Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the High Arctic Energy Services 2023 Q4 Results Conference Call. I would now like to turn the meeting over to High Arctic's Chief Executive Officer, Mike Maguire. Please go ahead. Thank you, Patrick. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to High Arctic's fourth-quarter conference call. Today I'll be providing an update on the press release we issued before markets opened this morning, April 8th, including discussion of our financial performance for the fourth quarter and full year of 2023. Following my remarks, I'll hand the call over to our interim Chief Financial Officer, Lonn Bate. Lonn will be discussing our financial performance for the quarter and full year of 2023. After our formal comments, we'll open the call to answer any questions that you may have. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that certain information presented today may include forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect High Arctic's current expectations, estimates, projections, and assumptions. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and they are subject to certain risks which could cause actual performance and financial results to vary materially from those contemplated in the forward-looking statements. For additional information on these risks, please take a look at our management's discussion and analysis and the 2023 annual information form available on our website or on SEDAR+. Look under the heading Risk Factors. Starting with operations in Papua New Guinea. During the quarter, Rig 103 had strong operational performance. This represents the third full quarter of drilling activity for the corporation since the suspension of operations in early 2020. As well as the full quarter of drilling operations with Rig 103, we have seen strong deployment of rental assets through the quarter, including those pulled through by drilling operations as well as rentals to the wider market. High Arctic also provided rental material handling equipment, a 100-man mobile camp, and a large quantity of worksite matting to support other ongoing field activities with our two main customers in Papua New Guinea. Full utilization of our drilling services and our rental assets associated with customer-owned Rig 103 had a significant impact on our earnings, which we anticipate will be the case for the first half of 2024. We are currently on the fourth and final of the approved wells in our customer's program. On Friday, they issued us with a notice confirming the drilling operations will be suspended after this well, and the rig will be placed into cold stack storage. The term of the Rig 103 contract runs through to just past the middle of next year. We are optimistic for future drilling in PNG. This optimism is based on an expectation that advancement of the Papua LNG project led by French multinational TotalEnergies will stimulate exploration and appraisal activity in much the same way as the first PNG LNG project did a decade ago. We are, however, disappointed to observe that work towards a final investment decision on the Papua LNG project has been further delayed. On the weekend, the government of Papua New Guinea and the project operating partner, TotalEnergies, issued a joint statement reaffirming commitment to the project but guiding towards a decision in 2025. The Papua LNG project is expected to be followed by the P'nyang gas field development in the western province of PNG. This is anticipated to result in the addition of further gas liquefaction capacity in the world-class PNG LNG export facility. State-owned Kumul Petroleum is advancing appraisal of other gas discoveries in PNG, planning for seismic surveys of the Kimu and Barikewa discoveries onshore Papua New Guinea to progress their aim to contribute to growing domestic energy needs and additional LNG export processing facilities. These LNG projects and other large-scale mining and infrastructure projects moving through the pipeline will require tens of thousands of new workers and more skilled and supervisory personnel that do not exist in Papua New Guinea today. Through PIMS, PNG Industry Manpower Solutions, High Arctic has added the provision of recognized safety training, competency verification, and equipment licensing services. We have long provided these training and competency solutions in-house. PIMS also taps into our large pool of talent to provide manpower, skilled and semi-skilled labor, trades-qualified personnel, and professionals in Papua New Guinea. We are excited to be playing a significant role in preparing PNG citizens to be job-ready for the major projects we anticipate in the second half of this decade and beyond. Turning to Canada. In Canada, we closed a transaction to acquire and then amalgamate Delta Rental Services. The acquisition of Delta in December and its integration with our legacy rentals business in Canada has delivered scale for a cash-positive operation. Delta has blended seamlessly with High Arctic Rentals, and the combined business is marketed under the Delta brand. The Delta acquisition is expected to increase Canadian revenues three to four-fold and contribute strongly to positive cash flow. The Delta acquisition contemplates and the structure of the consideration is reflective of High Arctic's intention to reorganize and separate the Canadian and PNG businesses. I am confident that this transaction is symbolic of the