Select Water WTTR Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, 11 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer — John Schmitz
• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Chris George
• Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer — Michael Skarke
• Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer — Michael Lyons

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TAKEAWAYS

• Consolidated Revenue -- $1.4 billion reported for the year, with sequential revenue and gross profit gains in all segments during the fourth quarter.
• Adjusted EBITDA -- $260 million achieved for the year; $64.2 million in the fourth quarter, exceeding guidance of $60 million-$64 million.
• Net Capital Expenditures -- $279 million for the year, slightly above guidance; net CapEx of $70 million in the fourth quarter driven by ongoing facility and pipeline expansions.
• Water Infrastructure Revenue Growth Target -- Outlook of 20%-25% year-over-year growth for 2026, supported by major network projects in the Northern Delaware Basin.
• Water Infrastructure Gross Margin Before D&A -- Improved to 54% in the fourth quarter; targeting 7%-10% segment growth in 2026, with margins expected to remain steady.
• Recycled Water Volumes -- 330 million barrels recycled in 2025, up 18%; 1 billion barrels milestone reached since 2021.
• New Infrastructure Contracts -- Nearly 1 million dedicated acres added in 2025 through executed NBCs, featuring an average contract term of 11 years.
• Disposal Capacity Additions -- 55,000 barrels per day of new capacity added in the Northern Delaware during the fourth quarter via facility conveyance and acquisition.
• Strategic Partnerships -- Announced lithium extraction partnerships in the Haynesville and Permian, with initial royalty contributions anticipated by early 2027.
• Chemical Technology Segment Performance -- Delivered 19% annual revenue growth and 45% growth in gross profit before D&A; record fourth-quarter revenue of $87 million, up 14% sequentially.
• Chemical Technology Gross Margin Before D&A -- Achieved 20% in the fourth quarter after 16% sequential gross profit growth; segment expects 2026 margins to remain in the 19%-20% range.
• Water Services Segment Performance -- Fourth-quarter revenue grew 7% sequentially, countering anticipated declines, while gross margin before D&A increased by about two percentage points to 20%.
• SG&A Expense Trends -- Reached $43 million in 2025; management targeting a 5%-10% year-over-year reduction, with a sub-11% of revenue goal for 2026.
• Contract Backlog and Capital Allocation -- Entering 2026 with several projects under construction; CapEx projected at $175 million-$225 million for the year, with $50 million-$60 million in maintenance outlays weighted to Water Services.
• Segment Free Cash Flow Conversion -- Water Services and Chemical Technology segments consistently convert approximately 70% or greater of gross profit to cash flow.
• Peak Rentals Update -- Peak Rentals continues to deliver excess free cash and has expanded into natural gas-powered distributed generation; strategic alternatives remain under evaluation, with 350 MSAs underpinning customer relationships.

SUMMARY

Management emphasized a multiyear infrastructure build-out phase, particularly in the Northern Delaware Basin, driving Select Water Solutions (NYSE:WTTR) toward increased contract tenures and long-term revenue predictability. Executives disclosed acceleration of lithium extraction and beneficial reuse pilots, indicating future potential for material incremental royalty streams. The company's customer-backed acreage expansion, robust contract pipeline, and mid-double-digit profitability targets position its Water Infrastructure segment to surpass 60% of consolidated gross profit within two years.

• The average contract term for new dedicated acreage in 2025 was 11 years, reinforcing high visible cash flow duration.
• Beneficial reuse pilots, including large-scale university collaborations for land application and greenhouse testing, were executed to validate produced water treatment for future regulatory alignment.
• Delayed right-of-way acquisitions in the fourth quarter temporarily postponed infrastructure project timing, but did not alter long-term build-out plans.
• Strategic shift in the Water Infrastructure segment has moved it from the smallest to the most profitable business unit over a five-year period.
• Fourth-quarter temporary water transfer activity in New Mexico outperformed expectations, generating a 77% sequential uplift and offsetting typical seasonal impacts.
• Customer-conveyed assets in recycling, disposal, and storage bolstered network capacity, signifying stronger integration of client infrastructure into Select Water Solutions' commercial platform.
• Active evaluation of iodine, strontium, and magnesium extraction opportunities was mentioned, expanding beyond the announced lithium initiatives.
• Management reiterated that system complexity and custom chemistry demand in Chemical Technology underpin sector-leading market share in challenging geological environments.
• Executives noted that, with the infrastructure segment reaching maturity, capital expenditures may decline in 2027, expanding free cash flow and supporting broader capital allocation flexibility.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• Beneficial reuse: The process of treating produced water to standards enabling its use for non-oilfield applications, such as agriculture or industrial operations.
• MSA (Master Service Agreement): A contractual arrangement outlining terms of ongoing business between a service provider and its clients in upstream energy and utilities industries.
• Simul frac: A well completion method where multiple stages are fractured simultaneously, increasing operational intensity and fluid demand.
• Tri-mod frac: A complex fracturing method involving three different fracturing modalities in sequence or combination to optimize resource extraction.
• Gross profit before D&A: Earnings before depreciation and amortization, reflecting core segment-level profitability prior to non-cash expenses.

Full Conference Call Transcript

John Schmitz, our Founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer; Chris George, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Michael Skarke, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and Michael Lyons, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer. Before I turn the call over to John, I have a few housekeeping items to cover. A replay of today's call will be available by webcast and accessible from our website at selectwater.com. There will also be a recorded telephonic replay available until 03/04/2026. The access information for this replay was also included in yesterday's earnings release.

