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Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the Diamondback Energy and Viper Energy Partners first-quarter 2016 earnings conference call.
At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode.
Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time.
(Operator Instructions).
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Adam Lawlis, Manager of Investor Relations.
Sir, you may begin.
Adam Lawlis - Manager of IR
Thank you, Andrew.
Good morning and welcome to Diamondback Energy and Viper Energy Partners joint first-quarter 2016 conference call.
During our call today we will reference an updated investor presentation which can be found on Diamondback's website.
Representing Diamondback today are Travis Stice, CEO, Mike Hollis, COO, and Tracy Dick, CFO.
During this conference call the participants may make certain forward-looking statements relating to the Company's financial condition, results of operations, plans, objectives, future performance and businesses.
We caution you that actual results could differ materially from those that are indicated in these forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors.
Information concerning these factors can be found in the Company's filings with the SEC.
In addition, we will make reference to certain non-GAAP measures.
The reconciliations with the appropriate GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release issued yesterday afternoon.
I will now turn the call over to Travis Stice.
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Thank you, Adam.
Welcome everyone and thank you for listening to Diamondback and Viper Energy Partners first-quarter 2016 conference call.
During the first quarter of 2016, commodity prices tested lows not seen in the past several years.
As such and consistent with our strategy of capital discipline and maximizing stockholder returns, we slowed our 1Q completion activity and now have an inventory of nearly 30 drilled but uncompleted wells.
As a result of increased activity associated with running a third drilling rig longer than we initially anticipated and recently picking up an additional frac crew, we are raising the low-end of our full-year guidance to 34,000 BOEs per day from 32,000 BOEs per day.
We anticipate some lumpiness in the second quarter production with a response from completions associated with the second frac crew expected in the second half of this year.
Should crude prices continue to strengthen, we could pick up a fourth horizontal rig early in the third quarter.
Alternatively, if prices soften from current levels, we could stay at three drilling rigs or less and again moderate the pace of completions.
With over $230 million in cash and an undrawn credit facility, we are well-positioned to increase activity levels without stressing the balance sheet.
When you compare our current financial position to nearly two years ago when oil price was at its peak, our balance sheet is now stronger.
We have more liquidity and higher credit ratings.
I am proud that we have been able to become even stronger financially during the past year.
Also we continue to lower well costs and operating expenses through efficiency gains, optimization and cost concessions.
Our execution metrics continue to improve across the board even as we begin development in new areas like Howard and Glasscock Counties.
All in cash costs for the quarter including LOE, G&A, transportation and production taxes are currently below $10 per barrel demonstrating how lean and efficient the Diamondback organization operates.
We are pleased with the performance of our first five Glasscock County completions which are exceeding our expectations at the time of the acquisition.
This week we intend to begin completion of wells in our new core area and Howard County where offset activity remains very encouraging.
We expect to see more opportunities to grow our Company and believe our proven track record of execution and low-cost operations makes us a natural consolidator within the Permian Basin.
While we evaluate all deals in the Permian, we will only do transactions that we believe are accretive to our stockholders.
I will now turn the call over to Mike.
Mike Hollis - COO
Thank you, Travis.
Diamondback continues to post encouraging results and achieve new Company execution records.
Slide seven shows that on average our Glasscock County wells are tracking a 1 million BOE type curve.
Our Riley wells were completed using the higher sand concentration and early production time results for these wells are very encouraging.
Slide eight shows pure activity in Howard County where we will begin completing our first three-well pad this week.
As a reminder, we have drilled two pads that target the lower Spraberry, Wolfcamp A and Wolfcamp B intervals.
Slide 10 shows that Diamondback continues to drill wells faster than offsetting peers in all of our core operating areas.
During the first quarter of 2016, we drilled a 9800 foot lateral well in Howard County in less than 11 days from spud to TD.
We also drilled a 7300 foot lateral well in Spanish Trail in under 10 days from spud to TD, a new Company record in Midland County.