prospects for a purely Canadian entity and how additional accretive transactions can be unearthed. Over the past two years, the corporation has divested underperforming in non-core assets and businesses. Now, the corporation's Canadian business consists of a high-margin equipment rentals business centered upon pressure control, a minority interest in Canada's largest oilfield snubbing services business, Team Snubbing Services, and industrial properties at Claresholm and Whitecourt in Alberta, Canada. Team Snubbing is Canada's largest snubbing provider, and we have a 42% equity stake in Team. Team has had an outstanding fourth quarter, setting new records in terms of hours worked, snubbing packages deployed, and available crews. This has transposed into record revenue levels and earnings. At the end of the quarter, Team declared its first dividend since acquiring High Arctic's Canadian snubbing assets. The two snubbing packages deployed in Alaska under Team Snubbing International operated almost continuously through the fourth quarter, shutting down in December and remaining shut down through the deepest of the cold weather. Now, both packages have recommenced operations in March. I would now like to pass the call over to Lonn Bate, High Arctic's Interim Chief Financial Officer, to discuss key financial highlights from the quarter in more detail. Thank you, Mike. Good afternoon to all of you joining on the call today. Just before I begin, I just want to remind everybody and state that all the dollar amounts mentioned on this call are Canadian dollars. Looking at our fourth quarter financial results from continuing operations and on a consolidated basis, High Arctic generated revenues of CAD 18.1 million and adjusted EBITDA of CAD 3.2 million and spent CAD 130,000 on capital expenditures in the quarter. Also, in the quarter, High Arctic generated net income of CAD 2.75 million, which equates to CAD 0.06 per share. This return to profitability for High Arctic was a result of the full utilization of our drilling services, matting rentals in both PNG and Canada. In addition, the positive quarterly results were driven by meaningful investment income from the short-term investments High Arctic holds, the equity income recorded from Team's strong Q4 results, and a CAD 912,000 deferred income tax recovery that was recorded in the quarter. By far, the most notable event in the quarter was the acquisition of Delta Rental Services that Mike just spoke to above. Some of the key details on this transaction are as follows. Total purchase price for Delta was CAD 6.4 million and consisted of CAD 3.4 million in cash paid on closing and the remaining roughly CAD 3 million as an earnout or contingent consideration payable in a combination of cash and shares of High Arctic over a three-year period post-close. The contingent consideration payable is based on the Delta business achieving specific profitability targets and is adjusted for capital expenditures incurred. Key assets acquired include property and equipment valued at over CAD 3.6 million and about CAD 600,000 in working capital. Now, as part of this acquisition, High Arctic also recorded additional assets that consist of CAD 1.5 million in intangibles for some of the branding customer relationships acquired on the business and over CAD 800,000 in goodwill. So these values associated with the assets and goodwill acquired, the purchase liabilities assumed in the contingent consideration payable post-close while based on our best estimates of fair values on the transaction date. But if within a year of the transaction date, new information is obtained by High Arctic regarding the facts and circumstances of the transaction at the transaction date that require us to adjust these, this purchase price will be adjusted. Now, given that the acquisition of Delta was also done right at the end of 2023, the results that we're speaking to today from the Delta operation really had no material impact on our results for the fourth quarter of 2023. Now, turning back to the quarter itself, as I already mentioned, the quarter business performed well, generating CAD 3.2 million in adjusted EBITDA consistent with Q3 of 2023. Customer-owned Rig 103 was fully utilized in the quarter. Our ancillary services business continued to perform at or above expectations. And as a result, High Arctic producing a steady consolidated oilfield services margin of 33.4% in the quarter consistent with the Q3 oh, pardon me, with the 34% oilfield services operating margin achieved for the full year of 2023. These 2023 margins compare very favorably to the 2022 oilfield services operating margins that were -27% in Q4 2022 and only 14.4% for the full year of 2022. Much of this higher margin generation is a result of the 2022 disposition of the Canadian well servicing assets and snubbing assets. The sale of the nitrogen business is also driving these higher margins in 2023. EBITDA generation as that sale of that business that closed in the Q3 in the third quarter of 2023 eliminated a service line that was negative impacting our bottom line. Turning to G&A, our G&A costs were CAD 2.8 million in the quarter, which is higher than the CAD 2.7 incurred in the previous quarter. G&A costs for the quarter represent 15.5% of revenue, also consistent with Q3 2023 and consistent with the fourth quarter of 2022. G&A for the business was elevated in the quarter as High Arctic incurred corporate and