普莱恩斯全美 (PAGP) 2026年第三季度业绩电话会：调整后EBITDA达7.11亿美元

核心要点

• Plains All American公布2026年第三季度调整后EBITDA为7.11亿美元，主要得益于运营效率提升、联邦能源监管委员会（FERC）年度费率上调，以及环保补救支出较第二季度下降。
• 管理层将全年调整后EBITDA指引区间收窄至28.8亿美元（上下浮动5000万美元），并预计在当前市场环境下，实际业绩将处于或略高于该区间中值。
• 公司已实现Cactus III收购带来的5000万美元协同效应，并有望在2026年年底前实现另外5000万美元的全公司范围效率提升。
• 一项为期10年的新协议将27万英亩专营承诺面积纳入二叠纪米德兰集输系统，使二叠纪盆地的专营承诺总面积超过530万英亩。管理层预计该项目将于2027年年底或2028年年初开始贡献收益。
• 新更名的Silver Spur系统输送量约为每日12.5万桶，涵盖91.5万英亩专营承诺面积。管理层预计2027年将是过渡与投资之年，更强劲的增长将从2028年开始显现。
• 规模达15亿美元的次级票据发行以及优先合伙份额赎回，预计将使面向普通合伙份额持有人的年度可分配现金流增加约6000万美元，即每份0.09美元。

关键财务数据

业务与运营表现

Plains All American已于5月完成了加拿大天然气凝析液（NGL）业务的出售。因此，第三季度财报剔除了NGL业务板块，将公司整体呈现为单一专注于原油的综合业务板块。管理层表示，这一转变将提升现金流的持续稳定性并增加增长机会。

在二叠纪米德兰盆地，公司与一家大型综合生产商签署了一份为期10年的集输协议，涵盖27万英亩的专营承诺面积。该合同涉及现有产能，目前仍需进行管网接驳工程。管理层预计该项目将于2027年年底或2028年年初开始贡献收益，并计划在2月提供资本支出及具体时间表等细节。

Silver Creek收购交易已于10月1日完成交割，该资产更名为Silver Spur。该保德河盆地系统目前的输送量约为每日12.5万桶，并拥有91.5万英亩长期承诺绑定的专营面积。与Plains现有管网整合后，将通过根西地区提供通往库欣的管网连通能力。

管理层预计在2027年年底之前将持续对Silver Spur系统进行投资。在此期间，过渡服务及整合成本预计将逐步下降，同时有望拓展更多市场机遇，并为现有的管道和储运码头带来协同效益。管理层表示，该收购在前12个月的估值倍数约为EBITDA的9至10倍，预计此后该倍数将逐步回落。

管理层指引

管理层预计，2026年二叠纪盆地产量增速将接近此前预测区间的上限，约为每日20万桶（按年末对比口径计）。管理层指出，天然气外输能力的改善、钻机数量的增加、钻井效率的提升以及提高采收率技术，是推动2027年增长势头的潜在动力。

对于第四季度，指引所隐含的调整后EBITDA约为7亿美元。管理层预计第二和第三季度所把握的部分市场机遇将有所降温。Silver Spur将在该季度贡献收益，但由于过渡与整合成本的存在，且未来预期的协同效应尚未完全显现，其短期效益将相对有限。

公司将于2月提供正式的2027年业绩指引。管理层将二叠纪盆地管输量增长、投资项目、Silver Spur以及效率提升列为潜在利好因素；同时提醒称，近期与市场相关的盈利机会不应直接简单年化代入对2027年的预期。

风险与核心关注点

• 管理层重点提及了持续的地缘政治动荡、全球石油供应中断以及能源基础设施受损等风险。
• 二叠纪盆地新增管道运力的投运时间仍存在不确定性，因为这取决于产量增长、客户需求、合同条款以及原油市场的波动情况。
• 近期市场机遇虽提振了第二和第三季度的业绩，但管理层并未假设这些利好会在2027年重现。
• 在管理层预计2028年迎来更强劲增长之前，Silver Spur近期仍面临过渡、整合及投资成本的压力。
• 管理层表示，补强型收购机会可能不如近年来频繁，而更大范围的并购活动仍将受到回报率门槛和资本纪律的严格约束。

分析师问答亮点

管理层表示，根据当前的作业活动，在可预见的未来，二叠纪盆地的产量可能会增加每日20万至30万桶。尽管通往墨西哥湾沿岸的管道负荷率已接近90%，但公司认为该盆地的产能在未来数年仍能持续得到有效外运消纳。