Please note that the information reported on this call speaks only as of today, 02/18/2026, and therefore, time-sensitive information may no longer be accurate as of the time of the replay listening or transcript reading. In addition, the comments made by management during this conference call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements reflect the current views of Select Water Solutions, Inc.'s management. However, various risks, uncertainties, and contingencies could cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed in the statements made by management.

Listeners are encouraged to read our annual report on Form 10-K, our current reports on Form 8-K, as well as our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q to understand those risks, uncertainties, and contingencies. Please refer to our earnings announcement released yesterday for reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures. Now I would like to turn the call over to John. Thanks, Garrett. Good morning, and thank you for joining us. I am pleased to be discussing Select Water Solutions, Inc. again with you today. 2025 was another record-setting year for Select both operationally and financially. I will start with some of our 2025 highlights and provide an update on our key strategic development efforts.

Then I will hand it off to Chris to speak to the fourth quarter and the financial outlook in more detail. In 2025, we improved our consolidated margins, streamlined our Water Services segment, and drove significant market share gains in our chemical technology segment. We made key investments in long-term diversification efforts across the municipal and industrial space, advanced our technology efforts in both beneficial reuse and mineral extraction. But importantly, we made great strides in our core water infrastructure growth strategy including the ongoing build-out of our premier Northern Delaware water infrastructure network. During 2025, we grew recycled produced water volumes by 18% resulting in more than 330,000,000 barrels of recycled during the year.

We also hit a significant milestone during the fourth quarter achieving 1,000,000,000 barrels recycled since the beginning of 2021 which helped drive the water infrastructure revenue growth of more than 800% across that same five-year period. During that time, we have seen water infrastructure grow from our smallest segment to now our largest segment by profitability. Importantly, we continue to add inventory and underwrite future and infrastructure growth. And in 2025, we executed multiple new NBCs and added nearly 1,000,000 new dedicated acreage with an average contract term of 11 years.

Accordingly, we are well on track towards growing our water infrastructure to our stated target of greater than 60% of our consolidated gross profit in the next 24 months supported by sizable additional year-over-year growth of 20% to 25% in 2026 as compared to 2025. Our industry faces significant evolving produced water challenges, and these challenges are perhaps most keenly felt in the Northern Delaware Basin. We have made a strategic choice to focus in this basin, which contains some of the most productive geology and lowest breakevens in the industry but also produces the highest water cuts in a region with decreasing disposal availability and increasing regulatory scrutiny.

In the Northern Delaware, our recycling-first infrastructure network gathers hundreds of thousands of barrels per day with our facilities acting as distribution hubs that can balance water longs and shorts across a broad regional footprint through expansive dual-line pipeline networks. Additionally, the network can be balanced as needed with our interconnected traditional disposal solutions or alternatively enable future beneficial reuse and out-of-basin disposal solutions. Our unique infrastructure model sets up Select Water Solutions, Inc. to be the cost-advantaged provider versus other competitors in the industry, creating significant economic value and cost savings for our customers while generating attractive long-term returns for Select Water Solutions, Inc.

We also continue to partner with our customers to find the most economic and operationally efficient ways to enhance the utilization of their existing infrastructure. Notably, at times, this may result in our customers operationally transferring or direct conveyance of their existing water-related infrastructure to us. Select Water Solutions, Inc.'s ability to integrate these assets into our existing commercial network drives greater operational efficiencies, reduces cost, and yields enhanced systems reliability. Throughout 2025, we have been conveyed multiple recycling, disposal, and storage facilities from key partner customers.

This continued in the fourth quarter as we reached an agreement with a top customer for the direct conveyance of three existing treated produced water storage facilities as well as a permit for additional disposal facilities in Eddy County, New Mexico. We have since drilled and completed this disposal facility with immediate plans to integrate it into our broader network. We believe this is a strong endorsement of our customers' trust in Select Water Solutions, Inc. and the value-added solutions we are providing. When combined with an additional disposal acquisition we completed in the fourth quarter, we added 55,000 barrels per day of new disposal capacity in the Northern Delaware during the quarter.

These new assets and contract awards combined with the significant backlog of our ongoing construction projects will drive additional network capacity and geographic reach across the entirety of the Northern Delaware Basin, supporting the strong 20% to 25% growth outlook I mentioned for the water infrastructure segment in 2026. We are also finding new ways to leverage the produced water volumes within our existing infrastructure asset base to generate incremental cash flow and high-margin royalty stream without requiring incremental capital investment. This includes recently announced strategic partnership for produced water lithium extraction in both the Haynesville and the Permian regions which should begin contributing initial royalty revenues by early 2027 and growing from there.

In summary, our water infrastructure growth strategy is working. I am excited to see the continued growth from this segment in the years ahead. Now shifting briefly over to our other segments before I hand it over to Chris, our chemical technology segment proved adaptable during 2025, achieving tremendous growth and market share gains in spite of a softer activity environment. This included 19% year-over-year revenue growth and, more importantly, 45% growth in gross profit before D&A. Our research and development efforts continue to drive new product enhancements and demand for advanced chemical technologies.

Growing lateral lengths and increased focus on enhancing recovery rates for oil in place continue to drive demand from our highest-quality friction reducers and our advanced surfactant product offering. I am very pleased with our recent market share gains and technology advancements, and I am cautiously optimistic about the renewed focus from our customers on securing high-quality offerings that improve well performance. On the Water Services side, we were focused on streamlining this segment throughout the past year to simplify our service offerings and position us for the long-term operational efficiency and margin enhancement.

