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Transocean Ltd. (RIG)

Q4 2014 Earnings Call· Thu, Feb 26, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Good day, and welcome to the Transocean Q4 2014 earnings conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to your host, Mr. Thad Vayda. Please go ahead, sir. R. Thaddeus Vayda - Vice President-Investor Relations & Communications: Thank you, Paula. Good day, and welcome to Transocean's fourth quarter 2014 earnings conference call. A copy of the press release covering our financial results along with supporting statements and schedules, including reconciliations and disclosures regarding non-GAAP financial measures, are posted on the company's website at deepwater.com. Joining me on this morning's call are Ian Strachan, interim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Transocean Limited; Esa Ikäheimonen, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Terry Bonno, Senior Vice President, Marketing. During the course of this call, participants may make certain forward-looking statements regarding various matters related to our business and company that are not historical fact. Such statements are based on the current expectations and current – certain assumptions of management and are therefore subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to our SEC filings for more information regarding our forward-looking statements, including the risks and uncertainties that could impact our future results. Also, please note that the company undertakes no duty to update or revise forward-looking statements. Finally, to give more people an opportunity to participate in this call, please limit your questions to one initial question and one follow up. Thank you. I'll now turn the call over to Ian Strachan. Ian? Ian Charles Strachan - Chairman & Interim Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Thad, and welcome to our employees, customers, investors and analysts. We very much appreciate your…

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

Thanks, Esa, and good day to everyone. The market continues to be very challenging as we begin our journey into 2015. The low commodity price environment, significant reductions in our customers' budgets for offshore spending, and overcapacity in the global floater fleet are negatively impacting the floater and jackup markets globally. Despite these challenges, we booked $2.7 billion of contract backlog in 2014, including contracts for the Sedco Express, Development Driller I and the KG2. In addition, the option on the Jack Bates was exercised in Australia while the Transocean Searcher received a one-well contract in Norway. We've added over $500 million in contract backlog since the last call, generally in line with what we delivered in each of the first three quarters of 2014 and demonstrating the company's ability to continue to deliver value even these unfavorable market conditions. Our backlog as of February 17 is $21.2 billion providing the foundation that will help us weather the storm until we get to a stabilized oil price environment that supports our customers' offshore programs and allows for a resurgence in demand for our rigs. Ultra-deepwater day rates and utilization remain under pressure. Customers are keenly focused on cost-cutting efforts and are searching for opportunities to further reduce their 2015 and 2016 spend. We are in conversations with multiple customers to identify opportunities to capitalize on incremental terms, employ higher specification rigs that can deliver more efficient performance to our customers and provide – excuse me – a mutually beneficial contribution to the cost-cutting mantra heard throughout the industry. In this cyclical environment Transocean is well-positioned to meet the needs of our customers and capitalize on value-creating opportunities with our high specification fleet. The recent announcement that seven newbuild Sete rigs will be canceled is favorable news for the industry out…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And we'll take our first question from Ian McPherson with Simmons. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Co. International: Hey. Thanks. Good morning. Esa, with regard to your O&M expense guidance for 2015, I was going to see if you would be able to provide any sort of reference with regard to what's embedded in that range for stacking, if it contemplates cold stacking additional rigs and I'm really interested most of all in whether you're planning to cold stack any of your idle fifth gen rigs this year and if that's reflected in the cost guidance and what the magnitude of that might be. Thanks. Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Good morning, Ian. Thanks for a good question. I was trying to provide some additional color and guidance already in my prepared remarks where I said that the reduction on a year-on-year basis would be roughly 50% kind of like-for-like cost reduction, I'll call them real cost reductions in comparison with the previous year, so you can work out the numbers. And the other half would be associated to lower levels of activity, which means actually reduced O&M expenses as a result of the fact that we idled some rigs as well as stacked some of them. We haven't provided detailed guidance in terms of what exactly is embedded in that in terms of individual rigs or any of that and for that you will have to keep an eye on our fleet status report that shows the evolution. But you do know already from our previous announcements that we have taken a decision to stack 12 rigs, scrap actually 12 rigs and that's obviously included in that and that has quite a reducing impact on our O&M. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Co. International: Okay. Thanks. Thanks, Esa. A follow-up question for you, Terry. I think we're all concerned about contract integrity. Three months ago when Statoil terminated the Stena rig, it was bad, but at least Stena got the $350 million check, right? And the rhetoric that we're hearing from so many drilling contractors is that the concern is that it's really more a prospect now of termination for convenience without necessarily the prospects of being kept whole on your contract terms. Can you elaborate on that? Is that how you see the risk right now? Or is that more of an exception or more likely to be the rule for 2015?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

