Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Enerflex First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star-11 on your telephone, and you will then hear your automated message advising that your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star-11 on again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Jeff Fetterly, Vice President, Corporate Development and Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Jill, and good morning, everyone. With me today are Paul Mahoney, President and CEO, Preet Dinza, Senior Vice President and CFO, and Ben Park, Interflex's controller. During today's call, our prepared remarks will focus on three key areas. One, the continued strong performance of Enerflex's business. Two, our outlook for 2026. And three, an update on operational and strategic initiatives. Before I turn it over to Paul, I'll remind everyone that today's discussion will include non-IFRS and other financial measures as well as forward-looking statements regarding Enerflex's expectations for future performance and business prospects. Overlooking information involves risks and uncertainties, and the stated expectations could differ materially from actual results or performance. For more information, refer to the advisory statements within our news release, MD&A, and other regulatory filings, all available on our website and under our CDAR Plus and EDGAR profiles. As part of our prepared remarks, we will be referring to slides in our webcasts in our investor presentation which is available through a link on this webcast in our website under the investor relations section I'll now turn it over to Paul thanks Jeff and thank you all for joining us on this morning's call I would first like to start by acknowledging our people our client partners and stakeholders in the Middle East as they navigate the ongoing conflict.

The commitment of our team has been on full display as they support one another and our client partners. Turning to Q1, we are pleased to report another strong quarter of operational and financial performance. Results reflect continued discipline execution across our global footprint as well as our ongoing efforts to optimize and streamline our business. Performance was underpinned by the energy infrastructure and aftermarket services business lines, which generated 65% of adjusted gross margin before depreciation and amortization during the first quarter. The engineered systems business is demonstrating strong execution and commercial momentum, supported by healthy backlog levels and ongoing bidding activity across key markets, particularly in North America. A few comments on each of our business lines. ES bookings of $483 million during Q1-26 compared to a trailing eight-quarter average of $344 million. ES book-to-bill ratio was 1.5 times during Q126 and one times on a trailing eight-quarter average, highlighting that the company is consistently replenishing its backlog in line with project execution. The outlook for ES products and services continues to be attractive, driven by expected increases in natural gas, associated liquids, and electric power generation across Enerflex's core operating countries. Enerflex is advancing its electric power generation business, including opportunities associated with data centers. During the quarter, the company was awarded a behind-the-meter power generation project for a data center utilizing reciprocating engine generator sets and secured additional projects supporting island power applications. Enerflex continues to see strong demand across its engineered systems business line and emerging opportunities for aftermarket services support. With our current scope of opportunities now exceeding 5 gigawatts, turning to aftermarket services, this business line continued to reflect steady customer maintenance spending. We are particularly encouraged by the performance of our AMS business in countries where we also operate energy infrastructure assets, highlighting the strength of our integrated offering and competitive positioning in key markets. The energy infrastructure business continues to deliver solid performance, underpinned by approximately $1.3 billion of contracted revenue. Within this segment, Enerflex's U.S. contract compression business is performing well, led by increasing natural gas production in the Permian Basin. Utilization remains able at 94% across a fleet size of 486,000 horsepower. power. You can find additional detail on operational KPIs for this segment on slides 15 and 16 of our investor presentation. Enerflex's U.S. contract compression market fleet increased by 13 percent over the course of 2025, and we continue to expect growth capital expenditures will deliver growth at a similar pace or greater during 2026. Enerflex is also securing long lead time components to support further growth in 2027. Turning to our international energy infrastructure operations, which are outlined on slides 17 and 18, this portfolio is supported by a strong contract position with a weighted average remaining term of approximately five years, providing durable and predictable cash flow that we expect will continue to support Interflex's financial performance in the years ahead. I'd like to touch briefly on our operations in the Middle East. Interflex is closely monitoring the conflict, and to date, the company's operations in the region have operated uninterrupted. Local teams are actively managing with established response processes and contingency planning, ensuring continued safety of our people and reliability of the company operations. Enerflex's operations in Bahrain and Oman comprise 17 distinct natural gas and produce water projects. Once the conflict in the Middle East finds resolution, we see the potential for opportunities across Enerflex's business lines. Our aftermarket services capabilities are well-positioned to support the recovery of operations, and our engineered system solutions enable rapid replacement, debottlenecking, and temporary capacity in the reconstruction of energy infrastructure. Enerflex's boomerang provides flexibility to deploy capital toward rebuilding. Beyond the Middle East, we expect energy security, diversification of supply, and emphasis on domestic resources will be enduring themes for our client partners. We believe this could result in short-cycle energy investments increasing in North America and Latin America, especially if oil prices settle above pre-conflict levels. Under this scenario, Enerflex is well positioned with our strong market position in those two regions and see the potential for additional demand across our business. Let me now speak to building momentum around execution. We are advancing the implementation of a disciplined enterprise-wide productivity system. Key elements of this include, one, leveraging our full capabilities and scale. Two, a focus on lean and continuous improvement. Three, improving structural cost, competitiveness, and speed of execution. And four, modernizing our IT and automation to enable decision-making and speed. We are excited about early wins and the potential impact across Interflex and look forward to providing updates on our progress. Lastly, I'd like to touch on our strategic priorities. For the past several months, we have been engaging with internal and external partners in a broader assessment of Interflex's strategy, capabilities, and market opportunities. The outcomes of this work will be shared in more detail at our virtual investor update on May 27th. For today, let me share that Interflex's approach to long-term value creation will be anchored on strategic growth opportunities aligned with secular growth trends, a relentless focus on execution, and a disciplined capital structure and capital allocation framework. With that, I'll turn it over to Preet to speak to the financial highlights. Thanks, Paul, and good morning, everyone.

