding new rigs – we actually haven't added a well since March now. So we're looking over two months without (22:26) adding a well. And I'm real pleased with how the production is looking there and happy about how that's looking, and it was part of our success in the first quarter, I'm real pleased about that. But the exact decline of a start and stop capital spend in the shale, I think, is a pretty hard number to get at there, Roger.

Roger D. Read - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst · Wells Fargo

And along those lines, given the CapEx you've got laid out commitments across the board, how should we think about completion process – drilling and completion in the Eagle Ford as we go into the remainder of the year? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hang on one second, Roger. I have a schedule here (23:01) these microphones can hear every page I turn, so sorry about that. In the Eagle Ford, we are going to complete three wells in July and around seven wells in August, and three wells in September, and four wells in November. And we're going to drill a few wells -between two wells to four wells a month between now and the end of the year.

Roger D. Read - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst · Wells Fargo

So basically taking care of the duck inventory is what that sounds like, then? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, I can – sort of maintaining it, I think, we've never been a – I don't really use that word duck too often, it's not one of my favorite terms. We have some wells that have been completed in the low-30s (23:43) right now. We have never been a big leader in that parade and we'll probably maintain it because we're completing about as many as we're drilling in that high-30s (23:51), we're not one of these hundreds of wells duckman as you like to say.

Roger D. Read - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst · Wells Fargo

Duck dynasty. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Correct.

Roger D. Read - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst · Wells Fargo

All right. Thanks, Roger. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: All right. Thank you. Talk to you next time.

Operator

Operator

And our next question will come from Ed Westlake from Credit Suisse. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hey, Ed, how are you doing? Edward George Westlake - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Yes. Good. Thanks very much. I hope everyone is all right up in Canada. On the Duvernay transaction, obviously I appreciate, still very early there, but any updates in any of the wells that have been drilled by the partners since you were last able to speak? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: No, there hasn't been a lot of wells by our partner, we're working closely with our partner. This is a complex transaction close, because it involves two fields, Duvernay Shale, involves liquid-rich Montney. It involved a built-in infrastructure system that they have a hype (24:48) interest in, they have ample room for us to enter, a lot of positive news by our peers in the play, especially the condensate area in which we have 33,000 acres there once we close this with our partner. And I would say Encana would have more of the recent results there, doing very well on both operating and production. And I'm very excited to get in there with that play and believe that we can jumpstart the learning curve with all our experience in Eagle Ford and Montney and get with our partner who has a built-in position and be ready to execute there in short order. Edward George Westlake - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): And then totally separate, the cash (25:27) raising cash through this year in Canada. Is there some sort of need to kind of I guess redistribute that somewhere else internationally as opposed to bringing it back in the U.S.? I mean, maybe just talk…

Operator

Operator

And our next question will come from Paul Cheng from Barclays.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Hey, guys. (28:06). Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hi, Paul.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Hey, Rogers, just curious, I mean, you guys own the 5% Syncrude for over 20 years? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yes.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

And speaking theoretically, there has been talking about (28:18). In the last, say, 12 months that seems like finally after long suffering that the operation is improving. Unit (28:28) costs are coming down and the price you receive is not necessarily considered very high. So is there any particular change in your thinking about (28:39) your portfolio lead to the decision that you want to sell it here other than saying that you may want to have the cash sitting on the balance sheet because – position yourself for, say, lower for longer (28:54). Other than that reason, is there any other fundamental reasons for the decision that you make here? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Paul. I don't believe the price is that bad as to our long range planning and there have been some operational improvements here. They have been very short term as opposed to 22 years of turnaround that go over the schedule and various things of that nature. As we look at a price recovery type deck, we see this price to be very fair in our long range planning and we should know we've been in the asset for a real (29:28) long time. So if you're looking at oil being $76 in 2020 or $74 in 2019, and I like the position we have in Canadian dollars here, honestly. I think it's a matter of – we probably had 400 million barrels four years, five years ago. We have 770 million barrels now, we had a real good year of reserve replacement, we've increased (29:52) in our company. And it becomes a matter of not – if when – if not now, when. So we have a strategic situation where I would like to leave the asset, we have a strategic situation where Suncor wants to buy the asset at the same time at a built-in price on a share basis with COS, we were able to turn that into all cash, but that opportunity was in stock, thought that was very good for us and very fair. It's exactly the same money that COS paid for these barrels on a per barrel basis or on any metric exactly same. This project returned free cash flow when oil was $100, but not so much when it's below $80. So, we wanted to move out of that and feel like our reserves have increased and we want to focus in unconventional nearby acreage there where we can get the OpEx below $10 million (30:44), and out of the OpEx even if it's improved to slightly below $30 million (30:48) and it was a built-in time to do it or felt like it was a rare time that we could execute it and we had (30:56) moved on.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

