Genesis Energy, L.P. Reports Fourth Quarter 2025 Results

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Genesis Energy, L.P. (NYSE: GEL) today announced its fourth quarter results.

We generated the following financial results for the fourth quarter of 2025:

• Net Income Attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. of $19.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to Net Loss Attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. of $49.4 million for the same period in 2024.
• Cash Flows from Operating Activities of $110.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $74.0 million for the same period in 2024.
• We declared cash distributions on our preferred units of $0.9473 for each preferred unit, which equates to a cash distribution of approximately $14.9 million and is reflected as a reduction to Available Cash before Reserves to common unitholders.
• Available Cash before Reserves to common unitholders of $61.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, which provided 2.77X coverage for the quarterly distribution of $0.18 per common unit attributable to the fourth quarter.
• Total Segment Margin of $174.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2025.
• Adjusted EBITDA of $157.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2025.
• Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA of $588.1 million for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2025 and a bank leverage ratio of 5.12X, both calculated in accordance with our senior secured credit agreement and discussed further in this release.

Grant Sims, CEO of Genesis Energy, said, “Our fourth quarter results were slightly ahead of our internal expectations. Offshore pipeline volumes came in strong, supported by steady volumes from our legacy fields and a full quarter of Shenandoah throughput well above the minimum volume commitment. Volumes from Salamanca continued to ramp toward target production levels, and we remain encouraged by both reservoir performance and the remaining development plans at both new production hubs. Our marine transportation segment returned to a more normalized operating performance, as our refinery customers increased their runs of heavier crude oil, which in turn increased the volume of intermediate black oil available for transport during the quarter. Additionally, some of the transitory market conditions and excess supply in our blue water markets appear to be behind us, which should allow utilization rates, and ultimately day rates, across all our classes of marine assets to stabilize and hopefully increase as we look ahead.

In retrospect, 2025 was a transformational year for Genesis Energy. In late February, we successfully completed the sale of our Alkali business for net proceeds of approximately $1.0 billion after our associated transaction costs and expenses, which allowed us to substantially strengthen our balance sheet and reposition Genesis as a focused, pure-play midstream company. We also completed the construction of, and commissioned, our new 100% owned SYNC lateral and the expansion of our 64% owned CHOPS pipeline in advance of first production from the new Shenandoah and Salamanca developments.

Our operating performance and completion of our capital growth projects enabled us to reduce outstanding borrowings under our senior secured revolving credit facility over the quarter to approximately $6.4 million at year-end, effectively resulting in zero net borrowings outstanding under our senior secured credit facility after giving effect to cash and cash equivalents on hand. Consistent with our approach to capital allocation, along with debt repayment in absolute terms, we announced an increase in our quarterly distribution to common unitholders for the fourth quarter to $0.18 per common unit, representing an approximate 9.1% increase over the prior year’s quarter. In addition, we opportunistically repurchased $25 million of our corporate preferred units just last week at par. These steps confirm our commitment to a measured and deliberate approach to capital allocation which prioritizes reducing debt in absolute terms, redeeming our high-cost corporate preferred securities and returning capital to our common unit holders via distribution growth.

Before getting to 2026, I wanted to briefly touch on our 2025 results. For the full year, we generated Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $544 million, effectively in-line with the low end of our previous guidance range of $545 to $575 million, despite the lingering producer mechanical issues through the first three quarters of the year, the delays with first production at both Shenandoah and Salamanca, and some transitory weakness in our marine transportation segment in the third quarter. That being said, if we normalized 2025 by excluding the two months of contribution from our former Alkali business in the first quarter, and if you assume 10 days of weather related downtime for hurricane season in the third quarter, which fortunately did not occur last year, our ongoing businesses would have generated what we would characterize as normalized Adjusted EBITDA closer to $500 to $510 million for the full year. In our view, this range should be used as the starting point for building up to 2026 expectations.