Ian, we've been in a lot of conversations with our customers and we're trying to work together with them to come up with, as I said in the notes, a mutually beneficial win-win opportunities. We are not, from our perspective, we're not seeing what some of our other competitors have been exposed to just recently, and I know that there was probably some concern about some of the Petrobras contracts. Our Petrobras contracts can be terminated because of poor performance and that is primarily the issue with most of our contracts is that we have to perform. We don't have, we're not exposed to PEMEX. We don't have a termination for convenience for a number of days without payout on any of our contracts. Most of our contracts don't have a termination for convenience and those that do have a contracted payout. So I like the position that we're in with our backlog because I believe it's very solid and our teams have done a good job of negotiating these contracts over the years.

Operator

Operator

And we'll move to our next question. That will come from Praveen Narra with Raymond James. Praveen Narra - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Hey. Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Just to follow up on the last one, could you talk about the extent to which contract performance issues give the freedom to the customer to cancel contracts? Assuming that the rig meets the technical specs how many days does a rig have to be down before the operator can say that they don't want the rig anymore? Is it a year or six months? How should we think about that?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

That's a good question. It just depends on the contracts. It's just a range and it depends on if it's a newbuild contract or it's an existing fleet contract. Our newbuilds are generally no cut contracts that we've negotiated; pretty much an industry standard you've got to really be down a long period of time. And then in existing fleets, it's a little bit less, but it's usually consistent downtime performance. In some cases, as an example, it could be up for two months of downtime on a continuous basis. Praveen Narra - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Okay. And then a different topic, I guess. As you mentioned quite a few ultra-deepwater rigs in your fleet currently idled, but not cold stacked. Does that imply that those rigs are bidding on work, and is there enough work or inquiries out there for eight or nine of your rigs in the next 12 to 15 months?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

Well, clearly the market is oversupplied with a lot of capacity, and then you've still got newbuilds coming to the market. The demand does not exceed the available supply at this particular time, but we're bidding a lot of our rigs on tendering that's ongoing now. We're seeing tendering, as I mentioned, for availability in 2016 and now some in 2017. So we're going to look for opportunities, we're going to look for one-offs. Like I said, we're going to fight for every opportunity to get our rigs back to work so that we can weather this cyclical downturn and be poised and ready to take advantage when this market does turn, and it will. Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: And if I may add to that – it's Esa Ikäheimonen here – I would like to just add a couple of words. So while the marketing team are obviously fighting for opportunities out there in the marketplace, we're also immediately ready to minimize OpEx to a level necessary to keep the rig available for new near-term opportunities. So that's an important element of 2015, cost optimization and management that we're touching upon already. And if there's no such near-term opportunity in the marketplace, we are also prepared to cold stack, and that's going to be a key performance area for us in 2015. And we're very focused on that in order to make sure that in the short term we're not incurring any unnecessary expenses as a result of the challenges out there in the market. So that's just something I wanted to add to that so that would provide a bit more comprehensive answer including the cost management piece as well.

Operator

Operator

And moving on, we'll go to Dan Boyd with BMO Capital Markets.

Daniel J. Boyd - BMO Capital Markets

United States

Thanks. You mentioned a number of times in the comments of looking for opportunities to grow out of this down cycle. So, with that in mind, would you consider issuing equity in the secondary market if the price was right? Would those assets need to be contracted? And do you think you need to wait for a CEO before you would pursue anything? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yes. Probably for myself – Esa Ikäheimonen here – we have issued equity in the past, and obviously that demonstrates that it's not entirely out of question. However, what we also tried to communicate, and I think we've done that quite successfully, is that we do have enough near and medium-term flexibility and other levers to pull so that an equity issue at current share price levels is not very high on our list of priorities. So in theory, yes; in practice, unlikely. And that's for, I would think, quite understandable reasons. We actually feel quite comfortable about our medium-term liquidity and the levers we've got to pull and continuous overperformance against our own promises in several areas. And that looks like continuing through 2015.

