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Centennial Resource Development, Inc. (PR -0.23%)
Q3Â 2020 Earnings Call
Nov 3, 2020, 10:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning and welcome to the Centennial Resource Development's Conference Call to discuss its Third Quarter 2020 Earnings. Today's call is being recorded. A replay of the call will be accessible until November 17, 2020 by dialing 855-859-2056 and entering the conference ID number 3692456 or by visiting Centennial's website at www.cdevinc.com.
At this time, I will turn the call over to Mr. Hays Mabry, Centennial's Director of Investor Relations for some opening remarks. Please go ahead, sir.
Hays Mabry -- Director, Investor Relations
Thank you, Brent. And thank you all for joining us on the company's third quarter call. Presenting on the call today are Sean Smith, our Chief Executive Officer; George Glyphis, our Chief Financial Officer; and Matt Garrison, our Chief Operating Officer.
Yesterday, November 2nd, we filed a Form 8-K with an earnings release reporting third quarter earnings results for the company and our operational -- sorry, and operational results for our subsidiary, Centennial Resource Production, LLC. We also posted an earnings presentation to our website that we will reference during today's call. You can find the presentation on our website under Presentations at www.cdevinc.com.
I would like to note that many of the comments during this earnings call are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could affect our actual results and plans. Many of these risks are beyond our control and are discussed in more detail in the Risk Factors and the Forward-Looking Statement sections of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 09/30, which will be filed with the SEC later this afternoon. Although we believe the expectations expressed are based on reasonable assumptions, they are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially.
We may also refer to non-GAAP financial measures that help facilitate comparisons across periods and with our peers. For any non-GAAP measure we use, a reconciliation to the nearest corresponding GAAP measure can be found in our earnings release or presentation, which are both available on our website.
And with that, I'll turn the call over to Sean Smith, our CEO.
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Hays. Good morning and welcome to Centennial's third quarter earnings call. On today's call, George will first discuss our quarterly financial results, liquidity and updated guidance. Matt will then provide an operational update, including recent operational initiatives, well results and updated D&C costs. And then I'll follow-up with a quick recap of the third quarter capital efficiency gains to-date and provide a high level overview of 2021.
But before I hand the call over to George, I wanted to point out that what you will hear today stems from our new corporate slogan Centennial 2.0, which centers around heightened capital efficiency and the goal of generating sustainable free cash flow. In the following discussion and within the presentation materials, you will see the significant progress we've made toward these goals in a very short period of time.
With that said, I'll turn it over to George to review our financial results.
George S. Glyphis -- Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Sean. Turning to our financials on Slide 17 of the earnings presentation, net oil production for the third quarter averaged approximately 35,300 barrels per day, which was down 16% over the prior year period and represents a 6% decline from Q2. Supported by the five wells brought online during August and a reduction in production downtime, Q3 oil production volumes exceeded our expectations.
Average net oil equivalent production totaled approximately 68,900 barrels per day, which was down 10% from the prior year period and represents a 1% increase from Q2. The relatively flat sequential equivalent production volumes were primarily driven by an increase in gas capture, a full quarter of ethane recovery and less flush oil production from new wells compared to previous periods.
Revenues totaled approximately $149 million, which was a 65% increase compared to Q2, primarily as a result of higher price realizations across all three product streams as well as higher NGL and gas production. Excluding the impact of commodity hedges, Centennial's Q3 oil realizations were 90% of WTI or $36.95 per barrel compared to $21.47 in Q2. NGL prices were up 63% to $12.58 per barrel compared to Q2.
Turning to costs. Unit costs continue to look very strong relative to our expectations. LOE per barrel decreased by 7% from Q2 to $3.87, primarily as a result of a continued reduction in equipment rentals and electricity costs. Matt will provide further details on LOE shortly but we are seeing very tangible progress on our cost reduction initiatives.
Cash G&A for Q3 was $1.94 per barrel, which was down from $2.21 during Q2. DD&A decreased by 6% to $14.10 per barrel relative to Q2 because of upward PDP revisions and lower D&C costs. Lastly, GP&T expense increased 9% quarter-over-quarter to $3.02 per barrel in part because of higher natural gas and NGL pricing. In Q3, we recorded a GAAP net loss of $51.5 million, driven in large part by sustained low oil prices due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Adjusted EBITDAX totaled $51 million, up from approximately $24 million in Q2 due to higher commodity prices and reduced operating costs.
