5/8/2026

speaker
Didi
Conference Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the CAVI Energy Annual General Meeting and Q1 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. Please be advised that today's proceedings are being recorded. Following the formal business of the meeting and brief management presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. If you have a question and you are viewing on webcast, please use the Ask a Question button in the top right-hand corner to type your question at any time during the presentation. If you're participating via telephone and would like to ask a question, please dial star 11 at any time. You will then be in the queue for the question and answer session at the end of the call. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Mr. Dallas McConnell, Vice President, Corporate Finance. Please go ahead, Mr. McConnell.

speaker
Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

Thank you, Didi. Hello and welcome to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of CAVI Energy Limited. My name is Dallas McConnell. I am CAVI's VP of Corporate Finance and I will be the moderator for today's meeting. I would now like to take this opportunity to review the logistics for today's meeting. In addition to the in-person portion of this meeting at Norton Rose Fulbright, This meeting is being streamed by live audio webcast and telephone. Participants attending via the webcast or telephone may listen to the meeting and ask questions but will not be able to vote on items of business. Only registered shareholders of record as of March 24th, 2026 and duly appointed proxy holders present in person at this meeting are entitled to vote on items of business. The procedure for voting and asking questions will be addressed at the outset of the meeting. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. If you participate in the meeting and disclose personal information, you will be deemed consent to the recording, transfer, and use of your personal information. If you disclose personal information of another person in today's meeting, you will be deemed to represent and warrant that you first obtained all required consents for the disclosure, recording, transfer, and use of their personal information. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Patricia McLeod, Chair of the Board of Directors.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you, Mr. McConnell. Good afternoon and once again welcome to the 2026 Annual General Meeting of CAVI shareholders. My name is Patricia McLeod and I am the Chair of CAVI's Board of Directors. In accordance with CAVI's bylaws as Chair of the Board, I will act as Chair of today's meeting. Before we proceed with the formal business of the meeting, I would like to take a moment to introduce the other members of the board who are here today. Darcy Redding, who is our president and chief executive officer, Michael Backus, Harvey Dewar, Doug Dreisinger, Andrew Judson, and Kiran Singh. We also have with us the following members of senior management, John Emery, our chief operating officer, Adam Gray, our chief financial officer, and Paul Kunkel, our chief commercial officer. Darcy Redding and Adam Gray will provide a corporate presentation and report on CAVI's 2026 Q1 financial results following the formal portion of today's meeting and I invite you to stay for their presentation. The meeting will now come to order. I appoint the representatives from Norton Rose Fulbright present here to serve as recording secretary for the meeting and thank you for doing that. I also appoint Paul Bedard of Odyssey Trust Company to serve as scrutineer for the meeting and thank you to Paul. In accordance with the notice and access provisions under applicable securities laws, the notice calling this meeting and the accompanying management information circular were made available on March 24th, 2026 to all shareholders of record as of that date, being the record date for the meeting. A notice and access notification and form of proxy or voting instruction form as applicable were also mailed to registered shareholders or delivered to intermediaries in each case as required by applicable securities laws. An affidavit as to the mailing to registered shareholders is available for inspection by any shareholder. I direct that the Secretary append the affidavit as is scheduled to the minutes of the meeting. In accordance with the Alberta Business Corporations Act, the notice calling this meeting was also sent to CAVI's directors and to our auditors, Ernst & Young, LLP. Pursuant to CABHI's bylaws, business may only be transacted at this meeting if two people holding or representing by proxy at least 5% of the shares entitled to vote are present in person or represented by proxy at this meeting. Mr. Bedard, do we have quorum?

