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Q1 2015 Earnings Call· Wed, Apr 22, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the First Quarter 2015 Earnings Analyst Call. My name is Brandon, and I'll be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Please note that this conference is being recorded. And I will now turn it over to Mr. Brad Alexander. You may begin, sir.

Bradley Alexander - Director-Investor Relations

Analyst

Thank you, Brandon. Good morning, and welcome to FMC Technologies First Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. Our news release and financial statements issued yesterday can be found on our website. I would like to caution you with respect to any forward-looking statements made during this call. Although these forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, beliefs and assumptions regarding future developments and business conditions, they are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by these statements. Known material factors that could cause our actual results to differ from our projected results are described in our 10-K, 10-Q and other filings with the SEC. We wish to caution you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any of our forward-looking statements after the date they are made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. I will now turn the call over to John Gremp, FMC Technologies' Chairman, President and CEO. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Good morning. Welcome to our first quarter 2015 conference call. With me today is Maryann Seaman, our Chief Financial Officer. I'll discuss highlights from the quarter, Maryann will provide specifics on our financial performance, and then we'll open up the call for your questions. Earnings were $0.63 per diluted share for the quarter. Total company quarterly revenue was $1.7 billion, and operating profit was $235 million. Quarterly revenue for Subsea Technologies was $1.2 billion. This is in line with the prior year quarter and as a result of continuing to execute our strong backlog and healthy service activity. Subsea margins increased both sequentially and…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. From Evercore ISI, we have James West on the line. Please go ahead.

James Carlyle West - Evercore ISI Group

Analyst

Hey, good morning. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Morning, James.

James Carlyle West - Evercore ISI Group

Analyst

John, a question on – we talked a lot about subsea kind of standardization or conformity on the last few calls. And I know you're having many more conversations at the sea level with your customer base. However, back in 2009, we did have a lot of these standardization talks as well. Could you maybe just elaborate on how it's different this time? How much more the market is embracing this idea of standardization of equipment? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, James, for the question. You're right. The industry has been talking about standardization for decades. But there's been, for a variety of reasons, resistance to actually adopt standards. Some operators have been more successful than others. And I think it's – where they have been able to standardize, they've been able to demonstrate better project execution and lower oil development cost. In today's environment, and I don't mean today's oil environment, I mean, the rising cost of deepwater development with flat oil prices has, for the last three to four years, created an environment where operators' returns have declined. And that's the fundamental issue for the industry, is to reverse that. And all the conversations that we're having with major deepwater operators center around how they can improve their returns. And they all understand the importance of standardization. Not only does it improve execution, it lowers cost and lowers lead time. What's different this time is the determination by the operators to improve their returns and recognition of standardization is one of the best ways to do it. We see evidence of this in the high-pressure, high-temperature 20,000 psi equipment that we are developing for four operators. That is unprecedented in our industry that four operators would agree on a single standard, a single part number.

James Carlyle West - Evercore ISI Group

Analyst

Right. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: And the impetus behind that is their conviction now, unlike in the past, to adopt industry standards. The conversations that we are having after our announcement of our alliance with Technip are similar in nature where the operators are very interested in how we can introduce standards early in the design and concept process. So, I think there's a real movement, if you will, to adopt standards in a way that has eluded the industry for several decades. And we're now getting evidence of that. Again, high-pressure, high-temperature equipment is probably one of the best examples of four operators. And I think there's – and there will be more to come that will adopt that standard.