Overall, our Water Services segment performed quite well against a challenging market environment in 2025, maintaining its market-leading positions across each of the segment core service offerings. We continue to evaluate strategic alternatives for our Peak Rentals business with a measured and disciplined approach to ensure an outcome that best serves each of Peak and Select Water Solutions, Inc.'s strategic focuses growth initiatives while maximizing the value for Select Water Solutions, Inc. shareholders. While we proceed with this process, Peak continues to garner increased traction in its Power Solutions offering while generating ample excess free cash to support Select Water Solutions, Inc.'s core water infrastructure growth strategy.

To conclude, I believe that Select Water Solutions, Inc. remains extremely well-positioned to meaningfully grow our adjusted EBITDA in 2026 with a unique integration of high-growth water infrastructure solutions alongside steady market-leading Water Services and chemical technology solutions. I am excited for the year ahead and firmly believe our current strategy will continue to drive long-term value for Select Water Solutions, Inc. shareholders. At this point, I will hand it over to Chris to speak to our recent financial results and the 2026 outlook in a bit more detail. Chris? Thank you, John, and good morning, everyone. As John mentioned, 2025 was an important year for Select Water Solutions, Inc., across many financial and operational metrics.

While 2025 brought a challenging macro environment overall, I believe the business performed quite well within those conditions, generating $1,400,000,000 of consolidated revenue with improved consolidated margins and a record $260,000,000 of adjusted EBITDA. I will start by covering a few high-level market perspectives before getting into the financial performance and outlook in more detail. Looking forward, we anticipate a commodity price environment in 2026 that is fairly steady overall, with oil largely expected to stay within the $55 to $65 price range we have seen during 2025 and so far, early in 2026.

Near term, we do foresee potential upside to the natural gas market outlook and are well-positioned to benefit from our market-leading positions in key gas basins if incremental opportunities arise. Generally, we believe this current commodity environment supports overall activity levels holding relatively steady to 2025. Now looking at our recent segment-level performance and outlooks in more detail. We saw meaningful annual growth in each of our Water Infrastructure and Chemical Technology segments across 2025. And more recently, we grew both revenue and gross profit across all three of our segments during the fourth quarter. In 2025, the Water Infrastructure segment increased gross profit before D&A by 5% while improving margins to 54%.

As we continue our New Mexico system expansion, we worked closely with our customers to support their evolving development schedule alongside our planned construction timelines. During late Q4, certain top customers requested short-term schedule changes resulting in modestly lighter-than-anticipated volume growth across our fixed infrastructure. However, given the breadth of Select Water Solutions, Inc.'s integrated service offerings, including our temporary water transfer capabilities, we were readily able to support these changing development needs during the quarter, allowing key customers to achieve their adjusted production objectives while maintaining our originally planned infrastructure build-out timelines.

This resulted in a 77% sequential uplift driving a sizable outperformance in the period for our Water Services segment in our water transfer revenues in New Mexico during Q4, more than offsetting the expected seasonal impacts for that segment and driving 7% overall revenue growth for Water Services as compared to the prior guidance of modest sequential declines. With the continued infrastructure build-out in New Mexico and new facilities coming online, we expect a growing shift in volume activity onto our fixed infrastructure network in the coming months, which should drive high-margin sequential growth for the Water Infrastructure segment during the first quarter and further throughout 2026.

Accordingly, we anticipate 7% to 10% growth in Water Infrastructure revenue and gross profit before D&A during 2026 as compared to 2025. With several projects planned to come online during 2026, we anticipate a continued growth trajectory for Water Infrastructure over the course of the year. Altogether, we expect very meaningful 20% to 25% year-over-year growth for the segment, while maintaining strong steady margins throughout the year similar to the 54% gross margin before D&A we generated in Q4. As we continue to commercialize the new facilities over the course of the year, we also believe there remains capacity utilization enhancement that can drive further upside into 2027 alongside other new potential contract wins.

For Water Services, gross margin before D&A improved during the fourth quarter by approximately two percentage points to 20%. And when combined with the aforementioned 7% revenue gains, drove strong 16% growth in gross profit before D&A for the segment during Q4. Coming off a strong fourth quarter, we anticipate steady revenue in the first quarter for Water Services. While we anticipate revenues to be down year-over-year for the segment, recent divestments account for more than 80% of this decline. And we expect to maintain relatively steady revenue consistent with the recent Q4 run rate and current Q1 outlook throughout the full year 2026.

Supported by our recent rationalization and operational improvement efforts, we expect to see near-term margin improvement for the segment, with gross margins before D&A of 19% to 21% for both the first quarter and full year of 2026. As John mentioned, the Chemical Technology segment had a tremendous year in 2025, with annual revenue growth of 19% and 45% growth in gross profit before D&A relative to 2024. The segment finished the year strong, with record quarterly revenue generation of $87,000,000 during the fourth quarter, a 14% sequential increase. Gross profit before D&A grew further with 16% sequential gains resulting in 20% gross margins before D&A during Q4.

On the back of recent gains, we expect this segment can produce similar annual revenue in 2026 to that of the prior year with upside potential, while gross margins before D&A should hold steady in the 19% to 20% range. Based on current customer activity outlooks for 2026, we anticipate Q1 revenue to return to the high-$70,000,000s up to the $80,000,000 range with margins remaining in the 19% to 20% range.