Lastly, in April 2016, we drilled two wells with 10,000 foot laterals in Andrews County in 25 days from spud of the first well to rig release of the second.
Slide 11 shows our current realized well cost reductions which have come down roughly 35% since the peak in 2014 and approximately 5% quarter over quarter.
Leading edge drill, complete and equip costs are trending below $5 million for a 7500 foot lateral well and between $6 million and $6.5 million for a 10,000 foot lateral well.
Slide 12 shows reductions to our current realized lease operating expenses since the peak in 2014.
We are extremely proud of our production organization for continuing to lower operating expenses.
We have reduced LOE from over $8.00 a barrel in the first quarter of 2015 to $5.23 per BOE in the first quarter of 2016 due to reduced costs and further improved pumping practices.
As a result, we have lowered our LOE guidance to $5.50 to $6.50 per BOE from a prior range of $6.00 to $7.00 per BOE.
With these comments now complete, I will turn the call over to Tracy.
Tracy Dick - CFO
Thank you, Mike.
Diamondback's first-quarter 2016 adjusted net income was $2 million or $0.02 per diluted share.
Our consolidated adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $60 million.
Our first-quarter 2016 average realized price per BOE including hedges was approximately $27.
During the quarter, our cash G&A costs were $1.33 per BOE while non-cash G&A was $2.39.
During the quarter, our capital spend for drilling, completing and equipping wells was $76 million.
Our restructure costs were $5 million and we paid $4 million on our nonoperated properties.
A portion of first-quarter capital was related to fourth-quarter 2015 activities.
We spent an additional $19 million on acquisitions during the first quarter of 2016.
Diamondback is in an enviable position as a Company that has a stronger balance sheet, more liquidity and higher credit ratings than it did when oil was at its peak.
At the end of March 2016, we were undrawn on our secured revolving credit facility.
With over $230 million in cash and $500 million in undrawn revolver capacity, we have ample liquidity to fund our budgeted 2016 drilling program.
Our net debt to annualized first-quarter 2016 EBITDA is 1.1 times as shown on slide 13.
Our practice of limiting our commitment to a portion of our borrowing base again reflects our track record of financial discipline.
Moving to slide 14, we provide our guidance for 2016.
As announced last night, we increased our 2016 production guidance to a range of 34,000 to 38,000 BOE per day.
As a result of picking up a second dedicated completion crew, we now expect to complete a range of 35 to 70 gross wells.
We have also lowered our 2016 LOE guidance range to $5.50 to $6.50 per BOE from a prior range of $6.00 to $7.00.
I will now turn to Viper Energy Partners which announced a cash distribution last night of $0.0149 per unit for the first quarter.
Viper has no minimum quarterly distributions or complex ownership hierarchies.
A majority of cash flow is returned to unitholders through quarterly distributions providing upside when oil prices rebound.
Spanish Trail remains one of the most economic areas in the Permian Basin and we expect the operators will complete their backlog of over 20 (inaudible) and continued strength and oil prices.
At the end of first-quarter 2016, Viper had $43 million drawn on its revolver.
I will now turn the call back over to Travis for his closing remarks.
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Thank you, Tracy.
Diamondback again delivered a strong quarter demonstrating what we do best, reduce costs and expenses, improve execution and demonstrate capital flexibility in response to commodity prices.
We have gotten stronger financially and are poised to accelerate into an oil price recovery.
We are pleased with the early well results in Glasscock County and continue to be optimistic about Howard County potential.
We look forward to sharing our initial Howard County results in the upcoming quarters.
Operator, please open the line for questions.
Operator
(Operator Instructions).
Neal Dingmann, SunTrust.
Neal Dingmann - Analyst
Good morning, everyone.
Nice quarter again.
Travis, for you or the guys there, just how do you think about these days about an optimal well either in Howard, Glasscock or obviously the Spanish Trail in relation to sand per foot lateral length?
A lot of people are obviously throwing a lot more sand in it.
