NYSE:KRP Kimbell Royalty Partners Q3 2024 Earnings Report $12.63 +0.29 (+2.35%) Closing price 04/28/2025 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$12.65 +0.02 (+0.16%) As of 04:24 AM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast Kimbell Royalty Partners EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.22Consensus EPS $0.21Beat/MissBeat by +$0.01One Year Ago EPS$0.19Kimbell Royalty Partners Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$83.79 millionExpected Revenue$80.03 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$3.76 millionYoY Revenue Growth+24.70%Kimbell Royalty Partners Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2024Date11/7/2024TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateThursday, November 7, 2024Conference Call Time11:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsKimbell Royalty Partners' Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Thursday, May 8, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 11:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q1 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Kimbell Royalty Partners Q3 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrNovember 7, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 7 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Greetings and welcome to Kimbell Royalty Partners Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mr. Operator00:00:26Rick Black, Investor Relations. Thank you, Mr. Black. You may begin. Speaker 100:00:32Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Kempel Royalty Partners conference call to review financial and operational results for the Q3 2024, which ended on September 30, 2024. This call is also being webcast and can be accessed through the audio link on the Events and Presentations page of the IR section of kimballrp.com. Information recorded on this call speaks only as of today, November 7, 2024, so please be advised that any time sensitive information may no longer be accurate as of the date of any replay listening or transcript reading. I would also like to remind you that the statements made in today's discussion that are not historical facts, including statements of expectations or future events or future financial performance, are considered forward looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Speaker 100:01:27We will be making forward looking statements as part of today's call, which by their nature are uncertain and outside of the company's control. Actual results may differ materially. Please refer to today's earnings press release for our disclosure on forward looking statements. These factors and other risks and uncertainties are described in detail in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Management will also refer to non GAAP measures, including adjusted EBITDA and cash available for distribution. Speaker 100:01:56Reconciliations to the nearest GAAP measures can be found at the end of today's earnings release. Kimball assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements. I would now like to turn the call over to Bob Ravnaes, Kimball Royalty's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Bob? Speaker 200:02:13Thank you, Rick, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us on the call this morning. With me today are several members of our senior management team, including Davis Ravanus, our President and Chief Financial Officer Matt Daley, our Chief Operating Officer and Blaine Rinesburger, our Controller. We are pleased to report solid results for the quarter, which include declaring a 3rd quarter cash distribution of $0.41 per common unit. Returning value to unitholders is always our priority, and we are proud of the record we have established. Speaker 200:02:44Including the declared Q3 distribution, Kimbell has returned $11.45 per unit in total cash distributed to common unitholders since our IPO in 2017. During the Q3, drilling activity remained strong with 90 rigs actively drilling on our acreage, which represents 16% market share of all land rigs drilling in the Lower 48. Speaker 300:03:148. In addition, we had a record number of lease bonuses during the Q3. Speaker 200:03:15This reflects increased operator interest in developing Kimbell's acreage. Line of sight wells continue to be well above the number of wells needed to maintain flat production, giving us confidence in the resilience of our production as we wrap up 2024. More specifically, the number of net DUCs increased by 34% quarter over quarter to 5.1 net DUCs, the 2nd highest level in Kimball's history, led by the Permian Basin. Finally, we are very optimistic about the future for Kimball and its ability to drive unitholder value for years to come. And now I'll turn the call over to Davis. Speaker 400:03:55Thanks, Bob, and good morning, everyone. In the Q3, we once again generated strong results, maintained a substantial market share of the U. S. Rig count and achieved the lease bonuses during the quarter that were the highest in our history. I'll start by reviewing our financial results from the quarter beginning with oil, natural gas and NGL revenues, which totaled $71,100,000 We had run rate production of 23,846 BOE per day and we exited the quarter with 90 rigs actively drilling on our acreage, which represents approximately 16% market share of