Matt Hairford
Analyst · RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open
Yes. Scott. Good morning. We’re really excited about the drilling and completion costs and most excited probably about the efficiency related to both. So just kind of a little background on this, we’ve now drilled over 75 of these 2 mile laterals. So, we’re getting better as we go. And kind of what I’d like to point to Scott, if we just look back at the first round of Boros wells that we drilled in the summer of last year, we spent about $800 per completed lateral foot on that. These Voni wells were 16. And so, that’s 20%, 25% better just on the cost. And I will say one most important thing to us is that we don’t sacrifice any quality in doing that. Our MAXCOM team continues to hit it out of the park. They’re up to – earlier this morning, I thought it was 116 drill and records. And Billy just tells me right before the call, it’s 117. And so we calculate that’s probably a $15 million cost savings related just to MAXCOM and they’re staying in zone well over 90%, 95% of the time. And I’ll just point to – well, it’s not the first Boros or the Voni wells, Scott it’s one of the later Boros wells that we just finished a They’re up to well this morning, I thought it was 116 drill and records. And Billy just tells me right before the call, it’s 117. And so we calculate that probably a $15 million cost savings related just to MAXCOM and they’re staying in zone well over 90%, 95% of the time. And I’ll just point to – well, it’s not the first Boros or the Voni wells, Scott it’s one of the later Boros wells that we just finished, it’s a Wolfcamp B well. The previous record on the Boros was about 31 days and the guys did it in about 16.5. So that’s 14.5 days that they saved. And as we said in the past, if you contemplate that being $100,000 per day, that’s about $1.4 million in savings. So they continue to knock it out of the park on the drilling side. And on the completion side, we’ve improved our efficiency there, let’s say 2018, we were completing about 900 feet per day. And this year, we’re averaging 1,550 feet per day. We just finished a couple of Stebbins wells or Ted wells up there. And we average 2,265 feet per day. So, that helps us from a couple of different ways. Number one, the service company realizes that they’re going to get to pump more frac stages per day. And so they adjust that into their costs and they were paying less for wellhead equipment, trailer supervision, all the daily rental items that we have out there. So Glenn and his team come in and they’ve modified their flow back procedure where we’re using less equipment saving, several hundred thousand dollars. So just all in all, it’s just a great team effort. And we anticipate that we’ll just keep drilling them faster and completing them better.