While SG&A increased modestly to $43,000,000 during 2025, we are targeting a 5% to 10% year-over-year reduction in SG&A, with SG&A expected to reduce back below 11% of revenue for full year 2026, and potentially as early as Q1, as we recognize the benefits of ongoing cost reduction and business optimization efforts. Altogether, we generated consolidated adjusted EBITDA of $64,200,000 during Q4, above the high end of our adjusted EBITDA guidance of $60,000,000 to $64,000,000, driven by sequential revenue and gross profit gains across all segments during the fourth quarter.

For 2026, we expect an increase in consolidated adjusted EBITDA to $65,000,000 to $68,000,000, primarily attributable to increased volumes on our Northern Delaware infrastructure network, with a continued upward trajectory throughout the year setting the stage for solid year-over-year adjusted EBITDA growth. Looking below the line, we anticipate cash tax payments in 2026 to be a relatively modest $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 including state taxes, and our book tax expense percentage applied to pretax operating income to likely stay in the low-20% range.

Driven by the continued capital investment in our infrastructure business, I expect depreciation, amortization, and accretion will continue in the $46,000,000 to $50,000,000 range during the first quarter, trending up into the low fifties over the course of 2026. Interest expense should remain in the $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 range per quarter. With fourth-quarter net CapEx of $70,000,000, we finished the year at $279,000,000 in net CapEx, just slightly above our previous guidance. The continued strong customer demand for recycling-centric water infrastructure solutions led to significant capital investment throughout 2025 with numerous facility expansions and pipeline projects that are currently underway.

To fund our continued water infrastructure growth, we anticipate net capital expenditures of $175,000,000 to $225,000,000 in 2026 after considering an expected $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 of ongoing asset sales. This includes approximately $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 of maintenance spend, weighted predominantly towards the Water Services segment, consistent with the prior year. We are entering 2026 with several projects already under construction or contracted with construction commencing soon, which should result in a heavier CapEx weighting to the first half of 2026. While this 2026 capital program includes all existing contracted projects, we do have an additional backlog of future opportunities.

We are in the middle of a unique build-out window, especially for our premier infrastructure position in the Northern Delaware, and we would be excited to convert some of these opportunities into future growth throughout 2026 and into 2027. The water infrastructure assets we placed in service have very low maintenance capital needs, which should result in very strong discretionary cash flow for Select Water Solutions, Inc. over time. With an 11-year average contract tenure for our current projects, we expect to deliver highly accretive long-term revenue and cash flow benefits.

While the build window and growth capital associated with the projects continues at pace in the short term, we would expect capital expenditures to come down in 2027, providing ample long-term free cash flow generation. Additionally, as we have discussed before, our Water Services and Chemical Technology segments also each provide strong cash flow conversion given their low capital intensity, converting approximately 70% or greater of their gross profit to cash flow, helping to support the near-term build-out of our footprint while maintaining a very disciplined balance sheet.

While we are very focused on executing on near-term infrastructure investment and growth strategy, we believe we are positioning the business to deliver healthy and durable free cash flows over the long term that will provide us with good optionality for future capital allocation frameworks over time, including future growth investments, diversification opportunities, or enhancements to our shareholder return program. To conclude, I am very excited about the year ahead. I believe we have a clear execution path to increase shareholder value with a growing long-term contract portfolio supporting a multiyear growth trajectory and increased through-cycle stability, in addition to nascent long-term diversification potential across opportunities such as our Colorado municipal and industrial project, beneficial reuse, and mineral extraction.

With that, I will hand it over to the operator for any questions. Operator? Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to ask a question, please press 1 on your telephone keypad. And a confirmation tone will indicate that your line is in the question queue. You may press 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. And our first question comes from the line of Scott Gruber with Citigroup. Please proceed. Yes, good morning.

You guys you guys have a couple larger, you know, expansions coming online in Northern Delaware this year. Well, you mentioned you have some additional opportunities in the Northern Delaware. Just curious, you know, would the additional opportunities be kind of smaller bolt-ons to your system or would they require larger trunk line expansions? I am just curious, you know, after kind of what is in the queue as you know, become operational? Kind of where do you stand in the maturation of that Northern Delaware system? Yeah. No. Thanks for the question, Scott. This is Michael.

We are seeing a lot more smaller opportunities than we saw last year, the year before as the system, you know, gets built out and it is roughly halfway built out. But we are we are continuing to move forward. We are really able to find small opportunities that leverage the entire system. And they create, you know, really attractive returns because you are leveraging the full system and adding acreage. So I would say that we are seeing a lot more of those than we have seen in the last couple of years.

There still are a couple of pieces that are chunkier out there that we are still chasing that as we expand into new territory, specifically in Eddy County, that are becoming available, so I am hopeful that we can deliver on some bigger projects, but really, it is kind of you look past that and kind of into the back half of 2026 and beyond. I think it is going to you are going to see more and more of the smaller opportunities that are just highly accretive because you are leveraging the full system. Got it.

And just thinking longer term, you know, after the Northern Delaware is established and as you said, you will keep tapping into those small opportunities. Is there you know, an opportunity to kind of really expand the you know, the system, whether it is into the Southern Delaware or you know, heading further east at all. Or other basins, kind of what is what is the next leg of growth for the infrastructure business longer term? How do you think about that? Yeah. So you saw us announce something in Winkler County, which is really kind of the first time that we stepped below the Texas state line out of New Mexico inside the Delaware in a meaningful way.

