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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the SM Energy Second Quarter 2016 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions will follow at that time. As a reminder, this call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Mr. David Copeland, General Counsel. You may begin, sir. David W. Copeland - Secretary, Executive VP & General Counsel: Thank you, Ranya. Good morning to all joining us by telephone and online for SM Energy Company's second quarter 2016 earnings conference call and operations update. Before we start, I'd like to advise you that we will be making forward-looking statements during this call about our plans, expectations and assumptions regarding our future performance. These statements involve risks that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements. For a discussion of these risks, you should refer to the cautionary information about forward-looking statements in our press release from yesterday afternoon, the presentation posted to our website for this call, and the Risk Factors section of our Form 10-K that was filed earlier this year and our Form 10-Q filed earlier this morning. c We will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are useful in evaluating our performance. Reconciliation of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures and other information about these non-GAAP metrics are described in our earnings press release from yesterday. Other company officials on the call this morning are Jay Ottoson, President and Chief Executive Officer; Wade Pursell, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Herb Vogel, Executive Vice President-Operations; and Jennifer Samuels, Senior Director-Investor Relations. I'll now turn the call over to Jay. Javan D. Ottoson - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you, David. Well, good morning and thank you to everybody for joining us on this call this morning. I just want to start today by saying that I have never been more proud of our people here at SM than I am today. If you've had the chance to read our press release, I think you already know that we had a great quarter relative to expectations. Our objective as a company is to deliver differential value for our shareholders through debt-adjusted per share growth and cash flows and add high quality drilling inventory over the long term. I think our results this last quarter demonstrate that we today are a company that is executing with real excellence on projects with high returns even at low product prices. In our second quarter, we beat expectations on every major controllable operating item and made better wells at lower cost in each of our major plays. Our capital spending is trending below planned for the year while we are increasing production guidance. And that result, coupled with higher-than-expected proceeds from our divestiture program, will further strengthen our balance sheet, improve our liquidity position and provides us with more flexibility and optionality going forward. Wade is going to review the quarter and our revised guidance for you. Then Herb is going to provide you with some operational information that I think is just fascinating. Then I'll wrap things up, and we'll take your questions. Wade? A. Wade Pursell - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thank you, Jay. Good morning, everyone. I'm very pleased to reiterate that we witnessed outstanding execution this quarter and it directly flowed through to our financial statements. I'm on slide 4, if you want to follow along. Production exceeded plan by about 1 million barrels of oil equivalent driven by outperforming wells in both the Eagle Ford and the Permian, demonstrating very strong sequential production growth in both of those areas. Operating costs came in lower than plan in every line item. Drilling completion costs continued to decline during the quarter while we continued to see faster drilling times driving lower-than-expected capital expenditures for our activity to-date. Financial results, including adjusted EBITDAX, adjusted EPS and operating cash flow all exceeded consensus estimates by double-digit percentages. And as a result, we've raised production guidance, lowered capital guidance, and lowered guidance for all operating costs. In summary, better wells, lower cost. So let's drill down on a couple of these points. You might have slides 4 and 5 in front of you as I go through these. Production came in ahead of plan, following particularly strong initial rates from six wells located in a high-gas NGL portion of the Eagle Ford, as well as completion of eight net wells in the Permian, all of which were good performers. Oil production came in right at the midpoint of guidance despite delays in the Williston Basin that pushed completions until late in the quarter. As a result, we've raised production guidance for the full year by about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent at the midpoint. Third quarter production guidance comes down slightly from the second quarter just because third quarter completions are more heavily weighted to oil versus higher volume gas wells. This should result in our oil percentage increasing to about 31%. LOE per BOE benefited from higher production rates as well as continued operating efficiencies. We expect LOE to increase in the second half of 2016 where we have higher workover activity in the plan, as well as we expect a normalized ad valorem expense. It was a true-up in the second quarter that could potentially reverse in the third quarter. Full-year LOE guidance, which includes ad valorem, is reduced to $3.90 to $4.30 per BOE, down $0.20 at the midpoint. G&A continues to come down as we emphasize cost savings across departments and at all levels of the company, as well as continuing to hold on new hiring. G&A guidance for the full year is reduced by about $5 million at the midpoint. Regards to commodity price differentials, we saw improvement in liquids differentials from the first quarter, while second quarter natural gas differentials came in wider, a few points for forward modeling in those areas. The oil differential was narrowed mostly due to regional pricing in the Rockies. About 50% plus of oil production is from the Rockies where the impact of the Canadian wildfires supported higher Bakken prices. For the second half of 2016, we see the Rockies differential returning to the $7 range versus WTI. Eagle Ford oil differentials improved slightly from the first quarter. For modeling going forward, we use about $11 to $12 off of LLS. Conversely, company-wide natural gas realizations were dragged down by about $0.10 due to Rockies production, where too much regional supply and high-cost contracts are pushing realizations to sub-$1. You should know Rockies only accounts for about 7% of our gas production. On the NGLs, we continue to suggest that you model a realized price in the range of 80% of Mt. Belvieu. We continue to reject ethane, where allowed, as rising natural gas prices have kept the economics of ethane recovery in check. Also, we added some hedges during the quarter. You can see the summary on slide 6. These include 2017 oil collars, 2017/early 2018 natural gas swaps, and some 2017/2018 propane swaps. All the details are in the appendix of the slide deck. Capital expenditures of about $168 million came in significantly lower than planned. As a result, we reduced CapEx guidance for the year by about $35 million. Savings were realized due to faster drill and complete time and lower vendor costs than planned. Net-net, we're very pleased to report significant production growth for the quarter within cash flow. Year-to-date adjusted EBITDAX of $399.4 million exceeds capital expenditures of $373 million. For the second half of 2016, we've got about $300 million in planned capital activity, which depending upon quantity prices should be aligned with operating cash flow. This scenario positions us very well as we move into 2017. In addition, as announced Monday, our asset divestiture process is going very well. We have two asset packages under purchase and sale agreements for total expected proceeds of $172.5 million. Just to repeat some of the key data points on this, closing dates are at the end of the third quarter, total production from these assets based on second quarter production was 3,300 Boe per day, associated proved reserves as of year-end 2015 are 9.5 million Boe. One package was predominantly water flood assets in New Mexico and the second producing assets in North Dakota and Montana. The North Dakota piece does not include acreage in our Raven/Bear Den or Divide County assets. This package was actually divided up and the Powder River Basin portion is still in the sales process. Bottom-line on all of this, early alignment of capital expenditures and cash flow, combined with asset sales proceed well in excess of our PDP expectations set forth in February, sets us up very well. It might beg the question whether we will ramp activity. Our philosophy and strategy are unchanged from last quarter's discussion. Liquidity and coverage remain priorities. We expect – at this point, we expect to apply divestiture proceeds to reduce any balance on our credit facility. I'll now turn the call over to Herb Vogel, who will provide more operations detail behind our solid performance. Herb?