Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. The question and answer session will be conducted electronically. (Operator Instructions). We will take our first question from Scott Hanold from RBC Capital.
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital
When you guys look at your production obviously tell then they are pretty good and can you attribute some of that to you know obviously having a lower drilling activity and having a lot of those called the [flush] production run off and serve them in more of a steady decline and it kind of ties it in with what do you all think your real maintenance CapEx number is at this point. And is it serving this $10 million type of range I guess your fourth quarter numbers sort of implies you are going to spend along about $10 million to $15 million which it seemed to be enough to start to get production to grow?
Mark Pease
Let me make a couple of comments about our assets. First of all, I think from watching us, we have a very low base decline on our assets anyway. So, that certainly helps on the maintenance CapEx side. When you look at what we have done so far this year and the way we have been able to keep production up, we have been paying a tremendous amount of detail to the operations up in the Michigan area. We have done a lot of things up there, particularly that has been facilitated by having some new management there. And I just can’t emphasize how important that’s been to us.
But we are paying our attention to a lot of details just a lot of hate to call it blocking and tackling, but that’s really what it is, just taking care of our business and we have been able to do some very efficient work over there. Some very efficient facility deep bottlenecks and those things have all helped that production come up. So, I think those are probably the biggest reasons that production at state where it is. Regarding what maintenance capital is, we are still working through that number, and we’ll provide that guidance later, but it's certainly going to go down from the numbers that we have given in the past.
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital
And you had mentioned some of the effects like, it was against your budget for full year that was $32 million, you spend it more roughly $18 million year-to-date deal spend somewhere in that $12.5 million range in the fourth quarter is that the way you are seeing it right now?
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