speaker
Paul Bedard
Scrutineer, Odyssey Trust Company

Yes, we do, Chair. We have quorum.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you. I direct that the Secretary append the scrutineer's report as is scheduled to the minutes of the meeting. Notice having been served in accordance with CAVI's bylaws and a quorum being present, I now declare that this meeting has been duly called and is properly constituted for the transaction of business. The purpose of this meeting is as follows. To receive CAVI's audited, consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31st, 2025, along with the associated auditor's report. To fix the number of directors of CAVI to be elected as seven. To elect the directors of CAVI for the ensuing year. to appoint Ernst & Young LLP as CAVI's auditors for the ensuing year and authorize the Board to fix their remuneration, to accept CAVI's approach to executive compensation, and to transact any other business which may be properly brought before the meeting. All items of business are also outlined in CAVI's Management Information Circular dated March 24, 2026, which was made available to all shareholders along with the notice calling this meeting. I will now briefly review the voting procedures for today's meeting. Each item of business to be covered today will be voted on by shareholders other than the receipt of the financial statements and associated auditor's report. Every shareholder as of the record date is entitled to vote on such items and has one vote for each common share they hold. Each item of business requires that the resolution be passed by a majority of the votes cast. As previously mentioned, only registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders present in person at this meeting are entitled to vote. Pursuant to CAVI's bylaws and the Alberta Business Corporations Act, all items of business must be decided by a show of hands unless a ballot is required or demanded by a shareholder or proxy holder.

speaker
Adam Gray
Chief Financial Officer

Madam Chair, my name is Adam Gray, and I am a proxy holder. In the interest of ensuring this meeting is timely and efficient, I demand that voting on all items of business be taken by ballot instead of by a show of hands.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you, Mr. Gray. All items of business will be voted on by ballot then. If you are a registered shareholder or proxy holder attending in person, please raise your hand and the scrutineer will provide you with ballots. Okay. If you voted in advance of the meeting, you do not need to take further action today unless you would like to change your vote. If you choose to cast a ballot in person at today's meeting, Your previously submitted vote will be disregarded. I will now review the procedure for asking questions at this meeting. We encourage all shareholders to ask questions. However, we ask that questions unrelated to the matters being voted upon be held until after the formal portion of this meeting. All participants who wish to ask a question are asked to state their name, the entity they represent, if applicable, and whether they are a registered shareholder or a duly appointed proxy holder. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders attending this meeting in person may ask a question by raising their hand. Participants on the phone can initiate a question by dialing star 11. Participants on the webcast can submit questions by clicking the ask a question button on the top right corner of the webcast. Questions received via phone or the webcast will be read or summarized by the moderator along with the name of the person asking the question and the entity which they represent if applicable. In each case, the chair of the meeting will respond to the question or direct the question to the appropriate person. We will now proceed with the formal business of today's meeting. To facilitate this process, I've asked Adam Gray, Paul Kunkel, and John Emery, who are all proxy holders, to move and second all motions. I will call on them at the appropriate time during the meeting. First, to receive the audited consolidated financial statements, first item of business is this receipt of CAVI's audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, and the associated auditor's report. Copies of the financial statements and auditor's report have been made available to all shareholders. As is customary, we will not conduct a vote on the financial statements and associated auditor's report. As previously indicated, there will be a brief corporate presentation following the formal portion of the meeting, and shareholders are invited to ask questions on the financial statements at that time. I declare that the audited financial statements of CAVI for the year ended December 31st, 2025 and the associated auditor's report have been received. The next item of business is to fix the number of directors to be elected to the board. May I please have a mover and seconder for this item?

speaker
Adam Gray
Chief Financial Officer

Madam Chair, I move that the number of directors to be elected to the board be fixed at seven. Madam Chair, I second the motion.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you. Is there any discussion?

speaker
Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

There are no relevant questions.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you. As there are no further questions or discussion, I call for the vote on the motion before the meeting to fix the number of directors of CAVI at 7. I ask all shareholders and proxyholders that have not yet voted to please complete a ballot. Raise your hands once your ballot is complete and the scrutineer will collect it. We're good. The scrutineer has tabulated the voting results. I'm informed. that the majority of the votes submitted were in favor of the motion, and therefore I declare the motion carried. The next item of business is the election of the seven individuals nominated by management to serve as directors of CABI. The names of the seven director nominees are myself, Patricia McLeod, Michael Backus, Harvey Doerr, Doug Dreisinger, Andrew Judson, Kiran Singh, and Darcy Redding. Information about each of the director nominees was included in CABI's circular. CAVI did not receive any additional nominations for directors under the advanced notice provisions of our bylaw number three, which establishes the procedures for a shareholder to nominate a director for election to the board. Accordingly, no additional nominees will be considered for election at this meeting, and I declare the nominations to be closed. May I please have a mover and seconder regarding the election of the director nominees?

