And thank you all for joining us. On the call today, are Will Hickey, and James Walter. Our chief executive officers. And Guy Ollefant, our chief financial officer. I would like to note that many of the comments during this call are forward looking statements. That involve risk, and uncertainties that could affect our actual results or plans. Many of these risks are beyond our control. And are discussed in more detail in the risk factors, and the forward looking statements of our filings with the SEC. Although we believe the expectations expressed are based on reasonable assumptions, They are not guarantees of future performance. And actual results may differ materially. We may also refer to non GAAP financial measures Free non GAAP measure we use, a reconciliation to the nearest corresponding GAAP measure can be found in our earnings release or presentation. With that, I will turn the call over to Will Hickey, co CEO.

Thanks, Hayes. There is a lot we're excited to talk about today. We delivered another strong quarter. Outperforming expectations and achieving the highest free cash flow per share in PR history. Of $0.54 per share. Driven by lower per unit cost and solid production performance. We did all this while strengthening the balance sheet with the highest liquidity most cash and lowest leverage in PR history.

All the work we've done to date has put us in an incredibly strong position. Not just to navigate the current market, but to capitalize on it. And we've used this strength to start executing our downturn playbook already.

With our first opportunistic share buyback, and the announcement of a New Mexico bolt on. Both which James will hit in more detail. Moving to Q1 performance, production exceeded expectations with oil production of 175,000 barrels of oil per day and total production of 373,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Our strong production performance is mainly attributable to outperformance from our twenty twenty four acquisitions. Driven by artificial lift optimization and stronger than expected well performance. Addition to wins on the production side, our operations team continued to drive down costs. Compared to Q4, reduced controllable cash costs by 4% and D and C cost by 3%. Landing at $750 per foot for the quarter. Strong production performance and further extending our Delaware Basin cost leadership resulted in adjusted operating cash flow of $900,000,000 and adjusted free cash flow $460,000,000 with $500,000,000 of cash CapEx. Our outstanding operating performance and conservative financial further enhanced our fortress balance sheet. During the quarter, robust free cash flow generation drove an increase in cash on the balance sheet, from $479,000,000 at year to approximately $700,000,000 on March 31. We also redeemed $175,000,000 in principal at the nine and seven high interest legacy Earthstone notes, which will save us approximately $17,000,000 per year reduced interest expenses.

These actions reduced leverage from one times at year end to 0.8 times at the end of Q1. We also highlight our updated credit rating from BA1 from Moody's and BB plus from S and P. With Fitch already at BB plus we are one notch away from our investment grade goal at all three rating agencies. And you'll see in this presentation our credit metrics compare favorably to our investment grade peers. Turning to Slide five, when we started the predecessor company Colgate back in the twenty fifteen-twenty sixteen downturn, we built the company on a strategy of being prepared to play offense in any market. That mindset has benefited us tremendously in previous downturns, and remains a core part of PR's DNA today. While we've been executing on an accretive consolidation strategy, we've also been pulling every lever to make sure we are ready for the next downturn. Since year end 2023, we have decreased leverage to 0.8 times and increased liquidity to $3,200,000,000 all while more than doubling the size of the business.

Looking at our current hedge book, we have approximately 25% of 2025 oil production hedged at a price just above $73 per barrel. This hedging strategy allows PR to be more opportunistic during a downturn when investments can earn the highest return.

Addition, our high returning asset base and our ability to drive costs out of the business allows us to maximize cash return from every dollar invested. That's not just a talking point, it's material. At our current cost structure and consistent well performance, can generate the same free cash flow this year if oil remains at 60 we did last year at seventy five. Thanks to our strategy, our people and our relentless execution, PR is in strongest position in company history to operate effectively and create value through a down market. With that, I'll turn it over to James to walk through our downturn strategy in more detail.

Thanks Will. We've discussed our views on balance sheet and cost leadership, but the third part of our strategy is opportunistically investing during the down cycle. If we step back for a second, we recognize that the oil and gas industry will always have volatility.

It is our belief that this volatility creates the potential for outsized value creation.

