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Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Granteer Energy's conference call for fourth quarter and year-end 2021 results. My name is Olivia, and I will be your conference coordinator for today. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. Following the initial remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session for securities analysts and institutions. Instructions will be provided at that time for you to queue up for questions. If at any time during the call you require audio assistance, please press star zero and the coordinator will be happy to assist you. I would like to remind everyone that this conference call is being webcast and recorded today, Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. Today's discussion may include certain forward-looking information, oil and gas information, and non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to the earnings and operational update press release we used yesterday for important advisories and disclaimers with regard to the information and for reconciliation of any non-GAAP measures discussed on today's call. Finally, this earnings call is the property of Grand Sierra Energy, Inc. Any copying or repodcasting of this call is expressly forbidden without the current consent of Grand Sierra Energy. I will now turn the conference call over to Mr. Gary Guidry, President and Chief Executive Officer of Grand Sierra. Mr. Guidry, please go ahead.
Gary Guidry
Thank you, operator. Good morning and welcome to Grand Tierra's fourth quarter and year-end 2021 results conference call. My name is Gary Guidry, Grand Tierra's President and Chief Executive Officer, and with me today are Ryan Elson, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Rob Will, our Vice President of Asset Management. We issued a press release yesterday that included detailed information about our fourth quarter and year-end 2021 results. In addition, Grantiera's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K has been filed on EDGAR and is available on our website. Ryan and Rob will make a few brief comments to summarize and provide context, and then we will open the line for questions. I'll now turn the call over to Ryan. Over to you, Ryan.
Gary Guidry
Thanks, Gary. Good morning, everyone. After the many challenges in 2020 that the world faced, 2021 was a year of strong recovery for the energy industry and Grand Tierra. Our top-tier, low-decline, onshore conventional asset base continued to prove its high quality as the company returned to strong growth in 2021. Our production, approved reserves, funds flow from operations, free cash flow, and after-tax net asset value, or NAV per share, all saw increases from the previous year. We continue to show strong reserve replacement ratios on both approved and approved developed producing basis, driven by our successful on-budget development programs and water flood initiatives, which Rob will describe later. During 2021, our net income was $42 million, the highest realized since 2018, while our adjusted EBITDA was $242 million. Fund flow from operations were $186 million, resulting in free cash flow of $37 million, which was the highest GTE has achieved since 2012. Grantier's on-budget capital spend totaled $150 million for the year and focused on development activities. You may recall that a year ago, we made a commitment to reduce our credit facility balance and we were able to repay approximately $123 million during 2021, resulting in a credit facility balance at the end of the year of $68 million with cash and cash equivalents of $26 million. With forecasted free cash flow during 2022, We plan to have our credit facility completely paid off before the end of June this year. During 2021, through direct tax refunds and value-added tax on our oil sales, Grand Tierra collected a net cash inflow of $21 million, compared to $55 million net collections in 2020. Grand Tierra's strong operating net back of $34.13 per barrel for the year was up 146%, from $13.86 in 2020. Looking to 2022, we announced a capital budget of $220 million to $240 million, allocating 70% to development value optimization of existing assets and 30% to high-impact exploration in Colombia and Ecuador. We are forecasting production of approximately 31,000 barrels of oil per day, the midpoint of our guidance, which is a 19% increase over 2021, with current production being approximately 30,000 barrels per day. Our balance sheet has strengthened significantly, and with the substantial capital expenditures incurred in 2017 to 2019 behind us, we're well positioned for material-free cash flow in 2022 and beyond. At $80 per barrel Brent, we are forecasting year-end 2022 net debt to EBITDA of approximately one times, Free cash flow of $180 million before exploration and $110 million after exploration. Grand Pierre's 2022 exploration campaign of up to six to seven wells will be fully funded from internally generated cash flow and designed to focus on near field prospects and proven basins with access to infrastructure, providing short cycle times from discovery to bringing production on stream. We're also very excited to be drilling our first exploration well in Ecuador in 2022. We've entered into Brent oil hedges on 9,000 barrels of working interest production