Operator
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Third Quarter 2011 Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. Earnings Conference Call. My name is (Jennifer) and I’ll be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode and later we will conduct a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr. Derek Daniel, Director of Communications. Please proceed. Derek Daniel – Director, Communications: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, and welcome to Calumet Specialty Products Partners investors call to discuss our third quarter 2011 financial results. During this call, Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. will be referred to as the Partnership or Calumet. Also participating in this call will be Bill Grube, our CEO and Vice Chairman; Jennifer Straumins, our President and COO, and Pat Murray, our CFO. Following the presentation, we will hold the line open for a question-and-answer session. During the course of this call, we will make various forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such statements are based on the beliefs of our management, as well as assumptions made by them, and in each case based on the information currently available to them. Although our management believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, neither the Partnership its general partner nor our management can provide any assurances that such expectations will prove to be correct. Please refer to the Partnership’s press release that was issued this morning, as well as our latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a list of factors that may affect our actual results, and could cause them to differ from our forward-looking statements made on this call. I will now turn the call over to Jennifer Straumins. Jennifer Straumins – President and Chief Operating Officer: Thank you, Derek. We are very pleased with our results for the third quarter of 2011. We had net income of $19.6 and have reported a record quarterly adjusted EBIDTA of over $70 million. We also had a record quarterly distributable cash flow of $50.5 million. We have noted improvements in both our Specialty Products and Fuel Products segments and continue to focus on strong operations to meet demand for our specialty products and to better benefit from the current fuel products crack spread. We’re also very pleased to add the Superior refinery employees and assets from the Murphy Oil Corporation and our recently closed acquisitions and are working diligently on integration. As we previously announced on September 30th, 2011, Calumet completed the acquisition of Superior, Wisconsin refinery and associated operating assets, inventories and related business for the aggregate consideration of approximately $411 million, excluding certain customary post-closing purchase price adjustments. The Superior refinery produces gasoline, diesel, asphalt and specialty petroleum products that are marketed primarily in the Midwest region of the U.S., including the surrounding border states and Canada. The Superior acquisition was financed by combination of net proceeds of $193.6 million from our September 2011 public offering of common units; net proceeds of $180.3 million from the September 2011 private placement 9⅜% senior notes due May 1st, 2019 and finally borrowings under our revolving credit facility. We believe the Superior acquisition provides greatest scale and geographic diversity and the developments potential of our refining business. As our current total refining throughput capacity has increased by approximately 50% to 135,000 barrels a day. On October 11, we declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.50 per unit for the quarter ended September 30th, 2011 on all outstanding units. The distribution would pay November 14, 2011 to unitholders of record as of the close of business on November 4, 2011. This distribution represents as an increase a $0.05 per unit increase from the second quarter of 2011. I’ll now turn the call over to Pat Murray for a review of our financial results. Pat Murray – Chief Financial Officer: Thanks, Jennifer. Net income for the third quarter of 2011 was $19.6 million compared to $21.2 million for the same period in 2010. These results include $20.3 million of non-cash unrealized derivative losses and $2.1 million of acquisition expenses related to the Superior acquisition, as compared to $1.9 million of non-cash unrealized derivative gains in the third quarter of 2010. We believe the non-GAAP measures of EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, and distributable cash flow are important financial performance measures for the partnership. EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA as defined by our debt instruments were $47.1 million and $70.5 million respectively for the third quarter of 2011, as compared to $44 million respectively for the same quarter in 2010. The partnership’s distributable cash flow for the third quarter of 2011 was a record quarterly $50.5 million as compared to $30.9 million for the same period last year. The increase in adjusted EBITDA quarter-over-quarter was due primarily to $34.5 million increase in gross profit. We encourage investors to review the section of the earnings press release found on our website entitled non-GAAP financial measures and the attached tables for discussion and definitions of EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, and distributable cash flow financial measures, and reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the comparable GAAP measures. Gross profit by segment for the second quarter, for Specialty Products and Fuel Products was $87.8 million and $8.8 million respectively, compared to $60.9 million and $1.2 million respectively for the same period in 2010. The increase in Specialty Products segment gross profit of $26.9 million quarter-over-quarter was due primarily to a 30.5% increase in the average selling price per barrel, partially offset by a 23.4% increase in the average cost of crude oil per barrel and 5.2% decrease in sales volume and higher operating costs, primarily repairs and maintenance. The increase in Fuel Products segment gross profit of $7.6 million quarter-over-quarter was due primarily to a 13.8% increase in sales volume and a 43.8% increase in the average selling price per barrel excluding the impact of realized hedging losses, partially offset by increased realized losses and derivatives of $38.9 million in our fuel products hedging program, a 25.1% increase in the average cost of crude oil per barrel and higher operating costs, again primarily repair and maintenance. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased to $6.7 million quarter-over-quarter to $14.1 million. This increase is due primarily to increased accrued incentive compensation costs of $3.5 million in 2011 compared to 2010 and $2.1 million of acquisition costs related to the Superior Acquisition with no comparable expenses in 2010. Interest expense increased $4.8 million quarter-over-quarter to $12.6, due primarily to higher interest rates associated with the our 2019 senior and secured notes as compared to our term loan that was repaid in full in April 2011 and extinguished in connection with the issuance of our 2019 senior and secured notes. As of September 30, 2011, total capitalization consisted of partners’ capital in the amount of $548.9 million and outstanding debt of $643.0 million, comprised of $586 million of 9 3/8% senior notes due 2019, which is net of discount of $14.0 million, borrowings of $56 million under the revolving credit facility and a long-term capital lease obligations of $1 million. The $150.6 million increase in partner’s capital from December 31st 2010 was due primarily to $287.9 million of net proceeds from the March 2011 and September 2011 public equity offerings and the net income of $16.2 million partially offset by $66.7 million increase in other comprehensive loss at $56.4 million in distribution to unitholders. On September 30, 2011, we had availability of $271.5 million under our $850 million revolving credit facility based on a $535.5 million borrowing base, $208 million in outstanding standby letters of credit and outstanding borrowings of $56 million. We believe we’ll continue to have sufficient cash flow from operations and borrowing availability under our revolving credit facility to meet our financial commitments, minimum quarterly distributions to our unitholders, our debt service obligations, contingencies, and our anticipated capital expenditures. Now I’ll turn the call back over to Jennifer. Jennifer Straumins – President and Chief Operating Officer: Thank you, Pat. This concludes our remarks. We now would be happy to answer any questions you may have. Operator, can you please confirm if there are any questions?