Daniel J. Boyd - BMO Capital Markets

United States

Okay. Thanks. And then my second question would be given the rising number of idle DP rigs, what are your options there? Are you aggressively pursuing rig swaps? And how many of those rigs might actually be able to be swapped with other rigs that might be cheaper to idle or cold stack?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

Dan, that's a good question. We're looking at everything. We're looking at opportunities to high-grade our fleet. We're looking at extending our current rigs. We're looking at potentially doing two-rig packages. I hate to go into any further detail, because this is a very competitive market out there, and everyone's got their magic that they're trying to work today. So that's really about as deep as I can get into that.

Operator

Operator

Moving on, we'll go to Byron Pope with Tudor Pickering Holt. Byron K. Pope - Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities, Inc.: Good morning. I just have one question. Terry, when you gave your market outlook and talked about some of the deepwater theaters where there are opportunities, I heard Brazil, India, West Africa – I didn't hear the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. So I was wondering if you could just give your thoughts on the outlook there, and if that might be one of the deepwater theaters where there might be some tenders for work starting in 2016 and 2017?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

I guess the thing about the Gulf of Mexico is we've got so many rigs standing by. There is some incremental demand, but we don't see a lot of it becoming meaningful until 2016. And then there could be private discussions going on that we wouldn't want to really talk about that could tip our competitors into pursuing that. So it's kind of difficult to talk about the near term, but certainly we believe that Gulf of Mexico in the medium term is going to have some incremental demand. Byron K. Pope - Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities, Inc.: Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And next we'll go to Angie Sedita with UBS.

Angie M. Sedita - UBS Securities LLC

Management

Thanks. Good morning, guys. Esa, you talked on and I think a number of people have asked about the ultra-deepwater rigs and the stacking. And as Terry mentioned, you have eight idle now and I believe nine more up for contract in 2015. And it does sound like you have some opportunities in 2016 and maybe even 2017. But what would be the thought process about cold stacking? Obviously they're very high operating cost, especially if they are fully employed. What's some of your thought process on stacking a number of these rigs? How long do think you need to have as far as a gap in between contracts? Clearly it would appear you're going to have to stack some of these rigs, so can you talk about your thought process of when you would stack the rigs, how long it would take, and where do you think your costs would move from and to? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Right, Angie. As always, a very thoughtful question from your side. There's no really black-and-white answer to this, because the fleet is diverse and there are different drivers associated to most of those rigs. But here's what I would say as a general answer to that. First of all, we've got a plan for each rig and as a matter fact we've got several plans because the market outlook and the visibility is not perfect and therefore, you have to be kind of prepared to pull out plan B if A doesn't materialize. It's all driven by the market evaluation and de-valuation provided by Terry's marketing team in terms of what's out there and how likely it is or unlikely it is that a rig that comes off contract will win a new one. As…

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

Just to add a little bit, in the context of cold stacking, it's not what a traditional cold stacking would imply for the moored fleet, so this is a DP fleet. So it's just a little bit different scenario. You would still have a significant reduction in costs associated with that but they would be – there would have to be just a marine crew to ensure that the rigs were properly taken care of because of their DP mode, but again it would be a significant cost reduction. Thanks. Thanks for the question, Angie.

Angie M. Sedita - UBS Securities LLC

Management

Thanks. That helps, and I certainly appreciate the challenges with stacking a DP rig and you're right. The follow-up question – when you think about conserving cash and capital, Esa, do you have any ability on the two un-contracted ultra-deepwater rigs to delay those rigs as you did with the jackups? And also can those jackups be delayed any further? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Another good question. When it comes to the ultra-deepwater floaters that we've got un-contracted, under construction, our position currently is that those delivery windows are actually pretty attractive. So we haven't been actively pursuing deferral of those deliveries at this moment in time. If that becomes necessary we will obviously engage in conversations, but right now the delivery windows are as they've been announced in the past and until further notice we will continue actually constructing those rigs in line with those schedules. Those schedules were chosen actually in line with our best estimate as to how the market will evolve going forward and there's no fundamental change in our view on the market when it comes to late 2017, 2018 situation. Jackups, I think we've done what needs to be done with jackups and we've actually significantly re-phased the CapEx associated to those and pushed it from 2016 until 2017 increasingly to 2018, and again, that has got a positive – significantly positive impact on our liquidity and balance sheet in the short or medium term and we're quite satisfied with the outcome, particularly because it didn't come at a material cost.

