Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Brent and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Riley Permian's Q2 2022 Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. It is now pleasure to turn today's call over to Mr. Philip Riley, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead.

Thank you and good morning to everyone. Welcome to our fiscal second quarter 2022 conference call covering the three month period ending March 31, 2022. Today’s conference call contains certain projections and other forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities Laws. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. We will also be referencing certain non-GAAP measures. The reconciliations with the appropriate GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release issued yesterday afternoon. Additional information on the risk factors that could cause results to differ is available in the company’s SEC filings. The full cautionary statement about forward-looking commentary can be found in our earnings release. In addition to our earnings release, we published an updated presentation available on our website. Participating on the call today are Bobby Riley, Chairman and CEO; Kevin Riley, President; myself, Philip Riley, CFO and EVP of Strategy. I will now turn the call over to Bobby.

Thank you, Philip. Good morning and thank you for joining us today on our fiscal second quarter call. And the world already impacted by supply chain issues, the actions taken by Russia in February have further exasperated the situation, not just in the Permian basin, but globally. Inflationary cost pressures have continued to build in the labor, materials and equipment markets, as we have seen oil prices increase 82% year-over-year. I'm happy to announce the company has been proactive in securing a drilling rig and casing for 100% of our fiscal 2022 development activity, and for up to 14 wells already planned for fiscal year 2023. We are halfway through our fiscal year and continue to have operating and financial results, exceeding both guidance and consensus expectations. To highlight a few items for fiscal second quarter. Average oil production of 7.5,000 barrels per day, which is at the high end of guidance. We generated $34 million of adjusted EBITDAX in fiscal second quarter. We paid dividends of $0.31 per share for a total of $6 million. Estimated approved reserves of PV-10 of 1.1 billion as of March 31st, 2022, based upon NYMEX strip pricing. As we turn to the second half of our fiscal year, we are excited to announce increasing guidance for fiscal third quarter and fiscal year 2022 production volumes, along with other corporate initiatives starting to materialize. We have also continued to add to our staff, including the addition of an experienced carbon capture and enhanced store recovery technical team, which is timely considering the progress of our EOR pilot project. Lastly, before turning it over to Kevin to discuss operating results, subsequent to quarter-end the company amended our credit facility to extend the maturity to April, 2026, while additionally increasing our borrowing base by 14% to $200 million and relaxing minimum hedging requirements when the company is less levered. We view this as continued confidence from our syndicate of lenders and our business plan and assets. I will now turn the call over to Kevin to discuss operational results.

Thank you, Bobby and good morning to everyone. As Bobby mentioned, we had a great quarter and first half of our fiscal year. Riley Permian averaged daily oil production of 7,497 barrels for the quarter, which is a 3% quarter-over-quarter growth or 24% year-over-year growth as compared to the fiscal second quarter of 2021. The company averaged total equivalent production of 9,791 barrels of oil equivalent per day for the same period, which is a 2% quarter-over-quarter decrease or 18% year-over-year increase as compared to the fiscal second quarter of 2021. As previously disclosed the gas and NGL sales during February through early May have been impacted from an expansion underway at our midstream partners facilities. The expansion remains on schedule. Once completed, the plant will provide additional takeaway capacity to our operations, which will further reduce flaring of natural gas and is expected to increase sales volumes. Though our production on equivalent basis decreased quarter-over-quarter, we did see oil production continuing to grow. The company continued its efforts on its fiscal year 2022 development activity, including the drilling and completing and three gross, three net horizontal wells, which have all subsequently started producing past the close of the quarter, we turned two gross and 1.7 net horizontal wells onto production. And we commenced preparatory activity for three gross, three net horizontal wells to be drilled and or completed during the fiscal third quarter. The activity above corresponds with $23.8 million in accrual basis, drilling, completion and facility capital expenditures, which also includes capitalized workovers, midstream infrastructure, and minor additions to land and working interest. The company advanced its EOR pilot project in Yoakum County, Texas, completing one of the six newly drilled injection wells and installation of the high pressure injection lines for both water and CO2. The activity corresponds with $1.5 million of accrual basis CapEx. Subsequent to the quarter-end, the company began water injection on the EOR pilot program in early April, 2022. On the capital cost side, we estimate drilling and completion costs for recently completed wells are averaging 16% higher than an equivalent well designed from a year ago, owing to some inflationary pressure, but partially offset for some efficiencies we were seeing. Lease operating costs were $6.8 million or $7.75 cents per Boe for the three months ended March 31st. This came in at the low-end of guidance, which was partially impacted by lower workover activity due to limited workover rig availability. We anticipate higher lease operating costs in the fiscal third quarter, as we catch-up on the delayed remedial work from the second quarter, along with the normal anticipated activity. I will now turn the call over to Phillip Riley for review our financial results.