Shifting to capex. As a result of continued muted activity levels and cost reductions Q3 D&C capex was $20 million compared to approximately $21 million in Q2. In August, we completed five wells compared to four completions during the prior quarter. And in September, we stood up a single rig, which spud the first two wells of a four-well pad. Once finished, this rig will move to our acreage in Lea County where it will remain for the foreseeable future.
As Matt will describe shortly, our D&C costs per well have declined as a result of well design changes and efficiency improvements as well as overall service market conditions. Facilities and infrastructure capital declined significantly for the second consecutive quarter totaling approximately $1.5 million compared to $6.5 million in Q2 and $25 million in Q1, primarily because much of our needed infrastructure and facility spending has already been incurred for the year. In fact, given the pending completion of our substation project, we expect our infrastructure spending to remain modest relative to historical levels well into the future. We also incurred approximately $315,000 in land capital. Despite the de minimis land spend, we anticipate that our acreage position will grow year-over-year as a result of recent swaps and trades executed by our land team and we expect to have in excess of 80,000 net acres at year end.
Overall, Centennial incurred approximately $22 million of total capital expenditures during the third quarter compared to $28 million in Q2. On the previous earnings call, we noted that capital expenditures for the second half of the year would be funded by operating cash flow. In the third quarter, we generated $10.5 million in free cash flow. And now -- and we now expect despite the recent slide in oil prices to generate free cash flow in the fourth quarter as well assuming current strip prices.
On Slide 10, we summarize our capital structure and liquidity position. As previously announced in October, during Q3, we repaid $15 million of credit facility borrowings and had our borrowing base reaffirmed at $700 million. As of September 30th, Centennial had approximately $314 million of pro forma total liquidity, which was up 6% from June 30th. Finally, at September 30th, Centennial's first lien debt to LTM EBITDAX was 1 times compared to a maximum covenant level of 2.75 times. As a reminder, Centennial will not have a total debt leverage governor under the current -- under the credit facility until Q1 of 2022. Net debt to LTM EBITDAX was 3.2 times at September 30th.
Turning to hedging. As a result of the Q3 hedge position that we established back in March as oil markets were rapidly deteriorating, we incurred a hedging loss of $34.5 million during Q3. Looking to Q4, as you can reference on Slide 13, we have WTI swaps in place covering 13,000 barrels per day and costless collars totaling 3,000 barrels per day at an average WTI price of approximately $39 per barrel.
Focusing on Cal '21, since our last earnings presentation, we have added significantly to our fixed price protection, particularly in the first half of the year. In Q1 of 2021, we've utilized fixed price swaps to hedge 9,000 barrels per day at an average WTI price of $41.81 and have swapped 3,000 barrels per day at an average Brent price of $46.85. For fiscal year 2021, we have hedged approximately 5,700 barrels per day on average with a blend of pricing at an average WTI price of $42.59 per barrel and a Brent price of $47.79 per barrel. On the natural gas side, for Cal '21, we have swapped approximately 45,000 MMBtu per day at an average Henry Hub price of $2.91.
I'd now like to touch on our updated 2020 corporate guidance on Slide 12 of the presentation. Based upon Q3 results, we are increasing our daily oil and total equivalent production midpoints by 1% and 2% respectively, while slightly lowering full year capital expenditure guidance related to facilities and infrastructure.
Due to strong results to-date, we are reducing the midpoint of our LOE guidance by 9% to roughly $4.40 per BOE for the year. We are also lowering the midpoint of guidance for cash G&A, DD&A, severance and ad valorem taxes and stock-based comp as highlighted on the slide. Finally, given ongoing efficiencies, we are adjusting our estimates for the number of spuds and completions during the full year.
In closing, during our Q2 earnings call back in August, we identified the multiple steps we were taking to reposition the company in what we now describe as Centennial 2.0. I trust it is evident that we're making significant progress toward these goals with a material reduction in our cost structure, improvement in liquidity and the generation of free cash flow during the second half of the year. We continue to be hyper-focused on these initiatives and expect that this momentum will carry into the future.
With that, I'll turn the call over to Matt to review operations.