speaker
Adam Gray
Chief Financial Officer

Madam Chair, I move that each of Patricia McLeod, Michael Backus, Harvey Dewar, Doug Dreisinger, Andrew Judson, Kiran Singh, and Darcy Redding be elected as director of CAVI to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successor is duly elected or appointed.

speaker
Paul Bedard
Scrutineer, Odyssey Trust Company

Madam Chair, I second the motion.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you. Is there any discussion?

speaker
Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

There is not.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

All right. I now call for a vote on the motion before the meeting to elect the nominated individuals as directors of CAVI to hold office. until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are duly elected or appointed. Each director nominee is voted on individually. I ask all shareholders and proxy holders that have not yet voted to please complete a ballot by marking X next to 4 or withhold for each director nominee listed on the ballot. Raise your hand once your ballot is completed and Scrutineer will collect it from you. Scrutineer has tabulated the voting results. I am informed that each of the director nominees has received a majority of the votes submitted in favor of their election. Therefore, I declare that myself, Patricia McLeod, Michael Backus, Harvey Dewar, Doug Dreisinger, Andrew Judson, Kiran Singh, and Darcy Redding are each duly elected as the director of CAVI to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are duly elected or appointed. I'd like to congratulate the members of the board and I thank them for their service. It's truly an honor and a pleasure to serve with you. The next item of business is the appointment of CAVI's auditors. May I please have a mover and a seconder for this item?

speaker
Adam Gray
Chief Financial Officer

Madam Chair, I move that Ernst & Young LLP be appointed as auditors of CAVI to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders at such remuneration as may be approved by the Board. Madam Chair, I second the motion.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you. Is there any discussion?

speaker
Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

No, Madam Chair, there is not.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Okay, as there's no further discussion, we will now take votes on this motion. I ask again that all shareholders and proxy holders that have not yet voted to please complete a ballot. Grutinier has tabulated the voting results. I am informed that a majority of the votes submitted were in favor of the motion. Therefore, I declare that Ernst & Young LLP is appointed as CAVI's auditors to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders at such remuneration as may be approved by the board. The next item of business is the non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation, also known as, say, on pay. May I have a mover and a seconder for this item?

speaker
Paul Bedard
Scrutineer, Odyssey Trust Company

Madam Chair, I move that on an advisory basis, and not to diminish the role and responsibilities of the Board of Directors, that the shareholders accept the approach to executive compensation as disclosed in CAVI's Management Information Circular. Madam Chair, I second the motion.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Thank you. Is there any discussion?

speaker
Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

No, there is not.

speaker
Patricia McLeod
Chair of the Board of Directors

Okay. As there is no further discussion, I now call for the vote on the motion before the meeting. I ask all shareholders and property holders that have not yet voted to please complete a ballot. Scrutineer has tabulated the voting results. I am informed that a majority of the votes submitted were in favor of the motion. I declare that CAVI's approach to executive compensation, as disclosed in the circular, has been accepted by the shareholders. After this meeting, the voting results will be filed on CAVI's CDAR profile and publicly announced by way of news release. And this concludes the formal business of the meeting. I now declare the formal portion of this meeting be terminated at 1.45 p.m. Thank you. I will now ask Darcy Redding to provide the corporate presentation. Adam Gray will then present our recently released 2026 Q1 results.

