Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Oasis Petroleum Business Update Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen only mode. Please also note today's event is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the conference call over to Michael Lu, CFO. Sir, please go ahead.
Thank you, Jamie. Good morning, everyone. Today, we're providing a business update to discuss recent changes to our asset portfolio.
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We may also reference our current investor presentation, which you can also find on our website. With that, I'll turn the call over to Deanie.
Thank you, Michael. Good morning to all and thank you for joining our call. We sincerely appreciate your Today and are pleased to be discussing the most recent strategic actions that we've undertaken. As you've likely seen in our press release, yesterday afternoon, we announced the divestment of Permian Basin assets for total potential consideration of $481,000,000 When taken together, our Williston Basin acquisition and Permian Basin exit exemplifying our commitment to aligning our actions and core competitive strengths with the company's overall strategy. These transactions were attractively priced, position us to benefit from increased scale and focus in our core asset, the Williston Basin, where we have substantial running room and see great upside opportunity.
They protect our balance sheet, deliver incremental return of capital to shareholders and are accretive to our cash flow per share, free cash flow per share and reinvestment rate, both individually and on a combined basis in the near and long term. Simply put, these transactions further our progress towards building a sustainable enterprise, which generates a significant free cash flow for the benefit of the company and shareholders. I wanted to take a moment to expand on our rationale for the divestment and touch on valuation, both on this transaction from an absolute standpoint and comparably with the acquisition we recently announced in the Williston Basin. First, let me say that we continue to believe that the divested Permian position is a great asset, but opportunities for Oasis to build meaningful scale Around the position have become quite limited as a lot of consolidation has happened around us since the asset was purchased in 2018. As we've discussed before, we believe size and scale are extremely important as we need to drive more volumes over lower costs to improve operating efficiency and returns on capital.
Unfortunately, we just did not see a reasonable pathway to build the scale and vision when we entered the Permian Basin. Given this difficulty, we explored alternatives and are happy with the valuation we are receiving at the conclusion of our sales process, which on a flowing production only basis values the stream at You can compare that with the $28,000 for flowing BOE that we're paying for low decline Williston production. Similarly, from a Q1 annualized EBITDA perspective, we're divesting this acreage at approximately 4.6 times EBITDA, while we're picking up the Williston asset at 2.9 times EBITDA, both of which are accretive to Oasis on an enterprise level. When you look at this in aggregate and net out the 2 transactions, We're picking up production for less than $15,000 per flowing barrel and EBITDA for 1.7 times. Of course, there are many ways to look at a transaction and another of those would be to apply specific value to producing barrels and ascribe the rest to inventory.
So in that scenario, if you assume $30,000 2 rig years worth of Tier 1 inventory in the Williston transaction. So this inventory trade accelerated and derisked up to $13 per share in value. Now to be fair, the numbers I'm quoting for the Delaware transaction do assume we will see WTI above $60 in 2023 through 2025. But if we find ourselves in a sub-sixty dollars world, we'll be just as happy with the consideration we've received. So from an E and P perspective, after the transactions close, Oasis will be 100% focused on our core Williston position, where we can drive value through our enhanced scale as one of the largest operators in the basin, long standing subsurface expertise in basin knowledge and the exploitation of numerous upside opportunities that we see in the area.
We have a strong track record of efficiently and responsibly developing our assets, and we look forward to integrating the new assets and working with our new stakeholders. Oasis is committed to running the new assets in an environmentally conscious and sustainable manner consistent with Oasis' values. From an OMP standpoint, I think it's also very important to note that the midstream assets and Panther DevCo associated with our Permian position or retained by OMP and because we anticipate increased activity in the Permian by the new operator in comparison with our stand alone plans And because we will likely be shifting some of our internal capital previously anticipated to be invested in Permian into the Williston, we believe these transactions will be accretive to OMP on both fronts. Pro form a for the sale, Q1 2021 revenue would have been 17% third party. So pro form a for both deals, We believe these transactions enhance our scale, focus our portfolio, drive significant accretion across multiple metrics, allow us to return more cash to shareholders, generate more cash and improve our reinvestment rate, all while having minimal impact on inventory and very modest impact on pro form a leverage.
