RPC, Inc. (RES) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Good morning, and thank you for joining us for RPC Inc.'s Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Today's call will be hosted by Ben Palmer, President and CEO, and Mike Schmit, Chief Financial Officer.

I would like to advise everyone that this conference call is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Schmit.

Thank you, and good morning. Before we begin, I want to remind you that some of the statements that will be made on this call could be forward-looking in nature and reflect a number of known and unknown risks. Please refer to our press release issued today, along with our 10-K and other public filings that outline those risks, all of which can be found on RPC's website at www.rpc.net. In today's earnings release and conference call, we'll be referring to several non-GAAP measures of operating performance and liquidity. We believe these non-GAAP measures allow us to compare performance consistently over various periods. Our press release and our website contain reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. I'll now turn the call over to our President and CEO, Ben Palmer.

Thank you, Mike, and thank you for joining our call this morning. Before turning to our second quarter results, I want to briefly address the CEO succession announcement we made in June. As we announced, I plan to retire as President and CEO and step down from the board by the end of 2026, following