二叠纪盆地的新增运力更有可能通过分阶段的现有设施改扩建（棕地项目）来实现，而非兴建单一大型新建管道（绿地项目）。管理层预计潜在的扩建活动将在2028年左右至2029年年初展开，并表示随着需求、合同和费率能够支撑投资回报，Cactus III的运力将逐步释放。

关于Silver Spur，管理层将保德河盆地视为落基山脉地区的潜在增长平台。上游生产商反馈单井表现有所改善且成本下降，部分生产商正考虑增加钻机。此外，Plains预计新增运量将为其通往库欣的下游管道和储运码头提供有力支撑。

在并购方面，管理层表示Plains在过去三到四年中完成了约15笔补强型收购。公司将继续评估内生性增长与外延式收购机会，但任何交易都必须符合其原油战略、资本纪律和回报率要求。

财报电话会议完整实录

完整财报电话会议逐字稿

管理层陈述

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Plains All American Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please advise that today's conference is being recorded.

I'd now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Blake Fernandez, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Blake Fernandez

Thank you, Marvin, good morning, and welcome to the Plains All American third quarter 2026 earnings call. Today's slide presentation is posted on the Investor Relations website under the News and Events section at ir.plains.com. An audio replay will also be available following today's call. Important disclosures regarding forward-looking statements and non-GAAP financial measures are provided on Slide 2. An overview of today's call is provided on Slide 3, a condensed consolidating balance sheet for PAGP and other reference materials are in the appendix.

Today's call will be hosted by Willie Chiang, Chairman and CEO and President; Al Swanson, Executive Vice President and CFO, along with other members of our management team.

With that, I'm going to turn the call over to Willie.

Willie Chiang

Thank you, Blake. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. This morning, we reported strong third quarter adjusted EBITDA attributable to plans of $711 million. Al will provide additional details on the quarterly results in his portion of the call. Our business is operating well, and we continue to demonstrate steady growth as we executed on the three initiatives that we established at the beginning of the year. First, we closed on the sale of our Canadian NGL business in May, which completes our shift to a premier crude oil midstream company and improves the quality of our cash flow and our opportunities for growth going forward. Second, we have captured $50 million of synergies in connection with the Cactus III Pipeline acquisition. And third, we remain on track to deliver $50 million of efficiencies across the organization by year-end 2026.

As we outlined on Slide 4, we have multiple levers to efficiently grow the business through a combination of organic and inorganic investment opportunities that complement our existing asset base. To further expand on the organic growth projects that we detailed in the second quarter, we're pleased to announce a 10-year agreement with the large integrated producer to further build out our Permian Midland gathering system. This new agreement includes 270,000 dedicated acres, and it provides additional growth opportunities to the POP JV, bringing our total dedicated acreage in the Permian to more than 5.3 million acres.

Outside of the Permian, we successfully closed the Silver Creek acquisition, which we have renamed Silver Spur on October 1. This further expands our presence within the Powder River Basin, where substantial drilling location with attractive economics support robust producer development into the future. Silver Spur is a strategic addition to our Rockies platform. The system currently transports approximately 125,000 barrels a day underpinned by a diversified customer base and includes 915,000 dedicated acres with long-term contractual commitments. By integrating these gathering assets into our existing network, we enhance our customer offering with long-term haul connectivity to cushing, creating commercial and operational synergies that support long-term cash flow growth.

During the quarter, we also took steps to optimize our balance sheet with a successful junior subordinated notes offering and the subsequent redemption of our preferred securities. Al will provide more detail, but these transactions meaningfully simplify our capital structure and are accretive to distributable cash flow moving forward.

On the macro front, the geopolitical landscape remains volatile with ongoing disruptions to global oil supply and damage to energy infrastructure. Global demand has remained resilient and oil inventories, including strategic petroleum reserves continued depleting, which is supporting the crude oil futures curve. Through this environment, North America remains critical to help meet global energy needs. More specific to the Permian, we expect production growth to be towards the high end of our previous range, about 200,000 barrels a day on a year-end exit-to-exit basis for 2026. The improving natural gas egress, higher rig counts over the past 6 months, continued developments of various formations in the Permian and continued advancements in drilling efficiencies and enhanced recovery techniques should and will provide momentum into 2027. We will provide a more formal outlook for 2027 Permian growth on our call in February.

With that, I'll turn the call over to Al to cover our quarterly performance and other financial matters.

