DT Midstream, Inc.

Before we get started, I would like to remind you to read the safe harbor statement on page two of the presentation, including the reference to forward-looking statements. Our presentation also includes references to non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to the reconciliation to GAAP contained in the appendix. Joining me this morning are David Slater, President and CEO, and Jeff Jewell, Executive Vice President and CFO. I'll now turn it over to David to start the call.

Thanks, Todd, and good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining. During today's call, I'll touch on our financial results, provide an update on construction of our growth projects and latest commercial activity. I'll then close with some commentary on the current market fundamentals before turning it over to Jeff to review our financial performance and outlook. So with that, we had another strong quarter, and the business continues to perform in line with our full-year plan, giving us confidence in our full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance for 2023 and early outlook for 2024. We are reaffirming our 2023 adjusted EBITDA guidance midpoint of $915 million and narrowing the range to $905 million to $925 million, reflecting the solid business performance to date. Our construction team continues to make great progress on our growth projects, and I wanted to commend them for all their hard work this year as they overcame many supply chain and weather challenges. In late August, we placed our LEAP Phase 1 expansion in service, which was well ahead of schedule and on budget. The expansion capacity immediately filled up and has been running flat out since the in-service date. The team has quickly turned its attention to our Phase 2 expansion, which remains on track for Q1 2024 in service and will be followed by our Phase 3 expansion in Q3 2024. We remain in active discussions for a LEAP Phase 4 expansion, and the recent successful completion of our Phase 1 expansion demonstrates our ability to serve our customers in a timely and efficient manner, an important consideration for producers seeking to reach the attractive Gulf Coast LNG markets, as well as those customers seeking feed gas supply certainty. As you know, LEAP is strategically located to serve growing demand on the Gulf Coast, and we are excited to announce that we are building a new one BCF a day interconnect with the Gillis Access Project. This will provide further direct access to the Louisiana Industrial and LNG corridor. Following the expected Q1 2024 in-service of our new Gillis Access interconnect, LEAP will be directly connected to approximately 6 BCF a day of expected new LNG export demand growth, further strengthening our competitive position. Upstream of LEAP on Blue Union, we are building a new 400 million cubic feet per day supply interconnect with a third-party processing plant in the Carthage area. add incremental supply to our network and continue to diversify our customer base. Last quarter, we announced a final investment decision on a new greenfield gathering opportunity in the Ohio Utica. Construction is progressing on budget and ahead of schedule, with the project now expected to go in service in early Q1 2024. As a reminder, we expect volumes to ramp over an 18 to 24 month period as our customer executes on its development plan and delineates this emerging play. And our revenues are fully protected under our take-for-pay contract structure. This is another great example of the excellent work from our construction team and their ability to execute on short-cycle investments. On Nexus, we recently added 50 million cubic feet a day of new capacity through an amendment to our Texas Eastern lease, which feeds the Nexus mainline. Nexus volumes have been running near all-time highs, and we continue to see a strong demand pull for pipeline takeaway capacity from Appalachia. Our expansion of the Appalachia Gathering System is expected to be in service by the end of the year, which also directly feeds Nexus. So there is definitely a lot of positive momentum building for this asset, as it offers critical egress capacity to strong, growing, and durable markets in the Midwest and eastern Canada. Turning to our energy transition platform and our CCS project in Louisiana, we are currently working through our Class V well permit with the Louisiana DNR, which will allow us to drill a characterization well. Assuming the test well results confirm our favorable view on the geology, we would seek to reach final investment decision in the first half of 2024. Finally, I wanted to take a moment to address the natural gas market fundamentals and producer activity across our assets. There has been a lot of focus on the short-term price of natural gas this year, which has certainly impacted producer activity in a portion of our asset portfolio. The resulting impact, however, is one of timing, a deferral of drilling and completion activity, a when, not if, decision by producers, waiting on the right price signal. Storage surplus, which has fueled weak cash prices, experienced a steady decline this summer driven by strong power generation demand and has resulted in a more balanced market in the short term. Long-term forward pricing in the $3.50 to $4.00 range in 2024 and 2025 is supportive of U.S. domestic production activity and growth. Domestic natural gas demand continues to grow and demonstrate its durability and importance to our economy, especially in the power generation sector, and we are seeing this firsthand across our pipeline portfolio. Stable and reliable U.S. source LNG is also in high demand across the world as the U.S. continues to grow its export capabilities primarily on the Gulf Coast. These long-term fundamentals are very supportive of our assets and the future growth prospects for the company. This is reflected in our deep backlog of organic growth investment opportunities, enabling us to deliver distinctive growth for many years to come. I'll now pass it over to Jeff to walk you through our quarterly financials and outlook.

Thanks, David, and good morning, everyone. In the third quarter, we delivered overall adjusted EBITDA of $236 million, representing a $12 million increase from the prior quarter. Our pipeline segment results were up $6 million from the second quarter, reflecting the impact of the early in-service of our LEAP Phase 1 expansion. Gathering segment results were $6 million greater than the second quarter, reflecting higher revenues on Blue Union and lower overall O&M. Operationally, total gathering volumes across the Haynesville and Northeast averaged approximately 3 billion cubic feet a day in the third quarter, up close to 100 million cubic feet a day from the prior quarter. In the Haynesville, volumes were up compared to the prior quarter, driven by the return to full operational capacity following the maintenance outages observed in the second quarter. In the Northeast, volumes were in line with the second quarter. As David previously mentioned, we are reaffirming our 2023 adjusted EBITDA guidance midpoint of $915 million and narrowing the range to $905 to $925 million, reflecting the strong year-to-date business performance. We are also raising our distributable cash flow guidance range to $650 to $675 million, a midpoint increase of approximately $13 million due to favorable distributions from our pipeline joint ventures. Our committed capital over 2023 and 2024 of approximately $800 million remains unchanged, with approximately $100 million committed in 2024, providing the opportunity for excess free cash flow allocation next year. If growth investments do not reach FID for 2024, we will evaluate the most accretive options for excess cash flow with our current view that it will likely be deployed towards debt reduction. We are committed to preserving the strength of our balance sheet and achieving an investment grade credit rating. We expect to end 2024 with an on-balance sheet leverage ratio of 3.6 times or below and four times or below, including our proportional share of debt at our joint ventures. Over the course of the five-year plan, we expect to delever to the low threes with our on-balance sheet debt and to the mid threes assuming proportional consolidation. Finally, Today we also announced the declaration of our fourth quarter dividend of 69 cents per share, and we are committed to growing the dividend in line with cash flow. I'll now pass it back over to David for closing remarks.