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Q2 2013 Earnings Call· Wed, Aug 7, 2013

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Executives

Management

Michael R. McDonald - Former Senior Vice President of Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc and General Counsel of Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc Alan S. McKim - Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James M. Rutledge - Vice Chairman, President and Chief Financial Officer

Analysts

Management

Albert Leo Kaschalk - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division Richard Wesolowski - Sidoti & Company, LLC Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division David J. Manthey - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division Lawrence Solow - CJS Securities, Inc. Flavio S. Campos - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division Sean K.F. Hannan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division Adam R. Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets, Research Division Jeffrey D. Osborne - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division Barbara Noverini - Morningstar Inc., Research Division Jack Atkins - Stephens Inc., Research Division

Operator

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the Clean Harbors Second Quarter 2013 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mr. Michael McDonald, Assistant General Counsel for Clean Harbors. Thank you. Mr. McDonald, you may begin.

Michael R. McDonald

Analyst

Thank you, Manny, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. On the call with me are Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alan S. McKim; Vice Chairman, President and Chief Financial Officer, Jim Rutledge; and our SVP of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, Jim Buckley. Matters we are discussing today that are not historical facts are considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Participants are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these statements, which reflect management's opinions only as of this date, August 7, 2013. Information on the potential factors and risks that could affect the company's actual results of operations is included in our filings with the SEC. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to the forward-looking statements made in today's press release or this morning's call, other than through SEC filings that can be made concerning this reporting period. In addition, I'd like to remind you that today's discussion will include references to non-GAAP measures. Clean Harbors believes that such information provides an additional measurement and consistent historical comparison of its performance. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is available in today's news release, which can be found on our website, cleanharbors.com. And now I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Alan McKim. Alan?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Thanks, Michael. Good morning, everyone. Let me start my remarks this morning by making 3 points. First, we're obviously disappointed with our Q2 results, even though we achieved record results in both revenues and EBITDA. We encountered a variety of headwinds this quarter, which I'll discuss shortly. Second, all of the challenges we faced were either temporary, such as the historic flooding in Western Canada, or we can readily address, such as the selling of more blended products from our re-refineries. Third, none of the industry dynamics or the underlying fundamentals have changed in a meaningful way, nor has our long-term outlook for the combination of Clean Harbors and Safety-Kleen. While the Re-Refinery business has been negatively impacted by pricing and mix, we remain confident that the acquisition of Safety-Kleen will prove to be a winner for our shareholders. With that said, let me discuss our Q2 results and how each of our segments performed. Overall, we had a multitude of negative factors influencing the quarter with the unprecedented flooding in Western Canada being one of the largest. Following the typical spring break up in Alberta, heavy rainfall triggered catastrophic flooding throughout that region. We were directly affected as our High River and Calgary offices were both without power for well over a week. And employee who was off-duty was one of the fatalities related to these horrible floods. This flooding was essentially that region's Hurricane Katrina type of event. Business activity plummeted in Alberta over a multi-week period, and many of our customer sites, ranging from drill rigs to oil sand mines to industrial plants were directly affected. While we ultimately picked up some clean-up work due to the flooding, we estimate that the net EBITDA impact to us in the quarter was a loss of several millions of…

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Thank you, Alan, and good morning, everyone. Revenue in the second quarter of 2013 was $860.5 million, up 64% from the $523.1 million we reported in Q2 a year ago. As Alan mentioned, our revenue performance fell well short of our expectation based on a confluence of factors, including the flooding in Western Canada, the Deer Park shutdown, delayed refinery turnarounds, lower-than-expected volumes of blended lubricants and lackluster results in oil and gas. To provide some additional perspective on Q2, here's a snapshot of how our key verticals performed. This is the first quarter in which the percentage of revenue by vertical includes Safety-Kleen. General manufacturing was our largest vertical in the quarter, accounting for 18% of total revenue. We saw a nice contribution from high-tech customers, and our overall manufacturing customer base remain stable. For comparison, before the Safety-Kleen acquisition, general manufacturing hovered around 8% of revenue. Looking ahead, given the availability of inexpensive domestic natural gas, manufacturing customers are cautiously optimistic about their prospects. Refineries and Oil Sands customers accounted for 16% of revenue in Q2 and generated double-digit growth over the same quarter last year. Even if you exclude the businesses we acquired in the past year, organic growth in this vertical was 8%. And it could've been even stronger had some refineries not delayed their turnarounds. The automotive vertical, historically not a meaningful contributor for Clean Harbors, now accounts for 11% of revenue. Given Safety-Kleen's expensive waste collection -- I'm sorry, waste oil collection business and the many services performed for customers such as auto shops, the prominence of this vertical in Q2 was expected and complements our diverse customer mix. The chemical vertical represented 10% of revenues in Q2, essentially flat with the same period a year ago, as we experienced solid base business in…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question is from Al Kaschalk of Wedbush Securities.