Al Swanson

Thanks, Willie. Slide 5 contains adjusted EBITDA walk that provide additional details on our performance. Please note that 3Q reporting removes the NGL segment and includes one single consolidated segment for the entire company, which aligns with the sale of our Canadian NGL business that closed in May. For the third quarter, we reported adjusted EBITDA of $711 million, reflecting the benefit of operating efficiencies, annual [ ferc ] tariff rate escalations and a reduction in environmental remediation expenses relative to the second quarter.

As highlighted on Slide 6, we are on track to achieve our guidance targets for the year and narrowing the EBITDA range to plus or minus $50 million with a midpoint of $2.88 billion. Based on prevailing macro environment, we would expect to be at or slightly above the midpoint of the range for the year.

A summary of 2026 guidance and key assumptions are on Slide 7. We will provide guidance for 2027 on our call in February.

Slide 8 illustrates strong distributable cash flow generation. In September, we successfully raised $1.5 billion of 30-year junior subordinated notes, which mature in 2056, consisting of $700 million of 6.75% Series A notes, which are callable in 5 years and $800 million of 7% Series B notes, which are callable in 10 years. Subsequently, we used the proceeds along with cash on hand and commercial paper borrowings to redeem all of our Series A and Series B preferred units. This capital structure optimization is expected to increase annual distributable cash flow to common unitholders by approximately $60 million or $0.09 per unit while maintaining leverage within our targeted range.

With that, I will turn the call back to Willie.

Willie Chiang

Thank you, Al. I'm pleased with our performance year-to-date and the continued execution on our key initiatives. Our crude oil business with a more durable and predictable cash flow stream post NGL sale really positions us well for a variety of macro market conditions.

As we show on Slide 9, we continue to execute our efficient growth strategy the three announcements this quarter again demonstrate the multiple levers that we have to drive growth, including organic investments, inorganic bolt-on M&A and balance sheet optimization. We remain committed to capital discipline, maintaining a stable and flexible balance sheet and continuing to return cash to unitholders.

With that, I'll turn the call back to Blake to lead us into Q&A.

Blake Fernandez

Thanks, Willie. As we enter the Q&A session, please limit yourself to two questions. This will allow us to address as many questions as possible from our participants that are available time this morning.

With that, Marvin, we're ready for questions.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Manav Gupta of UBS.

分析师问答

Manav Gupta

I wanted to ask you a little bit more on the 270,000-acre Midland dedication. As you ramp towards the 225 target of volumes, how should we think about the earnings uplift that this opportunity provides.

Jeremy Goebel

Manav, this is Jeremy Goebel. We're going to give you more guidance on that in February. But think of that as existing production. So it's not a ramp to production. It's just a matter of timing for connection. So that contribution will likely be late 2027, early 2028 when the connection is done, but we'll give you more guidance on capital and timing next year. But we're excited about the opportunity to partner with a top-tier producer and look forward to providing those services over a long period of time and expanding our Midland footprint.

Manav Gupta

Perfect, sir. The second question I wanted to ask you, I mean, maybe I understand there's crude volatility. But what are you hearing from the producers generally in the Permian? Do they expect continue to grow production. We know the big guys, Exxons of the world, definitely want to grow. And what we are trying to solve from our side is, when does the Permian egress start to get tightened again? Is it late 2028? Is it 2029? When do you see to the point where these existing Permian pipes, even with the Cactus III expansion are like almost 90% full?

Jeremy Goebel

Got it. Manav, that is a great question. What I would say is the volatility you experience every day waking up and seeing a headline in crude move $8 to $10, they're experiencing the same. So from a planning perspective, I think you can expect 200,000 to 300,000 barrels a day of growth for the foreseeable future based on the activity you see today. You've added 30 rigs this year, you've gotten more efficient this year. You're just starting to add completion crews. So the 200,000 barrels a day of growth that we've seen through this year, we would expect that to continue. The pipes to the coast are close to 90% full now. I think what you would see is the total basin will grow 200,000 to 300,000 barrels a day. The basin will clear for several more years. But I think your timing is appropriate for additional brownfield expansions in that '28 to '29 time period to see additional capacity come to market. So there's no need for a greenfield large pipeline at this time based on the ratable growth that we see and the smaller number of players driving growth, it seems like it's going to be orderly and that growth will happen over that time period. But your -- sometime in 2028 to early 2029, I think you'll see additional brownfield expansions. But by and large, I think rates are constructive, dialogues constructive with counterparties. We continue to recontract the pipes that we have now and look forward to continue growing the business.