Firmly believe that investments made during lower commodity prices drive greater long term shareholder value. But to capitalize on that opportunity, you have to have both the balance sheet capacity and the willingness to deploy capital what is the natural reaction to pull back? During times like this, our goal is to buy the highest quality assets with long dated low breakeven inventory in the bottom half of the commodity cycle.

We've recently done that in two ways.

First, with our buyback of PR shares in early April and second, with our New Mexico bolt on we announced yesterday. We'll hit both of those in more detail now. Yesterday, we announced the $6.00 $8,000,000 bolt on acquisition in New Mexico directly offsetting and overlapping our existing acreage and operational footprint. Acquisition was entirely in Eddy And Lee Counties and consists of approximately 12,000 BOE a day 13,300 net acres and 8,700 net royalty acres. The proximity of these assets to our legacy position will allow us to quickly and efficiently bring our peer leading cost structure to bear on the newly acquired assets further enhancing returns. This acquisition also adds over 100 new gross operated locations in our core operating areas that immediately could be for capital. While also materially increasing working interest in existing legacy PR units.

In addition, the acquisition comes to another 4,500 non op acres that provide the opportunity to leverage our highly effective ground game maximize value through trades and further consolidation. The existing production has a lower decline than most we have evaluated recently, what really differentiates these assets is the quality and duration of the inventory. Strong well productivity combined with high NRIs and low development costs allow these acquired locations to breakeven as low as $30 per barrel. This combination of high return investments and low declines will allow us to maintain production with just a 35% reinvestment rate over the long term.

We're excited about the opportunity to invest in our core operating areas at below mid cycle prices think the purchase price metrics reflect that value proposition. The $6.00 $8,000,000 purchase price implies an attractive value of approximately $12,005 per net acre and $6,000 per net royalty acre. This works out to about $2,000,000 per net location and all in we expect the deal to generate in excess of 5% free cash flow per share accretion the near term, mid term and long term. We'd like to reiterate that we've been maintaining a very disciplined and consistent approach to M and A during our seven years as a private company nearly three years as a public company. And as such, Slide eight should be familiar to all of you. Given the high quality of our business today and specifically the depth of our low breakeven inventory, the bar is very high when it comes to potential acquisitions. We are confident this acquisition exceeds all of our rigorous investment criteria. First, we acquired these assets at an attractive valuation where we are highly confident we can exceed our return thresholds. Second, this transaction is accretive to all key financial metrics. Third, this allows us to add very high quality inventory that competes for capital immediately in areas that we know well.

Fourth, we're able to execute this opportunity while maintaining our fortress balance sheet, which and expect it to exit the year with over $3,000,000,000 in liquidity and leverage below one times. But finally and most importantly, we believe this transaction makes our business better. And will increase free cash flow per share and returns to investors over the long term. Have a very long and successful track record of M and A that creates value for our shareholders and are highly confident that this transaction builds upon that. Turning to Slide nine, we want to continue to emphasize that protecting the balance sheet is a key component of our long term strategy. Pro form a for the New Mexico bolt on, our balance sheet remains strong at current prices with leverage less than one times and a dividend breakeven of approximately $40 comparing very favorably to our historical metrics and our peers. We are confident we have the dry powder to continue to execute on acquisitions or share buybacks in [indiscernible] additional opportunities were to arise. The final piece of our downturn strategy is opportunistic share buybacks, and we've been consistent and disciplined in our approach to buybacks since PR's inception.

What we want to accomplish with buybacks is to increase ownership in our business in a cost effective manner. To put it simply, we can buy back more shares with the same amount of money during a downturn when prices are lower. In a volatile industry like ours, we are confident that the dislocations and opportunities will always present themselves over time. Having prepared accordingly, we executed buybacks immediately during the period of heightened volatility in early April. A relatively small window, we bought 4,100,000.0 shares at an average price of $10.52 want to use buybacks as efficiently as possible and we'll be ready to lean in during the next clear market dislocation. We are very fortunate that our team's focus on balance sheet strength has left us in a position to not treat buyback or acquisitions as an eitheror, where we can execute on both in scale as opportunities present themselves in 2025 and beyond. Turning to Slide 11, we're excited to roll out a revised plan we project more production and lower CapEx than the original plan we rolled out in February. Our recent production outperformance allows us to reduce our capital budget by $50,000,000 while maintaining production at the high end of our guidance range.

