In addition there has been public discussion that climate change may be associated with more frequent or more extreme weather events changes in temperature and precipitation patterns changes to ground and surface water availability and other related phenomena which could affect some or all of our operations Our exploration exploitation and development activities and equipment could be adversely affected by extreme weather events such as winter storms flooding and tropical storms and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico which may cause a loss of production from temporary cessation of activity or damaged facilities and equipment Such extreme weather events could also impact other areas of our operations including access to our drilling and production facilities for routine operations maintenance and repairs the installation and operation of gathering processing compression storage transportation and or export facilities and the availability of and our access to necessary third party services such as gathering processing compression storage and transportation services and export services Such extreme weather events and changes in weather patterns may materially and adversely affect our business and in turn our financial condition and results of operations