Good morning and welcome to Gibson Energy's 2025 Investor Day. For those of you who haven't met me, my name is Beth Pollock, and I'm our Vice President of Capital Markets and Corporate Development. It's great to have so many of you in the room, but also online joining us. It's been six years since our last Investor Day, and we are very excited to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about where we're at and where we're headed as a company. In terms of the formal agenda, we plan to start now, obviously, and conclude the formal presentation at 9:30 A.M., after which we'll take Q&A. First, Curtis will walk you through some team introductions with everybody here on the stage. Then he'll talk a little bit about strategy, our value proposition, and growth opportunities.
Subsequently, Riley will walk us through the financial summary and outlook, and then we will open it up for the Q&A session. Two administrative items. The first, please be reminded that today's presentation refers to non-GAAP measures and forward-looking information, which is subject to certain assumptions and adjustments and may not be indicative of actual results. Descriptions and qualifications of such measures and information are set out at the end of this presentation, which is available on our website and our continuous disclosure documents available on SEDAR+. As well, for all those of us who are in the room, in the event of emergency, we'll exit through the back and follow the overhead signage. With that, I will pass it over to Curtis to run through a snapshot of the company and get the intro started.
We know that you're going to be as excited about what's to come as we are.
Good morning and welcome to the Gibson Energy Investor Day. It is pretty great, fantastic to see the amount of interest and support there is for the Gibson story. I joined Gibson just over a year ago, and coming in, what got me interested and excited to join the Gibson team and invest in Gibson is I saw a very good company with impressive assets and an opportunity to accelerate the growth around those assets and create a tremendous amount of shareholder value in the process. A year in, and I could not be happier with the progress that the team has made, and I could not be happier about the opportunity set that I see in front of us today.
Now, on the screen, you see a number of key numbers and facts about Gibson, our snapshot of the business, and most of these are things that you've seen before, but there are two new numbers on there, two new targets that we're going to spend a fair bit of time today on. One is an infrastructure growth rate on the far right-hand side of the screen, and also on the far right is a total shareholder return target. We will spend the majority of today talking about how we will deliver on an over 7% infrastructure growth rate and in doing so generate over 100% shareholder return over the next five years.
Now, to do that, you need great people, and we've got a lot of great people at Gibson, and maybe I'll just start it off with a bit of a shout-out to the fact that we have 500 people on the Gibson team, and they're watching live today or recorded later on today, this presentation, and they are an impressive group. It's a very experienced, knowledgeable group of employees that are driving our success. They take a tremendous amount of pride in not just serving our customers well, but being the best in our industry at supporting our customers. They're also owners, and I firmly believe that drives a difference. Over 95% of our employees are owners in Gibson, and it drives a different level of care and performance in everything that we do.
Now, up on the screen, you also see the executive team of Gibson, and I wanted to start off the day with pausing a bit, getting each one of them to introduce themselves, talk a little bit about how their experience enables them to make an impact in the business, and also talk about what gets them excited for the future. With that, I'll turn it over to our Chief Financial Officer, Riley Hicks.
Yeah, thank you, Curtis, and good morning, everybody. Thank you all for joining us for our Investor Day. I know I can speak on behalf of the rest of the leaders up here and tell you we're incredibly excited to walk you through the next step in our journey. I have been at Gibson for just over seven years now, and I have had the opportunity to work all throughout the organization, holding leadership roles in finance, commercial, and marketing. That background has given me just a really deep understanding of our people, our assets, and the needs of our customers. As you can imagine, over seven years here at Gibson, I have had the chance to work on lots of meaningful work, but the piece that I am probably most proud of is leading the team that executed the Gateway transaction.
That deal has been incredibly transformative for Gibson and has reshaped our growth profile moving forward. Prior to joining Gibson, I worked at other midstream companies in public accounting and in equity research, where I covered mid-cap producers. Many of those producers are key customers of Gibson today. Moving forward, I think I'm most excited to work with this great leadership team and all of our talented people across the organization to drive the next phase of our growth and ensure we do it in a disciplined manner. Equally as important as financial discipline is operational excellence, and with that, I'll pass to Dave.
Thanks, Riley. Good morning, everybody. I'm Dave Goss. I'm the SVP and Chief Operating Officer here at Gibson. I'm responsible for the safe operation of our energy and infrastructure, liquids and infrastructure assets, including our Hardisty terminal, our Edmonton terminal, our facility at Moose Jaw, our terminal and Gateway just outside of Corpus Christi, and of course, our Wink terminal. I have over 30 years' experience in the operations and engineering leadership space. I've had the opportunity to do a bunch of different things with a number of different companies, various senior roles over that time span, including up to or over 10 years with each of Nexen, as well as SemCAMS/Energy Transfer Canada, the latter at which I was president for just over eight years. During my career, I've also led teams that have safely and successfully executed on capital projects, major multimillion-dollar infrastructure projects.
I bring a very focused approach to our operational excellence at Gibson. We've had some recent successes in that regard, and I'll share a few of those with you right now. Our safety performance, Curtis is going to speak to this a little bit more, but we've had exceptional safety performance this year, industry-leading. Our people, we focused on the organization and optimizing that, as well as building the culture. Reliability, we have had zero unplanned downtime at our facilities, and we continue to optimize the throughput at all of our terminals. OpEx, or cost control, we have a relentless focus on OpEx, and for those folks that are in the field listening to this right now, they're all nodding their heads. I can feel it.
As well as execution, we continue to execute on our capital projects, and we've had a very successful year in executing on two successful turnarounds at each of our Moose Jaw and our DRU facility. I'm very fortunate to be part of this team. I'm very happy to be here today as we work with the team both in this room, but also outside of this room on building shareholder value. We obviously couldn't execute on our strategy without having an ACE commercial team. With that, I'll turn it over to, what's your name? Kelly.
Yeah, thanks, Dave. Good morning, everyone. I'm Kelly Holtby, Senior Vice President of Commercial Development for Canada. A little bit about me, I joined Gibson just over four years ago after spending almost 17 years at Suncor in a variety of legal, commercial, and strategy roles. Much of my time there was spent developing and negotiating agreements both in a hands-on and in a leadership capacity for pipeline and storage infrastructure across North America, representing over $10 billion in capital. Through that work, I developed a clear understanding of what drives customer value and built strong relationships across the industry, including with Gibson, where I saw firsthand the strength of its assets and its value proposition. That experience is a big part of what excites me about Gibson today.