This reduction in CapEx will come from a combination of reductions in completion and drilling activity in the second half of the year. As such, we still expect Q2 to be the highest CapEx quarter of the year with a step down in CapEx in the second half. As we have outlined for the past several years, our reinvestment in capital allocation decisions are very dynamic and we adjust our plans to reflect the returns we anticipate in the coming environment. Our business remains highly flexible to react to the ever changing macro we will continue to monitor all of the moving pieces and adopt a plan that maximizes long term shareholder value. We believe this strategy will position us to further our track record of outsized value creation for shareholders. You for tuning in today. And now we will turn it back to the operator for Q and A. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. And you will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press the star followed by the number two. If you use a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys.

Your first question comes from Neil Mehta with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Good morning, James and Guy. And Will and team. Just would love to build on your comments on the bolt on in New Mexico. Just curious, how does this deal stack up against recent deals that you've done as you think about what it brings to the table And, you know, spend a little bit more time kind of flushing out what you think might be underappreciated here. Yeah.

No, Neil. Great question. We we're really excited about this deal. Think it fits with exactly what we're trying to do with our of m and a strategy, which is make our business better. And I think as the market evolves, I think one of the hardest things to continue to find is inventory that competes with what we've already gotten our base business. And I think that's the best part about this deal. I think we love the low decline PDP base. I think I mentioned in my prepared remarks that the base declines here are lower than anything we've looked at in quite some time. But what we really like here is the kind higher weighting of the purchase price to inventory and the quality of that inventory. I think we seen deals that have breakevens in the low thirties like this and and a little bit of time and and kinda really excited about what it does. And you know, it really does compete for capital. I think we've got a great inventory base to build upon, and and this fits fits great with our stack.

And in terms of what do you think is kinda underappreciated in in in the asset or or or from an operational standpoint, what's got you excited about it?

Yeah. I mean, this this kind of fits with what we've talked about for a while in our our Parkway asset, Netty County. I I think what's been underappreciated by the market about this area is the oil productivity is strong, but I think what really differentiates this area from a rate of return perspective is just how low the cost structure is. I think what our team's been able to do in Parkway and Eddy County we're kind of approaching Midland Basin level cost with what team's doing out there. And know, I think that really does help help generate some of those outsized returns we referenced.

Awesome. And then the follow-up just on share repurchases. You guys got were aggressive in terms of starting it to following early early April sell off and were able to pick off stock at a at a really good price. But just think about the may you talk about your capacity continue buy back stock here with shares certainly trading at a discounted valuation?

Yeah. I mean, I think from from our perspective, we have ample capacity to both pursue further acquisitions if the opportunities were to present themselves or to buy back shares in scale or really to do both. Like I said, we don't think there's an either or proposition, but we've been really patient on the share buyback. I people have seen that over the last two and a half years, and expect to continue to be patient. I'd say we kind of started to dip our toe in the share buybacks that first week in April as we kind of thought we could be at the beginning of a longer term downturn. And I'd say kind of if the market kind of went back to those levels or below that, we'd be kind of watching it and ready in the in the right environment. But I'd it's also a lot that goes into the decision to purchase three shares. It's what does the balance sheet look like? What's our take on the longer term macro? And what's our broader opportunity set? So not going to be kind of perfect to pin down formula, but I think what you'll hear from us is we're gonna continue to watch the market.

We'll be patient. And I think when we do see opportunities, you should expect us to hit them pretty aggressively. Awesome. Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you. The next question comes from Kevin McCurdy with Pickering Energy Partners. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning guys. Maybe to stick with the acquisition, can you share anything on how this deal came about? Was this a process or an negotiated deal? And then maybe where these assets fit into the development queue?

Yeah. Sure. So I mean, this is just an asset we've had our eye on for a long time. I think we've been in some discussions with the sellers on a smaller scale going back several years. I'd say for us, you know, this discussion is probably going on again in earnest the last six to nine months. We we had some conversations around potential trades, other ways to work together. Obviously, we're two large players in Permian that that have a lot of respect for what the other ones are doing. But ultimately, this did morph into something that I would call a process. And we're able to reach a deal that makes sense for us. I think largely on the backs of our peer leading cost structure. I think these assets were really interesting where a good chunk of the acreage was in existing Permian Resources units that were on the near term drill schedule for us. So I think we had a a nice competitive advantage there.