James Carlyle West - Evercore ISI Group

Analyst

Okay. That's very helpful. Thanks, John. And a follow-up for me. The alliance with Technip, I believe you mentioned, and I'll probably get these numbers wrong. I apologize. But the projects could lower costs by 25% to 30%. How much of this is coming from, say, the subsea construction part? How much is coming from the equipment, maybe standardization or using a little bit less equipment on the seabed? Could you maybe break that cost savings down a little bit more? And how much, I guess, is from just the lowering of the timeline of the deepwater project? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: The savings come from a variety of areas. But if you just look at the scope of the SPS and the SURF scope, it's about equally split. So, just looking at the scope, you'd expect both scope would find opportunities for reduction and it would come equally split from both pieces of the SPS scope and the SURF scope. So, I think if you had to guess, it's probably just 50/50. But there are very specific ways that this alliance drives down cost. First, as I mentioned, the opportunity to introduce standards. When we're involved through the concept design stage, through the FEED capabilities of FMC and Technip through the JV Forsys, we'll be able to influence the standards that are established. We'll be able to – both Technip Technology and FMC Technology would be able to be introduced at the concept stage which can significantly drive down cost. The other opportunity for reducing cost is the interface between these two critical scopes of subsea production systems and SURF. And this is, in both our testing of this concept and these capabilities with past projects and projects we're currently evaluating for our partners, we've found significant opportunities, again in that 25% to 30% reduction range, by actually eliminating hardware at the interface between SPS and SURF installation. We've also found opportunities to more efficiently install the subsea equipment including the production flow lines because we're managing the interface between SPS and SURF in a combined manner. So, right off the top of my head, more standardization, faster introduction to new technology, eliminating hardware at the interface between these two critical scopes, and the opportunity for more efficient installation because the two pieces are being integrated.

Operator

Operator

From Morgan Stanley, we have Ole Slorer on the line. Please go ahead. Ole H. Slorer - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Thank you very much. I wonder whether you could elaborate a little bit on these very strong margins that you posted in subsea in the first quarter. You took quite some initiatives on cost savings and efficiency gains last year. I just wanted to know how much stems from that and how much stems from a different business mix here in the first quarter. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Ole, I'll start and then I'll let Maryann get into some of the details. As I mentioned in my prepared remarks, execution played a very important role. You've seen over the last 18 months where we have been consistently improving execution, and it continues to improve. So I'd say execution was a big driver behind the strong margins. We are also, even though our activity level in subsea is staying up because of our high backlog, we've started to take a number of actions to reduce our cost structure and some of that is starting to appear in margins. I think there'll be a lot more to come in future quarters. Let me ask Maryann to give a little bit more color on the margin performance. Maryann T. Seaman - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. Just in terms of the mix, Ole, we saw a pretty similar mix in the quarter, subsea services versus our EPC that we have in previous quarters. You may remember this time last year, we did have two stacks down, and we incurred the cost associated with the recertification. Obviously, that didn't happen. But as John mentioned, a lot of this is really coming from the…

Operator

Operator

From Barclays, we have David Anderson on line. Please go ahead.

J. David Anderson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst

John, a question on kind of the margins in subsea maybe over the next 18 to 24 months, not necessarily this year. Particularly wondering about the backlog. As the orders come through and the pricing comes through, could you first comment on kind of how that pricing is looking on that backlog? And then, as we think about 2016 with lower orders coming in, how do we think about this? There's a couple big projects I know you have in that backlog as they roll out in 2016. If you could just give us some color on how you're expecting that mix to play out. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, just – I don't know how – necessarily how material this is, but in the first quarter, we reported another increase in margins in backlog. Now, fair enough, the inbound that we booked in the first quarter was relatively light, but that's 12 quarters in a row of increasing margins in backlog. And that's – that makes us feel good. It makes us feel like the big backlog we've got, we're not showing margin deterioration. Now, we know going forward, as you pointed out in the next 18 or so months, with the shift of major projects being awarded later in the year of 2015 being a softer year for subsea inbound that there'll probably be more pricing pressure just in terms of the competitive environment. So, I'd see there clearly is the potential for some softening of margins, particularly at maybe major projects that would be awarded. Now remember, at the same time, we are significantly reducing our costs, so the balance in the supply chain costs are also coming down. So, how that actually plays out in terms of net margins to us isn't clear yet. But we should expect that there's clearly a chance and an opportunity that margins will become a little bit softer as we go through this slower period over the course of the next 9 to 12 months. Now, we get back into 2016, and the subsea awards start to be inbound at a more normal rate, hopefully, the margins would start to stabilize.

