Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Sylvie, and I will be your operator for Crescent Point Energy's First Quarter 2021 Conference Call. This conference call is being recorded today and will be webcast along with a slide deck, which can be found on Crescent Point's website homepage. The webcast may not be recorded or rebroadcast without the express consent of Crescent Point Energy. All amounts discussed today are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated. The complete financial statements and management's discussion and analysis for the period ending March 31st, 2021 were announced this morning and are available on the Crescent Point SEDAR and EDGAR websites. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session for members of the investment community. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, please press star two. During the call, management may make projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or future financial performance. Actual performance, events or results may differ materially. Additional information or factors that could affect Crescent Point's operations or financial results are included in Crescent Point's most recent annual information form, which may be accessed through the Crescent Point SEDAR or EDGAR websites, or by contacting Crescent Point Energy. Management also calls your attention to the forward-looking information and non-GAAP measures sections of the press release issued earlier today. I would like to turn the call over to Craig Bryksa, President and Chief Executive Officer at Crescent Point. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you, operator. Welcome everyone to our Q1 2021 conference call. With me today are Ken Lamont, Chief Financial Officer, and Ryan Gritzfeldt, Chief Operating Officer. As the operator highlighted, this conference call is being webcast along with the slide deck, which can be found on our website. Before I discuss our quarterly results, I'd like to briefly speak to the improving industry sentiment and the opportunities ahead of us for this year. After a tumultuous 2020, the macro environment became more constructive in the first quarter of 2021. Although the world continues to face significant COVID-related challenges, the vaccination rollout has broadened and economies are beginning to open with global oil demand returning to closer to pre-pandemic levels. On the supply front, we believe the industry continues to show renewed discipline, focusing on returns over large-scale growth. Additionally, OPEC and other oil-producing nations have remained successful in managing the delicate supply-demand balance as global economic recovery finds its footing. These factors have all helped stabilize commodity prices, with WTI hovering around US $60 per bbl mark for much of the first quarter. Although the timing of a full global recovery remains uncertain, our commitment to our guiding principles of balance sheet strength and sustainability have remained unchanged. By maintaining this commitment, we have delivered strong first quarter results. During the first quarter, we generated significant excess cash flow of approximately CAD 130 million, further enhancing our balance sheet strength, increased our emissions intensity reduction target to 50% by 2025, and remain on track with our annual capital spending and production guidance. As a result of our initial Q1 success and further operational execution, we anticipate generating excess cash flow of approximately CAD 525 million-CAD 650 million at U.S. $55-$65 per bbl WTI for 2021. This significant excess cash flow generation materially enhances our financial position. Based on current commodity price environment, we expect continued improvement into next year as well, further enhancing our value for our shareholders. Subsequent to the quarter ending, we closed our accretive acquisition in the Kaybob Duvernay. We expect that our entry into this play will further enhance our expected free cash flow generation, accelerate our de-leveraging profile, give us significant inventory and infrastructure in a low-risk play, and improve our environmental performance, all at accretive per share metrics. Since closing the acquisition, our teams have moved swiftly to integrate the new assets into our portfolio and have welcomed a talented team of former Shell employees to Crescent Point. Our operations strategy continues to be holding production relatively flat at approximately 30,000 BOE per day while making an annual capital investment of approximately CAD 180 million. This produces annual net operating income of approximately CAD 365 million- CAD 435 million at US $55-$65 per bbl WTI pricing. We are confident that we will identify further opportunities to enhance returns in this play by realizing efficiencies through our expertise in multi-well pad development and by identifying new drilling locations over time. Furthermore, by acquiring direct ownership of key infrastructure in the area, we should be able to develop the assets with lower capital requirements while also gaining strategic control of our future development plans. We look forward to sharing more news about our operational progress in the Kaybob Duvernay over the coming months as we continue to integrate these assets into our operations. While we anticipate our Kaybob Duvernay entry to improve our environmental performance, I also want to highlight additional ESG progress we've made at a