As you can clearly see, these combined transactions illustrate our willingness to be both a buyer and a seller if we believe doing so will make us a better company. We have now simplified our midstream ownership and announced 2 transformative transactions, all of which are highly accretive positioning Oasis to take advantage of expanded scale while maintaining a best in class balance sheet. With that, I'll turn the call over to Michael for a few words before we open it up to questions.
Thanks, Danny. Just some quick housekeeping items before we turn it over to questions. We have updated our 2021 guidance for volumes, CapEx and costs, pro form a for the two deals. The Permian divestiture consisted of the primary transaction combined with a couple of smaller deals. In aggregate, proceeds approximate up to $481,000,000 consisting of $406,000,000 at closing and up to $325,000,000 contingent earn out payments in 'twenty three, 'twenty four and 'twenty five if WTI averages over $60 per barrel for each respective calendar year.
The primary Permian transaction is expected to close around June 30, 2021 subject to customary closing conditions. And we have adjusted our 2Q volume guidance lower by about 500 BOE per day to account for the impacts of the smaller transactions, which have already closed. We intend to use the proceeds to finance the Williston acquisition. And pro form a for the two deals, our leverage stands at about 0.3x, well below our 1x leverage target. At script pricing, Oasis is on a path to have 0 net debt by mid-twenty 22.
Additionally, our cost structure remains strong, and our 4th Quarter 'twenty one E and P cash G and A guidance is expected to range between $1.25 to $1.35 which is highly competitive. We have assumed that the Williston acquisition closes June 30, 2021 for guidance purposes. However, it is likely that the Williston purchase closes sometime in late in July. We plan to update Q3 volume guidance with our second earnings results in early August to true up for the actual close date. Note the effective date of the Williston purchase is April 1, so any downward impact to third quarter volumes will be completely offset by and upward adjustment to the purchase price.
As we noted earlier, we have fully committed bridge financing totaling $500,000,000 which we expect will be taken out with a notes offering. We also had approximately $106,000,000 of cash as of threethirty 1, and we'll have generated $406,000,000 of cash with the Permian divestiture. So we're in good shape to finance the $745,000,000 acquisition. And as I mentioned, pro form a for the deals Based on Q1 'twenty one annualized EBITDA, we'd be at about 0.3x net debt to EBITDA. You also note that we layered in hedges for the deal.
You'll see that this is primarily in collars, which balances our overall portfolio between collars and swaps. And this gives us a great free cash flow protection along with upside oil participation. And then combined with the deal, along with the fees and the hedges that we did, we'll be at about Point 5 times net debt to EBITDA, but continuing to trend down trending down by the end of the year. So overall, we'll have great liquidity under our revolver and an increased ability to return cash to our shareholders net for the 2 deals. And as a reminder, we recently announced that we plan to increase our fixed quarterly dividend by 33% to $0.50 per share after the Williston acquisition closes.
We also recently announced $100,000,000 share buyback program, and we'll continue to explore more ways to get cash returned to our shareholders. With that, I will turn the call over to Jamie for questions.
Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we will begin the question and answer session. Our first question today comes from Scott Hanold from RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead with your question.
Yes, good morning. I guess you all made a point of obviously in the Permian, you couldn't scale things up and you see the advantages Of scale to drive efficiencies. And when you step back and look at it, do you all have do you feel you have the Scale you need in the Williston, I mean it's pretty Michael, you pointed out the fact that you'll be at 0 net debt in mid-twenty 22 and obviously that question It may not be from a capital structure the most efficient place to be. So do you envision on skilling more up in the Bakken at this point, considering that you see that is an advantage to efficiencies going forward.
Scott, this is Danny. Thanks for the question. I think as we look at Williston, clearly with the Acquisition of the QEP assets, that will put us at about 500,000 acres and with a pretty good production profile to go with that. And At that level, we feel like we've got reasonable scale in the Williston as it stands. But certainly, if opportunities present themselves to make Additional accretive acquisitions, we'll be looking at those.
They'll have to fit in well with the organization. They'll have to make us a better company and they'll have to be competitive with other calls on capital. Clearly, we're going to be looking at with whether it be With our overall capital structure or with the free cash flow that we're generating, we're going to be looking at how best to employ to make ourselves a better company and most importantly, to create value for shareholders. And so whatever form that takes is what we're going to be looking at, but we feel like we've got pretty good scale currently, but bolting on additional Scale into that position, if it makes us a better company and is accretive to us, might make sense as well.
