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Occidental Petroleum (OXY): Company Profile, Stock Price, News, Rankings

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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Occidental's Fourth Quarter twenty twenty four Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen only mode. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask Please also note today's event is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the floor over to Jordan Tanner, Vice President of Investor Relations.

Thank you, Jamie. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for participating in Occidental's fourth quarter twenty twenty four earnings conference call. On the call with us today are Vikki Hallub, President and Chief Executive Officer Sunil Matthew, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Richard Jackson, President, Operations, U. S. Onshore Resources and Carbon Management and Ken Dillon, Senior Vice President and President, International Oil and Gas Operations.

This afternoon, we will refer to slides available on the Investors section of our website. The presentation includes a cautionary statement on Slide two regarding forward looking statements that will be made on the call this afternoon. We'll also reference a few non GAAP financial measures today. Reconciliations to the nearest corresponding GAAP measure can be found in the schedules to our earnings release and on our website. I'll now turn the call over to Vicki.

Thank you, Jordan, and good afternoon, everyone. 2024 was a year of strategic execution for Oxy. We positioned the portfolio to maximize value by increasing our exposure to short cycle high return assets, while also advancing major projects aimed at delivering sustainable returns through the cycle. Our team's relentless focus on performance and commitment to safe and reliable operations enabled us to progress our cash flow priorities, delivering on our near term deleveraging targets, while growing value for our shareholders. I'll begin today by covering our 2024 financial and operational achievements, as well as our strategic advancements that will position us for success in the years ahead.

Then I'll discuss our priorities and capital plans for 2025. Sunil will follow with a review of our fourth quarter performance and will provide guidance for the first quarter and the full year ahead. Oxy outperformed across all three segments in 2024. We generated $4,900,000,000 of free cash flow, enabling us to pay approximately $800,000,000 of common dividends and to increase the quarterly dividend by more than 22%. As we announced yesterday, we also made significant progress on our cash flow and shareholder return priorities.

Through a combination of asset sales and organic cash flow, we achieved our near term debt repayment target of $4,500,000,000 7 months ahead of schedule. Our steadfast commitment to improving our balance sheet is coupled with our drive to invest in our future and generate long term shareholder value. Capital improvements and operational efficiencies driven by our teams resulted in a capital spend of $6,800,000,000 which was the low end of our guidance. Our midstream team also successfully revised key domestic crude transportation contracts to further enhance future cash flows. Now moving to operational excellence.

The combination of execution efficiencies along with strong new well deliverability and enhanced base production enabled us to achieve the highest annual U. S. Oil production as well as record total company production at 1,330,000 BOE per day for Oxy in 2024. This exceeded the upper end of full year guidance. The U.

S. Record production was driven by continued well performance leadership across our operated U. S. Onshore positions in the Delaware, DJ, Midland and Powder River Basins and Alhosin contributed to their overall company record. In 2024, our teams reduced domestic lease operating expenses per barrel by approximately 9% and lowered well cost by roughly 12% across all unconventional basins.

A key differentiator for Oxy is our ability to replace reserves to fortify the long term sustainability of our business. In 2024, we increased our year end proved reserve balance to $4,600,000,000 Boe, which is the highest in Oxy's history. This represents an all in reserves replacement ratio of 230% for 2024 and an organic reserves replacement ratio of 112, extending our over twenty year track record of replacing reserves year after year with the exceptions of the downturn in 2015 and the pandemic in 2020. It's also notable that we have been replacing higher cost production with a higher volume of lower cost new reserves. Annually, our capital spend for oil and gas development is less than our annual DD and A cost.

This is driving increased earnings per barrel and increased earnings per share. In addition, our U. S. Onshore inventory continues to get better, which is a testament to the portfolio's incredibly rich resources and our team's dedication to continuous improvement. Even after accounting for wells drilled in divestitures, we increased our operated inventory of U.

S. Unconventional well locations with sub-sixty breakevens. At the same time, we improved our average well breakeven by 6%. Our OxyChem business also outperformed exceeding the original guidance midpoint to achieve over $1,100,000,000 in pretax income in 2024. And our Midstream segment also performed exceptionally well with our gas marketing optimization efforts offsetting lower in basin gas realizations in the Permian and contributing to meaningful outperformance against our original guidance.