Albert Leo Kaschalk - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

I'd like to start on the positive side. On Technical Services, the volumes look pretty good in terms of the business. Could you chat a little bit about price and in particular, the outlook for the next couple of quarters?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Absolutely, Al. Pricing, I think earlier in the year, I was thinking that pricing overall for the company would be in that 1% to 2% range, probably closer to 2%. But now we're thinking, just looking across some of the price competition that we're seeing certain parts of our business, for example, in Oil & Gas, and some projects that we were bidding on, that the increase probably be in the 1% to 1.5% range. Clearly, some parts of our business that have high utilization, for example, parts of our Technical Services business, pricing is going well and is higher than that, of course. But what I was responding to is the overall company there.

Albert Leo Kaschalk - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Are you seeing it more geographically mixed in terms of pricing strength, in other words, Canada is better or less? Or -- how do you -- how should we think about where your pressure points are?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Absolutely. I would say, probably right now most price competition that we're seeing is more in Canada. But I will say that in the Oil & Gas U.S. business, although we are clearly expanding, there is good price competition there that we're up against.

Albert Leo Kaschalk - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Okay. Let me transition to Oil & Gas Field Services. Alan, it sounded as if this was a timing issue, but is it also a function of utilization in terms of the equipment? Can you talk about maybe your degree of confidence on Q3 and Q4?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

I think, as we look at the challenges we had last year in the U.S., I think the team really did a great job this year of diversifying its customer base and we're ahead of budget with our Surface Rental business in the U S. Our utilization is ahead of where we had expected. And we expect to continue to grow -- I think Laura and the team have really done a good job of growing the business here in the States. In Canada, certainly it was weather-impacted. And although we're now starting to see a good pickup in utilization of a lot of our rental assets, we still have a long way to go to get our utilization up there back on track. But again, I think overall, I would say, for the second half of the year, we feel pretty good about the momentum we have in that business now.

Albert Leo Kaschalk - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Okay. And then I'm sure you'll get a few more questions, then I'll hop back in the queue here, but hopefully you can address maybe on the re-refining side. I know you talked about lowering costs and the blended issue mix is going to take some time. But was it -- in terms of correcting that business, for lack of a better word, is that a function of getting it to the right size, such as firing certain customers because they're not up to the pricing gate that you're trying to establish? Could you talk about maybe a little bit of how that business gets corrected in your mind?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Yes, we really -- I think in the Environmental business, the company really has taken a leadership role on pricing and really trying to go to our customers and deal with getting a fair margin for the business that we do. And I think in the area of the Oil business, particularly we're doing the same thing. That certainly impacted our short-term volume on the blended side, as we mentioned. But I think when you look at what happened with crude oil in the second quarter going from low 90s to now 105, 108, that certainly was a headwind for us on our efforts to go back and reprice our oil collection customers, especially our national account customers who had typically been indexed off of -- or closely aligned with crude. That didn't help us at all. But you're absolutely right, we have walked away from some volume. We have pushed really hard on pricing. There's been a significant disconnect between June of last year and June of this year and how base lube oil has correlated to crude, and it's been a significant issue for us. And the team has really worked extremely hard to lower its cost structure to deal with that margin squeeze that we've been dealing with. And so by now, we would have hoped that we would have seen some improvements. And we've just recently, even this morning, seen a little bit of price talk, but we've got a long way to go. And so we've got to address our cost structure and we're going back to our customers and talking to them specifically about this very issue.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Rich Wesolowski of Sidoti. Richard Wesolowski - Sidoti & Company, LLC: It seems from your release that the activity in Western Canada is back up and running. I'm wondering if the flooding is affecting your back half estimates, either for the Field Oil & Gas or the Industrial Service.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Sidoti

