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Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now hand the call over to Mr. Connor Fair, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Good morning, and welcome to Presidio Production Company's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. I am Connor Fair, Director of Investor Relations, and joining me today are our Chairman and Co-CEO, Will Ulrich, Co-CEO and Director, Chris Hammack, EVP and CFO, John Brawley, EVP and General Counsel, Brett Barnes, and Chief Technology Officer, Jason Hudak. As a reminder, today's call includes forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the company's control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied on this call. For a discussion of these risks, please refer to the cautionary language in yesterday's earnings release and the risk factors in our filings with the SEC, which are available on the investor relations section of our website.

We will also refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. The most directly comparable GAAP measures, together with definitions and reconciliations, are included in yesterday's earnings release, which is available on the investor relations section of our website. With that, I will turn the call over to Will.

Thank you, Connor, and good morning, everyone. We all have mountains to climb, the ones set before us and the ones we choose to set for ourselves. Chris and I started this business with nothing more than a friendship and an idea that we could create massive value from investing in oil and gas without ever drilling a well, a direct challenge to 150-year-old industry philosophy. I thought often these past two weeks about the passing of Nims Purja, who died in an avalanche in Pakistan on July 30th. If you do not know his story, I would encourage you to watch the Netflix documentary, 14 Peaks. Nims set out to do the impossible, to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks in six months, and he did it. He called it Project Possible. At Presidio, we also believe in the possible.

We seek out challenges, and when we cannot find them, we will create them. We choose our routes, we take risks when the moment calls for it, but our objective is to deliberately deliver on our business model over long periods of time. This quarter was no exception. A few months ago, on our first call as a public company, we told you what we intended to do. We said we would acquire producing assets and optimize them. Through closing and integrating Canyon Creek, we have. We said we would continue creating efficiencies in our balance sheet. Through refinancing our bonds and funding our first acquisition under our $1 billion ABS acquisition warehouse with Goldman Sachs, now joined by Citizens Bank, we have. We said we would accelerate our position as the world's first agentic oil and gas company.

Through this quarter's hires, led by our new Chief Technology Officer, Jason Hudak, and a team of seasoned Silicon Valley executives, we have. We set a target to raise the company's production 3%-5% through AI without drilling and without capital expenditure, and we are well on our way, achieving a 2.3% uplift through the second quarter. We have told you about our backlog of acquisitions, which remains as attractive as ever. Like a climber who waits for the right conditions to summit, we will make our next acquisition in short order. All of this is happening against the backdrop of major changes in the global energy landscape that I discussed on last quarter's call, and we believe FTW is one of the most compelling investment cases in American energy today. We are an operator and acquirer of producing, cash flowing American oil and gas assets.

The case for Presidio rests on four pillars: our dividend, acquisitions, optimization, and artificial intelligence. First, the dividend. The starting point for any investor in Presidio is cash return. Our annualized dividend is $1.35 per share, a yield of approximately 12% at our recent share price. Canyon Creek closed on July 1st, so the results we are reporting today contain none of its cash flow. We intend to raise the dividend once the Canyon Creek assets are contributing to our results. We generated $15.7 million of free cash flow in the quarter, or roughly $0.50 per share, against a $0.3375 quarterly dividend. Second, growth through acquisition, backed by unique capital markets access. We have closed two acquisitions as a public company in under five months, EQVR at our formation in Canyon Creek immediately following this quarter. Our acquisition pipeline stands at approximately $17 billion.

What makes that pipeline actionable rather than aspirational is our capital structure. Our $1 billion ABS acquisition warehouse, our master trust drop down structure, and refinancing flexibility that is unprecedented in the energy ABS market mean we can move on the right asset quickly and finance it efficiently in a way that most operators our size simply cannot. During the quarter, 25 opportunities came across our desk. We took 16 through review and bid on nine. We see nearly every deal in the market, and we bid on a little over a third of it with discipline. Third, optimization, where the story has continued to evolve. Our operating discipline has always been core to our thesis. Historically, that discipline showed up primarily as expense discipline, and it still does. Lease operating expense came in at $9.39 per BOE this quarter.

Increasingly, the same discipline paired with our data and AI capability is showing up on the production side. Chris will walk you through the specifics, but the headline is this: We are no longer only the best operators at controlling costs. We are becoming the best operators at growing production from assets with almost zero capital expenditures. Fourth, our artificial intelligence platform that increasingly ties the other three together. During the quarter, we appointed Jason Hudak as Chief Technology Officer. Jason is not an oil and gas person. He is a Silicon Valley technology and AI executive with nearly three decades of experience, most recently as Vice President of Engineering at Aerospike, with prior senior roles at Twilio, RapidAPI, Foursquare, and Yahoo.

Jason has built out a team of senior technology leaders across AI product, machine learning, data engineering, data science, and cloud infrastructure, drawing from companies including Twilio, Cisco, Aerospike, VMware, and Akamai. We are pairing world-class technology talent with the operating knowledge and field data already inside Presidio. Oil and gas expertise tells us which problems matter. Technology expertise lets us solve them faster, more consistently, and at greater scale. This is not a corporate IT initiative, and this is not primarily about automating back-office work. As I said previously, in this business, production, revenue, and cash flow are the prize, and that is where the mandate points. I want to be specific about what this has already produced because it is easy for the word AI to sound like a slogan rather than a result. Production for the quarter averaged 22,755 bbl of oil equivalent per day.

Against our 3%-5% full-year AI uplift target, we have now delivered approximately 2.3%, 1.4% from DUG, our production surveillance agent, and another nearly 1% from adjacent AI initiatives Chris will describe. That is measured well level uplift, generating $4.5 million of annualized revenue in Q2, and we are just getting started. One could see substantial additional value just attributed to where our growing AI platform sits today. We now have roughly 2,000 wells on the intelligence platform. We are on track against our 3%-5% full-year target, and Chris is going to take you into the field and show you exactly how it happens. Turning to the quarter, the second quarter was an important period of execution.

We reported net income attributable to Presidio of $14.4 million, or $0.34 per Class A share, and generated adjusted EBITDA of $33.2 million against the $30 million we guided you to. A beat of $3.2 million or roughly 11%. Production averaged 22,755 BOE per day with minimal CapEx of $600,000. We also completed a lower-cost investment-grade ABS financing. Immediately following quarter end, we closed the Canyon Creek acquisition and entered the Arkoma Basin, a transaction that, together with our lower cost of capital, supports future dividend increases subject to board approval. Canyon Creek is our second acquisition as a public company and marks our entry into the Arkoma. That entry matters because Canyon Creek is more than a single transaction. It establishes a new land and expand platform. The first deal gives us an operating foothold, local knowledge, field infrastructure, and a team in the basin.

From that foundation, we apply our operating playbook, build basin level intelligence, and evaluate adjacent opportunities. That is how we built Presidio from the beginning with our land and expand strategy. We enter a basin through an asset we understand, improve it through operations, and then expand around that position with discipline. We will remain selective. The objective is not to win every process or grow for growth's sake. It's to acquire the right producing assets at the right price with a clear path to operational improvement, compelling returns, and increases to the dividend. We acquire producing American oil and gas assets with existing cash flow. We make those assets more productive through operations, technology, and better decisions. We finance them efficiently, and we return a meaningful portion of the resulting cash flow to shareholders. We acquire, we optimize, we grow the dividend, we repeat.

With that, I'll turn the call over to Chris.