Looking back to 2024, we advanced our strategy across all of our businesses and I want to highlight a few of them. We closed on the Crown Rock acquisition adding Midland Basin scale and high margin inventory as well as increasing our access to high quality unconventional oil assets in The U. S. This is an asset that continues to demonstrate value with both our financial and production results exceeding expectations. As construction in West Texas moved forward on Stratos, our teams in Squamish, British Columbia focused on enhancing DAC technology.

Some of their innovations are being implemented in Stratos. We believe DAC will deliver long term value as well as help achieve U. S. Energy security by developing the carbon neutral fuels the world needs. We have the flexibility to use DAC CO2 for both EOR and sequestration and some customers are focused on securing carbon removal credits.

CDRs are important to help us prove up the technology and get the cost down. To advance those objectives, we signed several foundational CDR agreements last year. We accelerated the pace of DAC R and D through the integration of our carbon engineering and Oxy teams, which has resulted in an open exchange of ideas that has expanded our culture of innovation. We are looking forward to bringing these learnings to the development of DAC facilities at the South Texas DAC hub, which was awarded funding from the U. S.

Department of Energy. Now I'd like to share a few highlights from our fourth quarter, which demonstrated continued strength in our financial and operational performance to close out a successful year. All three of our business segments also outperformed in the fourth quarter, delivering robust financial returns and generating a $1,400,000,000 in free cash flow. Our OxyChem business generated $280,000,000 in adjusted income benefiting from better realized prices and volumes in both the domestic and international markets. And our midstream business outperformed through continued gas marketing transportation optimization during the fourth quarter and from higher sulfur pricing for Alhosin production.

In our Oil and Gas segment, global production during the fourth quarter was 1,460,000 BOE per day, outperforming the midpoint of guidance by 13,000 BOE per day and setting a record for Oxy's highest every U. S. Quarterly production. Our teams ended 2024 with strong performance and momentum going into 2025. Looking to 2025, our strategic priorities reflect an extension of 2024.

We remain committed to delivering value to our shareholders and believe strengthening the balance sheet is paramount to achieving this. Our first priority is to continue our deleveraging progress from last year and deliver sustainable dividend growth. Our announced $1,200,000,000 of divestiture proceeds will be used for debt reduction. The savings from the reduced interest payments will be allocated to the dividend as this week our Board of Directors authorized a 9% increase in our common dividend. We recognize the need to balance reducing debt and financial risk today while preserving tomorrow's development opportunities and associated cash flow.

To accomplish this, our second priority is to advance our major projects safely and reliably, bringing Stratos online this year and keeping the Battle Ground modernization and expansion project on track for completion next year. Stratos is progressing on schedule to be commercially operational this year. We completed construction of Trains one and two in December and have been thoroughly impressed by the work of our teams and our construction partner Worley. Construction on the central processing facilities is expected to be completed in the second quarter with commissioning on trains one and two in parallel. We expect startup operations to continue in the third quarter with a ramp up of the initial capacity through year end.

Our Battle Ground project is also advancing with completion expected in mid-twenty twenty six and commercial operations to begin later that year. The project is expected to increase cash flow through improved margins and higher product volumes, generating a strong return while improving OxyChem's market position for key ingredients used in producing clean drinking water, medicine and soaps. Our third priority is to maintain our culture of innovation and commitment to operational excellence. Our team's relentless drive for improvement and focus on continuing learning have delivered great results to date, enabling us to outperform targets and deliver more with less. This is most recently demonstrated across our Crown Rock Acreage, where in just a few months since close, we've identified numerous opportunities to deliver more production, lower well costs and accelerate returns.

This year, we expect a 10% improvement in time to market compared to last year and we expect a 7% decrease in well costs, which represents a 15% improvement relative to 2023. The teams are continuing to share best practices and innovate through best of best workshops, which we expect will drive continued efficiency and performance improvements throughout the year. In addition, we see meaningful opportunities to leverage our competitive position, expanded scale and enhanced capabilities across our full Midland Basin operations. Through the integration, we have identified scale efficiencies and design improvements with the potential to lower well cost across our remaining Midland Basin program by more than $1,000,000 per well through drilling and completion savings. These reverse synergies were a key driver behind the extension of our Midland Basin JV with Ecopetrol, which will enable additional development of the basin.

The agreement further highlights the vital role investment in U. S. Oil and most notably the Permian plays in the global market. Our teams are also leveraging innovative ideas to unlock greater resources, achieve cost savings and improve recoveries. Within our Permian operations, we are pushing the technical limits of well deliverability, deepening reservoir characterization and simulation efforts and conducting field trials to further advance enhanced oil recovery in unconventional reservoirs.