Matt R. Garrison -- Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Thank you, George. Today, we are happy to report our fourth consecutive quarter of reduced LOE, the completion of five DUCs in New Mexico and a return to drilling operations. As this challenging and transformative year enters its final months, it's truly amazing how far this team has come. Today, I'll cover several ongoing initiatives centered around improvements in LOE, DC&F costs and flaring.
As noted on slide 6, our focus on margin expansion can really be seen. Third quarter LOE came in at $3.87, representing a 36% year-over-year and 7% quarter-over-quarter decrease. This fourth consecutive quarterly drop is the result of ongoing initiatives in the field that we mentioned in the last earnings call. This quarter we saw the electrification of Phase 2 of our substation in Reeves County.
Effectively, our Reeves County substation, detailed on Slide 7, has reduced our generator count from around 125 in Q3 of 2019 to around 30 in Q3 2020. And by year-end, with the third phase of our field electrification completed, we hope to see that number of generators drop to roughly 10. This transition to line power impacts our business in several ways. We've seen significant reductions in rental costs, fuel costs and downtime at the well site level. The line power source is much more reliable and that directly impacts the bottom line by fundamentally changing our run rate assumptions on downtime.
The profitability of this project can easily be understood, but we at Centennial are also compelled to be good stewards of the land on which we operate. The transition away from generator power means there will be over 100 fewer combustion engines running in the field. And while recently touring our field operations, the enthusiasm from our team members around this project as well as additional opportunities to transition to electric motors wherever possible was evident.
We've also continued to evaluate our producing wells for opportunities to transition artificial lift to gas lift wherever possible. From Q3 2019 to Q3 2020, our utilization of gas lift as the primary artificial lift method increased from 25% to 40% of our wells. At the same time, we saw a significant drop in ESP usage. The increased reliability of gas lift is undeniable. The failure rates for artificial lift have fallen by around 40% when you compare the full year 2019 average to our year-to-date failure rate. This reduction in failure rate translates to overall lower workover expense, driving our LOE down.
Continuing with our operations in the field, I'm proud to share some additional work that we've really been focusing on and that is our gas capture. As George mentioned earlier, we've put a tremendous emphasis internally on this subject. And as usual, our employees didn't disappoint. In Q3, we flared less than 2% of our produced gas volumes. Last month, that percentage was below 1%. Our ultimate goal is to minimize flaring to near zero.
While on the subject, I wanted to provide a quick update on our overall ESG effort. Earlier this year, we've constructed an ESG Committee comprising of both senior management as well as individual contributors from various departments within Centennial. This Committee was designed to improve our overall ESG effort and disclosure. As such, we plan to publish a fulsome Sustainability Report in late Q1 of next year. This will expand on our current disclosures to include greenhouse gas emissions, flaring, water management, biodiversity impacts and workplace safety among other things.
Turning to Slide 9. You can see the results of our five New Mexico DUCs as we -- which were all targeted in the 3rd Bone Spring Sand and averaged around 9,000 feet of completable lateral length. Notably, all these wells reported strong results with average IP30s and IP60s of approximately 1,900 and 1,500 BOE per day respectively and consisted of 82% oil.
Consistent with our message from last earnings call, we have continued to place a high level of emphasis on our water recycling efforts. For these wells, we utilized approximately 70% recycled water during the completion. Our plan is to continue to utilize recycled water to the maximum extent we are able, positively impacting both the capex and opex costs and remaining consistent with our overall ESG initiatives. Speaking of costs, these wells averaged $858 per lateral foot. While impressive relative to our historical costs on Slide 8, we believe there is still room to improve as those wells included drilling costs that are higher when compared to our current drilling cost structure.
With our current internal estimates, we believe we can achieve DC&F costs of $750 to $850 per foot going forward, which are inclusive of drilling completions, facilities and flowback costs. Lastly, we believe we are able to combat potential service costs inflation with the higher efficiencies being observed real time, particularly on the drilling side.
Today, you've heard some very impressive numbers for both LOE and DC&F costs. I'm pleased to share with you a portion of the roadmap that we are using to ensure that these goals become a reality. Over the last several months, we've scrutinized some of the challenges set before our company. To ensure we have better access to our field operations and to facilitate a more hands on approach to our drilling and completions activity, we've made the decision to relocate our operations group, including the VP of Operations to Midland, Texas. We believe moving the operations team to Midland gives us the advantage and the oversight we've needed and believe that it sends a strong message to our stakeholders regarding our commitment of becoming a best-in-class low-cost operator.
