I would like to think that Mark Papa carries enough swag that he can tell a faction of deep pockets to pound sand and they will continue to throw money at him as they did during his 15 years masterminding EOG Resources Inc. Now the CEO of Centennial Resource Development Inc., he certainly carried that confidence into Scotia Howard Weil's Annual Energy Conference in late March. There, he faced a faction of investors hungry for promises of free cash flow and bearing a mindset that production growth is bad.
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