Willie Chiang

Manav, this is Willie. I just wanted to add one thing. But your question is spot on. It's very difficult to predict the exact timing of it because just of the global volatility. But as I sit back and we think about what's going on in the world, global demand has remained fairly resilient. There's a lot of noise in the supply chains. If you look at where the resources are and where the demand centers are for the world. It all points to North America really being an incremental producer. So the capacity that we've got out of the Permian is meaningful, and we've got the ability to expand Cactus III. And as we've said before, we're going to match that expansion capacity to what the demand is to get to the water, but I think it really sets up for a strong macro environment going forward, trying to analyze and pick exactly when it's going to happen is very, very difficult, but we'll be patient and we stand ready to be able to meet the needs.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Julian [indiscernible] of Jefferies.

Unknown Analyst

Can you hear me okay?

Willie Chiang

We can hear you loud and clear.

Unknown Analyst

Excellent. Look, a couple of things. Maybe just zeroing in and net picking just on the quarter itself 4Q was implied here, how do you think a little bit about just implying down? Is there any specific drag here on the -- like forthcoming quarter? And then digging a little bit more strategically to the last question here, what do you think the timing of evaluating that Cactus III expansion is vis-a-vis you talk about that '28 timeline for a brownfield expansion. When do you start moving on that, and we're getting a little bit more detail on -- I presume that that's the brownfield expansion you're getting at here.

Al Swanson

Julian, this is Al. I'll do the first part. Implied, obviously, in our guidance is about $700 million for the fourth quarter, down about 10% from the third quarter. The real change is the market opportunities that we've experienced in 2Q and 3Q that really masked that's really driving the $10 million lower number plus the inclusion of Silver Creek for the fourth quarter. If you recall, our view is Silver Creek's an asset that's going to grow meaningfully over the next few years. 4Q included in our forecast is without the benefit of some of that growth some transition services costs, integration costs, et cetera, and without the synergies. So those two basically offset the step down in some of the market opportunity that we captured kind of as the war started for second quarter and third quarter.

Jeremy Goebel

Julian, for your second part, the shorter answer is we're continually evaluating them. Just as you saw this summer, we added 75,000 barrels a day we're looking at incremental ability to add as the market demands. And so I think you'll see us ramp over that time period. There are segments of pipe we have to build to access additional markets. So it's not -- I don't know that you'll see one grand announcement series of announcements to get the pipeline ready. And then as contracts and rates are appropriate, we'll add the additional capacity. So it's not -- I don't think it's going to be one step change, another 300,000 barrels a day. I think you're going to see a series of expansions that go based on market demand.

Unknown Analyst

Got it. Excellent. And you picked up what I was trying to put down on that 4Q and on the Silver Creek piece and the contribution. But maybe talking about the TRB more broadly here. I mean obviously, you're acquiring here. How do you think about diversification in that geography here, post midterms, et cetera? Anything that you'd flag in terms of just this more strategic repositioning and adding on the margin maybe, but any points to complement your latest position there?

Jeremy Goebel

We're very excited about the Silver Spear asset. I think the Powder River Basin is one that's been candidly evaluated for over some time period, and they're just starting to figure it out. So I think it's going to ramp into 2028. We have to continue to build out the system now through 2027, but there's a series of NBCs. There's 915,000 of acreage dedications. There's 4 to 5 producers that are already telling us that the wells are better and they cost less, and they're looking to potentially add a rig into the system. So we can see the Powder River Basin as the next growth wedge in the Rockies. And that positions well for us not only on the Silver Spur asset from a gathering standpoint, but then also from a pull-through benefit to our pipelines and terminals in the Guernsey area headed south through to Cushing. So it's an integrated play for us. It's a growth on a stand-alone basis but also an integrated place. We're excited about the opportunity to work with some of our large producers that are also there.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Jeremy Tonet of JPMorgan Securities.

Francina Kolluri

This is Francina on for Jeremy. Just wanted to zoom in a bit more on that kind of Silver Creek contribution point in 4Q. How would you kind of maybe frame or size run rate contributions and then the kinds of projects that might be incremental to kind of reach that run rate in terms of thinking about capital needs to really capture that low-hanging fruit.

