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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Original Translation
Matador Resources Company (MTDR) Q4 2025 Earnings Call February 25, 2026 11:00 AM EST

Company Participants

Mac Schmitz - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations
Joseph Wm. Foran - Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
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**๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ (MTDR) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ**
**2026๋…„ 2์›” 25์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 11์‹œ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)**

**ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ธก ์ฐธ์„์ž**

๋งฅ ์Šˆ๋ฏธ์ธ  - ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
์กฐ์…‰ ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„ ํฌ๋ž€ - ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ž, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์˜์žฅ
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Elsener - Executive Vice President of Reservoir Engineering & Senior Asset Manager
Christopher Calvert - Executive VP & COO
Robert Macalik - Executive VP & CFO
Andrew Parker
Van Singleton - Co-President โ€“ Land, Acquisitions & Divestitures and Planning
Bryan Erman - Co-President, Chief Legal Officer & Head of M&A
Glenn Stetson - Executive Vice President of Production

Conference Call Participants

Noah Hungness - BofA Securities, Research Division
Neal Dingmann - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Timothy Rezvan - KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division
Zachary Parham - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Derrick Whitfield - Texas Capital Securities, Research Division
John Abbott - Wolfe Research, LLC
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division
Paul Diamond - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Phillip Jungwirth - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research

Presentation

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Matador Resources Company Earnings Conference Call.
๋‹ค์Œ์€ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„์ž ๋ช…๋‹จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

**์—˜์Šค๋„ˆ** - ์ €๋ฅ˜์ธต ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์„ ์ž„ ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž
**ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ† ํผ ์นผ๋ฒ„ํŠธ** - ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์šด์˜์ฑ…์ž„์ž (COO)
**๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ๋งˆ์นผ๋ฆญ** - ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž (CFO)
**์•ค๋“œ๋ฅ˜ ํŒŒ์ปค**
**๋ฐด ์‹ฑ๊ธ€ํ„ด** - ํ† ์ง€, ์ธ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ ๋งค๊ฐ, ๊ธฐํš ๋‹ด๋‹น ๊ณต๋™ ์‚ฌ์žฅ
**๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ์–ด๋จผ** - ๊ณต๋™ ์‚ฌ์žฅ, ์ตœ๊ณ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž ๊ฒธ M&A ์ด๊ด„
**๊ธ€๋ Œ ์Šคํ…Œ์Šจ** - ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

**์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ**

๋…ธ์•„ ํ—๋„ค์Šค - BofA ์ฆ๊ถŒ
๋‹ ๋”ฉ๋จผ - ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„ ๋ธ”๋ ˆ์–ด & ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ
ํ‹ฐ๋ชจ์‹œ ๋ ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฐ˜ - ํ‚ค๋ฑ…ํฌ ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ 
์žฌ์ปค๋ฆฌ ํŒŒํ–„ - JP๋ชจ๊ฑด ์ฒด์ด์Šค
๋ฐ๋ฆญ ์œ—ํ•„๋“œ - ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ์ฆ๊ถŒ
์กด ์• ๋ฒ— - ์šธํ”„ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜
์Šค์ฝง ํ•ด๋†€๋“œ - RBC ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ 
ํด ๋‹ค์ด์•„๋ชฌ๋“œ - ์”จํ‹ฐ๊ทธ๋ฃน
ํ•„๋ฆฝ ์ •์›Œ์Šค - BMO ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ  ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜

**๋ฐœํ‘œ**

**์šด์˜์ž**

์‹ ์‚ฌ ์ˆ™๋…€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๋งˆํƒ€๋„์–ด ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ์˜ 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
My name is Marvin, and I'll be serving as the operator for today. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes, and a replay will be available on the company's website for 1 year as discussed in the company's earnings press release issued yesterday. I'll now turn the call over to Mr. Mac Schmitz, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations for Matador. Mr. Schmitz, you may begin. Mac Schmitz
Senior Vice President of Investor Relations

Thank you, Marvin, and good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for Matador's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call.
์ œ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ๋งˆ๋นˆ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋งก์€ ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ์žฌ์ฒญ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์–ด์ œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰๋œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์žฌ์ฒญ์ทจ ํŒŒ์ผ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ 1๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ œ๊ณต๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด ์‚ฌ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜์ด์‹  ๋งฅ ์Šˆ๋ฏธ์ธ  ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šˆ๋ฏธ์ธ  ๋‹˜, ๋ง์”€ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์…”๋„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

**๋งฅ ์Šˆ๋ฏธ์ธ **
ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

๋งˆ๋นˆ ๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด์˜ 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Some of the presenters this morning will reference certain non-GAAP financial measures usually -- regularly used by Matador Resources in measuring the company's financial performance. Reconciliations of such non-GAAP financial measures with the comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP are contained at the end of the company's earnings press release. As a reminder, certain statements included in this morning's presentation may be forward-looking and reflect the company's current expectations or forecast of future events based on the information that is now available. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” Matador Resources๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋น„GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋น„GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ง€ํ‘œ์™€ GAAP์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์‚ฐ์ •๋œ ๋น„๊ต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ง€ํ‘œ์™€์˜ ์กฐ์ • ๋‚ด์—ญ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ ๋ง๋ฏธ์— ์ˆ˜๋ก๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ํŠน์ • ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก์ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐ€์šฉํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ธก์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง„์ˆ ์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ ๋‚ด์šฉ๊ณผ ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially is contained in the company's earnings release and its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. In addition to our earnings press release yesterday, I would like to remind everyone that you can find a slide presentation in connection with our fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings release under the Investor Relations tab on our corporate website. And with that, I would now turn the call over to Joe Foran, our Founder, Chairman and CEO. Joe? Joseph Wm.์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์š”์ธ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ 10-K ์–‘์‹ ์—ฐ๋ก€ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ๋ฐ ์ดํ›„ ์ œ์ถœ๋œ ๋ชจ๋“  10-Q ์–‘์‹ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์–ด์ œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ ์™ธ์—๋„, ๋‹น์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ์—… ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„(IR) ํƒญ์—์„œ 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ œ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ์ž, ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CEO์ด์‹  ์กฐ ํฌ๋ž€(Joe Foran)๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ?

์กฐ์…‰ ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„.
Foran
Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board

Thank you, Mac, and thanks to everybody who's listening in and has taken the opportunity to participate in this conference call. The first thing I do really encourage you to look over the slides, particularly if you don't have time to read the whole press release that we had. There've been a lot of thought put into those slides to try to make important points that I believe are essential to the Matador story.
**ํฌ๋ž€**
์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ์ž, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์˜์žฅ

๋งฅ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ฒญํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜๋„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ๊ถŒํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฐํฌํ•œ ์ „์ฒด ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์—†์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ํ•ด๋‹น ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ์—๋Š” Matador์˜ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์— ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์ ๋“ค์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๊ณ ์‹ฌ์ด ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Second, if you also do not feel you've been given an adequate opportunity to ask questions, we want to invite each of you to come visit us at our offices, where we will make sure that you're given all the time that you want to ask your questions and get your answers.๋‘˜์งธ๋กœ, ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•  ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค๋กœ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์š”์ฒญ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ• ์• ํ•˜์—ฌ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ์–ป์œผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๋ณด์žฅํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And in particular, we would invite if you do come, we will make sure that you get to have lunch with the executive team or most of the executive team that's in town, or if you'd rather -- we will arrange for you to meet or have breakfast or lunch with a lot of our young leaders and get to know the people who are coming up and being the pillars of support and activity and are just doing a wonderful job, great job in directing our various activities.ํŠนํžˆ, ์˜ค์‹œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์‹œ๋‚ด์— ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„, ๋˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ณผ ์ ์‹ฌ ์‹์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์ Š์€ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค๊ณผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ์•„์นจ ์‹์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ์ ์‹ฌ ์‹์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ฃผ์„ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ง€์›๊ณผ ํ™œ๋™์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ถ•์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ™œ๋™๋“ค์„ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง€ํœ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ธ์žฌ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And of course, they're, relative -- have some years of experience, but they're the ones who are actually on the job and the first level of supervision and executive action, which none of the seniors will be in there and give you that opportunity to get some very frank responses. And that invitation goes and just work through Mac to set up such a meeting. Then what I wish to emphasize today in this conversation is the quality inventory that we've procured over time, particularly in the Delaware, where I've been -- I started Matador over 40 years ago, 43 to be exact, and that's where we started out in the Delaware.๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๋…„์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ 1์ฐจ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๋…๊ณผ ์‹คํ–‰์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์œ„ ์ž„์›๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์†”์งํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ดˆ๋Œ€๋Š” ์œ ํšจํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋งฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํšŒ์˜๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์„ ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด ์˜จ ์–‘์งˆ์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด๋ฅผ 40๋…„๋„ ๋” ์ „, ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ๋Š” 43๋…„ ์ „์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ณณ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
So we've got reflect -- over 40 years of experience and still think it's the best rock in the country. And we like the position that we built. It's now over 200,000 acres. And if you're going to -- my experience, having started the company is when you're in what you feel is the best rock. It's a lot easier to build than trying to go to some of these outlying area. So feel free to ask whatever tough questions you want on the inventory, I think our position stands out against anybody acre-for-acre. Second is I hope you'll note the strong balance sheet that we have and that this past quarter, we increased production.์ €ํฌ๋Š” 40๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ด๊ณณ์ด ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ง€์ธต์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ์ž…์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ 20๋งŒ ์—์ด์ปค๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ƒ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋А๋‚€ ๊ฒƒ์€, ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ง€์ธต์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์™ธ๊ณฝ ์ง€์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฝ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ณด์œ  ์ž์‚ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๋„ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž…์ง€๋Š” ์—์ด์ปค๋‹น ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋’ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ์™€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Most importantly, we increased reserves by 9% as measured by the Netherland and Sewell. So we have a -- we increased production and reduced debt. And we had strong cash flow throughout even though prices went up and down throughout the last 90-day period. We believe this inventory balance sheet, the strong cash flow, all lead to growth optionality. And with San Mateo, we are now have flow assurance outside the basin. Hugh Brinson has been a change maker for us, and we're excited to work with Energy Transfer on that opportunity. And with that, we'll take the questions. Mac? Mac Schmitz
Senior Vice President of Investor Relations

