Cheniere Energy (LNG) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Thu, August 13, 2026 astatine 7:28 AM CDT 47 min read

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DATE

Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 astatine 11:00 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Vice President, Investor Relations - Randy Bhatia

• Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer - Jack Fusco

• Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer - Anatol Feygin

• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - Zach Davis

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Good day, and invited to the Second Quarter 2026 Cheniere Energy Earnings Call. Today's league is being recorded. At this time, I'd similar to crook the league implicit to Mr. Randy Bhatia. Please spell ahead, sir.

Randy Bhatia: Thanks, Operator. Good morning, everyone, and invited to Cheniere's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. The descent presumption and entree to the webcast for today's telephone are disposable astatine cheniere.com. Before we begin, I would similar to punctual each listeners that our remarks, including answers to your questions, whitethorn incorporate forward-looking statements, and existent results could disagree materially from what is described successful these statements. Slide 2 of our presumption contains a treatment of those forward-looking statements and associated risks. In addition, a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the astir comparable GAAP measurement tin beryllium recovered successful the presumption appendix. The telephone docket is shown connected Slide 3.

After prepared remarks from Jack, Anatol and Zach, we volition unfastened the telephone for Q&A. I'll present crook the telephone implicit to Jack Fusco, Cheniere's Chairman, President and CEO.

Jack Fusco: Thank you, Randy. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining america contiguous arsenic we reappraisal our results from the 2nd 4th of 2026 and our further improved outlook for the afloat year. The LNG marketplace successful the 2nd 4th continued to beryllium defined by elevated volatility driven by the warfare successful Iran and the resulting important constraint connected planetary LNG proviso with the effectual closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This marketplace disruption is significant, not conscionable for LNG, but for galore different commodities and products that payment the world, which transit the Strait en way to their respective extremity markets.

We are hopeful for a timely and peaceful solution and proceed to commune for the information of those successful harm's way. Without a doubt, this proviso disruption has brought to crisp absorption the necessity of vigor information and diverseness of proviso amongst LNG buyers. While successful the contiguous terms, buyers person been progressive successful sourcing replacement LNG volumes, procuring alternate substance sources and implementing demand-side absorption initiatives, semipermanent information of proviso and gathering a durable, reliable portfolio person been reinforced arsenic a captious strategical priority, and our estimation arsenic a customer-focused, harmless and reliable relation lone further separate america from competitors.