Q2 2022 Secure Energy Services Inc Earnings Call

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the secure energy Q2 2022 results conference call. At this time, all lines are in this anonymous following the presentation. We will conduct a question and answer session. If at any time during this call, you require an immediate assistance. Please press star followed by the number zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Wednesday July 27, 2022.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Amirao, VP of Immersive Relations and Research. Thank you very much.

Thank you Sergio. Welcome to Secure Energy's conference call for the second quarter of 2022. Joining me on the call today is Reni Amaro, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Alan Granche, our Chief Operating Officer, and Chad Magus, our

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Thank you, Anil, and good morning, everyone. Today, we'll review our financial operational results for Q2, followed by our album for the remainder of the year. The strong momentum across our operations continued in the second quarter, where our team delivered yet another record setting quarter. We continue to be extremely pleased with the progress and the integration of the Tervida acquisition, and we are realizing our target synergies ahead of our plan.

With the anniversary of the transaction behind us, our results to date truly demonstrate the strength and scale of our expanded network and business model.

With 67 million run rate synergies realized, we have now achieved 89% of the 75 million cost savings target in the first 12 months following completion of the transaction, as can be seen in our results.

robust industry activity levels, growth significant demand for our customer solutions and combined with synergies realized and our ongoing focus on managing costs result in another strong performance across our operations and a 310% year on year increase and our Q2 adjusted the EBITDA to 127 million. and our Q2 adjusted the EBITDA to 127 million.

This allowed us to reduce our leverage ratio to 2.5.

that adjusted EBITDA, a full turn improvement in only nine months.

We also released our 2021 report on sustainability in May, demonstrating our commitment to ESG with tangible short-term goals. We are targeting a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 15% by the end of 2024 and in freshwater usage by 5% in 2022.

With increased pre-cash flow generation capabilities and a strengthening balance sheet, we are well positioned to further reduce our leverage, expand our capital allocation priorities as we get closer to 2023, and at the same time capitalize on growth at existing facilities and favorable industry trends. Chad will now walk us through the key highlights of our Q2 results, then Alan will review our operational highlights and integration update, and I will conclude with our outlook for 2022.

Thanks, Red A. And good morning to everyone on the call.

Our second quarter results continue to demonstrate the strength of our combined business around going focus on managing costs and overall improvement in the underlying markets.

We recorded net income of $54.17 per share, an increase of $69.26 per share for the second quarter of 2021.

Funds flow for operations increased 344%, the 80 million driving a hundred and 36% increase for share basis. Funds flow for operations increased 344%, the 80 million driving a hundred and 36% increase for share basis.

to 26 cents per share.

Our adjusted EBITDA of 127 million increased 310% and our per basic share basis was 41 cents equating to 116% increase from the prior year on a pro form of basis.

Our adjusted EBA was 50 million or 65% higher than quarter than what was recorded in the second quarter of 2021, as realized synergies and increased activity levels, the dire processing of disposal volumes that are mainstream infrastructure processing facilities, and other industrial land bills.

We also saw increased in math for services related to drilling and completion activity in the environmental fluid management. We also saw increased in math for services related to drilling and completion activity in the environmental fluid management. We also saw increased in math for services related to drilling and completion activity in the environmental fluid

Relative to past years, our second quarter of 2022 was unseasonably warm in April and May, resulting in a shorter spring breakup that did not negatively impact activity levels as compared to previous years.

We're adjusted even a margin of 36% increased from 26% in the second quarter of 2021 due to the positive impact from the cost savings and energy. We're now in the second quarter of 2021 due to the positive impact of the cost savings and energy. We're now in the second quarter of 2021 due to the positive impact of the cost savings and energy. We're now in the second quarter of 2021 due to the positive impact of the cost savings and energy.

and increase industry activity levels.

The margin was higher than our first quarter point to margin of 35%.

As well, our GA has a percentage of revenue, excluding oil purchase and resale, which is about 8% compared to 11% in the second quarter of 2021. We've built 8% compared to 11% in the second quarter of 2021.

In midstream infrastructure, our second quarter segment profit margin of 66% increased from 59% in the prior year, largely due to our expanded facility footprint and synergies realized from the merger transaction.

as well as higher trutal, bracing, and more stable market dynamics, which lit it, increased drilling, police, and production volumes.

I recruit all pricing in second quarter also positively impacted a recovery will revenue and increase the oil purchase and resale revenue by 336% to 1.7 billion.

Environmental and fluid management, and the second quarter segment profit margin of 24%.

remained relatively consistent with 22% in the prior year. The strong margin performance was largely due to the positive impact of the combined businesses.