In our Gulf Of America and international portfolio, we are utilizing advanced seismic to uncover new opportunities and provide a rich data set for AI application. In Algeria, we recently completed the country's largest seismic data acquisition, which was also the largest ever onshore acquisition for Oxy. This will play a key role as we look to enhance value through future development opportunities. We also have an ambitious set of artificial intelligence initiatives ongoing to maximize value and improve margins. Our Gulf Of America operations are utilizing AI to improve supply chain management, asset integrity and reservoir characterization.

Additionally, we created an AI center of excellence to align all intercompany AI initiatives and accelerate business value. Within our LCV portfolio, we're also at the forefront of direct lithium extraction technology. Working with our JV partner, we are progressing from a pilot to demonstration plant to explore the commerciality of our subsidiary Terra Lithium's patented DLD technology. Turning now to our 2025 capital plan. We aim to maximize cash flow by investing primarily in short cycle high return assets, while making measured investments to advance our mid cycle projects to provide future cash flow resilience.

This year, we plan to invest between $7,000,000,000 and $7,200,000,000 in our Energy and Chemicals business. The Oil and Gas capital program is roughly equivalent to 2024 when adjusting for a full year of Crown Rock in our portfolio. We expect full year production to average approximately 1,420,000 Boe per day. This represents relatively stable production from 2024 when accounting for a full year of Crown Rock, though with modest oil growth. Similar to years past, we anticipate production in the first quarter to reflect a low point for the year with a significant uplift expected from the second half.

Sunil will provide more detail on this in our 2025 guidance. Investments in OxyChem are expected to increase to $900,000,000 this year with 2025 representing the peak year for construction at Battle Ground. Battle Ground spend is expected to decrease substantially as the project nears completion in 2026 with OxyContin's capital reverting to maintenance levels the following year. The increase in Battle Ground spend is largely offset by a decrease in our LCB spend in 2025, which we've set at approximately $450,000,000 The majority of this capital will be for the continued build out of Stratos with the remainder directed towards our South Texas backup and Gulf Coast sequestration projects. We built our 2025 capital plan to focus on projects that we believe best position Oxy for long term success.

As in past years, we retain a high degree of flexibility with more than 75% of our oil and gas capital allocated to our U. S. Onshore portfolio. This allows us to adapt to commodity price fluctuations and efficiently respond to market conditions. In addition, our focus on short cycle, high return, unconventional development will help to facilitate our near term debt reduction, supporting our cash flow priorities and commitment to enhanced shareholder returns.

Thank you, Vicky. I will begin today by reviewing our fourth quarter results. We announced an adjusted profit of $0.8 per diluted share and a reported loss of $0.32 per diluted share. The difference was primarily due to an increase in long term environmental remediation liability based on a recent unfavorable federal court ruling. We have appealed the ruling and will seek cost recovery from all potentially responsible parties.

Annual remediation and potential cash outlays are not expected to materially increase over the next several years and are expected to extend over multiple decades. Our fourth quarter financial and operational outperformance delivered a strong close to the year with all three business segments exceeding guidance. We generated approximately $1,400,000,000 of free cash flow benefiting from higher global production volumes despite lower realized oil prices. As Vicky mentioned, our U. S.

Portfolio achieved record quarterly production driven largely by high operability and improved well performance across the Delaware and Midland Basins. New well performance in our operated Rockies assets also exceeded expectations. Together, this more than offset lower production volumes from our domestic offshore and international assets due to respective weather events and PSC related impacts. Notably, our 2024 production was achieved with less capital coming in at the low end of guidance. We had a positive working capital change in the quarter, primarily due to timing of interest payments, impacts from lower oil prices and fewer barrels on the water at year end.

This together with our strong operational performance and disciplined capital program enabled us to exit the quarter with over $2,100,000,000 of unrestricted cash after repaying $500,000,000 of debt. Now turning to our business plan and guidance. Total capital for the year is expected to be between $7,400,000,000 and $7,600,000,000 with investment front weighted to the first half of the year. Our capital plan represents a strategic mix of investments balancing short cycle high return assets with investments in no decline non oil and gas projects to provide diversification and cash flow stability. Our capital weighting towards a higher proportion of short cycle U.