Our storage assets have exceptional connectivity and are located at hubs that serve as the nexus to the global oil markets. When you combine that with increasing Canadian production, it positions Gibson very well to see sustained demand for our services and infrastructure. You guys might ask, like, why am I so confident we'll see that demand? For me, it starts with what I'm focused on: deepening customer relationships and providing excellent customer service, maximizing the utilization of our core infrastructure, and developing new growth opportunities. When we do that, we will see increased demand for our services and infrastructure that will translate into long-term stable cash flows. Exciting time to be at Gibson, very proud to be playing a part in leading the Canadian business. Equally excited about the U.S. business and the synergies with Canada. With that, I'll turn it over to Blake.
Thank you, Kelly. Good morning, everybody. My name is Blake Hotsell, and I'm the Senior Vice President of Commercial for Gibson's business in the U.S. In my role, I lead the company's commercial development and marketing activities in the U.S., including the development and execution of our strategy to grow the business. I joined Gibson after nearly 20 years in the North American midstream space, helping companies compete and grow. From that, I carry with me the perspective that urgency and creativity and anticipating and serving the needs of the market is the simple formula for success in our business, no matter the market environment. I joined Gibson to apply that formula to shape the next chapter of the company's U.S. story. Our platform in the U.S. is strong, anchored by a great set of assets and a talented and committed team.
I'm really excited about the prospects for deepening and growing our presence in the U.S. by focusing on solutions that matter to our customers, enabling efficiency, optionality, leveraging our integrated capability. As we progress that, our success will be determined by delivering results that matter to you all, our investors, including sustainably growing EBITDA, bolstering our contract base and cash flow quality, and capitalizing on growth opportunities to deliver strong returns and align with our strengths and with the needs of the market. I'm really excited about what's ahead for Gibson and the important role that the company's U.S. business will play in that success, and I look forward to getting to meet you all today and discussing the business with you. With that, I'll hand it to Beth.
Thanks, Blake. Your comments around growth are a perfect segue because in my role, I'm looking after ensuring that we have access to the financial means to execute on the growth plans. To introduce myself, as I mentioned earlier, my name is Beth Pollock, and I'm our Vice President of Capital Markets and Corporate Development. I'm ensuring that we have the financial strength, the relationships with investors such as yourselves, and the credibility in the markets to deliver on the commitments that my colleagues have spoken about this morning. I first came to know Gibson while I was working in investment banking and covering the company, and I was immediately struck, as Kelly was, with just the high quality of the assets and the relationships that the company has with the premier producers across North America. As a result, I'm here today.
Since joining Gibson, I've held a number of roles of increasing level of responsibility across the finance organization and have led the execution of over $5 billion in transactions. When I look out at the company now, what really stands out to me is the alignment that we have across the organization at all levels. We're really focused on the goals that we have in place and execution of those objectives. It runs from the top all the way through the organization, and you're going to hear a little bit more from some of the employees in a video to come shortly. With that, I will bring my introduction to a close, and let's get to the important part and the important information that we have to share with you today, and I will pass it back to Curtis.
Great. Thanks, Beth. We put together a video for you today to introduce you to a few more members of the Gibson team, but also to introduce you to what we call our crown jewel assets. These are truly integral parts of the North American energy infrastructure picture, and this video is going to give you a bit of an appreciation for the scale and criticality of those assets. We will pause for one minute here just to clear the stage, and we will roll the video.
Global energy demand continues to rise, and access to reliable infrastructure has never mattered more. Gibson Energy stands at the center of that movement, connecting the strength of Canadian production with global markets. Our story is one of focused, disciplined growth built over decades and proven every day by the strength of our assets, our people, and our customers. In Alberta, Gibson Energy's Hardesty terminal sits at the heart of Canada's energy network. With 13.5 million barrels of tankage, nearly half of Gibson's total storage capacity, Hardesty has been a cornerstone of North American energy logistics for more than seven decades. Its scale, connectivity, and reliability make it a vital link between Western Canada's oil sands and markets.
With 500 acres of available land, inbound and outbound pipelines, and exclusive rail access in partnership with Strathcona, this is one of the most connected crude storage and blending hubs on the continent. Hardesty moves more than 1 million barrels per day safely, efficiently, and responsibly. The Diluent Recovery Unit, or DRU, adds even more flexibility, transforming diluted bitumen into a safer, more efficient product for transport to the Gulf Coast. It reflects our commitment to innovation and to long-term partnerships, including a 10-year, 50,000-barrel-per-day agreement with ConocoPhillips Canada. In 2025, Hardesty reached a new milestone: more than 1.1 million barrels per day, the highest quarterly throughput since early 2024. These results highlight the strength and growth of our customer base and reinforce the essential role our assets and teams play in safely and efficiently delivering energy to global markets at the best possible netbacks for our customers.
Hardesty is more than infrastructure. It's an anchor of Canada's energy industry, a hub that supports jobs, communities, and the movement of energy that fuels daily life across North America.
Our Edmonton terminal continues the story of connection and scale. Located near two major refineries, Pipeline Alley and both CN and CPKC rail lines, it is one of the most strategically positioned assets in Western Canada. The addition of three TMX-connected tanks has doubled our footprint, supported by long-term agreements with investment-grade partners. Edmonton's adaptable asset base also includes biofuels blending, supported by a 25-year contract with an integrated oil sands producer, reflecting Gibson's commitment to sustainability, diversification, and meeting our customers' needs. In 2025, Edmonton achieved a quarterly record of more than 330,000 barrels per day, more than doubling the prior year's volumes, highlighting disciplined growth and the strength of our commercial partnerships.
In Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, reliability and adaptability define performance. The facility produces asphalt, roofing flux, well-site fluids, and intermediate feedstocks. It has 24,000 barrels of throughput capacity. The ability to run flexible feedstocks creates differentiated asphalt products. In September 2025, Moose Jaw achieved a monthly record demonstrating that steady, focused improvement creates lasting value.
On the U.S. Gulf Coast, our Gateway terminal connects U.S. crude exports to international markets. With two deep-water VLCC-capable docks, 8.6 million barrels of storage, and land for another 6 million barrels, Gateway is among the most efficient export terminals in North America. It exports approximately 1 in 5 barrels of U.S. crude, with a 24-48 hour loading advantage over the inner harbor and rates of 120,000 barrels per hour that make Gateway one of the fastest loading facilities on the Gulf Coast. Its fungible storage system maximizes flexibility while minimizing carrying costs. In 2025, Gateway reached a quarterly record of 717,000 barrels per day, a 30% increase year over year. The facility showcases Gibson's ability to move energy from production to global markets with speed, scale, and precision. Our Wink facility connects producers to domestic refineries and global markets in the Delaware Basin.
Strategically positioned in one of North America's most active basins, with the majority of its throughput underpinned by investment-grade customers, it now directs nearly 90% of Wink volumes to Gateway. In September 2023, Wink recorded a monthly high of more than 55,000 barrels per day, reinforcing its role as one of the starting points in Gibson's integrated export chain.