I'm just wondering maybe in those particular things, how you would think about let's just stick with lateral length and amount of sand you are looking at?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Sure, the lateral length question is a little easier and I think it is also more well understood.
Longer is certainly better.
In fact here in a couple of months Diamondback is going to be drilling our first 13,000 foot laterals.
On sand per foot, we continue to test and follow the industry in putting more sand per foot.
Our current average is running around 1600 pounds per foot.
We've got some tests that are coming up that will test even higher sand loadings.
But in a general since, we believe that the recipe has an efficient frontier of just the right amount of sand.
And while we don't know exactly what the answer is, we know it is somewhere we believe in that 1600 to 2000 pounds per foot.
Neal Dingmann - Analyst
Okay.
And then just last one if I could, how do you think about in either kind of again the three areas just the optimal number of wells per pad?
Does that just vary pad per pad depending on exactly how contiguous the acreage?
Or what do you think about, is it a three-well, four-well or will you start to even accelerate that as conditions improve?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
So Neal, I believe if you are just looking for planning purposes, probably three wells, three stacked wells per pad and then we will move across depending on the density and the way we stagger the wells somewhere between six and eight wells across a section.
Certainly we are very comfortable with three or more zones in Glasscock and Howard County and as we have seen in Midland County and some of the other areas we have got potential for the Middle Spraberry and even the Jo Mill Spraberry as well.
Neal Dingmann - Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
John Nelson, Goldman Sachs.
John Nelson - Analyst
Good morning and congratulations on the quarter.
When I look at your slides, you guys put rig ranges of 2 to 3 for $30 to $45 a barrel and three to four to $45 to $55 per barrel.
You mentioned in your remarks you could add back a rig in early 3Q.
I'm just curious is this a function of seeing continued improvement from well economics or is this just a view that oil prices will continue to move higher?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Yes, John, it is actually a little bit of both but I think the reason we leave that range out there is because we want to be able to respond when we see strengthening oil prices.
We've got $45 to $55.
We will say we will run three to four rigs.
Our rate of return for all these wells particularly in Midland County are ranging somewhere between 50% and 100% rate of return.
So we've got a lot of opportunities to drill extremely high rate of return wells.
So we are not looking for economic improvements and we are not looking for well costs to be down from where they are now to help make the decisions.
We are really focused on the macro conditions on our oil market and then the near-term price forecast to make those decisions.
But again consistent with what we have always done and said, we -- turns to our investors are going up, we accelerate into that environment.
John Nelson - Analyst
That is helpful.
And then just can you remind us on the fourth rig, would that be reactivating a rig that is already under contract or would you guys be actually contracting a new rig?
If the latter, what sort of term would you be looking to lock up potentially?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
John, it would be a reactivation of a well we -- of a rig we currently have warm stacked on one of our locations.
John Nelson - Analyst
Okay.
And then I had just one high level question if I could.
When you think about acquisitions, do you look as hard at Delaware basin assets or do you think that maybe Diamondback doesn't currently have sufficient scale or the well economics would be inferior that you don't want to (inaudible) stay continue to focus on the Midland basin?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
We continue to look at numerous opportunities in the Delaware basin.
What I talk to my business development group about is as we look at different opportunities, are we upgrading our portfolio?
In other words and said simply, is the average well in the new opportunity at or above the midpoint of the well in our current portfolio?
And if it is not, it feels like a dilution to our inventory and at this point those trades are hard for us to do.
But no, we certainly continue to look everywhere in the Midland basin but also in the Delaware.
John Nelson - Analyst
Is there a certain scale you think you need to be at to move into the Delaware or is it simply if those assets are above the average of the portfolio you could bolt on even smaller levels?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
It really gets back to the economics of the decision.
At what price and what returns do we think we can generate our shareholders?
And then secondary or tertiary down the line is what size is it?
John Nelson - Analyst
That is very, very helpful.
I will let somebody else jump on.
Operator
Michael Glick, JPMorgan.