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from wet weather and late May at 3 June . And inflationary pressure is most notably in our fluid management business.

Metals, prices remain strong in second quarter, as did demand for our environmental work. Metals, prices remain strong in second quarter,

Our DDENA expense was reduced to 21 million in second quarter compared to 56 million in Q1 of this year.

Driven mostly by reduction in our asset retirement obligations.

and the corresponding asset values to hire credit adjusted interest rates.

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Our positive operating result in sustaining capital spending that was in line with our expectations allows us here to generate $66 million of discretionary free cash flow in the second quarter and increase of 267% compared to the prior year or 91% on a per share basis, which was used mainly for debt repayment.

In 2022, our TX capital allocation party will continue to beyond that repayment.

With respect to our financial structure, our capital structure consists of no near-term maturities with the first fixed melt maturing in 2025. We retain a strong liquidity position with approximately $287 million of availability on our credit facilities maturing in

In the second quarter, we saw lower bond prices, which allowed us to repurchase 77 million US for 26% of our 11% senior secured notes, which allowed us to repurchase 77 million US for 27% of our 11%

to save a significant amount of future interest as we continue to optimize our capital structure.

As a result of our focus on debt repayment and the positive

We continue to reduce our overall depth metrics.

Our total death limit ratio felt two and a half times.

Considerable achievement considering we were at 3.5 times only nine months ago.

We are pleased with the balance sheet management since the merger and will continue to focus on debt reduction and capital structure optimization.

As we move into 2023, we believe this focus and capital discipline will allow us to increase

future share of all in returns.

We'll now pass down to provide operational highlights.

Thanks, Chad, and good morning, everyone. Looking at our operational highlights in the second quarter, we saw our robust activity levels continue from Q1 as producers move to pad drilling for their operations during spring break up and road dams. We have a lot of work to do with our operations during spring break up and road dams.

The second quarter also experienced less rain fall in April and May, which allowed activity levels to remain stronger. Mistream and restructure segments are higher volume throughput as result of higher drilling and completion activity. U-??? cré??

Water's blows of volumes increased 116% from Q2 2021, but the total volume of water handled 2.2 million cubic meters, which was only 3% lower than Q1 of 2022.

In addition, we saw processing volumes increase 171% from Q221 mainly as a result of the merger, improving production levels and higher waste processing volumes. agriculture, increased production levels and higher waste processing volumes.

Our terminal and pipeline volumes also increased 10 percent from Q1.

2022 and we're up 68% from the prior quarter.

Overall, a very strong quarter from the midstream processing facilities as they were experiencing increased utilization as higher drilling completion and production volumes from increased activity levels requiring more treating, processing and disposal. Our facility utilization continues to trend upward and at the end of the quarter is approximately 65%. We continue to have lots of capacity to handle additional increases in volume without needing to invest any significant additional capital.

In our environmental and fluid management segment, it also continued to benefit from higher commodity prices and increased activity levels. Landfill volumes were up 293% compared to Q2 of 2021 as a result of the merger and increased activity levels.

Our fluid management business also had another strong quarter. Our production chemical business continues to perform well as our customers look to optimize and enhance the production from their operating wells.

We are seeing strong demand for our customer solutions and continues to see inflation in both our businesses, but we have been able to pass along our cost increases and we have maintained the steady margin. And we have maintained the steady margin.

Mattel recycling continues to benefit from a strong commodity pricing as fairs prices remain high, which help drive higher volumes.

With regards to the project's business, we're also pleased with the progress made on increased abandonment, remediation, and reclamation activity work from the government's stimulus package to help fund the closure and reclamation of an orphan and inactive wealth.

We continue to expect increased abandonment, remediation and reclamation activity to positively impact all our Canadian operations over the term of the program.

In terms of the federal program, the entire $1 billion allocated to Alberta has now been granted and must be spanned by the first quarter of 2023.

Provincially, both the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments have introduced minimum spending programs starting in 2023 with targeted spending levels that companies with retirement obligation liabilities must spend.

Secure is well positioned in the environmental business segment as the project's teams are positioned to bid on additional work and landslils will likely see more volumes as a result of this regulatory change. Secure is well positioned in the environmental business segment

We're extremely pleased with the progress made to date on the integration of the two businesses. And after 12 months, we have already realized 67 million or 89% on an annualized basis of our 75 million synergies target. 5 new

Of the 67 million, approximately 38 related to corporate overhead and G&A, with the remainder were operational efficiencies and facility rationalizations.

With 89% achieved, we are confident on being able to reach a minimum of $75 million of synergies or more by the end of this year. This is despite secure deferring some facility rationalizations originally forecasted for this year, but...