This is a connected system by design. Strategically located assets in Canada and world-class export capacity on the Gulf Coast create a network that performs through every market condition. Each terminal and pipeline works together to deliver stability, efficiency, and value, supported by long-term partnerships with high-quality customers. Across North America, Gibson continues to move energy safely, efficiently, and responsibly.
All right. Thank you. The team had a lot of fun putting that together. It's impressive assets. It's impressive drone work, I got to say, as well. That's great to watch. Hopefully, that gave you a good view of just how critical these assets are and how impactful they are to the North American energy infrastructure picture. These assets really act as the building block for our strategy and the basis for our growth going forward. We're very excited about them. The other thing about these assets is they're exceptionally safely run operations. This is a success story that we're most proud of. You see on the screen is our safety performance over the last year. On the right-hand side of that chart, you see the total recordable injury frequency for the midstream sector across Canada and the U.S. Gibson is not just top quartile.
We are the number one safety-performing company in the midstream space across all of North America over the last year. That type of safety performance does not just happen. We have got an outstanding safety program, an outstanding safety culture driving that level of performance. It starts with a relentless focus on continuous improvement, a real learning culture, very engaged leadership, and all those things drive these great safety results and culture and performance. All of that goes into driving great operations. It is really with that operations capability that it really enables us to execute well on our strategy. Our strategy is simple, and it has not changed, and it is straightforward. We are a crude oil infrastructure company. We have been doing this for 70 years, and we are very good at it. Our business is based around crown jewel infrastructure assets around Canada and the U.S.
Those crown jewel assets provide an opportunity for us to drive strong infrastructure growth around those assets. We've got a disciplined approach in how we allocate capital and how we grow our business. With this very engaged, strong group, we're able to drive differentiated results. Beth mentioned that our last investor day was six years ago. We thought it would be timely to step back and take a look at what has our track record been over the last six years. Gibson's changed a lot over that time. Since 2019, our storage footprint has more than doubled to over 25 million barrels. Our infrastructure EBITDA has more than doubled. We've become increasingly diversified across Canada and the U.S., with now a quarter of our revenues driven out of the U.S.
We have become increasingly infrastructure-focused, and that has driven more consistency and stability in our cash flows. When you really step back and look at Gibson over the last six years, we have done a good job of decluttering the business, getting it focused on our core high-quality infrastructure assets. We now have two platforms to grow with, one on each side of the border that we can drive growth from going forward. Specifically, over the last year, I have been quite proud of the results the team has driven. It has been a record year for the business. You have heard me a number of times talk about our five big pushes on our goals in the business, but today I will talk about two of them in particular. We spent a lot of time developing what we call our high-performing team.
We have got a real push on making sure we have got the right team, the right people in the seats across the organization that set us up for our success. One of the things that we spent a lot of time over the last year is increasing the commercial bench strength and the depth and the strength of our commercial team to support an accelerated growth rate. We have also spent a fair bit of time working on what I call the plumbing of a goal-focused culture. To really have a high-performing goal-focused culture, you have to be deliberate about that. We spent a lot of time developing aligned goals, making sure that people understood what good goals were that drive impactful results in the business.
We made sure that they were communicated well through the business to the point where I would challenge you to find very many people within our 500 employees that do not have a very clear picture of what Gibson's goals are and what success looks like for the business. On top of that, we layered in compensation systems to make sure that employees are properly rewarded for executing on goals and also held accountable for executing on goals. The second goal I will touch on today is our cost-focused initiative. We are super proud of this. It has been a big success story for us. It drove significant run rate cost savings of over CAD 25 million. I will share one more. Riley will talk about this a bit more later in the presentation, but I will share one more success story around this.
It's around our execution of our capital program over the last year. We're updating today that we expect that we will finish our year this year at around CAD 110 million of growth capital deployed. Through outstanding project execution and cost focus, the returns on those projects are expected to be at the bottom end of the 5-7 build multiple. As we step forward into our 2026 priorities, that groundwork we did this year on building out the team, getting those good habits built around the team, and that cost discipline serve us exceptionally well as we go execute on 2026 goals. In particular, I'll highlight two of them today. One is around customers. We recognize there's an opportunity in the market right now with increasing activity, increasing production for us to find new solutions to help support our customers well.
We've got an opportunity within our current terminal assets to increase our asset utilization. We've got a goal to increase our utilization of our terminal assets from 85% currently to over 90% in 2026. The second big growth area that we're focused on is around growth specifically. We've got a $150 million capital program that we announced earlier this morning. There are a number of milestones that we'll be tracking over the course of the year as we execute on that program within that five- to seven-build multiple. We'll talk more in more depth about growth a bit later in the presentation. Let me step back first to talk a little bit about why invest in Gibson. It starts with these irreplaceable assets. Gibson's terminals sit at the start and the end of the straws that feed the global energy markets.
We play a critical role in not just helping our customers get their barrels to market, but also to help our customers get their barrels to market at the best possible netbacks. We are a significant role in that. If you look at some of these stats, we are quite proud of one in four barrels in Western Canada go through a Gibson terminal to get to market. Over 50% of the heavy volumes on TMX go through Gibson terminals. Over 50% of the Keystone line goes through Gibson terminals, 20% of the Mainline. In the U.S., with our recently expanded Gateway facility, we are the fastest growing, most efficient crude export terminal in North America. To the point now where we are today exporting one in five barrels out of the U.S. go through the Gibson Gateway facility. It is something we are quite proud of.
Going along with great assets, you've got great customers. Our customers appreciate the value of these assets, and they occupy our terminals, and we have long-standing relationships with our customers. On the left-hand side of this chart, you see that over 85% of our customers are investment-grade in nature. In Canada, the majority of our large customers are oil sands producers that are extremely healthy, and all of them are growing right now, creating lots of very interesting opportunities for us. One of them, in particular, a long-term customer for us that we've been working with for over 35 years in Edmonton, helped us out with a little bit of sizzle today to our investor day. They re-upped a 20-year contract extension in our Edmonton terminal. It's really significant. This customer and this contract represents about 40% of our revenues in our Edmonton terminal.
We're very proud to extend this 35-year relationship for another 20 years and proud to work well with that customer. Thank you to them. That long-term nature of strong customers feeds well into this. It really drives a stable, consistent, high-quality cash flow for our business. I love this chart for how boring it is. If you look at over time, this is from 2021 to current, the black line shows what the WTI price has done. You see all types of volatility over the last five years. If you look at the blue bars, that is our infrastructure EBITDA per quarter. You see a remarkable consistency, save for midway through there where we acquired the Gateway terminal and it was a step up. There's just been consistent incremental improvement with the deployment of additional growth capital.