Thank you, Will. At Presidio, value creation begins the moment we close an acquisition. We take responsibility for the people, the wells, the vendors, and the systems, and we begin improving how the asset is operated from day one. We are not relying on drilling or large capital projects. Our total CapEx for the quarter was $600,000 against the $33.2 million of adjusted EBITDA. Value comes instead from the thousands of daily decisions that determine production, operating costs, and cash flow across a mature asset base. I want to spend my time this morning on those decisions because they are unique in today's market. Before I get into any of that, through the first half of 2026, we have zero recordable injuries, zero days away cases, and zero vehicular incidents. Our safety committee is an employee-led.

We hold monthly safety meetings with season-appropriate focus, and every post-incident review is shared with the entire field staff. Lessons travel from the field up, not just from the office down. In an operation running roughly 2,000 wells across three states, that record is a result of the deliberate work by our field organization, and I want to recognize them for it. Will mentioned that we have delivered roughly 2.3% of production uplift from our AI against our 3%-5% full-year target. Let me tell you exactly where that came from. First, DUG is our production surveillance agent. It continuously monitors well level data across the operated base, flags deviations against expected behavior, and routes recommendations to the field engineer responsible for that well.

Over the last three months, DUG has averaged 400 BOE per day of incremental production, 1.4 percentage points of our production result on its own. It is the single largest contributor to our production beat this quarter, and it did not exist a year ago. Second, AI-enhanced weekend coverage. Weekends have always been a weak spot on our mature asset base for the simple reason that we run reduced manpower. We used AI to identify which wells carry the most downtime attributable to the lack of weekend coverage, cross-referenced against our highest production wells, and gave our weekend pumpers an interactive table and map, a game plan for where to go and in what order. In the second quarter, weekend production increased 2.5%. That is a scheduling problem we have lived with for years, solved with better information rather than more headcount. Third, the AI plunger boxes.

We have installed 24 of these on wells. Rather than requiring full-scale SCADA infrastructure, the unit analyze and continuously adjusts plunger cycle timing, monitors micro events, establish estimates fluid volumes per cycle, and tracks plunger performance even when traditional sensors miss the signature. On the wells where it is installed, gas has gone from a pre-install average of 2.7 million per day to 3 million a day post-install, roughly a 10% lift on production and about 0.2% on total company production. We have 24 wells on it today. Once we optimize wells with this plunger box, we will move it to the next group of wells for further optimization. None of these replace field judgment. All three of them point field judgment at the right well, in the right order, on the right day.

That distinction matters, and it is why our field organization has adopted this rather than resisted it. Now let me talk about workovers. Our wedge workover program is the clearest example what disciplined, data-directed intervention produces on a mature asset base. We have completed 25 of 69 identified jobs, with 44 remaining in the current queue and the program projected to finish in the fourth quarter. In the second quarter, we completed 17 workovers. The payout period compressed from one year at original forecast to 0.75 years on actuals. PV10 improved from $2.7 million to $3.4 million, and returns exceeded 100% for these workovers. These are going better than we expected, and we have more to do.

The reason this matters beyond the barrels, each tranche of workover teaches us something about which candidates screen well and which do not, and the feedback goes straight into how the next tranche gets built. Now turning to integration, and I will take EQVR first. The EQVR asset is 216 active wells producing approximately 2,800 net BOE per day, and the integration is substantially complete on the items that drive cost. The headline is a 30% reduction in lease operating expenses on the asset from roughly $700,000 per month in the second quarter of 2025 to $500,000 per month to date. Here is how we got there. On labor, we have redesigned the asset into four routes, filled a new production tech position through internal promotion, and retained the fifth EQ of our EQ pumper for our Presidio route while eliminating a contract pumper entirely.

On compression, we released two units, downsized two more, and renegotiated eight, with the majority of the remaining fleet now under contract through the second and third quarters of 2027. On chemicals, we moved the vendor onto Presidio pricing, and we have completed production software integration in mid-May and have finished SCADA integration. We also continue to improve the quality and consistency and data coming off the EQVR assets because better data improves both day-to-day operating decisions and the performance of the intelligence platform over time. Now to Canyon Creek. At Canyon Creek, 42 operated wells are producing approximately 3,500 net BOE per day. We took over field operations day one and immediately began running the same playbook.

Already complete, we eliminated one contract route and created a company route, eliminated an additional foreman role, swapped the chemical vendor, and eliminated an excessive foamer expense by executing workovers the prior operator had deferred and transitioned production software on day one. We also completed all five of the neglected workovers we had identified in diligence. All five were successful. Still in progress. On compression, two releases and two downsizes are complete with one additional downsize schedule for August. On SCADA, we have completed the transition to Presidio and are now working the direct SCADA to production software integration. We also have a yard consolidation, scrapping unusable inventory, and moving some to smaller yards that are scheduled for the end of September. We are projecting a 32% reduction in lease operating expense at Canyon Creek from roughly $250,000 a month to $170,000, measured against the third quarter of 2025.

Speed matters here. The first days and weeks after closing are when operating culture is established, responsibilities are clarified, and the foundation for future performance is set. We want the people closest to the wells to understand how decisions are made, what they are accountable for, and how they are empowered to improve the asset. We want data from those wells flowing quickly into the systems our operating and engineering teams use every day. Once those systems, relationships, and disciplines are in place, we are in a far stronger position to evaluate and integrate additional assets in the basin. That's why land and expand matters. Canyon Creek is not simply another acquisition. It's an operating platform, local knowledge, field infrastructure, and data foundation from which we expand in the Arkoma. One last item, and it gets overlooked.

Over the trailing 12 months through July, we have realized approximately $13 million of cash consideration from leasehold monetization across 61 separate transactions. We are a producing asset company. We do not hold undeveloped acreage that someone else values more than we do, and turning that acreage into cash is a real, repeatable part of how this model funds itself. I'll now turn the call over to John.

Thanks, Chris. This was Presidio's first full quarter as a public company following our IPO in March. I will note the quarter does not include Canyon Creek, which closed on July 1st, immediately following quarter end. We had a strong quarter across all four key areas: production, revenue, operating expenses, and EBITDA. I will take each in turn, because in every case, the outperformance traces to something specific. When I go through the numbers below, for revenue, I am talking about the whole quarter and the first quarter, both the predecessor and the successor period combined, whereas for any per-unit metrics, I am using just the successor period from March 4th to March 31, as that period contains the EQVR asset and is post-IPO and therefore apples to apples on a per-unit basis with the second quarter.

Starting with production averaged approximately 22,800 BOE per day, slightly above the successor period, March 4th to March 31st, with a mix of approximately 16% oil, 57% natural gas, and 27% NGLs. The increasing versus normally declining production is attributable to our AI systems and our wedge workover program. Turning to revenue. Revenue, including hedge settlements, was $60.9 million, including $6.9 million of realized hedge settlements, up from $34.4 million in the first quarter. The largest drivers of increased revenues for the quarter come from our restructured hedges and an increase in oil and NGL pricing during the quarter, partially offset by a reduction in natural gas prices. On the cost side, lease operating expense was $9.39 per BOE, improved from $9.47 in the first quarter successor period. Total operating expense, including production and ad valorem taxes, was $11.22 per BOE, down from $11.68.