I think, to some degree, the flooding and all that wet weather caused a slow start in Western Canada, in general. I do, though, also want to point out that the rig counts in Western Canada are not as robust as they were last year, so that is also a factor. So we're being conservative with the outlook for the rest of this year, clearly better than Q2. Q3 and Q4 will certainly have improvement there in Western Canada, but not -- it's not going to be as robust as last year. I do think that on the U.S. side, it's a more positive story because on the leadership of our President and that business there, we're expanding into various shale plays that Alan talked about before and we're diversifying further. So expect to see some strength there. Richard Wesolowski - Sidoti & Company, LLC: Okay. Speaking of the second half outlook again, you have -- I understand in the second quarter, you had the incinerator shutdown, you had the integration costs, the floods, et cetera, but there's a wide gap left for the second half, and I'm wondering if you'd flesh out, even qualitatively, where the surprise came from? Because we're speaking about the Re-Refining and the Field Oil & Gas, but those are divisions that were kind of known to be weak as we headed into the year.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Sidoti

Maybe to just walk through the segments might be a little helpful, and I'll just give some qualitative kind of points. In Tech Services, clearly, we've done well. Safety-Kleen has certainly helped the volumes coming into our plants. But I will say that given -- if you look at industrial production or GDP or the chemical industry indices and manufacturing more -- in more recent months, in the last quarter or so, they're down from the beginning of the year. And I think, overall, that has affected our legacy volumes, not to make them down but to -- they're not as robust as where we thought they would be in the beginning of the year. So in other words, rather than talking about mid to upper single digits kind of growth, I'm more below middle single digits on waste volumes there. So that's one of the big things there. And then also -- and I think it's somewhat related is that the projects, the waste projects, which also affects the Industrial side, we've seen delays out there. Some weather-related, but they are delays nonetheless, and we're being conservative about what we're projecting out for the second half of the year, as far as catching up on that. Talking a little bit about -- I think we talked about facilities. Alan mentioned the reduced blended lube percentage that we're at right now. We're also forecasting some lower RFO sales because we're being conservative on waste oil collections, as we identified those partners that we're going to be working with going forward. So there's some conservativism there. In Industrial and Field Services, Alan talked about the turnarounds being pushed off because the refineries and upgraders are record at -- not all-time highs, but at least the highs in the last 7 to…

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Sidoti

Certainly, we've positioned our assets in those areas, and we're gaining share. We know that there's a growth going on in those markets, so we absolutely are participating in that and expect to continue to grow in those regions.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Michael Hoffman of Wunderlich Securities.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

If we could start with Oil & Gas. If I recall, you had about 80 out of 150 packages were deployed previously, so 50 in Canada -- U.S. and 30 in Canada. How did you finish the second quarter? And what are your thoughts about that sort of positioning with the 150 into the second half?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Michael, we're looking at how we define packages and trying to correlate that with rig counts, to give a better measure of how we're proceeding, and that would be helpful to the analyst community. For example, you can have a rig and a package deployed, but the number of directions that a particular well is drilling, number of feet drilled could be more important a measure for us in terms of disposal. All that being said, I think the way to answer your question the best would be to say that in the U.S., I would say we're probably in the 80% -- 70% to 80% utilization level of the packages and the types of centrifuges that we employ in the U.S. But in Canada, I think we're probably, Alan, would you say maybe in the 50% area?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Or less.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Or less, yes.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Yes.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Okay. So -- and that 70%, 80% is up sequentially because you weren't at that pace, given you're just focused really in the Utica, Marcellus and the Bakken up really until gallons work anymore, right?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Yes, last year, that's right. Last year was more like the way Canada is right now. We were down into pretty low utilization levels. And now we've gotten that up.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Okay. And then is there a certain amount of pressure on the margin and in that business is because equipment titles you've got all the personnel costs. So there's a lot of fixed costs that you carry without any offsetting revenues. And therefore, there's a sort of upswing of activity coming in the second...

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Yes. We certainly try to share resources across the business, whether it's turnaround work or other work in the Western Canada market. But you're absolutely right. We typically incur a lot more maintenance in the second quarter because of the breakup anyway, but that even exasperated itself even more this year because those maintained items that were ready to go or kind of sitting there. And in Saskatchewan particularly, we've had a lot of business there put aside. And it's there for us. We just need to have a little break in the weather to put it to work.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Okay. Switching gears to cash from ops. Last year, you did $146 million. This year, you're doing $98 million. You did have a big swing between net income and D&A year-over-year. But there's still about a $15 million, call it, working capital gain that was in last year that's not in this year. So can you -- can we talk about the cash conversion of the business model? You're kind of running in that low 20% of EBITDA getting converted into free cash. What is a reasonable objective? And how fast can you get to that objective as far as the cash conversion of the model? And to that point, isn't capital spending -- shouldn't it be coming down going into '14?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Absolutely, absolutely. All of the above, Michael. And just to hit some of the major points. First off, these cost synergies that we are working on are improving our margins. And clearly, that is going to have a direct impact on our cash flow from operations. So what you've seen so far in Q1, particularly Q1 and Q2 with where we were at before you really see the full impact of synergies, that had an impact on the cash flow from operations. Also, we had those $12 million or so in integration and severance costs that we're spending. So there's an amount of spending that's going on as we're investing in this new business and integrating it. I think also from the standpoint of CapEx, with the teams, our 4 teams here are working very diligently on ROIC and looking at our capital programs. And we're expecting in 2014 to be at a lower level. Now there might be some timing with the new incinerator that we're putting in, that will come live the end of 2015. There might be some incremental investment there probably later in the year in 2014. But overall, we're looking at a drop that without that incinerator, that could be as low as a couple of hundred million. We're kind of going through that now. We're just trying to play favoritism with more -- the projects with the higher ROIC and have -- and that have good sustainability and are more resilient. I don't know, Alan...