With this being Election Day, I thought I'd take the time again to briefly review our limited exposure to federal acreage. Out of our over 80,000 net acre position spanning both the Northern and Southern Delaware Basin only 4% of our total position falls on federal acreage. Additionally, we have 50 approved federal permits and 75 approved New Mexico state permits in hand. With the level of activity planned going forward any concern relative to additional regulatory risks on federal lands will not impact the trajectory of our company.
Before I hand it back to Sean, I'd like to wrap-up by saying how proud I am of our team for truly changing the cost structure of the company. We've been able to significantly lower DC&F costs, LOE costs and flaring. These initiatives which have been the focus of 2020 will continue to be structural in nature for us as our operations group will now be able to oversee all aspects of their day-to-day work in person. That translates to sustainable progress and underpins our plans to be viewed as an even more capitally efficient company going forward.
And with that, I'll turn it over to Sean for closing remarks.
Hays Mabry -- Director, Investor Relations
Thanks, Matt. So let's quickly recap what we have achieved this quarter which is outlined on slide 14. On the left hand side you can see our key initiatives which were taken verbatim from our Q2 slide deck published in August. On the right hand side we've listed our actual results from the quarter. And as you can see, we've either met or exceeded every goal that we set out to accomplish.
Starting with LOE, we reduced our per unit cost 36% through the execution of field level projects and, as a result, removed over $2 from our unit cost structure. Additionally, we lowered our all-in D&C well costs target by 11% as a result of higher efficiencies and structural design changes. In early October, we received affirmation of our borrowing base and organically increased our liquidity position by paying down debt during the quarter. Furthermore, to help protect cash flow from any deterioration in commodity prices, we added approximately 5,500 barrels a day of incremental oil hedges in 2021, primarily targeting the first and second quarters.
Lastly, we were able to execute on all of these objectives, while efficiently returning to operational activity during the quarter. Overall, this was a strong quarter for Centennial and I'm very confident that the recent changes made to our cost structure are more permanent in nature, providing the company with a solid foundation going forward.
To further build upon this statement and how it affects the underlying business, I'd like to shift to Slide 5, which shows the rate of change of Centennial's capital efficiency on certain key metrics. To start, our development program is now underpinned by significantly lower well costs as our current target represents a 40% reduction from last year. Next, we are resuming activity with a much shallower corporate decline rate. We expect this to be in the low 30% range at year end compared to 40% to 50% seen at year end 2019. This will provide us with a more stable production and cash flow base, effectively requiring less capital investment to maintain production targets.
As Matt detailed, our electrification and artificial lift projects have removed a substantial amount of LOE from our cost structure which in turn has significantly enhanced our margins in addition to improving downtime in the field. And let's not lose sight of the fact that we have a very high quality asset and an extremely capable technical team which is reinforced by our recent well results. Now, with this higher capital efficiency in mind, as I outlined earlier in the year, our goal has always been to generate free cash flow and there has been no change to this.
For the remainder of 2020, we expect to continue operating a one-rig program. And while we previously anticipated being cash flow neutral for the second half of the year, we now expect to generate incremental free cash flow during this period at current strip prices as a result of our recent reduction in costs and expanded margins. For 2021, we'll largely be targeting a maintenance program essentially holding exit rate oil production flat. As it stand today, this will require approximately a two-rig program for next year depending upon drilling and completion efficiencies. Given that we expect to generate free cash flow in the second half of 2020, we believe we are well positioned heading into next year.
As we've proven in the past, our high quality assets are capable of growing production rapidly. That said, we are very mindful of global supply and demand dynamics and the recent pressure on crude prices. These substantial improvements in our cost structure do not give us carte blanche to drive significant oil growth into a depressed market. Thus, as we develop our formal 2021 plan, we are committed to executing a maintenance program while preserving our solid liquidity and cash flow profile.
In closing, this was a very different Centennial than the company you saw at the beginning of the year, or as we now like to call it Centennial 2.0, a company that is focused on capital efficiency, cost control and operational execution while ultimately generating sustainable free cash flow.
