Energy Transfer LP Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Financial Performance (Q1 2025 vs. Q1 2024)

  • Adjusted EBITDA: $4.1B, up from $3.9B (+5%). Driven by strong volumes across midstream, crude gathering, natural gas pipelines, and NGL exports.
  • Distributable Cash Flow (DCF): $2.3B.
  • Growth Capital Spend: $955M during Q1 (excluding Sunoco and USA Compression). Focused on interstate, midstream, NGL and refined products.

Segment-Level Performance

NGL & Refined Products
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $978M vs. $989M (-1%).
  • Higher throughput but offset by increased operating expenses and lower blending margins.
Midstream
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $925M vs. $696M (+33%).
  • Growth driven by Permian legacy volumes (+8%), WTG acquisition, and a non-recurring $160M gain from Winter Storm Uri margin recognition.
  • Litigation still unresolved on $285M of intrastate Winter Storm Uri margin (primarily CPS-related).
Crude Oil
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $742M vs. $848M (-13%).
  • Growth in crude gathering volumes and Permian JV contributions.
  • Declines due to lower Bakken transportation revenues, higher costs, and reduced optimization/hedge gains.
  • Approximately $30M of Q1 hedge losses expected to reverse in Q2.
Interstate Natural Gas
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $512M vs. $483M (+6%).

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Operator: Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Energy Transfer Q1 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note today’s event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Tom Long. Please go ahead. Tom Long: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Energy Transfer first quarter 2025 earnings call. Also joined today by Mackie McCrea and other members of the senior management team, who are here to help answer your questions after our prepared remarks. Hopefully, you saw the press release we issued earlier this afternoon. As a reminder, our earnings release contains a thorough MD&A that goes through the segment results in detail, and we encourage everyone to look at the release, as well as the slides posted to our website to gain a full understanding of the quarter and our growth opportunities. As a reminder, we will be making forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based upon our current beliefs, as well as certain assumptions and information currently available to us and are discussed in more detail in our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, which we expect to file this Thursday, May 8. I'll also refer to adjusted EBITDA and distributable cash flow, or DCF, both of which are

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