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

I just think we're all aware that we need to get our ROIC to double-digit levels. In fact, whether it's 10.5%, 11%, that really has to be our short-term target here. And our management team met over the last month here and really talked specifically about free cash flow, ROIC, CapEx and really focusing on what we need to do in 2014. And we feel very good about how we position ourselves now to kind of achieve those kind of goals.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Okay. So if I can push on that a little bit, so the maintenance capital in '13 looks like it's about $130 million. I've heard you talk in other forums about maintenance being sort of $120 million. So is it $120 million, $130 million as maintenance? And then there's growth. So x El Dorado, what's really in front of you growth-wise in '14?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Well, we see some nice growth investments. And as I said, we're kind of going through that process right now. But the reason why we're putting it at a $130 million at maintenance, and we're being maybe a little conservative there, but it's after a lot of scrutiny of each of our investments that we're making to say, okay, is this really growth? Is this going to have sustainable growth in the future? Or are we just replacing current revenues, replacing equipment and all that? So we're taking a harder stance here. I may have -- the $130 million might be a little high or a little conservative. But nonetheless, that's the approach we want to take. And we really want to make sure that our growth projects are pushing a good ROIC. And so by difference there, I'm saying $70 million is what we're looking at right now, growth projects other than the incinerator for next year.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

And the incinerator is sort of $60 million to $80 million in total split between '14 and '15, right?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Yes.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Exactly. So in other words, it would be in total about $70 million to $75 million. That would be split between those 2 years.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Yes, that's right. Yes.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Okay. And then can you help us a little bit with the revised guidance? If you thought about a waterfall across your business units, and there's a couple of parts to this. One, the EBITDA is down proportionately a lot more than the sales. I mean, if I look at the sales number and then the difference in EBITDA, you're suggesting that 60% margin EBITDA off the $120 million sales reduction. But where do I put or take out of buckets, that $120 million, on the sales side between technical oil and used oil, Safety-Kleen, Environmental, Industrial and Oil & Gas? How do you think about that?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Yes. It's hard to quantify that in detail there. But I would say that probably the effect on revenues of the blended and the lower blended percentage and also what we're forecasting for reduced RFO, that could be probably about 1/3 of the total in revenues. Not as much as in the EBITDA impact, not a substantial EBITDA impact there, but that's what that would be. And then if you look at the other businesses, being that the effects that I talked about before about pricing, about some of our growth rates in line with industrial production and chemical and manufacturing indices, I think that you'd see revenue kind of across-the-board. In Oil & Gas, that was brought down substantially, maybe 15-or-so percent. And that had a high impact on EBITDA due to the lower utilization. So that's -- it's the pricing just across what I talked about before, maybe not having such an aggressive total price increase for this year. And also Oil & Gas, the utilization, those are the things that may be proportionate share of the EBITDA to revenues to be a little higher. Hopefully, that adds a little color for you.

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

Yes, it does. And then on the used oil business, we're hearing that there's this oversupply in the fuel market, the RFO market. And so why, if that's the case, why isn't the collection part starting to come down? Because there's -- I mean, 70% of used oil goes into a fuel market not into refining. So why aren't we just seeing more pressure despite the fact the crude pricings are higher?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wunderlich Securities

We are -- well, that's certainly the headwind there. But we are seeing lower prices. And we've been tracking that every month. And our pricing is coming down and will continue to come down this year. And we agree with you.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And the next question comes from Jamie Sullivan of RBC Capital.

Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division

Analyst · RBC Capital

Maybe if we can just go right at re-refining and Oil & Gas for the year, could you maybe just help us on sort of revenue ranges and EBITDA ranges as we think about the sensitivity? It's obviously a difficult business to forecast, but sort of what's baked into the guidance at this point for those 2?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · RBC Capital

Well, clearly, the Oil & Gas is down from last year. I mean, we expect that to be down for the year. In EBITDA, that could be between $10 million and $15 million down from the previous year, what we were talking about there. On the re-refining, being that we're not reporting 2012, and we acquired it only since the very beginning of the year, that's a tough question to answer. I think I don't know that I can give a comparison right here off the top of my head here.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · RBC Capital

But it's significantly below our expectations from the time that we acquired Safety-Kleen or when we signed our agreement in early November to where we are. And we have been dealing with the cost structure in the business to basically address the margin squeeze that we just talked about. But I think a substantial amount of our margin miss this year is in that space. I mean, we're seeing great volume coming from the Safety-Kleen customers. Our internationalization is working. The Tech Services business is strong. We've got a lot of volume. We've got a lot of inventory. We're going to have a very strong second half of the year. So our Tech Service business is really benefiting. The total project management business that came along with Safety-Kleen also is a nice business for us that we've moved into the Clean Harbors' Field Services and Tech Service business. That business is also doing extremely well. But let's face it, we've had a real difficult time. And that's really where the big margin squeeze has been for us on -- from an EBITDA standpoint, Jamie.

Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division

Analyst · RBC Capital

Right. No, I understand that. I'm just trying to figure out. Is it -- should we think about it more as sort of a 2Q run rate for the re-refining business as what that range is -- the range for the whole company is contemplating? Or I'm just trying to get a little help on the modeling side or what's baked into the numbers so we know what -- how to benchmark that against expectations going forward.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · RBC Capital

Yes. I don't know. I would say that the expectation is that we'll do a little better than Q2, as we go into Q3 and Q4 in the re-refining business. So I think that, that run rate is kind of low in Q2. But it'd be hard to say at this point and of giving specific guidance down to that level, Jamie, right now.

Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division

Analyst · RBC Capital

I understand, that's helpful. And then maybe just on the cost synergy side, what did you get in the quarter? It sounds like you had maybe $6 million in severance integration costs in the quarter as well. Can you just update us on synergy side and the trajectory there?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · RBC Capital

Yes, absolutely. And this is clearly the key thing that helps, to Alan's point, of the cost reduction that we're doing to offset some of the unfavorable things that we are exposed to in the re-refining market. We estimated it was about $17 million that we saved in cost synergies that we had in Q2.

Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division

Analyst · RBC Capital

And then, I guess, it ramps up to the $75 million run rate for -- or $75 million for the year?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · RBC Capital

Exactly.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from David Manthey of Robert W. Baird. David J. Manthey - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division: Along the same lines here, the seasonality and how things play out from the second quarter going forward. I guess, if I'm piecing this together and we've got Deer Park cost you, say, $3 million in EBITDA. Weather was several million. You're going to pick up Ruth Lake, which should be a couple of million. You get additional Safety-Kleen synergies. I'm coming up with something in the $10 million-plus range of incremental EBITDA run rate as you go from second quarter to third quarter. And given the guidance you've given, it looks like it's maybe $20 million into the back half. So maybe half of that can be explained by some of these items, which only leaves about $10 million for the normal seasonality in the Canadian Oil & Gas uptick. Some of these projects and turnarounds in the core business just seems a little light to me. And I'm trying to justify this. Are you -- is there something else that I'm missing between the second quarter and what you expect to be your second half run rate of EBITDA that I didn't describe there that we haven't talked about yet this morning?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Robert W

No, I think that you're kind of right in what you're saying. And I did try to point out in my earlier comments that in certain areas, we're being conservative. That it doesn't -- we're basing our guidance based upon what we're seeing out there. We're not looking for any events to help us. We're not looking for any price increases in refined lubricants to help us. We're being conservative in what our outlook is. And as you can tell by the numbers, that if you take the last half of -- given our first half results, it means that the EBITDA would be -- would average over $150 million for each of the third and fourth quarter. So it is a nice increase over the first half of the year, but it does have an element of conservatism in it. David J. Manthey - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division: Right. It would just seem that just the uptick in Oil & Gas Field Services alone in the last couple of years would be -- would make up that or more. So it just seemed a little light to me. So that being said, just looking at the severance piece that went from $5.7 million to $6.8 million, I thought it was expected to decline in the second quarter. Maybe I had that wrong. But could you talk about how that's going to roll off here excluding third quarter and fourth quarter? I know you said, what, $15 million for the full year. And then related to that, can you talk about the run rate of corporate items as we enter 2014? That number specifically, I know it spiked up after Safety-Kleen, but where should that number be as you enter 2014?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Robert W

