Keyera Corp.

Keyera Corp.

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Q4 FY2025 · Earnings Call TranscriptFebruary 12, 2026

Operator

Good morning, my name is Danny and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Keyera's 2025 fourth quarter and year-end conference call.

All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session.

If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press *, then the number 1 on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, please press the # key.

Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to Dan Cuthbertson, General Manager of Investor Relations.

You may begin.

Dan Cuthbertson

Thanks and good morning. Joining me today will be Dean Setoguchi, President and CEO; Eileen Marikar, Senior Vice President and CFO; Jamie Urquhart, Senior Vice President, Liquids Business Unit; and Brad Slessor, Senior Vice President, G&P and NGL Pipelines Business Unit.

We will begin with some prepared remarks from Dean and Eileen, after which we will open the call to questions. I'd like to remind listeners that some of the comments and answers that we will give today relate to future events.

These forward-looking statements are given as of today's date and reflect events or outcomes that management currently expects. In addition, we will refer to some non-GAAP financial measures.

For more information on non-GAAP measures and forward-looking statements, please refer to Keyera's public filings available on SEDAR and on our website. With that, I'll turn the call over to Dean.

Dean Setoguchi

Thanks, Dan, and good morning, everyone. 2025 was a transformational year for Keyera.

We continued to demonstrate the strength of our fee-for-service business, delivering record results in both liquids infrastructure and gathering and processing. These results were driven by higher utilization across our integrated system, which supports continued dividend growth.

Keyera's marketing business finished the year at the top end of our revised guidance. While results were below our long-term base expectations, we continue to view our marketing segment as a strategic differentiator that provides strong cash flow, and in stronger market environments can deliver outsized contributions.

This cash can be used to strengthen our balance sheet and accelerate growth by reinvesting in our fee-for-service business. During the year, we continued to advance our strategy of strengthening and extending our integrated value chain.

We sanctioned three highly strategic and capital-efficient growth projects, including two frac expansions at KFS in addition to KAPS Zone 4. These projects are highly contracted and will continue to support growth in high-quality, fee-based cash flow.

These contracts demonstrate the competitiveness of our services. In June, we announced the transformational acquisition of the Plains Canadian NGL business.

Once this highly strategic transaction closes, it will expand our national platform, strengthen our integrated value chain, and enhance our ability to better serve customers and partners across Canada. For Keyera, it will support further growth and long-term shareholder value.

We continue to demonstrate disciplined portfolio management, completing two additional transactions: the addition of the additional gas plant capacity in the Simonette area and the divestiture of our non-core Wildhorse asset. Together, these transactions reflect our continued focus on optimizing our asset base and recycling capital into higher-return, on-strategy opportunities.

I'll now briefly discuss the AEF outage. In mid-January, we announced an unplanned outage following the identification of an issue with a vessel on-site.

The safety of our employees, contractors, and the integrity of the facility remain top priorities while the restart work continues. Repairs are underway, and we expect the facility to be back to full production in May.

Lastly, I want to touch on our recent organization changes. In preparation for the closing of the Plains transaction, we have reorganized our leadership reporting structure to better position the business for its next phase of growth and to drive competitiveness.

Under the new structure, we'll operate with two business units supported by our existing enablement teams, and Brad Slessor now leads the G&P and NGL Pipelines Business Unit, and Jamie Urquhart leads the Liquids Business Unit, which includes our liquids infrastructure assets and marketing business. These changes do not affect how we'll report our segment and financial results.

Overall, 2025 was a year of strong execution. We have continued to build a more efficient and competitive platform that creates meaningful value for our customers and shareholders while positioning Keyera for long-term growth.

With that, I'll turn the call over to Eileen to review our financial results and outlook.

Eileen Marikar

Thanks, Dean, and good morning, everyone. Keyera's fourth quarter and year-end results reflected stable performance and continued strength in our fee-for-service business.

Not including deal and integration costs associated with the Plains acquisition, annual adjusted EBITDA was $1.16 billion. Distributable cash flow was $767 million, or $3.35 per share for the year, and annual net earnings were $432 million.

As Dean mentioned, we continue to see strong year-over-year growth in our fee-for-service segments, delivering record results driven by higher utilization across the value chain. In gathering and processing, we had record annual realized margin, delivering $439 million, up from $413 million last year.

The increase reflects higher throughput and growing contributions from our Wapiti and Simonette gas plants as contracted volumes continue to grow. In liquids infrastructure, realized margin was a record $593 million for the year, up from $558 million in 2024.

