we take you inside the numbers right now with apache ceo steve farris. >> thank you very much for having me. >> can you characterize the quarter for us? what drove business? >> well, i think more than anything what you're seeing is the benefit of our geologic and geographic diversity. half our production is outside north america and we're seeing some benefit from international gas prices plus we also have about 50% of our production is oil. we saw quite a bing crease from the first quarter to the second quarter on the oil price and then of course we had 7% increase in production. we're an emt company. costs are down, production up, we're going to have a good quarter. that's what we turned in this quarter. >> production was up 7% in the quarter. more than 7%. and your operations are spread around the world. where are you seeing much of that production? >> well, we have a big operation in the western desert of egypt. we had two gas plants come on in egypt that added about 110 million cubic feet of gas a day. we had a development in the gulf of mexico, a deep water gas discovery, that came