You know, we will continue to expand within Lea and Eddy County. I go back to those two counties have the most economic inventory. They are underbuilt. There is just a tremendous opportunity there. And I think what we are building in Lea and Eddy County is really truly differentiated. There is there is not another asset system like that in the Permian or outside the Permian and certainly where you want to be. Now having that said, that system can expand into the Central Basin Platform where you are seeing the development for the Barnett and the Woodford. And that is kind of what we were looking at when we moved into Winkler.

So I think you will see us continue to explore that system, you know, beyond just Lea and Eddy County. And then possibly expand kind of some of existing systems like what we have in Upton, trying to kind of meet in the middle somewhere on the platform. That is great. I appreciate the color. I will send it back. Thank you. Thank you, Scott. The next question comes from the line of Bobby Brooks with Northland Capital Markets. Please proceed. Hey, good morning, guys. Thank you for taking my question.

So first, you guys have announced two different lithium extraction partnerships the past few months, and it and it seems like a really exciting way to add another incremental high-margin revenue stream to the business, along with highlighting how your infrastructure can further be leveraged to uplift financials. With that in mind, was just curious to hear what other opportunities might you be evaluating in the similar lane in the similar lane as lithium extraction or just other opportunities where you see things that could be kind of similar, high-revenue, low-cost uplifts. Hey, Bobby, this is Mike. Thanks for the question.

And yeah, we are really happy with our progress over the basically a year of really characterizing our asset base across all of our basins. And a lot of engagement with technology partners. And I think you are seeing the results yield in some exciting announcements recently, but, you know, there is more to come there. The strategic decision we did make was to participate, spend our capital, on building out water infrastructure, large volume available at a single-point water storage, and in particular, as Michael was mentioning, that Northern New Mexico system where we are treating water anyway, that is a very unique capability that we have, and it is a big OpEx reduction for these technology partners.

So we are in a position where we can provide the water with already a big chunk of that cost done for them, essentially. So we are looking across the, you know, available market, picking the best-of-breed operators and this recycling-first model has really put us in a pole position, you know, and a very attractive partner for these folks. So you will see more of these lithium deals. We have something in the New Mexico area that we have not given details on. But we will also, hopefully, in the first half this year, we are expecting also some interesting news around iodine extraction. And even some of our partners are talking strontium, magnesium.

So we, again, we are we are always very thoughtful about bringing the right technology to the right water. And I think when you got that marriage right, you can make some of that really high-margin royalty revenue that you are referring to. Got it. Super helpful color. And then just was curious to hear a little bit more of an update on kind of how you guys are looking at the Peak Rental business and kind of strategic moves there. Seems like nothing has happened yet, but just curious of like kind of what outcomes you guys see as most likely. And then could you also just remind us, like, what type of genset equipment does Peak own? Yeah.

This is John. Yeah. So we continue to engage strategically around Peak Rentals and making sure that both the outcome is very positive for Peak because of the uniqueness of their opportunity that they have as well as the outcome to Select Water Solutions, Inc. and the capital that we are deploying in the water infrastructure or the various areas around these networks that have been described. But, you know, Peak was built around an accommodations business that supported accommodations around drilling rigs and frac equipment. And anytime you do that, you support that accommodations with power generation, communications, security, water application of you know, both sewage as well as fresh, and, to support that mechanism.

So our power generation, we are, you know, diesel-powered distributed mobile generators, and they supported everything on the drilling site and everything on the completion site. What we have inside of Peak that we think is very special is about 350 MSAs with the people that are drilling wells and completing wells. We are now taking Peak into the production phase of the well where, you know, they are lacking power, and we have both the MSAs as well as the network and the knowledge base to do, you know, distribute that power properly.

We also have found a very unique opportunity, and Peak is now harvested it and put it out and now demonstrating the value, but putting a battery pack between that distributed power, basically, our diesel power units, and then and then the use has really shown value both in the economics of, you know, the usage of diesel or the economics of the cycle time of those generators or really the value of the electric current going into the use system.

Especially if you can take it away from smaller generations, you know, where you are putting it into trailer houses with air conditioning and computers and TVs and refrigerators and start taking it into artificial lift, compression, things of that nature. So, you know, artificial lift equipment is very sensitive in their power needs and what they do. They are already a customer. They are already in the MSA. And we have now entered that market with what we have got. We have also started to expand the distributed power business from diesel-powered generation to natural gas-powered generation. It fits really well both in movement of water, compression, and artificial lift. So it is just natural.

But we are being very careful, and we want to make sure that we protect Peak because it has got a very good thesis in it. At the same time, we are looking for the right capital structure both for Peak as well as that right outcome for Select Water Solutions, Inc. Maybe one thing to add to that, Bobby, is, you know, what we have seen with that business and the transition to the nat gas genset capabilities, primarily on a reset, you know, basis, but we have used that to support the build-out and the pace of our own water infrastructure development, particularly in New Mexico where power is short.

You are talking about three- to five-year, you know, build windows for, you know, for full power build-out. So we have had the need and the to build our own integrated power capabilities through that business to support the pace of our own growth and development. So we are going to be, you know, thoughtful and diligent around the approach on how we support our own, you know, internal needs at Select Water Solutions, Inc., generate cash out of the Peak business to support our growth, and then find the right long-term opportunity set for it. That is terrific color. I really appreciate all that detail.