That sort of boring consistency to our infrastructure business really enables us to pay a very strong dividend. It is a key part of the Gibson story. We have six consecutive years of a growing dividend, a consistent growth or dividend. We expect that to continue. It is well-supported with our infrastructure business, was sort of consistently over those last five years, an 80% payout ratio from an infrastructure perspective. We are proud on the right-hand side of the chart that you see that we are the seventh highest yield for an investment-grade company from a dividend perspective. If you step back, you see that over the last five years, we have returned over CAD 1.4 billion to shareholders. That CAD 1.4 billion helps drive an attractive total return for our customers. Over the last five years, we generated over a 70% return or almost a 70% return for shareholders.
From where I sit today and the opportunity set that we see in front of the company, we see the ability to drive a growth rate of over 7%. With that, combined with a strong dividend yield, I personally invest in Gibson with an expectation that we will achieve over 100% return for shareholders over the next five years. We get asked, why are you so confident in the growth of Gibson? It starts with the macro. If you step back, you look at the world needs more energy. The world needs more crude oil. Even the IEA, its current policy scenario, talks about oil growth and demand, oil demand continuing to grow through 2050. A significant amount of that oil demand will be met by Canada and the U.S. Gibson has a key role to play in that.
From a crude export perspective, we see continued growth in crude export. I mentioned earlier that Gibson's Ingleside facility is the fastest growing, most efficient crude export terminal. We expect we'll continue to realize good benefits of this increasing crude export story in the world. If you look specifically in Canada, you see healthy producers that are continuing to grow. Also, I'll step back. I would say this is the best political climate we've seen in Canada for growing and building energy infrastructure that we've seen in a decade. Each time you see a headline that talks about a customer increasing production or perhaps a pipeline capacity increase and even incremental increases in capacity or whole new pipelines, know that those are great positive indicators for Gibson.
A good rule of thumb that we use is that for every barrel of pipeline capacity increase that you see in the market, you need four barrels of terminal storage to be able to support that. Gibson, over the last 10 years, has built the lion's share, the vast majority of tankage terminal capacity to support pipeline growth. We firmly expect you'll see that continue as you go forward as well. Why else are we confident in this top-tier sort of growth torque from the Gibson business? There are two things on this slide. One is we've done it before. Over the last five years, we've been north of 7%. We've already demonstrated an ability to drive that north of 7% growth rate. The second thing is the Gibson size.
I think this is quite interesting in that Gibson is big enough to do big projects. We have got a platform on both sides of the border to go grow off of. We're small enough that bite-sized projects actually matter for us. We can have impactful results from even very small projects. If you look on the right-hand side of the chart, we call it the power of small numbers that for Gibson to go drive a 1% increase in infrastructure growth rate, we need to deploy between CAD 30 million-CAD 45 million of growth capital. That compares to our peers who need several hundred million and in some cases over a billion dollars of growth capital to go move their growth rate by 1%.
It's a real advantage for Gibson in that there's more growth torque to our numbers, but it also allows us to grow without requiring us to take major project risks. Now, I know that one of the comments that we've heard a lot is people are craving additional insight into what exactly is this growth pipeline that you talk about and what is this backlog of projects. We've talked a lot over the last year that we see in front of us a backlog of $1 billion in projects that we can go deploy over the next five years. I know people are craving some additional detail. I'm going to pause a bit on this slide to dive deep into each of the five legs that I see that will drive the growth over the next five years. The first leg is our producer partnerships.
This is a new leg for Gibson that we started this year when we announced our infrastructure partnership in the Duvernay with Baytex. We announced that project back in March of this year. We put it into service in the fourth quarter. We deployed about CAD 40 million in that particular project. It has been a great success story. We love these projects because it involves building infrastructure in the field to support our customers and solve a problem for our customers. It also drives additional volume to our core terminals. We get incremental benefit in those terminals. We also get a competitive barrier. We put a bit of a moat up. In this particular case, we locked up those barrels for the next 10 years +. That is a significant advantage for our core terminals.
Doing that project opened that market up for us. We expect that we'll do one to two of these types of agreements per year for the next five years. We see a total opportunity set of about CAD 300 million. I'll note that on these overall numbers on each bucket that you see in the slide in front of you, we've risked that number to say, what is a realistic execution? This is not the total backlog. If you added up the total backlog of potential projects, it's much larger. We've looked back and said, realistically, with the real opportunities we see in front of us and the timeframe of five years, what can you actually deploy? We view that as CAD 300 million in this particular segment. The second segment is around extending pipeline networks.
Increasing production, increasing customer demands drives the need for more pipeline connections and additional pipes coming into our core terminals. We see that clearly. We've seen that accelerate as more and more growth plans are happening both in Canada and the U.S. We think this is an interesting growth leg for us for some of these smaller connections and smaller pipeline additions around our core assets. We'll talk about one of them in particular already that we're sanctioning this morning. We see a total opportunity set of over CAD 250 million in this particular leg. Now, also with increasing pipeline connections and increasing customer growth, we see opportunity for tanks. We're Gibson. We love tanks. We're very good at tanks. This is a great part of our business. We're excited to see that with this production growth, you're going to see more tanks being deployed.
We expect over the next five years across our Canadian and U.S. terminals, you'll see us put into service more than five tanks, deploy over CAD 250 million specifically around adding more tankage in our facilities to support this growth. We announced this morning a couple of smaller tanks out in our Wink, West Texas asset. The next one is around the DRU. The DRU we put into service in 2021. That was the first phase. When that first phase was built, it was built with the idea that you could add four additional phases to that facility. The first phase has been running now for about five years. It's proven to be a very efficient and effective way to provide an additional egress option out of Canada. What's interesting is that it's proven, it works, and you can build it in under two years.
If potentially you build it as short as 18 months. When we look forward and you think about all this production growth coming at Western Canada, we see that there will be a need for all of the above when it comes to egress solutions. We expect that the DRU will be part of the solution for providing egress options and also market optionality for our customers. The DRU allows you to take your product to multiple different markets across the world. With that, we expect that we will put into service one to two phases of the DRU over the next five years, additional phases. We also see optimization projects. These will always come up. There are just a lot of interesting opportunities to help us de-bottleneck our facilities, drive additional profitability, or also just to respond to a unique customer need in our facilities.
There are a number of different projects in the queue that we'll constantly be working at. We see an opportunity to deploy about CAD 100 million on those types of projects over the next five years. In total, we see that we have an ability to go deploy, we expect to go deploy between CAD 700 million and CAD 1 billion of growth capital across those five buckets over the next five years. Not even talking about the longer-term projects of a Gateway terminal further dock expansion. Just within the next five years, we see the CAD 700 million-CAD 1 billion capital deployment program that on that alone will drive an over 5% growth rate for the business. Specifically today, we announced the sanctioning of the first part of that. We announced a growth capital program of CAD 150 million for 2026.