Michael Glick - Analyst
So several operators are testing multiple down spacing concepts in the lower Spraberry in and around your acreage.
Could you speak to your view on how well density ultimately plays out in that zone?
And then also do you see the potential for multiple benches -- move into your northern acreage?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
You know, Mike, we believe that the testing that is going on in [in strat] right now is appropriate.
We are testing down spacing as well and we intend to be fast followers on that.
I think you have to be careful in down spacing based on our industry's experience to avoid over capitalizing a section.
That being said though, we've got to put the drillbit tighter and in more laterals to come up with that ultimate final answer.
And we are doing it, other operators are doing it as well and it is sort of one of those stories that is going to be evolving.
We tend to be a little bit more cautious but certainly as well densities increase and additional stack pays are tested, that rising tide lifts all the ships here in the Northern Midland basin.
Michael Glick - Analyst
And then from a high-level, you guys continue to improve on both the efficiency and productivity side.
Maybe can you speak to kind of inning do we think we are in from Diamondback's perspective on both fronts?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
I think the remarkable thing about the Permian basin and I think we are in our 95th year since our discovery well, is that we are almost a basin that is perpetually in the third or fourth inning and that is because there is just so much hydrocarbons in the strat column that things like technology improvements, horizontal drilling, fracking technologies, all of those things perpetually bring you back in the third or fourth inning.
As I sit here today and I look at our cost and our execution and I look at our operations organization and say can you give me more, I mean it feels like unless there is a substantial technological breakthrough that we are getting close to the bottom in costs and close to the maximum in efficiencies.
But that doesn't mean from Diamondback's perspective we won't continue to push.
And where a couple of years ago we were probably saving quarters and dimes, right now we are picking up pennies and every little bit matters and it is just a remarkable basin to be developing, the Permian is, with all the oil that is in place.
Michael Glick - Analyst
And then last one for me, can you just be to the service industry's capacity to respond to accelerating activity in Midland basin?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
You know, Mike, I think obviously the calls that the public service guys are making, they are best equipped to respond to that.
I think if the industry was to all of a sudden mash the accelerator completely to the floor and stand up 100 drilling rigs in the Permian basin, we would have a hard time I would believe on the pressure pumping side immediately responding to that.
But if we do a prudent build into a new norm of drilling rigs, I mean we are running less than 130 rigs out here in the Permian right now and that is down from 560 just a few years ago.
If we build into that environment, I believe our service sector, our business partners can appropriately build their organizations back up to respond to the operator's needs.
That is certainly the conversations I have with my business partners at Diamondback.
Michael Glick - Analyst
Appreciate the color.
Thank you.
Operator
Gordon Douthat, Wells Fargo.
Gordon Douthat - Analyst
Thanks.
Good morning, everybody.
Somewhat related question on the completion side going back to your presentation I guess you indicated some pretty good efficiencies on the drilling side I should say.
And I was just trying to get a sense on the completions how much were the completions impacted by efficiency gains and to what extent are those sustainable in an upturn where industry is adding rigs and drilling more wells?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Probably a little bit different than what we see on the drilling side.
The majority of the costs that are associated with completion are tied up with the pressure pumping and the pressure pumping guys as commodity prices call for increased activity, they're going to have to go and repair their balance sheets and so I anticipate costs increasing at some point in the future probably not in the next quarter or so but some point in the future.
And as such, most of that will transfer right back to the operators.
So are we doing things on the completion side to make our completions more efficient?
Absolutely we are.
But I would say to a larger degree on the pressure pumping side we are relying on our business partners to provide fair prices at good services.
Gordon Douthat - Analyst
Okay, makes sense.
Another question I had was just given the results in Glasscock looked pretty solid.
How do they compare to initial expectations?
And then given the 1 million barrel a day type curve give or take, how do those wells compete within the portfolio now?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Certainly the wells are in the top quartile of our portfolio.