S. Onshore assets will enable significant cash flow velocity that can be applied to debt reduction. It will also allow us to retain significant flexibility to respond to changing market conditions. In 2025, we expect full year production to average approximately 1,420,000 BOE per day, representing mid single digit growth from 2024. After adjusting for a full year of ground rock, total production volumes are expected to remain relatively flat, though with a nearly 3% increase in oil volumes.

As was the case in 2024, our first quarter production is expected to decrease from the prior quarter due to reduced fourth quarter activity levels and a lower working interest in recently drilled Permian wells. Severe winter weather in January also impacted Permian production. In addition, volumes will be impacted by plant maintenance and platform life extension at On Mountain as well as turnarounds at Alosin and Dolphin. While we expect lower volumes during the first half of the year, production is expected to ramp up in the second half. Much of this increase is coming from the Permian, which is expected to grow by more than 15% in 2025 due to a full year of Groundrock and modest growth across our legacy positions.

As Vicky mentioned, our Groundrock assets continue to outperform and are expected to average over 170,000 BOE per day, representing more than 5% growth. Our guidance for Rockies volumes is lower for 2025, driven by the decision to adjust our gas processing to ethane rejection in the DJ Basin. This is expected to increase revenues and improve margins delivering greater value from our Rockies assets. Additionally, our announced divestiture of non operated Rockies interest will lower full year production from the region. When accounting for these items and reduce outside operated activity, our 2025 Rockies production is expected to be essentially flat from last year.

Despite AVR maintenance during the first quarter, full year production in our U. S. Offshore portfolio is expected to increase relative to 2024. This coupled with our growth out of the Permian is expected to increase our total company oil cut to 52% in 2025. Looking to the chemicals business, OxyChem ended 2024 with a strong operational performance generating $280,000,000 in adjusted pretax income in the fourth quarter and exceeding guidance by $50,000,000 This was driven by better than expected pricing in both the domestic and international markets as global supply disruptions kept prices higher and demand held strong through most of the fourth quarter.

OxyChem's first quarter income is expected to be lower than the prior quarter, primarily due to three short term events. Our operations were affected by the winter storm in January, which temporarily impacted production and restricted access to market. We also had an unplanned outage at our Ingleside facility that lasted approximately two weeks. And we are seeing an increase in raw material costs following higher than expected ethylene plant outages during the first quarter. These temporary cost pressures should ease early in the second quarter once the ethylene suppliers are packed online.

For the full year, we expect a slight decrease in OxyChem's earnings and guiding to a midpoint of $1,000,000,000 of pretax income. This is driven in part by the events of the first quarter forecasted higher natural gas prices and expectations for a slightly oversupplied market for the first half of the year following late twenty twenty four domestic capacity additions. Rationalizations are expected to occur in the second half, which should help to rebalance the market and improve pricing. Our Midstream segment had a strong end to the year with adjusted pretax income outperforming guidance by $104,000,000 The bulk of this was due to gas marketing optimization in the Permian with our teams once again expertly managing market volatility to maximize margins. Higher sulfur prices for Allucin also contributed to these earnings.

All in, our midstream segment demonstrated exceptional performance throughout the year with adjusted pretax income surpassing the midpoint of our original full year guidance by approximately $600,000,000 We expect slightly lower midstream earnings in 2025 as the opportunities for gas truck transportation optimization narrow with increased takeaway capacity now online. While we may see fewer pricing dislocations and opportunities to capitalize on market spreads, we expect our upstream business to benefit from improved realized prices in the Permian. Reduced opportunities to optimize gas marketing will be partially offset by improvements in our crude marketing out of the Permian. As we mentioned previously, we expect to benefit from the revision of two crude transportation contracts at lower rates this year. One of these will be realized at the end of the first quarter with the second coming into effect at the end of the third quarter.

Given the timing, we expect to see an approximate $200,000,000 benefit this year and expect approximately $400,000,000 in annual savings in 2026. Turning to our LCV business, we are extremely excited about Stratos progress to date and our expected startup of operations this year due to the timing and ramp up period associated with bringing the first phase online, we are assuming a minimal contribution from Stratos in our midstream guidance. We expect a negative working capital change during the first quarter, which is typical for this time of year driven by interest payments, property tax and compensation plan payments. Additionally, there are two upcoming 2024 tax payments as part of the Federal Disaster Relief Program following Hurricane Beryl, which will further impact working capital in the first and second quarters of the year. I would like to close today by reiterating our commitment to strengthening our balance sheet, which will position us to generate greater shareholder returns.

