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Good afternoon and welcome to SM Energy’s Third Quarter 2024 Results Webcast. Before we get started on our prepared remarks, I remind you that our discussion today will include forward-looking statements. I direct you to Slide 2 of the accompanying slide deck, Page 6 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 will also discuss non-GAAP measures and metrics. Definitions and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures and metrics, to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, and discussion of forward-looking non-GAAP measures, can be found in the back of the slide deck and earnings release. Today’s prepared remarks will be given by our President and CEO, Herb Vogel, and our CFO, Wade Pursell. I will now turn the call over to Herb.

Thank you, Jennifer. Good afternoon and thank you for your interest in SM Energy. We're pleased to report another consecutive quarter of excellent operational execution that delivered financial results exceeding expectations. This was achieved while also closing the Utah acquisitions and completing a number of financial transactions, which combined results in a step change in scale with a very strong balance sheet. Truly excellent performance from all. Turning to Slide 5. As I do each quarter, I will speak to progress we are making on our core objectives for the year. I'll start with our objective to expand our high quality, low breakeven cost portfolio. With the close of the Uinta acquisitions on October 1st, we have now made a step change in the scale of our operations, which begins here in the fourth quarter. As a reminder, we have increased core acreage by more than 93,000 net acres or by about 40% over the past year plus. With the close of the Utah acquisitions, we added 63,300 net acres, extended our inventory life by 3 plus years and we will see an increase in net oil production of around 40% sequentially at the midpoint of guidance. In short, we are very excited about our expansion in the Utah and we'll speak more about that in a few minutes. The second core objective is to focus on operational execution to deliver high returning wells. We seem to be knocking this one out of the park with a nice third quarter production beat based on strong performance from both Midland and South Texas, as well as the early turn-in line of two pads with eight wells in South Texas. I will add the stewardship as a component of high level operational execution and I will point you towards the extensive sustainability reporting recently posted to our website that further discusses our application of technology and innovation in operations. Our third core objective is returning capital to our stockholders, which comes in the form of our sustainable fixed dividend, transfer of enterprise value to equity holders through debt reduction and share repurchases. Our increased dividend to $0.20 per share quarterly is effective this quarter and we have returned $146 million to shareholders year-to-date $62 million in dividends and $84 million in buybacks. Following our Uinta acquisitions, our emphasis is currently on debt reduction, which Wade will speak to shortly. It was a very successful quarter and I would like to congratulate the team for getting us here from excellent operational execution, to closing the Utah transaction, to extensive financial transactions, all, all great work. Before I turn the call over to Wade, let's look at some regional highlights. Turning to Slide 6, let's start with the Uinta Basin, starting here with a few photos of the area. This includes a couple of photos of the sand mine that we acquired in the transaction that just started up at the end of September. The facilities run by a third-party operator on our surface acres and is expected to produce more than 1 million tons of sand per year. This supports both capital efficiency, providing savings of a few hundred thousand dollars per well, as well as reducing truck traffic by an average 90 miles per sand truckload that reduces both diesel usage and wear and tear on roads. We also have a picture here of a rail transfer facility. About 15% to 20% of our Utah production is currently sold to the Salt Lake City refineries with the remainder railed to sales in the Rockies at Cushing and the Gulf Coast. I've mentioned it before, but it's worth emphasizing that the waxy Uinta crude is high quality oil at around 40 degrees API, the low sulfur, low metals, and low nitrogen content. While its high paraffin content makes it an optimal feedstock for products like lubricants and in certain markets, it attracts a premium to WTI. At the top of the slide, we quote Gabe at TD Cowen, quote “We believe SM stands out as retaining a multiple resource catalyst at a time when that's largely non-existent in the E&P that can shape a more capital efficient, ‘25 versus what's appreciated”. Thanks Gabe for recognizing SM’s focus over the past many years on technical Innovation and geoscience expertise to create additional resource opportunities inventory and value. Turning to Slide 7, we have updated this slide from last quarter to emphasize the quality of our Uinta Basin assets. The left graph compares average oil production from the lower and upper cubes in the Uinta to SM’s average cumulative well performance in Midland and South Texas, demonstrating the competitive performance of Uinta to each of our core areas. The right side graph compares cumulative oil production performance of these same Uinta cubes to top basins in the industry. This highlights both the quality of the Uinta and the prospectivity of the upper cube. To reiterate, Uinta offers competitive returns, it will immediately compete for capital, and the transaction is accretive to all key financial metrics. Next on Slide 8, while the Uinta Basin assets were operated by the seller in the third quarter, we want to show you recent well results and the status of the area upon SM’s acquisition at the beginning of this month, Here we are currently running three Rigs and one frac crew. The well results shown here are from three wells that reach peak IP 30-day rates in the third quarter. These are all Douglas Creek wells in the upper cube and averaged 870 Boe per day per well at 94% oil, which is actually a higher oil percentage than the lower cube. Turning now to the Midland Basin. On Slide 9, we are pleased to report continued strong performance from our new Woodford-Barnett tests in the Sweetie Peck area. This chart averages the cumulative oil production performance of peer wells in the area and we see that our two test wells are outperforming peer tests on average by more than 50% normalized to 10,000 foot laterals. As we talked about last quarter, the significance here is that we have about 20,000 net acres in the area prospective for Woodford-Barnett development. On. Slide 10, we have our first look at Klondike area results. We have eight wells online, all Dean Wells, of which two have reached Peak, IP 30-day rates, These first two wells are shown on the map averaged 918 BOE per day per well, at a very high 93% oil. We're pleased to see early results coming in a little stronger than our acquisition model. Given the confidence we have gained in the oil productivity here, we have moved a rig back on location and will spud another six wells at Kondike by year end. I'll note, if you follow the state data on these, you will see more moderate peak rates, the longer plateaus as these highly productive wells meet our capacity limits and water handling for a period of time. Turning to South Texas on Slide 11. The Austin Chalk continues to outperform and we're pleased to show the bounded pilot test at Briscoe C continue to look really good. These Austin Chalk wells all paid out in six months. Upgrading for our most recent wells to reach peak IP, 30-day rates on the right side of the Chart two wells on the liquids rich gas area averaged 2,317 Boe per day, per well, with 22% oil and 63% liquids. Also, there are some encouraging early flowback results from our newly developed high oil content drilled to earn area. These wells have not yet reached peak IP 30 rates, but are producing 76 %to 80% oil on a two stream basis. So, stay tuned for more information as they build up to peak rates. And, as we have updated over time, Slide 12 compares our performance in both the Midland Basin and the South Texas, Austin Chalk high liquids area to our regional peers. Comparing cumulative oil production normalized to 10,000 foot laterals to peers, we underscore SM’s ability to deliver superior performance by approximately 30% in both the Midland Basin and South Texas. And as we have pointed out, the oil cumulative curves for Midland and Austin Chalk are similar leading to comparable returns. In summary, the first nine months of 2024 have demonstrated outstanding operational, performance, delivered better than expected financial results and positioned the company for substantially increased inventory and scale going forward. I'll now turn the call over to Wade to discuss third quarter financial results, recent financing activity and guidance. Wade?