Operator

Operator

Moving on, we'll go to J.B. Lowe with Cowen & Co. J.B. Lowe - Cowen & Co. LLC: Good morning, everyone. I just have one question and it involves the 50/50 cost savings that you mentioned between true cost savings and then lower costs due to lower activity. I recall that you had identified a couple hundred million of cost savings in 2014 and I'm just wondering what is the incremental cost savings going to be this year that weren't necessarily included in the cost savings that you identified last year? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah, good question. I'd actually like to take this into the context of the $800 million margin improvement that we announced in November, 2013 if that's okay because that kind of includes all of this but it's also a little bit more a holistic way of looking at it. So the margin improvement from 2013 to 2015 was targeted at $800 million and that was a combination of revenue efficiency, revenue improvement about $300 million in revenue and about $500 million- $550 million in offshore expenses out of service – or shipyard expenses and the overheads. And I'm actually quite pleased to report that we are almost already in 2014 on the revenue piece so as a matter of fact anything more than what we've already achieved will be over and above on the revenue side of things in 2015. On overheads, we're almost always there in 2014 and we've actually exceeded the $200 million offshore and shipyard expenses so slightly ahead of that already a year ahead of time. And if we add the 50% which indeed is the like for like and true cost reduction that we would like to get the credit for, is activity driven and unfortunately more than offset by the reduction in revenue and. If we deliver all of this in line with our plans we will have delivered more than the $800 million in cost savings only by end of 2015. So just slightly more holistically, I know I didn't answer your question exactly but I just wanted to put into the concept of our corporate target of delivering $800 million of margin improvement from one year to another, or one year to the second year thereafter and just demonstrate that we've quite considerably over delivered on what we promised and we will continue to over deliver increasingly on what we've promised. Unfortunately at the same time, of course, the marketplace has become very different and that means that we have to do more and more quickly than what we originally anticipated that's what we are prepared to do and I think the guidance reflects that quite well. J.B. Lowe - Cowen & Co. LLC: Okay, great. That was really helpful. Thank you. Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thanks.

Operator

Operator

And next we'll go to Mike Urban with Deutsche Bank.

Michael Urban - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Management

Thanks. Good morning. I was hoping you could maybe elaborate a little bit on kind of sources and uses of cash. You kind of laid out your priorities: strong balance sheet investment, distribution to shareholders, I know you said you disagree with the Moody's downgrade but I suspect we'll see something similar from the others. So clearly they're seeing something else out there and you guys have done a good job of high grading the fleet and of cutting costs so I feel a little bit like that's being undermined by the uncertainty about the cash flow profile and how you finance yourself over time so I think it would be really helpful to lay out a path or is that something that you necessarily can't do until you have the new CEO in place? Just any kind of color on that would be helpful.

Operator

Operator

Please stand by.

Michael Urban - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Management

Hello?

Operator

Operator

Mr. Urban, if you would, please repeat your question.

Michael Urban - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Management

Yes. Sorry. Can you hear me now? R. Thaddeus Vayda - Vice President-Investor Relations & Communications: Yeah, sorry about that. Apparently the call got dropped.

Michael Urban - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Management

Sure. So you talked a little bit about your liquidity and then also that you disagree with the downgrade that was out there. And you've laid out these priorities in terms of strong balance sheet, continued investment, distributions to shareholders, but again, clearly at least one ratings agency, and I suspect the others will follow, that will at least disagree with that. And you guys have done a really good job of reducing costs, of high grading the fleet and improving performance. And I think those things are kind of being undermined and overshadowed by this kind of lack of visibility on a path. And so I'm just wondering to the extent you can, can you offer us any visibility or kind of a path on sources and uses of cash over the next year or two? Or is that something that has to wait for a new CEO to be in place? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Mike, it's a good thoughtful question again. I don't think we need to wait for a new CEO to confirm the financial flexibility we've got nor to actually respond to your question. That was quite a multifaceted one. So I'd just like to put that into a little bit of a context when it comes to ratings and our balance sheet objectives. I think it's worth noting that we've delivered on all of our recent promises including the accelerated debt reduction that we completed by the end of last year in line with what we had communicated much earlier. We are continuously firmly heading towards the $9 billion debt level that we've targeted for the last two or three years, and we have a very healthy liquidity to start with at $5.7 billion as we speak. We…