J. David Anderson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst

Okay. Thank you. Another question, just getting back to your agreement with Technip. And I certainly understand the concept of standardization you've been talking about, but I think you – if I'm not mistaken, on the call that you had regarding this, that combined that represents around 30% of the overall development cost. Can you just comment a little bit on the rest of that, the 70% that you see out there in terms of what you think are kind of the big stumbling blocks? Obviously, we're trying to figure out how economics improve. And you've been pretty clear about how that works in your business. I was just wondering how you're looking at the rest of the business. Where do you think the stumbling blocks are in terms of some of these projects going ahead? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, just – obviously, every project is different. But the ones that we look out, the 30% is, as you pointed out, is the combination between the SURF and SPS scope. It's split evenly. The other big number, and it's a big number in the sense that it's 50% of the overall development cost, is in drilling. After that, it's less than 10% pieces top side and so forth. So, actually, the combined SURF/SPS is the second largest component of a deepwater development. Now, what are the stumbling blocks? I mean the stumbling blocks, in my view, is really the industry willing to accept and adapt very different business models. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's illogical to think that we're going to get 30% plus savings over a complete deepwater development without doing something fundamentally different. And that's what is, I think, so attractive to the operators of the Forsys capabilities. They understand that we can't just keep doing things the same way we've always done them and then expect some huge material savings, at least in a sustainable way. And so, the reaction that we've got since the announcements of Forsys has been, well, extraordinary. Virtually every one of our partners and some of our non-partners have asked to know a lot more about Forsys' capabilities, including identifying specific projects that they would like to apply the Forsys capabilities to, to either improve their returns or make a project that was previously thought economic now economic so they can proceed with the development. But they also recognize, and I believe this time they're prepared – the operators are prepared in conjunction with Technip and FMC, to try a different business model so we can exploit those potential savings. I think that's the biggest stumbling block, is that sort of mind shift, if you will, or mindset to a different business model.

Operator

Operator

From Bank of America, we have Douglas Becker on line. Please go ahead.

Douglas L. Becker - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

Thanks. John, it doesn't sound like there's been any decline in subsea pricing yet, but you acknowledge the potential for some weakness. Maybe just for perspective, how much did pricing decline during the last down cycle? And is there any precedent for customers coming back and asking for re-pricing of existing backlog? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: I'll take the last part of your question. Historically, there hasn't been re-pricing of the existing backlog. Largely, it stays intact. There's been conversations about maybe how we can reduce cost, that certainly, particularly, in maybe some of our service rates and that sort of thing. But in almost every case, the conversation is around how can we change the scope, how can we do something different to reduce the cost as opposed to straight pricing. So when it comes to the existing backlog, and again, I'd point more to service work, the conversations have been around changing scope, doing things differently to reduce their cost, not necessarily pricing. With regard to what happened in the past, every downturn is different. I think it varies by projects. On our partner contracts, we tend to negotiate our contracts which look very different than a tendered project. So, Doug, I would just hesitate to put a number on what the pricing reduction is in a down cycle. It really varies. I don't think – we saw softness in the last downturn, but we were also able to offset some of that softness through cost reduction. I think we have a unique position because of our alliances. And our projects tend to be negotiated. So, we don't have, maybe, as significant swings in pricing as you do when you have a major project that is tendered by four different suppliers, and the opportunity for one to maybe be more – significantly more aggressive. So, I'd say our pricing declines tend to be a little bit more stable and moderated in a downturn than maybe the industry as a whole.

Douglas L. Becker - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

Sure. No, that makes sense. And circling back on subsea orders, it sounds like services were $400 million or so. So, really implies the onesies, twosies were, at least relative to history, very weak. As you think about that trajectory going forward, how much of that's dependent on customers with frame agreements where you might have a little more visibility or customers that you don't have agreements set in stone? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: When I said at least $3 billion, I say it with so much confidence because it's driven by our partners. So, that's just been FMC's history. Over 50% of our inbound typically has come from our partners. We added two more partners, last year; well, 2.5 really. We expanded one partnership. We keep adding the partners to our portfolio of companies that are committed to working with us. Those partnerships strengthen. So I think that's why when it comes to FMC's inbound projections, we've been able – I think the numbers I've thrown out, we've almost always hit over the course of the last four or five years. And that's because it's built on, mostly on these partnerships where we have a lot more confidence, obviously, that we'll win the award, and we have a lot more visibility of the status of the project whether or not it's going to go forward. And I think that's what supports my confidence in $3 billion. Beyond the $3 billion, it's going to depend on our alliance partners, whether or not they go ahead with projects and they make it into this year. And then also projects that are not with our partners where there's more uncertainty.