This was the impact of enhanced production from optimization, AI, and the realization of cost efficiencies. Consolidated net income was $15.5 million, of which $14.4 million was attributable to Presidio C Corp or $0.34 per Class A share. Adjusted EBITDA was $33.2 million against the $30 million we discussed on our prior call. While this was a great quarter, given current commodity prices, which trail off in the third and fourth quarters, I would expect EBITDA to be very slightly under $30 million per quarter in the next two quarters, but summing to $90 million for the last nine months of 2026. Reconciliations of any non-GAAP measures to net income are included in the earnings release. The quarter benefited from the first full period of the restructured hedge portfolio together with continued operating efficiencies across the asset base. Capital expenditures remained minimal, consistent with our low reinvestment model.

Next, I will spend some time on the ABS refinancing because it meaningfully improved our cost of capital and the structure supporting our acquisition and dividend model. On June 9, we closed a $350 million investment-grade refinancing of our prior asset-backed securitization at a weighted average coupon of 6.38%. The refinancing included two investment-grade tranches of $175 million each. We reduced the weighted average coupon by 184 basis points from 8.22% to 6.38%. The transaction was used to repay our prior ABS, pay off balances outstanding under our RBL, and a $35 million hedge restring. The refinancing also introduced an anticipated repayment date or ARD structure. Although the notes mature in 2041, the ARD structure reduces scheduled amortization during the first five years. Said simply, less cash is contractually directed to principal in the near term, leaving more cash available to support dividends and acquisitions.

That is an important improvement from the prior ABS. We now have a lower fixed cost of capital, long-duration financing, and a more efficient near-term amortization profile. In structuring this ABS, we were intentional in creating a structure which works with our strategy and as a public company. We are keeping our capital structure as simple as possible while still taking advantage of the ABS advance rates cost of capital. The most important structural feature of our ABS is its ability to be flexible to fund our growth. We approach this flexibility through two avenues. First, the ABS includes a master trust structure, which allows for the drop-down of additional assets into new series of bonds. This is relatively common in ABS. The second structural design element is new, a first in the energy ABS market.

Because we are a growing public company and transparent is important in our capital structure, we fundamentally changed the call protection versus all energy ABS transactions preceding us. To date, energy ABS prepayment penalties typically require payments of all expected future interest, discounted at Treasuries plus 50 basis points. Our notes, however, are redeemable at 102-101 in years one and two and at par thereafter. This allows us unprecedented flexibility to refinance multiple series of notes into one following acquisitions or drop-downs from our warehouse. It allows us to finance future acquisitions without creating unnecessary complexity in the capital structure. We now have two options for adding assets to our ABS. Utilization of the master trust structure or refinancing without a painful make-whole cost. Taken together, the lower coupon, reduced scheduled amortization, and greater refinancing flexibility create a materially better financing platform for Presidio.

Speaking of the warehouse facility, the Canyon Creek acquisition marked the first use of our $1 billion ABS warehouse facility. We funded the transaction with an initial $55 million draw under the facility, and in connection with the closing of Canyon Creek, we issued 1,962,240 shares of Class A common stock to the sellers. The warehouse performed exactly as designed. It allowed us to fund a PDP acquisition efficiently at closing, with the ability to move that asset into a permanent ABS financing over time. I also note that our friends at Citizens Bank, who also lead our credit facility, joined the warehouse for 40% participation, broadening our lender base and adding capacity to support future acquisitions. This demonstrates that we continue to attract world-class capital partners at an attractive cost of capital.

Continuing with the balance sheet, as of June 30, total debt principal outstanding was $350 million, and net debt was $296.5 million. Giving pro forma effect to the $55 million draw under the ABS warehouse facility used to fund Canyon Creek, net debt was $351.5 million. Based on that pro forma net debt of $351.5 million, an annualized second quarter adjusted EBITDA of approximately $132.7 million, leverage was approximately 2.7x. As for liquidity, as of June 30, we had $42.3 million of unrestricted cash and no borrowings outstanding under the RBL. Subsequent to quarter end, the borrowing base on our RBL was redetermined in the ordinary course from $65 million to $60 million. The reduction reflects the realization of production and hedges since the prior borrowing base redetermination and was expected.

Therefore, liquidity pro forma for the borrowing base adjustment is currently approximately $102.3 million, consisting of $42.3 million of unrestricted cash and $60 million of available capacity under the RBL. As for hedges, we continue to maintain a multi-year commodity hedging program across oil, natural gas, and NGL production. We view hedging as an important part of our capital structure. It provides cash flow visibility, supports dividend durability, and helps us underwrite acquisitions with greater confidence. The detailed hedge table is included in the earnings release. I will close with the acquisition market. Instability in the Middle East has led to moderately higher commodity prices. That environment has led to a plethora of companies deciding to put their assets on the market when previously they were on the fence. Deal activity has been incredibly strong. We have been actively bidding on opportunities daily and weekly.

We are bidding on assets from $50 million to $2 billion. Our bids have been competitive. However, we will not overpay, and we remain disciplined on price, structure, and returns. The environment is strong, and we are getting terms that back. The combination of our PDP strategy, public platform, ABS access, and operating track record position us well to execute our growth strategy. With that, I will turn the call back to Will for closing remarks. Thank you.

Thanks, John. Last quarter, we said Presidio was built for a changing game in energy. This quarter, we showed what that means in practice. We delivered $14.4 million of net income and $33.2 million of adjusted EBITDA against $30 million guided, a beat of 11%. We were able to increase production during the period and have now delivered 2.3% of AI-driven production uplift against our 3%-5% target with zero incremental capital. We cut 184 basis points off our cost of ABS capital and funded $35 million of additional hedge protection through 2027. We closed Canyon Creek and established a new operating platform in the Arkoma. Our dividend is on exactly the schedule we described to you last quarter, $1.35 per share now, with an expected raise in the future for the Canyon Creek acquisition, subject to board approval now that Canyon Creek is on our platform.

We have an acquisition pipeline of approximately $17 billion. We will remain disciplined. We are not trying to own every asset. We are trying to own the assets where our operating model, capital structure, and technology create the greatest value. This country will need more reliable energy, more productive infrastructure, and better decisions from the physical assets already in the ground. Presidio sits directly at that intersection. We own producing American oil and gas assets. We operate them with a low reinvestment model, $600,000 of CapEx against $33 million of EBITDA. We finance them through a purpose-built capital structure, and we are building technology designed to make every well, every employee, and every acquisition more productive. That combination is rare. We believe it is strategically important, and we believe it can become extraordinarily valuable.

Our work now is to execute, continue to integrate EQVR and Canyon Creek, continue improving the existing asset base, acquire the right assets at the right price, grow the dividend, and build a company worthy of the opportunity in front of us. We are still at the beginning. Thank you for joining us this morning. Operator, please open the line for any questions.

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question at this time, you may press star one from your telephone keypad and a confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Thank you. The first question is from the line of Neal Dingmann with William Blair. Please proceed with your questions.

Morning, guys. Great update. My first question is likely for Chris, for you and John on acquisitions. You have talked about this a little bit, but love to hear specifically, could you all talk about how you view the initial ops and financial initiatives and what I would call the low-hanging fruit, that you all realize, "Let us look at a transaction like Canyon Creek." When you hit the ground running there, what you and John are looking at both on the operational and financial side to take advantage.

Yeah, Neal, this is Chris. I will take the operational side, and John can chime in on the finance side of this. I think we look for assets that obviously fix the mix of what we look for from a basin perspective, take away all the things that we have talked about before. I think, the idea of coming in and not only having a good value at acquisition, but levers that we have used in the past around just focusing more on producing wells and not the drilling side of the business. As we have seen over and over again, as companies focus more on the development side, they are just not as keenly focused on the operations things as we are and kind of laser focused.