Okay. And as my follow-up, and you obviously talk about some development options that you're evaluating going into 2022. Can you tell us strategically what are some of those options at a high level as you look at the path going forward?
So I think from a high level, clearly, we picked up some inventory with the QEP assets. We really like the inventory. We think it's very, very high As we look at our overall production profile within the Williston, we anticipate obviously increasing pretty significantly toward the latter part of this year as we close the QEP acquisition. We'll probably our And then we're going to probably maintain somewhat smaller level. Consider, we talked about after the QEP acquisition being around 80,000 barrels a day and probably holding flat around there.
With the Permian divestiture, you can probably knock around 10% off of that number. But again, we're working through our development plans currently and we'll be coming out with guidance in the future. But generally, we'll be holding a production profile we anticipate sort of flattish as we move forward. We've got good inventory with the legacy Oasis position, and we think we picked up some good inventory with the QEP position. We also have opportunities to drive additional value through looking at operating practices that we currently have that we think we may be able to employ over with the new assets that May streamline and pull some more cost out of the system, and things along those natures, marketing contracts, that sort of thing.
So Again, when we made the QEP acquisition, we talked about the fact that none of that was priced into our models and acquisition price, but we do see some value there and we'll be working as we get closed and incorporated into the organization to make sure we're getting full value out of all those opportunities.
So do all those development scenarios you're looking at contemplate sort of flattish production growth going forward? Or is there any Sort of flattish production growth going forward or is there any semblance of the ability to have a small amount of growth whether it be 5 ish percent? And again, I'll point to the fact that you all are going to be extremely under levered by the time you get into 2022, I mean, 0 net debt. I mean, does it make sense to think about a scenario where you have a little bit of growth to continue to improve the operational efficiency
Yes, I think if we wanted to generate some growth, we've got the inventory set I think the question will be as we look at where we best invest our money and where we best create value for shareholders, what's the right thing to do? And so is that going to be to provide more organic growth. Is that going to be to do potentially an accretive bolt on acquisition? Or would that be to return for capital to shareholders. And so those decisions those are the types of decisions we thought we laid out before in our capital allocation framework, and that's what we'll be looking at.
The good thing is With the free cash flow we've got and with the balance sheet position we've got, we're going to have the ability to do those things and sort of shareholder value creation is going to be a high priority
Thank you.
And our next question comes from Derrick Whitfield from Stifel. Please go ahead with your question.
Good morning, all. Congrats on your rapid progress in such a short period of time.
Thanks, Eric.
With my first question, I wanted to focus on the synergies and upside you noted in your earlier response to Scott's question. Referencing slide 3, where do you see the greatest upside on the synergy front now that you've consolidated operations within the Williston?
So I think as we the biggest upside we've got is probably the undeveloped inventory there that we didn't We feel like we didn't really value in the acquisition price. And so that's again, we think this is highly economic inventory, 2 to 3 rig years worth of that inventory that we picked up with the acquisition. So that's a great potential value uplift for us. In addition, as we look through the overall opportunity, we recognize that we've been working internally very hard with the 3rd party group We anticipate that we'll be able to take some of those same processes over into the new assets and see similar benefit there. And we're also open to the fact that it's going to give us a great Look under the hood and see how another party was doing things, and we may find things there that we can incorporate into our way of doing business, either of which will hopefully allow us to streamline our operations in lower cost.
And so we'll be looking very focused on that. And so between that, between opportunities to look at additional sort of purchasing power from increased scale with working with our vendors with increased volumes flowing through the basin to get better deals. From that standpoint, I think that's really where we're looking at bringing some value out.
And Derek, there's also maybe adding on that a little bit on the midstream side. We see good opportunity on that front as well. So 1, with the exit in the Permian, we now have a great third party Kind of anchor tenant there from an LMP perspective that will likely drill faster than what we had planned. So that's a great place for us to be from an L and P perspective. And then in the Williston, it gives us an opportunity to take some of the cash flow from the kind of the outspend that we had in the Permian and reallocate back to the Williston and potentially even accelerate a bit on the OMP dedicated acreage in the Williston.