Operator

Operator

From Howard Weil, we have Bill Sanchez on line. Please go ahead.

William D. Sanchez - Howard Weil

Analyst

Thanks. Good morning. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Morning, Bill.

William D. Sanchez - Howard Weil

Analyst

John, I was hoping perhaps you could update us on the backlog in Brazil just in general. I know at year-end, that number was just over 20% of your total backlog. And I think on the 4Q call, you all had mentioned that Petrobras had asked for about $100 million in shipments to be pushed to next year. Any updates there you could offer will be helpful. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: With regard to the Petrobras backlog which, I think you know, we won those orders, the trees plus the manifolds; that was over a four-plus period. We're about halfway through that now. There has been no change in terms of pricing, cancellation of that backlog with the exception of that $100 million of trees that was moved to the right. And I – although we don't like things necessarily moving to the right, that wasn't quite so bad for us because it gave us a chance to smooth out production and avoid some capacity additions that we may have had to make. So it wasn't necessarily a bad thing for us. So, no change to the backlog other than that $100 million shifting to the right. We have the ability now, with that backlog for 2015 and 2016 in terms of revenue, to be fairly stable. And actually, some of the backlog rolls into 2017 for Brazil. So, we've got this year and next year in pretty good shape in terms of our available capacity. And then 2017, part of the year is already covered by our existing backlog. Again, no change other than that – other than those trees that are moving to the – moved to the right.

William D. Sanchez - Howard Weil

Analyst

Is there an opportunity for some initial awards to be made on the pre-salt award on Libra, perhaps, before year-end? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: There's just so much uncertainty with Petrobras right now. We know that they are focused on pre-salt. We know that they are focused on Libra. But given the general uncertainty with Petrobras right now, to make a call that Libra's going to make it into this year might be – well, that just might be kind of over-forecasting there. I don't know. I know that they're focused on pre-salt, I know they're focused on Libra. There will be onsie, twosies out of Brazil. Actually, one of the smaller awards that we inbounded in the first quarter was from Petrobras. So, there'll be small ones. But the big projects like Libra that you're referencing, I'd say there's still some uncertainty whether or not that makes it in 2015.

Operator

Operator

From IBERIA Capital, we have Rob MacKenzie on line. Please go ahead.

Robert J. MacKenzie - IBERIA Capital Partners LLC

Analyst

Thanks. John, I wanted to come back to a topic you've already talked about a little bit with a slightly different spin I guess. And that is how many of the big project awards that are out there that you guys listed in your presentation and others are really contingent on either operators adopting a different business model to make the returns work versus how many of them do you think can be made to work and be committed to with just business the way it has been with some cost reductions and maybe a slight oil-price recovery? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: In today's environment, I believe virtually all projects are being challenged in terms of what can be done different to improve the returns. So, I don't – if you look at every project on the list, and some are way more advanced, but by and large, almost all of them are being questioned and reevaluated if, for no other reason, just in light in terms of the industry downturn. But others are being evaluated in terms of opportunities to do things like the capabilities that come from the Forsys concept. There are some projects, however, a couple anyway, on our list for 2015 – I'll sort of leave at a couple, that right now are probably uneconomic and would not successfully go through the FID process unless they are reworked. So, those would not go forward unless they were successfully reworked. The rest are being reevaluated, but they're still economic. And I think the operators are looking for an opportunity to improve returns, either because of the market environment or some of these new approaches that are now – at least our company is presenting to them.

Robert J. MacKenzie - IBERIA Capital Partners LLC

Analyst

Great. And I guess my follow-on would be, as a result of the Forsys joint venture, can you share anything with us about what might be your biggest opportunity to perhaps pick up some market share that I think you hinted at earlier? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, every single one of our partners has, since the announcement, called us in to review the Forsys capabilities and how it could apply to their portfolio. Several of those partners have actually identified candidates to proceed with applying the capabilities. We have also had conversations with non-partners who are interested in the concept, and they, too, have identified candidates at which we would apply the Forsys capabilities. So, I think Forsys gives us the opportunity to strengthen the partnerships that we currently have and to potentially add new partners or expand our market position. I might mention, though, this isn't related to Forsys, but it is related to the idea of how our company can offer opportunities to improve returns. And that's back to the high-pressure, high-temperature equipment that we're building for the Gulf of Mexico. The four companies that are part of that consortium were also FMC partners. But we now have non-partners that are asking or considering, I should say, and they're actually well into the evaluation of whether or not they can participate in that consortium. Well, clearly, that will be an opportunity for FMC to pick up market share with non-partners if, in fact, some of those companies join the consortium.