And then just one last one for me is in the press release and your prepared remarks kind of hinted that you guys had multiple successful beneficial reuse pilots. And I was hoping to get a little bit more color there. Were these pilots in collaboration with the NPEs testing their own internally developed technology or maybe there was internally developed technology by Select Water Solutions, Inc.? Were all the pilots focused on Permian, or were there pilots happening in other basins? And maybe what were some, you know, just generally, what were some key learnings from these pilots and ultimately, like, what made them successful in your view? Yeah. Bobby, this is Mike again. A great question.

And it is interesting because you are touching on another area where because of our recycling-first and large-scale treatment capabilities, this is another area that benefits directly from that. So starting from treated produced water versus raw really gives you a leg up in this area. So we have over the years and more recently have completed several pilots of increasing scale, everything from, you know, white film evaporation to multi-effect vacuum distillation to membrane distillation, you know, normal RO units. The fact is we touch a lot of different colors and types of water.

And we always want to be able to bring the right technology, which, again, because we are multi-basin and we touch a lot of that water, we want to be ready. More recently, in conjunction with one of our premier operators, a university, and the Produced Water Consortium, we did one of our larger scale projects where we were able to take treated produced water, treat it fully, and actually were land-applying it as a part of a pilot with this university, and we are growing all sorts of native and other crop plants out nearby our treatment facility.

And also, the water is going into a greenhouse for what we would consider to be one of the largest and more technically advanced plant growing tests. So we are proving up the water quality not only by just running the standard test, but we are also proving it by looking at biological growth and soil quality. So all of that is kind of our strategy. It is our contribution to prove that this is a viable way to operate in the future, helping inform regulatory efforts with this data. And ultimately, I think the reason we are chasing this is to push the industry, but also it is transformational.

It is a critical long-term solution that we need to bring to life. And so our focus now is around the techno-economics of these different solutions. And ultimately, you know, we need to make money on this. So we are going to look very carefully and build the systems that have the right capital return and investability. And really what we are trying to solve here ultimately is what we all know is a pinch point in industry, especially in the areas where we operate in New Mexico and around the Texas border. Have to find ways to dispose barrels.

So, I mean, really, what we are doing is defining the future of Select Water Solutions, Inc. to be a pioneer in this space and to and to really continue to create, you know, for the next five, ten, twenty years, the way that our system that we are investing in now can live on as that portfolio shifts to perhaps a more disposal-oriented solution. So I think what you will see from us is over the next, you know, couple few years, like, we will begin to announce plans, and we will we will begin to bring commercial-scale facilities online. Super helpful color. Appreciate that, and congrats on the good quarter. I will turn to the queue. Thanks, Bobby.

The next question comes from the line of Derrick Whitfield with Texas Capital. Please proceed. Good morning, guys, and congrats on a strong quarter and update as well. Thank you, Derrick. Wanted to start with the macro environment for water infrastructure. Oil macro being a bit murky at present, a) how are you guys thinking about growth opportunities in the second half on the upstream side? And b) when do you see a potential inflection in capital for municipal growth opportunities? Good questions, Derrick.

So from a back half of the year, kind of near-term macro outlook perspective, yeah, as we define from a capital program, you know, we are going to be heavily weighted towards the first half of the year on the current capital outlay, based on contracts in hand. But, you know, we do have some strong backlog opportunities and continued excitement around the ability to layer on some incremental capital opportunities, you know, beyond the current program, and we would be excited to win some of those as Michael outlined. Looking, you know, looking at the back half of the year and into 2027, you know, we do anticipate a maturation phase, as Michael outlined, in New Mexico.

And we do think that you are going to see a transition towards some of the incremental growth opportunities around the diversification set and some of the things that Mike mentioned around beneficial reuse as well. So we would anticipate that the, you know, larger kind of remaining committed portion of our municipal project up in Colorado, you know, sees its large investment cycle in 2027, to the extent, you know, to the extent that aligns with the timeline of getting contracts in hand as we previously outlined. So, you know, we think that we will start to see a maturity phase out of the New Mexico footprint over the course of 2026 and into early 2027.

And there continues to be an exciting opportunity set. But yeah, we do think that you will start to continue to see excess free cash flow generation and more capital allocation, you know, discretionary choices availability for us. Great. And for my follow-up, I wanted to focus on your prepared comments on the Chemicals segment. We are hearing from the upstream sector increasing levels of interest in integrating surfactants in both completion and workover activities. I guess, are you guys seeing that demand out in the field? And if you are, how much of that are you baking into your revenue guidance? We are seeing that demand out in field. I mean, we are seeing we are getting inbounds.

We have seen statements made by some of the largest operators around the benefits of surfactants. You know, thankfully, we have extensive experience applying surfactants both in completions and EUR technology. Also, surfactants are really they are really customized. I mean, they are they are highly specific to the rock, which fits us well because our chemistry value prop is custom chemistry to enhance oil recovery. We saw a pickup in surfactants in Q4. And we think that will continue to benefit us in 2026. There certainly is opportunity beyond kind of what we have in place.

We are investing right now in our technical team, and really we are making sure we understand, you know, which surfactants chemical packages work well with which rock, which ones are fairly neutral, and which ones are actually eroding the performance. So as we as we couple that with our in-basin manufacturing of surfactants there in Midland, Texas, we think we are very well-positioned to capitalize on what should be continued expansion of that chemical offer.