Sounds great. Thanks. Marvin, we're ready for Q&A.
๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Netherland and Sewell์˜ ํ‰๊ฐ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰์„ 9% ๋Š˜๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋ฅผ ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 90์ผ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋‚ด๋ ธ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  San Mateo๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๋ถ„์ง€ ์™ธ๋ถ€์—์„œ ์šด์†ก ๋ณด์žฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Hugh Brinson์€ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Energy Transfer์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ทธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งฅ?

**๋งฅ ์Šˆ๋ฏธ์ธ  (ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ)**
์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ๋นˆ, ์ด์ œ Q&A๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

๋‹ค์Œ์€ Matador Resources Company (MTDR) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์š”์•ฝ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* **๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ:** 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰ 9% ํ™•๋Œ€, ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ๊ฐ์†Œ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์žฌ๋ฌด์  ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๋œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
* **๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ์ž์‚ฐ ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ:** 40๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด ๋ถ„์ง€ ๋‚ด 20๋งŒ ์—์ด์ปค ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, San Mateo๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์œ ํ†ต๋ง ํ™•๋ณด๋กœ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
* **๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ:** ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ์™€ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ(growth optionality)์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž์‚ฌ ์ž์‚ฐ๊ณผ ์šด์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋†’์€ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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Operator: [Operator Instructions] First question comes from the line of [indiscernible] of Bank of America.**Operator:** ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ง์”€ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฑ…ํฌ ์˜ค๋ธŒ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด(Bank of America)์—์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Noah Hungness: BofA Securities, Research Division This is Noah here. So you guys increased your net undrilled lateral footage by 2% this year. I guess was this delineation or a result of your brick-by-brick land strategy? And were these locations -- where were these location adds? And you also had some pretty significant inventory adds in the Avalon, Third Bone Spring Carbonate and Wolfcamp D. Are you seeing something that you like from those formations?**Noah Hungness:** ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ˆœ ๋ฏธ์‹œ์ถ” ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„ ๊ธธ์ด(net undrilled lateral footage)๊ฐ€ 2% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ํƒ์‚ฌ ์‹œ์ถ”(delineation)์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์˜€๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ท€์‚ฌ์˜ ์ ์ง„์  ํ† ์ง€ ํ™•๋ณด ์ „๋žต(brick-by-brick land strategy)์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์˜€๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋œ ์œ„์น˜๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋””์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?

๋˜ํ•œ Avalon, Third Bone Spring Carbonate, Wolfcamp D ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory) ์ถ”๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์ธต๋“ค์—์„œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board First, I'd just say, it was a lot more than one question. So which one of those do you want Tom to answer?**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ์šฐ์„  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ํ•œ๋‘ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๊ทธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค ์ค‘์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ํ†ฐ์ด ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
Noah Hungness: BofA Securities, Research Division Really just if you could, on the inventory adds, and if you're seeing anything you like on the Avalon, Third Bone Spring or Wolfcamp D?**Noah Hungness:** ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ถ”๊ฐ€(inventory adds)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ํŠนํžˆ Avalon, Third Bone Spring, Wolfcamp D ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
W. Elsener: Executive Vice President of Reservoir Engineering & Senior Asset Manager Sure, Noah. This is Tom Elsener, EVP for Reservoir Engineering. Definitely appreciate your question, and it's something we're very, very proud to answer. I would say the production out of the Avalon in particular, has been very strong. I think we highlighted a particular well in our kind of Southern Ranger asset area called the Gavilon, a very strong upper Avalon well that has been a very, very high performer. I think it's getting close to estimate over 400,000 BOE, very high oil cuts. It's something that we have a lot of running room in that part of the basin for. It's something that we've expanded our inventory in over the years. So it's something we see as being a big part of our campaign out in the Delaware Basin. The other zones, you have various adds and all throughout the position is what I would say. I'm proud that you noted the increase in footage. Our teams have been very busy doing trades, extending laterals, and we're very proud to see the 6% increase in our average lateral length in our inventory from 2024 to 2025. We've noted that we've been drilling some 3.4 mile long laterals, particularly on our Ameredev acreage that have helped us to dramatically increase our average lateral length. And I think that, that's something that I would tip my hat to Chris Calvert and all the operations teams for pushing our lateral lengths out to these types of distances and doing it very, very well. I think our teams have been able to improve the quality of our inventory through good geoscience support from Andrew Parker, identifying -- you mentioned the Third Bone Spring Carbonate was a zone that we had not originally included in our inventory several years ago, and it's one that we've drilled very successfully kind of all throughout our Delaware Basin position. Our teams had started with that target down in our Wolf area many years ago and then moved further north into some of our properties over in Ranger and then over across into Rustler Breaks, and it's been one that has been a great add to our position.**W. Elsener:** ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠนํžˆ ์•„๋ฐœ๋ก (Avalon) ์œ ์ „์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ๋ถ€ ๋ ˆ์ธ์ €(Southern Ranger) ์ž์‚ฐ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋นŒ๋ก (Gavilon)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ์œ ์ •์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์œ ์ •์€ ์ƒ๋ถ€ ์•„๋ฐœ๋ก  ์œ ์ • ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ”์ •์น˜๋กœ 40๋งŒ ๋ฐฐ๋Ÿด(BOE, Barrels of Oil Equivalent)์— ์œก๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ค์ผ ๋น„์ค‘(oil cuts) ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„์ง€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์—ฌ๋ ฅ(running room)์ด ๋งค์šฐ ํฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory)๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด ์˜จ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด ๋ถ„์ง€(Delaware Basin)์—์„œ์˜ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ถ”์ง„์— ์žˆ์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์œ ์ „ ์ง€๋Œ€๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—… ์˜์—ญ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(footage) ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์€ ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ตํ™˜(trades)๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ •(lateral) ์—ฐ์žฅ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฐ”๋นด์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2024๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2025๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ €ํฌ ๋ณด์œ  ์ž์‚ฐ(inventory)์˜ ํ‰๊ท  ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ • ๊ธธ์ด๊ฐ€ 6% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠนํžˆ Ameredev ๋ณด์œ  ๊ด‘๊ตฌ(acreage)์—์„œ๋Š” 3.4๋งˆ์ผ(์•ฝ 5.47km) ๊ธธ์ด์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ •์„ ์‹œ์ถ”ํ•ด์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ํ‰๊ท  ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ • ๊ธธ์ด๋ฅผ ํš๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” Chris Calvert์™€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์šด์˜ํŒ€์ด ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ • ๊ธธ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋จผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋‚ธ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์€ Andrew Parker์˜ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ง€์งˆ ๊ณผํ•™(geoscience) ์ง€์› ๋•๋ถ„์— ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory)์˜ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ „ ์ €ํฌ ์žฌ๊ณ ์— ์›๋ž˜ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ Third Bone Spring Carbonate ์ง€์—ญ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•ด๋ƒˆ๊ณ , ์ด ์ง€์—ญ์€ ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด ๋ถ„์ง€(Delaware Basin) ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ถ”(drilled)ํ•ด ์˜จ ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์€ ์ˆ˜๋…„ ์ „ Wolf ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋ถ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ Ranger ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ž์‚ฐ(properties)๊ณผ Rustler Breaks ์ง€์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž…์ง€(position)๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Neal Dingmann of William Blair.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„ ๋ธ”๋ ˆ์–ด์˜ ๋‹ ๋”ฉ๋งŒ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neal Dingmann: William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division Joe, I'll make sure to keep one question. I don't want to get in trouble.**Neal Dingmann:** ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ดœํžˆ ๊ณค๋ž€ํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ์š”.
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board Neal, the other thing is what -- maybe some of the others on the deal, you know the way to our office. And you've been here a number of times asking these questions, and we've always appreciated. It's been a very useful dialogue and the guys like having you come and ask you various questions. And so they're hoping you'll come back.**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ๋‹ ์”จ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„๋งˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ์˜ค์‹œ๋Š” ๊ธธ์„ ์ž˜ ์•„์‹ค ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ ์”จ๊ป˜์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์…”์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Š˜ ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ์ตํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜€๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์›๋“ค๋„ ๋‹ ์”จ๊ป˜์„œ ์˜ค์…”์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋‹ค์Œ์—๋„ ๊ผญ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐพ์•„์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Neal Dingmann: William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division I appreciate that. You all have been very generous with the time trying, Joe. I definitely look forward to getting back there soon. Joe, my question to you or Bryan is really just on the '26 plan. It seems you continue now to target free cash flow over production growth. You look this year, great plan out there for 3% oil growth with 11% reduced capital spend. This is -- I compare this to prior years, where maybe you were targeting higher production growth. So my question is, you all now believe, I know you talked about value creation being sort of the key driver out there. Do you believe the key to the value creation is just this capital and operational efficiency? Or what do you all look at as the key for this value creation?**Neal Dingmann:** ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ• ์• ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณง ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ต™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์กฐ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ๊ป˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ 2026๋…„ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„(Free Cash Flow, FCF)์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ผ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์›์œ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ž๋ณธ ์ง€์ถœ(Capital Expenditure, CapEx)์„ 11% ์ค„์ด๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šฐ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ด์ „ ์—ฐ๋„์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋Œ€์กฐ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ด๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ(Value Creation)์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋™์ธ(Key Driver)์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ(Capital and Operational Efficiency)์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์„ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board Well, it's a good question. It's a fair question. The way we do things, as you know, we like to collaborate with each other and several of us kind of lean one way and others lean another way on what's important. And then when we roll that all together, it comes out that I think it depends on the time, and what the nation's economy is doing and political situation is which one you lean perhaps more on what interest rates are. And so there's a lot of factors that go into it, as you would guess, just like what sector of the economy would you invest in. It varies from year-to-year and time to time. But our first -- we began with first thing is look for the good acreage because if you have the good acreage, banks generally have a good outcome. And it's hard to turn bad acreage into profitable or highly profitable wells. So beginning with is this a well that's in the right areas and the zone that's been properly tested? Or is this an exploration in effect well? The other thing is, I lean more towards the long-term reserve growth because when you proved up the reserves, then it becomes optional. When do you want to complete wells in those zones and bring them to the market. The -- and you want to do it in a deliberate style because as you drill these wells, the more you drill them, the better your per lateral foot or footage rate is because you just or drilling them faster, you've learned to adapt some ways of increasing your footage and reducing your costs. So last call we had, we were beaten up because we had grown our production, but we had also grown our CapEx and that CapEx was -- we took criticism for that. This quarter, we showed what we could do the capital efficiencies that reduced CapEx spending by 11%, and we were able to recover essentially the same amount of production. But to us, most important because of the fluctuation in prices we increased our overall reserves by 9%. That's not our numbers, but that's Netherland and Sewell's numbers. And so we thought that was a good outcome in total for the 90-day period that we increased production a little bit, 1%, but we reduced cost CapEx by 11% for the same amount, roughly the same amount of lateral footage and our overall reserves went up by 9%. So we thought that's good, but you'll be the judge of it and the market will be the judge of that. But we're pretty excited that we have those numbers headed in that way. Production is up, costs are down. And that we proved up some new zones and that we're very excited about. And so with fewer rigs, and I'll let Chris take over from here, he feels what was most important accomplishments for the quarter.**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€๋‹นํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ ์š”.

