Andrew Way
Analyst · Capital One Securities
Thanks, Blake, and good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining the call today. First, I’ll discuss the third quarter highlights, then some recent developments and wins along with what we’re seeing across our global footprint before I turn it over to Dave. The third quarter came in line with our updated guidance from September, as we had originally guided to the mid-$30 million EBITDA range. This was driven by improved ECO revenue, along with continued focus on our cost structure as SG&A continues to move lower. COVID-19 continues to challenge logistics globally for many of our customers and suppliers. But during the quarter, we saw a slight improvement in our ability to move people around the world, which is continuing so far into the fourth quarter. We remain cautiously optimistic, but are closely monitoring the potential impact of renewed COVID cases around the world. During the quarter, we signed an $80 million six-year extension in Latin America that requires no incremental CapEx. This puts renewals for the region over $200 million for the year, continuing to highlight the mission-critical nature of our equipment globally. During the third quarter and nearly in the fourth quarter, we were also awarded two small ECO contracts in the region, further enhancing our commercial success. While new product bookings and new ECO orders were slow during the quarter, we are seeing a pickup in interest in tender activity as slowly increase outside North America. We continue to work on several large water projects and remain hopeful that at least one of these projects will get awarded, during the fourth quarter. Water is an integral part of our transition story, not only because it does not require incremental demand to drive growth, but also it’s important delivering enhanced environmental solutions to our customers and provides us multi-industry applications over the medium to long-term. While this year pulls the growth in this business more than we would’ve liked, as our customers stepped back to find the new normal, we continue to see new projects come onto our radar, and have started to see customers look beyond the short-term and plan for their future needs. We have a strong pipeline of both large and smaller projects with a majority of the mix related to our Middle East region. As the dust settled in the U.S., we are beginning to have a more constructive dialogue with our customers on starting additional pilots and trials to further prove out our technology. The commodity supply-demand imbalance and COVID-19 pandemic have certainly impacted our customers’ production and their cash flow, ultimately leading to many looking for ways to adjust spending over the near term. Over the past nine months, we’ve had numerous conversations with our customers on helping them navigate these challenging markets. The outcome to these discussions has resulted in solutions to mutually benefit both, Exterran and our customers taking into consideration the short-term uncertainty and balancing the longer term needs. A net result of these negotiations to-date is roughly $40 million reduction in long-term backlog, largely tied to one specific contract with the term of the agreement we’ve modified. The reduction in backlog impacts the second half of 2022 through 2028, and Dave will provide more color on this in his comments. Looking across our regions and starting in North America, clearly product bookings continue to be slow, but we are starting to see more positive conversations. And it’s a little early to say things will pick up next year as our customers are going through their budgetary cycles right now, but we all hopeful a few of these will turn into opportunities next year. We’re also extremely focused in the region on building out our AMS service offering to help to generate revenue and continue to enhance our margins. In Latin America, despite all of the difficulties, the regional space between COVID-19, geopolitical challenges and currency headwinds, we continue to have commercial success. On top of the more than $200 million of extension so far in the region, we have had a couple of small ECO wins, and we still see additional opportunities for important renewals within the coming months and quarters. Turning to the Middle East region, we continue to execute well on the projects in backlog. However, with travel limitations, it has called certain project schedules to move further to the right. Commercially in the region, we see the de-boom structure gain an additional traction, which should set us up well for additional opportunities in the coming years. There are also other large countries in the region, where we have not had a significant presence that we are currently focused on expanding in the common years to help drive additional revenue and profitability. For the Asia Pacific region, we are seeing a breakthrough for Exterran in new processing and treatment equipment, enabled by the many years of successful service support our AMS team has performed in the region. Overall, despite the industry challenges, we continue to have constructive dialogue with our customers and see a healthy pipeline of opportunities for our products and services. And with that, I’ll now turn it over to Dave.