corporate level. Last year, we set an ambitious emissions reduction target to drop our GHG intensity by 30% and our methane emissions by 50% by the year 2025. We have worked hard to make progress on these emissions reduction fronts and have achieved significant early success. As a result, we are increasing our targets to achieve reductions of 50% in GHG intensity and 70% in methane emissions by the year 2025 from the same 2017 baseline as our original targets. We continue to receive recognition for our ESG progress from sustainability rating agencies. We are in the progress on compiling this year's sustainability report, which will highlight our continued commitment to ESG practices, including the announcement of additional environmental targets and new performance disclosures. Look for the report to be released later this year. I'll now turn it over to Ken to discuss our financial results. Ken? Great. Thanks, Craig. For the quarter ended March 31st, 2021, adjusted funds flow totaled over CAD 260 million or CAD 0.49 per share fully diluted, driven by a strong operating netback of over CAD 35 per BOE. Our first quarter development capital expenditures totaled CAD 119 million. We remain on track to spend CAD 575 million-CAD 625 million in 2021, which is in line with our previously stated guidance. Net debt as of March 31st, 2021, was approximately CAD 2 billion, which reflects over CAD 135 million of net debt reduction in the quarter and over CAD 750 million since the beginning of 2020. Our overall net debt does not include the Kaybob Duvernay acquisition, which closed on April 1st. As a part of the Kaybob Duvernay transaction funding, our net debt increased by approximately CAD 670 million, including normal closing adjustments. However, due to the increased expected cash flow and excess cash flow generation associated with this deal, our near-term leverage ratios have improved alongside our expected deleveraging horizon. We expect to obtain our long-term leverage targets of approximately 1x through the continued allocation of future excess cash flow to net debt repayments and through potential A&D opportunities. We continue to be disciplined with our hedging strategy to protect against commodity price volatility. Over 40% of our remaining oil and liquids production net of royalty interest is hedged through the remainder of 2021. The majority of our hedges are swaps with an average price of approximately CAD 65 per bbl, providing us with a solid cash flow base for the year. We will remain disciplined in our approach in layering on additional protection in the context of commodity prices, and we'll chip away at locking in more hedges, which participate in some commodity price upside. I'll now turn things over to Ryan to provide some operational highlights. Ryan? Thanks, Ken. Our first quarter production averaged 119,384 BOE per day, comprised of over 90% oil and liquids. Our previously announced acquisition in the Kaybob Duvernay closed April 1st, and we have successfully integrated these assets into our operations. During the first quarter, a number of our wells were completed and brought on stream, and initial rates of these wells on production for more than 30 days had IP 30 rates of approximately 800 BOE per day per well, weighted to approximately 85% condensate and liquids. We are pleased with these results as development continues to step out from Shell's historical drilling locations. Our first month operating in the Kaybob Duvernay has only reinforced the excitement we have for this deal as we combine our existing in-house technical knowledge with the hands-on expertise of our new employees from Shell, who have years of experience working with this asset. Crescent Point has a proven history of operational execution in two-mile horizontal development plays with similar characteristics to the Kaybob Duvernay, such as our assets in North Dakota, and we look forward to applying these learnings to our Kaybob Duvernay asset to further enhance efficiencies and full-cycle returns. Our conservative 10-year development plan for these assets has a focus on free cash flow generation over growth. We are excited about the opportunity for us to enhance returns through potential cost efficiencies to potentially identify new locations, given our conservative well spacing assumptions and undeveloped land base, and therefore grow economic reserves and net asset value, given the unbooked nature of this asset. As we integrate the Kaybob Duvernay assets, we will also remain focused on enhancing the sustainability of our entire asset base through our decline mitigation efforts. In the first quarter, we successfully converted 30 waterflood injectors and plan to convert over 135 for the year. The continued success of our waterflood programs is evidenced by the low decline production they generate. Approximately 25% of our current corporate oil production is under waterflood, with a base decline rate of only 5%. As we continue to convert producers to injectors and repressurize our reservoirs, we expect to see ongoing improvement in our corporate decline rate. Moving to ESG, as Craig mentioned, we've had tremendous success reducing our emissions intensity since releasing our original 30% reduction target in last year's sustainability report. We have achieved significant reductions to date by taking a proactive approach to mitigating emissions in our day-to-day development planning and field operations. As a result of this