professional fees relating towards our work towards a revised reorganization plan, costs associated with the Delta acquisition. The cost is a result of the special meeting we held on January 10th of this year. In addition, we recorded an increase in our expected credit loss provision for some Canadian receivables in the quarter. But with that said, management continues to evaluate our G&A costs, and we continue to right-size our administrative support to align with expected operations going forward in both PNG and Canada. As mentioned earlier, adjusted EBITDA will be CAD 3.2 million on the quarter. This compares favorably to the negative adjusted EBITDA of CAD 1.2 million or negative 10% of revenue in Q4 2022. Q4 2022 was negatively impacted, just want to remind readers, by a one-time inventory impairment charge of CAD 3.7 million taken right at the end of last year. General activity levels in PNG at that point in time were also not as robust as they were when compared to 2023. The largest revenue generator in the quarter for High Arctic was from the drilling segment, which is no surprise. Drilling services activities generated CAD 14.3 million of revenue in Q4, higher than the CAD 10.1 million in Q4 of 2022. This increase was due primarily to the fact that our customer-owned Rig 103 was fully utilized in the quarter, whereas in Q4 2022, we had no owned or customer-owned rigs operating and turning. Most of the revenue then was derived from manpower provision. Q4 2023 operating margins were 22% for the segment, considerably higher than the negative 33% in Q4 2022. That was obviously impacted by the inventory impairment I mentioned earlier. Our ancillary services segment spans both Papua New Guinea and Canada and continues to be our highest operating margin generator. We achieved an operating margin of 76% on CAD 3.9 million in revenues from continuing operations in Q4 2023 as compared to a 28% margin on CAD 2 million of revenue in Q4 2022. This improved margin reflects more revenue contribution from low-maintenance, fully-owned assets. Management expects the Q4 margins and activity levels that delivered this highly profitable segment to continue into 2024, and especially with the addition of the Delta business here in Canada. Consistent with last quarter, there was no activity in our production services segment. But we did incur some small expenses related to storage and preservation costs for the assets that do exist in that segment. During the quarter, CAPEX totaled CAD 130,000. This spending was mainly focused on growth in our rental equipment in Papua New Guinea, plus some additional costs associated with building out our new financial and operational systems. We expect to continue with modest capital spending through 2024, mostly focused on maintaining and growing our rental fleet both in Canada and Papua New Guinea. Finally here, our company ended the quarter here with just over CAD 50 million of cash on hand. Approximately CAD 33 million of that invested in secure interest-bearing short-term investments, which generated over CAD 550,000 in interest income during the quarter. Our working capital position stayed steady in the quarter, and as at the end of December, it stood at CAD 63 million. Working capital would have been higher than this, but do keep in mind that we did deploy CAD 3.4 million in cash when we acquired Delta in the quarter. Consistent with past quarters, our only source of debt is our mortgage financing, which stands at CAD 3.5 million. That's mortgages on our land and buildings in Alberta, both Claresholm and Whitecourt. As Mike mentioned, those assets earlier. With that, I'll turn the call back over to you, Mike. Thanks, Lonn. With today's results, we also provided an update on our planning for reorganization. As a reminder, in May last year, we announced an intention to recommend to shareholders a tax-efficient return of capital to a maximum of CAD 38.2 million relating to the third quarter 2022 sale of High Arctic's Canadian well servicing assets and a reorganization of the corporation involving the spinoff of the Papua New Guinea business. This separation was aimed at addressing the inefficiencies of managing two small businesses on opposite sides of the world with few synergies and allowing senior management to concentrate where they have had the most success in the past. Later, we suspended work on the previously announced transaction. In October, we announced that we were working to address and incorporate feedback of the corporation received from several shareholders, the feedback generally related to the unlisted nature of the High Arctic International Holding Company and concerns about corporate governance and minority shareholder protections in a foreign jurisdiction. I am pleased to inform listeners that we are working towards a special meeting of shareholders to be held prior to the end of the second quarter of 2024. At that meeting, I anticipate that the board will recommend to shareholders a reorganization that would include the following elements: a spinoff of the PNG business to shareholders as a Canadian publicly listed company, maintaining the High Arctic Corporation as a Canadian publicly listed company focused on growing the Canadian business, the distribution of a return of capital to shareholders of between CAD 33-38.2 million before July 26th this year, and the right-sizing of the general administrative infrastructure to align with that