Stabilis Solutions, Inc.

Welcome to the Stabilis Solutions second quarter 2026 earnings call. At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode, and the floor will be open for your questions following the presentation. If you would like to ask a question at that time, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. If at any point your question has been answered, you may remove yourself from the queue by pressing star 2. So others can hear your questions clearly, we ask you pick up your handset for best sound quality. Lastly, if you should require operator assistance, please press star zero. I would now like to turn our call over to Andy Puhala, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Puhala, please go ahead.

Andy Puhala Good morning, and welcome to Stabilis Solutions' second quarter 2026 results conference call. I'm Andy Puhala, Senior Vice President and CFO of Stabilis, and joining me today is our Executive Chairman and Interim President and CEO, Casey Crenshaw. We issued a press release after the market closed yesterday detailing our second quarter operational and financial results. This release is publicly available in the investor relations section of our corporate website at Stabilis-Solutions.com. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that today's conference call will contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws. These forward-looking statements are based on the company's expectations and beliefs as of today, August 12, 2026. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The company undertakes no obligation to provide updates or revisions to the forward-looking statements made in today's call. Additional information concerning factors that could cause those differences is contained in our filings with the SEC and in the press release announcing our results. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Further, please note that we may refer to certain non-GAAP financial information on today's call. You can find reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures in our earnings press release. Today's call is being recorded and will be available for replay. With that, I'll hand the call over to Casey Crenshaw for his remarks.

Thank you, Andy, and good morning to everyone joining us today. Our second quarter results reflect the building momentum we are seeing across the business. As we discussed on our first quarter call, the first quarter was the low point for the year, coming immediately after two of our largest multi-year contracts concluded at the end of 2025. Since then, activity has strengthened meaningfully. Aerospace was particularly strong, with LNG volumes sold up 79% year over year and 87% sequentially. and our non-power generation related industrial business volumes grew more than 67% year over year as well. Turning to the balance of the year, we expect results to build steadily from here. As newly awarded contracts come online and we backfill the demand left by those completed agreements, we anticipate incremental improvements in both the third and fourth quarters. A key contributor is a contract we secured during the quarter to supply behind the meter LNG to generate power for the commissioning of an additional U.S. data center. Service is expected to begin in the third quarter, and while we currently estimate a six-month term, it could well extend beyond that. Contracts like this underpin our confidence in a stronger second half with revenue and profitability building through the third and fourth quarters and second half revenues expected to increase by more than 50% compared to the first half of 2026. As of the end of Q2, we have been awarded contracts in two different phases of data center development. First, data center commissioning, and second, providing bridge power during data center operations. Each type of opportunity brings a different profile in terms of length of project and volumes of LNG. We believe there will be significant additional opportunities to participate in these phases as well as opportunities to provide LNG during construction and for use in long-term backup power generation once these data centers are running and connected to a grid or gas pipeline. As important as the second half of the year is, our sites are increasingly set on 2027. Early next year, we expect to begin deliveries under what will be the largest contract our company has ever secured, a behind-the-meter power generation project to provide bridge power for a U.S. data center that extends into early 2029 and is expected to generate approximately $100 million of revenue annually over its two-year term. Preparations are well advanced. As of the end of Q2, we have received $20 million in customer prepayments to fund equipment, mobilization, and readiness. The project remains on schedule, and our team is actively investing in equipment and securing LNG supply to ensure a successful launch. Our commercial team also continues to bid on additional data center opportunities beyond this award. Driven primarily by this contract, we expect company revenues in 2027 to exceed $100 million. Taken together with the balance of our contracted portfolio, we expect 2027 to be a record year for Stabilis in both revenue and profitability. Let me spend a moment on how we're able to take on projects of this scale. Currently, our power generation contracts are being served largely with third-party provided LNG, which speaks to the core strength of our model. Rather than being constrained by the output of our own liquefaction plants, we can combine our own production, purchase, supply, logistics, mobile equipment, and our engineering and field service expertise to meet the demand almost anywhere in the country. That flexibility allows us to pursue the largest opportunities without building capacity ahead of them, and it reinforces our position as a leading small-scale LNG provider in the U.S. at a time when data center growth is reshaping domestic energy demand. Our aerospace business is another area where the momentum is unmistakable. Launch activity among our commercial space customers continues to climb and with it their demand for LNG, which is driving the volume growth I referenced a moment ago. This is a market where our ability to deliver high purity product reliability and to engineer solutions around each customer's specific technical requirements truly differentiates us. We continue to view aerospace as one of the most durable long-term growth avenues in our portfolio. So far in 2026, we've provided LNG to three leading rocket launch customers and are in discussions to add a fourth later this year. Stepping back, let me be direct about where our growth is coming from. Power generation for data centers and aerospace are the two end markets driving the business today. That is where demand is the strongest and where we are winning new business and where we expect the majority of our growth over the next several years. Our asset-light model and flexible balance sheet allow us to scale into demand without overextending ourselves financially. Let me turn briefly to our Galveston LNG project. We believe our proposed Galveston project is the most shovel-ready, fastest to market, lowest capital cost per gallon, small-scale LNG bunkering project anywhere on the Gulf Coast. As we discussed last quarter, the project's timeline has been extended, and I want to be candid. We are not yet in a position to provide a firm date for our final investment decision. The path forward depends on securing the right commercial offtake and financing structure, and that work remains ongoing. That said, we continue to make meaningful operational progress. In July, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a letter of recommendation on the waterway suitability assessment covering our facility and its associated barge transit routes. This is a meaningful regulatory milestone that validates the safety and navigability of our proposed operations and strengthens our standing as the preferred LNG bunkering option in the Port of Galveston along the Gulf Coast. In parallel, we continue to engage prospective customers and financing partners as we work toward a final investment decision. Marine bunkering remains an important part of our long-term story. particularly for servicing durable multi-year marine demand in the Port of Galveston and the broader Gulf Coast. At the same time, it is only one part of our much larger growth story, and I would not want its timeline to overshadow the momentum building elsewhere. Our existing platform is already delivering meaningful organic growth across power generation for data centers, aerospace, and other industrial business, and that is where the bulk of our near-term value creation is coming from. In summary, we view 2026 as a pivotal year, one in which the business troughed early, recovers through the second half, and sets the stage for what we expect to be a record 2027. We are staying disciplined with our capital, focused on execution, and squarely committed to converting today's demand into durable, We look forward to keeping you updated in the quarters ahead. With that, I'll turn the call over to Andy for a detailed review of our financial performance.