But that we do put on pole due to activity levels that were higher than we originally forecast. Additionally, savings through initiatives such as improving our capital structure as well as minimizing sustaining capital by managing underutilized assets are expected to provide incremental discretionary free cash flow beyond our $75 million cost savings target.

ESG stewardship is at the top priority of our company. As Ray mentioned, we released our 2021 sustainability report in May. In addition to the short and long term targets we have set, we are continually evaluating opportunities to participate in carbon capture infrastructure, both in using our expertise in deep well operations and in building feeder pipelines, which could become a growth area for us and reduce overall emissions.

In Q2, we spend a total of 19 million of capital, which included 17 million of sustaining capital. Primarily spent on well with facility maintenance, landfill cell expansions, and affidavit integrity inspection programs. In Q2, we spend a total of 19 million of sustaining capital

Grow capital of $2 million related largely to the expansion of a water disposal facility, which is backstopped by a commercial agreement with an existing customer at that facility.

In terms of our overall 2022 capital spending our 45 billion growth budget will continue to focus on opportunities to connect producers to existing ministry member structure to further increase volumes and utilization on a long-term basis. We're going to run a long-term basis. We're going to run a long-term basis.

With respect to sustaining capital, we will continue to expect to spend $55 million in 2022, including three landfill expansions. Our focus remains on customer-backed, longer-life opportunities as we continue to prioritize delivery.

I will now turn it back to ready to address our outlook for the second half of 2022.

Thanks, Chad. Now we are extremely pleased with the results in the second quarter year and the ongoing progress made with the Tribune of Merger. And we continue to see the benefits we expect it for combining the companies. We are very pleased to see the benefits we expect for combining the companies.

We are executing on our deleverging plan and we expect to continue to reduce our debt position this year. With our strong results today, we're demonstrating that our enhanced scale, better positions us to optimize existing assets and operations so we can add more value to our customers. esse

and provide greater optionality in allocating capital through all market environments.

Turning to our outlook, we are reiterating what we've said over the past few quarters. Our near-term focus will be on continuing to strengthen our business, deleveraging our balance sheet, and we anticipate looking to increase returns to shareholders after this is completed.

We expect to see continued industry improvement which will support our strong momentum and drive higher year-over-year adjusted EBITDA and discretionary free cash flow in 2022. During the second half of the year, we expect that the benchmark crude oil price will continue to fluctuate supported by macroeconomic factors such as significant inflationary pressures, geopolitical risk premium due to the current war in Ukraine, as well as continued changes to the supply and demand outlook.

Notwithstanding the fluctuation of the price of benchmark, proved the economics and producer cash flows were made robust, and therefore we expect strong energy industry activity in the second half of the year. In the second half of the year.

We also expect to benefit from the following. We expect to see contributions to our adjusted EBITDA from the realization of $75 million of annualized synergies by the end of 2022. We also anticipate increased utilization at midstream processing facilities and landfills as higher drilling, completion and production volumes from increased activity levels require treating, processing and disposal.

Also, higher abandonment, remediation and reclamation activity from the government stimulus package to help fund the closure and reclamation of orphaned and inactive wells. And then finally, high level of demand for both our drilling fluids and production chemical solutions as we expect oil industry activities to remain strong in the second half.

In closing, we have significantly strengthened our business and demonstrated the resilience and efficiencies achieved with our strategy to consolidate capacity in our markets while managing our costs.

We remain well positioned to generate strong discretionary free cash flow from our expanded network.

We are excited by the future of Secure. Using our technologies, network and best-in-class team to form new partnerships, we remain focused on helping our customers develop the highest ESG standards and the lowest cost structure in the world, ensuring we create sustainable energy and environmental solutions for many decades.

With our efforts to date and the continuing hard work for employees, we believe our well-positioned to achieve our priorities for the rest of 2022. I want to thank all the secure employees that have continued to contribute to our successes. I also want to thank our customers and stakeholders for the continued support and partnerships. For the continued support and partnerships.

That concludes our prepare remarks. We would now be happy to take your questions. We would now be happy to take your questions. We would now be happy to take your questions.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Should you have a question, please press the star followed by the number one on your touchtone phone. You will hear a tweet from acknowledging your request, and your question will be pulled in the order that they have received. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press the star followed by the number two. If you are using a speakerphone, please hit the handset before pressing any keys. One moment please for your first question.

Your first question comes from Keith McKay from RBC. Please go ahead.

Hi, good morning everyone and thanks for taking my questions.

Good morning.

