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Oasis Midstream Partners LPÂ (OMP)
Q2Â 2019 Earnings Call
Aug 7, 2019, 12:30 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning. My name is Sean, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Release and Operations Update for Oasis Midstream Partners. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to turn the call over to Richard Robuck, Oasis Midstream's CFO to begin the conference. Thank you. You may begin your conference.
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
Thank you, Sean. Good morning, everyone. Today, we're reporting our second quarter 2019 financial and operational results. We're delighted to have you on our call. I'm joined by Taylor Reid and Michael Lou as well as some other members from the team.
Please be advised that our remarks on both Oasis Petroleum and Oasis Midstream Partners, including the answers to your questions, including -- includes statements that we believe to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from those currently disclosed in our earnings release and conference call.
Those risks include, among others, matters that we have described in our earnings release as well in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. During this conference call, we will also make references to certain non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations to the applicable GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release and on our website. We will also reference our current investor presentation, which you can find on our website.
With that, I'll turn the call over to Taylor.
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining our call. We thought we'd start today by highlighting a handful of key points. First, OMP's financial outlook remains exceptional. The second quarter demonstrates the strength and resiliency of our portfolio, as some temporary downtime at Bighorn was mostly offset by better than anticipated performance at Beartooth. Our coverage outlook for the second half of 2019 remains unchanged. We remain in a compelling position to simultaneously grow our distribution as well as our coverage.
Second, the Boards of Oasis and our general partner continue to work toward executing final agreements for the dedication of certain Delaware acreage from Oasis Petroleum to OMP. As a reminder, this DevCo will be called Panther with final agreements expected in the third quarter. This is a huge opportunity for OMP unitholders, which enhances the financial outlook for OMP, while keeping the balance sheet strong.
Third, we continue to pursue third-party business in both the Williston and Delaware. Our business development team has done a tremendous job securing attractive customers to leverage our footprint. We estimate over 15% to 20% of our Q4 '19 EBITDA will come from third-parties. And finally, OMP remains an attractive investment opportunity. The combination of pure leading distribution growth, improving coverage in a near double-digit yield represent a compelling value to investors. We look forward to executing our plan in 2019 and beyond.
In the second quarter, we reported distribution coverage of 1.7 times, a sequential improvement from the 1.63 times OMP produced in the first quarter. Adjusting for the constraints in the gas plant coverage would have approximated 1.9 times above the top end of our guidance. We grew our distribution 5% versus the prior quarter consistent with our targeted 20% annualized distribution growth rate.
Gas volumes in both Bighorn and Bobcat will constrain during the second quarter, largely due to our plant downtime and a turnaround during the end of the second quarter and into early July. The net impact of volumes was approximately 40 million cubic feet per day in both DevCos, and we spent incremental opex during the second quarter. Altogether, EBITDA was adversely impacted by about $5 million for the second quarter, as it related to the third quarter Oasis announcement in their press release that both oil and gas volumes were higher during the month of July. We were in the same boat with our gas volumes for the last few weeks at or above the high end of our third quarter ranges for both Bighorn and Bobcat.
This impressive ramp up reflects a strong combination of Oasis and third-parties. Over the second quarter, third-party volumes approximated 29% of Bighorn's total volumes. We still expect utilization to be above 90% by year end 2019. Natural gas processing in the Williston remains tight as you have heard from numerous operators in the basin. North Dakota gas production grew to a record 2.8 Bcf per day in May, while basin processing is only 2.2 Bcf a day, including OMP's new plant.
We continue to remain active with multiple parties regarding additional opportunities, as we seek to reduce overall flaring in the Williston, while capitalizing on our strategic investment. As we look to the third quarter of 2019, we expect an improvement in coverage to about 1.8 to 1.9 times. Additionally, we expect to exit the year even stronger with fourth quarter coverage of 1.9 to 2 times. The steady ramp up and coverage reflects strong contributions from our new gas complex at Bighorn, including third-party volumes, continued execution across Bobcat and Beartooth as well as the addition of the Panther DevCo.
I'll now turn the call over to Michael to go over a little more detail on our operations.