The first part of that is the sanctioning of a project that's just about CAD 50 million related to what we're calling a Wink to Gateway integration project. The need for this project comes out of the fact that we're seeing increasing demand from customers. There's a benefit we can provide to our customers by helping them source additional supply for off-the-dock capacity. We love that we can help out our customers solve a problem, find additional supply. We also love that by extending our value chain, we get to touch the barrel a few more times along the process. It's an attractive project from that perspective. There are two parts to it. One is out in Wink, where we'll add additional tank capacity to increase the capacity of that asset.
The second part of it is at Gateway that will be twinning a connection point, a pipeline connection coming into that facility to allow us to simultaneously feed from the Eagle Ford harvest connection as well as the EPIC Cactus 3 line directly into our facility. Overall, this project is expected to be in service in Q3 2026. We expect it to be built at a five times build multiple. These projects also have a nice feature of really building off of the success we've had in Gateway over the last year on the dredging project and the Cactus II connection as well. On top of the growth capital, there's an opportunity and a lever that I believe is underappreciated within Gibson. This is a beautiful thing from my perspective in that there's an ability to drive a capital-free rate of growth out of the business.
We expect that through a combination of asset utilization, pricing, and cost discipline, that there's an opportunity to drive an incremental CAD 70 million a year by 2030 out of our assets and drive an over 2% growth rate in our business out of these capital-free options alone. Overall, when you step back, you see the combination of growth projects and the combination of these capital-free levers to go pull will drive an attractive 7% growth rate. I think that's exciting because in my view, that type of growth rate is not currently priced into the Gibson share price. As we go out and we go deliver and execute on this, it's going to drive a material improvement in shareholder returns. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Riley Hicks to walk through how we're going to finance all this exciting growth.
Thank you, Curtis. This is an incredibly exciting time for Gibson as we enter the next phase of our growth. Our disciplined financial strategy will help guide us into the future. You might be wondering, you know, what does that strategy look like for Gibson? To me, our financial principles make it simple. We maintain discipline across our entire business. We balance growth with returns by deploying capital at 5 times build multiples-7 times build multiples. We consistently enhance the quality of our cash flow stream. We preserve the strength of our balance sheet and our investment-grade rating. Over time, these principles have served us well as reflected in the current quality of our cash flow profiles. Over 95% of our infrastructure revenue is driven by take-or-pay or fee-for-service contracts, with the majority of those backed up by high-quality investment-grade counterparties. Why does this matter?
To me, it means that our cash flow stream is both predictable and durable in any commodity cycle. From a balance sheet perspective, we continue to target infrastructure leverage of four times or less while maintaining an attractive payout ratio and funding a sustainable and growing dividend and a robust organic growth capital program. I'm sure we can all agree that financial discipline is critical to the success of any company and that discipline and capital allocation go hand in hand. I'll touch on that next. At Gibson, we're incredibly proud of our ownership culture. As owners ourselves, we treat every dollar, whether it's revenue, cost, or capital, as an investment that must generate long-term value. Our capital allocation philosophy really revolves around three core priorities. First, we fund our dividend, ensuring we return a reliable stream of capital back to our shareholders.
Second, we invest in our business. That means disciplined infrastructure growth backed up by great contracts and customers. Third, we endeavor to fund the first two priorities while maintaining a strong and flexible balance sheet. Once we have addressed these three priorities, we look to return additional capital to our shareholders through sustainable dividend increases that are directly tied to our infrastructure growth profile, share buybacks, and when the right opportunity exists, strategic and accretive M&A. This consistent approach to capital allocation gives investors confidence in our reliable yield and our ability to execute on all of our growth. It has delivered meaningful results in our infrastructure business over time. You heard Curtis talk a lot and you saw a really great video about our crown jewel assets. These assets have really been the historical engine of Gibson's growth.
The critical nature of these assets and the increasing demand for our services will ensure that these assets drive our growth well into the future. Since 2020, our infrastructure adjusted EBITDA per share has grown at an 8% CAGR, which translates roughly to a 3% per share annual EBITDA increase. I want to pause here and point that out a little bit further. We have delivered an 8% infrastructure EBITDA growth rate over the last five years, while divesting a portfolio of non-core assets and returning over CAD 1.4 billion to our shareholders. Why does this matter? It shows that we have a track record of consistently delivering top-tier growth, and we have kept the focus on safety, operational efficiency, and cost discipline.
That focus on cost discipline has really paid off this year, as in 2025, we recognize CAD 25 million of annual savings to the business, with the impact split roughly equally between adjusted EBITDA and distributable cash flow. We talked a lot about how 2024-2025 has been a record year for Gibson, and it's truly been a great year. The one thing that I'm most proud of is our cost savings initiative. That's because it's been led by our people. Over 80% of our organization submitted an idea to this initiative, and we've implemented over 300 of their ideas this year. Why is this so meaningful to me? It's because it came from all parts of our organization, truly from the ground up. It's a great reflection of Gibson's ownership culture in action.
These cost savings have resulted in nearly a 30% decrease in our operating costs per barrel year over year, setting us up for sustained growth and strengthening both our competitive and financial position. Let's take a look at that financial position for a little bit. Our balance sheet remains one of the strongest in the Canadian midstream space. With leverage of 3.9 times and a stable investment-grade credit rating, we have both resilience and flexibility built into our model. Why does the balance sheet mean so much to me? Ultimately, it's what gives us confidence that we can execute on the billion-dollar growth portfolio that Curtis laid out for you. We dive a little bit further into our funding strategy. We would expect to fund roughly 75% of our capital priorities over the next five years with internally generated cash flow.
This aligns with our financial principles and creates ample capacity for us to fund all of our growth objectives while preserving the strength of our balance sheet. This is an incredibly rare position. We can fund the entire growth portfolio that Curtis just laid out, $1 billion, and we will still reduce our leverage over time. That sets us up for sustained success and an ability to deliver additional capital back to our shareholders over time. What does the future look like? Curtis said it, but I am going to say it again. We will deliver over 7% infrastructure EBITDA per share growth through 2030. This will be achieved by organic expansion, asset optimization, and capital discipline. From a distributable cash flow per share perspective, this steady infrastructure growth will result in a 10% growth rate in that time, setting us up to continually sustainably grow our dividend.
From an investor perspective, what does that mean? When you combine a 7% infrastructure yield with our top-tier dividend, Gibson becomes the single most compelling total return story in the entire midstream sector. I'll leave you with one last piece. As you combine all the things that make Gibson great, our disciplined strategy, our critical irreplaceable asset base, and our financial strength, we have a clear line of sight to delivering over 100% total shareholder returns by 2030. Our model is proven, predictable, and built to deliver financial returns well into the future. With that, I'm going to turn it back to Curtis for some closing remarks.