speaker
Darcy Redding
President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Patricia, and thank you everyone for your interest this afternoon in CAVI Energy's annual general meeting. At this time, and as Patty mentioned, Adam Gray and I will review the company's first quarter 2026 operating and financial results and certain other company business. Before doing so, I would like to remind you that our remarks today will include forward-looking statements that are subject to important risks and uncertainties. For more information on these risks and uncertainties, please see the reports filed by CAVI with Canadian securities regulators on cdarplus.ca. We are extremely pleased with our most recent quarterly results, which continue to deliver shareholder value through the successful execution of our corporate strategy. We believe CAVI offers an attractive investment opportunity for our shareholders, given our mix of prolific upstream production and its associated development upside, our material midstream business, and our unique identity as a significant producer and seller of sulfur, which is recovered through processing of our sour gas production. Our industry-leading upstream base decline of approximately 6% per annum contributes to a healthy reserve life index that exceeds 25 years. This, in turn, complements our ability to grow our business through development of our extensive identified drilling inventory, with the potential to grow the upstream business to 50,000 BOEs per day. Our first quarter results, to be discussed in more details in a few minutes, show how our ownership and operatorship in our three large deep cut gas processing facilities support a significant midstream business that is projected to deliver in excess of $40 million of revenue in 2026. This midstream revenue has grown significantly in the past several years and provides a revenue stream largely independent of natural gas pricing, providing the company with another layer of cash flow certainty during times of weak AECO natural gas pricing. Cavite sulfur production in excess of 1,000 metric tons per day is benefiting from exposure to much higher pricing as of January 2026, now reflected in our expectations that sulfur sales will generate approximately one-third of the company's gross revenue in calendar year 2026. In essence, CAVI provides our shareholders with the opportunity to invest in attractive upstream hydrocarbon assets that are long-life and prolific with deep development drilling inventory. However, our midstream assets and growing revenue stream corresponding to these assets provide supplemental revenue well-protected from natural gas price volatility. And in addition, our substantial sulfur production, traditionally considered a byproduct of natural gas, provides an extremely robust revenue stream uncorrelated to the price of natural gas. We believe this diversity yields an attractive opportunity for investors, given it is unique for energy companies CAVI's size. This diversity has helped support corporate performance, and we are excited to speak specifically to our latest quarterly results over the next few minutes. Taking a moment to further expand on our revenue diversity, focusing on the far right of the bar chart on this slide, we show our Q1 2026 revenue broken down by category and commodity type. Readily apparent is the substantial growth in sulfur revenue in the quarter, accounting for approximately one third of our total revenue, and frankly, dwarfing the contribution made previously by sulfur sales. Revenue from our midstream business was stable in the quarter on an absolute dollar basis, but its contribution on a percentage basis was reduced to 12%, and the larger portion of the revenue pie, so to speak, was contributed by our sulfur sales. Similarly, strong natural gas liquids pricing and relatively stable natural gas sales revenue supported by our attractive existing gas hedges saw their contributions to the total corporate revenue stream diminish on a percentage basis this quarter due to the growth of sulfur revenue. To still doubt, our key message is simply this. The importance of sulfur to our business was materially amplified in the first quarter of 2026. Sulfur will continue to be key to our business, and we are strategically and uniquely positioned to take advantage of the many opportunities sulfur provides. Our upstream assets provide the feedstock and our midstream assets are designed to extract sulfur from the raw gas production. In essence, a perfect combination, particularly given the record high sulfur pricing significantly aided by the current Middle East conflict. CAVI represents a rare and unique vehicle for investors to participate in sulfur pricing upside. Given the current sulfur market, I will lastly note that we may consider committing a portion of our forecasted 2027 calendar year sulfur production to a fixed price contract, particularly as our existing natural gas hedges wind down by the end of May 2027. Prudent management of cash flow and cash flow certainty remains a key focus for the company to ensure our critical turnarounds and other preventative maintenance activity can be appropriately funded. Adam will be speaking to our corporate commodity prices and hedge programs in a few moments, so I'll defer further details on that at this time. Shifting now to our first quarter results highlights, we are pleased that our previously detailed sulfur revenue growth supported a very substantial 27 million US dollar debt reduction, which was a new company record for single quarter deleveraging. Our major gas processing facilities located at Waterton, Jumping Pound, and Caroline all achieved 100% runtime in the quarter, helping to support both our commodity sales and third-party processing revenue in the quarter. Additionally, our strong runtime performance contributed to a new record volume of third-party raw gas processing that averaged nearly 157 million cubic feet per day in the quarter. I want to briefly note that we continue to forecast a June outage at Waterton with an expected duration of approximately three weeks, a result of the scheduled maintenance outage by the owner of the sales gas pipeline infrastructure. We also maintain our forecast for the approximate six-week outage at Caroline to accommodate our maintenance turnaround at the Caroline gas plant. Both the Waterton and Caroline outages were expected and scheduled and their impacts are included in our corporate guidance. Nevertheless, the outages will have a disproportionate impact on revenue and cash flow utilization in those quarters as compared to the first quarter, and their impacts should be appropriately considered. Reviewing our specific quarterly operating results, production of over 24,600 BOE per day and nearly 1,100 metric tons per day of sulfur generated nearly $42 million in net operating income, a net back of $18.87 per BOE. Operating costs in the quarter of $47.8 million were slightly higher than originally anticipated, in part due to robust production volumes, including higher production at non-operated facilities, where the fee burden on CAVI gas is higher than the marginal cost of processing at our owned Of note and consistent with our usual communications, our facilities are strategic components of revenue generation from our midstreaming business and from solver sales. Accordingly, we draw your attention to our adjusted operating expense, which is shown as the brown line in the operating expense chart in the lower right corner of this supporting slide. Our $21.55 per BOE operating cost in the quarter if third-party revenues of $12.4 million are taken into account as an offset, can be quantified as approximately $16 per BOE in the quarter. As has been customary in our communications, if our sulfur revenue, derived primarily from our ownership in our sour gas processing facilities, is also utilized to offset operating expense, our adjusted operating cost in the quarter is only $0.09 per BOE. Although we realize this calculation and the $0.09 operating cost is not an industry standard, we do believe it is a parameter to consider with appropriate context, given our uniqueness as an upstream producer with a material midstream business. I'd like to now hand things off to Adam Gray, who will provide details on our quarterly financial results, hedging positions, and forward-looking business for the remainder of the year.