This growth was supported by higher storage contracting and utilization of our condensate system, as well as the steady ramp-up of KAPS volumes. Now turning to the marketing segment, realized margin was $300 million for the year compared to $485 million last year.

The lower results mostly reflect lower premiums and volumes for iso-octane sales. Now I'll touch on our 2026 guidance.

Growth capital is still expected to range between $400 and $475 million. Maintenance capital is expected to be $140 to $160 million.

Cash taxes are expected to range between $60 and $70 million. Consistent with prior years, marketing segment realized margin guidance will be provided with first quarter results in mid-May, following the conclusion of the NGL contracting season.

As previously disclosed, this will reflect the approximate $110 million impact associated with the unplanned AEF outage and turnaround. Following the closing of the Plains acquisition, we'll provide pro forma guidance and a comprehensive business outlook for the combined platform, reflecting our enhanced scale and long-term growth profile.

With that, I'll turn it back to Dean for closing remarks.

Dean Setoguchi

Thanks, Eileen. 2025 was a transformative year for Keyera.

We executed on our strategy, strengthened our value chain, and continued to build a competitive and efficient platform that creates value for our customers and shareholders. On behalf of our board and management team, I want to thank our employees, customers, shareholders, Indigenous rights holders, and other stakeholders for the continued support.

With that, we'll open the line for questions. Operator, please go ahead.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session.

Should you have a question, please press the * key followed by the number 1 on your touch-tone phone. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised.

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One moment, please, while we assemble the queue. Your first question comes from Aaron MacNeil of TD Cowen.

Please go ahead.

Aaron MacNeil

Hey, morning, all. Thanks for taking my questions.

As you can imagine, we're getting a lot of inbounds on the Simonette gas plant acquisition this morning. Just wondering if there's any more details that you could provide in terms of the transaction multiple or potential financial contributions, whether or not the assets are connected to KAPS, and if not, what the timeline might be for connectivity there, or any other details.

Dean Setoguchi

Hi, good morning, Aaron. It's Dean, and thank you very much for the questions regarding the Simonette area gas plant capacity acquisitions that we made.

What I'd say is that we like the area, and as we have our own Simonette gas plant, this really fortifies and strengthens our G&P footprint in that area. We're working with a private oil and gas company and we do have confidentiality provisions, and it's important for our customer not to disclose details of that contract, we're not able to do that.

I'd just say that there are some downstream services that are included as part of this transaction, and as we've always said about our infrastructure investments is that this one included meets our 10% to 15% return on capital thresholds.

Aaron MacNeil

That's helpful. Maybe just a bit of an oddball question, and I can appreciate that you won't speak to specific customers or contracts, but ARC recently removed the second phase of Attachie from its five-year outlook, which was expected to be a meaningful contributor to overall basin condensate growth.

I guess just broadly speaking, would you sort of reiterate your standalone Keyera growth outlook despite that removal of the project?

Dean Setoguchi

Absolutely. I'm not going to make specific comments on ARC and their plans.

Other than to say that I think that they're a very good operating company, and they are going to continue to find ways and deliver growth for their stakeholders. When you step back from a macro perspective, the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is a very competitive place to drill and grow your production base.

As we confidently see more product egress out of our basin, that just gives us optimism that we're going to see continued growth in the future. I'm talking about, again, just filling up the original two phases, or the two trains of LNG Canada.

We're hearing there's a lot more momentum around the next phase being sanctioned sometime in the next year or so, so that would be positive. Data centers on both sides of the border are, I think, a real thing, and that's going to drive more nat gas demand.

Then, obviously, the expansions on Trans Mountain and also on Enbridge's system are very good for condensate demand. When you take that macro overlay and where we're positioned on the liquids-rich Montney fairway, we're in the sweet spot.

Which is why we expand our footprint in the Simonette acquisition. We see it as an area that we see a lot of demand for more services, and we're going to compete for that.

Overall, our business outlook is still very strong. I do want to reiterate, the contracts that we announced last year, and we continue to sign, they're fairly high take-or-pay.

We have a high level of confidence in the delivery of our cash flow growth, which we again reiterate our 7% to 8% fee-for-service EBITDA growth out to 2027. As projects like KAPS Zone 4 and specifically our Frac 3 will continue to drive our growth outlook for our fee-for-service business beyond 2027 as well.

