SM Energy Company

Thank you for standing by. My name is Angela and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the SM Energy second quarter 2022 financial and operating results Q&A call. I will now like to introduce Jennifer Samuels, VP of investor relations. You may now begin your conference.

Thank you, Angela. Good morning, and thank you all for joining us for our second quarter 2022 Q&A call. To answer your questions today, we have our president and CEO, Herb Vogel, and CFO, Wade Purcell. Before we get started, our discussion today may include forward-looking statements and discussion of non-GAAP measures. I direct you to slide two of the accompanying slide deck, page six of the accompanying earnings release, and the risk factors section of our most recently filed 10-K and 10-Q, which describe risk associated with forward-looking statements that could cause actual results to differ. We may also refer to non-GAAP measures. Please see the slide deck appendix and earnings release for definitions and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures and discussion of forward-looking non-GAAP measures. Also, look for our second quarter 10Q, which was filed this morning. With that, I will turn it back to Angela to open it up for questions.

Angela? At this time, I would like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. We will now take our first question from Zach Parham with J.P. Morgan. Please go ahead.