Floyd C. Wilson
Analyst · SunTrust
Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining. This conference call contains forward-looking statements. For a detailed description of our disclaimer, see our earnings release issued this morning. Well, we had a pretty good quarter and it continues. Currently, we are producing about 35,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, mostly oil. Our discovery well in Trumbull County, Ohio, in the Utica, the Kibler 1H, came in at 2,233 barrels of oil equivalent per day, 75% oil and NGLs. This well is one of the top producers in the play, and we have room for about 500 wells in that area. In the Williston Basin, we set another company record completion with the well at Fort Berthold, 3,317 barrels of oil equivalent per day. At El Halcón, we're drilling ever-longer laterals and most of our new wells come in at between 1,000 barrels and 1,300 barrels of oil equivalent per day. We're becoming more efficient in all of our core areas via modifications in both drilling and completion practices, and we're becoming a more concentrated producer through divesting -- continued divesting of noncore assets. Activity company-wide has increased over the past couple of months. In the third quarter, as a result in the third quarter, we'll put about 30% more wells online than we did in the second quarter. Drilling-wise, the front half has been front-end loaded -- the first half has been front-end loaded for us. At the second time -- at the present time, we are running 11 rigs, down from 16 last quarter. Part of the drop in rig count can be chalked up to efficiencies with rigs, fewer rig days per well. And another part can be watched -- by us watching our capital budget and our spend. We will begin to add rigs towards the end of the year to prepare for 2014. As to our core plays, in the Williston Basin, we have completed the process of transitioning our rig fleet to a modern fleet of rigs suitable to support full-scale pad drilling. The primary driver for improvements in production we're achieving across our assets in Williston Basin have to do with modifications in well design in fracs. In Williams County, we have settled on using slick water fracs. We think this is a game changer. Results suggest that IRRs on those wells can more than double from what they used to be. We are seeing an average increase of over 80% on IP rates using slick water fracs in Williams County. We operate over 75,000 net acres in Williams County, which is very lightly drilled. We're very excited about the potential up there. At Ford Berthold, we continue to set record IPs almost weekly. We have increased profit in concentration stage density, changed the fluid design and we've gone to plug and perf on all of the wells. Based on our recent success in Williams County, we are trying our first slick water frac at Fort Berthold this month. We're conducting downspacing tests at Fort Berthold and expect results by year-end. We expect to gain a better understanding of efficient drainage in the Middle Bakken in the different Three Forks benches through our own efforts, as well as through our working interest in other downspacing tests in the region. We have redirected capital in East Texas, from the Woodbine to El Halcón, for the remainder of this year. Activity in the Woodbine may pick up early next year, when we receive the data from our large 3D seismic shoot. We hope that data will help us identify additional sweet spots and avoid hazards in this complicated area. At El Halcón, we continue to make progress towards our goal of over 100,000 net acres. We recently set a company record at El Halcón by hitting the target -- by hitting target depth in a well in less than 11 days. This sort of improvement has a major impact on economics. Up north, we're really excited about our Utica/Point Pleasant asset. Our delineation drilling is complete, and we made our decision as to where we'll focus our capital in the play for the next couple of years. The test results for the Kibler 1H in Trumbull County, Ohio, and the Allam 1H in Venango County, Pennsylvania, were excellent. The Kibler 1H test results compare favorably with the better wells in the entire play, north or south. The well tested better than all but 10 wells across the entire play. We have significant holdings in Trumbull and Mahoning counties with the potential to drill hundreds of wells in that area. The Allam 1H is one of the more important wells in the play, as far as I'm concerned, proving that the play can be commercial for us in [ph] the northeast. We recently reinitiated our leasing efforts in very specific areas, and we continue to be focused on building an inventory of permitted, multi-well pads in preparation for full-scale development. This year, we'll keep at least 1 rig active up there that'll be drilling in the Kibler area. Also up north, Halcón Field Services are moving forward with our infrastructure plans. HFS has entered into an exclusive arrangement with the Ohio Commerce Center, which is a mixed use industrial site located in Lordstown, Ohio, to develop an oil storage and rail loading facility. HFS and OCC have attained a permit to build the facility. OCC has over 12,000 feet of recently installed rail, and access to multiple class one rail carriers make it an ideal location for low-cost rail services to support the rapid production growth expected in Trumbull and Mahoning counties. We'll build the terminal in phases, the first of which will go into service by the end of the year. At scale, the facility could accommodate unit trains at the rate of 140,000 barrels of oil or condensate per day. The project is on track for environmental clearance and permits and internal approvals within several weeks. In addition, Halcón Field Services continues to engage in discussions for potential drilling ventures to develop high pressure, rich gas gathering systems and cryogenic processing in Ohio and Pennsylvania. These potential joint ventures would provide for third-party volume and shared capital cost of our buildout in the play. Mark will now go through the financial results for the quarter.