John, is the cash proceeds on the Syncrude sales, is then much of a tax indication (31:05) or that we should assume you receive the full cash? John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Well, the cash we receive and we – they have to give some basis, Paul, to Suncor. And so, there could be a little bit of cash taxes that we have to pay in Canada. We're still evaluating that and computing it, but so I think there will be a little bit of cash tax owed on the Syncrude transaction. But it won't be a super large amount in a – on an overall basis, this is going to be probably P&L slightly positive.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Right. Should we assume that at least you get 90% of whatever is the proceeding in cash? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: That would – yeah, I think it's that much, Paul, or more. I would say it's probably little more.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Okay. And John, do you have an update about your negotiation with the bank on the revolver expansion? John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. So it's ongoing, Paul, and we are – due to the Syncrude transaction, we are rejiggering all of our numbers for presentation to the banks. Those are being shared with our bankers today and that at this time not necessarily today, but – (32:23) and we will have discussions ongoing for the next few weeks trying to negotiate something there. We have a goal of trying to do something in the next few months obviously, and so we'd like to get that behind us. But we clearly are – things are improving, our situation with our asset, transactions I think in our favor. So we see it basically being much better and much different than it was two months to three months ago. So we're confident that this will get done in a reasonable time and a reasonable way.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

With the changing in your asset mix, what is the – any set of new – set of matrix in terms of the financial difference that you can share with us that you may be targeting? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: In terms of total debt? John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Whether it's total debt or that debt to EBITDA or any ratio that you was targeting that at least that we will be able to put into our model. Not necessary say for tomorrow, but on a longer-term basis that where you want to reach over the next one year or two years? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, Paul, I mean, we were a top quartile EBITDA multiple debt player in October. And when oil prices were high – when – different time oil price collapsed a lot since and building back now. And I would like that multiple in the three range or low-threes. And we never want our debt to cap to be above where it is today if we cannot do something about that, and that's a personal type of number for me. Doesn't mean every day you're exactly on that number, but that's kind of goals John and I talk about.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Okay. And then, John, on the U.S., I was a little bit surprised that your unit DD&A in the first quarter being dropped from the fourth quarter level given you book additional reserve, and you're not bringing on (34:25) many new well in the Shale. Is there any particular reason that the unit DD&A may actually be up? John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Paul, I'm looking at it here. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: We'll have Kelly follow up that. Paul, we drilled some wells there, we probably have a very small PUD de-booking in the Eagle Ford last year, but our overall reserves there were very positive. And the DD&A is that our plan – and wasn't planned to be reduced. Keep in mind that on impairments we didn't have any in our onshore business and unconventionals and it's primarily been an issue in the offshore where DD&A is significantly lower. But onshore DD&A for the Eagle Ford Shale is exactly on the plan we've had for a long time, as we add calls. You've got to keep in mind we added 138 completed wells there last year (35:20) our CapEx, and if you're adding costs and reserves at the same pace, then the DD&A rate should be the same.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

A final question, Roger. With the head count reduction and all that, based on your current organizational capability, if you are not adding people, how many rigs that you can actually run or handle, let's say, if the economic is available in U.S. and Canada? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: We can easily go to three rigs, four rigs, Paul, I do not see that as an issue. We have capable drilling and completion people in both employed and our offshore and onshore assets between Calgary and Houston. And we've kind of recalibrated the size of our company and looked at it very, very closely around our G&A to drive that to a better quartile improvement. And that is not my concern is getting back to work if needed from a G&A perspective. I've been (36:18) people say nine times, in my career and always get back to work and we're organized to be able to do that and that's not a issue for me.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

So, Roger, when you say three rigs to four rigs then – yes, three rigs to four rigs in U.S., three rigs to four rigs in Canada, right obviously (36:34)? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: No, I would say that would be in North America, Paul.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Oh, North America, three rigs to four rigs, okay. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Between – between the Canada and the Eagle Ford together, four rigs to say, that won't be a problem.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Okay. Thank you. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: That's not – I can handle that problem, Paul, whenever I get to that I believe.