As Vicky shared at the start, we are pleased to announce that we successfully achieved our near term debt reduction target by repaying $4,500,000,000 in 2024. We are continuing this momentum into 2025 and announced $1,200,000,000 in divestitures in the first quarter. Proceeds from these sales will be applied to our 2025 maturities and excess cash flow after common dividends will be available to further reduce our 2026 and beyond debt maturities. By reducing the amount of cash committed to interest payments today, we will place Oxy in a stronger position to deliver an expanded return of capital program in the future. I will now turn the call back over to Vicky.

Thank you, Sunil. As I shared at the start, 2024 was a pivotal year for Oxy. We strengthened our portfolio, delivered on our near term deleveraging commitments and advanced our major growth projects. While we delivered exceptional financial and operational results, what excites me the most is the way our teams propelled our business forward with passion, industry leadership and a continued focus on innovation and learning and most importantly, a focus on safety underpinned it all. In 2024, our employees achieved the year of safety performance ever in our history.

That's across Oil and Gas, Midstream and OxyChem. The commitment of our people to safe and sustainable operations is embedded in Oxy's core values and helps enable our long term success. This will be an exciting year for us. Our technical capabilities and portfolio of assets have never been better and the combination of our three business segments uniquely positions us to capitalize on shared learnings and operational synergies. Bringing Stratos online will be a testament to this and demonstrating the differentiated strategy and compelling value proposition that Oxy brings to the table.

With that, we'll now open the call for questions. And as Jordan mentioned, Richard Jackson and Ken Dillon are here with us today for the Q and A.

Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin that question and answer session. Our first question today comes from Arun Jayaram from JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question.

Yes, good afternoon. I wanted to see if you could shed some light on the Gulf Of Mexico outlook for 2025 that you have perhaps some maintenance in 1Q and maybe help us think about how the quarterly trajectory could be in The Gulf and maybe some of the projects that are contributing to

year over year growth in 2025 versus 2024?

Ken, you want to share our Gulf Of America information?

Thanks, Arun. Yes, Gulf Of America has a busy year ahead. As you know, we really want to carry out fabric maintenance, life extension and painting Our drilling activities this year involves six wells. Our drilling activities this year involves six wells. This wedge should add between 18,000 to 22,000 barrels a day for the year.

Our production engineering activities including stimulation along with OBO should add another 4,000 to 7,000 BOEs per day and we will carry out platform turnaround in Q4. So racking these up including some decline gets us to a range of 141,000 to 150,000 barrels a day for the year. Opportunistic work may move some things around a bit, but I hope this gives you a real feel for the year. Also our equipment uptime is top tier, so record levels. And then in addition to these activities, we are also commencing our Gulf Of America 2 Point 0 projects, which will add material quantities of low F and D cost barrels.

A lot of the capital early this year is focused in Horn Mountain 2 and that includes the start of our water floods there, artificial lift projects, which include ESPs and gas lift. So yes, a busy year ahead, but we've got great assets and we've got a really great team there.

Great. That's super helpful. Thanks for the detail. You mentioned that you've announced, I think in early February, an extension to the Echo Patrol JV in the Midland Basin. Can you just give us just some of the basic terms of the agreement and just confirm that this is fully baked in your 2025 guide?

Yes. The terms are similar to what we had before. And this will be a project that it's not huge, but it is an extension into next year. And we'll drill about 23 wells or so. And I'm looking forward to working continuing to work with Ecopetrol to get that done.

And our next question comes from Betty Jiang from Barclays. Please go ahead with your question.

Great. Thank you for taking my question. I want to ask about start with the Rockies program in 2025, but also how you see that development evolving over the next few years. We didn't notice based on the presentation that the activity level is much lower both on a growth and net basis year on year and CapEx is flattish. So just are there any non productive capital in there?

Does that impact 2026 and beyond? And how should we just be thinking about that program going forward? Thanks.

Yes, great. Thank you for the question. This is Richard. I'll walk through a few pieces of that. As you noted, part of it is walking through some of the adjustments, especially if you're thinking about production as we step down with the ethane rejection in the first quarter and then working through our announced divestitures.

From an activity standpoint, The Rockies has got some embedded efficiency. I'd say it's the first place to start. We've across all of our assets, we put in the highlights the improved not only drilling costs, but drilling efficiency and that's true for The Rockies as well. So they're close to $100,000,000 down looking at really just more efficiency across their drilling and completion activities. That is offset by infrastructure and that infrastructure for us is an important development in the DJ Basin.