Thank you, Kevin. Today I'll discuss four primary topics; summary financial metrics, pricing and differentials, hedging, and capital allocation. First, a few summary financial metrics. We performed well across the board with production at the high-end of guidance, costs at the low-end of guidance and CapEx within guidance. We're reporting a net loss for the quarter of $7 million, driven by a $49.6 million loss in derivatives, which includes $18 million of realized derivative settlements and $32 million of unrealized loss, owing to changes in future strip pricing as of 3/31. If we reran the numbers today, that loss would be lower. For the six month period, we're reporting net income of $14 million with operating income of $74 million. Our cash margin per Boe increased 28% quarter-over-quarter to $59 per Boe before derivatives. After derivatives, cash margin increased 34% quarter-over-quarter to $38. Relative to other industries, our business is fortunate to participate in dramatically increasing top line prices. Rising costs represent a headwind, but one that is not unique to us and which we are able -- also actively managing, and for which we believe we are well-positioned as an inflationary hedge. Adjusted EBITDAX is $34.4 million for the quarter or $61.5 million for our first six months of 2022. Simply annualizing that six-month figure would correspond to $123 million. And we see potential to exceed that as the roll off of our hedge position could more than offset the backwardation in pricing for the remaining five months to go in our fiscal year. Of course, results will depend on ultimate pricing and performance. Operating cash flow for the quarter was $30 million and free cash flow was $20 million. And if you consider the negative $18 million of hedging settlements or ignore them hypothetically for our future run…

Thank you, Philip. I will now give guidance for the company's activity for fiscal Q3, 2022. The company forecast drilling five gross, five net, completing four gross, four net and turning to production six gross, six net horizontal wells during the fiscal third quarter of 2022. Of the six gross, six net wells being turned to production. Two gross, two net are wells that were in preliminary stages of flowback at the end of the fiscal second quarter. We anticipate accrued non-EOR related capital expenditures before acquisitions to total approximately $25 million to $28 million. The company forecast fiscal third quarter 2022 oil production to average 7.6 to 8,100 barrels per day, with the midpoint average representing a 5% quarter-over-quarter growth. The company forecast 10 to 10.8 MMBoe per day for the fiscal third quarter as well. The midstream expansion project is expected to be fully commissioned in early June, but due to some curtailment during April and May, the sales of natural gas and NGLs during the fiscal third quarter will be impacted. Following the completion of the expansion, the company will enjoy a larger volume of contractual firm capacity, which should lead to increased sales for gas and natural gas liquids along with reduced flaring. As discussed earlier, we do anticipate higher lease operating costs of between $8 million to $10 million in the current quarter, partially due to the delay of certain workovers in the second fiscal quarter. As previously stated, we are giving this on an absolute basis versus on a per Boe basis, due to the uncertainty on curtailment volumes due to the expansion of our midstream partners, gas gathering processing facilities. For cash G&A, we anticipate $3.7 to million $4.7 million. The company will continue to advance its EOR pilot project in the third…

Thank you, Kevin. And again, thank you to everyone for joining us today for our second fiscal quarter call. We are very pleased with our year-to-date results and remain excited about the continued forecasted growth. As we look forward, our team is taking several steps to navigate through inflationary pressure for services and products. We remain focused on a disciplined model of low leverage production growth and return of capital through dividends to our shareholders. Thank you again for your support. Operator, you may now open it up for questions.

Thank you. Your first question is from the line of Neal Dingmann with Truist Securities. Your line is open.

Morning, all. Thanks for the details. To go through, Kevin, could your confirm just for I guess one of the guys really just walk through the growth, is that just expectation now, like to hear -- great to hear about planning for a bit more growth. Is that just assuming the rig will stay for better part of the year, or what's sort of the new expectations for that? Is that just a constant program now?

We have not gone into a continuous development program yet, but the rig that we have currently will stay through mid-May and then we will drill one additional well in early July and look to pick back up a program either September or October.

Okay. And then, I guess, that kind of leads me the next question. Kevin, can you talk a bit about just the confidence, one, you'll be able to pick that rig up. And then, based my question is just logistics in general. There's obviously a lot of tightness out there. And I guess my question is for kind of in your area versus in the heart of the Permian where some of the bigger equipment is, do you have the same kind of constraints at the others? And so, I guess the confidence to get the rig -- to get those workovers that you mentioned were bit delayed. And then, separately, can you talk about the takeaway constraint? I think the last call I think -- we were thinking it would be April or so, now it sounds like it's delayed a little bit more. So, you could just maybe talk about logistics between the services and then the pipe.