At least certainly in the Wolfcamp A, we have been extremely pleased with the Wolfcamp A and it is competing now with almost competing with some of our wells in Midland County, some of the lower Spraberry wells in Midland County.
The lower Spraberry that we tested which there wasn't a lot of data points in this portion of Glasscock County in the lower Spraberry and as I reported in my last call, we were really pleasantly surprised.
I think we have released an IP-30 rate in our investor presentation right now that continues to embolden.
This is I think about 1125 BOEs a day for an IP-30.
So again, that was a very strong lower Spraberry well and that will be in the top quartile of our portfolio as well.
So both the Wolfcamp A and the Lower Spraberry are well above our expectations at the acquisition time.
The Wolfcamp B is about in line with our expectations.
So two out of three zones are significantly above our expectations.
So on average, it makes the whole strat column look better.
Gordon Douthat - Analyst
Okay, and you put these on ESP?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Yes, what we have decided to do early on in our development scenario is as we move into areas which we feel have strategic significance to us, that we want to try to eliminate as many variables as we can.
And whether it is in Glasscock County or Howard County, the initial wells that we put in there we always put on ESP and that way that allows us to compare ESP performance and the way that the floor in bottom will pressure declines over time to wells that we do have a good control like in Midland County.
So we believe that is the best way to do it initially.
Are there applications for gas lift?
Absolutely there are.
You probably save maybe as much as $100,000 to $150,000 per well.
But they do have a little bit more operational uncertainties with them as opposed to an ESP.
Just one other point on the ESP that my operations guys continue to remind me is that as we move into areas where we have a dense spacing of horizontal wells and we frac and we put frac water in the offset wells, it is a whole lot easier to go back out there and turn the rheostats up, speed up the sub pumps and pull the water out of the section.
So overall this whole section starts producing oil sooner than it did, sooner than it would have had we had those wells on gas lift.
So there is an economic offset positive offset to the increased upfront costs.
Gordon Douthat - Analyst
All right.
Appreciate the color.
Thanks.
Operator
Kashy Harrison, Simmons & Company.
Kashy Harrison - Analyst
Good morning.
Thanks for taking my questions.
Excellent work on just bringing down costs on a quarter-over-quarter basis with the well costs now trending below $5 million.
Was wondering if you could just provide some color on some of the drivers of the cost reductions relative to what you presented last quarter?
And then just thinking about a recovering commodity environment, how much of those savings do you think are sustainable?
So for example for the seven 500 foot laterals wells, if they cost $5 million today in a $50 to $60 environment, what do think that moves up to?
Mike Hollis - COO
This is Mike Hollis.
I will try to answer both of those for you.
On the cost front, a lot of the savings are coming from some of the optimizations on the drilling side as well as some pricing that we are getting on the pressure pumping side.
We are seeing about quarter-over-quarter about 5% reduction in cost of goods and services, pipes, steel, iron that we buy and use in the wells.
But as far as the drilling site, it is typically speed with which we drill, modified casing designs where we are running shallower casings and then on the pressure pumping side, it is current pricing that we are getting from the industry right now.
As far as the stickiness of this current price environment, as we all get back to work in the next few quarters, until the iron gets utilized out of the yard I think we will continue to see these lower prices stick around for awhile.
But as the other basins tend to pick up work, so whether it is $50, $60 oil and the Eagle Ford and the Bakken start getting to work you will start seeing these guys have to raise their prices because they have a lot more competition for the iron.
Kashy Harrison - Analyst
Thanks for the color there.
On the operating expense side of things, in one of the slide you highlighted that 9% of oil production is going to be on pipe by the end of the year and 80% of the water will be piped to saltwater disposal.
Could you maybe just shed some color on what LOE may look like by the end of this year on a per barrel basis?
Mike Hollis - COO
You bet.
The oil pipeline, that is more in our realize prices that we see, the water side again every time we come into a new area, that is one of the first things we do is build the infrastructure out for both supply and removal of fluids from the wells.
So as we go forward again, a lot of it is going to depend on the volume forecast and what oil prices do.
