Pieridae Energy Limited (“Pieridae” or the “Company”) (TSX:
PEA) is pleased to provide 2025 guidance including
scope of the 2025 capital program along with production and Net
Operating Income1 (“NOI”) projections.
2025 Guidance Estimates |
Initial Guidance (Dec-24) |
Low |
High |
Production (boe/d) |
23,000 |
25,000 |
NOI ($M) (1)(2)(3) |
$75,000 |
$95,000 |
Operating Netback ($/boe) (1)(2)(3) |
$9.00 |
$11.00 |
Capital Expenditures ($M) |
$25,000 |
$30,000 |
(1) Refer to the
“non-GAAP measures” section of the Company’s latest MD&A(2)
Assumes average 2025 AECO price of $2.34/GJ and average 2025 WTI
price of USD$68.25/bbl(3) Accounts for impact of hedging contracts
in place as at November 30, 2024 |
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Pieridae’s specific priorities for 2025 are:
- Sustain a safe and regulatory compliant business
- Minimize facility outages to maximize sales and processing
revenue.
- Further grow the third-party gathering and processing business
at our operated facilities.
- Meaningfully reduce operating expenses to improve corporate
netback.
- Deliver attractive ROI on value adding optimization projects
included in the 2025 capital program.
- Reduce long term debt to improve financial flexibility.
The 2025 production guidance of 23,000 to 25,000
boe/d assumes that approximately 9,400 boe/d of previously
announced voluntary production shut-ins in Central AB, Northern AB,
and Northeast BC persist throughout 2025. These dry gas, low margin
properties produce to third-party facilities and were shut-in
during the second and third quarters of 2024 due to low AECO
natural gas prices and high processing costs. These shut-ins
represent approximately 25% of the Company’s production
capability.
Material production upside is possible if these
properties are reactivated; management’s decision to reactivate
production from any of these areas is subject to supportive
long-term economics. The shut-in production can be restored within
one to two weeks and subsequent well and reservoir performance is
not expected to be negatively impacted.
Pieridae has hedged 110,000 GJ/d of its 2025
natural gas production at a weighted average fixed price of
$3.32/GJ, and 1,679 bbl/d of its 2025 condensate production with a
weighted average floor price of CAD$84.41/bbl and a weighted
average ceiling price of CAD$92.32/bbl. The Company’s aggregate
hedge position for 2025 totals 19,055 boe/d or approximately 80% of
the above production guidance range. The unrealized gain on the
Company’s hedge portfolio, which extends to mid-2028, is
approximately $87 million using the forward strip as of November
30, 2024.
Pieridae’s legacy fixed price sulphur contract,
which was entered into in 2019, expires on December 31, 2025.
Under this contract, the Company receives a net fixed price of
approximately $6/tonne for the majority of its sulphur production
of approximately 1,400 tonnes per day. Beginning January 1, 2026,
the Company will receive market price for all sulphur production,
less normal deductions for transportation, handling, and marketing
representing a significant potential revenue opportunity. As of
November 30, 2024, the spot west coast sulphur price is
approximately US$143/tonne, prior to transportation and marketing
costs.
The $25-$30 million capital budget in 2025
includes approximately $14 million directed towards a high-impact
well and facility optimization program funded with the equity
raised during Q3 and Q4 2024. These high return, short payout
capital projects are expected to increase sales revenue, improve
facility efficiency, reduce operating cost and fuel gas
consumption, and lower GHG compliance costs. Spending on this
program commenced in Q4 2024 and will continue throughout 2025.
The remainder of the 2025 capital is focused on
routine capital maintenance, field operating technology upgrades,
and site closure / decommissioning expenditures in Alberta and BC.
Notably, Pieridae has not scheduled a major maintenance turnaround
planned at any of the Company’s deep-cut, sour gas processing
facilities during 2025 given the successful completion of gas plant
turnarounds and other maintenance projects in 2023 and 2024.
The next major maintenance turnaround is scheduled for 2026.
Due to the current outlook for North American
natural gas prices, Pieridae is not planning to resume drilling
operations during 2025. Pieridae will only exploit its portfolio of
high impact conventional Foothills drilling opportunities once
natural gas prices sustainably recover and the Company has achieved
its deleveraging target.
ABOUT PIERIDAE
Pieridae is a Canadian energy company
headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. The Company is a significant
upstream producer and midstream custom processor of natural gas,
NGLs, condensate, and sulphur from the Canadian Foothills and
adjacent areas in Alberta and in northeast British Columbia.
Pieridae’s vision is to provide responsible, affordable natural gas
and derived products to meet society’s energy security needs.
Pieridae’s common shares trade on the TSX under the symbol
“PEA”.
