Kolibri Global Energy Inc.

Good day and welcome to the Colibri Global Energy's first quarter 2025 financial conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Media may monitor this call in a listen-only mode. They are free to quote any member of management but are asked to not quote remarks for any other participants without the participant's permission. If anyone has any trouble and needs assistance, Please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note, this event has been recorded. I advise participants that this conference has been recorded today as of May 14, 2025. This call will be available on the company's website at www.kolibrienergy.com. This call may include forward-looking statement, information regarding Kolibri's strategic plans, anticipated production, capital expenditures, exit rates, and cash flows, reserves, and other estimates and forecasts. Forward-looking statements is subject to risk and uncertainties, and actual results will vary from the forward-looking statements. This call may include future-oriented financial information and financial outlook information, which Colibri disclosed in order to provide readers with a more complete perspective on Colibri's potential future operations and such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. For a description of assumptions on which such forward-looking information is based and the applicable risk and uncertainties and Colibri's policy for updating such statements, we direct you to Colibri's most recent annual information form and management's discussion and analysis for the period under discussion, as well as the Colibri's most recent corporate presentation, all of which are available on the Colibri's website. Listeners should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Colibri undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking future-oriented financial or financial outlook information other than as required by applicable law. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Wolf Regner, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Colibri Global Energy, Inc. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you. And thank you, everyone, for joining us today. With me on today's call is Gary Johnson, our Chief Financial Officer. As I'm sure you're aware, we released our first quarter 2025 results this morning, and we are very pleased with what we've achieved this quarter, which continues to build on our last two years' results in multiple ways. Reduction increases, 23% over first quarter 2024. Operating expenses remain low, just over $7 a barrel of oil equivalent. leading to really good netbacks. We're continuing to deliver even more efficiencies by drilling five wells in the quarter and cutting our drilling times down by a further 25% in the latest one-and-a-half-mile lateral wells. This saves money and thus improves our internal rates of return on our new wells even further. You can see from our corporate presentation how even at lower oil prices, we can drill wells and make good rates of return. Our break-even oil price is quite low. So things are going very well, and we look forward to increasing our production further when we complete these wells later this quarter. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Gary to discuss our financial results. Go ahead, Gary.

Thanks, Will, and thanks, everyone, for being on the call. I'm just going to go over a few highlights of the first quarter, and then we'll take questions. All amounts are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated. As you can see from the earnings release today, we had another good very good quarter with strong increases in net income, production, and adjusted EBITDA. Net income was up 70% to $5.8 million with basic EPS of $0.16 per share compared to $3.3 million and $0.09 per share in the prior year quarter. The increase was due to an increase in revenues and lower realized and unrealized commodity contract losses compared to the prior year first quarter. which were partially offset by higher income tax expense. Average production was up 23% to 4,077 BLE per day compared to 3,305 BLE per day in the prior year quarter. The increase was due to the wells that were drilled during 2024. Adjusted EBITDA was 12.8 million compared to 10.4 million in the prior year quarter, which was an increase of 24%, mainly due to higher revenues. That revenue increased by 15% to $16.4 million compared to $14.2 million due to the higher production, which was partially offset by lower average prices, which were down 6%. Operating expense was $7.70 per billion for the quarter. compared to $8.36 per VOE in the prior year first quarter, which was a decrease of 50%. Operating expense in the first quarter of last year did include $600,000 of prior period gathering and processing cost adjustments. Our net backroom operations decreased slightly to $37.55 per VOE compared to $38.94 per VOE in the prior year quarter due to lower average prices. And to be clear, the impact of hedges and netbacks, they were only down about 1% from the prior year quarter. And with that, I'll go back to Wolf. Thanks, Gary.

As Gary laid out, we had a great first quarter, which has continued the success we've had over the last few years. The company has had quite the growth. Revenue and cash flow have grown a lot, all while keeping our leverage low. And our team has been executing extremely well. Our striving for constant improvement continues to pay off. Drilling times and cost improvements for our new wells have been huge. We've also had numerous completion improvements that have led to improved economics, and our operating expenses and netbacks are, from what I can see, among the best among our peers. In addition, we are intending to continue returning capital to shareholders in the form of share buybacks. Overall, our plan is to continue to execute and build and grow company value for all shareholders. And we'll continue to get the word out about the company to shareholders and potential shareholders as we have a number of conferences and presentations lined up, which you can see, excuse me, which you can see listed on the website. This concludes the formal part of our presentation and we'd be pleased to answer any questions that you may now have.

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Morning, Wolf. Morning, Gary. I appreciate the detail in the presentation. Wolf, can you give any sense on the financial savings from those faster wells drilled and what you learned from drilling the four wells on the pad? Is that going to be transferable when I believe you still have two more wells you're going to drill on a pad in the second half?

Yeah, so I don't like quoting what we have from our field estimates until we get our actual expenses in, so I'm not quoting any of that. So it was a nice amount of savings, so I'll leave it at that. And we'll put some numbers out once I get all the firm numbers in. I prefer to do that once we have all of our costs in, since it's drilling and completion that counts in the end. But, yeah, it will save us both time and money on what we've just done. Transferable, yes, absolutely. You know, over the years we've learned what works the best, what drill bits work the best. what systems and we keep refining that and keep getting better and better at that. And our geological team is doing in intervals that drill faster, but are still in our primary target. And so all those things together have just been led together to plus good equipment. Don't get me wrong on the concept that we're using. So less downtime always helps too. But yeah, so it's just kind of a combination, just that one thing, a lot of different things into it. And yeah, we expect that to, vary through to all of our drilling that we do from here on out. So I'm hoping that our FIE costs will continue to come down in the future.

Excellent. Any update on the timing on the second half drilling plans?

No, not right now. We'll just leave it at the second half. We've got locations that are almost ready to go and built, and then we'll take it from there. But we'll announce when we get a little closer.

Okay. And then the plans for getting the Levina wells to production, you're saying? Will that be simultaneous with the east side? How can we think about that?

We'll finish fracture stimulating the Levina wells and then what we also do is drill out the plugs and then start flow back. But when we're done completing those and fracture stimulating those, the crew will move directly over to LaVena. So as we're drilling out the plugs on LaVena, excuse me, on the Ferguson, as we're drilling out the plugs on the LaVena, the crew should be fracture-stimulating the Ferguson. So they won't be far behind, but LaVena will come on first.

Excellent. Thanks so much, Wolf.

Thank you.

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Thank you everyone for joining us today and for those that listened to the replay as well. So I appreciate everyone's support and hope everyone has a great day. Thank you very much.

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