Eric Hambly
Analyst · Carlos Escalante with Wolfe Research
Great question. Just high level, I'm very impressed with and very happy with our team's ability with a fairly limited onshore program to be able to continue to make improvements in our capital efficiency, both Eagle Ford and Montney, particularly, where in the second quarter and third quarter wells, we saw some of our strongest performance ever. Initial rates, 90-day cum oils, 90-day cum gas for Tupper, all been amongst some of the best wells we brought online. That's been through a combination of various things. In many places, we're drilling longer laterals, which we're able to improve our drilling targeting, our completion styles, we adjust kind of the completion design for each specific area to try to optimize what's going on there. Our flowback strategies have been really enhanced. And it's just driving a really strong outperformance. I think we've highlighted that in some cases, we're seeing production rates in terms of the first few month production that are 50% to 100% above what historical performance is. So really strong. In our Tupper asset, we -- in 2025, we've used a completion design that had significantly higher proppant loading and we think that's working for us and will likely feature that going forward. What I'm also really proud about is that we were able to pump better fracs with CapEx neutral or, in fact, some CapEx savings across our program. So we're doing things that are not just spending more money to get more performance. We're actually getting better performance with equal or lower investment, which is really good for generating cash flow and to your point, what our breakevens are. In the stockholder update, we highlight just how low some of the breakevens are for the Catarina program we delivered. Obviously, when you can have breakevens that are $35 or less and sometimes even in the $20s, that's awfully strong. So really happy with how all that's going and it's led to significant performance -- outperformance and I think it's durable in the sense that the remaining inventory we have to drill, we're going to keep doing the same sort of stuff and we should continue to see that kind of outperformance as we progress the rest of our onshore program. In offshore, I'm really happy with the turnaround. We had a tough year, 1.5 years with wells offline in the Gulf requiring workovers. We progressed through that. I think we're in a good spot. We did have a production beat for the quarter even when you adjust for no storm downtime in the Gulf, we still exceeded even beyond what the storm downtime provision was with really impressive work by our team to have very low downtime in our operated major facilities, really top world-class performance in terms of our operating performance there.