And the newly acquired inventory competes for capital day one. I think we're probably over allocate to some of these assets in the near term just given how low the breakevens are and how quick the payouts are? Appreciate that. And and then as a follow-up, I mean, it looks like to us that production is trending better than expected to start the year. Any observations on what is driving that better production compared to you know, original expectations?

Yeah. I tried to hit a little on my prepared remarks, but I'd say the the majority of the Q1 outperformance is outperformance localized to two of the larger 2024 acquisitions we did. Just we've now had those kind of under our wing with our operating practices for kind of three months and nine months respectively. And we've been able to swap out artificial lift and get our first kind of larger drilled on both of them. And I think what we've been surprised by is that the performance was better than expected and some of the artificial lift swaps had a meaningful uplift in production. So these are the kind of the a little bit of the good assets tend to outperform more often, we think that the deals are in 24 were on good assets. And we had not enough time to get our hands around them. You saw the cost cutting immediately, and now you're seeing the production uplift three to six months later?

Thank you, and great quarter.

Thank you.

Thank you. The next question comes from John Freeman with Raymond James. Please go ahead. Congrats on the acquisition On the the roughly one third of this this bolt on deal that's that's non op can you speak to the the line of sights you've got on being able to to work some trades to to increase your interest in the operated units?

Yeah. Sure. I mean, I I think with our existing footprint, we have meaningful overlap with every operator of scale in the Delaware Basin today, which is great. I'd say we we really do have active ongoing trade discussions with I think everyone who's relevant and active in in the Delaware Basin. So as you take the roughly 4,500 non op acres we've acquired here, that just fits right into the discussions that we're already having. And frankly, I think should allow us to help optimize both the assets we're newly acquiring as well as some of the legacy PR assets that we've been working to kind of trade and consolidate. So I think think that's a great component of deal. And I think we also like some of the consolidation and buying opportunities around what may appear to be a non off asset today may very well not be a non op when we unleash our land and our business development team, which I think are the best in the business on growing some of those positions. Think a lot of what we underwrote is not our bankers could very well end up being operated, you know, in not in not too much time.

Got it. And then, can you all speak to kinda how y'all think about the the trade offs of you know, depending on what the the oil price does from here? But just y'all think about the trade offs of responding to, like, a weaker oil price environment with reduced activity versus not wanting to slow down you know, the efficiency gains and all the momentum that y'all y'all built up if y'all were sort of oscillating that kinda up and down with the macro?

Yeah. I mean, the I think at the very core, our development program and capital allocation through the drill bit is is a very return focused equation. And And that hasn't changed in the new commodity price. I'd say returns are obviously getting somewhat compressed given oil is down however much you want to think $15.20 dollars a barrel. But the returns of our program are extremely resilient. Like if you go look at wellhead breakevens or in the low 30s, corporate breakeven right around 40. So I mean we are still generating great returns through the drill bit. For us, I think what you see us doing this year is just given the overall macro backdrop, we've let the improvements in capital efficiency of the business accrue to less CapEx. And so that's why you see us as opposed to letting it accrue to production and kind of blowing out the high side of our original production guide. I think where we're headed is we're going to hold the line on production and and let it accrue to less CapEx for the year. Also, I think there's a we can thread the needle of doing in a way where we maintain kind of maximum flexibility with the ability to hit the gas pedal you know, anytime between now and next year, early next year, if we see things turn around.

And And similarly, we run our business with very few long term contracts until if we we see kind of things get worse from here, we are prepared and able to dial it back. So it's not a it's not a perfect equation you can plug into, but it's kind of a starts with the overall returns of the program and then kind of after that trying to maintain flexibility to react to what's been a pretty volatile market?

Thanks, guys. Well done.

Thanks, John.

Thank you. The next question comes from Scott Hanold with RBC. Please go ahead.

Yes. Hi, thanks. If I can build on John's question there. And just as you see obviously, you talked about you're going be tapering some of your activity in the back half of the year with that reduction. Does that keep your volumes on a fairly stable rate into 2026? So it's sort of a question on how you're positioned heading into 2026. Is the back half of the year still a pretty good maintenance mode into the next year?