Michael H. Lou -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Taylor. OMP continues to add incremental value for its unitholders. We updated 2019 EBITDA guidance to account for second quarter performance and our updated projections by DevCo. Our sponsor continues to direct a substantial portion of its drilling to OMP dedicated areas, supporting our financial outlook for 2019 and beyond. Additionally, as Taylor mentioned, we've won a significant amount of third-party business and this is becoming a more significant portion of our cash flow stream. We provided guidance for volumes in the third and fourth quarter of 2019 last night. Our forecast volumes and improved gross margins from our new gas plant drives solid EBITDA growth through the remainder of the year.
I'll dive into quarterly details a bit before giving more color on our 2019 guidance. At Bighorn, crude volumes exceeded the top end of guidance during the quarter, while gas volumes were below expectations due to the gas plant downtime we discussed. At the Bobcat DevCo, with the exception of water, volumes were below expectations, reflecting the same downtime. At Beartooth, water volume significantly exceeded the top end of guidance, reflecting a continued strong contribution from our sponsor and incremental third-party volumes.
Turning to capital, we've adjusted our budget about 8% higher largely reflecting capturing third-party business, incremental plant costs and an acceleration of certain gathering infrastructure from 2020 into 2019. Total capex net to OMP is expected to range $203 million to $214 million. OMP expects the Panther DevCo arrangements to be finalized in the third quarter with financial impacts beginning around September 1. Our capex range reflects a full year of Panther spending at OMP, including reimbursing our sponsor for Panther Capital spent to-date. Execution against our capital arrangement with Oasis in Bobcat are proceeding as expected. As OMP increased its interest in the Bobcat DevCo to 32.5% from 27.4% at the end of the first quarter. OMP's ownership and Bobcat is still expected to increase to approximately 34% to 36% by year end.
With that, I'll hand the call over to Richard.
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
Thanks, Michael. OMP is benefiting from a strong program by our sponsor and coupled with new and highly accretive third-party volumes. Given the amount of third-party business we capture, aggregate economics, including both sponsor and third-party volumes yield sub-four times build multiples. We remain on track this quarter with our 20% annualized distribution growth target, with the second quarter distribution being $0.49 a unit. As of June 30, 2019, the partnership had cash outstanding of $6 million and $408 million drawn under its revolving credit facility.
Debt to second quarter annualized EBITDA was about 2.8 times. It will be driven down throughout the rest of the year, exiting around 2.5 times. Our revolving credit facility remains at $475 million committed with the ability to further increase commitments to $675 million.
In closing, we're very excited about executing on our planning and continuing to drive strong results at OMP.
I'll now hand the call back over to Sean for questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question today will come from Jeremy Tonet with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Jeremy Tonet -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Hi, good morning.
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Good morning.
Jeremy Tonet -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Just want to start with some commentary on the Oasis call with regards to Wild Basin and the strategic importance there on a go forward basis, it seems like there could be some change rotating away. And just wondering how we should be thinking about that as it relates to OMP?
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yes. First, I'll begin and Mike and Richard can jump in. But really in respect there's been a change, it's really what we stated is being consistent with what we've been talking about and we backed up all the way to 2015, 2016 and throughout the life of the midstream business. We've been open around financing alternatives and then value proposition. Now the strategic nature of the asset for gas capture was getting all that infrastructure built was super strategic upfront as Tommy talked about. There's still a strategic nature of that component from a gas capture standpoint, but not probably at the same level as it was in the early days. But this -- the idea for the upstream and their ownership and that we've always kind of been open to alternatives.
Michael H. Lou -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Is that what you're asking, Jeremy?
Jeremy Tonet -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Yes. Just one quick follow-up here as far as -- I appreciate the distribution coverage, is that quite a high level and that gives you lot of flexibility. But with the yield kind of standing where it is in the double-digit range, was there a consideration to unit repurchases entering the mix as far as returning capital to unitholders at this point?
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
Yeah. At this point, we have not thought about doing unit repurchases. I think that, right now, we have leverage in the area we'd like it, that 2 and 2.5 times. And so our goal is to march it down this year and even further decrease it into 2020 neighborhood. And so we think managing conservative balance sheet is prudent at this time and have not foreseen desire to buyback units at this time.
Jeremy Tonet -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
That's all from me. Thanks for taking my question.
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Thanks.