new corporate structures. I'll now turn the conference call back over to Patrick, the operator, who will open the line for questions. Thank you. We'll now take questions from the telephone lines. If you have a question, please press star one on your device's keypad. When prompted by the system, please clearly state your name to register your question. You may answer your question at any time by pressing star two. Please press star one at this time if you have a question. There will be a brief pause while the participants register for questions. Thank you for your patience. Thank you. We'll take the first question. Please go ahead. Josef Schachter. Good afternoon, Mike. Good afternoon, Joseph. Good to hear from you. Yeah. Can you talk about the go-forward strategy? Will there be cash in both companies to grow? Will the Canadian name go with the Delta name, which is actually the biggest part of the business, or will it stay as High Arctic? Have you started thinking about separate ticker symbols? Will there be a separate management team for each company? How should we perceive this going forward? Will the managements overlap for a while and then separate as you build the team and maybe make acquisitions on the Canadian side? Maybe just give us a little color of how you see things unfolding in 2024. Sure. Thanks for that question. And of course, these questions will be answered in detail when we distribute the materials for the contemplated shareholder meeting. But at a high level, quick overview. Let's start with the name. So High Arctic Energy Services will remain the name of the current corporation. We do trade the rental services business under the Delta brand. And we do expect and anticipate to be active in the M&A market with the Canadian business to grow it in a manner that would ensure that it protects and utilizes the value of its large non-capital operating tax losses. The ticker would remain unchanged. So essentially, for the Canadian entity, it would be a carve-out of the foreign Papua New Guinea business, and the rest of the business would look like it does today. As far as the management teams go and interaction between the two entities, there will, of course, be some transitionary arrangements put in place because we will need to make sure that both businesses can operate effectively on a standalone basis. And to ensure that that transition happens smoothly, there would be some transitionary arrangements in place, which would include some sharing and overlap of management. But to the larger degree, the expectation is for us to transition into two distinctly separate management teams. As far as cash goes, we are working towards trying to optimize up to the top end of the guidance we've provided today for a return of capital figure. We've provided guidance because we can see that we can comfortably meet at the bottom end of that at CAD 33 million at this point in time. We're working towards trying to optimize it to the maximum while at the same time planning to retain cash in both businesses so that they can meet their working capital requirements. One of the key points for consideration there is what Papua New Guinea will need for ramping back up drilling operations after the contemplated suspension of Rig 103 here for the second half of the year. It is going to need access to liquidity to be able to recommence operations. That's a key consideration. There will also be cash left in the Canadian business so that it can meet its working capital obligations and its current planned maintenance capital. One last thing. The rest of the details on ticker symbols and things associated with the spun-out entity will all be clear in the meeting materials once we get through regulatory approvals. The board makes its decision that it is going to move forward with the recommendation to shareholders, and materials are then released for the meeting. Okay. One last thing. For the Canadian company, are there any lines of businesses that you guys kind of feel that would make a good growth vehicle for the Canadian operations? And would you be comfortable using equity as well so that between the moderate cash that's in the company and equity, would that be the levers you'd use to grow the company? Yeah. Good questions both. So in the first part, as we've done for the last two years, divested services-based businesses that were very cost-heavy and lean in margins. Our view for any M&A activity would be to continue on the journey here of the higher margin, lower operating costs, low-people-intensive businesses. So provision of rental equipment fits into that mold very, very neatly. So certainly, we'd be looking at opportunities to grow our rentals business, but also the potential to acquire or merge with other businesses that provide potentially other equipment, including equipment used in the capital construction of wells or other sources of energy. So looking at businesses that may be a little bit broader in its breadth than simply the traditional oil and gas energy services, but looking also to potential businesses that are exposed to the emerging energy businesses, including carbon capture and storage. Then when it comes to the need for providing further, I guess, color on what businesses would actually look like, I think that I can only really provide that kind of high level at the moment. We're not actively pursuing an acquisition or a merger today. But certainly, the work we're undertaking