But if we keep a fairly flat oil price, it would be fair to say that we should have fairly flat LOE for what we have in our guidance.
If oil prices pull back and we pull back activity and migrate to the midpoint of our production range, you will see those LOE costs go up slightly.
Kashy Harrison - Analyst
Okay.
And just shifting gears to Viper, I was just wondering if you all could shed some light on the current A&D market in the mineral space, if there's any color you could shed there?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
We don't typically like to talk about acquisitions that we have under current evaluation but I can just say in a general sense that the deal flow on the Viper side has moved up materially late last year and through the first quarter of this year.
So Viper is fully engaged in trying to deliver some accretive deals to its unitholders.
Kashy Harrison - Analyst
Thanks for the color there and thanks for taking my questions.
Really appreciate it.
Operator
Jason Wangler, Wunderlich.
Jason Wangler - Analyst
Good morning, guys.
Mike, you may have touched on it a bit there.
But was just curious, slide 10 that shows obviously the really solid days of drilling, it seems to me at least as you look at those graphs specifically Howard and Glasscock that the first call it 8000 feet basically the vertical portion of that well really gets down a lot quicker than the peers.
I think you mentioned maybe some shallower casing in a previous answer.
But was just curious if there is something operationally different that you guys are seeing there that for lack of a better word gives you guys a really good head start in getting these wells down quicker?
Mike Hollis - COO
In general the modified casing design is more in the Western side of the basin.
We are very early into Howard and Glasscock so we will continue to push the envelope there.
So you are not really getting that benefit yet in those areas.
What you are seeing here is just blocking and tackling that we do every day.
It is good research in the area and it is just good drilling practices that we try to employ.
I wish I could say there was secret sauce to being able to deliver that kind of performance but it is essentially just good hard work from the guys in the field.
Jason Wangler - Analyst
Okay, I appreciate it.
And then just maybe for Tracy just on the tax side, just kind of cleaning up some numbers obviously there wasn't any effective tax rate this quarter.
Is the thought process going forward maybe just for modeling purposes what we should be looking at?
Tracy Dick - CFO
Yes, I would suggest that internally I am modeling no taxes for the remainder of this year.
This is a result of the impairments we had been booking over the last few quarters.
As prices start to flatten out over the last rolling 12 months, we could get back into a tax position but I don't foresee that until probably 2017.
Jason Wangler - Analyst
Okay, I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
Operator
Tim Rezvan, Sterne, Agee.
Tim Rezvan - Analyst
Good morning, folks.
Thanks for taking my question.
I was hoping to change gears a bit and ask about differentials.
If we look at both Diamondback and Viper, we have seen some volatility across all hydrocarbons.
And I know that Viper has other operators producing some of its barrels.
But can you kind of explain what that variability was and maybe give us a thought on what we can expect the rest of the year?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
I am not sure that we have specifically studied that specific question.
I can tell you that we've got guidance in there both at the Viper level and the Diamondback level that I would anticipate what you have seen as more consistent what we are going to see going forward.
Tim Rezvan - Analyst
So there is nothing on the NGL processing side regarding ethane to drive realizations for the first-quarter?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Yes, I mean there are a couple of things.
One is the amount of ethane rejection.
That does affect that.
The other thing is as prices get lower, you've got fixed TNS fees so as prices get lower, it makes your differential look bigger.
So hopefully if we have got some price improvement on the NGL side that differential will go down as well.
Tim Rezvan - Analyst
Okay, okay, that is fair.
You saw a $0.35 deterioration from 4Q to 1Q in gas for FANG and kind of similar move down for Viper.
That is all.
Okay, I will leave it there.
Thanks.
Operator
Brian Downey, Nomura Securities.
Brian Downey - Analyst
Nice quarter, guys.
Thanks for taking my question.
Just a quick one.
Given that first-quarter production came in at the high-end of the full-year guidance, can you just give us a sense of how we should think about the general production trajectory towards the rest of the year?