all land rigs drilling in the Continental United States. Speaker 400:04:44On the expense side, 3rd quarter general and administrative expenses were $9,500,000 $5,600,000 of which was cash G and A expense or $2.57 per BOE. This continues to demonstrate operational discipline and positive operating leverage. Net income in the 3rd quarter was approximately $25,800,000 and net income attributable to common units was approximately $17,400,000 or $0.22 per common unit. Total 3rd quarter consolidated adjusted EBITDA was $63,100,000 You will find a reconciliation of both consolidated adjusted EBITDA and cash available for distribution at the end of our news release. As Bob mentioned, today we announced a cash distribution of $0.41 per common unit for the Q3. Speaker 400:05:46We estimate that approximately 100 percent of this distribution is expected to be considered return of capital and therefore not subject to dividend taxes, further enhancing the after tax return to our common unitholders. This represents a cash distribution payment to common unitholders that equates to 75% of cash available for distribution and the remaining 25% will be used to pay down a portion of the outstanding borrowings under Kimbell's secured revolving credit facility. Moving now to our balance sheet and liquidity. At September 30, 2024, we had approximately 252.2 $1,000,000 in debt outstanding under our secured revolving credit facility. We continue to maintain a conservative balance sheet with net debt to trailing 12 month consolidated adjusted EBITDA of approximately 0.8x. Speaker 400:06:47We had approximately $297,800,000 in undrawn capacity under the secured revolving credit facility as of September 30, 2024. We remain very comfortable with our strong financial position, the support of our expanding bank syndicate and our financial flexibility. With this substantial liquidity, we are planning to redeem at least half of the Apollo Preferred Stock in May 2025. We believe this timing will optimize cost savings for the company as well as maintain conservative leverage and liquidity. Today, we are also affirming our 2024 guidance, which includes daily production at its midpoint of 24,000 BOE per day. Speaker 400:07:35As a reminder, our full guidance outlook was provided in the Q4 2023 earnings press release. We remain confident about the prospects for continued robust development as we progress through 2024 given the number of rigs actively drilling on our acreage, especially in the Permian. We continue to believe that our diversified portfolio of high quality royalty assets across the leading U. S. Basins will continue to drive value for our unitholders for years to come. Speaker 400:08:08With that, operator, we are now ready for questions. Operator00:08:12Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer you. The first question comes from the line of Tim Rezvan with KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:08:51Hi, good morning folks and thank you for taking my question. Speaker 400:08:54Good morning, Tim. Speaker 500:08:55Hey, good morning. I was expecting we hear comments on the preferred being partially redeemed this quarter. I believe you said May 2025, Davis. So I was curious if you could kind of walk through, what it seems to be a little bit of a change from what you commented on before, kind of what's driving that. Is that an interest rate, outlook or something else mechanical? Speaker 400:09:18Yes, great question. As always, good job picking up on the detail. We ran the math with greater specificity following the last conference call and we realized that it's actually more cost efficient to redeem it in May than it is today. Just saves us a couple of $1,000,000 when we kind of work through the mechanics of the math. So nothing's changed. Speaker 400:09:38The goal is still to take it out as soon as possible. We just realized that waiting 4 or 5 months would actually save the partnership a little bit of money. Speaker 500:09:48Okay. Okay. That's fair. So from should we from a modeling perspective, is roughly half a good assumption to run with? Speaker 400:09:57Yes. And what I would say, Tim, just to hedge that a little bit, obviously, if something crazy happens in oil and gas markets, we might want to readdress taking it out at that time. But right now, barring some unforeseen events, that's absolutely the game plan. We talked about it on the Board call yesterday. Speaker 500:10:14Okay. Okay. That's good to know. Appreciate that. And then as my follow-up, I noticed you did have the increase in net DUCs. Speaker 500:10:23It seemed to come at the expense of net permits, which went down about 1.4. So, but with that said, it's kind of been at that 8 ish level, the net DUCs and permits going forward. So, just trying to understand, is that the right way to kind of think about those 2 together going forward as a visibility on activity? Speaker 300:10:46We're Speaker 500:10:46just trying to understand this increase a little better in the net DUCs. Speaker 400:10:50Yes. I think that's a fair way to think about it. Obviously, a DUC is more valuable than a permit. It's always nice to see the conversion from permits to DUCs. Things go up and down. Speaker 400:11:02I will say that the increase in DUCs recently has been encouraging, particularly as it pertains to Delaware Basin activity. So the big