Thanks, Riley. I think Riley did a great job summing this up. We think this is a pretty compelling story to go drive this type of growth rate and the total returns that come out of that.
I got to say, we're not just saying these things. We believe it. Gibson board, Gibson management, Gibson employees are all out buying the shares. Over the last year since I joined, we've personally purchased shares over CAD 12 million into this story. We're proud of that. We're proud of the fact that we're invested alongside with you. We're going to go out and deliver on this. With that, I'm going to pause and we're going to clear the stage. I think we're going to take a 30-second pause and we'll get Beth and Riley up on the stage for some Q&A. Thank you.
Thanks, everyone. We'll have two mics in the room for the Q&A, and we'll also be accepting questions via the online platform.
If you would like to ask a question, please raise your hand and Brady will bring you the microphone if you're in the room, and if you're online, please submit and it will pop up on the screen here.
Yep. Good morning. Thanks for the presentation. Rob Catellier from CIBC. A couple of questions for you. I wondered if you could address directly the Canada-Alberta MoU that was announced last week. Obviously, there's still a lot of wood to chop and a lot of unknowns, but there seems to be an appetite generally in the industry for pipeline to the West Coast. You know that could move some of the crude from Hardisty over to Edmonton. Maybe that all comes from growth, but maybe there's some displacement as well.
I wanted to get your view on that and you know how Gibson is positioned and maybe some of the commercial strategies you're considering for retaining customers over at Hardesty.
Great. Thanks, Rob. Yeah, the MoU announced last week, and I got to say, I'd sort of step back and say, just in general, the positive climate from a political standpoint that is the best we've seen over the last 10 years. That MoU was a great step along the way. It's quite encouraging to see the changes that we're talking about. I would say the number one thing for me that stood out out of the MoU was the removal of the oil and gas emissions cap. That is really impactful for our customers.
It really gives our customers the ability now to act like a normal business and actually think about deploying capital and make smart decisions to go grow their businesses and have confidence in investing capital into Canada. That was a really significant step out of that. I think there is a lot of wood to chop on what exactly the pipeline looks like. I'll tell you, that one change alone really allows our customers now to go to work and think about growing their business with confidence. I would say the market will decide where the best pipeline egress option is and for how that works out and whether that's to the West Coast or south or where it is. I think it's just a great positive indicator that we're out there doing these sorts of practical things. That was the number one thing.
From a commercial strategy perspective, I think one of the benefits is we already have a great relationship with all the big producers that will be most directly impacted by this. We are already seeing an increase in activity from a commercial standpoint of the largest producers already thinking about seeing increased production. You saw in one of the slides, they were already before this thinking about seeing almost 1 million barrels a day of production coming on stream over the next five years, over the next just over five years. You are seeing this now added on top of that and already with that same group of customers we have already talked about. We have been seeing good commercial discussions already in support of this and expect that to accelerate.
Just a quick second question here for Riley, just in terms of capital allocation. Both the leverage and the payout ratio are slightly higher than your stated targets. I'm wondering how that impacts your approach to capital allocation, specifically the dividend and dividend growth. You know, there's obviously some short-term things that happen in the business that may not recur, but I'm just curious how you're looking at the dividend growth rate.
Yeah, thanks, Rob. Yeah, when you take a look at our leverage, the overall leverage is slightly elevated, and that's really a result of our marketing performance over the last year. You know, when I think about the leverage that impacts our dividend and the potential to grow our dividend, I really look at infrastructure leverage, and we feel really comfortable with where our infrastructure leverage is right now. We think about the dividend.
The dividend is always going to be a board decision, whether or not we raise it, but we feel very confident in our growth rate and our infrastructure business. That is how we kind of typically would look at dividend increases, is how is our infrastructure business growing and how do we feel about that?
All right, I think, oh, let's take one from the room and then we will go online.
All right, Ben from BMO Capital Markets. A couple of questions for me on the growth guidance, 10% +. It is interesting to see that versus, say, a range of 5%-7%. The 10% +, you think of it as a floor on growth, which is quite good compared to your peers. Can you expand on what is the art of the possible? Is it going to be 10% potential theoretically? And what gets you there?
Do you need acquisitions to get you to a higher amount than 10%?
Yeah, thanks. Thanks, Ben. What does that look like? What does that range look like? We feel very good about the over 7% growth rate, and that's within our control. These are within growth projects that we see that we can go deploy, and some of these internal levers we can go pull for growth within our current business that do not require capital. We feel very good about being north of seven. I maybe will not put an end cap on how high we think we can run off that, but we feel very good about being north of seven. Yes, any sort of complementary M&A and things like that have the ability to potentially further enhance that.
Right now, when we think about the 7% target, it is really what do we have in front of us right now that we can go control and go execute on?
Maybe one follow-up from the 5% +, I recall from the Gateway tour, which is not so long ago, you have topped it up with another 2%. Is that more evidence you are seeing from the recent recontracting that gives you some evidence around that? Just the recontracting rates, maybe you are seeing some upward bias to it?
Yeah, I think it is really all of the above. Like, we are seeing very good trends on just what our commercial discussions with customers are, but we are also seeing progress on these growth projects in the background as well. That is giving us confidence.
We also wanted to save a little bit for the investor data today, to be honest, Ben, that we thought let's say five + midway through the year. When we have a little bit more granular detail for today, we could unveil the true target of over 7%.
We have a follow-up question online related to the EBITDA growth guidance. The 7% EBITDA growth guidance, and this is from Jeremy Tonet at J.P. Morgan, through 2030, would you be able to provide some additional color on the shaping of the growth? Is it going to be linear or not?
Yeah, I'll take this one. Thanks, Jeremy. Typically, when we think about the shaping of the growth, it isn't usually a linear process. It's a little bit chunkier.
In 2026, we've said we expect to do 5% or more on the infrastructure side, and we feel great about that number. We see it ramping up over the years, especially as we build up the commercial backlog that we have great line of sight to. It certainly takes two people to do a deal, so the timing of that is always tougher to say, but we feel very confident in the 7% +.
A follow-up on growth from Derek Tobich at Manulife. For the growth projects, will you be developing these projects on spec, or would you proceed once you have secured commercial take-or-pay contracts? How do you see your marketing business growing as you develop your growth projects, and what do you see as your run rate EBITDA for the marketing business out to 2030?