Yeah.

I think relatively flat from where we were Q1 fair. This is not a we're not gonna exit the plan as it seems is not to exit q four at some meaningful decline from what we printed in Q1. If that's the question you're asking. Yeah. And I think I you think about 2026, I think our goal is to position ourselves to be able to like Will said, quickly react to what the environment looks like at that time. We've, never given 2026 guidance, but wanna be in a position if if the market is calling for it and and returns are high enough, we could return to growth, which we've done really successfully the last few years. And if it looks like like something like today's environment, likely something more more flat. And if things had really gotten worse, we'd consider even further reductions activity. So I think our position heading into the year will be one of kind of perfect flexibility where we can quickly react to whatever the market looks like. Got it. Thank you for that. And just maybe your perspective on the broad M and A landscape. I mean, you all have done a very good job over the last several years of not only doing a lot of ground game activity, but you know, mid to larger size transactions In in this environment, like, what is, you know, your real time [indiscernible] you know, telling telling you that that's out there and and what do you think the market looks like, say, in the next six months if if things are status quo from where they are today?

Yeah.

I mean, I think kinda starting probably longer dated. I think we expect to continue to see opportunities like this size deal over the long term in the Delaware Basin. I think we've seen a ton of Permian consolidation in the last three years of a major scale. And I think on the back of consolidation historically, you've seen noncore asset sales come out of it. I think this probably fits that bill, and you'll see more of it. But I don't think I don't think we see anything like this coming down the pipeline in the next six months. I think the likely opportunity set for PR in that shorter time period is really more of the ground game. If they were, we've had a really active ground game in the last several years. I I actually think in the in a downturn like this, there's a potential for that. Activity to actually pick up as you have potentially more motivated sellers and I also think a big part of the ground game for us is going be we've got a lot bigger ground game footprint as we've mentioned on the call today, like a lot more chips to play with, a lot more areas to go focus on.

So I I don't think it probably shows up next quarter, but in the six to nine month time period, back half of the year, think we will really see a lot of opportunities on the ground game side to kinda grow the business organically, which is something we've done really well. And and I think some of the best best return opportunities that we tend to see. Appreciate the color. Thank you.

Thank you. The next question comes from Zach Parragha with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Thanks for taking my question. Given the activity drops we've seen across the industry already and there's probably more to come, can you talk about what you're seeing on the service call side at this point? Have those started to move lower yet? I'd say that, yeah, they're just starting to kinda move lower. Zach. You know, exactly where it settles out, I think it's it's too early to say. But you know, very much with the activity drop, I I'd say service providers are are aware and there's some that are taking a strategy if they'd like to kind keep their market share and and keep all their crews busy. And with those, we're getting some price concessions. And there are others who are, you know, more drawing a hard line if they'd rather drop activity themselves as opposed to give price concessions. And so I you know, exactly how it shakes out, I think, is TBD. But there was a a little bit left to get, it feels like, on that side, and and we're starting to to see it.

Thanks, Will. Next, just wanted to ask on OpEx. You were in the lower half of the full year range in 1Q. Can you talk about what drove OpEx lower and maybe give some thoughts on how you expect OpEx to trend through the rest of the year?

Yeah. We have, you know, again, just integration of of the deals we bought and and kind of overall just good operating practices as they led to a a good quarter. The biggest drive on the OpEx on a per BOE basis down to going to be the outperformance on the oil side. Just you know, the fixed cost nature of of some of those LOE costs when you add more barrels, we just saw cost come down a little Thanks, Will. Yep.

Thank you. The next question comes from Gabe Daoud with D. D. Cohen. Please go ahead.

Thanks. Hey, good morning, everyone. I appreciate all the prepared remarks so far. I was hoping we could go back to the acquisition. I was curious if you could just refresh us on some of the targets up there near and around the Parkway asset and what you guys are doing from a a spacing standpoint up there?