Overall again, we think that the basin is going to be strong, and we're certainly going to capture our fair share of that growth and deliver meaningful results.

Aaron MacNeil

Thanks, Dean. I'll turn it back.

Dean Setoguchi

Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from Robert Hope of Scotiabank. Please go ahead.

Robert Hope

Morning, everyone. Want to go back to the Simonette acquisition.

The MD&A has some commentary that the transaction also unlocks potential follow-on growth opportunities in the area. Can you maybe add a little bit of color to this?

Then maybe just, would this include a KAPS connection, or are those assets currently connected to KAPS?

Dean Setoguchi

Like I say, I'm not going to speak to the specific services that are attached to this contract, because again, we're just respecting the wishes and the confidentiality provisions in our agreement. What I'd say is that we generally see very good demand in that area.

The Simonette area really borders the Montney and the Duvernay developments, and we like it. We do have extra capacity in our Simonette gas plant.

We are working on opportunities to potentially expand our Simonette gas plant. When you look at these two other gas plant working interests that we acquired, it ties in very nicely with our G&P footprint in the Simonette area.

Again, when we look at that footprint, we see ways that we can continue to offer a broader service to the customers in that area. Anything else you want to add, Brad?

Thank you.

Robert Hope

Maybe a more broad question. Looking at 2025, the dividend payout ratio is kind of in the mid-range of that 50% to 70% target range.

As you add the Plains assets, which will be quite accretive, how are you thinking about allocation of capital, because this will put you kind of towards the lower end, if not below, your targeted payout range?

Dean Setoguchi

Maybe I'll just make a general comment, and remind everyone that Keyera originated back in 2003 when we became public, it was as a trust. I know that there are a lot of investors that still love that dividend, and so that's something that's very important to us, but also very important to our shareholders, and something that we continue to want to grow just like we have in the past.

If I didn't, my parents probably wouldn't talk to me anymore. Anyway, with that, I'll turn it over to Eileen for further comments.

Eileen Marikar

Sure. Good morning, Rob.

Just again, our philosophy overall on the dividend growth really won't change even as we bring Plains on. We want to make sure it's sustainable through all the various business cycles, and so we do that by maintaining, as you noted, a conservative payout ratio and by continuing to grow our fee-based cash flow.

With Plains and our recent sanctioning of growth projects, that fee-for-service cash flow is going to continue to grow. Beyond the dividend, really our capital allocation priorities are to fund our sanctioned growth capital program and repay debt so that we bring our balance sheet back to the low end of our target range.

Maintaining that low leverage has been a competitive advantage for us and really has allowed us to pursue opportunities when they arise, and we want to always be in that position.

Robert Hope

Thank you. I'll hop back in the queue.

Operator

Your next question comes from Ben Pham of BMO. Please go ahead.

Ben Pham

Hi, morning. I just want to stay on the topic of acquisitions.

I would love to hear your thoughts around just the pace of future potential acquisitions that's crossing your desk there and you think this could be maybe a repeatable strategy for you in Western Canada?

Dean Setoguchi

Good morning, Ben, and thank you for the question. Overall, we just think that there's a great opportunity to continue to grow.

Starting from a macro, I love the Prime Minister's vision for Canada to be a energy superpower, and we should be. As we see more LNG and pipeline expansions to the West Coast, and also more capacity built in the United States, there's going to be a lot of growth in this basin.

We have a very competitive basin, and with that, there's going to be core infrastructure requirements and capacity that's going to be required to enable that growth. Some of that is going to be greenfield, brownfield, and tuck-in acquisitions like what we just announced.

We see opportunities on the horizon for all three. At the same time, though, our primary focus today is to deliver on the three projects that we have sanctioned: the two frac expansions and Zone 4, and also closing our Plains acquisition and getting that fully integrated and capturing synergies.

We just don't want to get ahead of ourselves and we want to make sure that we don't bite off more than we can chew. Those are our big priorities in the near term, but certainly medium, long term we see a lot of great opportunities.

Ben Pham

Gotcha. Then maybe just on a Plains transaction, you mentioned the end of Q1 2026, and since we're not involved in the conversations you're having, but is Keyera in a position now where you have a good sense of what you need to do or not do to close the deal, and is anything in particular that's driving that target on the timing?

Dean Setoguchi

I can't speak to specifics on details of our discussions with the Bureau. Like I say, we feel very confident that we'll be able to close this transaction somewhere around the end of the quarter.