Michael Urban - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Management

Okay, got you. Ian Charles Strachan - Chairman & Interim Chief Executive Officer: As the interim CEO – this is Ian Strachan – I can assure you that we're not standing still, and we're certainly not taking time out until a new CEO comes on. That CEO will find a company that is firing on all cylinders. And I think you heard a pretty impressive presentation just now from Esa about how we've achieved significant overhead reductions throughout 2013, 2014 and 2015. $800 million by the end of 2015 tells you what our team is capable of. We have unique qualities and strengths in our employees, and fundamentally that's how we will deliver what we have indicated.

Michael Urban - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Management

And specific to the downgrade and assuming the other agencies follow, presumably in terms of any refinancings, that'll just come up at the time of the refi and the potential cost implications, but in the immediate term is there anything you need to do, like with your credit facility if you don't have an investment-grade rating, any negotiations that would have to take place with the banks? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Well, first of all, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that the other rating agencies follow, and we'll be incrementally more disappointed if that happens given the reasons that I just mentioned. So I focus on the Moody's conclusion only. We don't have any onerous covenants in our existing debt agreements, and that's a good starting point, of course, so no major headaches associated to that. We can speculate about the potential impact, if any, on pricing of our future debt, but given the present trading and the spreads, we don't anticipate any negative impact. But that remains to be seen, of course. And then the most tangible immediate downside has to do with the fact that we do have coupon step-up rates in some of our bond agreements in the tune of 25 basis points for a rating agency doing a one-notch downgrade, and that's what Moody's just did, so that will have an annual impact of about $10 million on our interest expenses; no more, no less.

Operator

Operator

And moving on, our next question will come from David Smith with Heikkinen Energy Advisors.

David C. Smith - Heikkinen Energy Advisors

Management

Hi. Thank you for taking the question. Just a quick housekeeping question. I thought that the mid-water UK business was given a little under $500 million of bank debt, and I was just wondering if that was – if that borrowing was contingent on a partial sale of Caledonia or if just one of the parties otherwise opted out of that? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah, David, that's a good question. There was, as a result of what we call the Caledonia separation, the intended separation of that part of the business and potentially creating that separate vehicle, as you remember, we did obviously work in detail the capital structure for that new entity, and that included a bank facility in the tune of the $500 million that you just mentioned. But as a result of the fact that we decided not to go ahead with that separation, that facility was never put in place, so basically business as usual from that perspective. That facility doesn't exist, and it won't exist until further notice and until Caledonia potentially becomes a viable deal again.

David C. Smith - Heikkinen Energy Advisors

Management

All right. I misunderstood on that. Thank you. And just a quick follow-up question, looking at the idle assets in the U.S. Gulf, it would make sense to have some of them clustered around the Louisiana offshore oil port. I think three of them were clustered there earlier this month, but I was wondering if there are other regions where the cost of idle DP units to be minimized or if it might make sense to absorb the move cost to get a lower cost in the long-term idle time.

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

That's a good question. I mean, we have our rigs positioned all over the world, and there's multiple areas that we use so. And we're all conserving costs at wherever the locations for the rigs are, so there's some in the U.S., there's some in the Canary Islands, there's some in Walvis Bay, there's just – in the UK there are some, and then there's some in Asia. So there's just plenty of places to place the units, and again we will be looking to maximize cost reductions wherever our rigs are going to be idled.

Operator

Operator

And next we'll go to Mark Brown with Global Hunter Securities.

Mark Brown - Global Hunter Securities LLC

Management

Hi. Good morning. Just had a quick question on the Spitsbergen, I just wanted to clarify. What was the update on that?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

Yes, the rig had been on suspension for a couple of months, and it's been put on the suspension rate, which is 75% of the current operating rate. So she will return to work, and she'll go back to her normal operating rate, and we expect that to happen over the weekend.

Mark Brown - Global Hunter Securities LLC

Management

Okay, great. And then just a follow-up on the tax rate. You mentioned that that's going to be a little bit higher than previously expected. Could you just clarify again what the driver of the change was? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Are you referring to the guidance now, Mark?

