Jay Allison
Analyst · Capital One. Please go ahead.
Well, number one, let me tell how we look at PAT acquisitions. First of all, we look at rock quality, and I do think we understand rock quality and roads in Harrison County to DeSoto Parish, Caddo Parish, Sabine, we do rock quality. So, when we look at that, and I think that’s where our M&A group and David said and he’s fabulous when he was a leader at the Covey, I think that where David comes in as our head geologist. Again, we’ve got really good groups out here to understand the rock. We know most of the product rebacks companies. We know the management, we know the bankers and a lot of it is midstream cost, have you over drilled, what kind of the firm transportation commitments do you have. So we’ve looked at all of those and most of those companies growth is big. And you know, we want to grow. We want to have more acreage, but as Roland said, we’re not coveting to do something that doesn’t make us a much, much, much better company. Now, I think that some of those transactions are out there and we’re always willing to look at them and we look at them open eyes and if we can become better, they could become better. We delivered, and everybody is happy. Then, hopefully we’re smart enough to figure out how to do them. And then, at the same time, we’re smart enough to figure not to do deal, period. And I’d tell you, we always have a really good backstop. You asked a great question. If you pulled out a $1 billion from your pocket, not somebody else’s pocket or fund, you’re going to protect your investment, period. So we might have management, we might have a board, we may have all those things, but the thing that we have that most don’t, that none of them have, we’ve got a man who wrote a check from his pocket, period. And I’m telling you, that’s the phone call that we got two and a half years ago, that’s the difference in the trustworthiness of where you can go versus some others. That’s the big game-changer, and I think that’s the attractive part, so these opportunities that may come our way, I think they want to deal with Comstock.