This is moving to a larger more contiguous development area that we've talked about in the past called Bronco. And for us, that gives us about 140 locations at less than 50 breakeven that we'll be able to prosecute

the next three years. And so while we're trading a bit of that efficiency for the investment in infrastructure and this story plays out a bit in the Permian as well, we think that's really value added spend for us this year. From an activity standpoint, the Rockies, the only other thing I'll note, Powder River Basin had some really strong well results. I think we highlighted those over the last couple of quarters in terms of the productivity of those wells. We're continuing to monitor those in the first quarter and then we'll be set to resume activity in the Powder River Basin in the second half of this year into what we believe will be a very competitive program opportunity for us next year as we contemplate capital.

That's helpful. Thank you. My follow-up is on the debt reduction. You guys have made really strong headway on the debt reduction in 2024 and latest in 1Q with the non core asset sale. There is a $15,000,000,000 net debt target still out there.

Do you still feel good about reaching that level by late twenty six or early twenty twenty seven? Obviously, commodity price is a factor, but just wanted to get your sense on that trajectory to that number.

We do still feel comfortable with that. I would say that probably it's going to be more like the first part of twenty twenty seven, but we feel comfortable with where we are and still have opportunities to supplement our cash flow from operations to help accomplish that.

And our next question comes from Neal Dingmann from Truist Securities. Please go ahead with your question.

Thanks for the time. First, my first question, Nikky, is just maybe around your 2025 guide specifically. I think you're talking about 1,400,000 BOE per day production in around what the 7,500,000 CapEx. I'm just wondering on the around those two, what type of service cost are you all assuming in there and how much operational efficiencies because you certainly have continued to see that both in your DJ and Permian. I'm just wondering if you expected more.

We'll pass this to Richard since he gets 75% of the capital.

Sounds good. But I'll maybe share the answer with Ken a little bit as we talk about service costs. So let me start with the performance. I had noted some of the Rockies improvements, but overall, last year was a very strong year from our drilling and completion teams. We delivered about 12% improvement against 2023 in our drilling and completion costs.

That was about half, what we call scope and performance. So that's really operational efficiencies, well designs, continuing to improve on those. That was some of the benefit, especially in the Midland Basin that we saw with Crown Rock as we came together as one team. The other roughly half of that was market or sort of the deflationary factors across our services. For 2025, we're looking at around the 7% drilling completion cost improvement.

Obviously, uncertainty a bit in terms of service costs and can help address some of that. But we're really focused on continuing to deliver the performance component of that 7%. And so, can give more detail if we get into it, but really just efficiency across both our drilling and completion activities lower NPT or non productive time across those activities. A bit more improved pad design is leading to some better outcomes in terms of production for lower cost. And so those two things again kind of roll into our 7% for the year on D and C cost.

Great details, Vish. And then just a second quick one just on M and A specifically. Again, I'd love to hear your thoughts if you think most of the higher quality domestic assets have now transacted. And if so, would that would you now consider maybe boosting international M and A or what's your thoughts around that?

I think we like the international assets that we have today. We intentionally chose these assets. Algeria has incredible reservoirs and we still have opportunities for not only expansion of the operations that we have today, but exploration as well. So we Algeria is definitely in our future for growth. Also in Oman, we have opportunities for the continued development of oil, but we also had some gas opportunities in Oman that could turn out to be a really good thing for us.

We're doing a little bit of exploration in Abu Dhabi just to see how that will turn out. Those reservoirs there are very similar to what we've developed in Oman. So it was we were the right fit to take those Blocks three and five there in Oman. And that's going well so far. So we will start with not only growth in our international projects over the next probably probably three to five years, but also in the Gulf Of America where the AI is not only going to do the things that I described in my script, but also we believe that we're going to be able to unlock some of the complexities in The Gulf and that, that will turn into not just having better success with exploration, but better field development too and could also help with some of the water flooding projects that Ken has planned.

So we like where we have, and we're just going to work on growing the positions that we're already in internationally.

Our next question comes from Paul Cheng from Scotiabank. Please go ahead with your question. Question.

Thank you. Good morning. Ricky, did I get it right that in one of I don't think it's yours, maybe it's a new prepared remark that you expect the Permian oil cut is going to be higher in twenty twenty four twenty twenty five. And if that is correct, what will drive up the oil cut over there? That's the first question.