And before we go to Q&A, I'd like to quickly leave you with several key takeaways from today's call, which are outlined on Slide 15. We significantly improved our capital efficiency versus previous years and now have line of sight on free cash flow. This is driven by lower D&C costs, which we believe are sustainable through 2021 and beyond. In addition to the material improvements made to our unit costs, particularly LOE, we've witnessed the resetting of our corporate decline rate and still have one of the highest quality assets within the basin. If you take all of these factors, combined with no near-term debt maturities and solid liquidity, you can see why we are so enthusiastic going into 2021.
Thanks for listening and now we'll go to Q&A.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] You have your first question from the line of Scott Hanold. Your line is now open.
Scott Hanold -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Yeah. Thanks. Hey, Sean. That was good color on what 2021 might look like because I think that's obviously what a lot of folks are focusing on at this point then. If you were to run a maintenance program and looking at the current strip, can you give a sense of what that -- does that get you to a near free cash flow neutral position or what's your tolerance to -- ability to outspend? And on that maintenance program, if you can give us an idea of like how many wells does that contemplate being brought on?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Sure, Scott. Yeah, I appreciate the question. I think, as we think about maintenance program next year, of course, we haven't given formal guidance as to what that looks like yet, but that's certainly what we are leaning toward right now. As we've all seen, the commodity prices are very volatile and the fact that we swung nearly $5 in the past two days. And so, it's really interesting to think about how we look at next year what it's going to look like.
I think what you've seen from us both from a hedging profile as well as how we've managed our debt and liquidity this year is that we're keenly focused on all of those metrics combined. And so, yes, maintenance program is our plan next year, we're certainly going to be aware of our liquidity and our leverage throughout the year. So depending on how commodity prices look, that will affect of course our outspend or if there is one next year at all. Depending on how you look at prices, strip prices today might suggest that there might be an outspend but again it's really difficult to forecast what that looks like.
If there were a modest outspend next year, which we'll see how that looks, if you think about Q3 and Q4 of this year, where we generated positive free cash flow, that positive free cash flow is enough to support a maintenance program next year even if there were a slight outspend. So it's essentially a debt neutral situation. So we feel very comfortable that we can attain a maintenance program from exit rate of 2020.
Does that makes sense?
Scott Hanold -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Yeah, yeah. That does, I appreciate. And I'm sorry, did you say -- did you have an idea of the well count that would keep -- take the key production plan?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
We haven't provided that yet, Scott. I think, you can use about 18 wells per rig and we said approximately two rigs next year. So I think that gives you some rounding numbers that, without giving some specifics on our 2021 guidance that gets you pretty close.
Scott Hanold -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
No. I appreciate that. And then, you talked about -- or there were discussion, I think by Matt on, I guess, doing some swaps and trades in getting to around 80,000 net acres and can you give us a bit of color on what's happening around your position, is that related to the Noble-Chevron deal? And where do you all fit in sort of this consolidation conversation? I mean, part of it's getting your cost structure down to make a better business but there's also the part where it's getting some scale and sometimes it's for relevance rather than just corporate efficiencies?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Sure, yeah. Scott, multiple questions I think within that question, but those are all good ones. Our acreage position, as we've said in the call, is going to exit the year greater than 80,000. I would likely be more specific of that in next quarter as we get to the end of the year and can truly tally up how we've done. It's a big complement to our land team. They continue to have -- be proactive on trades and swaps with our offset operators, increasing our working interest in existing units, turning non-op sections into operating sections and oftentimes those trades are not exactly one-for-one on acreage.
And so, we've been able to add cost free acres to our position throughout the year. So that's how you've seen that. You saw that our land spend for the quarter was very modest. And so, again we spent very little on land but we're still able to increase our position. So I feel very good about that. The second part of your question was really about consolidation. And I think that the industry has certainly seen a wave of that, particularly with the large and even some mid-cap companies. I think that the size and scale are a good thing and it will make its way down to the smaller companies.
Right now, we haven't seen a whole lot of that. And I think it's a matter of time when that occurs. From -- how do we fall into that kind of corporate consolidation world, I think that anything that looks constructive to our shareholders, accretive to our metrics and then can generate value for the stakeholders to the company, we would certainly consider that and I think somewhere down the road getting bigger does make sense for us. What we are focusing on today though is all about costs and then de-levering the company. I think getting to free cash flow and continuing to organically delever the company is what we're focused on today.
Scott Hanold -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Thank you.
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Scott.
Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Steven Descarte [Phonetic]. Please go ahead.