For further information, visit
www.pieridaeenergy.com, or please contact:
Darcy Reding, President & Chief Executive
OfficerTelephone: (403) 261-5900 |
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Adam Gray, Chief Financial OfficerTelephone:
(403) 261-5900 |
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Investor
Relationsinvestors@pieridaeenergy.com |
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Forward-Looking
StatementsCertain of the statements contained herein
including, without limitation, management plans and assessments of
future plans and operations, Pieridae’s outlook, strategy and
vision, intentions with respect to future acquisitions,
dispositions and other opportunities, including exploration and
development activities, Pieridae’s ability to market its assets,
plans and timing for development of undeveloped and probable
resources, Pieridae’s goals with respect to the environment,
relations with Indigenous people and promoting equity, diversity
and inclusion, estimated abandonment and reclamation costs, plans
regarding hedging, plans regarding the payment of dividends, wells
to be drilled, the weighting of commodity expenses, expected
production and performance of oil and natural gas properties,
results and timing of projects, access to adequate pipeline
capacity and third-party infrastructure, growth expectations,
supply and demand for oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas,
industry conditions, government regulations and regimes, capital
expenditures and the nature of capital expenditures and the timing
and method of financing thereof, may constitute “forward-looking
statements” or “forward-looking information” within the meaning of
applicable securities laws (collectively “forward-looking
statements”). Words such as “may”, “will”, “should”,
“could”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “expect”, “intend”, “plan”,
“continue”, “focus”, “endeavor”, “commit”, “shall”, “propose”,
“might”, “project”, “predict”, “vision”, “opportunity”, “strategy”,
“objective”, “potential”, “forecast”, “estimate”, “goal”, “target”,
“growth”, “future”, and similar expressions may be used to identify
these forward-looking statements. These statements reflect
management's current beliefs and are based on information currently
available to management.
Forward-looking statements involve significant
risk and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual
results to differ materially from the results discussed in the
forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, the risks
associated with oil and gas exploration, development, exploitation,
production, processing, marketing and transportation, loss of
markets, volatility of commodity prices, currency fluctuations,
imprecision of resources estimates, environmental risks,
competition from other producers, incorrect assessment of the value
of acquisitions, failure to realize the anticipated benefits of
acquisitions, delays resulting from or inability to obtain required
regulatory approvals, ability to access sufficient capital from
internal and external sources and the risk factors outlined under
“Risk Factors” and elsewhere herein. The recovery and resources
estimate of Pieridae's reserves provided herein are estimates only
and there is no guarantee that the estimated resources will be
recovered. As a consequence, actual results may differ materially
from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are based on a number
of factors and assumptions which have been used to develop such
forward-looking statements, but which may prove to be incorrect.
Although Pieridae believes that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should
not be placed on forward-looking statements because Pieridae can
give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.
In addition to other factors and assumptions which may be
identified in this document, assumptions have been made regarding,
among other things: the impact of increasing competition; the
general stability of the economic and political environment in
which Pieridae operates; the timely receipt of any required
regulatory approvals; the ability of Pieridae to obtain and retain
qualified staff, equipment and services in a timely and cost
efficient manner; the ability of the operator of the projects which
Pieridae has an interest in to operate the field in a safe,
efficient and effective manner; the ability of Pieridae to obtain
financing on acceptable terms; the ability to replace and expand
oil and natural gas resources through acquisition, development and
exploration; the timing and costs of pipeline, storage and facility
construction and expansion and the ability of Pieridae to secure
adequate product transportation; future oil and natural gas prices;
currency, exchange and interest rates; the regulatory framework
regarding royalties, taxes and environmental matters in the
jurisdictions in which Pieridae operates; timing and amount of
capital expenditures; future sources of funding; production levels;
weather conditions; success of exploration and development
activities; access to gathering, processing and pipeline systems;
advancing technologies; and the ability of Pieridae to successfully
market its oil and natural gas products.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of
factors is not exhaustive. Additional information on these and
other factors that could affect Pieridae's operations and financial
results are included in reports on file with Canadian securities
regulatory authorities and may be accessed through the SEDAR+
website (www.sedarplus.ca), and at Pieridae's website
(www.pieridaeenergy.com).
Although the forward-looking statements
contained herein are based upon what management believes to be
reasonable assumptions, management cannot assure that actual
results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements.
Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the
date hereof and Pieridae assumes no obligation to update or review
them to reflect new events or circumstances except as required by
applicable securities laws.
Forward-looking statements contained herein
concerning the oil and gas industry and Pieridae's general
expectations concerning this industry are based on estimates
prepared by management using data from publicly available industry
sources as well as from reserve reports, market research and
industry analysis and on assumptions based on data and knowledge of
this industry which Pieridae believes to be reasonable. However,
this data is inherently imprecise, although generally indicative of
relative market positions, market shares and performance
characteristics. While Pieridae is not aware of any misstatements
regarding any industry data presented herein, the industry involves
risks and uncertainties and is subject to change based on various
factors.
Additional Reader
AdvisoriesBarrels of oil equivalent (“boe”) may be
misleading, particularly if used in isolation. A boe conversion
ratio of 6 Mcf: 1 boe is based on an energy equivalency conversion
method primarily applicable at the burner tip and does not
represent a value equivalency at the wellhead.
Abbreviations
Natural Gas |
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Liquids |
Mcf |
thousand cubic feet |
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bbl/d |
barrels per day |
Mcf/d |
thousand cubic feet per day |
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boe/d |
barrels of oil equivalent per day |
MMcf/d |
million cubic feet per day |
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WTI |
West Texas Intermediate |
AECO |
Alberta benchmark price for natural gas |
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Mbbl |
Thousand barrels |
GJ |
Gigajoule |
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MMbbl |
Million barrels |
Power |
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MMboe |
Million barrels of oil equivalent |
MW |
Megawatt |
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C2 |
Ethane |
MWh |
Megawatt hour |
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C3 |
Propane |
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C4 |
Butane |
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C5/C5+ |
Condensate / Pentane |
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responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
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