So really positive from that perspective from the Midstream side as well.
Thanks, guys. And perhaps, Dan, on OMP with my follow-up, clearly step 1 with simplification. As you think about the Current market environment for midstream assets, how should we think about your next likely steps?
Well, I think we've as we've talked about on some previous calls, we're continuing to evaluate A whole array of options for our midstream position. We recognize that there It's difficult to get the full read through value of our holdings in OMP and And our E and P operations back to Oasis shareholders. And so that's a value disconnect we recognize, and we'll be working hard to try and sort of close that gap. And so we're really evaluating a whole host of different options there. Can't comment on which option we're ultimately going to take.
I'll just tell you that we're working that hard internally and that value disconnect It's something we look at. We look at daily and want to correct that as quick as we can, but we also want to make sure we make the right decision when we do correct it.
Understood. Very helpful, guys, and congrats again on your progress in such a short period of time. Thank you.
Our next question comes from David Heikkinen from Heikkinen Energy Advisors, please go ahead with your question.
Good morning, team, and thanks for taking the question. One thing that we've been thinking about, and it's Definitely a longer term question beyond the 6, 7 years of inventory you have now that can sustain. There's been some private companies in Montana. There's other companies. You have that long term asset over there.
Can you talk about any Small amounts of capital that you might put into your longer term assets, whether or not that's Montana or Red Bank that And then when you might actually think about doing that or if you're already doing that, can you give us an update on how you're thinking about the assessment of those longer term assets?
Yes, great question. As we look at you look out in terms of the inventory, one of the great benefits we've got is The 3rd party activity around us. So you've got depending on where you are in the acreage, a number of private companies that have been Pretty aggressively drilling out around our position and Using bigger fracs and longer laterals, both techniques with high capacity lift has really improved the economics in those areas. So We look forward to and we're still very focused on, as you said, the core middle part of the basin, but a lot of activity Outboard to that, that is super encouraging. So we've got to, we think, increased and improving Path and net acreage that we're not included in that 10 years right now.
Okay. So you don't have any testing plans of the longer than 2 mile laterals Or anything along those lines or that, like you said, lift changes that seem to be yielding some Much improved economics.
Yes, it's really improving the economics as you said. We're actually going to be employing those techniques On our inboard more core acreage, so we're moving to 3 mile laterals in Indian Hills probably later this year. We've been using high capacity lift and optimizing stimulation all along the way. So it's going to just as we do Employ those techniques in the core. It's going to continue to boost returns in those areas.
And then as we Look out, Board. We'll continue to monitor what some of the other guys are doing, but as you said, really continues to improve results.
And then the On the OMP side, and I know this isn't necessarily always the focus, but it clearly does seem like you've got a new operator and you've about some that's going to have more activity in the Delaware. How will you guys think about providing an outlook now for a private company that's Going to be operating and your 3rd party volumes going up, it should actually increase the value of that asset overall. But How do you think through providing us perspective on OMP, now that you have a third party operating that asset?
Yes. Dave, that's a good question. Obviously, as our third party volumes grow, we're going to continue to Kind of guide those assets. The Permian asset overall from an OMP perspective, still not really large. It's only Yes, 3% of kind of the revenue.
So it's not like it's massive, but it's a growing asset, which we think is fantastic. And We'll continue to give guidance kind of into the different DevCo entities and kind of show where we think those are coming out. And that's including all the 3rd parties. So even prior to the asset sale, we were having some good third party success there in Delaware as well as in the Williston that we had added really since the beginning of the year. So it's not only this kind of new 3rd party who acquired our position, but really other third parties that we're continuing to add to the system.
So yes, we'll continue to give guidance on how we think those are going. But It's overall a positive situation from an O and P perspective.
Okay. Thanks,
And ladies and gentlemen, with that, we'll be concluding our question and answer session. I'd like to turn the conference call back over to Danny Brown for any closing remarks.
Thanks, Jamie, and thanks to everyone for their time today. The Uasis team is really excited to announce these transactions as they support our strategy of building a sustainable enterprise generating significant cash flow for the benefit of shareholders. As always, please don't hesitate to contact us for any follow-up questions you might have.