Steven Descarte -- Analyst
Hey, guys. Just want to see with 3Q 2020 well costs at $858 per lateral foot, what do you see as the drivers to get those costs down to that $750 to $850 range that you're looking for on a go forward basis?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I'll let Matt take this call -- this question.
Matt R. Garrison -- Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah. The numbers that we talked about with regard to the DUCs were around $858 per lateral foot. And yeah, what we were mentioning in the script was really that -- we had the advantage of recent completion activity, recent facilities builds and -- but those costs of $850 -- sorry, $858 were burdened by kind of an older drilling design program that was utilized before we shut down and kind of rebuilt that department. So, the expectation of getting closer to the $800 mark, which is kind of within the range of what we've described in the presentation, are really going to be execution of our drilling efficiency plan. And that is -- what I've seen so far is a real focus on the flat time improvements on the drilling rig. Little things like trip times and connection speeds and things that are just taking frankly minutes, where they used to take hours, those kinds of things whittle away at your daily cost and they improve your efficiency in the field.
So it's a lot of just blocking and tackling, changing different wellbore designs, casing programs in Texas and improved drilling efficiencies up in New Mexico, that's how we plan to attack and focus on getting to that $800 foot range. And really those are the structural changes that I keep implying when we walk through the script and talk about the importance of the engineers being there in the field in Midland, being physically present to just maintain that really high level of oversight and all those flat times.
Does that answer your question?
Steven Descarte -- Analyst
Yeah. That's great. And then, just as a follow-up, I just want to see if you think there is maybe an opportunity for CDEV to do another debt for equity swap sometime maybe next year?
George S. Glyphis -- Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
This is George, Steven. I think, right now, we're very focused on our cash flow profile and maintaining good liquidity. We wouldn't comment on any type of corporate initiatives specifically like that. I mean, we're very pleased with the outcome of the exchange we executed back in the springtime which reduced our total debt by $127 million and reduced interest expense. But as I said right now, we're very focused on reducing our cost structure, improving liquidity organically and starting to pivot toward 2021 planning and guidance as we move into early next year.
Steven Descarte -- Analyst
Okay, great. Thanks.
Operator
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Dun McIntosh. Your line is now open.
Dun McIntosh -- Johnson Rice -- Analyst
Good morning, Sean. I just had a question maybe if we could revisit some of the improvements you all have made on the LOE front and cost structure in general. With -- you've given updated full year guidance, but how -- as you kind of exit the year and we think about 2021, a lot of these things do seem like they're pretty sticky and just as we kind of think about the cost structure next year versus this year, safe to assume there's going to be some further improvement on an annual basis?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Thank you for pointing out, Dun. It's, as Matt described, we're very proud of the team for driving down a lot of those costs, and a lot of them are as you described more sticky in nature. The electrification, the swap out of ESPs to gas lift those kinds of things are material improvements that are going to be around going into next year and beyond, so feel good about that. We still have a little bit left on the electrification to finish up in Q4, which ought to help remove some additional generators from the field. And so, there are still some projects that we think can help move LOE down on a notional sense.
That being said, if you look at our guidance, you'll notice that LOE is up a little bit, I think, from where we ended Q3 for the year. And part of that is just the denominator of that and that production will be down a little bit in Q4 because our lack of activity in the second and third quarter of this year. So, what we've said is that, if we hold a maintenance program, it'll be from the Q4 level or at least exit rate of 2020 going forward. So, if you want to think about kind of a Q4 LOE run rate going forward, that's not a -- it's not a bad place to use as an estimate until we give 2021 guidance.
Dun McIntosh -- Johnson Rice -- Analyst
Okay, great. Thanks. And then I guess just a little more on that. We've talked about it, but you've got a rig back out there now, if we look at the updated guidance, at the midpoint, a couple more spuds, but the completions are maybe up by half a completion. So what would be some of the things that might push you to bring some wells on to the end of the year? Is kind of the plan for the next two months to really just put a couple more DUCs back on the books to kind of help you mitigate that decline and really get going on that maintenance program as we move into '21?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Right. Yeah, appreciate that. So we've got -- as we mentioned, we have a rig in Texas right now drilling, essentially, it's a four-well pad, and so the timing of which those wells get to total depth, and then depending on how we fall kind of relative to our capital program and whatnot and the timing of which those wells could be ready to complete, all of that gives a little bit of a variance as to exactly how many wells will be completed this year.