here is to free up the Canadian business, remove the tie to the PNG business, which has been an impediment for doing transactions in Canada in the past, and make sure that it's open then for transactions that would be accretive or would provide an alternative source of beneficial return for our shareholders or create value for our shareholders in Canada. Super. A long-winded answer, I think, to a short question. But that last piece there about cash and equity, I think, Joseph, the answer would be there'd be nothing to be off the table. The main thing would be ensuring that it's in the best interest of shareholders. Super. Well, Mike, I like the progress you've made. I like the fact that there'll be two public companies out of this for shareholders. I look forward to seeing future announcements. Thanks very much. Thank you, Joseph. Thank you. As a reminder, you may press star one if you have a question. We'll take the next question. Please go ahead. Branko Jankovic. Well, hi, Mike. I have a question on the. I'm Branko Jankovic. Hi. On the PNG contract that's coming to an end now in 2024, are you getting any compensation for it ending a year early or standby rates or anything like that? Yeah. Let me be clear. The contract is not ending. The contract runs still until the middle of next year. So this is suspension under the terms of the contract as we were suspended under the terms of its predecessor contract in 2020. There is a small revenue stream that comes from the suspension, but it is very lean. It basically covers the direct costs associated with the cold stacking of the equipment and its ongoing preservation. Okay. Okay. Good. Okay. Then a question on Team Snubbing. That appears like it's running independent. Is there a mandate or any, I guess, long-term plan from High Arctic's perspective? What you're hoping to see from that or whether it's liquidity event or maybe going public or whatever? I'm just curious. Yeah. Good question. Thank you, Branko. The investment in Team Snubbing was at the time on the basis of assisting the two entities joining together to pursue significant growth potential. Team Snubbing's been delivering upon that. When we merged the two entities together, Team Snubbing had, I think, 3 crews, 2 units deployed, not quite 100% active. We had 2 units deployed, the best part of maybe 3 crews. Putting those two together out of the blocks, we went and added an additional unit to work. So that was a fifth. Now they're operating a sixth. They're now up to having 10 active crews in Canada. So there's been some quite substantial growth for Team Snubbing there. They've also now expanded, as we've mentioned, the last couple of quarters into Alaska through the Team Snubbing International partnership and pursuing some opportunities both elsewhere in North America and internationally. We expect Team Snubbing to be more focused on growth over the nearer term, the next couple of years. But on the longer term, we're also anticipating it to be a regular source of distribution of earnings or dividends to High Arctic as a significant shareholder, which we would be utilizing then also to ensure that we're providing quite good returns for our shareholders. Okay. So just looking at the little bit of information this close, like at the end, you've got a dividend deferred. Working capital is negative. It looks like you've had to reinvest cash flow into the non-current assets, which have caught up, I guess. And you've also now got, I guess, cash demands on the note receivable that you're going to be paying. Interest, I think, coming this year and then principal mid-year. You're going to be adequately financed on that side? Just to be clear, when you say we, you're talking about Team Snubbing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we. I'm sorry. You guys are all I would consider you one family, even though I realize the majority is not there. But yeah, it's noted. So you've got the dividend. You've got note payment, etc., are going to be coming due. And you've got a growing business too, so that's going to be more financing required on working capital and receivables in that term. The fact that it's already negative, I think you've got, what, CAD 5 million of our receivables in cash, and you've got about CAD 13 million, I think, of liabilities, current and non-current. I realize non-current is probably largely High Arctic, I guess, right? So. That's right. The largest piece we know, High Arctic. It does have its own bank debt as well. It has an overdraft facility too. Based on the budget that's been approved at Team Snubbing, which has been borne out in the results we've seen in the early part of this year, we're expecting Team Snubbing to be in a robust financial position. We expect them to be making good inroads into servicing that debt, the overdraft facility, the payment of the promissory note to High Arctic, which commences in July and then goes for another, I think, four and a half years. The mortgage that they've taken on for their property that they've occupied in Red Deer, it's owned and mortgaged. So yeah, we're very confident in Team Snubbing's performances for 2024. We expect that this is going to be a record year following the record year of 2023 in their performance. We anticipate that there will be opportunity for payment of more dividends in the future, albeit that the repayment of the debt well, not the repayment, but the payments owed on the debt, servicing