Operator
Operator
Please stand by, we're about to begin. Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Chesapeake Energy Corporation Q1 2016 Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Brad Sylvester. Please go ahead. Bradley D. Sylvester - Vice President-Investor Relations & Communications: Thank you and good morning, and thank you for joining our call today to discuss Chesapeake's financial and operational results for the 2016 first quarter. Hopefully you've had a chance to review our press release and the updated slides that we posted to our website this morning. During this morning's call we will be making forward-looking statements, which consist of statements that cannot be confirmed by reference to existing information, including statements regarding our beliefs, goals, expectations, forecasts and projections and future performance and the assumptions underlying such statements. Please note that there are a number of factors that will cause actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements, including the factors identified and discussed in our earnings release today and in other SEC filings. Please note that except as required by applicable law we undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. With me this morning on the call are Doug Lawler, our Chief Executive Officer; Nick Dell'Osso, our Chief Financial Officer; Jason Pigott, our Executive Vice President over the Southern Division; and Frank Patterson, our Executive Vice President of Exploration in the Northern Division. Doug will begin the call and then turn the call over to Nick for a review of our financial results before we turn the teleconference over for Q&A. So with that, thank you. And I now turn the teleconference over to Doug. Robert Douglas Lawler - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you, Brad, and good morning, everyone. I trust everyone's had an opportunity to review our press release from this morning. We continue to make solid progress in reducing our cost, strengthening our balance sheet and optimizing our portfolio. Starting with the portfolio, year-to-date we've closed or have under signed purchase and sale agreements approximately $1.2 billion of gross sales proceeds. This is up approximately $500 million from our earnings call in February. As previously discussed, certain of these transactions are contingent upon the repurchase of VPPs. So net proceeds from these property sales will be approximately $950 million. On the February earnings call, we guided to an additional $500 million to $1 billion in gross proceeds by year-end 2016. With our announcement this morning, we have already achieved the lower end of that range. In February we stated that the closed sales and signed purchase and sale agreements targeted smaller, non-core, non-operated properties. As noted in today's press release, we're divesting to Newfield Exploration a portion of our STACK acreage position in Northern Oklahoma for approximately $470 million, maintaining the objective of divesting smaller, non-core assets, and in this case principally non-operated acreage. While we believe the play is highly economic at today's prices, the value acceleration from this currently undeveloped, principally non-operated acreage position is highly accretive and allows us to direct cash to our balance sheet, creating greater value for our shareholders. The year-to-date asset sale agreements have minimal impact on 2016 and 2017 production and EBITDA. For 2016, total production is projected to be reduced by roughly 5% due to the announced sales, or approximately 35,000 barrels of oil equivalent production per day, of which roughly 60% of that represents gas production. The 2016 EBITDA impact is also minimal, currently estimated to be approximately $20 million using today's strip pricing. We continue to focus on improving our margins, not only by addressing the cost side of our business, but also working to reduce our operational leverage in midstream commitments. Our operating and G&A costs continue to fall and together were 28% lower in the first quarter on a per-barrel of oil equivalent basis compared to the first quarter of 2015. We intend to further expand our margins through continued discussions with our midstream and downstream partners on several fronts to find mutually-beneficial solutions that will increase EBITDA. These efforts are ongoing as we speak, and we believe we will have more to share as the year progresses. Nick will speak more about our balance sheet and liquidity in a moment, but I wanted to note that we successfully reduced debt that matures in 2017 or that can be put to us in 2017 by $282 million in the first quarter. With the potential for additional debt exchanges, open market repurchases and the capability to issue additional secured debt, in addition to our sufficient liquidity, we have several tools, as you can see, at our disposal to handle our 2017 maturity obligations. In closing, Chesapeake continues the ground game progress, working hard to advance our strategies while improving our financial and operational strength. This process and journey begins with each highly-motivated Chesapeake employee. Our employees have worked exceptionally hard over the past three years to improve our company, both operationally and financially. We are actively working on liability management initiatives, and our balance sheet is getting leaner and less complex. Asset sales are progressing and are providing additional fuel for our collective efforts. I want to thank all of our shareholders who have stayed with us during these difficult and tough times, and I encourage other investors to keep your eye on Chesapeake. Our outstanding employees combined with high-quality assets, industry-leading capital efficiency, cash cost leadership and further balance sheet improvements will drive further value creation. We look forward to discussing further progress on all these fronts throughout the year as we prepare for operating in a time of greater commodity price stability. I'll now pass the call to Nick, and then we will open the call up for a few questions. Domenic J. Dell’Osso - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thank you, Doug, and good morning, everyone. As Doug has stated, our priority is to continue the refinancing, exchanging and reduction of debt from our balance sheet, specifically debt maturing in the next 18 months to 24 months. We continue to look at all of our options, including the use of additional secured debt, private transactions with bond holders and other types of exchange offers and open market purchases to manage these maturities. As you're aware, in April, we amended our revolving credit facility to receive significant relief on our covenants and expand our flexibility with respect to issuing new secured debt while reaffirming the $4 billion borrowing base through at least March of 2017. In return, we pledged additional properties. As of March 31 we had approximately $619 million of revolver capacity utilized for letters of credit, the majority of which was supporting the surety bond related to our 2019 notes litigation. So while we are pleased to have shored up our current liquidity position, we're squarely focused on utilizing the flexibility granted under our credit facility amendment to refinance or exchange our pending 2017 and 2018 debt maturities. On the expense side, we expect our cash costs in aggregate to continue to decline throughout the year. You may have seen in our outlook that we lowered our production expense guidance due to additional cost savings. We have also adjusted our total gathering, processing and transportation expense estimate down due to lower costs we are seeing for both gas and NGL partially offset by higher stabilization fees for our Utica oil. The reduced cost on gas and NGLs are the result of closer alignment with our midstream partners on future capital expenditures as well as optimizing usage of contracts and negotiations. The oil stabilization fees will allow us to reduce vapor pressure and improve API, providing more marketing options to downstream pipes and access to better prices. As a result, we expect to see our basis for oil improve throughout the year. As Doug mentioned, we continue to have meaningful dialogue with our midstream and downstream partners to further reduce and optimize our gathering, processing and transportation agreements. We will keep you posted on any new announcements as they happen. We also increased our interest expense guidance recognized on the income statement due to a decrease in expected capitalized interest. So that change will have no cash impact. Since we last spoke to you in February, we've layered on additional hedges for 2016 to help increase our cash flow. We have approximately 476 Bcf of our remaining 2016 gas production hedged at $2.71 and approximately 18.2 million barrels of our remaining 2016 oil production hedged at $46.32 per barrel, representing 64% and 69% of our Q2 through Q4 2016 gas and oil volumes respectively. We have also started to add some 2017 hedges at recent prices. So to close, we're continuing to deliver on our 2016 plan as we outlined in February to maximize liquidity, optimize our portfolio, increase EBITDA and reduce our debt. We have achieved a bit more success in the A&D market with our announcement this morning and that has no impact on our borrowing base and our revolving credit facility. We are attacking the challenges of our financial and operational leverage and continue to work on many fronts to make Chesapeake a stronger company regardless of commodity prices. We look forward to being able to talk with you about those later this year. That concludes my comments. I will now turn the call over to the operator for questions.