Whether it is around the manpower or the optimization, utilization of compression, around chemical management programs that we manage in-house, which are kind of three of the big levers we use. We look to see which one of those fit those playbooks well. We have spent a lot of time around the Arkoma Basin and thought that it was very similar in those facets to the Western Anadarko Basin, where the majority of the assets have sat until today. We have spent a lot of time around there trying to figure out our ways in and where the land and expand starts. The Canyon Creek assets were a perfect fit for that from a company that has spent the majority of their time developing these assets, drilling new wells, proving out what their business plan was there, and not necessarily focused on the day-to-day stuff that we do.

Kind of textbook play, and we think there is a significant amount of other things to do in and around those assets and in the kind of the broader Anadarko-Arkoma Basin.

From the financing side, we have two ways to finance the debt portion of an acquisition. The first would be using our ABS warehouse that we have with Goldman Sachs, and now Citizens Bank has joined. We can also fund acquisitions if they are smaller under our RBL. We are very careful when we evaluate them to make sure that anything we do would be accretive to free cash flow per share, dividend per share, things like that. We also look at the full cycle all-in return and make sure that we are generating equity levered returns close to 20%. From the operational finance perspective, we look to implement an FP&A system that I think is indicative of much larger E&Ps. We implement our data systems and start bringing that operational financial discipline into everyday operations.

Great. Will, my second question is for you or Jason on the AI platform. Specifically, could you all give color on, you touched on this a little bit, but I would love to hear more color on the cost savings initiatives such as DUG and how quickly you are realizing these savings.

Yeah. DUG is a well intelligence agent. We're focused on production growth through DUG. We'll have an additional tool that we'll be rolling out here in the fall that's actually more focused on the cost-saving side of the business. But what the model is doing at this point is essentially, it's getting a live look at production every day. It is in the hands of 100% of our guys who are in the field, and it's identifying anomalies from both budget and also from what we call the theoretical max production of the well, assuming that the well was flowing without any constraints and pipeline pressures or anything to hold it back, what could it be doing?

We look at the biggest kind of discrepancies between that theoretical max production and where it's producing or from the budget, and those are flagged for each one of the pumpers and each one of our guys out in the field. So that when they open up the platform, they're able to see what's going on with their route, see where the biggest kind of underperformers are for that day. And then also through the systems that we've built, it will provide kind of a high, medium, low recommendation in terms of what it thinks the issue is and what the solution should be. And then the pumper also has the opportunity to insert his own solution if it was something else, and the model learns from that as a result.

The cool thing about that is, because it's learning, it's distributing the knowledge base of all of our pumpers that are pumping these thousands of wells across a pretty large geographic footprint. It essentially allows every one of the pumpers to have access to the knowledge of every other pumper in terms of troubleshooting the production from wells. We're able to attribute the production growth from those kind of prioritized interactions, and then also the knowledge transfer from maybe a more experienced pumper to a less experienced pumper, for example.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you, Neal.

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Sharif Elmaghrabi with BTIG. Please proceed with your question.

Hi. Thanks, and good morning. Just one question for me, but kind of a two-parter today.

Call it global supply demand imbalance at the moment, driving more sale and purchase activity. I am wondering if you are seeing any impact to deal pricing, because on the one hand, there is more, call it acreage up for sale, but on the other hand, the near-term returns have just got a bit more attractive. If I could follow that up, you mentioned the Canyon Creek acquisitions assets had an attractive profile similar to what you have got in Anadarko, and I am wondering where you see in that context, I am wondering where you see more opportunities for M&A through the rest of the year.

John, you want to take these?

Yeah, absolutely. On the pricing of deals, it certainly makes deals more expensive when the strip comes up. You see the near-term strip come up, the pricing expectations do come up. We don't mind that because we're hedging it, and hedging it heavily out of the gate. For us, we're locking in that equity rate of return as we do these deals. We like the environment where there are more people coming to market. The market is getting saturated with sellers, which presents more opportunity. While the absolute price may go up, we're really looking at the discount rate of the deal and the equity levered return. We have been very close on some deals that we were looking at in the second quarter while preserving very strong equity rates of return.

I think the impact of prices coming up, yes, makes deals more expensive, but when you lock those in through hedging and protect your equity returns and have more sellers than buyers potentially in the market, that's an attractive environment. Your second question was Canyon Creek, asking where we see opportunities. We certainly see opportunities overlaying where we are currently, both in the West Anadarko Basin and in the Arkoma Basin. We see opportunities in other areas throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and generally what we call the Mid-Continent, so the center top of the country. I don't think we would necessarily stay just in the Arkoma or in the West Anadarko Basin.

We would look to places where there is not heavy drilling activity that can impact your production, where there is mature assets that fit the decline profile that we're looking for, where there are attractive opportunities, even at a higher decline rate that might have a very strong levered rate of return. We're focused on Texas and Oklahoma at the moment. There are some other areas we'll look at as well.

Great color. Gentlemen, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you. At this time, I turn it back to Will for any closing comments.

Terrific. Thank you all for joining, and we look forward to continuing to execute and providing you with another update in a few months.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this will conclude today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. We thank you for your participation and have a wonderful day.

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us. Welcome to Presidio Production Company's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If anyone should require operator assistance during the call, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I'll now hand the call over to Mr. Connor Fair, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Good morning. Welcome to Presidio Production Company's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. I'm Connor Fair, Director of Investor Relations, and joining me today are Co-CEOs Will Ulrich and Chris Hammack, our CFO John Brawley, and General Counsel Brett Barnes. As a reminder, today's call includes forward-looking statements. They are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the company's control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied on this call. For a complete list of cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors provided in our most recent Form 10-Q, Form S-1, Form S-4 and other SEC filings, which are available on the investor relations page of our website. Additionally, we will also refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures.

For additional disclosures about these non-GAAP measures, including reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures, please refer to our earnings release issued yesterday, which is also available on the investor relations page of our website. With that, I'll turn the call over to our Chairman and Co-CEO, Will Ulrich.

Good morning. Presidio is engaged in the Great Game. Any student of the oil and gas industry knows Daniel Yergin's The Prize, a book gifted to me years ago by my father. His account of the original Great Game, the century-long contest for resource acquisition and geopolitical dominance that shaped the modern world. For more than a century, that game defined nations, toppled governments, and built the industrialized civilization we inhabit today. It was won by those who controlled the most oil in the ground. The game has changed. The new game is different. It is won by those who convert data into decisions into action, and action into cash flow. We call that asset intelligence, and we believe Presidio was built for exactly this moment. This moment, it should be noted, is one of the most consequential in human history.

This year marks 250 years of American enterprise and ingenuity. America's 250th year is not simply an occasion for reflection. Our civilization has arrived at a crossroads that few generations have ever faced. The rapid development of artificial intelligence may be the most consequential event in human history, perhaps rivaling the founding of this great nation itself. At Presidio, we have made a deliberate choice about how to meet the moment. Our new manifest destiny is not simply to adapt to this changing environment. It is to lead, technically and morally. More on this later. We could not have gone public at a better time. The energy industry is undergoing a fundamental shift, one that we believe will define the next decade and that plays directly to everything Presidio has built. Look at the world around us.