Yeah. I mean, I think kind of the the primary zones we've been the most active in the last couple of years are the the second Bone Spring Sands, the third Bone Spring Sands, and the X Y. That's kinda where the bulk of our activity has been. And kind of will be for the foreseeable future. Think those are the best returning targets. But I think I probably should have said this on one of the earlier questions. I think one of the other things that's underappreciated, there really is a lot a lot more beyond just those zones as you move further north. And may be a little further down the stack for us, but really good targets like the First Bone Spring Sand, The Harkey, which is a little more regional, but but we've drilled a handful of good Harkie wells and then some of the deeper targets in in the Wolf Wolfcamp. So I think it's an area that has a lot to continue to give, and and we're excited about, you know, what that looks like not just near term, but long term.

Got it.

Got it. Okay. Yeah. No. That's that's great to hear. And then a follow-up also just sticking to that region. Could you maybe discuss what the gas processing capacity looks like around there? I know one of your providers is bringing on an additional capacity pretty soon. But just curious if you can maybe speak to that as well.

I mean, I'd say we've had no issues historically with gas processing capacity in the Delaware Basin. I think we've been really fortunate that we partnered up with kind of some of the biggest and the best gas processors in both Lee and Eddie County. So I I think kudos to those guys. They've been growing alongside us, spending capital, kind of prudently ahead of the drill bit that we've never had any gas processing or gas egress issues whatsoever and and don't participate and don't anticipate having any going forward.

K. Great. To hear. Thanks, guys.

Thank you. The next question comes from Leo Mariani with ROTH. Please go ahead.

Hi, guys. Let me just kind of sticking with the the gas marketing you know, side of the business here. Know you guys had been brought on some more folks to try to kind of maximize the value of the gas molecules. Just kind of curious just kind of where you are in that process. Have you seen any progress at this point? And obviously, a lot of players are are talking about trying to, you know, participate with with data center deals and things like that in the Permian. So trying to get a sense of where you think PR could fit in?

Yeah. Leo, think that's a great question. And I think that's something I'd say more to come there. I'd say it's absolutely been a focus of ours. The last six to nine months. I think we've said a lot of a lot of times on calls like this that that getting better prices for all of our molecules is a key part of our go forward strategy. That's both kind of in basin gas, but also crude and frankly NGLs downstream as well. So we did a ton of work in the background, don't have a ton to share with you guys in kind of specific updates this quarter. I think we're we're having the same call in August, I think we do expect to have some meaningful updates that could change our longer term trajectory. But again, this stuff takes time. I think actually thoughtfully kind of downstream marketing and maximizing value of all your molecules is not something that kind of gets done as quickly as maybe we'd like. I think we've got a really good long long term plan. And should have more to share in in the near term.

Okay.

Appreciate that.

And I guess just in in terms of your your comment about returns on the business being fairly similar in the $60 world, what they were twelve months ago in a $75 oil world. You provide a little bit more detail and kind of what the key sort of quantifiable items are around that statement on the returns Yeah. I mean, the the biggest driver by far is gonna be just the amount of cost we cut out of the business. Like, if you follow, you know, from our previous earnings decks, what CapEx has done on a cost per foot basis is, I mean, we have meaningfully reduced CapEx per foot over the last eighteen months. And I'd say that reduction almost by itself offsets the reduction in crude prices. So know, similar to just longer laterals, same well productivity on a per foot basis with significantly less cost and you kind of add all those together and that will bridge the gap.

Got it. And and, kind of, not not the same degree of impact, but continue to make really meaningful kind of per unit improvements on controllable cash cost as well. And it's kind of this is the kind of business that, you know, every penny adds up, and we think our team's really optimizing across the entire value chain.

K. So, I mean, outside of cost, there hasn't been any kind shift or anything to target certain zones or kind of wider spacing or anything like that. It's really just a cost issue. That's what I was getting at.

Oh, yeah. We we said a lot of pricing in it. We're kinda doing the same thing this year we did last year as we did the year before. Gonna be doing the same thing next year and the year after that to kinda steady as she goes.

Thank you. Thank you. The next question comes from John Annes with Texas Capital. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning guys and congrats on the strong quarter. For my first one, focusing in on the New Mexico bolt on, was wondering if you could help frame how the D and C design and well spacing from the legacy operator compares to that of your existing assets in the Northern Delaware? And are there any specific items that you would highlight that could drive cost savings or productivity improvements?