I'll start with highlights from the first quarter. We generated revenue of $584 million compared to $552 million in Q125 and $627 million in Q425. Higher revenue compared with prior year reflects strong execution and high level of operational activity in the interior systems product line. The sequential decline relates primarily to lower part sales and service utilization in the aftermarket services product line. Gross margin before depreciation and amortization was $179 million, or 31% of revenue, compared to $161 million, or 29% of revenue in Q125, and $177 million, or 28% of revenue during Q425. Energy infrastructure at AMS product lines generated 65% of consolidated gross margin before depreciation and amortization during Q126. E.S. gross margin before depreciation amortization increased at 19% in Q126 compared to 18% in Q125 and 18% in Q425, primarily related to product mix. SG&A was $79 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, up $22 million from the prior year period due to higher stock-based compensation. On a sequential basis, SG&A decreased from $83 million, primarily due to lower core SG&A from cost savings initiatives, partially offset by higher stock-based compensation expense. Adjusted EBITDA of $137 million compared to $113 million in Q125 and $123 million in Q425. Cash provided by operating activities before changes to working capital, or FFO, increased to $95 million in Q126, compared to $60 million in Q425, and $62 million in Q125, a function of higher adjusted EBITDA and lower net finance costs. Cash provided by operating activities was $32 million, which included net working capital investment of $63 million. This compares to $96 million in Q125 and $179 million in Q425. Free cash flow decreased to $15 million in Q126 compared to $85 million during Q125 and $141 million during Q425, with higher FFO offset by investments in net working capital. Return on capital employed was 17.3% in Q126, a new record for the company, compared to 14.2% in Q125 and 16.9% during Q425. Higher ROCE is a function of the increase in trailing 12-month EBIT and lower average capital deployed, primarily due to a decline in net debt. Net earnings of $43 million to $0.35 per share in Q126 compared to $24 million or $0.19 per share in Q125 and a loss of $57 million or $0.47 per share in Q425. Compared to Q125, profitability benefited from higher gross margin and lowered net finance costs, partially offset by higher SG&A expense. Interflex exited Q126 with net debt of $505 million, which included $47 million of cash and cash equivalents, a reduction of $59 million compared to Q125. Since the beginning of 2023, Interflex has repaid approximately $550 million of long-term debt through Q126. Interflex's bank-adjusted net debt to EBITDA ratio is approximately 0.9 times at the end of Q126, down from 1.3 times at the end of Q125, and 1 times at the end of Q425. Let me shift to capital allocation. We invested $16 million in the business, comprised of $7 million for growth, primarily allocated to expand the company's contract compression fleet in the U.S., and $9 million for maintenance in PP&E. Despite the slower start in Q1, we continue to target organic capital expenditures of $175 to $195 million during 2026. This includes growth capital of $90 to $100 million, maintenance capital of $70 to $80 million, and P&E and infrastructure investments of approximately $15 million to support the company's ES business and activity in adjacent markets, including electric power generation. Interflex returned $4 million to shareholders through dividends during the first quarter, and there was no repurchase under our NCIB. We continue to allocate capital in a balanced manner across growth investments, shareholder returns and managing our financial position. The company's focus remains on enhancing profitability in our core operations, executing our engineered systems backlog, and maintaining a strong, flexible balance sheet to support long-term value creation. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Paul for closing remarks.