Just wanted to start off on the margins in midstream, quite strong in Q2 certainly, given the factors you talked about with the fluctuating.

benchmark prices in the second half, increased facility utilization and higher abandonment spending and so forth. How should those factors affect margins? How should those factors affect margins?

from Q2 levels throughout the second half of the year.

Well, you know, I'm sure the we're very happy with both our operating merges and EBITDA on margin overall for the corporation. Going into the second half, you know.

There's still a lot of those synergies that weren't annualized last year that came in that are gonna impact our ability to try to improve those margins.

Obviously we're trying to stay ahead of the inflation pressures and making sure that we're able to pass on cost to the customers. So, you know, I would say that our margins. So, you know, I would say that our margins.

can improve a little and I wouldn't say a lot, but they might be able to, you know, we'll try to see if the synergies of cost savings add up to give us an extra point or two, but we definitely have made the big move year over year.

very, very significant when you look at where we were a year ago. But I think there's always room for improvement and I think the team is really finding.

as we get to know these assets better, the network better, they're just finding these little cost savings and they all kind of add up. It's not one big thing, Keith, but there's a lot of little things behind the scene that the team is doing to save costs.

Okay, appreciate that, that color, Rennie. And one unrelated follow up for me just on the competition bureau process, can you give us a bit of an update on where that is and when is the earliest.

and most likely time we could hear an update or a result from the process.

Yeah, great question Keith. You know, the Tribunal now is finished the hearing. It's all wrapped up. And typically if we look back in previous cases, and typically if we look back in previous cases,

will typically take six to nine months to come to a decision. So I think you can expect probably closer to the end of the year, Q1 up next year we'll have a decision, but you know, all we can tell you that there was no surprises in the airing and it went quite well and we look forward to their decision. Q1 up next year we'll have a decision.

Okay, appreciate the color. Thanks very much. I'll turn it back.

Go.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from Aaron McNeil from the Security's. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning all. Renny, you mentioned in your prepared remarks that you may expand your capital allocation priorities into 2023 and obviously you've already hit your debt reduction target a year early. So, good morning all.

You know, appreciating that debt reduction still the priority for the balance of the year. Can you just give us a sense of, maybe some additional insights into your thinking on... or maybe some additional insights into your thinking on...

you know, what 2023 capital allocation could look like.

allocation could look like and you know in terms of

what you think are the higher and lower priority capital allocation initiatives?

Yeah, if you go back, Aaron, if you go back 12 months ago.

we certainly knew what we were inheriting and we knew that at three and a half times that was not going to be acceptable to us. So, you know, we picked our target it was to be 2.5 or less.

And so really, I think what you're gonna see from us is, you know, we would certainly like to continue to pay down debt. You obviously saw us buying back bonds here in Q2. I mean, those bonds are at 11% interest coupon rate. So, you know, we really, we wanna take that excess free cash flow and continue to get the debt lower. So that target wasn't the absolute so much is.

This next quarter is all about just continuing the paydown that dad had been trying to reduce their interest cost.

Just expanding on Keith's question on the Competition Bureau.

You know, you've had the opportunity to see closing arguments now. And I guess, you know, to maybe ask the question more specifically, like, is there any scenario where the outcome may differ from your disclosure where there won't be a material impact to either the asset base or the evid does generating potential of the pro, pro, pro forma company? What, what's your sense of that? Nothing, nothing we're aware of. Like I said, no surprises.

kind of went as according to plan. So, you know, that's why we've left it in our disclosure. There's nothing really new from our point of view. It's nothing really new from our point of view.

Understood. Appreciate the color. Thank you.

Thank you. Your next question comes from Cole Praira from Stevelle. Please go ahead.

Hi, good morning everyone. I'm just wondering if you can give any additional color on how customer conversations have been going in midstream. Are ENPs looking for larger scale solutions or is it more so they're looking for additional tie-ins, additional volumes, et cetera? So, let's get started.

Morning, Cole. It's Alan here. Yeah, you know, with producers right now, they're managing their capital programs here for 2022. I think they're going to be very, very active here in Q3 and Q4. It's a continuation from what they've done here in Q2, which is making sure that they have access to that rig, access to that frac crew to be able to not only drill the well, but complete the well.

and bring on that production. And I think as they're looking at bringing on on some of this production, there is a lot of water and oil volumes to handle. And so we are in discussions on some larger scale handling of water volumes. And that's very typical for producers to look at their infrastructure and say, okay, I don't need to own all the disposal wells. I don't need to have.

All the infrastructure just on my site, I'm not gonna utilize it to 100%. And so the discussions are very much on, can we tie you in? What does the economics look like? And we're going through that as we speak, but I think the conversations are, that they wanna make sure that they have all their crews lined up and that they know they can deliver volume to us and have that capacity with us. So I would imagine it's going to be a fairly robust.