We're midstreamers, so yeah, thank you for the question, but we're midstreamers. We value customer relationships and long-term contracts with our customers. We don't do things on spec at large scale. There are small things we may do that bolt on around our current assets, but our business is based around finding solutions that work for our customers that have good, strong contract backing. With that is when we would go forward with those projects. As Riley noted, that does drive a little bit of chunkiness at times to the timing of the projects, but it's important to us that the contracts are well backed by our customers.
The second part of the question was around the marketing business outlook as we develop our growth projects and what we see as our run rate EBITDA for the marketing business out to 2030.
Yeah, I think the marketing business is for 2026. We expect it's going to look a lot like 2025. Through 2025, as you've all come to expect, each quarter we're seeing sort of between a zero and $10 million EBITDA per quarter. We think realistically it's going to be an efficient market again next year, and we're not currently seeing a shift from a backward-dated market. We expect as you get into 2026, you're going to continue to see that sort of zero-$10 million per quarter type run rate for the marketing business. Overall, it's a relatively small part of the Gibson story. We're focused on growing our infrastructure business. When the marketing numbers are a little bit on the down end of the cycle, that's quite helpful for our customers as it shows there's an efficient market, allows our infrastructure customers to grow.
As you look out over the longer term, we do think that inevitably there'll be disruptions in the market. There'll be egress challenges at times in the market that will create a sort of return to different opportunities for the marketing business. It's a great part of the Gibson business in that as there's disruptions, the nature of our assets allows us to help our customers out and also provide opportunities for the marketing business. As we get out to 2030, we expect the return to the CAD 80 million range out in 2030 from a marketing contribution perspective. Thanks, Curtis. Maybe we'll take a couple more from the room and then we'll go back.
Yes. Robert Hope from Scotiabank. Thank you, everyone. Can we dive a little bit deeper into the 2% growth that is capital-free?
On the pricing opportunity there, how much is related to just the normal inflationary increases there versus are there uplifts in pricing as you renew contracts? I guess specifically, was there an uplift at the Edmonton contract?
Yeah, do you want to talk to that one? Yeah, sure. Maybe we'll start with the Edmonton contract and then we can kind of get into some of the granular details. On the Edmonton contract, those are two great contracts that we've signed with our customers. We're excited to keep them in the terminal. What I'd say about that is no change to your guys' models in terms of what our run rate EBITDA would look like.
I'll echo on to just how do we think about the pricing opportunity on the 2%. A big part of this is just contractually baked in.
Our typical contract from an infrastructure perspective, there is a 2% adder typically for inflationary adder per year on these contracts. You have this natural opportunity around that, and we need to do a good job of executing and maintaining cost discipline to be able to drive some of that to the bottom line. That is sort of naturally baked into our contracts. We are seeing good positive indicators for pricing overall in the market. I would maybe hesitate to talk about sort of pricing-related discussions with customers in this venue, but we are, a lot of the pricing indicator that we've baked into this is really just the contractually what's already in the contract from the 2% escalation per year.
All right, appreciate that. Maybe shifting the focus to Gateway, you've done a great job getting that 15%-20% run rate EBITDA boost.
When we look beyond that, what do you think the natural growth rate is for Gateway?
Yeah, we called out on that 2% slide that I see that out of the with the current assets. What's the growth opportunity in Gateway with the current work that we've done today in Gateway with the Cactus Connections and also with the work we've done with the port to be able to get night window capacity additions. The ability to move large-scale vessels over at night, that really opens up an interesting further growth leg for that business. We targeted just over $20 million of upside out of existing capital that's deployed in addition to what we're already seeing in the fourth quarter. Some of that is very good, sort of a nice profitability uptick.
From a midstreamer perspective, one of the changes that you'll see over the next few years is just an increasing shift to lock that in in a take-or-pay perspective. Post-dredging, we realized the benefit immediately on some of the profitability increase, but some through the increasing activity at the terminal. Some of that's just coming through additional throughput fees because the original contracts at Gateway were based around an Aframax-sized vessel. Now that we've dredged and we're a VLCC-sized vessel, you're getting paid on that incremental throughput, but as midstreamers would rather have it as a take-or-pay. As the contracts are coming up on a renewal basis, we're contracting now on a Suezmax or VLCC basis and increasing that guaranteed revenue per window. Thanks, Rob.
Hey, morning all. It's Aaron MacNeil here from TD Cowen. Thanks for taking my questions.
Curtis, you mentioned the reduction in marketing activities that's freed up terminal capacity for customers. Can you sort of dig into that a bit deeper? Curious to know what you think the order of magnitude is there.
Yeah, thanks, Aaron. Yeah, it's significant enough that we've put a real focus on our infrastructure business, and we're just looking at what the opportunity set within marketing is and what we see our customers doing from a growth perspective. We saw an opportunity to better utilize some of those tankage capacity for third-party customers. You would have heard us in the past talk about how we're 100% utilized, and that's true, but the marketing was at times using a good chunk of that tankage.
We scaled that back now, and we have got it sort of right-sized for the size of the marketing business, and that has opened up nicely, opened up 15% of our capacity within our terminals to go grow with third-party customers.
Maybe I will just jump in there too, Aaron. Just to be clear, Curtis and I made that change at the start of the year. Our EBITDA that we have been running out on the infrastructure side is reflective of that 85% utilization. This is true upside to our EBITDA.
Got it. Okay. Maybe I will just ask the M&A question. What type of acquisition or asset profile is possible for Gibson, and what do you think makes sense strategically?
Sure. Maybe I will start, and Curtis can jump in. When we think about M&A, obviously we are incredibly disciplined. I have been here for seven years.
I ran that business for a long time. We did one deal. When we look at the opportunity set, we like assets that tie into our facilities and increase the competitive motivation of our facilities. Value chain extending assets that we can drive synergies off of, whether it's commercial or operational synergies that can really drive our multiple down into that five- to seven-build multiple over time. That is where we're focused. We think there's some out there that will be available over the next few years, but we will remain incredibly disciplined. We aren't going to go spend a number that doesn't make sense for us. We're going to stick within our financial principles, and we'll see how that works.
Yeah. Sorry, go ahead. I'll just add to that a little bit. I think there's a couple of interesting things from an M&A perspective.
One, from an overall market perspective out there, that I think there's been a tremendous push around gas assets, that a number of companies are very focused on pursuing gas assets. That actually opens up a bit of an opportunity for Gibson and a crude-focused name like us to find some very interesting assets out there in the market. We are spending a fair bit of time thinking about what are some of those crude assets that fit in really nicely with our current assets and our current profile of what we're looking for. We are excited about that. We are spending a bit more time on that. Also from an internal inside the company perspective, we did a major acquisition just over a couple of years ago with Gateway. A year ago, I would have said our focus is on delivering on Gateway.
