Enable Midstream Partners (ENBL) Tops Q1 EPS by 16c, Revenues Beat

Enable Midstream Partners (NYSE: ENBL) reported Q1 EPS of $0.33, $0.16 better than the analyst estimate of $0.17. Revenue for the quarter came in at $970 million versus the consensus estimate of $764.21 million.

“Our first quarter results highlight the strength of Enable’s fully integrated midstream platform, which is a vital link between sources of production and downstream markets,” said Rod Sailor, president and CEO. “This was demonstrated during Winter Storm Uri when Enable employees worked with producers and end-users to ensure that natural gas supply continued to serve demand in critical areas.

“Looking to the future, Enable continues to be well-positioned to benefit from improving commodity prices and the pending merger with Energy Transfer. Teams from both companies are currently working hard to plan for a seamless integration.”

BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS

While Enable experienced production curtailments during first quarter 2021 due to Winter Storm Uri, substantially all production impacted by the storm is back online, and average daily March natural gas gathered volumes were approximately 4% higher than the average daily natural gas gathered volumes for first quarter 2021. As of April 26, 2021, there were 10 rigs across Enable’s footprint that were drilling wells expected to be connected to Enable’s gathering systems. Four of those rigs were in the Anadarko Basin, five were in the Ark-La-Tex Basin and one was in the Williston Basin. Producers have an inventory of drilled but uncompleted wells (DUCs) behind Enable’s gathering systems with 88 DUCs in the Anadarko Basin, 11 DUCs in the Ark-La-Tex Basin and 82 DUCs in the Williston Basin. These 181 DUCs provide an inventory of wells producers can complete without investing drilling capital.

In the transportation and storage segment, Enable contracted or extended over 250,000 Dth/d of firm transportation capacity in first quarter 2021 at a volume-weighted average contract life of over four years. Backed by a firm, five-year commitment, Enable Gas Transmission, LLC’s MASS project was placed into service April 1, 2021. The project transports natural gas from the Anadarko and Arkoma Basins to delivery points with access to emerging Gulf Coast markets and growing demand markets in the Southeast.

Enable continues to advance its Gulf Run Pipeline project, a project designed to move U.S. natural gas supplies from northern Louisiana to the Gulf Coast. The planned 42” pipeline scope provides for approximately 1.7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of capacity, allowing for contracting upside potential beyond the cornerstone shipper’s 1.1 Bcf/d commitment. As a result of strategic sourcing efforts, pipe pricing for the project has been locked in at favorable levels relative to market, and the cost for the project is currently estimated at approximately $540 million. The contractor bidding process is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2021, and the project is anticipated to be placed into service in late 2022, subject to FERC approval.

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