Operator
Our next question will come from Spiro Dounis with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Spiro Dounis -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Hey, good afternoon, guys. How are you?
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Good.
Spiro Dounis -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Great. Just one last question surrounding the sponsor and the free cash flow revision, I guess how should we think about the impact to OMP? Just trying to think through it. Could we see an accelerated drop downs to drive cash back up to the sponsor? And then maybe in that vein, I believe there's been some talk about monetization of some of the position. Any color around that would be helpful.
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
Yes. So in terms of free cash flow at the parent, what you'll see is that there's actually still a significant amount of free cash flow at the parent. So the adjustments at the parent level that they talked about on the call revolved around the amount of deflation between a $50 and $60 case and because of the excess free cash flow generation and ability to do a little bit more on the Delaware to keep efficiencies going. And so that's kind of the thought process around the parent, it really doesn't change activity in a great way at the partnership level in terms of the different areas and how that will work. In terms of importance, Taylor kind of mentioned the strategic nature of Wild Basin maybe changing a little bit for the parent in terms of availability of service and what you're seeing in the basin as a whole is not all producers have the same access to infrastructure that our sponsor enjoys through OMP. And so that part of it obviously is still massively important. And there's still a lot of inventory in that Wild Basin area with acquisitions that were done at the E&P level a few years back, it increased and further dedicated more acreage to the partnership. So there's still a lot of running room in the Wild Basin and that's still going to be a core part of the business. In fact there is -- it looks like they're going to continue to keep things full in that Wild Basin asset.
There is also continues to be other areas. We think at the sponsor level that aren't currently dedicated that could become very interesting for the partnership and where we can really make a difference for the sponsor in terms of Painted Woods and maybe some other areas where contracts are rolling off or where there's not current dedications, where we can as a partnership level, really support the parent. In terms of strategic alternatives, I don't know exactly how that will play out. What you heard the parent say is that there is a focus on how to get value, that the true value of this asset, which we think is quite large and how they can get that value and, like you said, it could be in the form of further drop downs where they're still holding a significant amount of assets at the sponsor level that eventually could come down. It could be through some other broader initiative on that front. So those are kind of the spectrum of things that I think we talked about on the sponsor call.
Spiro Dounis -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Got it. That seems to be very helpful. Second one just around Panther. Just trying to get a sense sort of maybe how critical or important this could be to the sponsor? And I guess what I'm specifically getting at is, with respect to sponsor's LOEs in the basin, your ability to sort of do water internally and may build out pipeline or recycling infrastructure. What does that do to the LOE for the sponsor?
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
It's -- it is definitely -- as we've talked about on all these shale plays, water is the number one cost in terms of lease operating expense. And so having an efficient pipeline network where you can eliminate the trucks, you take them off the road, put everything into the pipeline and then inject it down the well is the most efficient way to handle it. So it is important to the sponsor to have that infrastructure built out and efficiently run because it really drives that LOE down.
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
And we saw that in a huge way over the years in the Williston Basin where especially in kind of weather times where roads are closed, if you can't move your water consistently, that can impact your production volumes and you see people with constraints on the infrastructure side across the basin, not only on the gas side, but across kind of all water and oil as well. In the Delaware, not too dissimilar. You may not have the weather fluctuations in the same manner that you have in the Williston, but I think it's fairly well-documented, the congestion on the roads in the Delaware and the need for kind of a build out of infrastructure there as well. So while roads are getting built, it's certainly better to get this water moved by pipeline and it's certainly a lot cheaper and more reliable too. So we think in both basins it makes a lot of sense and can really impact LOE for the parent.
Spiro Dounis -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Got it. And in terms of timing, I think Panther will contribute a little bit to 2019. But ultimately, how should we think about timing around when that hits like critical mass?
Michael H. Lou -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, I mean, you'll see that continue -- slowly ramp up over the next couple of years. I think we have a slide on our investor deck that kind of talks about capital spend over time and build multiples as they relate to that capital spend. Clearly, the implication is growing EBITDA over time for Panther. So that's outside it. So 2022-2023 timeframe, you would have spent on a cumulative basis, $150 million of capital and so you just divide that by a four -- or divide that by four to get the EBITDA levels in that timeframe. So it's really starting to get material as you march through time.