์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ๋•Œ ์„œ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ, ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์˜๊ฒฌ์ด ๊ธฐ์šธ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์˜๊ฒฌ๋“ค์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ(national economy) ์ƒํ™ฉ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ •์น˜์  ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ(interest rates)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋น„์ค‘์„ ์–ด๋””์— ๋” ๋‘๋А๋ƒ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง์ž‘ํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ(sector)์— ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ์ž‘์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ข‹์€ ํ† ์ง€(acreage)๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ํ† ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉด ์€ํ–‰๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋ถ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๋†’์€ ์œ ์ • ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์ˆ˜์ต ์œ ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์šฐ์„ , ์ด ์œ ์ •์ด ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋œ ์ง€์ธต์— ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ํƒ์‚ฌ ์œ ์ •(exploration well)์ธ์ง€๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋”ฐ์ ธ๋ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ ์€, ์ €๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€(reserve growth)์— ๋” ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘ก๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™•์ธ(proved reserves)ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ ๊ทธ ์ง€์ธต์˜ ์œ ์ •์„ ์™„๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚ด๋†“์„์ง€ ์„ ํƒ์˜ ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์ •์„ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์‹œ์ถ”ํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก, ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ”(lateral drilling) ํ”ผํŠธ๋‹น ๋˜๋Š” ์ด ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(footage)๋‹น ์‹œ์ถ” ํšจ์œจ์ด ๋”์šฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ์ถ” ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ , ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(footage)๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ํ„ฐ๋“ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ ธ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„ํŒ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด CapEx ์ง€์ถœ์„ 11% ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰(reserves)์„ 9% ๋Š˜๋ ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์ž์ฒด ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ Netherland and Sewell ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด 90์ผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์€ 1% ์†Œํญ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ”(lateral footage) ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ CapEx ๋น„์šฉ์€ 11% ์ ˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰์€ 9% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค์ฃผ์‹ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production)์€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋น„์šฉ(costs)์€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ตฌ์—ญ๋“ค์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋” ์ ์€ ์‹œ์ถ” ์žฅ๋น„(rigs)๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ ๋“ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Calvert: Executive VP & COO Neal, Chris Calvert, EVP, Chief Operating Officer. Great question. When we look at value creation, specifically long-term value creation, I think the fundamentals of your question really do kind of build the foundation of what we think that value creation is. It's profitability, profitability focused, not necessarily production focused when we look at that, then we try to figure out the ways to optimize the levers that build that strategy. And so with -- on the revenue side, you look at the value of Hugh Brinson as that comes online towards the back end of this year to help improve gas realizations that we spoke to, the production impacts of that in the first quarter. You look at the CapEx spend, the 11% reduction, the $130 million in CapEx savings forecasted for 2026. I'd refer you to Slide 6 to look at our year-over-year improvements in well costs. And really, even more specifically, I would focus you to Slide 19, which I think tells a better story that shows that we're able to achieve these well cost reductions while delivering stronger well results. And so when we can go out and deliver 10% improvements from an EUR perspective and do it at a lower investment cost, I think being able to optimize those levers just continue to improve the fundamentals of that long-term value creation. So I think it's a great question, something we are hyper focused on. The CapEx component of our 2026 plan is something that we are extremely thoughtful to that is going to be underpinned by efficiencies, vendor relationships in these volatile times, and we'll look forward to deliver that plan.**Christopher Calvert:** ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ(value creation), ํŠนํžˆ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ๋…ผํ•  ๋•Œ, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ž˜ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ(profitability)์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ง€, ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production)์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ๊ทธ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€๋ ›๋Œ€(levers)๋“ค์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งค์ถœ(revenue) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ€๋™๋  ํœด ๋ธŒ๋ฆฐ์Šจ(Hugh Brinson)์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฐ€์Šค ์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(gas realizations)์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์—๋„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ž๋ณธ ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด 11% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„์—๋Š” 1์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ CapEx ์ ˆ๊ฐ์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์ • ์‹œ์ถ” ๋น„์šฉ(well cost)์˜ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„(YoY) ๊ฐœ์„  ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ ค๋ฉด ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 6์„ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 19๋ฅผ ์ค‘์ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 19๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ข‹์€ ์œ ์ • ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ(well result)๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์œ ์ • ์‹œ์ถ” ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ(well cost reduction)์„ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ตœ์ข… ์˜ˆ์ƒ ํšŒ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰(EUR: Estimated Ultimate Recovery) ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ 10%์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ๋” ๋‚ฎ์€ ํˆฌ์ž ๋น„์šฉ(investment cost)์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค(levers)์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ(long-term value creation)์˜ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ 2026๋…„ ๊ณ„ํš์˜ ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ (CapEx) ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ง€์ถœ์€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ฆ๋Œ€์™€ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด, ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ํฐ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ดํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Tim Rezvan of KeyBanc Capital Markets.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ KeyBanc Capital Markets์˜ ํŒ€ ๋ ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฐ˜ ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Timothy Rezvan: KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division I have one question. Joe and Bryan, we couldn't help but notice the second priority for 2026 in your earnings release was midstream value realization. We also saw you report aggregate San Mateo and Matador Midstream EBITDA guidance for the year. So as we think about the time line, knowing this is a high priority, it seems like a drop in Matador assets into San Mateo seems to be a precursor to anything. So is that something you could do now? Do you need to let the dust settle on the 5-point continuation vehicle first? Can you just kind of walk through the theoretical steps we could be looking at this year?**Timothy Rezvan:** ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ์—์„œ 2026๋…„์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์‹คํ˜„(midstream value realization)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์‚ฐ๋งˆํ…Œ์˜ค์™€ ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ์˜ ํ†ตํ•ฉ EBITDA ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(EBITDA guidance)๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋†’์€ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•˜์—ฌ ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์‚ฐ๋งˆํ…Œ์˜ค๋กœ ํŽธ์ž…(drop in)ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์กฐ์น˜์˜ ์„ ํ–‰ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋จผ์ € 5๊ฐœ ์ง€์  ์—ฐ์† ๋น„ํžˆํด(5-point continuation vehicle) ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์ด ์ •๋ฆฌ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋ก ์ ์ธ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board That's a good one question. Let me try to answer, and I try to make notes as you were asking that. But no, the limitation of the one question is we're not limiting our time with you all after these one question you've gone through, if you still got them stay on the line. We'll stay here as long as you want to ask them, and we invite you to come and see us. Now an answer to your question that you're talking about is that we look -- approach this on a very holistic approach. And it's not me sitting in a room and telling everybody else what to do. We gather in here in this room, same room, that we're talking to you, and we hash it out. Different people have different views. But when we get through, we all feel like we've hashed out a good plan. And we try to be nimble enough that as the economic climate changes, we'll change with it. And so it's been that kind of a 90-day period in the past, where you had to move cautiously or I felt my 40 years experience out here is be cautious because cautiously, you have a President saying he wants $50 oil. That isn't going to work long term for the industry, needs to go more higher. You've got a world situation where you got the prospect of war in Iran. You've got Europe that we're having difficulties on both sides. They don't like some of the things we're doing. And I don't know who's right or wrong, but I hope they get resolved. Europe has been a good ally for us. And then in our own country, you have this relations with Mexico, Venezuela, all those different countries that -- so you have the world view, you got to take into account. And so the -- we hedged our bet. We're 50% hedged on oil to protect the balance sheet, no matter which way we -- which direction we ultimately head, but we've taken those precautions. We've got great vendors. Patterson is always helpful to us on timing of rigs and quality of rigs. So it's a complex, multifaceted, and we get the various department heads in here, and we hash it out, making sure we're taking all this into account. Five Point has been very good to work with. And that simply is a situation that they have an exit period in their fund, and they've got a continuation fund working so that they can work out long term. And that's headed -- that's making steady progress, and we expect it to be resolved in the near term. We don't have control over that, but Five Point's been a good partner, and they've done what they've said they would do. And so we're watching that. You got activities, oil is important to the state in Mexico. So you're going to deal with government agencies like the Bureau of Land Management and like the state land office on these matters, and what are their plans. So incorporating that in. And then we really like our bank group, and they've been very supportive, and we have an RBL. That, of course, has increased over time as we've proved up more reserves, which is something we take in into account and all night and the most recent redetermination by our bank group was that they came back and increased our borrowing base and all night team were unanimous in their support and even raised the amount that they have been offering on the midstream system. So we thought that was a win the whole way through. Other suppliers, B&L POCO has been very supportive through time, and we'd like to confirm what direction pipe prices are because when you're drilling these longer laterals, you want to be sure you have the best quality pipe at the best prices. So give credit to all of them at Halliburton on our frac designs and execution. So I would say you're not going to make a decision in an afternoon but you're going to gather together, get everybody's proposals in there, massage them together and go from there. And so it's something that these long relationships that we have with these vendors really pays off because you just -- you really make that time together in planning this that much more efficient. And we think that planning has played a big role in the reduction in our CapEx as well as the efficiency gains and like the timing and the timing that we have in drilling these wells, we're just drilling them faster than we have in the past because everybody knows what they're supposed to do, and they -- people come up with ways to expedite the operation and the drilling plans. Chris, did I leave something out there?