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For many years, there were a lot of opportunities for midstream companies to grow, and investors were happily willing to help finance that via the equity and debt markets. Today, most of the best investment opportunities for new projects have been exploited. To be fair, capital spending has fallen. Times have changed.
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In partnership with Kian Capital Partners, RF Investment Partners supported the initial investment in SPATCO with its SBIC Fund I investment in late 2019. RF Investment Partners focuses on lower middle-market businesses in the software, healthcare services and business services sectors.
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We posted another outstanding quarter of performance at adjusted property EBITDAR surpassing the second quarter of 2019. Margins of 36% were well above 2019 levels. Our adjusted property EBITDAR of $209 million was an increase of 21% versus the second quarter of 2019 with a 28% margin. Turning to Macau. Good afternoon.
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To provide an update on our continued efforts to pay down debt, reduce our leverage, enhance long-term value for our shareholders, and discuss our financial guidance and outlook for the second half of 2024 and the full year. In the immediate term, we will continue to focus on paying down debt and reducing our leverage.
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billion gross cost, 220,000 barrels per day of production capacity, a per BOE capital plus opex cost of $19 at a 15% IRR at $60 per barrel. These are very good returns and APA's economics will be further enhanced by the capital carry provision we negotiated in 2019 when we brought Total in as a partner. Please proceed.
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We continue to expect FPL to realize roughly 9% and average annual growth in regulatory capital employed over our current settlement agreements for your term, which runs through 2025 FPL's capital expenditures were approximately $2.5 billion for the quarter, and we now expect FPL's full year 2023 capitalinvestments to be between $8.5
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