Operator

Operator

From Guggenheim, we have Michael Lamotte on the line. Please go ahead.

Michael Kirk LaMotte - Guggenheim Securities LLC

Analyst

Thank you. Good morning. I just want to follow up on the CapEx number, make sure I heard that correctly. $250 million for the year, Maryann? Maryann T. Seaman - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: That's correct, Michael. About $250 million for the year.

Michael Kirk LaMotte - Guggenheim Securities LLC

Analyst

And how much of that is considered maintenance, sort of your ongoing run rate? Maryann T. Seaman - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. So, in general, our maintenance CapEx runs 40% to 45% in the last couple years. As you know, we've been expanding both in capacity for our general EPC business. And then more recently, our spending has been focused on growth in the subsea services business. So, a lesser percentage, obviously – excuse me, a greater percentage of it now, obviously, is maintenance as the number gets smaller. This year, we've got a couple of projects in services. We're continuing to build out the fifth Light Well Intervention stack to go with our JV. And there's also some drilling and installation tools necessary for the completion of the services business as well. But typically, it's about 40% to 45%.

Michael Kirk LaMotte - Guggenheim Securities LLC

Analyst

Okay. And then on the cycle time for the stacks, that's a pretty long lead item. Is there a risk that, in 2016, services revenues essentially stall as a consequence of not having new equipment to drive services revenue next year? Maryann T. Seaman - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: So, for 2016, our services business, you know what? We're a little early days. But we think, obviously, we'll still have a strong installation piece as the trees still need to be installed from this growth that we've seen over the last couple years. Our fourth stack will go into service in the second quarter of this year. And while there are a little bit of headwinds, given this industry, we are still confident that we'll continue to see opportunities for contracts for that stack this year. And then also, some of the other capabilities, once we have our vessel operating in the Gulf of Mexico, should also add to that. So, we're hopeful that we'll be able to see a subsea services revenue in 2016 that looks like 2015 and potentially growing. But that will be a struggle to grow for growth in 2016.

Michael Kirk LaMotte - Guggenheim Securities LLC

Analyst

Okay. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Michael, this is John. I want to maybe add to what Maryann said. We're – the fourth stack arrived in the Gulf of Mexico in the first quarter pretty much on plan. We've spent the last couple months doing commissioning. It'll be ready for service later this quarter, and we've now received our first contract for the Island Performer. So, we'll be performing our first work for that vessel in May, and that's really encouraging. We've got opportunities with projects or contracts after that. So, we're encouraged that the fourth stack that we built is going to be put into service pretty much as we planned earlier this year. Now, that won't – I mean, these numbers are relatively small, but in terms of our ability to expand our service offering in the subsea market, and the operators responding to that, we are encouraged.

Michael Kirk LaMotte - Guggenheim Securities LLC

Analyst

Okay. John, if I could ask a follow-up with you just thinking through structural changes in the market, organic growth has really been the engine for FMC from the beginning. I'm wondering with excess capacity in the market and, perhaps efforts to reduce costs through a broader product offering, if M&A doesn't come up on the radar screen as a way to enhance growth in the next few years. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, when you – our organic growth is not done yet. I just mentioned the fourth stack on services. We have plenty of potential to grow our service revenue. We haven't talked much about processing. That's an important growth platform for our company. We're expecting two processing projects to be awarded still this year. And although we'll go through somewhat of a lull in subsea project awards, primarily because projects are being reevaluated and shifting to the right. That recovers in 2016, and we get to a more normal rate of subsea orders. That provides significant growth to meet our expectations, and our company is focused on that. With regard to M&A opportunities, as you know, most of our M&A has been focused on adding the capabilities that we need to grow the company organically. And by and large, that's still our plan. But in today's environment, there will be opportunities for us to look at opportunities to maybe more quickly acquire the capabilities we need to add to our current suite of products and services and continue to grow the company.