Again, we're dealing with a federal agency and not all the timing is within our control, but we are where we thought we'd be at this point in time.

Ben Pham

Got it. Thank you.

Dean Setoguchi

Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from Maurice Choy of RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Maurice Choy

Thank you and good morning. Maybe just sticking with the Plains discussion, notwithstanding that the deal hasn't closed, but if I could just look beyond the closing, have you seen your customers already wanting to initiate contract discussions to look at the combined portfolio and service offerings, and do you see these being executed relatively soon after the deal closes?

Dean Setoguchi

Good morning, Maurice, and thank you for the question. I think the first comment I'd say is that we still have to operate 100% as separate entities until this transaction closes, there are no discussions going on that involved combined services between the two platforms today, and we want to make sure that that's very clear.

Certainly want to reiterate that we see a lot of opportunities to provide our customers a more competitive service than they receive today. We think with the combination of assets, they're going to have a more reliable service, and also a competitive service as well with our logistics capabilities, our market capabilities, and the cross-country reach to access markets.

This is going to be a great benefit for our customers, but again, those discussions will have to wait until after we close.

Maurice Choy

That makes sense. Maybe I could just switch over to the Simonette transaction.

I'm not necessarily looking for color on the assets specifically, but just more philosophically, are you seeing further opportunities for these sorts of partnerships where you own a partial ownership of a gas plant that can benefit fully downstream, and what would some of the gating items be for you to form these types of partnerships?

Dean Setoguchi

That's a great question. We're a midstream infrastructure company and we're a service company, we're there to provide solutions that help our customers be successful.

There are opportunities sometimes where it makes more sense for us to own infrastructure and again, provide them other needed services to help enhance their netbacks and their success. This is just one example of that.

We see more opportunities in the future. Again, we just don't want to get ahead of our skis and we want to focus on the Plains acquisition and again, the three projects we have underway.

Longer term, medium and long term, for sure we see more opportunities like that.

Maurice Choy

That's great color. Thank you very much.

Dean Setoguchi

Thank you very much.

Operator

Your next question comes from Robert Catellier of CIBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Robert Catellier

Good morning, everyone. I think I might try another Plains question here.

Under Keyera's ownership, we'd expect the cash flow from the Plains assets to be reinvested in Canada, whereas the cash flow was largely being repatriated under Plains's ownership. How big a consideration do you think that is in terms of the various approvals you're seeking?

Dean Setoguchi

Morning, Rob. That's a great question, but I can't comment on, again, the competition process, but what I can say is that there's never been a greater time where it's important for Canadian companies to own Canadian assets, and especially one like ours where this transaction helps us provide a more competitive service for our customers, enables them to grow and our basin to grow, and for us to fulfill that vision of being the energy superpower.

You just look at what's happening with our partners, our neighbors in the United States and what's happening in the world, the Middle East. It's just never been a more important time for us also to have control over our own resources and energy security.

You're right, with that, as a Canadian company, we are going to reinvest in Canada. Our headquarters are right here in Calgary.

With that, we're going to create a lot of jobs. We do a lot of great work with the communities that we invest in, and we have great Indigenous partnerships in terms of our contracts we award to them as well.

It's a win-win for everybody. Anyway, yeah, I agree with you 100%.

Right now, Canadian ownership is super important.

Robert Catellier

Thanks for that answer. I know it's a tough question to answer under the circumstances.

My second question has to do with updated views on the investment conditions required for a potential condensate splitter.

Dean Setoguchi

Yeah. What, it would have to meet our investment hurdles just like any other investment.

We we've generally have a guideline public, that we've shared publicly, the 10 10% to 15% return on capital on a standalone basis for infrastructure, and and, generally we want it to be, have integrated benefits as well, which will enhance those returns. We wanted to have some contracting behind it so that we, mitigate our our commodity exposure on a on an investment like that.

Obviously, we want to make sure we can build infrastructure like that at a at a cost that, again, helps us generate that those kind of returns. Anything else you want to add, Jamie?

Robert Catellier

No. Then maybe my last question, in the marketing, you talked about the lower crude prices and the effect on blending margins.

Understanding your guidance for marketing will come out later, wondering if there's any way you can quantify what impact you see that the lower crude price is having on blending margins?

Jamie Urquhart

Robert, it's Jamie. Thanks for the question.