Jeremy Goebel

So think of the fourth quarter as transition. There's a transition services agreement, which has some additional costs that will go away. So typically, it takes us a few months to shut off. So we'll go into next year it will be inside that cost of capital very quickly that our long-term run rate. So we have to -- from a there's an investment that needs to be made between now and the end of 2027. So it will really catch its legs in the 2028 and forward, like I said, a series of MVCs and acres dedication, but we'll be shedding costs, adding market opportunities doing some pull-through benefits on the asset through 2027. So that will be the transition year, and it will really -- 2028 forward will be a great thing for the asset. But it's inside of 10x when we start, and it compresses well inside of our cost of capital outside of that. So it's not -- from an EBITDA standpoint, you can think of this as roughly 9 to 10x in the first 12 months. And after that, it gets well inside that.

Francina Kolluri

That's very helpful. And then I just wanted to maybe talk more broadly about the M&A landscape. A lot of your peers have taken on packages this year. And so is there anything that's remaining, anything that looks interesting at this point?

Willie Chiang

Yes. I'll go ahead and take that one. This is Willie. Clearly, we've done a lot of bolt-on M&A or bolt-on acquisitions. So I'll speak about bolt-ons and then broader activities. We've actually been the ones that have been executing on a lot of these bolt-ons. We look at everything I would tell you that I think the bolt-on opportunities are probably a little less than what the pace we've gone in the past. I think we've done 15 of these over the last 3, 4 years. So it's been very critical to our piece. A broader M&A is obviously an opportunity. But right now, we focus on our crude business. We've got -- anything we do focuses on returns. So if we think about assets that we might bring in or things we may do, it's really focused around capital discipline and returns. And it's with that lens that we think about broader M&A, but look at everything, well positioned. Opportunities come our way, we'll be able to hopefully capture them.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of AJ O'Donnell of TPH Research.

Andrew John O'Donnell

I was just hoping if I could just sneak in one more question about the new Midland dedication. Just wondering, as far as the makeup of the the volumes, are there any MVC components that are built into that? And then if you could talk about any of the volumes that are currently producing because I thought you said it was existing production. Are any of those volumes currently moving on your intrabasin or long-haul systems?

Willie Chiang

Jeremy?

Jeremy Goebel

AJ, this is Jeremy. What I would say is these are acreage dedications consistent with the rest of the system on the contract structure. The vast majority of this would be going into existing systems just into the Midland complex to say whether a specific barrels flowing through us. They're not providing any meaningful contribution to us today. And so this is just something that is a new contract from the gathering system for us.

Andrew John O'Donnell

Okay. Maybe just going back to the Permian macro. If we start to see this kind of compounding multiple hundred thousands of barrels of growth over the next few years, where do you see the most upside? Or what part of your system do you get most excited about? Is it like the incremental C3 expansions that you can do or market-based opportunities on your marketing affiliate? Or is the highest torque maybe higher utilization on your northbound assets out of the Permian?

Jeremy Goebel

AJ, it's a great question. I'd say it's a bit of all of the above because filling the pipe is one thing. What we really get excited about is longer term, the additional improvements that the industry makes on recoveries, sustaining this for long periods of time, which is what we hear over and over again from our producer customers. The excitement around the surfactants, the excitement around the different completion techniques the investments Exxon, Chevron and the other integrators are made to extending the tail. That's what really gets us excited is that the long-term recoveries. There's a lot of gas and a lot of NGLs and a lot of excitement, but that's going to make those commodities worth a lot less. There still are going to be oil reservoirs driven by oil. So there's a real investment being made to continue to drive additional recovery. So on the oil side, flattening out the curve, having less capital to go chase this, big free cash flow generation and a stable balance and -- on the margin rates going out on the long-haul business is a plus, but the gathering business should be better. The long-haul business should be better marketing-based opportunities around it. So it's just an integrated platform that we have to serve our customers, and we look forward to expanding with them.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of John McKay of Goldman Sachs.

John Mackay

I'll go back to the Midland dedication. Congrats on that. I just want to make sure we're thinking about it correctly. I know we'll get color later on kind of associated EBITDA and any associated spend. But given this is production that's already flowing elsewhere? I mean is there an acquisition opportunity here for you guys over time on kind of whatever this production is [indiscernible] right now?

Jeremy Goebel

John, I'd say at this point, that's inappropriate for us to talk about. But from our standpoint, we look forward to executing under the contract that we have today.

John Mackay

All right. Fair enough. And -- sorry go ahead. Please go ahead.

Willie Chiang

Sorry, John, this is Willie. I mean as I think about high level, right, our whole business is integrated. So we've got -- we've been gathering intra-basin long haul. So the thought of getting another dedicated acres into the system. This is just what we do.