Assuming our other businesses perform as expected, the Genesis story at this point is fundamentally a deepwater Gulf of America growth story. Based on discussions with our offshore producer customers, we would reasonably expect sequential growth in Adjusted EBITDA of plus or minus 15% to 20% in 2026 over our normalized 2025 Adjusted EBITDA⁽¹⁾. In fact, if our offshore producers execute according to the development schedules they have communicated to us, there are scenarios where this expected growth could exceed that range. As everyone appreciates, we do not control our customers’ operations nor the precise timing of them drilling, completing, and bringing new high-impact wells on-line.

We would obviously hope to exceed 20% growth in 2026. However, to the extent our results ultimately fall below this range, we would view that as primarily a timing issue, with ultimate cash flows just sliding to the right, so to speak, rather than any fundamental degradation in the long-term cash flows expected from the fields contracted to access our offshore infrastructure. Importantly, we have been told there have been zero changes to our producer customers’ 2026 and 2027 development plans as a result of the near-term price of oil.

It is also important to keep in mind that the normalized annual cash cost of operating our business is approximately $475 million. While this figure will likely be modestly higher in 2026 due to a heavy schedule of regulatory dry-dockings in our marine transportation segment, we still expect to generate free cash flow and have the flexibility to continue reducing debt in absolute terms and to opportunistically redeem additional amounts of our high-cost corporate preferred securities as we move through 2026. In addition, we currently have no significant planned growth capital expenditures in 2026. These actions should further lower our recurring cash costs and increase our financial flexibility over time, including the ability to consider additional capital returns to our common unitholders in future periods. Even if certain offshore activity slips to the right, 2027 should be meaningfully stronger than 2026 based on our producer customers’ current development plans. As a result, the opportunities available to us in 2026 become even more compelling in 2027 and beyond.

As we look at the remainder of the year, capital allocation remains a core focus for management and the Board. Our approach continues to balance three clear priorities: strengthening the balance sheet, opportunistically addressing our high-cost corporate preferred securities, and thoughtfully and prudently growing distributions to common unitholders over time. Importantly, we will pursue these objectives while maintaining the flexibility to evaluate future organic and inorganic opportunities as they may arise. With no significant growth capital requirements and our capital spending largely limited to maintenance, we intend to remain disciplined in our capital allocation, ensuring that near-term actions do not compromise our financial flexibility or ability to deliver long-term value for everyone in our capital structure.

With that, I will briefly discuss our individual business segments in more detail.

Our offshore pipeline transportation segment delivered its third consecutive quarter of sequential growth with Segment Margin increasing by approximately 57% over the first quarter of 2025. This growth was driven by the resolution of most of the mechanical issues our producer customers had experienced, strong volumes from Shenandoah, and the continued ramp-up in volumes from Salamanca.

As we look over the next 12 to 15 months, we expect significant drilling activity around the production facilities that are exclusively attached to our infrastructure. The current schedule includes an additional well at Salamanca to be completed in the second quarter, with the potential for a fifth well to be drilled and completed as early as the fourth quarter. These two additional wells would be expected to result in total production of 50 to 60kbd from the Salamanca production facility. We also expect to see the Monument development, a two well sub-sea tieback to the Shenandoah production facility, to be completed and flowing through our facilities by late this year or early 2027. After the two Monument wells are brought on-line, a fifth well at Shenandoah is scheduled to be drilled. In addition to these five development wells, we are aware of at least eight additional development or sub-sea tie-back wells planned at legacy production facilities served exclusively by us over this same 12 to 15 month timeframe.

As evidenced by this broader activity, producers in the Gulf of America continue to prioritize long-cycle, high-return deepwater developments, and we remain engaged in ongoing commercial discussions related to future tie-back and development opportunities that could economically access our offshore infrastructure in the coming years to the extent they are ultimately sanctioned by the respective producers. Given the competitive economics of these projects and the long-term nature of producer planning cycles, we would not expect near-term commodity price volatility to significantly impact offshore development activity in the Gulf of America.