There's no doubt that lower crude prices have an impact on lots of components of our business, including our blending business. I think the thing that I would say is that in order for us to hit our guidance, there's just a few core assumptions that we've shared with the market for many years now with respect to commodity pricing, but also the ability for our assets to operate the way we expect them to operate, AEF and our frac capacity being the primary drivers of that.

All I can share is that even in today's current commodity environment, with those assets operating the way we fully expect them to do in the future, we're confident with respect to meeting and being within the guidance that we've provided to the market.

Robert Catellier

Thanks very much, everyone.

Dean Setoguchi

Thank you. I'll also say too, if you look where crude's trading, I think everyone thought it was going to trade down to $50, and we're in the mid-60s, and that's a pretty good value.

Robert Catellier

Thank you.

Jamie Urquhart

Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from Theresa Chen of Barclays. Please go ahead.

Theresa Chen

Morning. With diluent flows altering across North America given the need for the US to send incremental barrels to Venezuela, how does this inform your view of condensate supply-demand balances in Western Canada and Keyera's role within this outlook?

Dean Setoguchi

Good morning, and thank you for the question. Before I turn it over to Jamie, I'd just say generally that we have an industry-leading condensate system.

Irrespective of where it comes from, whether it comes from the field or whether it comes on the pipeline from the US, we provide storage services, we aggregate those volumes, and we also deliver it up to the oil sands. The other thing I'd point out is that we have the ability also to rail it in when needed.

Again, we have a very, very strong system for condensate, which is used for diluent. Jamie, you want to add some comments?

Jamie Urquhart

No, I think the only thing I'd add is that, and it comes back to Dean's earlier comment with respect to our belief in the basin, is that we believe that condensate growth within the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin will be a big part of continuing to be the primary supply of condensate needs for oil sands and the growth that we expect to see in the oil sands industry. Not to say that Venezuela won't perhaps have at some point in the future, but that will be requiring tens of billions of dollars of investment and some significant time, in our view.

There might be a little bit of a pull for condensate out of North America. We fully expect that won't have a significant impact on the condensate supply in Western Canada.

Theresa Chen

Thank you. In terms of the unplanned outage at AEF, can you provide more details on the nature of the outage and how you're addressing the operational reliability of this asset on a go-forward basis?

Jamie Urquhart

That's a great question, and I'm surprised we've taken that long in our call to get to this, but happy to. All I can share is that we've got an investigation underway, and really are looking to determine the root cause of the event.

At this time, the repair work is underway, and we fully expect to be back up and running at full rates in the May timeframe. I think really to the last part of your question is, while the facility is offline, we're taking the opportunity to look at that unit holistically.

We're taking a very proactive approach by inspecting all the major accessible components during that outage to ensure the long-term integrity of the asset.

Theresa Chen

Thank you. Your

Operator

next question comes from AJ O'Donnell of TPH. Please go ahead.

AJ O'Donnell

Morning, everyone. Just wondering if I could go back to condensate, just thinking about kind of the robust supply and demand signals that we're going to be seeing over the coming years, and in light of the couple egress expansions that we've had between mainline and also DRA optimization on TMX, just curious where you guys sit right now as far as evaluating growth capital projects on your condensate system, what innings do you think we're in right now, and at what point do you think we could start to see some projects get across the finish line?

Dean Setoguchi

Hi, good morning, AJ. I'm going to turn that question over to Jamie.

Jamie Urquhart

AJ, you alluded to that, yeah, we see obviously some really positive tailwinds with respect to the ability for oil sands growth within our basin, and with that comes condensate growth. Our condensate system, as Dean alludes to earlier, handles approximately 70% of all the condensate that ultimately is used within the oil sands.

We've identified different opportunities within our system, obviously, to be able to serve that growing need. There was reference earlier to the condensate splitter, but it's storage for condensate, it's lots of different components of the business model that we've created for the condensate system.

All I can share with you is that as condensate demand grows within the basin, we expect to continue to get more than our lion's share of the opportunity within that growth of the condensate requirements in our basin.

Dean Setoguchi

Just to add to what Jamie said is that we've evaluated our system, and as the basin continues to grow, we have evaluated opportunities to debottleneck it if we need to. We're being proactive about it, and again, we certainly believe we're going to be able to provide those services as the demand continues to grow.

AJ O'Donnell

Okay. Appreciate the detail there.

Maybe going back to the G&P segment broadly, just looking at volumes Q4 versus Q3, down a little bit, but just curious, as we sit here roughly halfway through Q1, can you give us an update on kind of how producer activity is overall trending on your system?

