Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-008043
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Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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Capital Expenditures. Our capital expenditures have historically been related to the execution of our drilling and completion activities in addition to certain lease acquisition activities. Our capital investment strategy is focused on prudently developing our existing properties to generate sustainable cash flow considering current and forecasted commodity prices. For the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company's incurred capital expenditures totaled $430.1 million, of which $327.4 million related to drilling and completion activities, $57.9 million related to maintenance leasehold and land investment and $44.8 million related to discretionary acreage acquisitions.

Our drilling and completion capital expenditures for 2025 are currently estimated to be in the range of $335 million to $355 million. Also, we currently expect to spend approximately $35 million to $40 million in 2025 for maintenance leasehold and land investment, which is focused on near-term drilling programs and facilitating increases in our working interests and lateral footage in units we plan to drill in 2025, 2026 and 2027. We expect this capital program to result in approximately 1,040 to 1,065 MMcfe per day of production in 2025.

Commodity Price Risk. The volatility of the energy markets makes it extremely difficult to predict future oil and natural gas price movements with any certainty. During 2024, WTI prices ranged from $66.73 to $87.69 per barrel and the Henry Hub spot market price of natural gas ranged from $1.21 to $13.20 per MMBtu. During 2023, WTI prices ranged from $66.61 to $93.67 per barrel and the Henry Hub spot market price of natural gas ranged from $1.74 to $3.78 per MMBtu. If the prices of oil and natural gas decline further, our operations, financial condition and level of expenditures for the development of our oil and natural gas reserves may be materially and adversely affected. In addition, lower oil and natural gas prices may reduce the amount of oil and natural gas that we can produce economically. This may result in our having to make substantial downward adjustments to our estimated proved reserves. If this occurs or if our production estimates change or our exploration or development activities are curtailed, full cost accounting rules may require us to write-down, as a non-cash charge to earnings, the carrying value of our oil and natural gas properties. Reductions in commodity prices and/or our reserves could also negatively impact the borrowing base under our revolving