Q3 2025 Delek Logistics Partners LP Earnings Call

Speaker #1: Thank you for standing by . My name is Jill and I be your conference operator today . And I'd like to turn the conference over to Robert .

Speaker #1: Chief Financial Officer, you may begin.

Speaker #2: Good morning, and welcome to the Logistics Third Quarter Earnings conference call. Participants joining me on today's call will include Avigal Soreq, President, and Reuven Spiegel, EVP.

Speaker #2: As a reminder , this conference call will contain forward looking statements as defined under the federal securities laws , including statements regarding guidance and future business outlook .

Speaker #2: Any forward-looking statements made during today's call will include risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from today's comments.

Speaker #2: Factors that could cause actual results to differ are included in our SEC filings. The company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Speaker #2: I will now turn the call over to Abigail for opening remarks . Abigail . Thank you . Robert .

Speaker #3: Delek Logistics Partners LP reported another record quarter. We achieved $136 million in quarterly adjusted EBITDA due to the strong progress made here to date.

Speaker #3: Dxl has increased its full year EBITDA midpoint guidance of $500 million to the upper end of the range between 500 and $520 million .

Speaker #3: The company continued to advance its key initiatives in natural gas, crude, and water businesses, further improving its position as a premier full-service provider in the Permian Basin.

Speaker #3: After successfully completing the commissioning of the new Vb2 plant in the third quarter . Dxl advanced its ongoing efforts on acid gas injection and sour gas handling capabilities .

Speaker #3: The AGI and sour gas handling capabilities are enabling DXL to fill the plant to capacity and paving the way for further processing capacity.

Speaker #3: Expansions . We are also seeing solid operations in our food and water gathering segments . Both DPG and Dhg , crude gathering operations had a strong third quarter , with record volumes for DDG .

Speaker #3: This strength has continued in the fourth quarter between our two water acquisitions and increasing dedication. Our competitive position in both the Midland and Dallas basins is increasing, and we expect to continue to build on this strength.

Speaker #3: Our well-timed and cost effective acquisition of tribal H2O midstream and Gravity Water Midstream have supplemented our organic growth and enabled Dxl transition to full suite service provider .

Speaker #3: We will remain consistent with our strategy of growing at the partnership to a prudent management of leverage and coverage, along with seizing the growth we see in our business.

Speaker #3: We intend to remain good stewards of our stakeholder capital . With that , I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has approved a 51st consecutive increase in the quarterly distribution to $1 and $0.12 per unit .

Speaker #3: This is an extraordinary achievement , and we're extremely proud of our team and the financial prudence that has gotten us here . To conclude , the logistics is making great progress in becoming a strong , independent , full suite midstream service provider .

Speaker #3: And expect to continue on our value creation path well into the future. I will now hand it over to Reuben, who will provide more details on our operations.

Speaker #3: Thank you, Abigail. As Abigail mentioned, we are very excited about the future and are working to increase our advantage in the Permian position.

Speaker #3: I am very pleased with the commissioning and operation of our two gas plants. The plants are performing according to expectation, and we are completing the associated sour gas AGI infrastructure to fill the plants in the most efficient manner.

Speaker #3: The planned CapEx for Lib2 included investments that will support future expansion of the Lib complex and our confidence in these expansions. Opportunity is increasing as we progress our AGI infrastructure.

Speaker #3: We continue to believe that our expanded gas processing and sour gas handling capabilities provide a unique offering to our customers and give us a long runway of growth in the Delaware Basin.

Speaker #3: Our crude gathering volumes had a record third quarter , and we expect to continue to see this trend going forward as we close out the year on the Midland side , the integration of the two water gathering systems from H2O and gravity is progressing well , and we expect to use our larger footprint to enhance our combined crude and water offering in the Howard , Martin and Glasgow counties .

Speaker #3: Finally, we continue to look for opportunities to make our operations more efficient and robust, and we are looking for ways to increase our margin profile throughout our operations.

Speaker #3: With that, I will pass it on to Robert.

Speaker #2: Thank you, Reuben. As both Avago and Reuben highlighted, we continue to make meaningful progress in advancing the logistics growth story while we drive forward expansion across the partnership.

Speaker #2: We remain equally focused on achieving our long term leverage and coverage targets . Over the past 12 months , we've successfully closed two acquisitions H2O Midstream and Gravity Water Midstream , which were well-timed from a purchased multiple perspective , and we also completed the construction of the Libby two gas plant .