Yes. What we would like to do is to get that corporate number to be around $200 million or less on a run rate in 2014. As you know, we are over that run rate right now. Regarding the synergies, the rest of the year I think -- I'm sorry, the integration in severance costs, we do expect that to be $3 million for the rest of the year to bring us to the $15 million that I mentioned in my comments. So that was pretty much it.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Robert W

There was a $3 million termination fee in that integrations cost that we had in the second, which was basically getting out of a contract that allowed us to get a significant savings going into next year. So that was part of that. It wasn't all severance to your question.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Robert W

Right, yes. David J. Manthey - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division: Well, Jim, in terms of we were talking $200 million. If I'm looking at the right line here, was that $50 million -- was it $50.8 million in the current quarter? Because that doesn't seem like much of a decline between here in 2014. Is it significantly less than $200 million you're targeting?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Robert W

Yes. We're looking in the $180 million -- I don't have all the details in front of me right now, Dave, but it's down in that $180 million range.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Larry Solow of CJS.

Lawrence Solow - CJS Securities, Inc.

Analyst · CJS

Most of my questions have been answered. Just a couple of follow-ups. On the Technical Services, I know you mentioned Deer Park and the shutdown impacted EBITDA by about $3 million. If we add that back, year-over-year margin was still down on the EBITDA basis like almost 200 bps. Is there anything else in there that's sort of impacting the quarter? I realized pricing maybe not quite as good as you thought, but that doesn't seem to be from that segment? So if you can just give a little more color on that, that will be great.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · CJS

Yes. Just some of the margins on the -- with the addition of the Safety-Kleen business. Some of the margins are lower. And that's where you would see it on some of the disposal that we're taking in. And clearly, that's an area of focus. So that's one of it.

Lawrence Solow - CJS Securities, Inc.

Analyst · CJS

Okay. And then just on the positive side. Industrial's still with some of the impacts perhaps late in the quarter in Western Canada maybe going forward a little bit, some delay in projects, but still pretty good remark, pretty good growth at 20% to 22%. I don't know if you have the organic number? And maybe just give us a little more color on that?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · CJS

Organic, you just mean excluding acquisitions?

Lawrence Solow - CJS Securities, Inc.

Analyst · CJS

Correct.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · CJS

I would say mid-single digits in there, if you exclude the acquisitions. And that includes Safety-Kleen. We're doing some industrial work since -- we've added Industrial Services work since the Safety-Kleen acquisition, excluding that as well and any of the other acquisitions we did. It's about mid-single digits there.

Lawrence Solow - CJS Securities, Inc.

Analyst · CJS

Okay. And in Oil & Gas, I know we started the year. We thought maybe it could be close to breakeven on a revenue basis, slightly down. Clearly, it got a little worse in Q1 and Q2 maybe. And the outlook is a little bit worse because of the Canadian side. Do you expect growth in the back half of the year, just on an absolute year-over-year basis in the Oil & Gas services?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · CJS

Yes, we do expect that. And that's -- we'll still be down for the full year, but as you know Q1 and Q2 were down so severely. But with the getting out of the wet season in Western Canada, that will add volume of services, as well as the U.S. is picking up well. So we do expect first half -- or second half to be better than the first half there.

Lawrence Solow - CJS Securities, Inc.

Analyst · CJS

Okay. And year-over-year, you expect growth too, though, that's...

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · CJS

Absolutely. Wait, on that last point, Larry, on the year-over-year, I think it's more flattish on revenue and down. I think I said that earlier that we'd be down in the $10 million to $12 million range when you do it year-over-year.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · CJS

On EBITDA.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · CJS

On EBITDA.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · CJS

Yes.

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · CJS

Yes, $10 million to $15 million down.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · CJS

And that corporate run rate would probably be on the $180 million to $185 million based on the December run rate. So that corporate number, right about that $180 million, $185 million.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Hamzah Mazari of Credit Suisse. Flavio S. Campos - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: This is Flavio. I'm standing in for Hamzah today. I think my first question was how much do you think that from this EBITDA guidance cut is from items that you consider to be onetime and out of your control and just behind you already? And how much of it is just a slowdown that you've been talking about?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Credit Suisse

