Westlake Chemical Partners LP (WLKP) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's remarks, you will be invited to participate in the question and answer session. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today, August 5, 2025. I would now like to turn the call over to today's host, John Zeller, Westlake Chemical Partners vice president and treasurer. Sir, you may begin. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners second quarter 2025 conference call. I am joined today by Albert Chow, our executive chairman, Jean-Marc Gilson, our president and CEO, Steve Bender, our executive vice president and chief financial officer, and other members of our management team. During this call, we refer to ourselves as Westlake Partners or the partnership. References to Westlake refer to our parent company, Westlake Corporation, and references to Opco refer to Westlake Chemical Opco LP, a subsidiary of Westlake and the partnership, which owns certain Oliphant's assets. Additionally, when we refer to distributable cash flow, we are referring to Westlake Chemical Partners MLP distributable cash flow. Definitions of these terms are available on the partnership's website. Today, management is going to discuss certain topics that will contain forward-looking information that is based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. These forward-looking statements suggest predictions or expectations, and thus are subject to risks or uncertainties. We encourage you to learn more about the factors that could lead our actual results to differ by review...