Hi, Paul. This is Richard. I'll take that one. Just a couple of things to think about when we talk about oil cut in the Permian and then I'll get into a bit of the numbers. First of all, it correlates very well with our unconventional growth.

So whether it's year on year or quarter on quarter, you can see that oil cut will track that. The other thing that's happened over the last year is really Crown Rock coming in. And so Midland Basin obviously has a bit different oil cut than the Delaware. And so that mix participates. The other factor I'd like to talk about in the Permian is just our secondary benches.

And that's been more prevalent in our Delaware position where we've seen an increase with our secondary benches as a mix of our overall program, which as we talked about delivers better value even with a bit slower So as you watch us sort of quarter on quarter, year on year, those are generally the variables that drive it. Now to address your question, yes, we are seeing better oil cut even as we go fourth quarter in the first quarter. And then total year 25% were improving almost 1% as we look at full year versus 25%. So again, that's growth that's really tracking our production in our unconventional business in our U. S.

clarify, what I'd mentioned in my prepared remarks was the growth from Permian, which Richard just outlined along with the growth in Gulf Of America, which Ken went through the details. So we said that total company oil cut is going to increase to 52% in 2025. Just wanted to clarify on that point.

Yes. Thank you, Suneet. Rich, what percent of your 2025 program in the Permian is on the secondary branches versus the 2024? And you're saying that the secondary branches is better. So can you give us what is the oil cut in those secondary branches?

Yes, perfect. For this year, total one thing to think about, total Permian unconventional development, we talk about primary benches are actually up year on year and that's because of our Crown Rock development are very derisked and provide a lot of primary benches. In the Delaware, this year, we're up about 30% in terms of secondary benches as a percentage of our total program versus last year was around 25%. And what one of the details we've provided in prior calls or talked about is when we say better, those secondary benches are flowing into existing facilities. And so from a total cost per barrel for the year, you're coming out much more advantaged.

You can double or even triple your return when you're looking at a development program with that sort of benefit coming from facilities. So this year as we make these investments into these new areas and I talked about the 140 wells in the Rockies that we're adding with that infrastructure investment, we'll see that same play out on total returns for the life of the program.

Our next question comes from Roger Read from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead with your question.

Yes, thanks. Good morning or good afternoon. What am I talking about here? Maybe just to quickly come back to the question on drilling and completion efficiencies on, I think it's Slide 13. You spelled out the well cost declines this year 7% and then there is expect to save $1,000,000 per well across remaining program.

What is the I'm assuming the million strung out over a longer period of time, but I just wanted to get a little clarity on maybe two different lines of banking.

Yes. Hi, Roger. Good afternoon. That $1,000,000 was specific to our Midland Basin activity and that was exciting to us because that was really a benefit coming out of the joint Crown Rock or now Oxy Rock team with our legacy Midland Basin team. And so that $1,000,000 was really delivered in the fourth quarter.

So when we looked at our fourth quarter drilling completion costs, it was $1,000,000 better than our total year twenty twenty four. We expect that to continue now into 2025. And so quite a few really strong things that were identified from well designed into operational sequencing that came out of that exercise. So we talk about the benefits and cash flow delivery from our OxyRock assets and team, but it's also helping our overall Midland team as well.

Okay, got you. So just sort of built into the things we've seen and will see, but not a separate goal going forward?

And then to change pace just a little bit here with the Strato startup, given this is a very, I would say, brand new technology, but it's a brand new at scale commercial system. What are the main, I don't know if you want to call them hurdles or milestones or whatever we should be watching as you turn this thing on, ramp it up, commission it this year? I understand not to build any real profitability in, but what are you looking at as key challenges that will make you feel more comfortable as you go through the commissioning process?

Hi there, it's Ken. Just to go through where we are and then talk through the next step. So I think we're all really excited here. Stratos Phase one is at 94% complete overall and 98% complete on construction. Glass piping spills are being hydro tested, the instrumentation and electrical equipment checks are ongoing.

So getting very close and as Vicky said, Worley have done incredibly well on the project. And in terms of so once we've got the mechanical completion for the process area and the calciner, we're then moving into the startup phase. In terms of startup, the OxyChem teams who have been handling these chemicals for decades are preparing the subsystems and the process systems. And essentially the sequences as follows, we'll start pumping water around the system and start running the fans. We've already had a fan running, which was a really good day at site.

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