Q3 and Q4 in these discussions will continue on. Okay great, that's good color thanks and you briefly mentioned feeder pipelines as an opportunity.

I assume maybe you're in discussions with those as we speak. Is there sort of anything near term in that front? I mean obviously it's quite a big timeline. So if you were to pursue something like that, would it be a year, a year and a half out before it's actually in service?

Yeah, I think, you know, when we look at any of our pipelines, if it's a water pipeline or oil pipeline, they just take time to negotiate a contract and order your long leads, get your permits, and get all the regulatory lined up for you to be able to go out and execute. And typically that timeline can be anywhere from six months to a year to 18 months. So it does take time. I think, you know, looking at our capital program here or 2022, we publicly set 45 million at the span.

Most of that spend will come here in the back half of this year. We'll likely provide a little bit more insight as to where that capital is being spent at our Q3 meeting, because we are working on contracts right now. And we'll give you a little bit more clarity on where we're spending that capital and what type of contracts it relates to. So more to come in Q3 on that front.

Okay, perfect. And I guess just on that note as well, Randy, you briefly touched on it. So I mean, for Q3, should we be thinking about getting some details on, you know, the forward capital spending profile, but also how you're thinking about factoring in share buybacks, dividend increases, and so on and so forth?

Yeah, I mean, you start to do the simple math next year and you see a lot of free cash flow. So, you know, there's definitely... So, you know, there's definitely...

a bunch of different levers that we can optimize as we go into 2023. So that's the kind of clarity color where we're going to try to at least give you when we report next quarter and obviously we'll work for their board to come up with what makes sense for the corporation and our shareholders and again we want to make sure that

our debt is in the right position. We want to make sure that we continue to replace our high interest debt with the lower interest debt and make sure that we ultimately increase our free cash flow which sets up your return to shareholders. That's really where we're at but this next quarter is all about just continuing to pay down debt.

Okay, got it. That's all from me, thanks. I'll turn it back.

Your next question comes from Patrick Kenny from National Bank Financial. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning, guys. Just on the marketing portion of your business, with the heavy differential, recently widening out here to more than $20 a barrel. How should we be thinking about, I guess, incremental tailwinds through the back half of the year and perhaps how might you be positioning your marketing business ahead of a further SPR release this fall?

I'm Morning Pat, now I'm here. Yeah, on the marketing side, I mean, when we look at our budget and we look at our facilities that our pipeline connected, every year, we're managing the spread between condensate, light sweet, light sour, and the heavy dip. And there's typically one or two that provides, advantageous opportunities to upgrade what we have coming into the facilities with our customers.

We typically partner up with them on that opportunity. And so, you know, you are correct. There's a bit of opportunity here in the heavy oil, but we do budget for that in our numbers that these marketing arbitrage always happens every year. And I think when you look at our infrastructure and in Crawford and all through, you know, all the way up north, we have access to a lot of commodities we're trading. We're running through our system today over 120,000 barrel of the day. So, we now...

you know, 80, 85% in sweet and the remainder's tower barrels. So don't be surprised if that differential starts to narrow as we get a little later in the Q3 time. As we get a little later in the Q3 time.

Sounds great. Thanks for that color, guys. And then maybe just...

I follow up here on your ability to pass through some of the inflationary pressures out there today. I'm going to put some of the inflationary pressures out there today.

Looks like the operating costs are being managed quite well but I'm just curious if you're expecting a similar pass-through of capital cost pressures on the potential growth projects that you're looking at today, whether it's cost of steel or construction labor costs.

I guess, you know, in a nutshell, are you seeing any compression on your projected IRRs from these potential projects, or is it a similar narrative to the operating cost pressures where you're able to manage the pastures? You're able to manage the pastures. You're able to manage the pastures.

Yeah, I mean, when we look at our capital program and we look at the opportunities where we're putting capital to work, we are factoring in, I think, on our capital costs. We've seen.

cost rise as much as 15 to 18% on the operating side is more like 8, 9, 10%. And so when we're reviewing the models, you have to anticipate that, you know, we've been in an inflationary environment now pretty strong here since Call of Q4 last year. But we've seen that that month. So we anticipate, hey, look, it's going to cost us more for two. We it's going to cost us more for pike. And so we put that in our economic model and when we're working with our partners to what is the right brand it.

it's factored into those economics. So we don't, we got to bear that brunt of the new capital cost that we're seeing to make sure that the returns are appropriate. So it's already factored in, I guess, with the idiotic to your question, Pat.

Okay, that's great. I'll leave it there. Thanks, guys.

Thanks.

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