Western Refining Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

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2009-03-05 08:27:20.0

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Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

Thank you very much Paul. (Operator Instructions). And our first question will come from the line of Vance Shaw from Credit Suisse. Vance, you may proceed.

Vance Shaw - Credit Suisse

Yes, good morning. First of all, congratulations guys on a very good quarter.

Paul Foster

Thank you.

Vance Shaw - Credit Suisse

I apologize. But I am on the loan side (ph), buy side here at Credit Suisse as well. So I just have couple of sort of fixed income-related questions. Do you guys believe there's going to be excess cash flow under the credit agreements, and so a pay-down in excess of regular scheduled amortization?

Paul Foster

What we've -- we've gone through that calculation, and we're watching it. We actually don't believe that we're going to have an excess cash flow payment.

Vance Shaw - Credit Suisse

Okay.

Paul Foster

But that calculation is actually made at March 31. And so we really can't be sure of doing that.

Vance Shaw - Credit Suisse

Oh, I got you. Okay, so it was made at the end of the year. Okay thanks. And also you guys mentioned 9.9 million in capitalized interest. Was that -- I missed whether that was for the full year or for the quarter.

Paul Foster

That was for the full year.

Vance Shaw - Credit Suisse

Okay. And can you guys give us any additional information on what the LC draw was in your revolver? You mentioned that I guess at the end of the year you had 60 million in cash borrowings. I would imagine the LC would have gone down quite a bit from September to December just due to lower oil prices but...

Paul Foster

Vance, now I'll ask, Mark Cox has those numbers in front of him, so.

Mark Cox

Yes Vance. We've seen our LC usage come down really for two reasons. One is you just mentioned lower cost. But we've also been able to talk to some of our crude suppliers and get credit extended back to us. So we've seen some significant improvement in that area as well. As you'll see in the K when it's filed at the end of the year, we had LCs outstanding of $245 million, and we had as you just said borrowings of 60 million.

Vance Shaw - Credit Suisse

And your total availability, Mark, was what, 880, is that right?

 

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