Yeah. No problem. Still on rigs and pipe, as we mentioned in the call, we have it secured for a 100% of the activity planned for within fiscal year 2022. We've already secured both rig and pipe for every -- or for up to 14 wells for fiscal year 2023, which will be a large portion of what we do at least in the first half of the year. Other services, we are still competing for completions frac, sand, et cetera. But we do have good relations with multiple parties that we continue to be able to get on their schedules. And we're looking forward into fiscal 2023 to get that secured as well. I guess, your second question was -- repeat that again.

Just on the pipeline. I think you said that because --?

Pipeline? It's truly on target. I think the date was anticipated to be mid-May where it came back online. But it was going to be some curtailment between early February and I believe it was mid-April and that did take place. So, we reduced our amount of gas that we were selling from January before through that period. They had a shutdown for seven or eight days at the end of April, a complete shutdown as they plumbed in the expansion equipment. So that has come back online and we're currently producing and have been producing since the 1st of May back to the capacity of which we're producing in February and March. And we do anticipate as they continue to commission the compressors on the new expansion that production volumes or inlet volumes will continue to increase through the end of May and into early June, will be at our full capacity at that point.

Great to hear. And then last two quick, if I could just. EOR, you guys, it sounds like that's progressing with the injection wells and all. Could you just talk about -- maybe piece of time when you would start having water potentially into all those injection wells, is that still in the next few weeks, or I'd say few weeks next coming weeks or so?

I would say we'll continue to be bringing additional injection wells on for the remaining of this -- remainder of this quarter, whether or not we have them all on by June 30th or July 31st, I'm not sure. I think we'll have them by the ladder at minimum. But we have started the completion process in the last couple weeks and we've been running case to logs to identify our perforations et cetera, and the rigs are beginning to free up to move out there. We do use a lot of the same rigs for our workovers and for our drill out on our completions. So, just trying to manage personnel and equipment as we see fruited.

No, great to hear. And then lastly, just maybe Bobby for you or Phil, just on the CCUS. Great to hear you've hired somebody. What just talks continue or just what more can you say on that, given obviously the exciting potential there?

Now, this Bobby. We did hire that team that came from the CO2 industry. We're just kind of ramping up at where our opportunities are specifically looking at one or two. But they're also in there to also optimize CO2 injection in the wells and how we get the most efficient sweep out of the thing. But I would say, overall, we're doing what we can at the moment. We're still waiting on Kinder Morgan to get the tap finished. We will inject some gas primarily. But hopefully within the next say six to 12 months, we might have something firm in place. That looks like a potential source.

Very good. Great to hear. Thank you guys.

Your next question is from the line of John White with ROTH. Your line is open.

Good morning gentlemen, and congratulations on nice results. I'm sure everyone appreciates the increased production guide. On the -- see again on the CO2 and CCUS, CCUS team, how large is the team? And would you characterize their skillset as being more concentrated on CO2 or CCS?

Well, I would say based upon kind of the history of CCUS actually capturing flue gas and stuff in our areas, it's relatively new. But these guys did come from a major CO2 pipeline company that know where we're going to be able to access the line, how we're going to be able to access the line. And again, the initial team is three individuals that we brought on, be focusing out of North Houston. So, I mean, that, John, it shows our dedication and commitment for sure.

Okay. Well, great. Obvious, be in Houston, , see him maybe.

Your next question is from the line of Noel Parks with Tuohy Brothers. Your line is open.

Hi. Good morning.

Good morning.

Just a few things I wanted to check in on. I was looking at the -- or noticed on the EOR CapEx. I just wondered, was most of that set in motion, before this most recent wave of inflation kicked in, or any of the components of that going to be seeing some inflation?

I'd say a large portion of it from -- when we started the project in September, October has been secured from the drilling of the six wells. So, all your steel casing in addition to the injection lines have all been acquired. So, those prices though are higher in that period and call it 12 months earlier. They're not seeing the same inflationary pressure that we're seeing today in the market. So, I think like everything, the services are still going to be have some exposure. But the things that we contracted and did in the first half of the year, have less exposure. So, we still feel comfortable within that capital guidance that we've given for this project.

Great. Thanks. And just for some perspective, on the Northwest Shelf, how many industry rigs are active right now would you say?

Last time I looked, I think I saw four rigs currently running within Yoakum County area.

Okay. Okay. Great. And I was curious about the business development team and what they're seeing, curious about what the thought processes of people talking about selling, and whether that's largely price driven. They have a higher for longer hopes or expectations and they -- they're saying this is the time, or is there anyone who comes to the table because of lack capital or issues like that?

Yeah. Noel, this is Philip. I can try to take that.

Thanks.

