Whiting Petroleum's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Whiting Petroleum Corporation (WLL) Q4 2011 Earnings Call February 23, 2012 11:00 AM ET

Executives

Eric Hagen – Vice President of Investor Relations
James J. Volker – Chief Executive Officer
James T. Brown – President & Chief Operating Officer
Michael J. Stevens – Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Mark R. Williams – Senior Vice President, Exploration & Development
J. Douglas Lang – Vice President, Reservoir Engineering/Acquisitions

Analysts

Will Green – Stephens Inc
John Freeman – Raymond James
Michael Scialla – Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc
Biju Z. Perincheril – Jefferies & Company, Inc.
Joe Stewart – Citigroup
Gil Yang – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
Pearce Hammond – Simmons & Company
Philip McPherson – Global Hunter Securities, LLC
Michael Scialla – Stifel Nicolaus

Operator

Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2011 Whiting Petroleum Corporation Earnings Conference Call. My name is Kathy and I’ll be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions). As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes.

I’d now like to turn the conference over to your host for today’s call to Mr. Eric Hagen, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please proceed.

Eric Hagen

Thanks Kathy. Good morning and welcome to Whiting Petroleum Corporation’s fourth quarter and full year 2011 earnings conference call. On the call for Whiting this morning is the Whiting management team. During this call, we’ll our review our results for the fourth quarter of 2011 and then discuss the outlook for 2012.

This conference call is being recorded and will also be available on our website at www.whiting.com. To access the call and the webcast, please click on the Investor Relations box on the menu and then click on the webcasts