Thanks, Preet. We continue to advance our business and take meaningful steps to support long-term shareholder value creation. While there remains important work ahead to fully realize our ambitions, I am confident in our ability to build on this foundation, and we would like to thank our global team for their continued efforts and commitment. I will now turn the call back to the operator for questions.

Thank you. At this time, we will conduct the question and answer session. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first call comes from the line of Aaron McNeil with TD Cohen. Your line is open.

Hey, morning all. Thanks for taking my questions. When you think about opportunities in the Middle East, can you give us a sense of what sort of boxes you need to check in order to get to a positive FID from a build multiple, contract duration perspective, as well as any other important metrics that you'd want to highlight?

Yeah. Good morning, Aaron. Thanks for the question. First, staying extremely close to our knitting, needing, you know, focused on gas treating, gas processing, compression, very strict discipline around project activity, whether it be assessment through engineering audits, whether it be engineering work all the way through a full boom engagement. but the digital element being on top of that we also participate as you know in the water business and so we do have a nice installed base and as that installed base takes on additional requirements or advances we participate there with our with our engineering know-how and in our abilities certainly driving a return focus, a discipline return focus on our capital allocation, working very hard on our execution, our operational position for cost, whether it be any of the lines. We have a strict discipline on that. Looking for solid returns, contract durations that extend at least beyond our break-even periods and then some. So more opportunities, a little bit different in today's environment, more audit assessment, AMS focus as we look at potential de-bottlenecking. But prior to conflict, there was a growing opportunity list, like I said, that was very, very close to our knitting and gas processing, treating, and compression.

Fair enough. Jeff, it looks like your purchase obligations stepped up by about $230 million this quarter, including $138 million in 2028. Can you say how much of the increase is tied to backlog additions, what's speculative? And then on the working capital build this quarter, and in light of sort of a very good outlook, how should we think about that working capital balance going forward?

Hi, Art, it's Preet. I'll touch on both those points. Number one, you're right. We have, as we've mentioned, Paul mentioned today, and we mentioned earlier, that we have been getting ahead of the curve on long lead time major components, largely for the ES line of business. And so we've secured our place in line well into 27, 28, and we're looking forward to 29 also. We've got the capacity capability through our plans to execute, but we want to make sure we're not stalled by any supply chain constraints. So we've been, as you've seen, the purchase obligations have increased materially year over year, out to 2028 versus zero in 2028 as of a year ago. And it's important to note also that there's minimal cash outlay for these. These are spots in line so we can execute, but not a ton of cash that's going out the So managing very carefully our obligations, managing our place in line so we continue to execute effectively going into next year and the following year. And on working capital if you look at Q4 we had a harvest of 119 million dollars, Q1 we had 63 million use or investment of working capital across AR inventory primarily and this is aligned to obviously the lead times that we just discussed on some of the inventory and bring deposits down but also with respect to receivables, we received a significantly large cash deposits late in Q4, and we're now returning to more normalized working capital metrics, DSO, DPO inventory turn as at Q1, and going forward for the remainder of 2026, largely, I would say, relatively flat working capital movement, maybe some movement. Okay, so I'll turn it back.

Thank you. One moment for our next question. The next question comes from the line of Keith Mackey with RBC Capital Markets. Go ahead. Your line is open.

Hey, thanks, and good morning. Paul, as you've gotten to learn the different parts of the business over the last several months, can you just talk about some of the parts of the business that you think, whether it be product, service, or region, that you think have been sort of underappreciated or maybe don't get the same attention as the power side of the business does now that you've found have been very good parts of Interflex that you'd like to highlight?

First, good morning, Keith, and thank you for the question. Look, there's several areas that are exciting within the portfolio, whether it's product or geo. We're quite pleased, as I learn about our gas processing capabilities, our cryogenic processing capabilities are quite strong, very, very encouraging. The other elements, our aftermarket service business, especially those tied to our energy infrastructure in our international markets are quite strong and very, very well positioned and differentiate, I believe, Interflex in the marketplace. When it comes to maybe underappreciation, I'm just coming back recently from a trip to the Southern Cone, Brazil, Argentina. I had a chance to meet several of our employees, visit all of our facilities, visit six, seven customers, and quite impressed with the operational excellence, first off, there. I'm not sure that's fully understood or appreciated. The brand equity tied to Interflex plus Xterran history is quite strong, good installed base. So that would be an area that I would highlight, Keith. It's an area that certainly we bring discipline to the approach, the vaca morta being a world-class asset, but bringing all of the right controls, treasury controls, financial discipline is important.