during the first half of 2022, and no hedges beyond mid-year. These hedges represent just under 30% of our forecasted first half 2022 production, providing downside production as we execute most of our development activities and pay off our credit facility. The weighted average ceiling of the hedges is approximately $87 per barrel, with a floor of $75.50 per barrel. which has allowed you to participate in the significant recent oil price rally. We will continue to look at learning some hedges for the second half of 2022. Before I hand it over to Rob, I want to mention some of our beyond compliance policy initiatives. We're going to identify significant opportunities and benefits to the environment communities. We voluntarily strive to go beyond what is legally required to protect the environment and provide social benefits because it's the right thing to do. In 2021, for the first time, GTE reported Scope 2 greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions in addition to Scope 1 emissions in the company's yearly GHG emissions report. The 2022 results saw an overall GHG emission reduction in excess of 60% relative to 2019, which was achieved via the company's gas-to-power projects and additional operational efficiencies. Starting in 2016 with Conservation International, we committed to reforesting 1,000 hectares of land and securing and maintaining 18,000 hectares of forest through our flagship natural Amazonas project over a five-year period in southern Colombia. For context, 19,000 hectares is about 48,000 American football fields. Over the life of the project, it is expected 8.7 million tons of CO2 will be sequestered. In 2021, Grand Tierra continued with a stringent implementation of COVID-19 protocols by conducting approximately 65,000 PCR and antigen tests and ended the year with a very low positivity rate of 0.7% among its employees. Grand Tierra also acquired and donated COVID-19 vaccines for all its employees in Columbia. Grand Tierra is committed to work with the Columbia national and local governments and local communities to further their peace building efforts in 2021 The company invested 2.9 million locally in projects identified by the communities to meet their needs. The projects include the installation of sanitary units for rural families and infrastructure improvements to local schools and rural roads. In 2021, as part of its commitment to the UN guiding principles for business and human rights, Grand Tierra continued with its humanitarian demining efforts in the Putumayo, clearing a total of 31,000 hectares in partnership with local communities. These are just some of the initiatives we've undertaken in 2021. And I highly encourage everyone to take a look at our 2021 Sustainability Report, which will be available in the second quarter of 2022. I'll now turn the call over to Rob Will to discuss some of the highlights of our current operations.
Gary
Thanks, Ryan. Good morning, everyone. I'll briefly cover a few operational highlights from yesterday's press release, as well as our recent press release regarding year-end reserves to provide an overview of some of our key activities for 2022. We are very pleased with the performance of our high-quality conventional oil and gas assets during 2021. As Ryan mentioned, all of our major assets are being water-flooded to optimize oil recovery and value from each field. As summarized in our recent press release, the company achieved material Proved Developed Producing, or PDP, reserves additions in 2021 as a result of excellent water-flood performance and successful on-budget development drilling campaigns at Ecuador Narro and Casiaco. Our excellent PDP reserves replacement ratio was 148%, with PDP reserves additions of 14.3 million barrels. Our total approved or 1P reserves additions of 11.9 million barrels gave us a strong 1P reserves replacement ratio of 123%, resulting in a grand total of 81 million barrels of remaining approved reserves at year end 2021. Equally important to enhancing and increasing oil and gas reserves, we focus on the optimum long-term value for each asset. As a result of our successful development program, as well as the strong recovery in oil prices, our proven net present value, or NPV, discounted at 10% before tax, increased 36% compared to year-end 2020 to $1.6 billion, resulting in a proven net asset value, or NAV, of $2.61 per share before tax. Our proven plus probable or 2P NPV 10 before tax increased 22% compared to year end 2020 to $2.4 billion, resulting in a 2P NAV of $4.72 per share before tax. Why do we focus so much on water flooding? Combined, our four major oil assets have roughly 800 million barrels of oil in place on a gross basis, or about 700 million barrels on a working interest basis, which means for each percentage point of improved recovery we achieve from our water flooding operations, we can potentially add another 7 million barrels of working interest reserves, or about 9% of our current approved reserves. Grant here is four major oil assets, Acornero, Casiaco, Moqueta, and Sirianti, all of which are on water flood and are conventional low-declined oil reservoirs, represent 84% of the company's pre-reserves and 70% of our 2P reserves. As Ryan mentioned, we have a continuous program of optimizing both operating and capital cost structures across the