Conflict in the Middle East is disrupting supply routes and destabilizing the producers who have long set the margin of global oil markets. War in Europe has redrawn the map of energy flows, severed decades-old supply relationships, and forced the Western world to confront the fragility of its energy dependencies in ways it had long chosen to ignore. Alliances are shifting. Trade flows are being rerouted. The assumptions that underpinned global energy markets for a generation are being stress-tested simultaneously. At the same time, demand for energy is accelerating in ways that have no historical precedent. Artificial intelligence data centers are being built at a pace and scale that is straining the American power grid. The shift to robotics and automated manufacturing, the next great wave of American industrial reinvention, will drive incremental power demand that forecasters are only beginning to model.

The inventory of high-quality domestic drilling locations is shrinking. The easy oil and gas has been found. The shale revolution has matured. The next barrel and MCF of American production will be harder and more expensive to find than the last. What does all this mean for Presidio? It means that the assets we own, long life, low decline, already producing American oil and gas, are becoming more valuable, not less. It means that the operators who can extract maximum efficiency from existing production without relying on the drill bit are exactly who this market needs. It means that Presidio's business model sits at the nexus of some of the most powerful and durable forces reshaping the global energy landscape today. We built for this moment, and we could not be better positioned. Before we talk more about our future, let's talk about where we are today.

What we have built at Presidio is, at its core, quite simple. We are a cash flow company. Our cash flow comes from American oil and gas, the backbone of this nation's energy security and economic strength. We acquire producing assets with existing cash flows. We improve the quality of those cash flows. We pay a fixed and growing dividend. We generate a long-term return on equity significantly greater than our cost of capital. We do not drill. We do not take development risk. That discipline allows us to make a simple promise to our shareholders: steady, growing cash dividends funded by assets already in production.

This may be perceived as a novel business plan, but we have the track record to back it up, having generated compounded annual equity returns in excess of 50% per year during our eight years as a private company pursuing exactly this strategy. When we acquire an asset, we begin optimizing it immediately. Every acquisition comes with a day one business plan, a systematic pre-built playbook that we execute from the moment we take ownership. We reboot the operating culture. We flatten the organization. We push decision-making down to the people who are actually at the wellhead, the pumpers, the operators who know these assets better than anyone in a corporate office ever could. We empower them. We align their incentives with the performance of the assets they run, and we get out of their way.

As my business partner and Co-CEO, Chris, will tell anyone who listens, come visit our field operations, and you will see something completely unique in today's modern oil fields. The result is a field organization that moves faster, costs less, and produces more. Not because we imposed a new management team from the outside, but because we unlocked the talent that was already there and gave it the tools and the authority to perform. That is, I would submit, a rather underappreciated art form in this industry, and Chris will touch on it more in his remarks. I also want to take a moment to speak to the quality of the foundation we built at listing because we believe the capital structure and investor base we assembled is itself a competitive advantage, perhaps an underappreciated one.

John Brawley, our CFO, will provide additional detail in his remarks, but I wanted to provide a summary from my perspective. When we came public through our merger with EQV Ventures earlier this year, we made a deliberate choice about who we wanted as partners and how we wanted to be capitalized. They were the result of years of relationship building and a clear view of what a great public energy company should look like. Our shareholder base is anchored by fundamental, long-term institutional investors, not traders. These are serious people who have done serious work to understand what we have built, who believe in the strategy, and who are here to compound alongside us for the long term. Adage, BP, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Investment Management, and others.

This is exactly the kind of shareholder base a company like Presidio deserves, and we will continue to expand our base and our float and liquidity over time. I would be remiss if I do not also mention that Presidio Management rolled 100% of our equity earned at the private Presidio into Presidio Production Company common shares. Management, as a group, is one of our company's largest shareholders. I'm grateful to all of our employees for their leadership, and I'm proud to say today that 100% of our employees, whether in the office or the field, are equity owners in the company. We are operators and owners. Our interests are completely and utterly aligned with every shareholder on this call. Our capital structure was constructed to support durable, growing shareholder returns.

At close, we carry an investment-grade ABS, low cost, long duration, purpose-built for a PDP asset base. We raise perpetual preferred equity anchored by JPMorgan Investment Management, one of the great financial institutions in the world. Our SPAC sponsor placed 75% of their founder shares into a mandatory dividend reinvestment program or a share price earn-out structure. The sponsor is not looking for a quick exit. They are invested in the same outcome we are. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. In February, we announced a $1 billion credit facility with Goldman Sachs, the first facility of its kind, purpose-built for PDP acquisition financing. This is a capital structure built for compounding returns, and we are just beginning to put it to work.

I'm pleased to report that our first dividend has been declared at $1.35 per share annually, representing a 12% current yield. It is, I would note, one of the most attractive yields available to investors, not just in the energy markets, but in any public market. We're pleased to be growing it already. We have signed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire producing assets in the Arkoma Basin for $83 million. This is Presidio's first entry into a new basin, a significant milestone that demonstrates our operating model works across basins. We expect the transaction to close early in the third quarter. Upon closing, we intend to increase our annualized dividend from $1.35 to $1.50 per share. This is the model working as designed.

We acquire, we optimize, we grow the dividend, we repeat. It is, frankly, a beautiful thing when a model works, and our track record shows that it does. Now, to the part of this story that does not fit neatly into a traditional E&P valuation framework, as if we were subject to that framework anyway, and that we believe represents a genuinely asymmetric opportunity for our shareholders. Pay close attention to this part. Since our founding, Presidio has generated significant alpha through the disciplined deployment of technology on our assets. That track record was not an accident. In 2020, we formed FTW Technologies as a dedicated subsidiary. At the time, most of this industry was not thinking seriously about artificial intelligence and machine learning. We were. We had a clear conviction about where the world was heading, and we built accordingly.

What we have built is a proprietary oil and gas domain model built on a custom ontology and trained on millions of operational data points, hundreds of hours of information-dense voice submissions from pumpers in the field, hundreds of thousands of inputs from well files, drilling reports, completion reports, workover reports, producing pressures, production volumes, and geology, to name just a few. The result is what we believe to be the most sophisticated Asset Intelligence system operating in the upstream industry today. Earlier this year, we made a deliberate organizational decision that I wanted to share with you because it reflects exactly how we think about technology and what we expect it to deliver. We reorganized our operations into three distinct but deeply integrated groups. The first is our Asset Intelligence Group, our engineers and support staff armed with AI and analytics to drive field efficiencies.

Our operations group, the people all of us in Fort Worth serve who run the assets every day. Finally, our dedicated AI group at FTW Technologies, which exists for one purpose. To support the Asset Intelligence Group and the rest of the company with the tools, models, and insights they need to make better decisions faster. To go further, we have also designated our first class of Presidio AI Astronauts, men and women who are serving as ambassadors of this AI transformation, carrying it into every corner of our organization and bringing their colleagues along with them. This is a pioneer program. This is a hard asset business that we have been successful digitizing, but we will always need the man or woman turning the wrench at our sites. Our intention with artificial intelligence is not to replace people. It is to make every person at Presidio dramatically more powerful.

We believe that with the right infrastructure, the right tools, and the right mindset, we can multiply the productivity of every Presidio employee by an order of magnitude. People remain at the center of everything we do. AI is the force multiplier. I want to be equally direct about what we are and are not trying to do with this technology more broadly. Our primary focus is not to use AI to automate paperwork or streamline administrative workflows or generate reports faster. Those are fine things, and we are doing them, but they are not the prize. In this business, production is the prize. Revenue is the prize. Cash flow, prize. That is precisely where we have aimed our technology. Our Asset Intelligence Group carries a target of growing production 3%-5% this year without a single dollar of capital expenditure.

