Richard A. Jackson | Occidental Petroleum Corp. |
Vicki A. Hollub | Occidental Petroleum Corp. |
Cedric W. Burgher | Occidental Petroleum Corp. |
Joseph C. Elliott | Occidental Petroleum Corp. |
Brian Singer | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Guy Baber | Simmons Piper Jaffray & Co. |
Philip M. Gresh | JPMorgan Securities LLC |
Doug Leggate | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Leo P. Mariani | NatAlliance Securities LLC |
Robert Scott Morris | Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
Matthew Merrel Portillo | Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities, Inc. |
Muhammed Ghulam | Raymond James & Associates, Inc. |
Roger D. Read | Wells Fargo Securities LLC |
Jason Gammel | Jefferies International Ltd. |
Michael Anthony Hall | Heikkinen Energy Advisors LLC |
Good morning and welcome to the Occidental Petroleum Corporation first quarter 2018 earnings conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Richard Jackson, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.