company. The ongoing material cost reductions for development drilling, completions, and workovers in the core narrow oil field grant here as large as oil assets, will allow further downspace drilling to enhance both oil recovery and asset value. The company drilled 20 development wells in the Cordon Nero during 2021. These new wells were drilled for an average cost of approximately $1.1 million per well, a 27% reduction from the 2020 average cost, and a 42% reduction from the 2019 average. These new wells' completions cost averaged approximately $0.7 million per well, down 14% from the 2020 average, and down 41% from the 2019 average. GTE's largest asset, our coordinator water flood in the middle Magdalena Valley, is currently producing approximately 16,000 barrels per day of oil and continues to see strong water flood performance indicated by stable reservoir pressures, water cuts, and gas-oil ratios, as well as strong oil rates. By the end of Q1 2022, all water injection wells will have mandrels added whereby water injection can be selectively controlled into the different La Sama sand units, resulting in a more efficient water flood and increased recoveries. The coordinator water injection capacity currently sits at approximately 43,000 barrels per day and is being increased to 60,000 barrels per day by Q3 2022 to allow for optimized water flood management as additional wells are drilled this year. Water floods at GT's other three major fields, Cossiaco, Moqueta, and Sirianti all continue to perform strongly. Voidage to replacement ratios, barrels of fluid injected as a ratio of barrels of fluid withdrawn are all at or near unity, ensuring stable reservoir pressures leading to strong water flood performance. All GT's major water floods have significant drilling potential to enhance and increase the remaining oil reserves and value in 2022 and beyond. 2022 will see 14 to 16 new drills at Acora Narrow, four to five at Casiaco, and three at Maqueda. In addition to the water flood optimization and drilling initiatives at Acora Narrow in 2022, we are very excited to have initiated the design and implementation of an enhanced oil recovery polymer pilot, which we plan to have operational in the second half of 2022. The goal of the pilot is to prove the economic benefit of thickening the injected water with polymer and improve the water flood sweep efficiency in one or two water flood patterns. The increased sweep efficiency, which should result in incremental recoverable oil barrels, is created by bringing the viscosity of the water closer in line with the higher viscosity of oil. We are focusing efforts in allocating capital. Why are we focusing efforts in allocating capital to pilot testing polymer flooding? Successful polymer floods can enhance oil recovery by 5 to 10% original oil in place upon a successful pilot we which we run for approximately 12 months a broader polymer flood would be rolled out starting in late 2023 or early 2024 in the broader patterned portion of the pool we have recently completed independent third-party laboratory testing utilizing reservoir core and oil samples recently obtained at core narrow the lab testing has indicated significant incremental oil recovery should be obtainable with additional polymer to our injected water. In line with other polymer floods worldwide, incremental oil recoveries in the pattern portion of the pool could potentially be in the range of 5% to 10%. Similar lab work has been kicked off to determine the feasibility of potential polymer or polymer surfactant flooding that are costiaco and maketa fields. I will now turn the call back to the operator, and Gary, Ryan, and I will be happy to take questions. Operator, please go ahead.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now conduct the question and answer session for securities analysts. If you have a question, please press the star key followed by the one on your touchtone phone. You will hear a tone acknowledging your request. Your question will be pulled in the order that they are received. Please ensure you lift the handset if you are using a speakerphone before pressing any keys. One moment, please, for your first question. Okay. And our first question coming from the line of Joseph Rachel with Grenfier. You want to open?
Joseph Rachel
Thank you very much. Good morning, Gary and Ryan. And I've got a bit of a cold. So I have two areas that I'd like to chat about. First one with Roger. With prices at Brent where they are right now, potentially there'll be an extra $100 billion, assuming it holds for the year. Are you looking at using that to improve the balance sheet once the RBL is paid off, or would you use that to buy in the open market some of the outstanding debt? How do you see using any incremental windfall cash flow versus what you've got in your budget, given these prices that are $20 higher than your high case in your forecast?
Gary Guidry
Yeah, thanks, Joseph. Yeah, it's Ryan. Yeah, I think it's... Right now, our objective is to get our net debt to EBITDA of under $500 million, which we think would be in Q4, Q3, Q4, depending on pricing, as you mentioned. At that time, you know, there's a number of things that we'd look at, whether it's bond buybacks or share repurchases. Those would be the focus.
Joseph
Okay, looking after... Okay, bond buybacks...