driver of that DUC increase is in Loving County. Those well results just start to pay off in Q4, so we'll start to see the impact of those. And good point on the permitting activity, wouldn't be surprised to see that tick back up. It's just hard to predict. Speaker 400:11:29But very happy, I mean, we're at a near record, if not record on the DUC activity. So continue to feel good about the production outlook over the near to medium term at this time. Speaker 500:11:41Okay. Thanks for the details. Speaker 400:11:43Absolutely, Tim. Operator00:11:46Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Bertrand Dons with Tuohy Securities. Please go ahead. Speaker 600:11:53Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. What basins are you guys seeing the most opportunities for M and A? Are you still looking for maybe blocky acreage? Or is there maybe more value in picking up small interest across your position and doing all the consolidating yourself? Speaker 600:12:10And then just part of that would be with the election behind us, does that maybe mark a pickup in M and A as some of the uncertainty has been removed? Speaker 400:12:18Yes, great question. I would say that, well, a lot of thoughts there. I'll try to keep it brief. Obviously, our SandBox is the Lower 48s. We're looking at every basin. Speaker 400:12:29We're always asking ourselves what's the most efficient way to deploy capital maximize the risk adjusted return to our investors. So sometimes that's the Permian Basin, sometimes it's not. Permian is wonderful. Everybody knows it's wonderful. So it can sometimes be too expensive. Speaker 400:12:45So but I would continue to see just because of the pipeline of opportunities, I would say the Permian continues to be the most attractive and we're just going to continue to make conservative bids. And as you know from following us for a while now, every once in a while we win. Every once in a while a competitor won't show up or maybe they're full because they did a deal recently. I would say we started to see an uptick at a basin that we're not particularly exposed to in a meaningful way, which is Appalachia. And just on your point about the election, one thing we talked about yesterday was the view toward increased infrastructure and LNG exports becoming a more bullish story. Speaker 400:13:25Maybe that Appalachian story makes a little bit more sense for us now than it did historically. It's also a basin that's not traditionally played by a lot of our competitors. So that could be a place where, you could see some activity from us going forward. That being said, continue to look at opportunities all across the board. On the smaller deals, we really want to use our balance sheet to make larger, more impactful acquisitions. Speaker 400:13:51We're reluctant to draw $10,000,000 $20,000,000 $30,000,000 $40,000,000 a quarter on smaller acquisitions on your revolver. It's just really easy to see leverage creep up. And then you're not there with cash available to transact on bigger deals. And it takes us the same amount of time to analyze a larger transaction as it does a smaller one. And I would also add to that, I think the competition for some of the smaller acquisitions, let's call it less than $5,000,000 is significantly greater than acquisitions over $50,000,000 So at this time, we don't really see the benefit of increased consolidation efforts on the micro level, both from a balance sheet perspective, but also from competitive dynamics. Speaker 600:14:37That's really great detail. And then just the follow-up is your quarterly lease bonus is obviously impressive, but you guys noted in there that maybe there's increased operator interest. Is that what you're attributing to? Is it maybe those operators have run through some of their Tier 1 acreage already? And should we go back down to normalized levels? Speaker 600:14:56Or is this maybe a trend that goes forward? Thanks. Speaker 400:14:59The big driver of this quarter's leasing activity was in the Mid Continent. Part of that, the new Cherokee shale play, which we hope is successful because we have such a robust footprint up there. So hopefully that continues to pay off. A good thought on the Tier 2 acreage. Yes, I think that will continue to be more meaningful if I had to give you an answer over time. Speaker 400:15:23I think that you'll start to see folks expanding their exploratory efforts beyond what has already delineated and known. So I think that's a good thought. It will be interesting to see if that continues to pick up in subsequent quarters. We'll obviously keep you guys posted. Speaker 600:15:39That makes sense. Thanks. Speaker 100:15:41Thank you. Operator00:15:44Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Noah Hundness with Bank of America. Please go ahead. Speaker 300:15:51Good morning, guys. Just one question for me. I wanted to ask just a clarification question on the high NRI wells in Loving County. So should we expect that to come online in 4Q and then really start to see the impact at the start of 2025? Speaker 400:16:10Sure. Matt, correct me if I'm wrong here. Those wells are actually already producing. We just expect to start receiving production and cash flow in Q4. And I'll just add that so far the results are very encouraging. Speaker 400:16:23Unsurprisingly, it's one of, if not the best, most productive counties in the United States, very encouraging initial results from that and we're very happy to see the production. Speaker 500:16:36Awesome. Thanks. Speaker 100:16:38Thank you. Operator00:16:40Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of question and answer session. I would now like to turn the floor over to the management for closing comments. Speaker 200:16:49We thank you all for joining us this morning and we look forward to speaking with you again next quarter. This completes today's call. Operator00:16:59Thank you. This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. 