**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋‘์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์˜๋„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜์‹  ํ›„์—๋„ ๋” ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ†ตํ™”์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์žˆ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ฐพ์•„์™€ ์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ **์ „์‚ฌ์ ์ธ(holistic)** ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ˜ผ์ž ๋ฐฉ์— ์•‰์•„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ž˜๋ผ์ €๋ž˜๋ผ ์ง€์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ด ๋ฐฉ์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ์„œ, ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งž๋Œ€๊ณ  ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋…ผ์˜๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๋„์ถœํ•ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ(economic climate)์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ 90์ผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋Š” ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์—ฌ์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ 40๋…„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ๋„ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ์ฃ . ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์œ ๊ฐ€ 50๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๊ฐ€ 50๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—…๊ณ„์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋” ๋†’์•„์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ, ์ด๋ž€์—์„œ ์ „์Ÿ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ(prospect of war)์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ •์„ธ(world situation)๋„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๋Ÿฝ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ๋„ ์–‘์ธก ๋ชจ๋‘ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ผ๋“ค์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์˜ณ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ฅธ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €๋Š” ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์ด ์›๋งŒํžˆ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์€ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์€ ๋™๋งน๊ตญ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ตญ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ”, ๋ฒ ๋„ค์ˆ˜์—˜๋ผ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ (world view)์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ํ—ค์ง€(hedge)ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด์ œํ‘œ(balance sheet)๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์œ ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด 50% ํ—ค์ง€ ํฌ์ง€์…˜(hedge position)์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์›€์ง์ด๋“  ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ทจํ•ด๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด(vendor)๋“ค์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ Patterson์€ ์‹œ์ถ” ์žฅ๋น„(rig)์˜ ์ ์‹œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๊ณผ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฉด์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ ๋ถ€์„œ์žฅ๋“ค์„ ์†Œ์ง‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹ฌ๋„ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Five Point์™€์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กœ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํŽ€๋“œ์— ์ฒญ์‚ฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„(exit period)์ด ๋„๋ž˜ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ„์† ํŽ€๋“œ(continuation fund)๋ฅผ ์šด์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์ง„์ „๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ๋งŒ๊ฐ„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด์ง€๋งŒ, Five Point๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋กœ์„œ ์•ฝ์†ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์‹คํžˆ ์ดํ–‰ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ฃผ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ” ์ฃผ(state)์—์„œ ์„์œ  ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ™œ๋™์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ† ์ง€๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ตญ(Bureau of Land Management)์ด๋‚˜ ์ฃผ ํ† ์ง€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ(state land office)์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ๊ด€๋“ค๊ณผ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ ๋“ค์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์€ํ–‰ ๊ทธ๋ฃน(bank group)๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํฐ ์ง€์›์„ ์•„๋ผ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€์ถœ ๋‹ด๋ณด๋ถ€ ๋Œ€์ถœ(RBL, Reserve-Based Lending)์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์žฅ๋Ÿ‰(reserves)์„ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์€ํ–‰๋‹จ(bank group)์˜ ์žฌํ‰๊ฐ€(redetermination) ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ฐจ์ž… ํ•œ๋„(borrowing base)๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ ค์ฃผ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์€ํ–‰๋‹จ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ์žฅ์ผ์น˜๋กœ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(midstream) ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ธˆ์•ก๊นŒ์ง€ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณผ์ •์ด ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์šฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ B&L POCO๋Š” ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ”(longer laterals)๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ตœ๊ณ  ํ’ˆ์งˆ์˜ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ, ํŒŒ์ดํ”„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋™ํ–ฅ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, Halliburton ํŒ€์˜ ํ”„๋ž™(frac) ์„ค๊ณ„(design) ๋ฐ ์‹คํ–‰(execution)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋…ธ๊ณ ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฃจ์•„์นจ์— ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ์—ฌ ์ œ์•ˆ๋“ค์„ ์ทจํ•ฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์กฐ์œจํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒค๋”(vendor)๋“ค๊ณผ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด ์˜จ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ํฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ์ด ์ž๋ณธ ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx) ๊ฐ์†Œ์™€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ฆ๋Œ€์— ํฐ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์œ ์ • ์‹œ์ถ”(well drilling) ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ณ , ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ถ”๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์šด์˜๊ณผ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋œจ๋ฆฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Christopher Calvert: Executive VP & COO No. I think Joe hit on a lot. And I think to the question, Tim, the relationships we have on the E&P upstream side that Joe has mentioned have been long-standing and part of the success story of the operational excellence of Matador. And I think to the story with Five Point and the continuation vehicle, I think what we're excited about is they're structuring a deal that allows them to be part of the future growth of the entity. Now as the drop-down conversation moves forward, I think that's something that from the E&P side, we have referenced these 3.4 mile laterals. We've referenced the productivity of the Ameredev acreage that is now in our asset base. And so I think that is an exciting story from both the E&P side and the wholly owned Matador midstream side, the gathering side. And so I think that the cadence of any sort of drop down, I think that's something that we will continue to work on. But we're excited about the continuation vehicle simply because it's another sign of support from Five Point, and they've been supportive of everything from plant expansions to interconnects between Marlin and Black River. This is just another sign that they want to be a part of the growth story that is San Mateo.**Christopher Calvert:** ๋„ค, ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ž˜ ์งš์–ด์คฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ E&P (ํƒ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ) ์—…์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(Upstream) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ง€์†๋˜์–ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, Matador์˜ ์šด์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ(operational excellence) ์„ฑ๊ณต ์‚ฌ๋ก€์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Five Point ๋ฐ ์—ฐ์† ํˆฌ์ž ์ˆ˜๋‹จ(continuation vehicle)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฒ•์ธ(entity)์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋“œ๋กญ๋‹ค์šด(drop-down) ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, E&P ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด 3.4๋งˆ์ผ ๊ธธ์ด์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ”์ •(laterals)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜(asset base)์— ํŽธ์ž…๋œ Ameredev ์œ ์ „ ๋ถ€์ง€(acreage)์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ(productivity)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. E&P(ํƒ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์™„์ „ ์†Œ์œ  ๋งˆํƒ€๋„์–ด ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์œ ํ†ต)์˜ ์ง‘์œ (gathering) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋“œ๋กญ๋‹ค์šด(์ž์‚ฐ ์ด์ „)์ด๋“  ๊ทธ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€์† ํˆฌ์ž ์ˆ˜๋‹จ(continuation vehicle)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํŒŒ์ด๋ธŒ ํฌ์ธํŠธ(Five Point)๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€์ง€ ์‹ ํ˜ธ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ ํ™•์žฅ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง๋ฆฐ(Marlin)๊ณผ ๋ธ”๋ž™ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ„(Black River) ๊ฐ„์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•ด ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์‚ฐ ๋งˆํ…Œ์˜ค(San Mateo)์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board Chris, I think that's excellent. But I just want to add on to that, that we've gotten a number of questions recently about our artificial intelligence participation. And what we found most effective is to work together with our vendors, and where we can use artificial intelligence between us. Most often, they have the program. They're ahead of us, maybe more often, and -- but work together. So it's a win-win situation. And -- so we're taking maybe baby steps, but we are taking it in the deliberate fashion with our partners, some of whom have more experience in this area, and we feel like it's another win-win where we all are gaining from that collaboration.**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์€ ๋ง์”€์ด์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI) ์ฐธ์—ฌ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งŽ์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์—…์ฒด(vendor)๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์„œ๋กœ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์ €ํฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž์„œ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋งŽ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒ์ƒ(win-win)ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์•„์ง ๊ฑธ์Œ๋งˆ ๋‹จ๊ณ„(baby steps)์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ(collaboration)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ด๋“์„ ์–ป๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ์ƒ(win-win)์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Zach Parham of JPMorgan.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ JPMorgan์˜ Zach Parham๋‹˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Zachary Parham: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Can you talk about how you're thinking about using the buyback going forward? It was relatively limited over the last couple of quarters. I know you didn't plan to be formulaic with the buybacks, but just any thoughts on how you plan to allocate free cash flow to buybacks in the future?