And, Paul, just on the productivity system, can you just expand upon maybe what you hope to achieve with the implementation of that? Is there a margin improvement target you can highlight for us or any other targets that you'd like to achieve as you implement this system?

Yeah, great question, Keith. We, you know, simply think of Interflex as a $2.6 billion enterprise, and so the integrated capabilities of a $2.6 billion enterprise give us a lot of opportunity. You know, there's some key areas I would highlight. Our core priorities when it comes to the productivity system are to leverage that scale and operating footprint. So that comes from structure, design, things like that. you know, that the business procures well over $1.6 billion on supply chain materials around the world. We see opportunities there to act and behave and bring forward an integrated approach to the supply chain. One really big area is to build a culture around lean continuous improvement where employees engage daily on identifying waste, improving knowledge engagement in the system, as well as be very formalized in Kaizen projects that go across the enterprise that will bring us some nice productivity gains. Lastly, technology, whether technology is in its OT form where we provide technology to customers in digital areas or we leverage IT automation systems internally on cleansed data to take advantage of that across the different value streams in the business. So really excited about what we can do on this front. The company has demonstrated quarter-a-quarter now, many quarters of improving margin, and we'll be talking more in depth about those commitments here coming up in our virtual investor day on may 27th one moment please and our last question will come from tim monticello with atb cormac capital market please go ahead your line is open thanks for taking my questions um it strikes me that you're working in a fairly strong demand environment and lead

times for critical components are extending um so within that construct your pre-order behavior somewhat dictates your capacity for throughput over the next couple of years. So can you talk to us a little bit about how you're thinking about that and the visibility to growth that you're modeling within the engineering services business, engineering assistance business?

Sure. Tim, I'll start, and then if we need to add. It's a great question. And having had the opportunity to visit some of our large equipment OEM factories and suppliers, first off, I would say a fair amount of capital is being deployed to better lead times. So we've watched lead times on equipment extend. We've seen a pretty robust ordering environment. And I would say that this comment or question around productivity, presenting Interflex wide in a strategic way with equipment vendors has been very beneficial for us to be able to negotiate and get a position that secures that well beyond 26, 27. said, we're talking about 2028 type negotiations for equipment. And that position in a constricted environment is quite strategic. It affords us opportunities in the marketplace as well.

So I would tell you 26 is secured, 27, a lot of these relationships as the capital deployed by the equipment vendor starts to take hold really come to play in 2028 okay so how do I how should we think about the growth profile for I guess power gen is probably the one where you're seeing the most inflection so maybe start there and then maybe if you have a comment on gas compression processing as well along those same lines that'd be helpful yeah great question maybe I'll maybe I'll start backwards here.

Commitment on growth capital in our contract compression business has been there. You know, we expect another 13-plus percent year-over-year growth in contract compression. We are also seeing a pretty favorable environment in our engineered systems business, non-power. And so that's a place where we see, you know, above market type of position on growth. And then the wild, I think I've used the word embryonic in the past, on power. Look, that changes daily, weekly, monthly. You can see our visibility and commitment to the market has grown from one and a half gigawatts of visibility to over five gigawatts of visibility. That does line up with the ability of equipment there. So look, I think it's hard to say. We're ready to participate. We have the capacity.

We have the operational bandwidth um and so as we close some of these opportunities we'll be able to talk more more firmly about that at that time okay that's that's helpful and then the margins were strong uh particularly in engineering systems and energy infrastructure in the quarter um do you expect that level of margin to persist through the year morning tim it's it's jeff um splitting those apart so on the energy infrastructure side we did have some some margin benefit in the first quarter as it relates to our performance bonuses and KPIs as part of our infrastructure contracts especially in the Eastern Hemisphere. We don't necessarily expect that that'll be a continuing element in subsequent quarters. In terms of the engineered systems margins we've talked in the past about mix being a factor there and we certainly continue to see strong demand of the gas processing side which is typically a creative to product to margins on a consolidated basis for ES and we're seeing fairly stable pricing environment today but as Paul referenced the efforts around continuous improvement and operational and operational improvements in continuous or lean is also an ongoing initiative within the company all right that's helpful.

I appreciate the time. We'll turn it back.

Thank you. I'm showing no further questions at this time, so I would now like to turn it back to Paul Mahoney for closing remarks.

Thank you for joining today's call. We are excited about the path ahead for Interflex and look forward to providing more detail around Interflex's strategy, capabilities, and market opportunities at our virtual investor update on May 27th. Thank you for joining.

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