During the quarter, our marine transportation segment returned to a more normalized level of operating performance, consistent with our expectations. Market conditions across both our brown-water and blue-water fleets stabilized in the fourth quarter as refinery runs of heavy crudes increased and broader equipment utilization improved. Looking ahead, we remain optimistic that our marine transportation segment could benefit over time from incremental crude imports into the Gulf Coast, including potential additional volumes from Venezuela. At a minimum, we would expect heavy/sour differentials to continue to widen and provide refiners the incentive to process heavier crudes. This should result in an increase in the quantity of intermediate refined products that need to be kept heated and moved from one refinery location to another. As a result, we believe demand for our inland barges, which are exclusively internal heater barges, should significantly increase, providing a constructive backdrop for increasing rates as we move through the year.

This year is expected to be a high-maintenance year for our blue-water fleet, with four of our nine offshore vessels scheduled to undergo regulatory dry-dockings in the first half of the year. While these days “off the water” will temporarily mute the benefit of any potential near-term improvement in day rates, we believe these vessels will be re-contracted into an improving market back-drop when they exit the shipyard. This heavy dry-docking schedule will result in higher maintenance capital expenditures this year relative to last.

On balance, we believe our marine transportation segment remains well positioned over the medium-to-long-term to benefit from continued structural momentum in the Jones Act market, supported by steady utilization, the continued retirement of older equipment, and limited to no new construction of comparable Jones Act vessels. Furthermore, the American Phoenix remains under contract through early 2027, and based on current market conditions for similar assets, we would expect her to re-contract at a higher day rate than what she’s currently experiencing.

Our onshore transportation and services segment delivered results in line with our expectations. During the quarter, throughput volumes increased across both our Texas and Raceland onshore terminals and pipeline systems as new offshore volumes continued to ramp. Looking ahead, we remain focused on providing our offshore producers, as well as other upstream and downstream customers, with reliable access to the refineries and end markets we serve directly and indirectly through our onshore infrastructure, ultimately helping provide them with flow assurance, enhanced market optionality, and other refinery-centric logistics along the Gulf Coast. Our legacy sulfur services business also performed largely in line with our expectations. Looking forward, this business could potentially benefit in future periods as Venezuelan crude finds its way to the Gulf Coast and if certain of our refinery hosts raise their runs of heavy sour crudes, resulting in more sulfur that can be processed through our existing facilities.

In closing, the management team and board of directors remain steadfast in our commitment to building long-term value for everyone in the capital structure, and we believe the decisions we are making reflect this commitment and our confidence in Genesis moving forward. I would once again like to thank our entire workforce for their continued dedication to safe, reliable, and responsible operations. I’m proud to have the opportunity to work alongside each and every one of you.”

Financial Results

Segment Margin

Segment Margin

In the first quarter of 2025, we reorganized our operating segments as a result of the way our chief operating decision maker (our Chief Executive Officer) evaluates the performance of operations, develops strategy and allocates resources, including capital. Our sulfur services business, formerly reported under our soda and sulfur services reporting segment with our trona and trona-based exploring, mining, processing, producing, marketing, logistics and selling business based in Wyoming (the “Alkali Business”), is now reported under our onshore transportation and services reporting segment along with our previously reported onshore facilities and transportation segment. As a result of this change, we now manage our businesses through the following three divisions that constitute our reportable segments:

• Offshore pipeline transportation, which includes the transportation and processing of crude oil and natural gas in the Gulf of America;
• Marine transportation, which provides waterborne transportation of petroleum products (primarily fuel oil, asphalt and other heavy refined products) and crude oil throughout North America; and
• Onshore transportation and services, which includes terminaling, blending, storing, and marketing crude oil, and transporting crude oil and refined products, as well as the processing of high sulfur (or “sour”) gas streams for refineries to remove the sulfur, and selling the related by-product, sodium hydrosulfide (or “NaHS,” commonly pronounced “nash”).

Variances between the fourth quarter of 2025 (the “2025 Quarter”) and the fourth quarter of 2024 (the “2024 Quarter”) in these reportable segments are explained below.