**Zachary Parham:** ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…(buyback) ํ™œ์šฉ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ์€ ๋น„๊ต์  ์ œํ•œ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ณต์‹์ด๋‚˜ ์ •ํ˜•ํ™”๋œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์€ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ž‰์—ฌ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„(free cash flow)์„ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ณ„ํš์ด์‹ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Macalik: Executive VP & CFO Zach, this is Rob Macalik, CFO. Definitely on the shareholder return, we're proud of the cash we've returned in the form of both the dividend and the share buyback. We've raised the dividend 6 times in the last 4 years and are really proud of the 3% yield that we have on that dividend today. We just instituted the share buyback in 2025, and we think it's a really nice extra tool that we have at our discretion. As you can see through the management and employee share purchases, including the guys in the field, we as a management team feel like the stock is undervalued. And so we've been trying to be prudent with our capital, but we do think that the share buyback is a nice tool that we have, that we can continue to use opportunistically and feel like between the dividend and the share buyback are really good shareholder return tools to use. And so I think you'll consider -- continue to see us use that in a very conservative way, but use it when there's a dislocation between our stock price and what the rest of the market is doing.**Robert Macalik:** ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์›(shareholder return) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ(dividend)๊ณผ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…(share buyback) ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ํ™˜์›ํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋А๋‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 4๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ์„ 6์ฐจ๋ก€ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ (dividend yield)์ด 3%์— ๋‹ฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2025๋…„์— ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ๋ง‰ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์žฌ๋Ÿ‰์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ณผ ํ˜„์žฅ ์ง์›๋“ค์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ž„์ง์›๋“ค์˜ ์ฃผ์‹ ๋งค์ž…์—์„œ ๋ณด์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์ €ํฌ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ฃผ์‹์ด ์ €ํ‰๊ฐ€๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ(capital)์„ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์šฉํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…(share buyback)์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ด์„œ ๊ณ„์† ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ๋‹น(dividend)๊ณผ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์€ ์ •๋ง ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์›(shareholder return) ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€์™€ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ์›€์ง์ž„ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๊ดด๋ฆฌ(dislocation)๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ๋•Œ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Derrick Whitfield of Texas Capital.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ์บํ”ผํƒˆ์˜ ๋ฐ๋ฆญ ์œ—ํ•„๋“œ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Derrick Whitfield: Texas Capital Securities, Research Division I wanted to focus on surfactants with my question. Could you perhaps elaborate on the enhanced performance you're seeing in your well results, the degree at which you could expand the program in 2026? And how much of this is baked into your guidance?**Derrick Whitfield:** ๊ณ„๋ฉดํ™œ์„ฑ์ œ(surfactants)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์ •(well) ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์—์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2026๋…„์—๋Š” ์ด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜์‹  ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(guidance)์—๋Š” ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.
Christopher Calvert: Executive VP & COO Great question. This is Chris Calvert again. So I'll start with the back part. We have not baked any sort of uplift into our 2026 production guidance plan. So I'll put that out right now. As far as quantifying the successful results, we're excited about the pilot test we did in 2025. We have long used surfactants throughout completions. This is something that, as the technology advances, as we continue to delineate from a subsurface perspective in the parts of the basin that we feel could be more benefited from advanced surfactants. That was kind of the basis of our pilot test in 2025. So we're excited about the early results. As we look into 2026, once again, no sort of uplift is baked into the production. However, I think it's a little early to speak to the enhancements or uplift other than the fact that we have noticed that it is formation specific. Certain formations respond a little better, but I think that could delineate and differentiate as we move into 2026 as we test in different parts of the basin. So stay tuned. We're excited about the '26 plan. Once again, the capital is projected into the budget, but not production.**Christopher Calvert:** ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์นผ๋ฒ„ํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋จผ์ € ๋’ท๋ถ€๋ถ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2026๋…„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(production guidance) ๊ณ„ํš์— ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€(uplift)๋„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ ์„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •๋Ÿ‰ํ™”(quantification) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, 2025๋…„์— ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ(pilot test)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์™„๊ฒฐ(completions) ๊ณผ์ • ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ณ„๋ฉดํ™œ์„ฑ์ œ(surfactants)๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋” ์ง„๋ณด๋œ ๊ณ„๋ฉดํ™œ์„ฑ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋” ํฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์ง€(basin) ๋‚ด ํŠน์ • ์ง€์—ญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ง€ํ•˜(subsurface) ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํƒ์‚ฌ(delineate)๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ 2025๋…„ ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์— ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋„ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ (enhancements)์ด๋‚˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€(uplift)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์•„์ง ์ข€ ์ด๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ํŠน์ • ์ง€์ธต(formation)์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์€ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ • ์ง€์ธต์—์„œ๋Š” ์ข€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, 2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋ถ„์ง€(basin)์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฐจ์ด์ ๋“ค์ด ๋” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์ฒดํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์† ์ง€์ผœ๋ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2026๋…„ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž๋ณธ(capital)์€ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ(budget)์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production)์€ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of John Abbott of Wolfe Research.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์šธํ”„ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜(Wolfe Research)์˜ ์กด ์• ๋ฒ—๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Wolfe Research, LLC: My question is really on the Woodford. What is the strategy there? Is your position primarily held by production? You're drilling your first well in the first half of this year. You have additional pipeline capacity by the end of this year. Is there further derisking in 2027? How are you thinking about that play?**Wolfe Research, LLC:** ์šฐ๋“œํฌ๋“œ(Woodford)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ์˜ ์ „๋žต์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production) ์œ„์ฃผ๋กœ ํฌ์ง€์…˜(position)์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์œ ์ •(well) ์‹œ์ถ”๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ , ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ(pipeline) ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰๋„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์‹ค ์˜ˆ์ •์ธ๋ฐ์š”. 2027๋…„์—๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์™„ํ™”(derisking) ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด(play)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Christopher Calvert: Executive VP & COO Yes, John, this is Chris. I can take it again and probably pass it to Tom. We're excited about the Woodford. Obviously, our geoscience team has long looked at deeper parts of the basin. We're excited about -- we've delineated and have producing wells out of 23 discrete horizons in the basin. The Woodford would be additive to that. And so we have a geoscience team who's long looked at deeper parts of the basin. And I think if you've looked at public data about some of these well results in and around the ZIP codes in which are being reported. You'll see that there is a nice overlap to what we think is the fairway of this basin that is existing to current Matador acreage on the map. And so we look at this as additive, and I can kick it to Tom.**Christopher Calvert:** ๋„ค, ์กด, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ†ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์šฐ๋“œํฌ๋“œ(Woodford)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์ €ํฌ ์ง€์งˆ๊ณผํ•™(geoscience) ํŒ€์€ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์ด ๋ถ„์ง€(basin)์˜ ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ถ„์ง€์—์„œ 23๊ฐœ์˜ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์ง€์ธต(discrete horizons)์„ ์‹๋ณ„(delineated)ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ •(producing wells)์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋“œํฌ๋“œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์น˜(additive)๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ ์ง€์งˆ๊ณผํ•™ ํŒ€์€ ์ด ๋ถ„์ง€์˜ ์‹ฌ์ธต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋„๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ(ZIP codes)์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์‹œ์ถ”์ •(well) ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์…จ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ถ„์ง€์˜ ์œ ๋ง ์ง€์—ญ(fairway)์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณณ๊ณผ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด(Matador)์‚ฌ์˜ ์ง€๋„์ƒ ๋ณด์œ  ๊ด‘๊ตฌ(acreage) ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ข‹์€ ์ค‘์ฒฉ(overlap)์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•„์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ํ†ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
