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Question: Noah Katz - JP Morgan Chase & Co. - Analyst
: This is Noah Katz on for Jeremy. First, I wanted to touch on the impact to AM's results from AR announcing the deferral of completion
on the one pad from '24 into '25 and then the deferral of the second pad from early '25 into the latter part of the year. Can you size
the impact towards the end of '24 and into '25?
Question: Noah Katz - JP Morgan Chase & Co. - Analyst
: Thanks for that. And then going off of that question, with the nine wells being serviced in 3Q, it looks like AM has serviced 45 wells
so far this year. So to hit the guide of 52 to 57, I think you'd have to service between 7 to 12 wells in 4Q. If there was another completion
crew added, what are your guys' expectations on how many more water wells you could potentially service in total? Thanks.
Question: Noah Katz - JP Morgan Chase & Co. - Analyst
: Got it. Thank you.
Question: Naomi Marfatia - UBS - Analyst
: Hi, good morning. Just as a follow-up to one of the earlier questions, maybe to look ahead to '25, given some of the deferrals in AR
activity, along with the dropping of a completion crew and a rig in '24. Just kind of wondering if you could kind of characterize some
of the drivers of growth going into '25. Should we still be expecting like mid-single-digit growth, or is there a potential upside to it?
Question: Naomi Marfatia - UBS - Analyst
: Great, thanks. Just as a follow-up, I think, on the Veolia payment, your 10-Q had a small update. So just wondering what are the
signposts and how is management thinking about the potential use of proceeds?
Question: Naomi Marfatia - UBS - Analyst
: Thanks that's helpful. I'll leave it there.
Question: John Mackay - Goldman Sachs - Analyst
: Hey, thanks for the time. I just want to pick up on a couple of these pointing to getting below 3x in the fourth quarter. I guess, how
much of that is driven by your confidence in kind of CapEx coming down and the free cash flow looking better that way versus this
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kind of implied EBITDA step-up just because we've talked about a couple of moving pieces. And should that mean we could start
to see buybacks this quarter? Thanks.
Question: John Mackay - Goldman Sachs - Analyst
: And I guess if we're looking at the implied CapEx budget for fourth quarter, I mean, again, you've talked about some of the moving
pieces. But like how do we take that and think about what maybe like a run rate CapEx could look like in, let's say, '25 going forward?
Question: John Mackay - Goldman Sachs - Analyst
: Great. Thanks for your time.
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