I would say a majority of it is due to -- when you consider weather factors, the fact that we had an unplanned several weeks shutdown at our largest incinerator, I think things like that, as well as some of the pushout of projects related to weather, I would say that probably the majority is what I would say really out of our control. And certainly in the re-refining business, as you know, price is out of our control there. Although that didn't affect the second quarter. But certainly, it's affected the overall business since the beginning of the year. And that's out of our control as well. To some degree. The margin is not out of our control. And that's what we're working on. That's what we're working very diligently on within that business. Flavio S. Campos - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: That makes sense. And on that line, how successful have you been with that initiative of trying to change the pricing for the used motor oil that you buy from being tied to crude to being more tied to the base oil prices?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Credit Suisse

I would say we're in the early innings on that, that the crude price has certainly had an impact on our ability to move faster in that area. So early innings. Flavio S. Campos - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: Perfect. And just a final one really quick, on the synergy side, which are the more lower hanging fruit in the synergy side that you already have seen, materializing and asking about mental services, as you mentioned? And can you give us some color on which items that you talked about before are already materializing?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Credit Suisse

Certainly, the internalization of disposal is going nicely. We're seeing that today in our plants and in the backlog and in the deferred revenue. And we're down overall, staffing is down about 600 people. And that's across both organizations, a combination of 130 or so direct non-billable people and another 260 or so SG&A indirect kind of folks. And that includes contractors and temporary. So we've -- we're hovering right around 13,000 in our workforce, which is down quite a bit from the acquisition date. So I would say those are a couple of areas that are behind us now.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Sean Hannan of Needham & Company. Sean K.F. Hannan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division: First, for Jim, I just wanted to see if I could verify, if we were to pull out the integration severance cost, I think we're looking at about a $0.45 number. If we could just kind of check that as we go through the Q&A. And then...

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Needham & Company

That's right. That's right, Sean. Sean K.F. Hannan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division: Okay, great. And then in terms of Evergreen Oil, I wanted to see if we can get some color in terms of what's next or what is the next decision with the courts, where we stand with that? And then also if you can elaborate from your perspective the benefits of bringing on some of those assets?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Needham & Company

Sure. Sean, I guess at this point, we're in a process. As you know, Evergreen was a, for those on the call, they might not know that it's a re-refiner out in California that had been put into bankruptcy early part of the year. And we participated in that process. That was a targeted acquisition that Safety-Kleen had for the last couple of years. And so we're very familiar with the assets. And so we've been participating in that auction process. And that process may end this month. We're really not sure totally on the timing. And so it would probably -- premature for us to talk too much about what, if anything, it's going to bring to the table here. I would like to just say though that one of the lowest priced oil markets is California. And Safety-Kleen exited that market because waste oil is a hazardous waste in California. Safety-Kleen exited that market back in 2005. Clean Harbors has a number of facilities today in California, over 1,000 employees there. We're very familiar with the operations of that market and manage a lot of hazardous waste. So we want to tap into that market and be able to handle that lower-priced oil to provide a better -- and better feedstock, if you would, at a lower cost to our re-refineries. So this is one way for us to enter that market. It's not the only way, certainly, but that has really been our focus, is getting into the California market, which is exclusively what Evergreen focuses on today. Hopefully, I've given you enough color for now. Sean K.F. Hannan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division: That's helpful, Alan. And then my next question, just in terms of the synergies we've talked about with Safety-Kleen, these are really the explicit costs and redundancies that come out. We haven't been talking, too, too much in terms of financial model benefits from really other ways to think about synergies, what's basically optimized in the combined operations. And wanted to see, is there a way to talk a little bit either qualitatively or quantitatively about the benefits you could see as we kind of go into 2014 about the optimized operations and to the timing of how some of that could actually materialize?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Needham & Company

That's a great question. We've been doing literally branch-by-branch reviews with every single area manager, general manager of Safety-Kleen and their counterparts at the legacy Clean Harbors company, as well as a number of other parts of the organization, particularly focused on transportation logistics and efficiencies there. And I would tell you that in participating in a lot of those discussions, there's just an enormous amount of opportunity there that is not baked into our synergy number. They're in the early stages of looking at optimization of the networks and dealing with the redundancies and the growth. And I think we certainly see a tremendous opportunity to grow the Safety-Kleen business and to take advantage of that infrastructure that they have. And so I would say that we're just beginning that piece. Most of what we've been focused on is just combining the 2 businesses together more from a corporate standpoint in systems and processes there. But now we're getting into that detailed level, Sean.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Adam Thalhimer of BB&T Capital Markets. Adam R. Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets, Research Division: Alan, what are your thoughts about the refinery end market in general? I mean, the crack spreads have come down a lot over the past couple of months. Is that a good thing for you? I mean, with the crack spreads being lower do the refineries now get back to maintenance that have been deferred?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · BB&T Capital Markets