W. Elsener: Executive Vice President of Reservoir Engineering & Senior Asset Manager John, I appreciate your question on the Woodford. This is our -- this will be our first one in the Woodford. And so I would say our primary objective is to learn as much as we can about the Woodford and all the other zones immediately adjacent to it. We'll be drilling a pilot hole and running logs. And I know Andrew Parker can speak more to some of those things. But we do have a -- had a nice position over there on the eastern side of the basin where others have had some success further over into Texas in the Woodford. Clearly, we're very excited about it. And so it's something that is -- would be purely incremental to our current inventory. We have not yet awarded any inventory whatsoever to the Woodford. So it'd be a great win for Ameredev. But I'll pass it over to Andrew Parker to speak more.**W. Elsener:** Woodford์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ Woodford์—์„œ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ฃผ๋œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” Woodford์™€ ๊ทธ ์ธ๊ทผ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€์ธต(zones)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์‹œํ—˜ ์‹œ์ถ”๊ณต(pilot hole)์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๊ฒ€์ธต(logs)์„ ์‹ค์‹œํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ค๋“œ๋ฅ˜ ํŒŒ์ปค๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„์ง€(basin)์˜ ๋™์ชฝ์— ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ์ชฝ Woodford์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘” ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory)์— ์ˆœ์ „ํžˆ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ(incremental) ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•„์ง Woodford์— ์–ด๋–ค ์žฌ๊ณ ๋„ ํ• ๋‹นํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ Ameredev์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํฐ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” Andrew Parker๊ฐ€ ์ด์–ด์„œ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Andrew Parker: Yes. Thanks, John. Just to add on to Chris and Tom here. We've had our eye on this. We're really excited about the results in Texas, and we really like our rock in New Mexico. We think we have a lot of running room here. Again, it's very early, but we're excited to share more about the steps later in the year. But the Woodford -- it's an important part of the petroleum system in the Delaware Basin, which -- this just adds to our confidence of being in the best basin here and our confidence in our inventory across the basin as well. So we're really excited about it.**Andrew Parker:** ๋„ค, ์กด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค์™€ ํ†ฐ์˜ ๋ง์”€์— ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๊ณ„์† ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‰ด๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ”์˜ ์ €ํฌ ์œ ์ „์ธต(rock)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์—ฌ๋ ฅ(running room)์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์•„์ง ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ด๊ธด ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋“œํฌ๋“œ(Woodford)๋Š” ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด ๋ถ„์ง€(Delaware Basin)์˜ ์„์œ  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(petroleum system)์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด ์ง€์—ญ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ถ„์ง€์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด, ๋ถ„์ง€ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋ณด์œ  ์ž์‚ฐ(inventory)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Scott Hanold of RBC Capital Markets.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ RBC ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ (RBC Capital Markets)์˜ ์Šค์ฝง ํ•ด๋†€๋“œ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Scott Hanold: RBC Capital Markets, Research Division Can you -- Matador basically built itself on the Brick-by-Brick M&A as well as organic growth. And moving forward, it looks like, I think for the industry, the growth rate is obviously coming down as well as Matador. But as you -- what do you see in terms of the ways to add values for Matador going forward? And do you see a lot of M&A opportunities left to continue to consolidate?**Scott Hanold:** Matador๋Š” ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ 'Brick-by-Brick' ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ M&A์™€ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ(organic growth)์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ (growth rate)์ด ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ, Matador ์—ญ์‹œ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ Matador๊ฐ€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœ(value creation)ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๋˜ํ•œ, ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ†ตํ•ฉ(consolidation)์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” M&A ๊ธฐํšŒ(M&A opportunities)๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”?
Co-President โ€“ Land, Acquisitions & Divestitures and Planning: Scott, this is Van Singleton, Co-President. Thanks for your question. I think you can see from last year that our brick-by-break approach was effective as it has been for some time and 17,500 acres without doing a major transaction that was 690-or-so individual transactions. I think you can count to see us be vigilant to protect the balance sheet, but always look for good opportunities in the future. We try to keep a pipeline of deals coming in, but they need to be the right deals in the right neighborhoods. So many of these are end units we have or adjacent to units that we have to form these longer laterals, and we're excited to see there's still opportunities out there, and we'll continue to make trades that are good for both sides. Again, just like doing the deals with EnCap, they've been good partners to work with. And we look forward to other deals like that coming up. And if some bigger deals do come up, we'll give them full evaluation and due consideration. But we need to stick to our strategy of protecting the balance sheet and putting ourselves in a position for future growth. Bryan, do you want to add to that?**Co-President โ€“ Land, Acquisitions & Divestitures and Planning:** ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์— ๋ณด์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ ์ง„์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹(brick-by-brick approach)์€ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทธ๋ž˜์™”๋“ฏ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(major transaction) ์—†์ด 17,500 ์—์ด์ปค๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์•ฝ 690๊ฑด์˜ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(individual transactions)๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ(balance sheet)๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋Šฆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ข‹์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ(pipeline of deals)์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ๋ถ€์ง€์˜ ๋๋‹จ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋” ๊ธด ํšก๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ(longer laterals)์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋‹จ์œ„์— ์ธ์ ‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์–‘์ธก์— ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ด๋“์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, EnCap๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(deals)์—์„œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ข‹์€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ์™€ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋“ค์ด ์„ฑ์‚ฌ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋” ํฐ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ธด๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ํ‰๊ฐ€(evaluation)์™€ ๊ณ ๋ ค(consideration)๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ(balance sheet)๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต(strategy)์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ์”จ, ๋ง๋ถ™์ผ ๋ง์”€ ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Bryan Erman: Co-President, Chief Legal Officer & Head of M&A Yes. Scott, this is Bryan Erman, Co-President, Chief Legal Officer and Head of M&A. Just to pile on to what Van said. I think we have shown that we can grow in different ways. We did the Ameredev and Advance deals in previous years. And then as Van said, we did 17,500 net acres and essentially replaced our inventory that we drilled last year through smaller deals. And so I think that's a differentiator for us that we can grow through the bigger deals, and we do think there will be some out there in the future to look at. But we -- in the years that those aren't there, we can grow through the brick-by-brick approach, and we really do feel like that's a differentiator for Matador.**Bryan Erman:** ๋„ค, ์Šค์ฝง๋‹˜. ๊ณต๋™ ์‚ฌ์žฅ(Co-President), ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ์ฑ…์ž„์ž(Chief Legal Officer), M&A ์ด๊ด„(Head of M&A)์„ ๋งก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ์–ด๋จผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Van์ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ์— ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ Ameredev์™€ Advance ๋”œ(deal)์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Van์ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 17,500 ์ˆœ ์—์ด์ปค(net acres)๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž‘๋…„์— ์‹œ์ถ”(drill)ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory)๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋”œ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ฐจ๋ณ„์ (differentiator)์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋” ํฐ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋”œ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํฐ ๋”œ์ด ์—†๋Š” ํ•ด์—๋Š”, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” '๋ฒฝ๋Œ ํ•˜๋‚˜ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š”' ๋ฐฉ์‹(brick-by-brick approach)์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด Matador์˜ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ฐจ๋ณ„์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board Scott, this is Joe. And let's put a little bit of this in perspective. I started, as you know, with $270,000 in 1983. And today, we've got over $10 billion in assets. So throughout that 40-year period, the same question has been asked and asked again, do you think you can grow anymore? Has there been so much consolidation that there are not opportunities out there. We've always been able to find opportunities, and I don't really see it much different, and that we think is -- we aim for being better, not just bigger. And in a lot of these situations by going after these areas like Woodford and that they fit us very well. I'm not sure it fits a major. They need to be down there where they've got hundreds of thousands of acres. And these are smaller, but they still fit us, and we consolidated that way. And Van and others have an active trading circle where we give up here in their area and they give back. So those arrangements are working. And as far as the profitability goes, I think we've proven over 40 years that we've managed our money well to reinvest in the right areas. And even at old Matador, we were investing in the right areas there in developing trades. So we've been active in each of these extensions. And we've had merger opportunities -- many merger opportunities. But so far, we found -- this worked best to be as we are. We're a little unique in a lot of areas. And one thing is the collaboration with each other in the company as well as with our outside relationships. And a good example of this is working with [indiscernible] as we have. And we've done some -- they made us aware of some very good ways to add to production and make sure we're in the right areas and right equipment, what's on pipe, and what's still on trucking. And is another example is that -- so rather than [indiscernible] about who's the next merger or anything, we try to work on the efficiencies and things have worked out pretty well that in 43 years, we moved from one rig and part of the time and having $300,000 in assets, which at that time I thought was a lot of money, but not so much today when we're drilling 3,000 feet or more and gain efficiencies there. So the business has changed, but the basics about building relationship, being in the absolute best area you can afford and working trades to consolidate things and looking for the new technology, all that's the same thing in sports is that it's not how big your school is, but it's often about how good your people are. I mean you look at University of Indiana hadn't had a winning season or championship since 1800s, the late 1800s, but then they win the national championship because they got better people. And it's not that we can drive people into coming, but we do have a dedicated group of professionals who try to get better every day. And you've been to our offices often. And Scott wouldn't you agree, that it's a very motivated group here that works well together and has kind of a unique culture to it. But I ask that question with you if you respond.**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ์ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ข€ ๋” ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—์„œ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์ €๋Š” 1983๋…„์— 27๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 100์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ(assets)์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 40๋…„๊ฐ„, '๋” ์ด์ƒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?', '๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ํ†ตํ•ฉ(consolidation)์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ์š”?'