speaker
Adam Gray
Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Darcy. Good afternoon, and thanks again for joining. I'm Adam Gray, Chief Financial Officer. The financial results headline for Q1 is pretty straightforward and aligned to Darcy's previous comments. The sulfur contract expiry delivered exactly as promised. Our revenue diversification initiatives are bearing fruit, and our quarterly results demonstrate what this business is capable of, even in an exceptionally weak ACO natural gas pricing environment. Net operating income was just under $42 million, or $0.14 per share, up 29% from the first quarter of 2025, and funds flow from operations came in at $32.2 million, or $0.11 per share, up 48% year over year. Our operating net back of $18.87 per BOE is nearly double where we were just one year ago. We recognized $35 million in SALFA revenue this quarter, compared to $1.6 million in the first quarter of 2025. Vancouver FOB sulfur price averaged over U.S. $500 per ton during the quarter, and while the structured pricing agreement means two-thirds of our volumes are fixed or collared, the unhedged remaining third participated fully in that market, which continues to be exceptionally strong. We recognize a net loss on revenue hedging activities during the quarter of $14.8 million, which accounts for hedging on gas, liquids, and sulfur combined. versus $21 million gain in Q1 2025, primarily on gas. Those figures demonstrate the intended shift in our revenue profile. We are less reliant on hedging to support our operations and debt repayment, precisely because sulfur and midstream revenues have stepped up in gas instead. We also saw an expected increase in royalty burden, primarily as a result of higher sulfur prices, but also due to higher liquids prices. In case there are lingering concerns, I believe it's important to point out that we pay sulfur royalties based on our realized or hedged price, not based on Vancouver FOB price. So there is no disconnect between sulfur revenues and sulfur royalties. I also want to acknowledge, as Darcy did, that operating expense was slightly above our expectations at $47.8 million. While flat on a per BOE basis, we did experience higher than expected processing fees, which resulted in higher expected volumes on non-operated Central Alberta volumes, which were reactivated by the operator, plus the minor cost escalations in maintenance and chemical categories. We are working very hard to bring annual 2026 operating expense back in line with our expectations. On an adjusted OpEx basis, as Darcy mentioned, our core facilities collectively operate at or near zero adjusted operating expense. We may look to modify this measure going forward, but I think the moral of the story, or at least one way to look at it, is that third-party processing and sulfur revenues are fully funding our operating costs, with actual hydrocarbon production revenues delivering free cash flow. On capital, we spent $6.3 million in the quarter, consistent with guidance. Some of those expenditures were associated with procurement of parts associated with the upcoming Caroline turnaround in Q3. We also accelerated 6.8 million of planned reclamation and abandonment spend into the first quarter. This was intentional, proactive planning of our ARO obligations, primarily getting into winter access only facilities in Northeast BC. Finally on this slide, a brief note that we saw 100% of our outstanding warrants exercised during the quarter, resulting in 18.2 million new shares issued and 3.5 million of cash proceeds These warrants were exercised at a weighted average exercise price of 50 cents, and while this did cause some dilution in the quarter, it cleans up our capital structure, provided a bit of cash, and removed some mark-to-market complexity, which we've seen in our P&L, and we will not see anymore. All right, turning to the balance sheet, as previously mentioned, we repaid U.S. $27 million of senior debt in Q1, the single largest quarter repayment in the company's history. reducing our total principal outstanding to $88.9 million. In Canadian dollars, total debt ended the quarter at $123.9 million and net debt at just over $156 million. Since the first quarter of 2022, we've repaid total debt by $121 million. Cash interest expense is down 29% year-over-year, which reflects the compounding effect of disciplined debt repayment. Liquidity also improved significantly. We ended the quarter with 9.5 million in cash and a fully undrawn US 22 million revolver, giving us total available liquidity of just over 40 million, up from 11 million at year end. That liquidity capacity is an important buffer heading into Q2 and