Yes, it's a good question. Sometimes when -- we get that question quite a bit. When the spreads are down, they don't want to spend any money. But when the spreads are good, they don't want to spend any money because they want to keep running really strong, right? So I don't necessarily look at it either way. These planned outages have to get done. I mean, these outages have to get done. And these turnarounds have to get done. And there may be some timing and pushing that goes on within their decision-making from a capital or maintenance spend, but they have to get done. Adam R. Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets, Research Division: And do you have any sense from those customers, I mean what their appetite is for CapEx? Are they concerned about their crack spreads or no?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · BB&T Capital Markets

I guess I personally don't have any color to share with you myself. Maybe our head refinery guy would have better color on that. But overall, our Refinery business this year, I think, could grow close to $450 million, and which is getting close to their $500 million target here for us. So it's -- we're doing very well with the Refinery business. And I just can't give you any color on that particularly. Adam R. Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets, Research Division: Okay. And then lastly, I just wanted to ask about the Technical Services margins. It came up full that they were down a little bit year-over-year. What would be your expectation for the back half?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · BB&T Capital Markets

I would think with Q3 being the strongest quarter, and I think it does come up a little bit, and Q4 will probably be similar to what we saw this Q2. But clearly, we're looking to, as with all the margin enhancements that we're doing through synergies and so forth. We hope to be able to improve that, continue to improve that margin into next year.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Jeff Osborne of Stifel. Jeffrey D. Osborne - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: I was wondering if you could give us a sense of what the utilization rate was in the re-refinery or what volumes were and what the internal collections were versus buying from third parties?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Stifel

We were running -- with the blended percentage coming down, we offset that clearly with running more base volume. So we've been running at full capacity. Our RFO sales of excess that we've collected beyond our capacity has come down a little bit. And we're projecting that to remain down for the rest of the year. That might be a little conservative. But with all that we're doing on the front end with waste oil, we're just being conservative with volumes there. Jeffrey D. Osborne - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: Got you. And, Jim, with the 38% blended, was that for 2Q or a mix between 1Q and 2Q?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Stifel

It was Q2. And for the full year, it actually is expected to be at that level. Jeffrey D. Osborne - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: Okay. And so Q1 was a similar number, then?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Stifel

Q1 was higher. Q1 was a little higher than that, yes. Jeffrey D. Osborne - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: Got you. And then the last question is just can you give a sense of what Lodging revenue was for the quarter and what your expectations for the year is given that Ruth Lake is opening?

James M. Rutledge

Analyst · Stifel

We expect Lodging to go up. I don't have a precise figure on that, but that's had a run rate of about $220 million in that range for Lodging. And we expect Ruth Lake to add to that. Next year will be north of that $220 million clearly because we'll have a full year probably in the $230 million-plus range.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Barbara Noverini of MorningStar.

Barbara Noverini - Morningstar Inc., Research Division

Analyst · MorningStar

When you think about your expansion towards the other shale plays, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, what would you say is the main factor that gives you a foothold in these new markets for you? Is it your ability to provide disposable management? Or is demand greater for some of your other ancillary well site support services?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · MorningStar

Clearly, we're focused on the disposal management. That's where we think we can bring our assets and to provide solids control and -- but in processing waste on site. But the logistic side, tying it into our disposal network, our rail capabilities, our transportation network is what we think we can differentiate.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from Jack Atkins of Stephens.

Jack Atkins - Stephens Inc., Research Division

Analyst · Stephens

I'll keep this brief. Just a quick question here on your role, potential role and involvement in the cleanup activities in Québec after the Lac Megantic crude-by-rail explosion earlier in July. Are you all planning to play a role on that cleanup? And if so, could maybe help us sort of bracket what you expect the total cleanup cost to be there?

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Stephens

We have been playing a role there. We've been handling some material. It's not been significant. There are some contracts. And the RFP is out right now on some of the remediation disposal. I don't have a number necessarily, but it's -- I don't believe it's significant. I think it's certainly a catastrophic event. But from the kind of work that probably involves our capabilities, it's not as big.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We have no further questions in queue at this time. I'd like to turn the floor back over to management for closing remarks.

Alan S. McKim

Analyst · Wedbush Securities

Okay. Thanks, again, to everyone for joining us today. We look forward to updating you on our progress in the second half of the year. We are planning on hosting and webcasting an Investor Day in September, which will include presentations from our extended management team. We'll be issuing a news release with more details as the event gets closer. So with that, have a great day. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time, and thank you for your participation.