์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋ฐ›์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ '๋” ์ปค์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ'์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ '๋” ๋‚˜์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ'์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋“œํฌ๋“œ(Woodford)์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ง€์—ญ์„ ๊ณต๋žตํ•˜๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋žต์€ ์ €ํฌ์™€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž˜ ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋Œ€ํ˜• ๊ธฐ์—…(major)์— ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ์ง€๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ๋งŒ ์—์ด์ปค(acres)์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์„ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋Š” ์ž‘์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ์™€ ์ž˜ ๋งž์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ†ตํ•ฉ(consolidation)์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐด(Van)์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œ ์ƒํ˜ธ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋“ค๋„ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‹ตํ•˜๋Š” ์‹์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋“ค์ด ์ž˜ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ(profitability) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 40๋…„์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ์žฌํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•ด ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด(Matador) ์‹œ์ ˆ์—๋„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•˜๊ณ  ์œก์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ™œ๋™ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘(merger) ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ฉด์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฐœํœ˜๋˜๋Š” ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ์ •์‹ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์˜ ์ข‹์€ ์˜ˆ์‹œ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํŠน์ • ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‚ฌ์™€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ง€์—ญ๊ณผ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์žฅ๋น„๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ(pipeline)์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์•„์ง ์šด์†ก ์ค‘์ธ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ํฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜ˆ์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘(M&A)์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์™€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ถ”์ธก๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ(efficiency) ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€๋‚œ 43๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ๊ฝค ์ž˜ ํ’€๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๊ทธ(rig) ํ•˜๋‚˜์™€ 30๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(USD 300,000)์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ(assets)์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹œ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ธˆ์•ก์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ 3,000ํ”ผํŠธ(์•ฝ 914๋ฏธํ„ฐ) ์ด์ƒ ์‹œ์ถ”(drilling)ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—… ํ™˜๊ฒฝ(business environment)์€ ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•, ๊ฐ๋‹น ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ธฐ, ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ž์‚ฐ ํ†ตํ•ฉ(asset consolidation), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ชจ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์›์น™๋“ค์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์œ ํšจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์€ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์—์„œ ํ•™๊ต์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ทธ ํ•™๊ต์— ์†ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ์ง€์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์ธ๋””์• ๋‚˜ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต๋Š” 1800๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์šฐ์Šน ์‹œ์ฆŒ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์‹ญ์ด ์—†์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ธ์žฌ๋“ค์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ „๊ตญ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์‹ญ์—์„œ ์šฐ์Šนํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ•์ œ๋กœ ์˜ค๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งค์ผ ๋” ๋‚˜์•„์ง€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ธ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์—๋„ ์ž์ฃผ ์˜ค์…จ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž˜ ์•„์‹ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค์ฝง, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์˜์š•์ ์ด๊ณ , ์„œ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ๋„ ์ž˜ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์— ๋™์˜ํ•˜์‹œ์ฃ ? ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์€ ์Šค์ฝง๊ป˜ ์—ฌ์ญ™๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Paul Diamond of Citi.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Paul Diamond: Citigroup Inc., Research Division Just wanted to touch on D&C in '26 for a moment. You guys guided towards a midpoint of $7.95, talked a bit about cycle times, lateral length, batch development. Just wanted to get if you could parse that a little bit on how those improvements are kind of broken out amongst those groups or any other levers?**Paul Diamond:** 2026๋…„ ์‹œ์ถ” ๋ฐ ์™„๊ฒฐ(Drilling and Completion, D&C) ๋น„์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž ์‹œ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 7.95๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜๋กœ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜์…จ๊ณ , ์ž‘์—… ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„(cycle times), ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ • ๊ธธ์ด(lateral length), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ผ๊ด„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ(batch development)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„  ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์‹  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค, ์ฆ‰ ์ž‘์—… ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ์ˆ˜ํ‰์ • ๊ธธ์ด, ์ผ๊ด„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š”์ง€, ๋˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฐœ์„  ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Christopher Calvert: Executive VP & COO Yes. This is Chris Calvert. You kind of tailed off on the back end of the question, but I'll repeat it a little bit and then whatever I missed. As you said, a little bit more commentary surrounding increased lateral lengths, reduced cycle times that led to the reduction in our D&C cost per foot to $7.95. And so I think, Paul, the first thing I would point to is, when we look at this improvement in D&C cost per foot, it is largely efficiency driven. As we look to -- we've talked a lot about these -- this well batch that sits on our Ameredev acreage, that's 3.4 mile laterals. We expect to turn in line in the first part of this year. That is contributory to the 10% increase in lateral lengths. And so I think when we speak to the ability to do more with less, and I think that is a standard story that is somewhat spread across the industry being able to drill the same lateral footage or accomplish the same with fewer rig counts. Stories like increased lateral length help contribute to that. And so when we look at improvements in completion efficiencies, we were kind of the -- one of the first to do Simul and Trimulfrac in the Delaware Basin. It has stayed a large part of our completion story. We've seen completion efficiency improvements of 20% year-over-year as far as completed lateral footage per day, all of which contributes to lowering your D&C cost per foot. And so when we think about cycle time improvements, that it really underpins the ability to turn in line the same net lateral footage in 2026 versus 2025. Do it with $130 million D&C capital savings year-over-year and then also still be able to deliver moderate production growth in the form of 2% or 3% oil -- organic oil volumes. And so I think the underpinning story to the $7.95 number is largely efficiency driven, focused on, like I said, longer laterals and reduce cycle times.**Christopher Calvert:** ๋„ค, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์บ˜๋ฒ„ํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ข€ ํ๋ ค์กŒ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜น์‹œ ๋น ์ง„ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ณด์ถฉํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(lateral length) ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„(cycle time) ๋‹จ์ถ•์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹œ์ถ” ๋ฐ ์™„๊ฒฐ ๋น„์šฉ(D&C cost)์ด ํ”ผํŠธ๋‹น 7.95๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ ˆ๊ฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด, ์ด ์‹œ์ถ” ๋ฐ ์™„๊ฒฐ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋กœ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ฆ๋Œ€(efficiency driven)์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ ˆ๋ฐ๋ธŒ(Ameredev) ์œ ์ „์— ์žˆ๋Š” 3.4๋งˆ์ผ ๊ธธ์ด์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ”์ •(lateral well) ๋ฐฐ์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ค‘์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ์€ ์ž์›์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ด๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํ”ํžˆ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด, ๋” ์ ์€ ๋ฆฌ๊ทธ(rig) ์ˆ˜๋กœ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(lateral footage)๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ถ”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(lateral length)๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™„๊ฒฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ(completion efficiency) ๊ฐœ์„  ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ธ๋ผ์›จ์–ด ๋ถ„์ง€(Delaware Basin)์—์„œ Simulfrac๊ณผ Trimulfrac์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์™„๊ฒฐ ์ „๋žต์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ผ์ผ ์™„๊ฒฐ ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(completed lateral footage per day) ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 20%์˜ ์™„๊ฒฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ”ผํŠธ๋‹น ์‹œ์ถ” ๋ฐ ์™„๊ฒฐ ๋น„์šฉ(D&C cost per foot)์„ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์‚ฌ์ดํด ํƒ€์ž„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด 2025๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2026๋…„์— ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ˆœ ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ” ๊ธธ์ด(net lateral footage)๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ D&C ์ž๋ณธ ์ ˆ๊ฐ(D&C capital savings)์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉด์„œ, ๋˜ํ•œ 2~3%์˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์›์œ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(organic oil volumes) ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์™„๋งŒํ•œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 7.95๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ผ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ฆ๋Œ€์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, ๋” ๊ธด ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์‹œ์ถ”์™€ ์‚ฌ์ดํด ํƒ€์ž„ ๋‹จ์ถ•์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our last question comes from the line of Phillip Jungwirth of BMO.**Operator:** ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ BMO์˜ ํ•„๋ฆฝ ์ •์›Œ์Šค๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Phillip Jungwirth: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research I was hoping you could talk about the better wells for less money slide. And just what I was really interested in is, first, the forecasting of EURs and the bottom-up build here. And then just second, the footnote around excluding wells drilled by Ameredev or Advance and whether this has been a drag on historical EURs and if Matador designed wells are demonstrating improvement across this acreage.**Phillip Jungwirth:** ๋” ์ ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์œ ์ •(better wells for less money) ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ ์€ ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ, ์˜ˆ์ƒ ์ตœ์ข… ํšŒ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰(EUR: Estimated Ultimate Recovery) ์˜ˆ์ธก๊ณผ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ์˜ ์ƒํ–ฅ์‹(bottom-up) ๊ตฌ์ถ• ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ๋กœ๋Š”, Ameredev ๋˜๋Š” Advance๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ถ”ํ•œ ์œ ์ •(wells)์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ์ฃผ(footnote)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ธ๋ฐ์š”, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ์ตœ์ข… ํšŒ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰(EUR)์— ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Matador๊ฐ€ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•œ ์œ ์ •๋“ค์ด ์ด ์ง€์—ญ(acreage) ์ „๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
