NOVEMBER 03, 2022 / 2:00PM GMT, Q3 2022 Talos Energy Inc Earnings Call
then when you look to where we’re trying to go with the EnVen assets, they have their own platform rig program. They’ve done great work in the Lobster Field. And then they have an open water program that’s going to be delivered in the first quarter to go to a couple of interesting tiebacks similar to what we’re doing with our tiebacks. So when I look at the combined businesses, a little choppy fourth quarter, I get it. Nobody loves it, but you got to be pretty excited on where this is going as you get into the first quarter and you look out the next 12 to 18 months.
Subhasish Chandra The Benchmark Company, LLC, Research Division - Senior Equity Analyst
Tim, you feel comfortable putting any numbers around, sort of the first quarter expectations?
Timothy S. Duncan Talos Energy Inc. - Founder, President, CEO & Director
No, I think hopefully, that gave you enough anchors to start to build some of that out. I mean what we’re trying to do is get this transaction closed as fast as we can, and we’re working through kind of the S-4 filing, and hoping that goes effective. And then when we get this closed, I think we’re going to roll out a lot of things with our closing, our vision of the pro forma of business, how we think about guidance for next year, how do we think about capital allocation. All those things will come through closing, which at the end of the day, could be by the end of the year or just sneaks into January. But I would say the active programs that we put together is going to build everything back up to a point that we’re going to be pretty satisfied with.
Subhasish Chandra The Benchmark Company, LLC, Research Division - Senior Equity Analyst
Okay. Look forward to that. A follow-up, perhaps for you and Robin. So now we’re seeing the U.S. sort of dominating CCS projects globally, a whole bunch of different announcements, et cetera. Broadly, can you sort of put Talos in context of that? Where your competitive advantages are in this? We know the projects you have, et cetera. But as you go forward, I’m assuming you’re seeing a lot more competition out there. What your brand provides that others don’t?
Timothy S. Duncan Talos Energy Inc. - Founder, President, CEO & Director
Yes. Let me start with that, Subash, and I’m going to hand it over to Rob, and maybe piggyback that. I think congrats on some of these announcements we’ve seen from some of our peers and friends and competitors. I think they would tell you, whatever you might have written in the last 2 weeks, probably took months and months and months to negotiate. These things aren’t quick. And so that’s why I pick up the call I talked about. I’m pretty excited that we still have some milestones that we intend to try to achieve by the end of the year. And so I think there’s a lot still coming from us on what we’ve been putting together. I think generally, our advantages, and we took it very early as we really understand the Gulf Coast geology and the geology that extends into the state waters. We’re nimble. We move fast. And I think that was reflected in why Chevron chose to partner with us. Just for example, Robin and Southeast Texas. And so what I talked about in the call was these parallel paths Robin’s team is working on between enhancing the storage space, which is really geology-based, getting our things permitted, talking to emitters, even enhancing partnerships. And I think you’re going to see more milestones around that and Robin provide some of your views as well.
Robin H. Fielder Talos Energy Inc. - Executive VP of Low Carbon Strategy & Chief Sustainability Officer
Yes. I’ll echo that. I think our advantage of being a first mover here, getting some very strategic leasehold, we’re approaching 1 billion metric tons of CO2 storage across the U.S. Gulf Coast when you look at what we’ve got in 4 announced project areas. And so that is allowing us to have those good discussions with partners, whether they be customers, attracting additional equity partners. As you know, we brought in Chevron into our Bayou Bend project with ourselves in Carbonvert’s last quarter. And so it’s very exciting right now. We are seeing others start to build their positions. I feel like they are a few quarters behind. And so for us, it’s continuing to progress on some of the other milestones as we collect the data we need for permits and advancing pre-FEED and FEED activities.
Timothy S. Duncan Talos Energy Inc. - Founder, President, CEO & Director
I think we’ve mentioned just the enormity of the level of emissions from if you just would call that more of an addressable market, even though, obviously, you’re not going to remove all of them. The enormity of that market relative to the amount of different places where you can have a good storage kind of unit, kind of good carbon storage infrastructure. I think the point that you’re going to say, if you look out 5 years from now, the announcements you’ve been reading this week, there’s going to be just a large amount of those types of announcements. There is absolutely plenty of room for our peer companies to achieve their goals on CCS, for us to achieve our goals on CCS and still needing to do more to address the broader emission storage. So it’s a big market, and I think we’re well-positioned. And again, well-positioned with a partner like Chevron and one of those, and I think we’re going to enhance those partnerships in some of the other areas as well.
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