Paul Cheng - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays

Yes. Thank you. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And our next question will come from Guy Baber from Simmons. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, Guy, how are you doing? Guy A. Baber IV - Simmons & Company: I'm doing good. Thank you guys for taking my question. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: No problem. Guy A. Baber IV - Simmons & Company: Roger, I had a capital allocation question for you, but as you ramp down your capital spending, the dividend now has obviously become sizeable relative to your CapEx. So, the question is, how you think about weighing the potential for incremental gross spending to help arrest declines (37:25) or allocate capital to attractive places like Montney and Kaybob Duvernay versus continuing to payout that same dividend at the same level? How do you think about the relative ranking of capital deployment between those two options right now? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, I mean, a dividend policy at Murphy is a long term policy and oil price have been a short-term change. Oil price up even (37:50) $10 since the last time we had a call, that's well over $200-something-million of cash flow for Murphy. Our dividend here is under closer review than it has been before, will be under meeting in August and really we're going to do that quarter-by-quarter. We paid two of the dividends at the full price here and we – it is – it's important for capital allocation than it is for other things and we continue to see well costs come down. We're able to execute more wells with less costs. We're able to do this at both Montney and Eagle Ford. And I think we're still in such a recalibration mode of our cash flows…

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from Kyle Rhodes from RBC Capital Markets.

Kyle Rhodes - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital Markets

Good afternoon guys. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Good afternoon.

Kyle Rhodes - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital Markets

Just one from me. Any update you can provide on Block H FLNG program. Does it – maybe in terms of expectations for first gas, and what's your future capital outlays are for that project in 2017 and 2018? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, we're going to have over $100 million there, and probably some more into 2018. On the subsurface side, the field is incredibly successful for us, many successful wells in a row, great gas project there, very similar in rates to our SK gas. PETRONAS started this vessel. They're supplying the floating LNG vessels in Korea, it is partially built and they're trying to slow that project down because these are tied to Brent prices, but work, this project works well and Brent's around $50. They have come – and we have a gas agreement with them, they've come to us about pushing the first gas for that into 2020 and which they would have the expanse of changing the capital spend with the vessel in the Korean shipyard, if you will, and we are agreeable to that. And then it would give us more capital for next year to use in our other high returning assets like Eagle Ford Shale or in Duvernay shale. And so we push out that production to 2020 and that's fine with me at this time, it'd be another long-term LNG asset with one of the great LNG partners in the world, and it's going to work out for us down the road there.

Kyle Rhodes - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital Markets

Got it. So say, less than a $100 million in 2017 spend, and then any idea kind of just what the full development costs are? John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: I don't have that right in front of me, I apologize. Kelly can get that for you, but that hasn't changed. I would say the costs are low, because I anticipate deepwater rigs to be lower and it will or it may not be by 2019, but I imagine they will and our services there, we're in a great situation in cost, but our large partner there would like to push it to the right, and I'd like to save a $100 million right now. And I'm very pleased with the adjustment when we get organized with PETRONAS.

Kyle Rhodes - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital Markets

Makes sense. Thanks, guys. John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from Evan Calio from Morgan Stanley. Evan Calio - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Hey. Good afternoon, guys. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hello. Good. Evan Calio - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Yeah. I just – I know you guys have been very successful in reducing CapEx. I'm just trying to understand the full year of production guidance following that reduction. I know there's steep declines in 2Q, in your 2Q guidance. What operationally flattens those declines out in the second half? I mean is that just a return of for maintenance fees (45:15) mentioned? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah, that's right. I mean, we're looking at production in Canada in the third quarter, second quarter, actually going up as we have some more Montney production there, slightly more, had enormous pile on of downtime this second quarter we knew about. We also have some downtime planned in our business for Kikeh which is very rarely shutdown in our Block K area, it's been, I guess, 10 years since that facility stopped. And the Eagle Ford Shale is just a less well count; decline in the Gulf of Mexico which is basically flat. So quarter two to quarter three would primarily be around just lack of investment in Eagle Ford Shale and after that it would be very flat, if we work more or not for that issue. So I think it's a big downtime in the second quarter, but let's keep in mind that all along our external guidance was the same and we had a capital spend that was very low and we came into the year with many wells in the Eagle Ford Shale being completed in December, and now we're at…

Operator

Operator

We'll take our next question from Sean Sneeden from Oppenheimer. John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Okay. Go ahead, sir. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Sean, are you there?