Operator

Operator

From Tudor, Pickering, Holt, we have Byron Pope on the line. Please go ahead. Byron K. Pope - Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities, Inc.: Good morning. John, as it relates to your shale offering, as we think about the eventual recovery in North America whether it's later this year or early next year, could you just give one or two examples of how your integrated offering should help differentiate FTI in the North America surface business going forward versus some of your smaller competitors that compete in discrete elements of the chain? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, Byron, you know that there's been a lot of efficiency improvements in shale development. A lot of them have concentrated on the drilling side, on the geology side, on the down-hole side; a lot of improvements on the on the fracking side. We believe there have been less efficiency step changes once the final frac is done and then you're selling your first barrel of oil. And I think that is a really ripe opportunity for the industry to demonstrate the same kind of efficiency improvements that the more upstream part of the process has already been able to achieve. FMC is uniquely positioned to drive those efficiencies because not only are we providing the wellhead equipment, we're providing the frac rental equipment, we're providing the completion equipment and we're providing the flow-back services. I don't think any other company has that combination of services. Today, the operators are contracting each of those services and products out separately with separate crews. There's no opportunity to integrate those pieces in a cost effective way, no opportunity to standardize. I understand every metering skid is unique to that particular pad. Their separation systems, whether it be temporary or permanent, are unique to that pad. There are tremendous opportunities for integration and standardization and bundling of services and products that, really, no other company has that capability, or if they do, they don't have the leadership position in those capabilities to pull that off. We've been working with several operators on either bundling these capabilities, providing standard equipment, introducing new technology for more efficient separation, for example. And we're very encouraged by the, at least the early signs of efficiency improvement that we can get from that final frac to that first oil. That'll give us a competitive advantage, and I think gives us a competitive advantage over other companies that don't have that suite of products and services. Byron K. Pope - Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities, Inc.: That's very helpful. Thanks, John. That's it for me.

Operator

Operator

From Susquehanna, we have Chuck Minervino online. Please go ahead.

Charles P. Minervino - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst

Hi. Good morning. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Morning, Chuck.

Charles P. Minervino - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst

Hey. Just wanted to ask you, John, conceptually thinking, I know it's a little early to be thinking about 2016 kind of subsea orders, but just trying to figure out, do you think 2015 is kind of that trough year of orders? Or did 2015 kind of benefit from some stuff that was still pretty far along in the pipeline and you kind of win those awards this year and maybe 2016 kind of trickles a little bit lower, or if you think so much got pushed from 2015 to potentially in 2016 that 2016's likely to be up? Just kind of want your thoughts on that right now. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, thank you for the question, Chuck. Let me start, though, by describing the conversations we're having with our partners and actually virtually every operator. The commitment by our partners and non-partners alike in terms of developing their huge deepwater portfolios that they have been so successful at discovering, their commitment to development has completely unchanged. There's been no evidence that I've seen in these conversations that the operators have had any change with regard to their plans to develop their portfolio and deliver future production from deepwater. Virtually all the conversations are about how can we lower cost, do things different, improve returns, so we can get on with developing our portfolio and delivering the production from our deepwater assets. So, in that context, what the operators are doing is they're looking at their long list of projects that they had originally planned a year and a half ago, two years ago to go through FID process and award projects and proceed with the development. That long list for 2015 is being reevaluated. And those projects – and the process…

Charles P. Minervino - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst

Great. That's a very helpful description. And then I just had one for Maryann as well. I don't think I heard this in the prepared remarks. But I was wondering if you can give us kind of the restructuring charges by segment just so we can get a sense of kind of what more the recurring margins were in these segments during the quarter. Maryann T. Seaman - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Sure. Yeah. You're right. I gave you a total. So, in total, we spent about $10 million. About 75% of that or about $8 million of it was actually in Surface, some of it obviously in fluid as well. So, $8 million in surface. I think hence my comment there, so if you exclude those, the margins that we were talking about within the Surface Technologies segment a quarter ago are really about what we were able to achieve in the first quarter. Subsea is about 10%, small. We're in the early stages of that. We've got a lot of backlog to execute. The lion's share of the work that we'll do in Subsea will happen in the coming quarters. And then of that $4 million to $5 million that I talked about going forward, most of that will be in Subsea. And then Energy Infrastructure was the balance, about 15% of that, a little over $1 million in the quarter. That help?