W. Elsener: Executive Vice President of Reservoir Engineering & Senior Asset Manager Phillip, it's Tom Elsener, EVP for Reservoir Engineering. I'll take the first part of that one. What we're really proud of is the continued improvement in our well productivity over these years and really highlighted by our own operations and showing that how we've been able to improve our BO per foot of lateral year-over-year. It's something we're really proud of. It's not something that just comes very easily. It comes from a combination of improved targeting, improved spacing, improved completions, many of the different operational improvements that Chris has been lining out, but also from our geoscience teams finding better places to buy acreage, better places to land the wells. Combined with the approximately 25% improvement in cost per foot over these years, there are some very big improvements to the rates of returns, to the quality of the inventory. And we're certainly very proud of the Ameredev acreage and the Advance acreage. And those have been great acquisitions, for us. As has been mentioned on the deal front, we've been very successful with big deals and the smaller brick-by-brick transaction. So Matador has improved its portfolio over the years through the wide range of different techniques.**W. Elsener:** ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์œ ์ • ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ (well productivity)์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์ž์ฒด ์šด์˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„ ํ”ผํŠธ๋‹น ์›์œ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ (BO per foot of lateral)์„ ๋งค๋…„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ํŠนํžˆ ์ž˜ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์–ป์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ… (targeting) ๊ฐœ์„ , ๊ฐ„๊ฒฉ (spacing) ๊ฐœ์„ , ์™„๊ฒฐ (completions) ๊ฐœ์„  ๋“ฑ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์šด์˜ ๊ฐœ์„  ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์˜ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ์ง€์งˆ๊ณผํ•™ (geoscience) ํŒ€์ด ๋” ์ข‹์€ ๋ถ€์ง€ (acreage)๋ฅผ ๋งค์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์œ ์ •์„ ์‹œ์ถ”ํ•  ๋” ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ธ ๋•๋ถ„์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ํ”ผํŠธ๋‹น ๋น„์šฉ(cost per foot)์ด ์•ฝ 25% ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด, ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ (rates of returns)๊ณผ ๋ณด์œ  ์ž์‚ฐ(inventory)์˜ ์งˆ์ ์ธ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ํฐ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Ameredev ๊ด‘๊ตฌ์™€ Advance ๊ด‘๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ธ์ˆ˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(deal) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ์–ธ๊ธ‰๋˜์—ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(big deals)๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ ์ง„์ ์ธ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(brick-by-brick transaction)์—์„œ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ Matador๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค(portfolio)๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board If I can tag on to your note, Tom, is just that, as an example of this, of these efficiencies, it isn't just -- it makes the well better, but it's generated additional cash flow that we've been able to pay down our debt. And last year, for example, we paid it down by $200 million. So we were getting our leverage ratio down there to about 1, which gives you more options having that kind of balance sheet strength. And so we tie those together in our discussions that I mentioned when we collaborate what does this mean.**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ํ†ฐ ์”จ ๋ง์”€์— ๋ง๋ถ™์ด์ž๋ฉด, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์˜ ํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋กœ, ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์œ ์ •(well)์˜ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„(cash flow)์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ฑ„(debt)๋ฅผ ์ƒํ™˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” 2์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒํ™˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋น„์œจ(leverage ratio)์„ ์•ฝ 1๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚ฎ์ถœ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ ํƒ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๋Š”์ง€ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฌถ์–ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen. This ends the Q&A portion of this morning's conference call. I'd like to turn the call over to management for any closing remarks.**Operator:** ์‹ ์‚ฌ ์ˆ™๋…€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ์ผ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ(conference call)์˜ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ป˜ ์ตœ์ข… ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board Well, I'd just like to say if anybody else on the call doesn't feel that they got your questions answered, please give a call in to Mac, and we'll arrange a separate conference call. But we want to make ourselves available to you because we think there's a lot of good progress is being made, and we're very excited about some of these new areas that we're developing. It's just hard to always fit it in a 90-day period. But as this year goes along, I think you're going to see why we are as optimistic about the year as we have been, and hope that oil prices will stabilize and that some of the disruptions will be settled over time. And then the economy will remain strong. But I give much credit to this team has continued to grow and to work that much better together and reiterate our invitation to come and see and meet the people in person that have a direct effect on the value of the company and then meet some of the younger people because I think they have done a very impressive job. With that, I want to be sure and give a shout out to Glenn Stetson and then called on to say much, but he's watched over both the production and the midstream and kept both of them running even in bad weather and other times. And so Glenn, if you want to say anything, please do so now. And if you want me to ask you a question first to give you a structure to do that. But you're watching over those two very important areas have got work together, the production and the midstream.**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํ•ด์†Œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„์ด ๊ณ„์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, Mac์—๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝ ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ๋ณ„๋„์˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์ง„์ „์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ถ„์•ผ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ, 90์ผ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์งง์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์•ˆ์— ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜ฌํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌํ•ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‚™๊ด€์ ์ธ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜์„œ๋„ ์•„์‹œ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๊ฐ€(oil prices)๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ •๋˜๊ณ  ์ผ๋ถ€ ํ˜ผ๋ž€๋“ค์ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํŒ€์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ž˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด ์˜จ ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ €๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ์ฐฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜(company value)์— ์ง์ ‘์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์ง์ ‘ ์˜ค์…”์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ๋ต™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ถŒ์œ  ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ Š์€ ์ง์›๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์ •๋ง ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ๊ธ€๋ Œ ์Šคํ…Œ์Šจ(Glenn Stetson)์—๊ฒŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ(production)๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(midstream) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์•…์ฒœํ›„๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ƒํ™ฉ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ๋‘ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์˜ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธ€๋ Œ, ํ˜น์‹œ ํ•˜์‹ค ๋ง์”€์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ์ € ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋“œ๋ ค์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ(production)๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(midstream)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์˜์—ญ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์›€์ง์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Glenn Stetson: Executive Vice President of Production Yes. Thank you, Joe. This is Glenn Stetson, EVP of Production, I think Tom and Chris both gave examples of things that we're doing on the efficiency side. I would like to provide an example of where both Matador, San Mateo, and on the completion side, the production side and the midstream companies that work together to achieve some of those efficiencies and one of them is on the produced water side using hydraulic -- using produced water for hydraulic fracturing operations. In 2025, 72% of the water that we used was produced water, and that has the benefit of both reducing our CapEx per foot, but also reducing our lease operating expenses. And we couldn't do -- we couldn't achieve those results without the help of San Mateo and Matador's midstream -- wholly owned midstream properties or assets. And so I just wanted -- that's just another area of where we are working together to help on all fronts.**Glenn Stetson:** ๋„ค, ์กฐ๋‹˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ†ฐ๊ณผ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๋‘ ๋ถ„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ(efficiency) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” Matador, San Mateo, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™„๊ฒฐ(completion) ๋ฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ(production) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(midstream) ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ˆ˜(produced water)๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ˆ˜์•• ํŒŒ์‡„(hydraulic fracturing) ์ž‘์—…์— ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„์—๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ๋ฌผ์˜ 72%๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ˆ˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ”ผํŠธ๋‹น ์ž๋ณธ ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx per foot)์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ์ž„๋Œ€ ์šด์˜ ๋น„์šฉ(lease operating expenses)๋„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ San Mateo์™€ Matador๊ฐ€ 100% ์†Œ์œ ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(midstream) ์ž์‚ฐ์˜ ๋„์›€์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹œ๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Wm. Foran: Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board And trying to help the flow assurance, the importance of flow assurance into perspective, is if you're going to -- as I often heard, some of you've heard me say, if you're going to be a cotton farmer in Dawson County, Texas, you better own -- also try to own part of the cotton gin. Because you got to gin cotton before it gets to market. And it's the same thing. After we produce the gas, it's got to be collected by a midstream entity and then take in the market. So we started in on that view when we went public -- when first Matador hit public back in 2012 that it was important over the long run to have an interest in the midstream to be sure you have flow assurance. And that's delivered a lot of benefit to us through time. Now we're not cotton farmers, but I believe it's an apt analogy.**Joseph Wm. Foran:** ํ๋ฆ„ ๋ณด์žฅ(flow assurance)์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฃผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์…จ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๋„์Šจ ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ์—์„œ ๋ชฉํ™” ๋†๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ชฉํ™” ๊ฐ€๊ณต ๊ณต์žฅ(cotton gin)์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋„ ์†Œ์œ ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚ด๋†“๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋ชฉํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๊ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .

์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•œ ํ›„์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(midstream) ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์†กํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ 2012๋…„ ๋งˆํƒ€๋„๋ฅด(Matador)๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ƒ์žฅํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ๋ฆ„ ๋ณด์žฅ(flow assurance)์„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฏธ๋“œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ(midstream) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€๋ถ„์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€ ์ด์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉํ™” ๋†๋ถ€๋Š” ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋น„์œ ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mac Schmitz: Senior Vice President of Investor Relations Marvin, with that, that concludes our closing remarks. Thank you.**Mac Schmitz:** ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating today. This concludes today's program.**Operator:** ์Œ, ์‹ ์‚ฌ ์ˆ™๋…€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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