Segment Margin results for the 2025 Quarter and 2024 Quarter were as follows:

Offshore pipeline transportation Segment Margin for the 2025 Quarter increased $43.5 million, or 57%, from the 2024 Quarter primarily due to: (i) an increase in volumes on our 100% owned SYNC Pipeline and 64% owned CHOPS Pipeline associated with the deepwater Shenandoah floating production system (“FPS”); (ii) an increase to minimum volume commitments on our 64% owned CHOPS Pipeline during the 2025 Quarter, including those related to the Warrior and Winterfell projects; and (iii) an increase in volumes in the 2025 Quarter as a result of production from the Salamanca FPS during the 2025 Quarter. Production volumes from the Shenandoah FPS are life-of-lease dedicated to our 100% owned SYNC Pipeline and further downstream to our 64% owned CHOPS Pipeline. The Shenandoah FPS achieved first oil production in late July 2025, and we have seen a ramp-up in volumes to over 90,000 barrels of oil per day during the 2025 Quarter. Additionally, production from the Salamanca FPS, which ties into our existing 100% owned SEKCO Pipeline for further transportation downstream on our 64% owned Poseidon Pipeline, came on-line at the end of September and ramped up to over 30,000 barrels of oil per day as we exited the 2025 Quarter.

Marine transportation Segment Margin for the 2025 Quarter decreased $0.7 million, or 2%, from the 2024 Quarter. The inland business was impacted by a decline in Midwest refinery demand for black oil equipment as a result of changing crude slates to lighter oil which began in the third quarter of 2025 and continued to impact the 2025 Quarter when compared to the 2024 Quarter. We did begin to see our inland day rates strengthen sequentially from the third quarter of 2025 as the Gulf Coast refineries began to return to processing heavier crude slates, including an increase of imports from Venezuela. The decrease in Segment Margin for the 2025 Quarter from our inland marine business was partially offset by an increase in Segment Margin from our offshore marine business primarily as a result of fewer dry-docking days in the 2025 Quarter as compared to the 2024 Quarter.

Onshore transportation and services Segment Margin for the 2025 Quarter increased $9.3 million, or 65%, from the 2024 Quarter primarily due to: (i) an increase in activity associated with our Baton Rouge assets, including an increase in pipeline, terminal, and rail unload volumes in the 2025 Quarter; and (iii) an increase in volumes on our Texas pipeline system, which is a key destination point for various grades of crude oil produced in the Gulf of America including those transported on our 64% owned CHOPS Pipeline. Additionally, we had a higher contribution from our sulfur services business as a result of an improvement to our NaHS sales mix and operational efficiencies in the 2025 Quarter.

Other Components of Net Income (Loss)

We reported Net Income from Continuing Operations of $34.3 million in the 2025 Quarter compared to Net Loss from Continuing Operations of $53.6 million in the 2024 Quarter.

Net Income from Continuing Operations in the 2025 Quarter was impacted by an increase in operating income from our operating segments, primarily from our offshore pipeline transportation and onshore transportation and services operating segments, as discussed above. In addition, an impairment expense of $43.0 million was reported during the 2024 Quarter, whereas no impairment expense was reported in the 2025 Quarter. This increase in operating income was partially offset by an increase in depreciation and amortization of $12.4 million during the 2025 Quarter.

We reported Net Income from Discontinued Operations, net of tax of $12.3 million during the 2024 Quarter associated with the Alkali Business that was sold on February 28, 2025.

Earnings Conference Call

We will broadcast our Earnings Conference Call on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Central time (10:00 a.m. Eastern time). This call can be accessed at www.genesisenergy.com. Choose the Investor Relations button. For those unable to attend the live broadcast, a replay will be available beginning approximately one hour after the event and remain available on our website for 30 days. There is no charge to access the event.

Genesis Energy, L.P. is a diversified midstream energy master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, Texas. Genesis’ operations include offshore pipeline transportation, marine transportation and onshore transportation and services. Genesis’ operations are primarily located in the Gulf of America and in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

Contacts

Genesis Energy, L.P.

Dwayne Morley

Vice President – Investor Relations

(713) 860-2536

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