Shannon Sloum4:56
Thanks, Jeff. Before I get into our operational results, I want to thank each of our employees who work in more than 70 countries around the world for their focus on our customers, safety, performance, and execution. Let me start with international where opportunities for Halliburton around the world are the strongest I've seen in many years. In the second quarter, Halliburton recorded international revenue of $3.4 billion and secured a number of significant awards. I'll start with the Middle East. I recently returned from the region where I met with our customers and our operations teams. Activity is recovering from the conflict lows, but the pace of recovery is still dependent on the day-to-day events in the region. Let me share a few observations from my visit. Land well construction activity was largely steady across the region in the second quarter with the exception of pockets of disruption in Iraq and Bahrain. When production comes back online, I expect a tailwind for our artificial lift and intervention businesses. Offshore activity increased the quarter, though it's not yet back to pre-conflict levels. The offshore situation remains particularly fluid with operators assessing reactivations alongside recent security conditions. Iraq deserves a specific mention. Yesterday, we announced a significant integrated field management service award. This is a foundational project that I expect will transform our business in country. It redefines our opportunity set and puts our latest digital and technology offerings to work at scale. While the conflict dominates the discussion today, I see a bright future for Halliburton in the Middle East. Our recent wins in onshore well construction, integrated projects offshore, and the resumptions of our unconventional fracturing operation all strengthen my view. Next, let's turn to our business outside the Middle East where we expect year-over-year growth in the low double digits. Our growth engines, production services, drilling, unconventionals, and lift are key to delivering on the outlook. Here are a few recent developments. First, in production services, the commissioning phase began for our newest North Sea stim vessel with the first operations of its multi-year contract expected at year end. This deployment strengthens our leading global stim business and importantly represents the first offshore implementation of Octave, our automated pumping control system. Second, in directional drilling, Sakal our recent acquisition is fully integrated with our Logics automation platform and together they deliver Halliburton's closed loop drilling solution. This integrated solution gives us a significant runway to scale on offshore rigs worldwide. Our system delivers more precise well placement, better reservoir contact, and faster drilling times. We saw this firsthand in Norway with back-to-back record wells for Aker BP this quarter. I am confident this technology and the opportunity to further deploy it will deliver meaningful profitable growth for Halliburton. Finally, in international unconventionals, we saw further progress in multiple regions. In Algeria, we secured Sonatrach's first unconventional award, a multi-well integrated drilling and completions program. We are off to a strong start and have already delivered the longest lateral drilled in country to date. This project highlights the breadth and depth of our entire unconventional portfolio in both drilling and completions and puts Halliburton in front of the next wave of development. In Argentina, our first Zeus fleet has been mobilized and is planned to start up in the fourth quarter. This deployment exemplifies Halliburton's unique capability to bring leading unconventional technology to international customers. I see a clear runway for Halliburton to build on its position in this growing market. Our international strategy is advancing. We differentiate on technology. We deliver on execution and we collaborate closely with our customers. When I look at our growth engines and the pipeline of opportunities ahead, I believe that our international business delivers meaningful profitable growth for Halliburton. Now to more North America where Halliburton delivered second quarter revenue of $2.3 billion. Second quarter activity built on the momentum we saw in the first quarter with stronger activity, modest pricing gains, and further technology adoption. Drilling activity was strong. Our D&E division grew 9% year-over-year in completions. Our focus remains on returns, not share, and our option to redeploy equipment to international market set a high bar for any North America fleet reactivation. Halliburton's maximize value strategy in North America leads with technology. Automation, electrification, and real-time subsurface data gives our customers the tools to maximize recovery in their assets. Let me give you a proof point. This quarter we deployed the latest version of Zeus IQ. This release adds near well and crosswell subsurface measurements, expands data inputs and gives customers well by well treatment control and small frack operations. In plain terms, better fracture placement means more value for our customers. Let me close on North America with this. The market is in a recovery and I am encouraged by the shift in trajectory. Activity is up, pricing is improving and our playbook works. I expect continued progress throughout the year. Our priorities are clear. We focus on returns for Halliburton and we deploy technology that improves performance and recovery for our customers. Big picture, I like Halliburton's strength globally. With a balanced portfolio that spans international and North America, onshore and offshore, mature and new plays. I am excited about our contract awards and our opportunity pipeline. I am confident these will translate into revenue growth and margin expansion. With that, I will turn the call over to Eric to provide more details on our financial results. Eric,