I know you had mentioned the lumpy second quarter but just curious as to how we should think about the moving parts as we head into the back half of the year?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Sure, I think as Adam explains it when we talk about it internally, we look at production more in a J shaped recovery with most of the completions as I outlined with the second frac crew impacting 3Q and 4Q.
That being said though, we have to be a little careful on thinking what we are going to do quarter over quarter because we don't guide to the quarter.
One of the reasons is because we can move into a quarter or out of a quarter three or four well stacked pad depending on logistics and how quickly we can get to those and if we bring one into a quarter and there are three or four well pads bringing 3000 or 4000 barrels a day, you can have a material impact on the quarter.
So again while we stick towards an annual guide is because of that somewhat difficulty in forecasting when these stacked pads come on.
Brian Downey - Analyst
Great.
And if I think about the potential for a fourth rig as you mentioned, should I think about if that is a 3Q event that probably you might get a little bit in the fourth quarter but that is more affecting 2017 type volumes?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
Yes, that would be building into a recovering oil price commodity tape and more late this year, maybe exit volumes but primarily 2017.
Brian Downey - Analyst
Great, thank you.
Operator
Chris Stevens, KeyBanc.
Chris Stevens - Analyst
Good morning, guys.
Travis, maybe I could just touch on the Delaware basin M&A again.
Have you seen acreage out there that you think would be accretive to your average inventory quality?
And if so, is it really more a question of valuation at this point or do you think Delaware just doesn't really compete with what you have on the Midland basin side?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
No, there is portions of the Delaware that we believe can compete.
I'm not saying that's where necessarily the trades our recurring.
But in a general sense we just continue to look at the Delaware from northern Delaware to southern Delaware and we evaluate it relative to what is currently in our portfolio and try to make good decisions based on that that are going to be accretive to our shareholders.
So probably more a valuation point.
Chris Stevens - Analyst
Got it.
And then what are the expectations on Howard County at this point?
What you have over in Spanish Trail and now Glasscock both look pretty tremendous.
I mean should we -- I guess what do you guys think in terms of how Howard County is going to fit into the pecking order at this point?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
We updated in our slide deck some new well data points in Howard County on slide eight.
And I made the comment when we acquired this asset about this time last year that this was the most de-risked acquisition Diamondback had ever made.
So as you peruse the data that is on slide eight, you can see why we continue to be emboldened on the results from the wells and we are going to be pumping sand downhole here in a few days and we will have what we believe are some good tests in our October call where we will at least have a 30 day rate on our first three well pad and probably some early indications from our second three well pad.
If you just look at the data over there, it looks pretty strong.
Chris Stevens - Analyst
Got it.
Thanks a lot.
Operator
John Aschenbeck, Seaport Global.
John Aschenbeck - Analyst
Good morning.
Thanks for taking my question.
Just had a follow-up on extended laterals, a two-part question really.
And that is what percentage of your acreage would you estimate ballpark figure is currently amenable to longer laterals, let's call it 10,000 foot plus?
And then secondly, how many of 2016 35 to 70 completions again ballpark figure would you estimate around that 10,000 foot plus range?
Travis Stice - President and CEO
I'm going to let Russell answer that question.
Russell Pantermuehl - VP of Reservoir Engineering
It obviously varies by area but I think probably we would say about 70% of our acreage we can drill 10,000 foot laterals and probably for the wells we will drill and complete this year I think that number is in the 60% to 65% range.
So what has happened is we have been successful in trading acreage and pooling acreage to drill longer laterals because not just us but the rest of the industry wants to.
So like our Glasscock acreage is probably in that 70%, 10,000 foot laterals and Howard may end up being a little higher than that.
John Aschenbeck - Analyst
Perfect.
Very helpful.
Thank you, guys.
Operator
At this time I'm showing no further questions.
So with that said, I would like to turn the conference back over to Travis Stice, CEO, for closing remarks.
Travis Stice - President and CEO
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