Joseph Rachel
And then for Gary, I'm reading a lot about the political situation in Colombia where the left-wing Gustavo Petro seems to be in the lead in the polls from the articles, and the comments in the media seem to say that he's anti-energy. Will this affect your cap expanding? Has he talked about raising royalties? Has he talked about not approving royalties? in certain areas, environmentally sensitive native areas, drilling opportunities or drilling approval processes. How do you see the political situation evolving in Colombia, and how do you see that potentially impacting your operations after the election if he is the winner?
Gary Guidry
Yeah. I think the easiest way to describe that is we have – regulatory approval for everything we're doing this year and beyond. In terms of what Petro has said is that he's against any new exploration, any new leasing lands. We're very comfortable with the inventory that we have going forward and we have committed to the government to execute programs on those lands and we will fulfill those commitments. We've also expanded into Ecuador. The Putumayo and the extension into Ecuador, the Oriente Basin, we're quite excited that we're going to be kicking off an exploration program south of the border as well. And so I think there are two elections coming up. The first is the Parliament or the Congress. Elections will happen in March. And then the presidential elections in May and June Overall, we believe that Columbia will stay conservative in terms of their approach to business, in terms of all of the business-friendly environment that we have seen over the last couple of years. And we're quite proud. As Ryan summarized, we're proud of what we're doing, and we will continue to do regardless of who's the president going forward. We do it because it's the right thing to do.
Joseph Rachel
Well, that's it for me, and thanks very much, and congratulations on the improvement over the last year.
Gary Guidry
Thank you.
Operator
Our next question coming from Yolanda, and building with Bank of America, Yolanda Salfin.
Rob
Good morning. Thank you very much for the call. A couple questions, although Joseph asked two very good ones right before me. On your reserves, congratulations on the very good numbers that you posted. It does sound that your drilling program is going to be focused primarily on areas, proven areas that you already have. So would you expect going forward that any changes or additions to your reserve numbers would come from existing fields as opposed to new discoveries, at least in the short term? That would be my first question.
Gary Guidry
I think the easiest way to describe that is Rob summarized our water floods are doing very well. We're looking at going beyond that with a pilot test on polymer. And so we'll continue to drill and enhance in the fields that we have, but we're also targeting near-field exploration. We see things on seismic that tie right into infrastructure, and I think we'll continue to focus our exploration around our large fields as well. And so the answer to your question is we'll continue drilling in the field that we have just because the performance is doing so well.
Rob
Okay, excellent. And you also just did mention your Ecuador investment in the Oriente Futumayo. What has been the track record of others drilling in Ecuador in terms of from first oil to commercialization? I think it's not too long, but I was wondering if you have any data on that.
Gary Guidry
Yeah, it's very similar to Colombia, to the Putumayo in particular. There's a very good road system. There's very good pipeline infrastructure. And so the time from a discovery, even the testing part of that, the oil can be sold. And we're already operating in Ecuador. We ship a lot of our oil through Ecuador for export purposes. And so we're quite familiar with the country. and with the infrastructure that's in place. And so the cycle time is very short.
Rob
Okay, great. Thank you. And then the third and last question I have is on GHG emissions. Just sort of two points on this. You've mentioned that you're trying to conserve your excess natural gas and using it for power generation. I was wondering if you could give a little bit more information on that. And second is, have you or would you consider buying carbon credits? Thank you.
Gary Guidry
Yeah, the answer to the gas, we've invested a significant amount of money over the last five years. Most of that was in place by the end of 2019, so that investment is behind us in our major fields. And that investment was turbines, gas turbines, to utilize natural gas. What we're doing at the moment is we're going to some of our remote fields and putting in power generation in the smaller remote fields. And our objective is to get to 100%, 100% power generation from natural gas. In terms of credits, we're not at the moment looking into carbon credits. What we're looking into is expanding what we're doing. Ryan mentioned the reforestation projects. We're quite proud of that. We're looking at some other things that we can actually do to complement our activities in Colombia and Ecuador as well in agricultural areas in cooperation with the government of Colombia. They have some big plans, big programs, and we're very supportive of what they're doing. in addition to the things that we're doing on our own.
Rob
Great. Thank you so much.
Operator
Our next question coming from the line of David Herzberg with Stiefel. You want to start there?
