SM Energy Company

Greetings and welcome to SM Energy's third quarter 2024 financial and operating results Q&A. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. You may be placed into question queue at any time by pressing star one on your telephone keypad. We ask you to please ask one question and one follow-up, then return to the queue. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jennifer Martin-Samuels, Vice President of Investor Relations and ESG Stewardship. Please go ahead, Jennifer.

Thank you, Kevin. Good morning, everyone. I hope you're recovered from a festive Halloween. In today's call, we may reference the earnings release IR presentation or prepared remarks, all of which are posted to our websites. Thank you for joining us this morning. To answer your questions today, we have our President and CEO Herb Vogel, our CFO Wade Purcell, and we are also joined this morning by Beth McDonald, our new Chief Operating Officer. 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 the accompanying slide deck, earnings release, and 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. Also, 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 third quarter 10Q filed this morning. With that, I will turn it over to Herb for a brief opening commentary. Herb?

Thank you, Jennifer. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Again, we had an outstanding quarter underscored by excellent operational execution. The fourth quarter presents an exciting step change for SM Energy with the addition of the Uinta Basin. We welcome the Uinta team and community to SM. So with that, let's go ahead and get started with the Q&A. I'll turn it back to Kevin to start taking your questions. Kevin?