Not through drilling, not through workovers, through intelligence, through knowing which wells to prioritize, which interventions to make, and which decisions to take before a problem becomes a problem. Through the application of nine years of proprietary data to the specific challenge of making every well in our portfolio perform at its highest potential. Through the first four months of 2026, we have achieved an approximately 1% improvement. We are just getting started. When I say just getting started, I mean it. In the physical world of oil and gas, upside is capped. You can acquire more barrels, you can improve recovery, but eventually there's a ceiling. Technology is different. The upside is uncapped, the growth potentially exponential. The intellectual property we have built at FTW Technologies is applicable far beyond Presidio's own wells, beyond the Anadarko, beyond the Arkoma, beyond anything we have announced today.

Upon the foundation of our domain model, we are constructing well surveillance agents, production intelligence systems, financial modeling capabilities, and deal screening infrastructure, a body of work that will serve Presidio for decades, and that holds real commercial promise for other operators who face the same challenges we do. That opportunity is not lost on us. We are currently expanding our dedicated AI team. Based on the results we are seeing, we have confirmed our conviction that what we have built has significant, potentially transformational value to the broader industry. Stay tuned. If anyone is still awake, I'll turn it over to my co-founder and co-CEO, Chris Hammack, to walk through our operational philosophy in more detail. Chris built much of what I have just described, and nobody knows it better.

Thank you, Will. Good morning, everyone. I want to take a few minutes to walk you through what actually happens when Presidio acquires an asset. The 50% cost reduction Will referenced doesn't happen by accident. It doesn't happen slowly. It's a result of a repeatable, systematic playbook that we have refined across every acquisition since our founding. A playbook that gets better every single time we run it. When we sign an agreement to purchase an asset, we are on the ground the next day, if not before. Our most recent acquisition prior to going public was fully integrated within 21 days of closing. It is the standard we intend to meet on every asset we acquire, including in the Arkoma Basin. The playbook starts with people. It always starts with people.

The first thing we do on any asset is interview 100% of the field staff. We evaluate them against a standardized framework, and we make fast decisions. We flatten the field structure, we empower the people, and we align their incentives directly with the performance of the assets they operate. The result is a leaner, faster, more accountable field organization. One where the right people are making the right decisions at the well level in real time without waiting for permission from someone in a corporate office in Houston or Oklahoma City. Next, we focus on artificial lift. Legacy operators tend to oversize their compression. They install systems for a peak capacity and never right-size them as production evolves. It's a common and expensive mistake. When we arrive, we audit every compressor on the asset. We downsize, release, or swap equipment to match actual system demands.

On our acquisition case study, we achieved a 28% reduction in compression expense in month one alone. We apply the same discipline to artificial lift, lowering pump depths, installing plungers on gas lift wells, reducing downtime, and improving drawdown. These are not capital-intensive changes. They are operational decisions that generate immediate cash flow improvement. Third, we have chemicals. Most acquired assets run vendor-managed chemical programs. Vendors have little incentive to reduce consumption. They are paid by volume. It is a misalignment of incentives that cost operators dearly. We bring chemical management in-house on day one. We centralize oversight under our own operations team, implement well-level tracking and sampling, consolidate suppliers, and standardize treatment protocols across the asset. Year-over-year, from 2023 to 2024, we have reduced chemical expense by 39% across the portfolio. That is a structural change. Finally we implement industry-leading pump-by-exception model.

Rather than sending pumpers to visit every well every day, the legacy industry standard and a profoundly inefficient one, our system services only the wells that require attention. We visit the top 20% of wells by cash flow value every day, and we visit the rest only when our technology flags an issue. The result is a 50% in reduction in well visits with the same or better production performance. Our pumpers are spending their time where it matters the most, not executing routes designed a decade ago by someone who never ran the math. Taken together, labor, compression, chemicals, and field deployment, these four levers are what drive our cost reductions across every acquisition we have made. This playbook was written in the Anadarko Basin, but it was never meant to stay there.

The assets we are acquiring in the Arkoma Basin were operated under the same legacy models we have transformed before. We know what we are walking into, we know what to do, and we know how long it will take. I'll close with this. Will described Presidio's technology as an asymmetric upside in our story. I would add that our operational playbook is the foundation for everything, where everything else rests. Prior to AI, it was the OG alpha generator. The acquisition model works because we underwrite based on what we know we can achieve, not what a seller tells us we might achieve. The technology layer performs best when it sits on top of a field organization that is already lean, already aligned, and already executing at the highest level. That is what we are building, and it's working. The best is genuinely yet to come.

Now I'll turn it over to John Brawley, our CFO.

Thanks, Chris. I'll start by noting that we will be filing our first 10-Q after market close today. Moving along, let's discuss the first quarter. The first quarter is not representative of the earnings power of our business going forward, and the reasons are non-recurring and related to closing. I'll walk through this in some detail. We closed the business combination on the 4th of March, and as a result, our first quarter financials are bifurcated into two periods: a predecessor period, January 1st through March 3rd, and a successor period, March 4th through March 31st, with a new basis of accounting at closing of the business combination. Specifically, the EQVR assets acquired at closing are not reflected in the predecessor period, so you cannot add the predecessor and successor periods together.

Going into some specifics, the first quarter includes transaction-driven items which are non-recurring that management does not consider indicative of ongoing performance. The first of these is approximately $47 million of non-cash stock-based compensation in the pre-predecessor period, a one-time item tied entirely to the transaction. This amount reflects management's investment in Presidio's common stock, which relates to how we accounted for the roll of management's equity from private Presidio to public Presidio. As Will alluded to earlier, management rolled substantially all of its equity value upon IPO, demonstrating management's alignment and commitment to the new Presidio as a public company. In addition to this, the predecessor period also includes approximately $7 million of acquisition and transaction costs, with smaller amounts of each carrying into the successor period. The next major item relates to changes in the value of the company's hedge portfolio as commodities rose during the period.

In total, the company recognized approximately $44 million of unrealized net commodity derivative losses across the two periods. Roughly $17 million in the predecessor period and $27 million in the successor period. These amounts are unrealized non-cash mark-to-market adjustments to the hedge book as oil and gas prices moved higher during the period. Further, we executed a $60 million restructuring of our commodity hedge book concurrent with closing. That restructuring resulted in $2.2 million of realized derivative costs recognized in the period, the economic benefit of restructured hedges did not begin until the second quarter. To be clear, there are no restructured hedges providing benefit in the first quarter. This begins in the second quarter. In summary, the first quarter carries the cost of the hedge restructuring and the transaction. The second quarter is where the benefit begins.

For those reasons, management believes the first quarter is not indicative of our performance in subsequent quarters, and that's why we decided to provide clear guidance for the second quarter. We expect approximately $30 million of adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter, assuming current strip price. Beyond the second quarter, we believe this is a reasonable level to frame each of the quarters through the remainder of 2026. With that framing on the operational metrics, our current net production is approximately 22,000 BOE per day, roughly 16% oil, 57% natural gas, 27% NGLs. Lease operating expense in the successor period was $9.47 per BOE. Capital expenditures were extremely low during the quarter, under $1 million, consistent with our low reinvestment model. Our reinvestment rate remains among the lowest in the sector by design.

Our restructured hedge book, which took effect at the start of the second quarter, provides multi-year cash flow visibility across oil, natural gas, and NGL production, extending in places out to 2031. The detailed hedge table is in the press release. We will continue to layer in additional hedges as we close Canyon Creek, consistent with our practice of protecting dividend sustainability. Next, I'll discuss our liquidity and balance sheet. At quarter end, we had total liquidity of $48.7 million, comprised of $20.7 million of unrestricted cash and $28 million of undrawn capacity under our $65 million RBL. Total cash, including restricted cash, was $31.5 million.