David Herzberg
Good morning, and thank you for the call. In your annual report, you illustrate the percentage of oil sold through your three sales and transportation channels, pipelines, wellhead, and trucks. I was wondering if you could provide some color with respect to how you envision the percentage of oil sold through these channels. Do you expect it to change at all in 2022 from 2021?
Gary Guidry
Yeah, I think in 2022, we would expect a significant change. Some of the oil, because all of our oil eventually goes through pipelines, and sometimes we either sell it to Wellhead, they're eventually trucked to pipelines, or we truck ourselves to an inlet to a pipeline. And so we don't anticipate any changes in 2022.
David Herzberg
So those percentages that you have illustrated over the last three years, for example, the 12% where you say volume transported through pipelines and then 34% at wellhead and 54% because there was a difference in 2020 versus 2021. So are you suggesting that 2022 will look very much like 2021? Correct. Yeah.
Gary Guidry
2021 is a better proxy looking forward.
David Herzberg
Great. Thank you. Okay.
Gary Guidry
Thanks.
Operator
Our next question coming from the line of Oriana Cobalt with Balance Capital. Your line is open.
Oriana Cobalt
Hi, good afternoon. This is Oriana Cobalt from Balance. Thanks for taking my question. I have a couple of questions. If you don't mind, I'm going to be going one by one. So just for the first one, if you could provide us further color in terms of cash balance ending this year, given your investment plan, where do you see cash balance?
Gary Guidry
Yeah, I think with respect to cash balance, obviously price has a huge impact. I think if you look at an $80 oil price environment, the cash balance would end around $120 to $140 million. And for each $10 increase in Brent price adds about $60 million of free cash flow, which you can assume can go to the balance sheet.
Oriana Cobalt
Perfect. And more regarding on your exploration plan, if you could elaborate more, we see in your filings $20 million for 2022 in one well for Ecuador. So if you could provide further detail in terms of which area do you expect it, and if this number already includes 3D and seismic works.
Gary Guidry
Yeah, I think on the exploration drilling program, I think in our latest slide deck, we have a pretty good chart in there that shows where the timing of the wells and when we're drilling the wells. And so I think in Ecuador, you know, if you look at, we're going to drill two to three wells in Ecuador, one well in the Middle Meg, and three wells in the Putamayo, really starting in May and June of this year. And again, these are all near existing fields with close access infrastructure. So there's really no seismic plan for 2022. We have all the seismic that we need. And in fact, some of the fuel wells in the Putamayo are being drilled off the seismic that we actually shot in 2019. Perfect.
Oriana Cobalt
That sounds great. And one last one from my side. Regarding the CapEx breakdown for 2021, I couldn't find much detail, so if you could perhaps provide more information in terms of how much was destined to exploration and facilities, that would be very helpful. Thank you.
Gary Guidry
Yeah, 70% is going into development and 30% into exploration. And if you look at the development, about half of the development will be going into the Cordonero field and the remainder into Kostiakou and Makeda.
Oriana Cobalt
So sorry, just for the last one, I was referring to 2021. Like for the last year, how much went to exploration? Sorry.
Gary Guidry
Yeah, almost all of our dollars were in development. We had very low exploration dollars in 2020, 2021. It was all development expenditures.
Oriana Cobalt
Okay, perfect. That's very helpful. Thanks again.
Gary Guidry
Great. You're welcome.
Operator
Our next question coming from the line of Alexandra Simiandini with William Blair. Your line is open.
Alexandra Simiandini
Hi. Thank you for taking my question, and congratulations on the strong results today. I wanted to ask a follow-up on political risk. And I have two more questions. So the first one would be, basically, how do you see the risk of license not getting renewed if Petro wins? And also regarding that, for how long do you still have a license? When do your licenses end?
Gary Guidry
Yeah, the short answer to that is it's not a matter of just renewing licenses. To get a license, we've committed to work, whether that's drilling exploration wells, shooting seismic. And so we don't see any risk of us fulfilling our commitments, nor the government not asking companies like Grand Tierra and others to fulfill their work commitments in the country. I think what Petro has said publicly is he's against any new licenses, any new lands being issued. And so the answer to your question is we believe that we have a commitment in the country to do work on the lands that we have and we'll fulfill those commitments. So that risk is very low.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay, thank you. And can you also remind me until when does your license expire for Accordion Era, for example?
