This strategic acquisition completes our foundation for accelerated and sustainable profitable growth. With our balanced portfolio of assets, scale, and financial flexibility, we can deliver the growth and value that our shareholders expect.

As Americans, we all feel for those who are less fortunate. We want to make sure they get the energy they need. We feel it's not a good precedent for one industry to fund a program as such. We think that's a responsibility of the government.

This agreement provides a strong basis for us to invest in our aligned goals for increased reserves and production and in the training and development of our Libyan workforce.

In addition to higher industry oil and gas prices, Phillips continued to benefit from cost reductions and strong operations across all business segments.

We'd like to think we have pretty aggressive organic growth in the company, both upstream and downstream.

We are pleased to be resuming our long and productive partnership with the people and the state of Libya in this strategic asset. This agreement provides a strong basis for us to invest in our aligned goals for increased reserves and production, and in the training and development of our Libyan work force.

I am encouraged that second-quarter operating earnings, although down from year-ago levels, were more than six times higher than in the first quarter.

During the quarter, our U.S. Gulf Coast operations were significantly impacted by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Dennis. Despite these impacts, our overall operating performance for the quarter was good, and we continued to benefit from the strong commodity price environment.