Speaker #2: Our focus now shifts to capturing the full value of these investments by optimizing synergies and realizing the associated EBITDA uplift as we move toward our strategic goals.

Speaker #2: Importantly, we maintain a strong financial position with approximately $1 billion of availability on our credit facilities, giving us the flexibility to continue executing our growth agenda.

Speaker #2: Moving on to our third quarter results. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was approximately $136 million, up from $107 million in the same period last year.

Speaker #2: Distributable cash flow , as adjusted , totaled $74 million , and the DCF coverage ratio , as adjusted , was approximately 1.24 times .

Speaker #2: We expect this ratio to continue to strengthen through the remainder of the year, as our recent growth projects, including the Libby II gas plant, begin to make a more meaningful contribution to our financial performance for the gathering and processing segment.

Speaker #2: Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $83 million , compared to $55 million in the third quarter of 2020 . For . The increase was primarily due to the acquisition of H2O and gravity wholesale marketing and Terminaling .

Speaker #2: Adjusted EBITDA was $21 million , compared to $25 million in the prior year . The decrease was primarily due to the impact of last summer's amend and extend agreements with Dick Storage and transportation .

Speaker #2: Adjusted EBITDA in the quarter was $19 million, compared with $19 million in the third quarter of 2024. Lastly, investments in the pipeline joint venture segment contributed $22 million this quarter, compared with $16 million in the third quarter of 2020.

Speaker #2: The increase was primarily due to the contribution from the Wink to Webster dropdown in August of last year, in addition to stronger performance by the venture in the current period.

Speaker #2: Moving on to capital expenditures, the capital program for the third quarter was approximately $50 million. Of this capital spend, $44 million relates to growth CapEx, which included spending to optimize the Libby II gas processing plant.

Speaker #2: The remainder of the capital spend for the period was on other growth projects, namely advancing new connections in the Midland and Delaware gathering systems.

Speaker #2: Looking ahead to the remainder of the year, as Avigal Soreq mentioned, we remain confident in our earnings trajectory and are raising our full-year EBITDA guidance to the upper end of our range.

Speaker #2: Now expected between $500 million and $520 million. With that, we can now open the call for questions.

Speaker #1: Thank you. The floor is now open for questions. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press Star One on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue.

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Speaker #1: When asking your question, your first question comes from the line of Doug Irwin of Citi. Your line is open.

Speaker #4: Hey , thanks for thanks for the time . I was just wondering if you could maybe . Yeah . Thanks . I'm wondering if you could maybe expand on a comment from the press release around producers increasing activity on your acreage ahead of what the coming online .

Speaker #4: Just curious how you're thinking about the trading capacity ramp into year-end, as well as maybe some of the benefits you might be seeing across your broader gathering system?

Speaker #4: Just as you bring that sour gas offering to your customers.

Speaker #3: Yeah , absolutely . So why don't I take a minute or two to give you a bit broader overview ? As you saw on our numbers , and what our extremely strong and we are very happy about that .

Speaker #3: And I think we can also be proud of the strategy we set to be a premier crude, gas, and water provider in the heart of the Permian Basin.

Speaker #3: I think that we were pretty much the first ones to put that strategy together, and it's starting to give us very nice yields.

Speaker #3: That's part of the reasoning that we are increasing our forecast , our guidance for the year , and we are very proud of of the timely manner , acquisition and build .

Speaker #3: We did . A we saw we see , we saw a record crude . We did not see any material change in in the drilling activity in our acreage .

Speaker #3: And with the discussion we have with our producer, we are seeing more and more synergies between the different streams that we are actively managing.

Speaker #3: And with that , I would like to add a comment more about the sour progress we are seeing . Thank you . Abigail .

Speaker #3: The actual construction and start up of Lib2 has been above our expectation on time and on budget . Originally , and based on producers forecasts that we anticipated to fill up the plant with sweet gas .

Speaker #3: But as they were drilling, the landscape has changed, and producers need solutions for sour gas as soon as possible. As a result, we accelerated some sour programs to provide solutions in a more rapid timeline.

Speaker #3: We are very high confidence in not only filling up Lib2, but because of the full sweet-sour gas, crude, and water solution that we provide.

Speaker #3: We will need to expand processing capacity earlier than our previous expectations.

Speaker #4: Got it . That's helpful . And maybe as a follow up on on CapEx , you talked about kind of potentially already having expansion opportunities , but but also kind of spent some CapEx this year on lobby two , where do you see 26 trending in general now that you have lobby two online ?