Operator

Operator

From Citigroup, we have Scott Gruber on the line. Please go ahead.

Scott A. Gruber - Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

Analyst

Yes. Thanks. Good morning. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Morning, Scott.

Scott A. Gruber - Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

Analyst

John, I'd like to get your updated thoughts on the pace of share buybacks. I recognize that you continued to repurchase. But just given where the stock is trading at, given your current backlog and your optimistic outlook toward recovering and project sanctioning in the second half of the year and into next year, would you consider accelerating the buyback at this point? Would you consider putting on some debt to accelerate that pace? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Scott, as we continue to manage our balance sheet better and better, we would hope that we would continue a strong cash flow. And with the stock, in our view, undervalued given where we are in the cycle, we'd expect share repurchase to be significant going forward. We – in the first quarter it was a little lower than what you saw in the fourth quarter. That was driven solely by us being in a blackout period because of the Forsys announcement. So I wouldn't look at the first quarter as necessarily being indicative of going forward. As long as we continue to generate the cash that we expect we can and the stock is undervalued as we believe it is, the stock repurchase will be an important part of our returning cash to the shareholders. I'll let Maryann add some comments. Maryann T. Seaman - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Just maybe one other thing to add onto John's comments, we just received an additional authorization from our board of 15 million shares. So, that gives about 22 million shares left under the authorization. So, I think you can expect in the coming quarters given the valuation, as John said, that you will see us return to more discretionary purchasing given the valuation that we see, but unlikely this year that we'll take on debt. Clearly, in this environment, we'll be managing our cash as well, as we're watching strong cash flows, of course, but we'll be managing cash as well.

Scott A. Gruber - Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

Analyst

And, Maryann, how much cash is required to run the business? And would you consider drawing down the cash balance a bit to accelerate that buyback? Maryann T. Seaman - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. So, we've actually just gone through a pretty lengthy exercise as we look out over where cash needs are going to be inside U.S., outside U.S. We've just increased our thresholds for cash requirements outside the U.S. as we see quite a bit of growth. Given the lower capital expenditure that we've got estimated for this year and probably again for next year, we should be generating ample cash to be able to handle the share repurchase as well as run the business. So, really don't – and of course, as you know, we've got a quite a bit of liquidity available to us. Very solid balance sheet. So, we don't see any issues with managing the business this year, as well as being able to be opportunistic with respect to our share repurchase.

Operator

Operator

And our last question from Credit Suisse, we have Jim Wicklund on the line. Please go ahead. Jim K. Wicklund - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Good morning, guys. John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Morning, Jim. Jim K. Wicklund - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): A question. You guys have mentioned that there needs to be a step change in the industry, and this is a little bit of a follow-up on Chuck's question. A step-change in the industry in terms of oil company behavior and standardization acceptance and by definition, a step change requires some dislocation of the linear trend. And so the question is, and kind of like Chuck's, is this the nadir of the year of dislocation and the recovery expectation you have for next year, assumes that these step change issues have been resolved? This will be your fourth consecutive year of declining subsea orders, so is this the bottom and the recovery we're looking for in 2016 means that these step-change issues that you've talked about the last couple of quarters will be resolved by then? John T. Gremp - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Jim, the step change is fundamental to the operators to change their trend of declining returns. Subsea projects will be awarded. Some will be awarded with and without the step change as we've seen over the last few years. The step changes allow the operators to completely develop their entire portfolio of deepwater. There's over 400 deepwater discoveries that have yet to be developed. The pace of new discoveries versus projects that are being developed is greater, and we need to get on – the industry needs to get on with accelerating the development of their discoveries, and that's only going to…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We will now turn it back to you, Brad Alexander, for closing remarks.

Bradley Alexander - Director-Investor Relations

Analyst

This concludes our first quarter conference call. A replay of our call will be available on our website beginning at approximately 2 PM Eastern Time today. We will conduct our second quarter 2015 conference call on July 22 at 9 AM Eastern time. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you for joining us. Brandon, you may now end the call.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference. We thank you for joining. You may now disconnect.