Yeah. I mean, I think I actually think the legacy operator did pretty similar from a development spacing, especially in the Parkway area to what we're gonna do is it's pretty well delineated across zones for several years. And I think if you look at the results that while productivity the legacy operating these assets was actually really strong. So I think you know, I think they're kind of we're not explicitly familiar with their cost structure. I think any changes is probably gonna be to just apply the kind of peer leading Permian Resource D And C Cost Structure To What Was The Similar Spacing And Kind Of Development Program?

Got It. For My Follow-up, You You've Certainly Had Success Adding Inventory Through M And A And And Your Ground Game. My Question Is, How Do You See The Opportunity For Organic Inventory Expansion Through Additions In Secondary Zones Like The Bone Spring Shale or Wolfcamp D, driving inventory expansion from here?

Yeah. But I think that's something I I think if there's one thing that's surprised everybody to the upside with the Delaware Basin, year in, year out is that we continue to add inventory at a pace that that frankly has astounded me. It seems like we find a new zone that's not a secondary or tertiary zone. It's like a true core computer capital zone every year. I think think for us, what's maybe a little bit different than that is we're kind of accruing those zones What I would say is more to the back end of our inventory. Like, we've got such a high rate of return program today that, yeah, we're adding sticks to inventory and and zones like you referenced today, but we're not we're not really making them a meeting part of our program because what we have you know, in our base case is so good. But, yeah, I think we're really excited about kind of the deeper Wolfcamp stuff, the c, the d, in both New Mexico and Texas and some of the shales the second Bone Shale, the third Bone Shale in both Texas and New Mexico. And I think a couple of those are still, I'd say, in the early innings of delineation, but I think excited about that pace continuing.

I I would have told you five years ago that it's going be hard to keep adding zones at the pace we've added, but it really hasn't slowed down yet. And I think we're hopeful that that organic inventory additions continues. And frankly, in the Delaware Basin, we haven't touched the really deep stuff at all. You know, I think been a lot of trends in the Midland Basin going deeper and deeper. And we're probably not even in the first inning of that in the Delaware. So I I think for us, peers in the portion position, we're not developing a lot of those zones today because we've got our consistent plan. We've been doing the last couple of years and that's worked really well. But I think over time continuing to inexpensively or basically for free adding additional inventory is a great part of the value creation story for a company like PR. Great color. Thanks, guys. [indiscernible] Thank you. The next question comes from [indiscernible] Daniel Energy Partners. Please go ahead.

Quick question about sort of the acquisitions impact on your CapEx in the back half of the year. Just curious, I know it competes for capital. So I guess I'm curious if you sort of suspect you'll add some activity on that acreage or you'll likely just shift some things around.

From existing acres to work up there.

Yeah. I mean, I think the 20 the kind of $20,000,000 we outlined is kind of pre baked stuff that was I call it, in the pipeline from the legacy operator. And I I think for us, before we really can kinda put our mark on the assets, it's probably gonna be $20.26 before you see that. But, I do think this asset is good enough. You may see, like I said, a little overweight activity to this asset and, you know, tiny modest pullback somewhere else. But you kinda depends on how the full year 2026 shakes out, but I do think this is the kind of asset that you know, should be neutral to overweight as we think about capital allocation next year just given how truly how high the NRIs are and how low the breakevens are.

Gotcha. And then I was curious too, just given how contiguous the bolt on is to your existing acreage, mean, you foresee eventually kind of migrating to longer laterals up there? Or no?

We've drilled some three milers up there. Which which we may at time to time drill. But, you know, you're that area is pretty shallow. And so you I think anything longer than three miles in that area is off the table just given the TBD is such that, you know, you you don't have the same amount of weight down there on the bid to to go out longer than three. So it's a two to three mile area. There are some areas where, you know, maybe we were a mile and a half and this section here allows us to go two and a half or two, which is a a lot of the synergies as part of the deal. But I wouldn't expect that we're gonna go to kind of anything crazy from a ladder link perspective up there.

Excellent. Thank you. Thanks, Jeff.

