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| Our footprint allows us to execute on a variety of strategies such as fuel switch, supplemental power, and other fuel optimization initiatives that NFE is well positioned to be the infrastructure provider of choice to deliver value to the Puerto Rico ratepayer |
| They require essentially little or no CapEx for us to move more product through them, so we think that the combination of power and gas in terminals is a very, very powerful one and gives us a very, very bright future |
| As you can see from the picture too, what we did here is really extended an offshore jetty, so it was a very cost advantaged project and it benefits from the FSRU Energos Celsius, which we just finished completion of converting in a yard in Singapore, and so FSRU arrived a few days ago, fully hooked up, and we’re ready to flow gas in Barcarena, so very exciting |
| That clearly is the objective, and I think that we have made great strides in getting that - it’s always a bit of a process, but in the last two quarters, we think our--you know, two in a row in terms of actually doing what we said we were going to do, and so we feel really good about that |
| Page 3 - 2023 was a very good year, fourth quarter a record for us as well, and from an operating perspective $1.3 billion in EBITDA, $388 million in EBITDA for the quarter, more than doubled earnings per share and FFO for 2022 to 2023, and we’re poise to roughly double that again this year, so tremendous financial results |
| Most importantly, when you look at the second line down - it’s not numbered but it’s the second line, the profit from cargo sales, you’ll see zero contributions from cargo sales in Q3 and Q4, which now fully reflects that our business is operating on the--through to the terminals to our customers in our sales of gas and products and power, and so very much an operating company now as opposed to a development company, and both the quantity and the quality of those earnings were terrific, so it’s actually a very, very good thing |
| When we add this contract to Barcarena, we already have the two contracts in place - the 30 TBtus of gas and the 630 megawatts of power, so we’re already paying for all of our expenses, including the FSRU and terminal expenses, and now what we’ll make from this contract really drops straight to the bottom line at Barcarena, so really exciting opportunity for us |
| When you look at our book of business, and we’ve been very transparent about it, we are fully contracted in terms of what we produce and what we actually provide to our customers over the next couple years, and so we feel obviously very good about that |
| Obviously the combination of core earnings at $6-plus a share along with the 50% growth rate over the last year and projected for this year, plus a 10-year plus duration of our portfolio gives us a significant competitive advantage, and we feel very undervalued at these levels, but now this is something that with these results, we think we can go and attack that aggressively |
| The terminal was built by Shell and is in excellent operational condition |
| There’s going to be auctions that will coming up, we expect, in the next handful of months, and we are the only provider, perhaps, or the major provider of gas, which gives us a massive competitive advantage, and we’ll try to detail that now that these are up and running and show you |
| The combination of our terminals in gas and power give us a massive competitive advantage, and this is something that I hope will be appreciated here in the very, very short term |
| But number two, it gives you a massive competitive advantage over others that are trying to do the same thing, so it’s a very, very powerful combination |
| We really believe this is one of the best LNG and power opportunities globally |
| This creates a tremendous near term opportunity for NFE’s business |
| We are always aggressive in terms of our objectives, but even with the beat slipping a little bit, on balance we feel very, very good about what we have done |
| You have all this upside to volume and ultimately power demand in both these markets, and to date you’ve done a really good job of fencing off your domain and protecting your market share there |
| Linking these facilities to our downstream creates a very, very powerful business model |
| Most notably, this asset provides NFE a significant, sustainable competitive advantage on which to deliver more value to Puerto Rico through follow-on infrastructure investments, such as those we will highlight in the next slide |
| Page 5, the financial highlights, a very tremendous year in both the quantity and quality of earnings |
| The FFO is basically cash flow - we have $6-plus this year, and with the $2 in Brazil and the duration of our portfolio and the competitive advantage we’ve got in these different markets that we operate in, we feel like the future is extremely bright for us financially |
| We think of this in very simple terms - the terminals provide both a gateway to our markets but are also the sustainable competitive advantage that is hard for others to create in a timely manner, and so it gives us so much confidence in the growth of our businesses |
| I think that when you take the sheer math of 1,000 megawatts of additional power that needs to be converted, under any situation that’s a very positive outcome for us |
| I’m proud to say that Genera is delivering tangible wins on each of these three goals during its first year of operations |
| The match of our own supply and demand provides significant operating advantages as well as insulates us from changes in global LNG prices, and importantly, our expected volumes in FTA countries like Mexico and Nicaragua, as well as Puerto Rico, are more than the supply coming line from FLNG 1 and 2, thus removing any concerns over the non-Free Trade Agreement export permit pause recently announced |
| We are bringing advanced generation and storage technology to Puerto Rico that improves the level of service for all customers |
| Just as was the case in Q3, we had no open market cargo sales and record earnings from our downstream terminals |
| Puerto Rico has the highest priced and least reliable power in the U.S |
| We’re working with the government closely on many different fronts and are very confident to both grow and continue our business there |
| Wes alluded to it - you know, we’re very, very excited about the opportunity in Brazil |
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| In late 2020 and early 2021, we were seeking to add to our LNG supply portfolio and found it difficult to get the quantity and the duration that we required, for two primary reasons: first, a lack of overall supply in the market for the midterm period, notably 2024 through 2027, given that all the then-currently operating liquefaction projects were nearly 100% contracted; and second, as we were only a single-B rated entity at the time, the credit support and project finance nature of the operating projects did not allow for them to sell substantial quantities to NFE |
| On the right side is the problem that they’ve had |
| You can see the net numbers across the bottom of the page go down by roughly 90% from 2023 to 2024, so a massive decline in CapEx |
| Really to my knowledge, there’s nobody that has the same collection of downstream terminals, that has so much excess capacity already up and operational, that can service all our customers and therefore create a short for all these other long providers to come into |
| At the same time, gross and net CapEx have peaked and are expected to decrease significantly in 2024 and below |
| The one thing that’s been difficult is just how fast they’ve grown, and so one of the things to know is that when these hydro plants were first built, the reservoirs were capable of storing enough energy that would last Brazil for many years |
| There’s a great need for new power capacity with a sophisticated mechanism to acquire it and local capital markets that are super supportive, then we have the regional constraints on fuel supply |
| I think most of the world is now concerned that since you’re roughly doubling the supply of LNG in the world by the end of this decade, the question is where is the downstream going to come to support that |
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