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There are 7 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Greetings and welcome to Kimbell Royalty Partners Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mr. Operator00:00:26Rick Black, Investor Relations. Thank you, Mr. Black. You may begin. Speaker 100:00:32Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Kempel Royalty Partners conference call to review financial and operational results for the Q3 2024, which ended on September 30, 2024. This call is also being webcast and can be accessed through the audio link on the Events and Presentations page of the IR section of kimballrp.com. Information recorded on this call speaks only as of today, November 7, 2024, so please be advised that any time sensitive information may no longer be accurate as of the date of any replay listening or transcript reading. I would also like to remind you that the statements made in today's discussion that are not historical facts, including statements of expectations or future events or future financial performance, are considered forward looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Speaker 100:01:27We will be making forward looking statements as part of today's call, which by their nature are uncertain and outside of the company's control. Actual results may differ materially. Please refer to today's earnings press release for our disclosure on forward looking statements. These factors and other risks and uncertainties are described in detail in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Management will also refer to non GAAP measures, including adjusted EBITDA and cash available for distribution. Speaker 100:01:56Reconciliations to the nearest GAAP measures can be found at the end of today's earnings release. Kimball assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements. I would now like to turn the call over to Bob Ravnaes, Kimball Royalty's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Bob? Speaker 200:02:13Thank you, Rick, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us on the call this morning. With me today are several members of our senior management team, including Davis Ravanus, our President and Chief Financial Officer Matt Daley, our Chief Operating Officer and Blaine Rinesburger, our Controller. We are pleased to report solid results for the quarter, which include declaring a 3rd quarter cash distribution of $0.41 per common unit. Returning value to unitholders is always our priority, and we are proud of the record we have established. Speaker 200:02:44Including the declared Q3 distribution, Kimbell has returned $11.45 per unit in total cash distributed to common unitholders since our IPO in 2017. During the Q3, drilling activity remained strong with 90 rigs actively drilling on our acreage, which represents 16% market share of all land rigs drilling in the Lower 48. Speaker 300:03:148. In addition, we had a record number of lease bonuses during the Q3. Speaker 200:03:15This reflects increased operator interest in developing Kimbell's acreage. Line of sight wells continue to be well above the number of wells needed to maintain flat production, giving us confidence in the resilience of our production as we wrap up 2024. More specifically, the number of net DUCs increased by 34% quarter over quarter to 5.1 net DUCs, the 2nd highest level in Kimball's history, led by the Permian Basin. Finally, we are very optimistic about the future for Kimball and its ability to drive unitholder value for years to come. And now I'll turn the call over to Davis. Speaker 400:03:55Thanks, Bob, and good morning, everyone. In the Q3, we once again generated strong results, maintained a substantial market share of the U. S. Rig count and achieved the lease bonuses during the quarter that were the highest in our history. I'll start by reviewing our financial results from the quarter beginning with oil, natural gas and NGL revenues, which totaled $71,100,000 We had run rate production of 23,846 BOE per day and we exited the quarter with 90 rigs actively drilling on our acreage, which represents approximately 16% market share of all land rigs drilling in the Continental United States. Speaker 400:04:44On the expense side, 3rd quarter general and administrative expenses were $9,500,000 $5,600,000 of which was cash G and A expense or $2.57 per BOE. This continues to demonstrate operational discipline and positive operating leverage. Net income in the 3rd quarter was approximately $25,800,000 and net income attributable to common units was approximately $17,400,000 or $0.22 per common unit. Total 3rd quarter consolidated adjusted EBITDA was $63,100,000 You will find a reconciliation of both consolidated adjusted EBITDA