Q3, which include the two turnarounds and outages that Darcy mentioned. Our senior term notes and revolver mature in March of 2027. and our subordinated notes mature in September of 2027. You will see on our balance sheet that the term notes totaling 74 million Canadian dollars are classified as a current liability now. I have been clear that refinancing in 2026 is a priority to provide certainty to our shareholders, to add flexibility to our balance sheet, to support future growth initiatives, and to reduce our cost of capital. Those activities are ongoing and I'll continue to provide updates to the market as and when I have them. For context, absolute debt reduction is both strategically aligned and increases our competitive position in a refinancing initiative. In Q1, our actual debt repayment represented 30% of the remaining debt which matures in March of next year. It wouldn't take very many similarly strong quarters to repay that balance in full. Finally on this slide, I will make a quick comment on working capital deficit. The primary driver of the increase in our working capital deficit is the addition of a deferred revenue liability on our balance sheet. That liability comes from the sulfur prepayment we received in January. The amount of sulfur prepaid but not yet delivered is classified as a current liability and is worked down over the months as sulfur deliveries occur. The same will happen at Q2 as I expect to receive the second half of the two-thirds prepayment in late June. This liability skews our non-cash working capital deficit number, but of course is overall very positive to our cash management. Okay, turning to hedging, we have approximately 53% of remaining 2026 hydrocarbon production hedged based on midpoint guidance production range with natural gas swapped at a weighted average price of $3.38 per GJ, and condensate protected through collars and swaps out to 2029. We continue to monitor the forward market for opportunities to add gas hedging coverage above $3 per GJ when pricing allows, which unfortunately it does not at the moment. March was quite a busy month on the hedging front, though not particularly impactful to 2026. We added 10 megawatts of power hedge in 2027 and 5 megawatts in 2028 as we view the current Alberta power market to be conducive to long-term hedging. We also added a number of WTI hedges ranging from Q4 of 2026 into Q4 of 2029 at prices that increase our weighted average head prices across the board. As Darcy mentioned earlier, we have and will consider hedging a component of our 2027 sulfur production especially considering that our remaining gas hedges roll off in May of 2027. The sulfur market is distinctly different than other markets we risk manage into due to the lack of forward price transparency. We plan risk management activities in the context of cash flow volatility reduction across our business as opposed to simply targeting a specific percentage of production. More detail on these efforts will be made available as and if we have them. Okay, finally, I'll discuss guidance a bit, starting by saying that we are not making any adjustments to our guidance today. Certainly Q1 has front-loaded cash generation, and we are feeling confident about our NOI and debt reduction targets. I also recognize that as compared to the current sulfur spot price, Our guided pricing assumption of US $237.50 for the second half of the year appears very conservative. However, as we've previously discussed, gas prices remain sharply below our 2026 guidance range. We have a chart in our MD&A this quarter which sensitizes 2026 NOI to various inputs. From that chart, a 10% move in sulfur price is worth nearly three times the cash flow impact to our business of a 10% move in ACO on a hedged basis. Overall, I believe our revenue diversification is functioning as designed. Q2 will absorb the impact of the Waterton outage in June, which was previously discussed, with some opportunistic capital spending planned during that time, both to meet regulatory requirements and hopefully to defer a planned major turnaround at that facility from 2028 to 2029. Q3 will be impacted by the six-week planned Caroline turnaround. The Q2 sulfur prepayment, which is expected to repay at the end of June, will provide ongoing debt repayment and working capital, and these outages are expected to be funded from operating cash flows. Overall, we are very pleased with the quarter and with the evolving cash flow profile of our business, and very optimistic about delivering strong results throughout the remainder of the year. That concludes my prepared remarks, and I'll turn things back over to Dallas to manage our Q&A. Thanks, Adam.