Mark Brown - Global Hunter Securities LLC

Management

Correct. Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah, so our tax rate is a mixture of typical corporate income taxes and diem taxes in certain jurisdictions where we operate. And what happens when our pre-tax income declines, our effective tax rate typically goes up, because we've got that firm diem tax component having a higher proportional impact on the effective tax rate, so that's what you see happening, so the read-through of course is not unsurprisingly that pre-tax is reducing somewhat in 2015 and that doesn't surprise anybody given the context of the marketplace and the challenges therein, but that's basically what we're trying to communicate. A moderate increase in ETR as a result of the fact that the mix basically between diem tax and typical corporate income tax will be different to what it was for instance in 2014.

Operator

Operator

Moving on, we'll go to Jason Gilbert with Goldman Sachs.

Matthew Russell - Goldman Sachs

Management

Hi. It's actually Matt Russell filling in for Jason here. Thanks for taking the question. Not to harp on the ratings too much but have you had discussions with S&P post the board's dividend proposal and now that you do have the Moody's announcement is there any intention to strongly defend the rating cut at S&P beyond what you've done thus far? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: We've got a really active engagement with all the rating agencies. We keep them periodically up to date and particularly if we've got something meaningful and material and impactful to talk about, we talk about that on the spot and without a delay. So our engagement is extremely frequent and they know exactly what has happened and they are well aware of our plans and forecasts and our thoughts. I don't see any particular need to intensify those engagements as result of the Moody's situation. S&P and Fitch will do their own evaluation. They'll evaluate our position, our balance sheet, and our forward plans based on their own modeling and conclude on that basis. So we continue with business as usual. We will engage very actively, we'll be transparent as we've always been and they will conclude when they will conclude.

Matthew Russell - Goldman Sachs

Management

Right. And then back to one of the earlier questions in terms of being opportunistic in this market. How do you view the opportunity for M&A here and potential to accelerate the (58:13) fleet? Esa Ikäheimonen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Good question. I kind of expected that someday would ask that. Everybody's talking about consolidation and M&A and all that exciting stuff. I should say that first and foremost, we focus on maximizing value of what we already have and that's the core of our message here. Consolidation is a possibility but it's only a possibility and it's very difficult, actually meaningless to speculate too much and as always, there are serious challenges, most notably regarding the valuation. So I think there's moderately improved likelihood of something like that happening but at the same time the challenges are pretty much unchanged. And therefore, speculating with M&A is probably a waste of our time but there could be some consolidation later on in the industry but it might take a little bit deeper down cycle. Ian Charles Strachan - Chairman & Interim Chief Executive Officer: Can I just add here you recall how Transocean has performed in the past. The downturn is clearly a problem for all of us but coming out of this downturn, we expect there to be very – a lot of opportunities. And as a historically natural consolidator we aim to look at those very seriously and we are positioned to do so. You can think in the last ten years of what has happened, the last 15 years of Transocean, but I think again, as Esa has said, it's idle to speculate about that right now. We're really focusing on the blocking and tackling and getting through this downturn to be in a position to look at all these opportunities that will arise.

Operator

Operator

And we'll go to Ian Macpherson with Simmons. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Co. International: Hey. Thank you for the follow-up. We've covered all the CapEx flexibility questions except for I think the biggest one which is regarding the drillship at Chevron which is really your biggest chunk of growth CapEx. Have there been any discussions with those customers to delay those rigs?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

Ian, that's a good question. We're always in discussions in this type of the market for what can we do and is there some opportunities but as of today there's been no decisions made on that. So there's nothing that we can actually share with the market at this point. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Co. International: Okay. It's not entirely implausible that those might scoot to the right?

Terry B. Bonno - Senior Vice President-Marketing

Management

I think that you would guess that the customers are talking about the art of the possible of all of their business so I wouldn't say that it wouldn't be unlikely but I'm just saying that at this point we're not planning at this point to do anything. Ian Macpherson - Simmons & Co. International: Understood. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

And that's all the questions we have at this time. I'll turn it back to our presenter Mr. Thad Vayda for any additional or closing comments. R. Thaddeus Vayda - Vice President-Investor Relations & Communications: Thanks, everyone, for participation on the call today. We are available, as always, after this call to respond to any questions you might have and we look forward to chatting with you again when we report our first quarter 2015 results. Have a good day.

Operator

Operator

And once again, that does conclude today's conference. We'd like to thank everyone for their participation.