Operator

Operator

Sean, you may be on mute. We can take our next question from Brian Singer from Goldman Sachs. Brian Singer - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Thank you. Good afternoon. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Good afternoon, Brian. Brian Singer - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Wanted to ask a couple of questions with regards to decline rates. You mentioned in your comments, you've been surprised by a more modest decline coming, I think, out of the Eagle Ford since you stopped adding new wells. And I wondered if that is just the natural decline or whether you're doing anything specifically to try to mitigate that, that has been the source of the better performance? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: There is a lot of focus on when to put in artificial lift and stay inside our operating expense and cash projections, Brian. There're these rigs, it'd be harder (49:10) to optimize when you put on artificial lift, how you set up the artificial lift. And when things get very difficult and you're cutting your budget, people move from focusing on growth to enhancing the base. And we've been very happy with how our teams have performed as to that total focus on what wells are down, where they're down, and how you improve the artificial lift timing and that's been source of the success there in my view. Brian Singer - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Thanks. And if I could ask a very similar question in Malaysia also. Without speaking to the ups and downs of maintenance in various places, can you just talk to what your natural oil decline rates are? And then anything that you can do either in terms of in a brownfield type, legacy type drilling here and there or just decline mitigations? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: We think of Malaysia as probably a less than 20% decline, it can be as low as 15%, all these projects are supported by water injection. And we are – very constant production of gas there on a boe basis, Brian, you've been in that business of gas there for a long time. When things are running appropriately, we have at least 250 million gross that we operate into a PETRONAS LNG plant. So that's a pretty constant production. It only is up and down with LNG. So that moves fairly constant, also still cash flow providing field for us, a $360-type per Mcf. And the rest of the field is Kakap-Gumusut, where we have 8% is a very, very successful field, limited decline in its own plateau. And you roll all that together and just not an enormous decline rate coming out of there, primarily at this time related to these downtime events that I described. Brian Singer - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Got it. Great. Thank you very much. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Brian.

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from Pavel Molchanov with Raymond James. Pavel S. Molchanov - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Thanks for taking the question. Just one from me. Looking at the possibility that you would resume exploration in 2017 or subsequent to that, other than Vietnam which you just entered few month ago, what other geographies might you consider getting back into exploration? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, at this time, we have a very nice acreage position in the Vulcan Basin, north of Australia, and we're trying to focus at a time (51:45) until the cost structure in the deepwater rigs of the Gulf get more organized, we're not focusing there right now. Vulcan Basin, Australia is a very underexplored place, where we have a very large new seismic data set and we're on to a new play there with some 100 million barrel type opportunities and are very inexpensive to drill. That'd be one focus area. We have partner there in Mitsui, we're 60/40 with them. We also, as you know, in the Great Australian Bight, we have the Ceduna Basin, where we have enormous acreage position with all of our seismic acquired and reprocessed. And we're sitting next to BP and Statoil and also Chevron who will be drilling upwards to six drill (52:30) wells for the next couple of years. This is a prolific basin, the size of the North Sea, and one on the largest left on drill basins in the world, where we have a position to be able to watch them drill. And those are our focus areas. In Vietnam, it's Cuu Long basin and we have to think of Vietnam as a place similar to Malaysia where we start with shallow water blocks. We also have…

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from Sean Sneeden from Oppenheimer. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yes, Sean. We missed you a while ago. Sean M. Sneeden - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): Sorry about that, that's a phone issue I'm facing. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: No Problem. Sean M. Sneeden - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): But thank you for fitting me in. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: I'm having a little trouble hearing you, Sean. Sean M. Sneeden - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): Sure. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay. Sean M. Sneeden - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): Just one quick one from me. Just thinking about the revolver maturity that's coming up, I guess in just over a year... Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Right. Sean M. Sneeden - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): How are you guys thinking through that process. Is the expectation that it's just going to be a simple kind of a message you send and it stays unsecured or could you kind of talk about how you're approaching that now that you have some of your asset sales in hand? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: I'll let John speak to it, but it is a blend and extend type of thing we would prefer, an option we'd prefer. And we believe our Syncrude situation and the cash that we have on our balance sheet just in general from an asset perspective is helping that and also our lower capital spending hitting our targets and oil price recovery, I think things are leading to a positive nature in that, in my view. I've sensed a sentiment of improvement in that business over the last six weeks. John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Right. There's a lot of more positive action going on in the marketplace, Sean, and we are – our goal is to extend. We're talking to our bankers about it, probably consider having to adjust our $2 billion somewhat in terms of the maximum size and we'd like to keep it unsecured, obviously. And so we're working toward that as well. So we'll – it's all in the works, all being discussed and negotiations to proceed over time and that we're confident we can get the same extended at a reasonable size and a reasonable manner in terms of security and such. Sean M. Sneeden - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): Okay. That's helpful. Thank you very much. John W. Eckart - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And our next question will come from Arun Jayaram with JPMorgan.