speaker
Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

Thanks, Darcy. What we're going to do for questions is I'll turn it back over to the operator to deal with any questions over the telephone, and then she'll turn it back to me, and we'll deal with any questions on the webcast or in the room. So go ahead, DeeDee.

speaker
Didi
Conference Operator

Thank you. We will now take questions. If you have a question and you're viewing on webcast, please use the ask a question button in the top right hand corner to type your question. If you have a question and you're participating via telephone, please press star one one on your telephone keypad. There will be a brief pause while the participants register. Thank you for your patience. And our first question is from Adam Gill of Ventum Financial. Please proceed.

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Adam Gill
Analyst, Ventum Financial

Good afternoon, guys. So two questions for me. First off, on the Caroline plant, there's been, you know, increasing third-party volumes from the guys developing the guacanite plant in the area. Do you have an idea, based on your conversations with them and activity levels you're seeing, when do you expect that to top out? And do you think, you know, how full will the plant end up being when that plant reaches its peak?

speaker
Paul Kunkel
Chief Commercial Officer

Paul Kunkel, Chief Commercial Officer. We believe in talking to the customers in the area that there's at least five years of development and drilling in the area. Because of the egress issues in the area, they're not drilling and developing as fast as they would like, so we believe there's quite a bit of room there remaining. And ultimately, by the end of 2027, without any additional de-bottlenecking in the facility, we would consider Caroline full.

speaker
Adam Gill
Analyst, Ventum Financial

Sounds good. Second question, just on sulfur revenues and marketing, you know, obviously some stability in the longer term price realizations, I think would be helpful for the stock. Can you give us any color on potential marketing arrangements that are out there? Is there an ability to hedge out 2027 this early in the year?

speaker
Paul Kunkel
Chief Commercial Officer

Yeah, we are in conversations with regards to 2027 hedging. We believe there is an opportunity to do that. It will depend on price, obviously, and we'll make a decision on the amount that we hedge based on price. But we believe there's appetite for at least 2027. Anything out further than that seems to be a little bit difficult at this time, but certainly 2027 is possible.

speaker
Adam Gill
Analyst, Ventum Financial

Okay, sounds good. Thank you for answering the questions.

speaker
Didi
Conference Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from Maximo of Emiduel. Please proceed.

speaker
Maximo
Analyst, Emiduel

Yes, hi. Good afternoon. I wanted to get back to sulfur again. In the past, all of the sulfur was sold to Shell. I'd like to know who's buying it now. And I'd also like to know from your chart where you indicate capacity of 1,500 tons a day in that faded blue line on the on the table what we're doing to try and get to that maximum 1500 tons a day because clearly sulfur is the most profitable cash flow wise product that we're selling right now so why aren't we trying to maximize that it's Darcy here I can answer that question thanks for for the question first of all maybe I'll answer the second question first

speaker
Darcy Redding
President and Chief Executive Officer

The 1,500 metric ton per day number is obviously associated with all of our production capability being online. We currently have around 260 to 300 metric tons per day of sulfur production associated with the voluntarily shut-in production. The shut-in production will remain that way until we can come to an agreement with the third-party facility owner and operator that makes that production stream sufficiently economic for us. Despite the fact that sulfur is obviously at a very high price right now, gas prices are still extremely low. The cost structure associated with that third-party facility is extremely high. And as a result, the economics of producing that stream is not that attractive, particularly for a depleting resource that every molecule you take out of the ground, you can't get it back to produce at a higher price. at a later time. And could you just repeat your first question again? I'm sorry. Oh, marketing. Who the buyer is, I think, was your key question. We've been asked by the buyer not to disclose who it is. We don't believe that's a material fact or a piece of information. We have fully disclosed the terms of the arrangement, and that's what we're comfortable with disclosing.