early success, we are setting more aggressive targets to achieve reductions of 50% in greenhouse gas intensity, including a 70% reduction in methane emissions by 2025. Our success has also been driven through new workflows and the adoption of our OT platform, which has increased field automation while reducing costs and operator driving requirements, thereby further reducing emissions. Altogether, I think our progress to date has been incredible, and I'm proud of our team's success and look forward to delivering continued improvements over the coming years. ESG considerations are part of everything we do, and we're excited to announce new environmental performance targets and disclosures in our third annual sustainability report. This report, which we plan to release later this year, will include greater detail on our new targets and increased accountability. Before I turn it back over to Craig, I'd like to thank all of our field and operations staff for their tireless work over the past three months. Your hard work, dedication to safe operations, and continued execution is pivotal to our overall success. I'd also like to welcome all of our new employees from Shell, as we're very excited to have you aboard and look forward to working alongside you as we develop the Kaybob asset. I'll now pass it back to Craig for some final remarks. Thanks, Ryan. Our first quarter results have us well-positioned for a strong fiscal 2021, especially if the rising oil price environment we've experienced so far this year persists. We are optimistic that the global economic recovery will continue in the summer months as more people receive vaccines and economies open further. We will remain prudent in our risk management and discipline in our capital allocation to protect ourselves under any commodity price scenario. Our light oil weight and high net back asset base gives us robust free cash flow generation outlook with significant upside in the event commodity prices continue to improve. We are excited for what this means to our outlook and the opportunity it creates for our shareholders. Our capital allocation framework is centered on sustaining production and initially directing free cash flow we generate toward our balance sheet and base dividends. As market conditions continue to improve and we approach our optimal leverage targets, we will consider gradually increasing our base dividend. Following that, we will assess the allocation of any remaining free cash flow in the context of returns and our long-term development plans. I want to thank all our stakeholders for their continued support and our employees for their hard work and execution on our business strategy. We look forward to having the opportunity to engage with our shareholders at our annual general meeting on May 20th. Similar to last year, we will be hosting the event virtually to protect the health and wellbeing of all our valued stakeholders. For more information on how to attend our AGM, please visit our website. I will now open the call to the investment community for questions. Operator, please open the call. Thank you, sir. As a reminder for members of the investment community, if you would like to ask a question, please slowly press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star two. We will pause for a moment to compile the Q&A roster. The first question comes from the line of Cody Kwong at Stifel. Please go ahead, your line is open. Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Got a quick question on your capital budget for this year. I see a lot of your peers have either increased their budget with rising oil prices or at least considering it right now. Where do you guys stand at that? I see there was no update to guidance here, but could we possibly see something a little bit more accelerated in the back half of the year? Are you guys staying padded at this level? Good morning, Cody. Thanks for the question. I would say our guidance is pretty much set for the year, don't expect us to go layering in any incremental capital here in the back half of the year. The CAD 575 million-CAD 625 million capital budget that we've laid out to the market, I would call that set for this year for sure. We are just starting the formal process here for 2022, and as we get closer to nail and knock down and get that done, we'll lay that out to the market at some point in time here into the fall or winter season. In a base case level, though, the number that you have in your presentation, CAD 850 million in sustaining CapEx, that's a decent number to use for now, Craig? For sure it is. That's a safe assumption on the sustaining level. Okay, that's it for me. Thanks. Thanks, Cody. Thank you. Next question is from the line of Patrick O'Rourke at ATB Capital Markets. Please go ahead, your line is open. Hey, good morning, guys. Just a couple of questions here, and they probably go in different directions. First, just wondering in terms of the Duvernay and capital allocation coming up. Shell had had a fairly concentrated approach to that. I think that probably lined up with their infrastructure. The footprint is fairly wide and I'm assuming you're pretty set in where you're gonna drill in 2021, but how do you approach kind of delineation and de-risking some of these other pockets that Shell hadn't been as active on as we get out into 2022 here that might have considerable value and certainly see some intriguing offsetting well results? Yeah. I can