Dean Setoguchi

That's a great question, and I'm going to turn that over to our new Senior Vice President, Brad Slessor. Go ahead, Brad.

Brad Slessor

Good morning, AJ. Thanks for the question.

You noted in Q4 volumes were down a little bit. We had a planned curtailment in one of our bigger plants in the north, so that'd be the result of some of that.

That outage went very well, safely. We got all the work done, and the team's done a great job getting that facility back up and running back to full rates.

We're seeing a lot of great wells being drilled around our facilities. We're seeing both Simonette, Wapiti, and a lot of our plants in the south continue to add volumes kind of month-over-month, we're very optimistic about how that business is trending right now.

Dean Setoguchi

I think sometimes though you see some blips in our throughputs, and sometimes that's just related to well pads and just normal declines, and then the next well pad, the timing of that being tied in, and things like that. Overall, we feel very, very good about the demand behind our facilities, especially in our north portfolio.

AJ O'Donnell

Great. Thank you for the time.

Appreciate it.

Dean Setoguchi

Thanks. Have a good day.

Operator

Your next question comes from Patrick Kenny of National Bank Financial. Please go ahead.

Patrick Kenny

Thank you. Good morning, everyone.

Just on the disposition of the Wildhorse terminal, I know the contracting demand wasn't panning out as you had hoped, but just given post-Venezuela and all storage assets perhaps gaining some option value at least, curious your thoughts around the decision to sell now at this price, and then also maybe if you can confirm your thoughts around your Canadian crude oil storage assets still being core to the business going forward?

Dean Setoguchi

Good morning, Patrick. Listen, we have a very disciplined strategy, and we want to make sure that we're staying focused on what matters most to our business and our customers.

We're not a big crude product handler and service provider, and especially down the US. We do not have big competitive advantages down the US.

We thought it's best to sell this asset, and Plains is going to be able to take it and make it a much better and more profitable part of their organization because they have a very big footprint in Cushing. It's a win for them.

For us, again, we're able to redirect funds into other core activities like the Simonette acquisition. I also want to point out, this is just part of a trend of, again, our disciplined strategy.

We sold off three gas plants last year: our North Pembina gas plant, Caribou, and also Edson. We want to always clean up our portfolio of non-core assets, because they take a lot of extra time and effort, a disproportionate amount of time and effort amongst our people, and we want to direct that to what is core to our business, which is our integrated NGL value chain in Canada.

Patrick Kenny

Got it. Thanks for that.

Then I guess just on the leadership changes, first off, congrats to Brad on the well-deserved promotion there, but looks like the bench might be shortened here a little bit with Jared's departure. I'm just wondering if you might be looking to more of a dedicated operations or COO role going forward, especially with the integration of the Plains assets right around the corner, or is this the team in place capable of handling the pro forma portfolio?

Dean Setoguchi

That's a great question. I want to acknowledge Jared's departure, because we've all worked with him for a long time.

The guy started as a summer student and worked his way all the way up in the organization, it tells you what a strong performer he's always been, and he's had a really great career here, and he's added a lot of value. We also respect his own personal decisions.

Having said that, when we look at our organization, we've made a significant investment in our leadership. When I look across at our vice president group, both on the operations and engineering side, these are very, very strong leaders.

When I look at the leadership stack below them as well, very, very strong leaders in place. When we think about the long-term future of Keyera, we want to make sure that any one of us around the table, when it's our time to retire or leave, it's very seamless for this organization and we can continue on and continue to grow and be more successful.

That's always part of our succession plans in our company, and so it brings opportunities for others, and I have a very strong confidence that they will step up. I think from an organizational perspective, we're always evaluating what the best structure is for Keyera, and if it involves hiring a senior ops engineering leader at some point in the future, we'll absolutely do it.

Again, I just want to reiterate that we have very, very strong bench strength in our leadership across the company.

Patrick Kenny

That's great. I'll leave it there.

Appreciate the comments.

Dean Setoguchi

All right, thanks. Hey, hopefully you're going to get a chance to watch the game, go Canada.

Operator

There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back over to Dan Cuthbertson.

Please continue.

Dan Cuthbertson

Thanks to all again for joining us today. Please feel free to reach out to our investor relations team with any additional questions.

Enjoy the rest of the day and have a good weekend, everybody.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation.

You may now disconnect.