and cash available for distribution at the end of our news release. As Bob mentioned, today we announced a cash distribution of $0.41 per common unit for the Q3. Speaker 400:05:46We estimate that approximately 100 percent of this distribution is expected to be considered return of capital and therefore not subject to dividend taxes, further enhancing the after tax return to our common unitholders. This represents a cash distribution payment to common unitholders that equates to 75% of cash available for distribution and the remaining 25% will be used to pay down a portion of the outstanding borrowings under Kimbell's secured revolving credit facility. Moving now to our balance sheet and liquidity. At September 30, 2024, we had approximately 252.2 $1,000,000 in debt outstanding under our secured revolving credit facility. We continue to maintain a conservative balance sheet with net debt to trailing 12 month consolidated adjusted EBITDA of approximately 0.8x. Speaker 400:06:47We had approximately $297,800,000 in undrawn capacity under the secured revolving credit facility as of September 30, 2024. We remain very comfortable with our strong financial position, the support of our expanding bank syndicate and our financial flexibility. With this substantial liquidity, we are planning to redeem at least half of the Apollo Preferred Stock in May 2025. We believe this timing will optimize cost savings for the company as well as maintain conservative leverage and liquidity. Today, we are also affirming our 2024 guidance, which includes daily production at its midpoint of 24,000 BOE per day. Speaker 400:07:35As a reminder, our full guidance outlook was provided in the Q4 2023 earnings press release. We remain confident about the prospects for continued robust development as we progress through 2024 given the number of rigs actively drilling on our acreage, especially in the Permian. We continue to believe that our diversified portfolio of high quality royalty assets across the leading U. S. Basins will continue to drive value for our unitholders for years to come. Speaker 400:08:08With that, operator, we are now ready for questions. Operator00:08:12Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer you. The first question comes from the line of Tim Rezvan with KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:08:51Hi, good morning folks and thank you for taking my question. Speaker 400:08:54Good morning, Tim. Speaker 500:08:55Hey, good morning. I was expecting we hear comments on the preferred being partially redeemed this quarter. I believe you said May 2025, Davis. So I was curious if you could kind of walk through, what it seems to be a little bit of a change from what you commented on before, kind of what's driving that. Is that an interest rate, outlook or something else mechanical? Speaker 400:09:18Yes, great question. As always, good job picking up on the detail. We ran the math with greater specificity following the last conference call and we realized that it's actually more cost efficient to redeem it in May than it is today. Just saves us a couple of $1,000,000 when we kind of work through the mechanics of the math. So nothing's changed. Speaker 400:09:38The goal is still to take it out as soon as possible. We just realized that waiting 4 or 5 months would actually save the partnership a little bit of money. Speaker 500:09:48Okay. Okay. That's fair. So from should we from a modeling perspective, is roughly half a good assumption to run with? Speaker 400:09:57Yes. And what I would say, Tim, just to hedge that a little bit, obviously, if something crazy happens in oil and gas markets, we might want to readdress taking it out at that time. But right now, barring some unforeseen events, that's absolutely the game plan. We talked about it on the Board call yesterday. Speaker 500:10:14Okay. Okay. That's good to know. Appreciate that. And then as my follow-up, I noticed you did have the increase in net DUCs. Speaker 500:10:23It seemed to come at the expense of net permits, which went down about 1.4. So, but with that said, it's kind of been at that 8 ish level, the net DUCs and permits going forward. So, just trying to understand, is that the right way to kind of think about those 2 together going forward as a visibility on activity? Speaker 300:10:46We're Speaker 500:10:46just trying to understand this increase a little better in the net DUCs. Speaker 400:10:50Yes. I think that's a fair way to think about it. Obviously, a DUC is more valuable than a permit. It's always nice to see the conversion from permits to DUCs. Things go up and down. Speaker 400:11:02I will say that the increase in DUCs recently has been encouraging, particularly as it pertains to Delaware Basin activity. So the big driver of that DUC increase is in Loving County. Those well results just start to pay off in Q4, so we'll start to see the impact of those. And good point on the permitting activity, wouldn't be surprised to see that tick back up. It's just hard to predict. Speaker 400:11:29But very happy, I mean, we're at a near record, if not record on the DUC activity. So continue to feel good about the production outlook over the near to medium term at this time. Speaker 500:11:41Okay. Thanks for the details. Speaker 400:11:43Absolutely, Tim. Operator00:11:46Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Bertrand