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Gran Tierra Energy Inc.
10/31/2025
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Grand Tierra Energy's conference call for third quarter 2025 results. My name is Shannon, and I will be your 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 your questions. I would like to remind everyone that this conference call is being webcast and recorded today, Friday, October 31st, 2025, at 11 o'clock 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 issued yesterday for important advisories and disclaimers with regard to this information and forward reconciliations of any non-GAAP measures discussed on today's call. Finally, this earnings call is the property of Grand Tierra Energy, Inc. Any copying or rebroadcasting of this call is expressly forbidden without the written consent of Grand Tierra Energy. I will now turn the conference call over to Gary Guidry, President and Chief Executive Officer of Grand Tierra. Mr. Guidry, please go ahead.
Thank you, Shannon. Good morning, and welcome to Grand Tierra's third quarter 2025 results conference call. My name is Gary Guidry, Grand Tiers President and Chief Executive Officer, and with me today are Ryan Elson, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Sebastian Morin, our Chief Operating Officer. On Thursday, October 30, 2025, we issued a press release that included detailed information about our third quarter 2025 results, which is available on our website. Ryan and Sebastian will make a few brief comments, and then we will open the line for questions. I'll now turn the call over to Ryan to discuss our financial results.
Thanks, Gary. Good morning, everyone. First, I would like to highlight an announcement made last week relating to the prepayment agreement we closed, which represents a new prepayment facility backed by our Ecuadorian crude production. The initial advance will be $150 million, with the potential for another $50 million once our Ecuador acquisition closes and we reach 10,000 DOE per day in Ecuador. It's a four-year structure priced at SOFR plus 3.8% and includes a three-month grace period on principle before amortizing evenly over the remaining term. Importantly, the commercial terms or sales price are an improvement to our previous crude oil sales contract. Overall, this agreement strengthens our balance sheet and gives us added financial flexibility at a very competitive cost. In addition, we increased our current facilities secured by our Canadian assets to $75 million, and equally important, moved from a 1.1 structure to a two-year structure with maturity in October of 2027. Now, on to the quarter. During the third quarter of 2025, Grand Pier averaged 42,685 DOE per day, That's up roughly 30% from a year ago, driven by our Canadian acquisition and continued success from our exploration in Ecuador. Production during the quarter was terribly impacted by unusual and externally driven events across our operations, including a landslide in Ecuador, which impacted the main export pipelines in the country, requiring us to shut in production, and trunk line repairs at the McKenna Field Group, which resulted in the field being shut in for the quarter. The pipeline repairs took longer than anticipated due to ongoing heavy rain through July and August. All pipelines are restored as of October 10th. We want to emphasize that these volumes represent deferred barrels rather than lost production, and we already are seeing a strong recovery with current production averaging 45,200 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Based on the deferrals, we are forecasting the lower end of our production guidance range. The underlying assets continue to perform well, and our teams remain focused on ongoing optimization and maximizing production efficiency and cash flow, with an expected X rate of $47,000 to $50,000 daily per day. From a cash perspective, it was a solid quarter where we generated $48 million of operating cash flow, up 39% from Q2. We ended the quarter with $49 million in cash and net debt position of approximately $755 million. In terms of pricing, we saw improving differentials across South America, especially with Ecuador, which helped offset some of the impact from temporary facility downtime and pipeline outages. On the capital side, we invested $57 million that focused mainly on high return projects in Colombia, Ecuador, and Canada. So overall, despite some temporary production headwinds this quarter, we're expecting a strong finish to the year, which sets up for a strong 2020. With production already back above 45,200 barrels a day, and the added liquidity from our new pre-payment agreement and increase and extension of our Canadian credit facility, we're in a great position to finish 2025. The 2025 capital program was primarily focused on fulfilling exploration commitments, which resulted in numerous material discoveries. We also invested in facility expansion in Soriente, including gas to power, which provides us with sufficient process capacity to increase production in the field and lower costs. With substantially all commitments behind us, The focus turns to free cash flow and deleveraging from our large, diversified resource base. We released our 2026 budget in mid-December, which will include a decrease in capital expenditures and emphasis on free cash flow generation. I'll now turn the call over to Sebastian to discuss some of the highlights of our current operations.
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