And one final point I might add is, you know, as we continue to also see the growth and the demand of, you know, reusing produced water and treated produced water, it creates an even more complex, you know, set of circumstances for matching the right, you know, full suite of chemistry with the right outcome you are looking for. As Michael talked about those specialized, you know, and customized solutions based on the geology, having the overlap with our water recycling and treatment capabilities provides us a unique advantage to also look at that application of the, you know, the advanced chemistry side as well. Great update. I will turn it back to the operator.

Next question comes from the line of Derek Podhaizer with Piper Sandler. Please proceed. Hey, good morning, guys. Wanted to, I guess, stick on the Chemical Technology segment and maybe just can you talk to us a little bit about your market share here? I mean, the friction reducers and the surfactants sound pretty exciting from a growth angle perspective. Just looking at the model, you are at this $300,000,000 run rate for top-line revenue. Where could this potentially go?

And then secondarily, do you have the capacity to grow revenue well beyond the $300,000,000, or would we expect to see some capital need to start being fed into this to really start growing this more significantly as we get this uptake of friction reducers, then particularly surfactants. Yeah, Derek. Just to kind of start, we are very excited about the market share increase we have seen. We are excited about the prospect of surfactants given our history and our technology team and, and we saw some of that in Q4, but the majority of Q4 was our friction reducers and the chemistry that we have been providing. We do really well when you need a stronger, more durable chemistry.

So as more you see more produced water, we have higher market share in produced water jobs than we have in brine and brine and freshwater jobs. We have higher market share on longer laterals than we do on shorter laterals. We have higher market share on tri-mod fracs than we do on simul fracs. We have higher market share on simul than we do on zippers. So the more complex the solution, that is really where we shine. So we think we are skating to where the puck is in terms of providing complex technical chemistry.

And I think the team has done a really good job of coming up with solutions and that is why you have seen us grow market share really pretty ratably over 2025. And to your point on capacity and capital needs, Derek, we do have, you know, as Michael said, our in-basin manufacturing plant in Midland. We have got another sizable plant in East Texas. And, you know, as it currently sits today, you know, we have got continued opportunity for expansion. You know, the business generates, you know, great free cash flow out of its core profitability.

And so, you know, to the extent, you know, there is opportunities to add efficiency or add, you know, new line scale, I mean, we can do that, you know, in a meaningful way out of the current plant footprint and do it in a manner that is going to continue to allow us to generate, you know, in excess of, you know, something like 70% of, of, you know, free cash flow out of the profitability of the business. Got it. No. That is helpful. And, you know, maybe kind of piggybacking off of your last point there.

I mean, you know, kind of if I am reading this correctly, that would get into more of a steady state as the capital needs for the overall business? I mean, how should we really start thinking about free cash flow generation maybe out of EBITDA? I mean, obviously, like we have ranged from negative to 25%, 30%. I mean, what is the where do you see this going? Could we get kind of in that 40% range, 50% range? Just looking longer term as we as recalibrate the CapEx here and you flip more to free cash flow generation for the overall business? Certainly a good question.

We are in a pretty unique build-out, you know, phase for the business, particularly in that New Mexico footprint. So, you know, this year, we, you know, we did guide to a lower capital program than, you know, we undertook in 2025. But, certainly, to the extent we can continue to build a backlog of opportunities, you know, beyond that, we are going to be, you know, be excited to do that and look to capitalize on that in, you know, in the next 12, 18 months. But, looking out further, we think that the free cash flow generating capabilities of the business, Derek, certainly, you know, could, you know, replicate something or beyond what you outlined there.

The core, you know, legacy services and chemicals businesses as we outlined before, generating strong, you know, free cash flow to fund our growth in excess of 70%. Infrastructure is largely consuming its capital or its cash flow today for capital growth, but it is it is a even, I would say, more maintenance-light application of operations than the rest of the business. So as we get to a, you know, through-cycle maturity phase here over the next 24 months, you know, it will it will be making further choices around incremental growth, diversification, acquisitions, shareholder return enhancement. So pretty excited about what that can look like over the next 24 months as we get into 2027 and beyond.

But, you know, the maintenance needs of the business at $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 today are very modest and will continue to be so. Right. Super helpful. Thank you. I will turn it back. Thank you, Derek. The next question comes from the line of Connor Jensen with Raymond James. Please proceed. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question. You noted a little project timing slippage in Water Infrastructure from the fourth quarter into 2026. Just maybe a little color on what happened there and some puts and takes on how that could impact the 20% to 25% growth in 2026 on either side of the calendar there? Thanks. Yes. Thank you, Connor.

So the projects we just had some, I think, fairly minor delays when we are building something of this size and magnitude, and it is all linear. There a few things can set you back. This one was specifically around right-of-way. We had some delays in getting of the right-of-way that we needed, which pushed it back a little bit, but it is all things that we secured now. We are we are moving forward, and I think we are in a good position to kind of execute across the front half of this year. Got it. That makes sense.

And then for Water Services, I was wondering if anything changed there to drive a little bit stronger outlook, a little bit stronger run rate than we thought previously. Is any of that water transfer outperformance expected to continue going forward? Yeah, good question. So, as we outlined, we definitely saw some strong uplift in New Mexico, you know, in tandem with, you know, with the build-out, you know, timelines we talked about on the Water Infrastructure side. We are able to supplement that with temporary water logistics in the fourth quarter, which, you know, drove a 70-plus percent growth in that New Mexico last-mile logistics business, which was a great outcome.