We think about completed wells as first flowback. So there's a lot of moving parts that could come toward the end of December and whether or not those roll into 2021 or if they're 2020 completions. That's why there's a little bit of a variance on that range. So, that being said, we're pleased so far with the way these wells are drilling. And I look forward to bringing them online either end of this year or first part of next.
Dun McIntosh -- Johnson Rice -- Analyst
All right. Thank you, all.
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Your next question comes from the line of Jordan Navy [Phonetic]. Please go ahead.
Jordan Navy -- Analyst
Jordan -- On decline rates, you touched on it earlier but I just wanted to get a sense, do you kind of have an idea of what the incremental impact on reducing decline rates has on overall breakevens? And then kind of along with that, just what sort of a steady state 2021 maintenance program might do to that 30% to 35% decline rate that you guys were talking about moving into year-end?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Sure. Thanks, Jordan, for the question. We haven't provided a breakeven number out there. It's just something we haven't put forward. I would just encourage you to look at our costs and kind of come to your own conclusions there. But it's -- feel very good about our capital efficiency as well as our operating costs. And I think we are pushing those in the right direction, which help lower breakeven costs, of course.
From the corporate decline rate question, we're going to exit the year, as we mentioned, between kind of 30% to 35% range. I think, if you hold that number relatively steady throughout 2021, you're going to be in the right ballpark. And that is due to the fact that we are planning on adding a little bit of activity. Of course, we added a rig in September of this year. What we said in the call is that we're likely to have two rigs running next year. And so, with that level of activity, I would expect our corporate decline rate to be about flat through 2021.
Jordan Navy -- Analyst
And just to follow-up on that, just -- on the infrastructure spend, that's clearly come down pretty significantly, not only this year but compared to last year as well. Do you think -- are we at a state now where we're kind of in a steady state spend on infrastructure or are there other kind of net LOE enhancing projects that we could look for that might cause that to go up moving into the year-end and into 2021?
George S. Glyphis -- Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, Jordan; it's George. The majority of our infrastructure spend in terms of major projects has been completed. A lot of that occurred in 2019. At the front end of this year, we had some spending particularly in Q1. But as we look at major projects, we do see a significant decline in infrastructure spending, not only from the beginning of this year but year-over-year from 2020 into 2021. As we think about -- obviously we guide facilities and infrastructure capital together, so it's one bucket. And as we look toward next year on the facility side, because we're going to be completing wells on a more normalized basis in terms of our resumption of activity, we will see some degree of increase in the facility spend. But on infrastructure, we're feeling very good about where we are in terms of not having much spend going forward.
Jordan Navy -- Analyst
Thanks.
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Jordan, you might have cut out there, I'm not sure. Did that complete your questions? I apologize.
Hays Mabry -- Director, Investor Relations
Hays Mabry -- I believe so. Brent, do we have any more questions in the queue?
Operator
[Operator Instructions] We have the next question from Nathan Wayne [Phonetic]. Your line is now open.
Nathan Wayne -- Analyst
Hello?
Operator
Hi. You've got Sean Smith here.
Nathan Wayne -- Analyst
Hi, Sean. How are you?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
I'm doing well, sir. How are you?
Nathan Wayne -- Analyst
Good. I just wanted to get clarification because I know there's a little bit of confusion as far as compliance goes. My understanding that we have an additional 180 days that we can apply for, is that correct?
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Are you talking from a delisting point of view?
Nathan Wayne -- Analyst
Yes, sir. Yes.
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. We have -- we've received the de-listing notice in August. We have until February for compliance in the first phase. There is a second phase that would extend that to August. So there's frankly a lot of time to deal with the Nasdaq listing requirements. And there are avenues to address that. I'm sure you've seen many companies address that through stock splits and what have you, but we're still early days relative to that and don't anticipate any issues there.
Nathan Wayne -- Analyst
Understood, guys. Thank you so much for the clarification.
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
There are no further questions at this time. Presenters, please continue.
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 45 minutes
Call participants:
Hays Mabry -- Director, Investor Relations
Sean R. Smith -- Chief Executive Officer
George S. Glyphis -- Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Matt R. Garrison -- Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Scott Hanold -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Steven Descarte -- Analyst
Dun McIntosh -- Johnson Rice -- Analyst
Jordan Navy -- Analyst
Nathan Wayne -- Analyst