On the debt side, principal outstanding was $295.9 million, which includes $256.8 million of investment-grade ABS notes, $37 million drawn on our RBL, and a $2.1 million term loan. This leads to a net debt number of $264.4 million. Using our projected second quarter adjusted EBITDA run rate of approximately $30 million, that equates to pro forma leverage of approximately 2.2x. In addition to our debt outstanding, we also have a Series A preferred stock with a $125 million aggregate stated value, which carries an 8% cash pay, 4% PIK rate. You may also note the Series B preferred. This is a toothless preferred, and it's in effect very similar to the Class A common stock.

Its primary provision is that it is convertible into 2.7 million shares of common stock. I'll spend a moment on our $1 billion Goldman Sachs ABS warehouse facility because it is central to how we will fund acquisitions going forward. We're super proud of this facility, and we're grateful to our partners at Goldman Sachs. The facility is a first of its kind oil and gas ABS warehouse. It's special for several reasons. First, it's not a 365-day bridge. It has several years of term on it. This allows us to be patient for the right ABS window to refinance it into our long-term ABS. Second, it is structured to allow us to stack multiple transactions into the warehouse before refinancing them into a more permanent ABS. This provides scale and limits the number of ABS we have outstanding.

This is very important to us. We are focused on having as few ABS tranches outstanding as possible to keep our capital structure simple. Ideally, we will only have two ABS structures outstanding at any time, our core ABS and the warehouse. Third, the ABS warehouse has an attractive cost of capital. This allows us to show up and bid for an asset with money behind us without compromising the strategic cost of capital advantage ABS provides when buying producing assets. Given we are a dividend-paying company, the facility allows for payments to come out, assuming its provisions are met. This allows us to hold assets in the warehouse and still have an ability to use cash flow to make dividends. This is another unique factor for our facility.

As we speak, the facility is being constructed from its initial terms into final documentation to provide for its first funding. Upon closing of the Canyon Creek acquisition, we'll make our first draw to fund $55 million of the cash portion of that purchase price alongside cash on hand. The remaining capacity, nearly $1 billion of it, is available to support future PDP acquisitions as we continue to execute on our pipeline. This facility was purpose-built for our acquisition model. It allows us to move quickly on bilateral deals, finance them efficiently against the cash flows of the acquired assets, and turn them out into permanent ABS once the assets are acquired. With this facility, we have the firepower to put our deal pipeline to work. Speaking of ABS, I will note that our current ABS uses a very heavy amortization structure.

As a company, we have amortized approximately $130 million of principal on our existing ABS since it was issued in 2023. The rate on this ABS is in the mid-8%. I would note that the market is currently closer to the mid-6% for this type of investment-grade paper. Current structures allow for reduced amortization, freeing up more cash flow for dividends. Certainly more to come here. Stay tuned. Moving on to dividends. As Will mentioned, our first dividend has been declared at an annualized rate of $1.35 per share. The record date was May 4th, and we are greatly looking forward to paying our first dividend after the weekend, this coming Monday. We are intentionally delivering on our plan. We said we are a dividend paying company. We are delivering on that dividend.

More than that, we expect to grow it. We issued an LOI for the Canyon Creek assets and after a lot of hard work, thanks, Brett Barnes, our General Counsel, we converted it into definitive agreements. We expect to close that transaction in the beginning of the third quarter. Upon closing of the Canyon Creek acquisition, we intend to increase the annualized dividend to $1.50 per share, subject to board approval. I'll spend a moment on the acquisition market because I think it's important for investors to understand not just what we've announced, but the opportunities set in front of Presidio. The addressable market for the kind of assets Presidio acquires is large, and it is growing. There are tens of billions of PDP assets currently held by private equity funds that are expected to require liquidity over the next five years.

These are aging funds with maturing assets. Great operators who built important positions when capital was plentiful and exit timelines were forgiving. Those timelines eventually hit a wall, and investors eventually need an exit. With the rise in commodity prices related to current global events, we have seen a relative flood of assets hit the market. As a public company with an attractive cost of capital and an impressive amount of dry powder, we are perfectly positioned to capture attractive assets as they come to market. We're working on doing so and have well over $1 billion of bids in process. Some of these deals are marketed and some are bilateral. We often get asked, "What's our criteria? What are we looking for?" First, we don't drill, so it needs to be developed.

If there's some upside, we can bring in partners, but the value we're looking for is in the producing wells. In that vein, Second, it needs to be operated. Chris talked already about how we drive value from operations. If you aren't the operator, you can't impact operations. Third, we're looking for wells with great margins but lower declines, preferably below 20%. This leaves room to improve the wells meaningfully while ensuring they provide stable cash flow over time. Fourth, location, location. We are targeting what we call the Mid-Continent, but we mean that broadly. Texas, Oklahoma, and surrounding areas. These areas have large inventories of existing producing assets. When you combine these criteria, the assets fit perfectly with our business model, expertise, and experience. After scoping these criteria, when we evaluate our deal, our ultimate hurdle is economics. We are targeting equity returns above 20%.

We won't grow for growth's sake. We are disciplined to underwrite to a clear base return with upside from our operational competitive advantage. We have the track record, experience, and capital, and opportunity to execute. That combination is what we believe will make Presidio one of the great compounding stories in the American energy market over the years ahead. Moving on, I'll briefly mention investor relations. As we gear up following IPO, we want investors to know that we are intentionally and carefully working on building Presidio's presence in the public markets and liquidity in our stock. We've been incredibly busy out of the gate, both on transactions announced and future exciting events for which you should stay tuned. We are actively working with research analysts to establish sell side coverage. We expect to announce initial coverage in the coming months.

We are discussing our story with analysts who can tell the full Presidio story, the PDP acquisition model, the operational playbook, and the technology upside. That is a differentiated story. It deserves differentiated coverage. On the conference front, we will be participating in conferences, and we welcome the opportunity for our team to sit across the table from investors and make our case directly. The next conference where we will be in attendance is Hart Energy's Energy Capital Conference, Post Oak Hotel in Houston on June 4. Beyond the institutional channel, we are committed to building a broader community of investors and followers around FTW. Will is actively engaging on X. Follow him, @willulrich, for his views on the energy industry, the evolution of the Great Game, and ideas that drive this company's strategy. We believe that great companies communicate clearly, consistently, and accessibly.

We're a new name on the NYSE. We intend to be a familiar one and a respected one for a very long time. Thank you. Now I'll turn it back to Will.

Thank you, John. I'm gonna leave you with a thought that I find myself returning to often. Our civilization is at a crossroads. The technological forces reshaping the world are not coming. They are here. The question for every company, every leader, and every team is not whether to engage with that change, but whether to lead it or be led by it. At Presidio, we have made our choice. We are not simply adapting, we are leading, technically and morally, into a new era for this industry. We've been building this company since 2017. Nine years of acquiring assets that others overlooked, optimizing them in ways others hadn't imagined, and investing in technology. We did that work quietly, deliberately, and with a very clear picture of where we were going. We didn't go public to celebrate what we've built. We went public to accelerate it.