Spiro Dounis -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Okay, so steady ramp up into that. That's helpful. Great. That's it from me. Thanks for the time, guys.
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Okay.
Operator
Our next question will come from Pearce Hammond with Simmons Energy. Please go ahead.
Pearce Hammond Jr. -- Simmons Energy -- Analyst
Good morning and thank you for taking my questions. My first question, given the steep decline in the unit price today for Oasis Midstream Partners. What do you think investors do not fully understand or appreciate about this story, given this significant drop today?
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
Yes, I think the initial reaction was just -- and our -- I would say humble opinion little bit overdone, mainly because as I look out into the third and fourth quarter and into 2020, the plan really hasn't changed. And the team is doing a great job in terms of not only capturing Oasis's volumes, but also others volume. So if you look at EBITDA and leverage levels and coverage and distribution growth, everything is definitely intact. I think the other thing and Michael said it on the earlier call, that super important is that, Oasis was able to bring this plant on in December of 2018 and the team did a heroic job getting it done quickly and allowing OMP to get the value of those cash flows really as soon as they safely and in a budget constrained world could do. And that accreted to the OMP shareholders for the first six months of the year and will continue going forward. Those other folks who look to bring in gas processing into the basin, it took them well over seven to nine months longer and some are still waiting on it. And I think the ability to move quickly, make good decisions like that and bring that value to our unitholders, and frankly, building it at OMP and not upstairs and dropping it later is super accretive. And so, yes, we did have some downtime. We articulated that in the earlier call and then earlier for you guys and a little bit of EBITDA for a short period of time on kind of the normal kinks that you have on a gas plant versus not having a plant for six to nine months is a trade we'd make all day long, and we think the future is definitely intact and it has the ability to get better from here.
Pearce Hammond Jr. -- Simmons Energy -- Analyst
Well, thank you for that color. That's helpful. And then as a follow-up. Do you see opportunities to maybe even accelerate third-party business and maybe reduce some of the reliance on the sponsor?
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
Yes, so I think the goal of OMP is not to only service the sponsor. The goal is actually to go diversify -- and in order to add incremental value, I think the way we've thought about this business is that by bringing it public in 2017 is that if you were just going to capture Oasis volumes, it wasn't necessarily going to be all that compelling. But if we could bring incremental capital to help fund the initial build out to capture a third-party volumes on all three commodities, then that would be a whole lot more compelling. And now we've got a -- I think as evidenced by what we've done life today. We've got one of the top BD teams out there -- out working to grow our volumes and increase EBITDA related to third-party as a percent of the total faster than most sponsor backed MLPs out there.
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Pearce, just to add a little bit more. We talked a little bit about this on our IPO that for a number of years we focused primarily on the sponsor and we think the team did an incredible job from an operating standpoint, just keeping up with the growth that the parent had. We -- at the IPO, we said, hey look, we've never really looked for that third-party growth, but we're going to start focusing on it. And what you've seen is that we've gone from at the beginning of this year where it was pretty minimal third-party to where by the end of the year, it's going to be 20% pretty significant move. Like Richard said, the team is doing a great job of continuing to reduce like you said that reliance upon the sponsor and fill that with third-parties.
I would say that in the Delaware, we're on the front end of that as well. And so as we talked about in the last question some of those projections, those are all sponsor based and we think that that asset actually sits in one of the best parts of the Delaware in terms of -- from an infrastructure perspective and there is a huge need in that area that we think that we can play in and really add some third-party volumes to that system as well. So not only can we continue to grow the Bakken side, but I think there's a lot of opportunity in the Delaware.
Pearce Hammond Jr. -- Simmons Energy -- Analyst
Thank you for all the color.
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Sure.
Operator
This will conclude today's question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Taylor Reid for any closing remarks.
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Thanks, operator. In closing, second quarter results demonstrate the strength and resiliency of the OMP portfolio. Our financial outlook and specifically our growth and coverage profile remain an attractive proposition to investors. Thanks again for joining the call today. As always, we will definitely make ourselves available for any follow-up questions that you might have. Thank you.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 26 minutes
Call participants:
Richard N. Robuck -- Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer
Taylor L. Reid -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Michael H. Lou -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Jeremy Tonet -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Spiro Dounis -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Pearce Hammond Jr. -- Simmons Energy -- Analyst