Thank you. And you will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Your next question comes from Paul Diamond with Citi. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning. Thanks for taking the call. Just a quick one I'm going talk about kind of the progression of your cost per lateral foot. Made some really good progress, 3% in the last quarter. How should we think about that going forward? Is that more linear? Should we be expecting that to kind of flatten out, just kind of how do you do that?

I mean, had you asked me two months ago, I would have said it would have been flattening out, and then I'd expect kind of step changes in time with just kind of operational breakthroughs. It just kind of how we've seen the efficiency side of the equation go where you you find big wins and then you kind of flatten out for a few quarters and find big wins. I think the one change that is just the body has changed so much and activity drops are happening so quickly that I do think we'll get a modest amount of service cost reductions kind of from now to the end of the year. And, you know, that that obviously would help on the well cost side. So kind of adding those together, maybe there's expectation of a slight reduction from the $7.50 a foot that shows up in kinda Q3, Q4 with hopefully of an operational kind of win somewhere over the next six to nine months on top of it. You know, again, I'm here I'm kinda putting my crystal ball and speculating here a little bit, but we're hoping to get $7.50 up for the year. We achieved that in q one.

And I think there's more downward pressure from there just given where the the overall macro sits.

Got it. Makes sense. And, just a quick follow-up. [indiscernible] with this deal you guys have added again to your non opposition. I was wanna get an understanding of how you think about that longer term. Is that more, you know, designed to, you know, help the land guys in the ground game with acreage swaps. There could be other some type of, you know, monetization event. [indiscernible] in the future.

You know, for us, Knob is still a really small part of our portfolio. Our team's done such a good job of turning non op into op that know, it's not something that is even a, you know, a meaningful part of our go forward you know, CapEx programs, etcetera. I think you know, for us, the goal is to have more pieces that we can feed our land team to go do trades and convert non op into op in a way that makes sense. You know, I think the Delaware Basin is a great place because I think there's a lot of win wins out there like this [indiscernible] On a broader scale, but on trades on the smaller scale. And I think for us, the overarching goal is we want to operate because we think our cost structure and our execution products truly is differentiated to the way to maximize value for PR is is going to be overwhelming to operate. So I I think that's the goal here and this is a great package of assets to kind of replenish the inventory of trade bait and and things that we're constantly working. And, you know, I think our team will be all over it you know, post close.

Got it. Makes sense.

Appreciate the time. I'll leave it there.

Thanks, Paul.

Thank you. The next question comes from Oliver Ho, with TPH. Please go ahead.

Good morning, James, Will, Guy and team, and thanks for taking the questions. Just had a couple around the acquired assets. First off, just any sort of color you can provide on the working interest on the operated locations look like. Compared to the exist the existing portfolio. And if could maybe remind us how well cost up in that Parkway area compared to your average 750 per foot just given the shallower depth?

Yes. Sure. On the working interest, it's gonna end up being at least at at close lower The new operated location required or lower working interest than our average program, kind of call it 50 something percent working interest. But I think for us, that's again part of the opportunity here, part of the opportunity to trade into that or to buy out the additional working interest in those operated units. So kind of call it 50 something percent today, but I think over time we're confident we can get that to 75% plus like the rest of our program. Then I cost it depends a little bit kinda what zone you're talking and and where you're comparing to, but call it a hundred dollars a foot cheaper than the the broader program in in Parkway, which which obviously makes a big difference on returns and breakevens.

Awesome. That's helpful color. And maybe for another follow-up, just looking at the acquired assets, is there a similar optimization aspect like we saw that drove the Q1 beat on some of the recent deals you did last year on the p d b on the PDP side.

I think, like, from a straight production win, a lot of the previous operators practices in the Parkway area are very similar to ours. So I don't expect we'll see like a big uplift from switching out artificial lift. Based on the we did in the underwriting, I don't think we have any plans to change it out. I think really the wins in this package is taking that 35% of the acres that are non op and trading them into operated acres, whether that's operated within this package or operated elsewhere in the PR portfolio to kind of extract the maximum amount of value from every acre we bought. So that win probably shows up in ways that are less easy to quantify on a quarter quarter basis, but just kind of overall adds more high quality, breakeven, top quartile inventory for the business.

Awesome. Thanks for the time.

Thank you.

There are no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to James Waller, Co CEO, for closing remarks. Please go ahead, sir.

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