The Goldman Sachs facility is loaded. The Arkoma deal is signed. The pipeline has more than $1 billion of bilateral conversations underway. Our Asset Intelligence Group is driving production growth without a dollar of capital expenditure. Our AI team at FTW Technologies is growing. Our well intelligence platform may well be adopted beyond our own wells, maybe someday beyond our shores. And our field teams, the pumpers, the techs, the asset managers who are out there every single day are executing at a level that we believe is unmatched in this industry. We've declared our first dividend. We expect to increase it upon closing of the Arkoma acquisition. The model we have laid out, acquire, optimize, grow the dividend, repeat, is a plan we are executing on. Presidio is engaged in the Great Game. The game has changed.

We saw that change coming, and we built for it, and we are just getting started. Thank you for joining our first earnings call. We look forward to a great many more. Please open the line for questions.

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Morning, guys. Could you, maybe the first question just around you've already given Johnny, you and Will gave a lot of color around the M&A strategy, but particularly notable was in the release, you talked about, you know, I think even over $1 billion that you're seeing potentially in the pipeline. Could you just talk about, I mean, are these smaller deals? You know, gassy? What regions? I mean, any color you could give around that. Thank you.

Thanks, Neal. There are several deals we're looking at in basin in Oklahoma. Those would follow the same liquids profile of our existing assets. We're also looking at some deals in Texas, and I'll be deliberately vague. Those are likely to have a higher liquids component, but I'll leave it there. There's multiple deals included in that number, both in basin, more deals in basin and a couple in Texas.

Size-wise, I would say you can think, you know, in kind of small, medium, large, for what we're looking at across the board.

Great. That's kind of what I was expecting. Secondly, maybe just Chris, you will just talk a little bit on the marketing strategy. It seems to me, you know, there's and you hinted at this, that there's potential maybe what you're doing around even, you know, with the gas, maybe potentially around future, around the power, LNG offtake, you know, any of those type agreements that you could possibly structure in the future.

Our gas marketing philosophy for years has been to get molecules as close to the end user as possible. As more end user demand increases, we'll continue to pursue that strategy. If you think about it generally, kind of where the upside could lay, currently we're selling about 30% of our gas to power plants for electric generation. We've seen data center build-outs coming in the Panhandle, we expect that that number would increase. Obviously the closer we can get to the end user, the better pricing we receive. When we think about LNG, our Arkoma acquisition will likely be taken to LNG, that gas.

Then for the western end of our production assets, as we build scale, that'll give us basically the economics to take out the FT necessary, to get that delivered, for LNG export. You know, over the long term, I think these flow, the flow, the reshaping of the flows that I mentioned in my remarks, you know, will, I think trickle in, you know, to, Presidio here over the coming years.

Okay. In fact, seek one last one just on the AI-focused Asset Intelligence Group. Could you talk more about the targeted 3%-5% you know, decline or improvement that you're looking at, you know, for the remainder of this year and, you know, how you're assuming for future years?

Sure. You know, I'll give you an example of kind of the 1% that we've gained so far of the 3%-5%. This is, you know, we ran our model over our production and looked at it. Basically, the model came back and looked at it in a way and cut it in a way that we hadn't looked at before, which was around the days of the week of production. What we found was because of our pump-by-exception model, where we have limited weekend interactions with the wells, we would see production declining on a day's basis into the weekend, and particularly on Mondays, the low day.

As that pumper was, you know, working on those wells over the following days, we would see a high peak on Thursday before running that same cycle. We were able to identify and intervene and take steps before the pumper is finished for the weekend on Friday. That essentially has flattened out that peak and trough, and the flattening of the peak and trough has lifted production by approximately 1%. You know, for the balance of it, we've deployed, and 100% of our field operators have the technology with them in their trucks every day, a well intelligence agent that we call Doug.

Doug essentially, you know, will take the production from the company every single, essentially live, and provide feedback to that pumper about where he should be spending his attention. We've done this, you know, historically through our pump-by-exception, and this is just kind of putting that, creating an AI layer onto that pump-by-exception. When we laid it, we rolled it out, it, you know, gave these suggestions for how to intervene with the well. In the beginning, and mind you, this technology just accelerates so rapidly, you know, it was, we think, calculating the correct intervention maybe 50% of the time. Within weeks, we were up to a 70% correct answer. You know, we'll expect that to continue to accelerate.

How that feeds into production is, you know, it learnings over our entire well set. So, you know, whereas a route might be, you know, in Oklahoma, it wasn't benefiting necessarily from learnings of a well intervention that was happening in Texas that would increase production from that well. Now it is across all the wells, so that, you know, it's seeing things that an individual pumper, you know, wouldn't see, that might be able to impact production positively on his route. So as we see that continued rollout and a continued increase in the correct answer for the intervention, and mind you, the pumper always has the choice, you know, to make the intervention and suggest or to do his own thing.

He provides that input back into the system, and the system learns, but we expect to see continued production uplift through that. It's around, you know, predictive pump failures, around earlier well interventions, around, you know, seeing trends in pressure drops that might be consistent with needing to change a plunger setting and communicating that directly with the pumper.

Excellent. Thank you, y'all.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, it's star one to join the question queue. Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Robertson with Water Tower Research. Please proceed with your question.

Thank you. Good morning. Will, with respect to the technology platform that Presidio utilizes, can you talk a little bit more or share any color on how much value you can identify, excuse me, in the acquisition evaluation process that you can either use in a competitive situation or keep in your back pocket for incremental returns for over and above what you might be bidding on with respect to a PDP acquisition?

Yeah. That same intelligence tool that we use on our own wells, we're using on an acquisition due diligence right now. The way we think about it is, you know, you essentially have theoretical production from a well. You know, if the well was producing perfectly with no physical constraints, no downtime issues, no pressure issues from midstream takeaway, you know, it should be producing X. If you look at what actually happens operationally, you know, we found that it's kind of X less, 10%-15%, call it, because of, you know, those things that I mentioned, and because it is a physical reality and not just a, you know, theoretical one.

What we think about is that distance to theoretical production. What our model enables us to do is to identify, you know, what that theoretical production should be so we can understand what the gap would be. That's something that I don't think other people think about in their due diligence. Historically, you know, our company has been very focused on the efficiency of the operating expense side, and now we've added, you know, the tool of looking for the efficiencies on the production side. We can already see interventions that we would make to provide production uplift. It's not something that, you know, we think that we need to pay way in today's market.

You mentioned looking at some opportunities in Texas broadly. Is the model one that can be adapted relatively quickly to a new area where you might have an interest in evaluating acquisitions just based on the datasets that are available?

Yeah. It depends on what data is available from the seller. you know, I think we're very good at asking questions and getting the data that we need to be able to do the analysis. Being able to tie artificial lift type by well, you know, is important for us, but for some areas, you know, it's gonna be dominated by one artificial lift type anyway, so we can make an assumption even if we don't have the data. you know, we're able to, we're able to see, I think, pretty well into those insights in other areas, beyond the Anadarko Basin.

Excuse me. One last, if I can. The hedge book extends out into 2028 and is a little bit in 2029. Can you just talk a little about Presidio's hedging philosophy and the way you think about that along with the acquisition pipeline?

Yeah. It's John Brawley speaking. Happy to. I would say that our hedging philosophy is really driven by the type of debt that we use, specifically ABS debt. In order to get that investment grade rating for those notes, we have to apply a pretty specific hedging program. That will include typically seven years of gas hedging, five years of oil hedging, three years of NGL hedging, +3 years of basis hedging. We'll tend to hedge with swaps. We'll tend to follow that mantra, that type of hedging philosophy because really of the type of debt that we use.

Thank you for taking my questions.

Thank you for asking them.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our question and answer session. I will turn the floor back to Mr. Ulrich for any final comments.

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