John Mackay

No, absolutely. That makes sense. Maybe I...

Willie Chiang

I'm sorry. I was quoting -- I misquoted the -- it's 270,000 acres here versus the 900 was up in Silver Green, the Powder River. My apologies on that. [indiscernible].

John Mackay

Absolutely. And maybe just on that point, you've probably increased the size of the dedicated acreage on the JV by looks like 30% since you kind of put it together about 5 years ago, I think we're just passed a 5-year anniversary. Can you take this opportunity to give us your view on kind of the longer-term strategic plan here? Is there an opportunity to kind of find the other piece at some point? Is this going to be a kind of vehicle you can kind of continue to grow in? Maybe just give us an update now that we're kind of 5 years past the launch of it.

Jeremy Goebel

Sure. We've had a great partnership with Stonepeak and the Works Team, and we'll continue to have a great partnership with them. That's their decision on when they decide to get out. But we've proven with them that we can grow, like you said, 30% growth over 5 years is really a 50% growth from where you started like when you think about it. So it's been a great run. It will continue to be a great run we're happy for them to grow with us. But just like everything else, we've bought a lot of our partnerships in when that's the right time if that works, great. If they want to stay outstanding great if a new partner comes in, we're prepared to work in any scenario. And we continue to grow as we've proven with them as a partner, we can grow with them or if the opportunity comes, we could do that. So I think there's no obligation to do it. There's an opportunity to do it, but there's no different than the opportunity to buy and other partners that we've had across our system.

John Mackay

Congrats again on [indiscernible].

Willie Chiang

Thanks, John.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Praneeth Satish of Wells Fargo.

Praneeth Satish

So I know it's still early, but maybe you can help us think through some of the puts and takes for 2027 EBITDA. I know you've got a few tailwinds here, $50 million cost synergies or cost efficiencies in the full year, Silver Creek, Cactus III, probably going to see volume growth on the oil side with the flush volumes coming in. So you put that all together, it does seem like you could see some reasonable growth in '27. So maybe what are some of the key headwinds that are kind of offsetting factors that we should think about when modeling '27 growth?

Willie Chiang

Al?

Al Swanson

This is Al. Yes, I mean, we've articulated kind of the four things, and I think you answered a meaningful part of our -- of the question. Clearly, PLA, we came in this year pretty highly hedged in the low 60s, we'll probably be in the low to mid-60s by the time we exit with realized prices this year, clearly, it's setting up for meaningful improvement there, $10 a barrel is a little over $40 million. So that's a definite tailwind. Clearly, the production growth the $200,000 a day, that 1,000 barrels a day that Jeremy mentioned, a lot of that came light. We expect that to benefit in in addition to the excess rigs and the '27 growth itself. So we see the Permian volumes as a benefit. Clearly, the investment capital, whether it's our true investment expansion capital like the recent Cactus expansion. In addition, the Silver Creek acquisition as well. Those benefits will come to '27. And then the additional efficiency gains that we've talked about, the incremental $50 million, probably the one caveat or "headwind" we would point to, if you're taking that in the last three quarters of this year, the crude is right around $700 million a quarter. If you were just taking that -- annualizing it and then putting all this growth on it, clearly, we've had some market benefits in those numbers. So we would encourage you to maybe dial in a little bit of taking out some of those market opportunities. Maybe we'll see the opportunity to get those in '27, but it wouldn't be -- we wouldn't come into the year expecting to see a repeat of some of that opportunity.

Praneeth Satish

Got you. No, that's helpful. And then there are several proposed Western Canadian egress projects that could bring more barrels into the Mid-Continent. I think at least one project that would go directly into Cushing. And I don't think they're expanding capacity from pushing down. So I guess as you look across your asset footprint and I don't know whether it's Capline or other systems. Do you see any opportunities to participate or after that incremental flow?

Jeremy Goebel

Praneeth, that's a great question. And certainly, any of the crude projects we're looking to see if we can benefit, complement, participate, so we'll keep you posted along the way, but we're constantly looking at opportunities to see if we can either partner with good projects, participate, create new projects. So we'll have more updates in the next 6 months if any of that comes to fruition. But certainly, things that complement us, we're actively looking at on the organic side as well as the acquisition side.

Operator

I'm showing no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn it back to Willie Chiang, Chairman and CEO, for closing remarks.

Willie Chiang

Great. Well, listen, thanks for your ongoing support questions, and we look forward to seeing you on the road soon. Have a safe day. Thanks.

Operator

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