Arun Jayaram - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan

Good afternoon. I wanted to ask you a little bit about the decision to suspend in a completion activity in the Eagle Ford. Broadly, at a higher level, you guys are shifting towards more of a North American unconventional focus. So a little bit surprised given the quality of your Eagle Ford acreage in the core that you would suspend activity or at least the completion activity. I just wanted to – if you can help us think about that? And what oil price do you think you need, Roger, to where you think your U.S. ultra business could deliver value to the throughput? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, I mean, it's – all of our, are hopefully new to be signed Duvernay shale and our Eagle Ford can deliver 10% rates of return in the low 30s and we're ahead of that now. We, at Murphy, set out earlier in the year and the price collapsed to organize our capital around lowest capital we could have, and then recalibrate our company because in and around that I knew of asset sales and different things we're doing. We're not a company goes out same or selling all these assets and doing that, but we have a lot going on to accomplish all these purchase and sale agreement that you read about in the press. So in and around that, we're trying to get to a minimum capital spend, recalibrate our company, once we have the closing and then we have a revolver to redo a recalibration of our company, a focus out of non-core in North America into unconventionals. All that takes time. And so we went into it with a low CapEx, so we go into Eagle Ford and we have continuous drilling obligations and we move our rig around for that, and then from that we're not a company to build that drilled on uncompleted wells and we have a low level of CapEx to meet all these other goals of recalibration I spoke of, and that led to that schedule. And that schedule's on been around since around mid-February. And I'm not interested in probably breaking it back up and hoping it back up the capital parade on May the 5th, whatever today is. So that's how we're thinking about that. It was derived on purpose from a lowest commitment basis and we're focusing on cost and that and we will come out of this and we're confident of an oil price recovery. Unlike any operator, we'll get into the 50s, things change a lot and we'll have to then allocate capital among that and offshore opportunities and move forward, but today we're looking at it more conservative view of that at Murphy Oil Corp.

Arun Jayaram - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan

Okay, makes sense. And just a follow up, any more details on the Kodiak well timing and then the magnitude of what do you think that could (58:51) in the Gulf of Mexico? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: That's a really good well. The key thing in the business is subsurface. You have to have subsurface. The well flowed, it has ability to flow at over 10,000 barrels a day from single well, that's the beauty of offshore, that's why offshore still works. And the well had a choke manufacturing issue on the surface involving some products that were built into the choke that had to be changed, a special order type equipment. We had to get involved with the operator and get that turnaround and fixed and nothing wrong with the well, it's going to flow at a higher oil price today, so it's fine.

Arun Jayaram - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan

Is that going to come back? Any sense on timing? Is this is a second half 2016 timing... Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Oh no, we're talking about hopefully right now while we're talking.

Arun Jayaram - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan

Okay. Okay. Thanks a lot. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: We're talking about right now, better be right now.

Arun Jayaram - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan

Okay. That's helpful. Thank you very much Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: All right. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

. Our next question will come from John Herrlin from Societe Generale.

John P. Herrlin - SG Americas Securities LLC

Analyst · Societe Generale

Yeah. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hey, John.

John P. Herrlin - SG Americas Securities LLC

Analyst · Societe Generale

Most of the things have been asked, but I was wondering about the unconventionals. Obviously, everybody's doing better with optimizations, more sand, more fluids, more intervals whatever. Are you working at all with density pilots in your shale plays? Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: We worked on about everything, but I have to tell you I'm not aware of it. I wouldn't be surprised, but I will say this about unconventionals is continued improvement by everyone and if you look at all of these press releases, you will Murphy executing and performing at or above everybody else and it's not uncommon. But I know that in my view with our big service providers looking to merge and now they're not going merge and with focus on less capital spending, I believe the technological issues in unconventionals have gone on the sideline for this year. And I believe that we're missing – we could have some efficiency as you go to less pad drilling and some of it is on experimentation of capital that I think was driving a lot of unconventional improvement, which will lead to lower U.S. oil production and oil price recovery. But the – if you have just a few wells and everyone is reducing their CapEx, not just Murphy, there will be less experimentation of capital, if you will, in my view.

John P. Herrlin - SG Americas Securities LLC

Analyst · Societe Generale

Great. Thanks. Roger W. Jenkins - President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay. It's all we have today. That's the end of our call. Appreciate everyone calling in and we'll talk to you next time we have a quarter release. And I appreciate it. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

This concludes today's call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.