Dons with Tuohy Securities. Please go ahead. Speaker 600:11:53Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. What basins are you guys seeing the most opportunities for M and A? Are you still looking for maybe blocky acreage? Or is there maybe more value in picking up small interest across your position and doing all the consolidating yourself? Speaker 600:12:10And then just part of that would be with the election behind us, does that maybe mark a pickup in M and A as some of the uncertainty has been removed? Speaker 400:12:18Yes, great question. I would say that, well, a lot of thoughts there. I'll try to keep it brief. Obviously, our SandBox is the Lower 48s. We're looking at every basin. Speaker 400:12:29We're always asking ourselves what's the most efficient way to deploy capital maximize the risk adjusted return to our investors. So sometimes that's the Permian Basin, sometimes it's not. Permian is wonderful. Everybody knows it's wonderful. So it can sometimes be too expensive. Speaker 400:12:45So but I would continue to see just because of the pipeline of opportunities, I would say the Permian continues to be the most attractive and we're just going to continue to make conservative bids. And as you know from following us for a while now, every once in a while we win. Every once in a while a competitor won't show up or maybe they're full because they did a deal recently. I would say we started to see an uptick at a basin that we're not particularly exposed to in a meaningful way, which is Appalachia. And just on your point about the election, one thing we talked about yesterday was the view toward increased infrastructure and LNG exports becoming a more bullish story. Speaker 400:13:25Maybe that Appalachian story makes a little bit more sense for us now than it did historically. It's also a basin that's not traditionally played by a lot of our competitors. So that could be a place where, you could see some activity from us going forward. That being said, continue to look at opportunities all across the board. On the smaller deals, we really want to use our balance sheet to make larger, more impactful acquisitions. Speaker 400:13:51We're reluctant to draw $10,000,000 $20,000,000 $30,000,000 $40,000,000 a quarter on smaller acquisitions on your revolver. It's just really easy to see leverage creep up. And then you're not there with cash available to transact on bigger deals. And it takes us the same amount of time to analyze a larger transaction as it does a smaller one. And I would also add to that, I think the competition for some of the smaller acquisitions, let's call it less than $5,000,000 is significantly greater than acquisitions over $50,000,000 So at this time, we don't really see the benefit of increased consolidation efforts on the micro level, both from a balance sheet perspective, but also from competitive dynamics. Speaker 600:14:37That's really great detail. And then just the follow-up is your quarterly lease bonus is obviously impressive, but you guys noted in there that maybe there's increased operator interest. Is that what you're attributing to? Is it maybe those operators have run through some of their Tier 1 acreage already? And should we go back down to normalized levels? Speaker 600:14:56Or is this maybe a trend that goes forward? Thanks. Speaker 400:14:59The big driver of this quarter's leasing activity was in the Mid Continent. Part of that, the new Cherokee shale play, which we hope is successful because we have such a robust footprint up there. So hopefully that continues to pay off. A good thought on the Tier 2 acreage. Yes, I think that will continue to be more meaningful if I had to give you an answer over time. Speaker 400:15:23I think that you'll start to see folks expanding their exploratory efforts beyond what has already delineated and known. So I think that's a good thought. It will be interesting to see if that continues to pick up in subsequent quarters. We'll obviously keep you guys posted. Speaker 600:15:39That makes sense. Thanks. Speaker 100:15:41Thank you. Operator00:15:44Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Noah Hundness with Bank of America. Please go ahead. Speaker 300:15:51Good morning, guys. Just one question for me. I wanted to ask just a clarification question on the high NRI wells in Loving County. So should we expect that to come online in 4Q and then really start to see the impact at the start of 2025? Speaker 400:16:10Sure. Matt, correct me if I'm wrong here. Those wells are actually already producing. We just expect to start receiving production and cash flow in Q4. And I'll just add that so far the results are very encouraging. Speaker 400:16:23Unsurprisingly, it's one of, if not the best, most productive counties in the United States, very encouraging initial results from that and we're very happy to see the production. Speaker 500:16:36Awesome. Thanks. Speaker 100:16:38Thank you. Operator00:16:40Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of question and answer session. I would now like to turn the floor over to the management for closing comments. Speaker 200:16:49We thank you all for joining us this morning and we look forward to speaking with you again next quarter. This completes today's call. Operator00:16:59Thank you. 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