You know, we talked about previously some of the opportunity we had to integrate water transfer into our long-term infrastructure contracts with sizable dedications that incorporated that water transfer. We continue to be excited about the opportunity to, you know, see further stability and growth out of that of the business within Services over time, particularly in that Delaware Basin region. So it was a great outcome for our ability to support our customers with changing schedules both on their side and on our side in the fourth quarter.

As we continue to get the infrastructure up and running, you know, we have got a good view into an ability to continue see some stability and growth out of that segment or that region, and we think that will provide, you know, kind of a steady state for the business, you know, over time here. Obviously, we had the rationalization and the divestment activities in 2025 that, you know, that were the right choices for the business. And so on the backside of that, the 2025, you know, we think provides a pretty good run rate for the business and should see that through all the way for 2026. Got it. Thanks, guys. I will turn it back.

The next question comes from the line of Jeffrey Woolf Robertson with Water Tower Research. Please proceed. Thank you. Michael or Chris, would you anticipate that any of the efforts to increase utilization in the in the Northern Delaware Basin could have a positive impact on Water Infrastructure margins in 2027 versus what you think in 2026? Good question, Jeff. So obviously, every incremental barrel you can push through a piece of infrastructure is generally an accretive barrel. So, you know, we do think over time as we grow the utilization, we bring on commercial volumes, you know, beyond our core tenants on the on the new assets, we will continue to see opportunity to enhance the margins over time.

So I think that is something we will continue to be focused on. You know, there is some exposure on the commodity side of oil sales through the asset base across both the disposal and recycling footprint that we will be cognizant of as we think through margin profile as well. But generally speaking, Jeff, you know, you are right. There is definitely opportunity to continue to see the enhancement in the margin profile. We will continue to be active in undertaking new build-out and contract opportunities, and we would be happy to underwrite those anywhere in that 50% to 60% margin profile as we have historically done.

But we will be focused on what that looks like to continue to improve. With respect to your gas exposure, particularly in Haynesville, would increased utilization have an impact on infrastructure margins that would be noticeable and or, Michael, what kind of opportunities are there to or need is there to for Select Water Solutions, Inc. to expand its footprint there? Yeah. No. We are thanks for the question. We are seeing we are seeing good strength in the natural gas basins. I mean, we are very fortunate that we have the leading disposal position in both the Haynesville and in the Marcellus. And we are having conversations, you know, regularly with customers about expansion opportunities or contracts.

And those were conversations that really were not being had, you know, 12 or 18 months ago, and that is just as a result of the gas price and the activity there. So I do expect that we will we are going to continue evaluating solutions in both basins, and I think you will see us make some expansions outside of the Permian in 2026. Now having that said, again, most of the opportunity is around the Permian, and most of it is in Lea and Eddy County, as we mentioned. And one maybe final point to add back to your first question as well, Jeff.

We think about the margin profile long term, you know, as we outlined earlier in my talk-through, the continued ability to add on some of these incremental royalty streams to the business, and we are talking, you know, low- to no-cost, you know, type of revenue dollars that are benefiting from the existing capital investments we have already made. So to the extent we start to see those projects come online in late 2026, early 2027, and ramp over time, those will continue to provide meaningful margin accretion opportunity as well. Thank you.

And lastly, Mike, with respect to some of the beneficial reuse pilots, is it fair to think that if you can tie beneficial reuse into your Northern Delaware system, for example, that would attract more customers to the system because it would enhance your Select Water Solutions, Inc.'s water balancing capabilities in that area. Yeah, Jeff. Absolutely. I think, in particular, New Mexico, we need to, you know, continue to support the state and the legislation to get to a, I would say, environmentally responsible but industrial-friendly outcome. I think that will help as we think about either land application or water discharge.

There are other technologies that we are evaluating as well that will get incremental disposal, like nontraditional disposal, let us say, onto the system as well. And that is absolutely a part of what we consider to be the end-to-end, you know, full life cycle of the barrel solution. So and again, yeah, you are right. It is part of something that we can offer because of the large infrastructure footprint that we already have, which includes treatment, which reduces cost and increases the viability, you know, techno-economically of all these solutions. So I we do believe we are in a very unique position to support customers that way. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff.

The next question comes from the line of Sean Mitchell with Daniel Energy Partners. Please proceed. You guys mentioned earlier in the Q&A, simul frac. I am just curious if you guys have an estimate or any color around simul frac growth today versus maybe two years ago. I mean, obviously, there is a lot more sand and water going downhole with this completion design. Where is that today relative to maybe where it was three years ago? And where do you think the industry is at large on simul frac? Are we 25% of the industry, 30% of the industry using it, and where can that go potentially? Do you have any comments around that? That would be helpful.

Yeah. This is John. You know, I first of all, I think I would start the answer by percentage-wise, of where that is today and where it is going. We would say that it is definitely increasing. But the way that we see it and primarily water and chemistry is the intensity in the space, whether it is simul frac or tri-mod frac or longer laterals or, you know, how much you can do in a 24-hour period. That intensity is real, and it also is very engineered.

So, what this company is seeing right now is the effects of all in intensity, all complexity of multiple water sources in recycling application and delivering mechanisms for massive water throughout long periods because of movement in the tri-mod frac or longer laterals or what it is. So probably cannot answer your position as a percentage, but we will tell you that this company sees a heavy weighted engineered intensity. Got it. Thanks. Thank you. This concludes the question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the call back over to John Schmitz for closing remarks. Yeah. Thanks for joining the call and for your interest in learning more about Select Water Solutions, Inc.

And we look forward to speaking to you again next quarter. Thanks. This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. And we thank you for your participation.

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