Westlake Chemical Partners LP (NYSE:WLKP) Q3 2023 Results Conference Call November 2, 2023 1:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Jeff Holy - VP and Treasurer

Albert Chao - President and CEO

Steve Bender - EVP and CFO

Conference Call Participants

Matthew Blair - TPH

Vincent Andrews - Morgan Stanley

Operator

Good afternoon, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today, November 2, 2023.

I would now like to turn the conference over to today's host, Jeff Holy, Westlake Chemical Partners Vice President and Treasurer. Sir, you may begin.

Jeff Holy

Thank you, Antoine. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Westlake Chemical Partners Third Quarter 2023 Conference Call. I'm joined today by Albert Chao, our President and CEO; Steve Bender, our Executive Vice President and CFO; 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 olefins 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 reviewing the cautionary statements and our regulatory filings, which are also available on our Investor Relations website.

This morning, Westlake Partners issued a press release with details of our third quarter 2023 financial and operating results. This document is available in the Press Release section of our web page at wlkpartners.com. A replay of today's call will be available beginning 2 hours after the conclusion of this call. The replay may be accessed via the partnership's website. Please note that information reported on this call speaks only as of today, November 2, 2023. And therefore, you're advised that time-sensitive information may no longer be accurate as of the time of any replay. I would finally advise you that this conference call is being broadcast live through an Internet webcast system that can be accessed on our web page at wlkpartners.com.