Our strategy

Our strategy: unlock the tremendous value unrecognized within our asset base.

Focused on innovation and efficiency, our strategy positions us to excel and is based on a six-faceted approach to provide the greatest long-term value for our shareholders:

• Comprehensive disclosure of reserves and resources
  • with 100 percent of our reserves and contingent resources externally evaluated by independent Qualified Reserves Evaluators, we lead in reserves and resources evaluation practices with more consistent and comprehensive disclosure
  • we have the largest reserves estimates and longest estimated resource life in our history
  • we have approximately 50 years of drilling inventory based on best estimate case of our economic contingent resources
• Accelerate pace of development
  • our inventory provides the basis for developing resources at a quicker rate
  • our assets are capable of a very high growth rate
• Advance resource play hub design and development
  • our resource play hub model strives to reduce operating and capital costs while continually improving operating efficiencies to maximize the margins realized on every single natural gas molecule produced
  • our resource play hubs focus on pad drilling, with concurrent drilling and completions operations
  • the reach of our horizontal wells is now approaching two miles in length
  • a central well pad can drain up to six square miles
  • surface disturbance is a fraction of what a vertical well development requires
  • new equipment and processes are actively being designed and implemented
  • all of our major resource plays are expected to be developed this way in the future

  Learn more about our resource play hub approach to development.

• Increase exposure to oil and natural gas liquids
  • we expect to significantly increase oil and natural gas liquids exposure in the next few years
  • focus more capital into higher liquids areas of our existing developments
  • extract more natural gas liquids from higher British thermal unit gas streams
  • expand our dry gas development into liquids-rich windows
  • explore our existing land base for higher liquids-rich fairways

  Emerging plays

  

  Learn more about our key, emerging and liquids resource plays.

• Attract third party investments in undeveloped reserves and resources
  • provides immediate recognition of hidden resource value
  • achieves targeted reduction in resource inventory
  • enhances financial flexibility
  • creates strategic partnerships
  • aligns with our goal to expand the natural gas market
• Grow the market for North American natural gas
  • advocate for the expanded use of natural gas in power generation and transportation
  • expand use of natural gas in industrial applications
  • access new natural gas markets, such as exporting liquefied natural gas

  Learn more about our vision for a future fueled by natural gas.

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