I'd say on the marketing processes, we have certainly seen a lot of those. These first five months of the year, whether that's due to $100 oil or not, the statistics are there. There's a lot of deals being marketed on the broadly auctioned processes. We tend to look at more conventional assets than the shale, but I think there's clearly a lot of people out there that have been holding onto things for a long time that maybe were uneconomic at lower prices and now look better, and you can't blame them for that as for their other rationale as to why to sell. I don't know whether they think prices are here for longer or not, but some of those around sponsors, some of them maybe were the unnational owners, post re or creditors, and such that finally need to try to monetize that. We've seen a mix of buyers, some -- the larger privates that have some access to capital, guys that are willing to lean in on assumed operating cost improvements, LoE cost improvements and such. So, you see a mix out there. We certainly see some deals that are harder to get done, the type to have maybe a larger P&A obligation. There's always a bit of concern about how to manage that, especially with the current administration. So, as far as our perspective on it, we are opportunistically looking. We recognize the benefits of scale and what that could do for our business and our shareholders At the same time, we're mindful of where prices are now relative to the last 10 years. We're mindful of backwardation, and we're just looking for the right balance. We're interested in deals where we could use equity. Those represent obviously an attraction, more so than just using debt, but we're also mindful of dilution. So, it's -- a lot of words there, but I'd just say we're trying to be mindful in finding just the right goldilocks type of deal for us.

Fair enough. Great. And I'm just thinking about the region in general, is there -- much out there in the way of people facing acreage explorations. I'm trying to think back as to when the most recent ways of leasing occurred and thinking about okay, three years or five years later. So, is that the case where pretty much everything held by production that's of interest to you?

On the A&D front, again, we focus less in the super crowded sandbox of the Midland and Delaware basins. To make a quick comment there, we're less familiar. But what we have seen from afar is that, the big companies try to manage that with their drilling programs to hold it with the rig versus releasing when they can't, there's generally an efficient market that will solve for that constraint. I think there's a lot of private equity type players that do -- that don't mind the smaller scale, one off blocks and such kind of the mow down strategy where you can buy a single unit and just kind of complete six to eight wells within it and underwrite it for cash flow. So, I think that market exists. In our area, we don't see that type of pressure with the acreage expiring, we would certainly chase them if we could. Most of the people in our area have theirs under control. We certainly make an active effort to manage ours and hold it with the drillbit, to be mindful and efficient with our dollars versus releasing. There's always a very small working interest, in fact, here and there that we have to allocate capital too. But as you can see from our financials, it's usually pretty small.

Great. And just the last one for me. I was trying to recall as far as -- when you start flowing CO2, is your purchase price for the CO2 tied to oil price? I'm just trying to recall if that was the nature of a contract.

Yes, it is. It is an index tied to oil price.

Okay. And how often -- how frequently does that be adjusted, like a monthly thing, a quarterly thing?

No. It's a percentage based. It's got a flat floor, but at today's prices, the percentage is going to be more applicable.

Okay. Great. Okay. Thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Your next question is from the line of Jeff Robertson with Water Tower Research. Your line is open.

Thank you. Good morning. The question on your EOR project, I believe you said you had six injection wells, is that one pattern or more than one pattern? And can you talk a little bit about the timeline to when you expect the field to actually start responding to injection?

I guess, I'll take that. This is Bobby. So, basically since we're -- we have six injection wells placed between three horizontals, it's not what you would consider your typical spud pattern and vertical completions. So, this is really -- in reality, it's more like a half a pattern. But due to the nature of the way the wells are completed and the vertical injection wells, we feel like we're going to get a pretty efficient suite that way. Typically within, I would say three to six months of start of injection, you start seeing some response and some CO2 bleeding through that you recycle, reinject, but obviously, it's probably for full effect. It's probably closer to a year before completely efficient.

Will you -- I guess you will monitor the performance of this pilot before determining where to go -- where else to go in the field?

That's correct. And that's why we call it a pilot. The part of the infrastructure we're putting in place allows us to easily expand the patterns with additional vertical wells. And we're actually analyzing the potential of even a horizontal injection well in the future. So.

Lastly, can you talk about how you'll be able to book reserves based on the performance of the pilot?

Yeah. I mean, obviously, there's an established method on CO2 response and expected type curves or expected response. And we'll be looking at our response compared to those projections. And then, obviously, the engineering companies that we use like , can apply what that curve is going to look like with the effect of CO2, primarily flattening of the curve with a potential early bump in production.

So that would start to impact fiscal 2023 reserve reporting. Is that right?

I would think that fiscal 2023 is basically -- what is that October 1st? So, yeah, it would probably be in the first quarter before we start seeing some booking of reserves.

Okay. Last question. Can you capitalize the cost associated with injection until you start to see response in the field?

Yes, that's what we're doing.

Okay. Okay. Thank you very much.

There are no further questions at this time. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation. This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.