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Maximo
Analyst, Emiduel

Can you confirm that it's not Shell?

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Darcy Redding
President and Chief Executive Officer

I can't confirm anything. I've provided the information that we're readily able to provide.

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Maximo
Analyst, Emiduel

Okay.

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Didi
Conference Operator

Thank you. There are no further telephone questions at this time. I'd like to turn it back over to Mr. McConnell to manage the webcast question and answer portion of the call.

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Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

Thanks, Nidhi. We've had a couple questions come in. A couple have been answered already, so we won't waste folks' time. First question, great quarter, everyone. Can you please shed some light on your approach to M&A? Particularly, would you favor acquisitions that skew sour to increase your sulfur throughput, especially considering your spare sulfur processing capacity and your unique capacity as a sulfur producer?

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Darcy Redding
President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, I think I can take that question. It's Darcy again. We would absolutely be very keen on making acquisitions of sour gas, particularly if it's sour gas that's in very close geographic proximity to our existing production, and even more particularly if we could bring that gas into our gas plant if it wasn't already at our gas plant. We're somewhat agnostic in terms of what we would look at beyond that. Of course, the key driver for us would be any acquisition must be accretive to our current business. That's a key consideration for us. Not only accretive on existing operating and financial metrics, but we would be looking at acquiring upside that can be developed and brought online to enhance our business.

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Adam Gill
Analyst, Ventum Financial

Thank you, Darcy.

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Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

Can you please provide the recent price at Vancouver FOB that sulfur is receiving.

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Paul Kunkel
Chief Commercial Officer

Sure, I can take that, Paul Kunkel here. Currently, FOB Vancouver is receiving a price between $950 and $1,000 US dollars per metric ton, which averages out to $975 per metric ton.

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Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

So I just add to that, that's one third of our 2026 production is capturing that Vancouver FOB price, less deductions to our plant gate up around $80 per U.S. ton. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, go ahead.

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Paul Bedard
Scrutineer, Odyssey Trust Company

Tiago Villa with A&T Capital. With regards to the voluntarily shut-in production, third-party producers indicated that they're willing to start that facility. If production comes back, does CAFI have any intention of restarting the production? Or can you guys try any more color in terms of...

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Darcy Redding
President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, I can answer that, Darcy, again, for those online. We would very much like to restart that production, but it has to be at terms that are mutually beneficial. And so far, we have not reached that. We continue to work on that. At this point in time, that gas is contracted to that third-party facility through to the end of calendar 2027. If we can get something on stream prior to that, that would be great. We're working on it. We don't have anything of substance to speak to on that at this point in time. Just a quick follow-up on that.

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Paul Bedard
Scrutineer, Odyssey Trust Company

So in 2027, when that contract expires, if there's no follow-up, is there an option to reactivate that pipeline?

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Darcy Redding
President and Chief Executive Officer

Our intent is all of that gas production that is shut in right now by the end of 2027 would be split and put back on production to both our own operated and owned facilities and also to another third-party facility in the area, which the production is jointly owned on a working interest basis between us and that facility operator.

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Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

Thank you. Another question from the webcast. There was talk of adding power plants in the past. Is that still going to be an option in the future?

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Paul Kunkel
Chief Commercial Officer

Yes, we continue to work on opportunities for both power plants and data centers. We are putting quite a bit of resource to identifying and screening opportunities. We have nothing to report on that right now, but certainly will when we are ready to do so.

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Dallas McConnell
Vice President, Corporate Finance

Great. That concludes the questions. Appreciate everyone for your time and for your participation today, and we appreciate your interest in CABHI. If you have further questions, please call us at 403-261-7000. or email the company at investors at cabienergy.com. Thanks again, and we look forward to speaking to you soon.

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Didi
Conference Operator

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