take that first, Patrick, and again, thanks for the question, then I'll pass a little bit of it to Ryan. As you look into 2021, like you said, our program is fairly set. We're gonna be moving iron out there in, call it the later part of June, early July, to really start up our drilling program here for this year. We're excited about that. Like I say, that program is set. As you look out into 2022, we'll step out a little bit, but also keep in mind, Patrick, that the play is fairly well delineated, and not only by Shell and what they've done over the past decade, but also by a number of the competitors in the area when you look to the north and the south and the east and the west. It gives us a significant amount of confidence in the asset base and in the land base as we move a little bit to the east and then even a little bit to the west. As far as the timing around all of that, like I said, 2021 is fairly set. 2022, we're starting to plan into. Ryan, I don't know if you'd have any additional comments you'd want to speak to on Kaybob. Yeah, I don't think I have too much extra. Craig, you handled that one pretty well. As you know, these are kind of bigger pads in some undeveloped areas, and so there's 12 months planning that goes into these pads. Like Craig said, our 2021 program is pretty set here. Some of the current results we're getting that we're pleased with. 2022 as well, starting to plan that out and definitely following up to some of our results in the northeast part of the play and then more kind of in the central part offsetting Shell's historic drilling. Maybe shifting gears a little bit here. You did sound fairly optimistic. Maybe that's not the right word. Confident in a recovery here in commodity prices. I know the back end of the curve has come up, we're still in a fairly backwardated position. Hedges are rolling off. Just wondering how you're thinking about maintaining that enthusiasm, but also managing on the risk management side here going forward with that backwardation. Yeah. That's a good question, too, and I'll take a bit of it, Pat, and then I'll pass it over to Ken as well to give you a little bit of coloring on how we're approaching the hedge book. Obviously commodity prices at where they are, call it today CAD 65, very strong. We're obviously excited about that and what it's done here over the last year, just from where we were to where we are. It really speaks to the high net back asset base that we have. When you look at the free cash flow generation for us this year, even at a CAD 65 price deck, we're CAD 650 million of excess free cash flow and a lot of torque there to the upside. Again, to your point, we certainly have been very active and very disciplined with our hedge book. Don't look for that to change. I can give or just pass it here to Ken, he can give you a little bit of color on our thoughts on that as well. Ken, you want to speak to the book? Sure. Thanks, Craig. Yeah, obviously, we do hedge and we hedge to protect for commodity price volatility and the impact that has obviously on our capital programs and our dividends. Look to us to be disciplined on that. Obviously, as you pointed out, the curve's pretty backwardated, so as the front end of this spikes a bit, we obviously are just filling in the book a little bit into Q3 and Q4 here, taking advantage of some of this robust oil prices. As you look towards 2022, we are layering in a little bit of hedges, but we are doing that very selectively. Obviously, if you look at, call it $60 U.S. WTI and above, that's a pretty attractive level when we look at free cash into 2022. That's kind of a nice base level where we can start chipping away at a little bit of hedge protection. We are using instrument swaps, but we're also using a combination of collars in three ways to do a little bit of hedging out there in 2022, just so that we have a little bit of an upside participation should oil prices continue to kind of strengthen the back end of the curve coming up. Look for us to stay disciplined and we'll keep chipping away here a little bit. Craig? Yeah. When I'm looking at the way your hedge book is constructed, it looks like those three-way collars and collars are gaining a little bit more relevancy as we go out in the future. Expect that to continue? Yeah. As you look out into 2022, expect that to continue, Patrick. When you think of it this way, basically two-thirds of the book then has a very solid floor, and two-thirds of the book lets you participate in a little bit of the upside. Again, it's staying disciplined to our process and to Ken's point, starting to chip away at that and layering a pretty solid foundation for us as we look out into the next year. We'll remain disciplined towards that. Okay, great. Thank you. Thanks for the questions. Thank you. Once again, as a reminder for members of the investment community, if you would like to ask a question, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. At this time, Mr. Bryksa, we have no further questions. Please proceed. Thank you all for joining our call today. If you have any questions that were not answered, please call our investor relations team at your convenience. Thanks again, everyone, and take care. Thank you, sir. Please note that Crescent Point's Investor Relations department can be reached at one eight five five seven six seven six nine two three. Thank you for attending and have a good day.
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