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A Montney gas producer, about 70% weighted. About 12,000 BOE's a day. They have been innovators, especially among the junior group, with slick water fracs, which has really improved productivity, deliverability and recoveries. The main issue with this is their leverage. There is always an expectation that their cash flow will grow to make the balance sheet look better, and it just seems to be one quarter away every single time. They should have raised money when markets were rocking and rolling. Fundamentally a great asset base, but the fundamentals are working against it.
Oil/gas. They are using technology to dramatically improve production. They typically use water fracing, but are now using slick water fracing, which claims 5X more water and 2X more sand into the same size hole. That creates larger cracks giving 3X the amount of production. Payback is less than a year. Trades at a premium of 41% this year and 27% next year. However, looking at what analysts are forecasting for their growth, it is 77% growth in cash flow this year, 4X faster than a typical oil/gas company and 2X faster in 2015.
These people are real, real implementers. They have a lot of room to go. The Canadian energy business got a little ahead of itself. The softness we have seen in the last month has allowed him to re-enter some of his favourite names. Visibility with regards to production growth is extraordinary. They have a lot of approved undeveloped locations.
Not the top 1, 2 or 3 in natural gas names, but if you own he thinks you will do fine. They put out an operations update with one really good well. Also, had another that was crappy in terms of liquids yield. He is focusing more on the crummy well because of the variability in geology. Have been deleveraging given the ramp in their cash flows. Part of that was contingent on high natural gas prices, and as gas has sold off, he thinks this thesis is somewhat challenged. Have an offer for their Wapiti asset which would serve to deleverage the balance sheet. There are names he likes better, but sentiment has overshot to the negative.
Still likes it tremendously. You won’t see 100% return like in the past, but you have room for it to go higher over the next 12 months. The big spike was an increase in market multiple and the multiple expansion in all Natural Gas Stocks. They may sell a non-core asset and raise cash to buy a new higher speed drill rig.
Delphi (DEE-T) or Tourmaline (TOU-T)? Have done a very good job on their Big Stone assets. They are into some bigger, more prolific wells. He can’t compare the 2 because Tourmaline is the benchmark in the industry. He would prefer Tourmaline because it has more exposure to the play that he really likes, the Montney in Northeast BC and North-Western Alberta.
Uses technology in the oil/gas patch. They use slick water fracing to end up injecting 5X the amount of water and 2X more sand than conventional, into the same size horizontal well. They do this under tremendous pressure, and because of this additional material, it cracks the well much further and wider, so production ends up being 3 times that of conventional fracing, and the wells pay off their cost of drilling in less than a year. Analysts have increased their earnings estimates by 23% in the past 60 days. Forecast cash flows are supposed to be 4.9X and 1.9X greater than that of the typical oil and gas company for 2014-2015.
This had not been a good Call by him. The price of gas is actually held up well. This company, like all the other companies, has just been thrown out. Thinks the market is overreacting to energy stocks, but with the gas stocks, the underlying cash flows haven’t changed that much because gas is still above $4. Because the stocks are down and this is tax loss season, there are going to be more people selling the stocks, up to Jan 1st. At the same time, our coldest temperatures of the year will come in Jan, Feb and March. These 2 things will put you in a better position. He expects that you will get a better price in January then you will get right now.