the debt, is paramount from our view of High Arctic collection on that promissory note and ensuring that they are a customer of ours for renting our equipment, ensuring that they remain current with payments on those is the top priority. Okay. Well, that sounds good, Mike. Thanks very much for the update. Thanks, Branko. Appreciate your questions. Thank you. We'll take the next question. Please go ahead. Operator. Hello, Mike. Art Buwalda. Hello, Mike. My question is, my comment is, first of all, I'd like to thank you for listening to shareholders. To me, it's very clear that you did that. So thanks for that and also that you're in good standing. It looks like a solid quarter. I think that can be said as well. So that's my first comment. The question is then the following. Do I understand it correctly that when we split the company, it's a straight split and there will not be any rights for us to be bought back? So you will just issue out PNG as shares, right? That's correct. Well, that is the intention is what I should probably say. Things are not quite through those final approvals and things. But yes, that is the way we're intending to proceed. Okay. That's good. That's good. And will PNG, with all the other business, will it stay positive in H2 and the kind of the fee that you get from Santos? Our anticipation is that in the second half of this year, we will be cutting back substantially on some of our discretionary costs in an effort to ensure that we minimize potential impact of both the suspension and of our drilling services. Okay. So you'll be close to that on that or close to that? Yeah. Okay. And then I hear you say that you did already get a dividend from Team Snubbing. Did I hear that correctly? Yeah. Team Snubbing declared a dividend just at the end of last year of CAD 857,000, of which High Arctic received CAD 360,000 and booked. Which is straight 42%, right, if I calculate correctly? Yes. Yep. Okay. That's good. And then there's talk of when we split PNG from the Canadian business, that will increase our ability to get a source of cost-efficient capital. Can you explain why that is and what kind of interest that you are then looking at? We're talking specifically about Canada here? Yeah. We're specifically talking about PNG here. PNG. So access to capital for PNG is not as straightforward as it is for Canada. Papua New Guinea, we've highlighted for quite some time, there's currency restrictions, and the central bank of PNG has been controlling the decline in value of the Kina for quite some time. We can access debt inside Papua New Guinea, but that debt would be in Papua New Guinea and Kina. And as we've also highlighted for quite some time, most of our expenditure and transacting is in US dollars for that business. So in accessing that, there are some further complications and things that may make accessing debt for Papua New Guinea a little more expensive and a little less straightforward than it is for Canada. At the moment, we are working towards ensuring we're retaining an adequate amount of cash in that business. There is cash in the bank in Papua New Guinea at the moment, somewhere in the vicinity. Maybe Lonn could just verify this figure, but I think somewhere in the vicinity of around CAD 8 million equivalent held in bank accounts in Papua New Guinea or in the Papua New Guinea business. We will ensure that we have adequate access to cash once we've harvested some of the receivables in the latter part of this year to ensure that we can sustain our business and recommence drilling operations in 2025. Yeah. No, it gets closer to $9 million, but it's probably about $8.7 million at the end of the year. Thank you, Lonn. Yeah. Closer to 9%. So, in Canada, it's easier. And is it also at a rate that's kind of reasonable? Sometimes you see for the oil and gas guys, they're going up to 8%-9%. That's not the interest that we can have access to. Is it like 4%-5%? What you reckon is the interest we would pay on Canadian loans? So the interest payments on our mortgage facility are around 4%. The market has moved a fair bit since we put that in place, put that facility in place. I'd expect that the cost of debt would be between the two numbers. I think you mentioned a number around 8 or 9. I'd anticipate it to be between those numbers. But there's much more ready sources of debt available to us here in Canada. The Canadian dollar is very liquid. Our Canadian business transacts and has most of its expenditures in Canadian dollars. So from that perspective, it's a lot simpler than for Papua New Guinea. But at the same time, we're also mindful of holding an adequate amount of cash in the Canadian business to ensure that we can meet our working capital requirements and our planned capital investments for 2024. Okay. That's clear. Thanks for answering my questions. And I'll put you onwards. Thank you, Art. Have a great day. Okay. You too. Take care. Bye-bye. Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the meeting back over to Mr. Maguire. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you to all who joined our call this afternoon. I'd like to wish everybody a good week and look forward to making some further announcements in the coming weeks around our reorganization and return of capital. That concludes our call. Thank you, Patrick. You're welcome. The conference has now ended. Please disconnect your lines at this time, and we thank you for your participation.