SM Energy Company

Greetings and welcome to the SM Energy's first quarter 2024 financial and operating results Q&A. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jennifer Samuel. Vice President of Investor Relations and ESG Stewardship. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you, Maria. Good morning, everyone. In today's call, we may reference the earnings release IR presentation or prepared marks, all of which are posted to our website. Thank you for joining us. To answer your questions today, we have our President and CEO, Herb Vogel, and CFO, Wade Purcell. Before we get started, I need to remind you that 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 five of the accompanying earnings release, and the risk factors section of our most recently filed 10-K, which describe risks 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. Got that out of the way. Also, look for our first quarter 10-Q file this morning. And with that, I will turn it over to Herb for just a brief opening comment. Herb?

Thanks, Jennifer. And good morning. Thanks for joining us. We're obviously very excited about how 2024 is shaping up for SM Energy. So let's go ahead and get started. I'll turn the call back to Maria to start taking your questions. Maria?