Speaker #4: And I guess to the extent that it's trending lower next year, how are you thinking about your flexibility to maybe pay down some debt or maybe even buy back some more units from DK next year?

Speaker #3: Yeah, that's a very nice question, Doug. And while the macro and the strategy are going very well, we still have some tactics to finish for planning for next year.

Speaker #3: And budgeting . And we plan to give you another guidance on the next earnings call . Like we did this year . So we have something to look looking forward .

Speaker #3: So we leave it to that.

Speaker #4: Fair enough. Well, wait for next quarter. Thank you.

Speaker #3: Absolutely. Thank you, Doug. I appreciate you.

Speaker #1: Your next question comes from the line of Gabriel Moreen of Mizuho. Your line is open.

Speaker #5: Hey , good morning everyone . Hey , I just want good . Abigail , how are you doing ?

Speaker #3: Well .

Speaker #5: Thank you . Just good . Good . Just want to ask on the equity income line . I think Robert mentioned some . I mean , better performance or improving performance .

Speaker #5: Clearly, that was an equity investments line. That was clearly a very strong point in the quarter. Can you just talk about that a little bit?

Speaker #5: And is this current run rate something that's maybe sustainable going forward?

Speaker #2: Yeah . Thanks for the question . Yeah . As I mentioned , the prepared remarks , most of that line item was impacted by strong performance in the quarter by Wink to Webster .

Speaker #2: I think when you look at our JV results on an annualized basis, year to date, I think that's a good run rate of what to expect going forward.

Speaker #2: I think we're pretty happy with our JV results overall.

Speaker #5: Great . Thanks , Robert . I appreciate it . Can you maybe also talk a little bit about the water landscape overall I think you know , Reuben and Abigail , you both mentioned others trying to emulate your three stream strategy here .

Speaker #5: As far as you see with the landscape , are you seeing new competitors , new opportunities ? Just curious . Kind of with some mergers happening and IPO happening , whether anything is shifted in your view ?

Speaker #3: Yeah . So that's a very good question . And we see very important trend that you can see is the gas and oil ratio and the water and the crude ratio .

Speaker #3: Both of them are working extremely . Extremely well for our from our position standpoint . And if you go one year back , Gabriel , and you think about the timing that we did the both H2O and gravity acquisition , we bought that pretty much at half price versus what we've seen the market trending today .

Speaker #3: So we are very happy about the timing and the trend in the market. Obviously, as you can see in the Delaware Basin, it's almost impossible to get these permits permitted in a timely manner.

Speaker #3: So we were very fortunate to have the position we are in, and it's going very well to our expectations.

Speaker #5: Thanks, Abigail. And if I could just squeeze one more in relative to Reuven's comments about Libby, three earlier than expectations.

Speaker #5: I'm just wondering if you'd be able to define what that would mean from a timing standpoint. And then also on the AGI disposal front as well.

Speaker #5: Whether what you've done here to handle the sour gas that Libby took on, whether that gives you really the runway for whatever volumes you're going to need to handle at Libby 3 when the expansion comes on, hopefully.

Speaker #6: Yeah .

Speaker #3: Obviously the market is telling us that it needs our sour sour capabilities , and the market tells us that it needs our guests treating , and the market tell us that it needs our water treating .

Speaker #3: All of that are detailed questions . Obviously , we'll once we finish the planning session , we will come to you with a very detailed and execution plan like we did in the past .

Speaker #3: A all the time , all the time in the past . We'll do that again this time . And but the very good news here is that we are on the right timing .

Speaker #3: And I would say, with the right product basket to give to our customers, do you want to add anything?

Speaker #7: Yeah . Gabe , thanks for your question . Just to answer your specific question , we are very happy with our permitted capacity on the acid gas side , and we don't see any near-term restrictions on that .

Speaker #5: Thanks, guys. I look forward to it. Please provide more details. I appreciate it.

Speaker #3: Thank you. I appreciate you.

Speaker #1: With no further questions, that concludes our Q&A session. I will now turn the conference back over to Avigail for closing remarks.

Speaker #3: Thank you, everyone. Thank you to my colleagues around the table. Thank you to our Board of Directors for hosting us. Thank you to the unitholders.

Speaker #3: We're enjoying a very good return and growth story and, most importantly, thank you to our employees who are making that partnership as good as it is.

Speaker #3: Thank you, guys. We'll talk again.