Gary Guidry
Yeah, our licenses on exploration, they vary in terms of time. Accordion Era, Rob, is 2039. So we have lots of time. And there's also clauses in our contracts to extend those for up to 10 years if we choose to do so.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay. And how about the others? Is it about same time?
Gary Guidry
Like, for example, Costacayo? Costiaco, Moqueta are in the 2030s as well. So we have plenty of time, which is why we're continuing to develop in those fields. The one contract that is near term, is the Cohembe, the Sur Oriente. It's our fourth largest asset. And we've assumed in all of our values and all of our reserves that that contract will not be renewed in 2024. Although that may happen, we're not counting on that happening going forward.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay. Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. And can you remind me what is the water injection right now in Accordionero? I think you mentioned it in the presentation, but I think I missed that.
Gary
Yeah. Current water injection in Accordionero is approximately 43,000 barrels per day of water.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay.
Gary
And we plan on ramping it up to 60,000 barrels a day by Q3 2022 as we drill additional wells. And of course, over the next few years, we'll continue to wrap up as we continue to drill additional wells.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay, and then for exploration, is it mostly Accordionero that you plan to do exploration on or the other fields as well?
Gary Guidry
No, it's across all of the basins. We're drilling a couple of wells in Ecuador, the Putumayo, and the middle Magdalena Valley as well. And so it's three different areas.
Alexandra Simiandini
Yeah. So it's balanced, you would say, between the three?
Gary Guidry
It's balanced, yes.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay, thank you. And my last question would be regarding transportation costs. I see that your transportation costs are lower versus your Colombian peers, like Frontera, for example. Why is that? So I'm seeing transportation around $1. one to two dollars per barrel, is this correct? And why is it so low versus your peers in the region?
Gary Guidry
Part of that is, one, our transportation routes are a little bit lower cost. We don't use a lot of the pipeline infrastructure in Colombia. As you know, the pipeline costs are quite high. What we use mostly, if you look at the Putamayo, we actually truck down to Ecuador, so much lower cost, which brings down our cost. So the transportation costs do come off of our revenue price. So if you look at our guidance, it's around $10 of transportation quality discount of what we assume, and that comes off of revenue.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay, that makes sense then. And then it is connected to Ecuador, and then from there it's connected to the pipeline?
Gary Guidry
Yeah, we actually truck down to Ecuador, and it goes in the OCP pipeline, then it goes to the Esmeraldas port, the deepwater port in Ecuador.
Alexandra Simiandini
Okay. Okay, thank you very much.
Gary Guidry
Thank you.
Operator
Our next question coming from the line of Bevan Rosenblum with Seaport Global. He and I saw him.
Joseph
Hi, thanks for taking my question, and congratulations on the strong results. Just one question. The water flooding and the polymer test for 2022, is this part of the – is it included in your 2022 CAPEX guidance? And if – regardless if it is or it's not, what is the – what are you expecting to spend on that in 2022?
Gary
Yeah, thanks, Ben. Absolutely, we have included the cost in our 2022 capital budget. And the pilot is a fairly modest cost, approximately a couple of million dollars, $2 million, say, approximately, to pull off that pilot as far as the initial costs go, and maybe a little bit more than that, actually, including some of the polymer costs. So it's quite a modest cost, the pilot. Obviously, when we pump this accessible pilot, and as we go into a full-filled polymer flood, hopefully in late 2023, early 2024, obviously the cost would be much more significant. But by that time, we'll have proven that it works and giving us some excellent incremental recovery there. And we're quite excited about this because polymer, of course, is used throughout the world, and it's also used extensively in Columbia as well, in very similar pools. So this pool, with the viscosity of the oil, this pool should respond very well to polymer, which has already been illustrated in the lab work.
Joseph
Excellent. Thank you.
Operator
I'm not showing any further questions at this time. I would now like to send a call back over to Mr. Guidry for any closing remarks.
Gary Guidry
Thank you, operator. I would like to thank everyone for joining us today, and we look forward to updating you over the quarter and as we progress. It's an exciting year, and we're very appreciative of your support. Thank you.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our conference for today. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.
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