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Targa Resources Corp. (TRGP) Q4 2020 Earnings Call | | Corrected Transcript
23-Feb-2021 |
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Our speakers for the call today will be Matt Meloy, Chief Executive Officer; and Jen Kneale, Chief Financial Officer. Additionally, the following senior management team members will be available for the Q&A session: Pat McDonie, President, Gathering and Processing; Scott Pryor, President, Logistics and Transportation; and Bobby Muraro, Chief Commercial Officer.
And with that, I’ll now turn the call over to Matt.
Matthew J. Meloy
Chief Executive Officer & Director, Targa Resources Corp.
Thanks, Sanjay, and good morning. 2020 had its ups and downs but it ended up being a really good year for Targa. Record EBITDA, record volumes, but the thing I’m most proud of is how our Targa team responded to the numerous challenges throughout the year, including COVID-19. And now, with the recent cold weather that affected Texas and many other states, 2021 has arrived with its own challenges.
Our employees have done a tremendous job working in very difficult conditions, many without power, heat and water in their home. So, I’d like to thank Targa employees for all their hard work and dedication. We are exceptionally proud of our Targa team who managed through these extreme conditions and continued to operate our facilities safely.
The most recent winter storm impacted both our gathering and processing and downstream operations. Over the trailing 10 days, we experienced, on average, a 50% reduction across our G&P and downstream system volumes. Volumes are continuing to ramp and current rates have since returned to around 90% of pre severe weather levels. This overall event is still relatively short-term in nature and we are comfortable with the full-year 2021 guidance that we published last week. Our long-term business outlook continues to be strong.
Let’s now turn to 2020 highlights. Our overall business performed very well, led by our position in the Permian Basin and our integrated NGL platform. Full-year 2020 adjusted EBITDA of $1.64 billion exceeded the top-end of our guidance range and was within our initial range presented in early 2020. We believe that our key strategic efforts around re-contracting to add fees in gathering and processing, reducing growth capital spending, identifying opportunities to reduce operating and G&A expenses, reducing our dividend, and focusing on integrated opportunities position us for a successful 2021 and beyond.
In 2020, we completed several major projects on time and on budget, including two processing plants in the Permian, two fractionation trains in Mont Belvieu, the phased expansion of our LPG export capabilities, and the extension of our Grand Prix Pipeline into Central Oklahoma. These expansions position Targa to benefit from increasing operating leverage moving forward. Our total net growth capital spending for 2020 was about $600 million, which was about $100 million below the bottom-end of our range, driven by the high-grading of growth opportunities and a huge effort by our engineers and operators to be creative and capital-efficient.
In 2020, increasing EBITDA and reduced growth capital spending resulted in improving leverage metrics, and we exited 2020 with reported leverage of 4.7 times, a meaningful reduction from the 5.5 times leverage to end 2019. Higher EBITDA and lower growth CapEx also provided additional flexibility to be opportunistic throughout the year, which resulted in us buying back publicly traded notes, common equity and a small piece of the TRC preferred shares, all at very attractive prices.
Looking ahead, we estimate full-year 2021 adjusted EBITDA to be between $1.675 billion and $1.775 billion. Net growth capital spending in 2021 will be significantly lower, which we estimate to be between $350 million and $450 million, positioning us to generate increasing free cash flow after dividend to continue to reduce leverage.
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