We added a significant new platform. We need to do a very good job of integrating that asset and delivering on that for and proving to the market that we did an excellent acquisition. We did that. I think there is a resounding check marker on that. I think we have done an excellent job. The team's done a great job of delivering on that asset. I think that gives us confidence to look at what else can we add that bolts into our current story to further strengthen these core assets.
We have a quick question online, and then we will jump back to the room. Gaurav Ramesh from Picton Mahoney Asset Management asked about the FIDs. How far along are we on them? Are they all roughly the same stages of decision-making, or are they in substantially different stages? What should we expect?
I think this is a reference to a slide number with regards to project FIDs. No, it's not a slide number. It's the year 2026.
Thanks, Garr. The projects are progressing at various stages. I wouldn't say they're all at the same stage. We feel good about the CAD 150 million of capital deployed in 2026. It does require customers to hit certain decision points and milestones. We will see for the exact timing of the deployment of the capital, but we feel very good about the growth capital. We've got a number of interesting things right in front of us. We're talking about already on the Wink to Gateway integration projects that are coming a little bit faster into the front end of the year and feel good about some of the FIDs that we'll see in the back half of the year.
Anything else you'd add to that one?
No, I think we've said we're going to spend CAD 150 million next year, and I think we feel very confident in that number. That would be the last column.
Thanks and good morning. This is Maurice Choy from RBC Capital Markets. It's the first question on, you mentioned the positive political climate earlier on. What more do you want to see or anticipate to see from any of the federal or provincial governments?
Thanks, Maurice. What more do we want to see from the political? Maybe the removal of a tanker ban would be helpful. I think it's just continuing progress on, we're starting to see some clarity on some of these rules and just maybe just the consistency of that message shift.
This is a significant step that we've taken, and I think people have been burned in the past, and I think they're going to need to see government, political parties, and all governments acting in a consistent, rational way for a consistent period of time in order to have the confidence to go deploy capital in Canada. I think these are all good capitalists making decisions in boardrooms all over the place. I think if you set up that sort of confidence to go deploy capital, you'll see capital come to Canada. There's just a tremendous resource. There's a tremendous opportunity. I think it's just that consistency and confidence that you know the rules and you can invest with confidence. I think you'll see investment not just locally, but I think you'll see global investment coming back to Canada in a bigger way with that.
Great. Just a second question. Someone double-clicked on M&A comment earlier again. You mentioned that Gibson's terminals sit at the start and end of the straws that feed the global energy markets. What about the body of the straw, like pipelines, and whether that integrated model would be attractive to you strategically over the long term?
Yeah, we see pipes fitting well into our terminals, in particular things that connect directly into our facility. I think that's a great fit for us, and we're happy to look at those sorts of things. We operate a number of pipes already today, some smaller pipe systems that fit nicely into our assets and help us control the barrel and touch it a few different ways. We find that interesting.
Good morning, Patrick Kenny, National Bank Financial.
Just on the 2028 timeframe for the DRU expansion, I was just wondering if you could help us square up your expectations for customer demand just in light of the 700,000-800,000 barrels a day of pipeline egress opportunities that are being talked about out there. What other attributes of the DRU expansion might customers be thinking about in light of the pipeline opportunities?
Yeah, I think what's the key attribute of the DRU expansion is that it's actionable, that it's a clearly actionable solution that gives you efficient egress. Each phase gives you 50,000 barrels a day of egress capacity at a reasonable price. A phase of the DRU is around CAD 200 million. If you compare that against various other options to give increasing capacity out of Western Canada, it's a reasonable cost. You can execute it in under two years.
I think that's going to be part of the sort of all of the above solution. Some of these projects, these projects are all great. We love all of them. There is some uncertainty on the timing of when some of these projects hit. The ability to have a controllable timeline with the DRU is interesting. The second part of that is I do think the market matters. I think we've had a number of customers that have seen and a number of, just a number of parties that have seen the impact of having an option to your where you can take your barrel. I think that's the interesting aspect of the DRU because you've got a portable product that you can put on rail. You can take it anywhere.
You're not necessarily limited to where the linear infrastructure can take your barrel. That allows you some sort of on-land options to be able to take a very custom barrel to a refiner in North America, or it allows you to go access a global market with that barrel very directly and not need a new pipeline to go pull that off. I think it's an interesting option. It's really that sort of actionability nature of the DRU combined with that optionality on the end market that makes it attractive, gives us confidence that you'll see that grow. I would shout out as well that I don't think it's an accident that we've got a significant new partner with a rail terminal attached to the DRU.
We see our large producers in Strathcona, we see our large producers all thinking about they need all of the above solutions for getting barrels out of Western Canada. You see them, you see Strathcona making a bet to say that they see this is going to be part of the solution set.
Okay, that's great. Just a quick follow-up on the Wink integration opportunity that you announced today. Just in light of the current commodity price environment, the outlook for 2026, maybe you can just comment any other greenfield or brownfield opportunities that might still be in the BD pipeline in light of the current oil price environment.
Yeah, I maybe I'll hesitate to announce any other projects here, Pat, but we feel good about the CAD 150 million of capital deployed for this year.
There is a number of well-developed projects that we see that we can go deploy this year. I think the interesting one I would point back at is the infrastructure arrangement that we did with Baytex, that we announced that in March of this year, and we were through the build and fully deployed on that project, generating revenue for that project by November. It gives you a bit of a taste of, we talked about how these small projects are impactful to the bottom line. They are also faster cycle time, and it allows us to go from sort of FID announcement to revenue generation in a faster cycle than if you are talking about a billion-dollar project.
Hey, Sam Burwell Jefferies. On that note, I wanted to ask about the producer partnership opportunity. Seems like you want to do quite a few of these over the next five years.
Where do you see the most opportunities? Is it in the Duvernay, Clearwater, Oil Sands? How many of these could potentially be on the U.S. side? Just how might some of these future partnerships look different than the Baytex partnership?
Yeah, we see it on both sides of the border, Sam. Thanks for the question. Where do we see it? We see it on both sides of the border. I think the Duvernay, because we did that initial agreement there, there are other interesting efficiencies by doing other agreements in that same area. That is an interesting area. Really, it is any area that we have the right counterparty that we can partner with, that has the right sort of take-or-pay agreement structure with that agreement. It drives barrels to our core terminals we are interested in.
We've looked at these sorts of projects in all different areas. In the Baytex example, it's driving volume to our Edmonton terminal. We've looked at other ones that are driving it to every other terminal in the company as well. If it makes us feel good about this, what we put out there is our target that we'll do one to two of these a year over the next five years.
Okay. It seems like there's just a little bit of a de-emphasis around Marketing, trying to deploy more capacity towards the infrastructure piece of the business. How much of that was informed by the experience over the past year or so relative to just the outlook that might be different with more crude egress potentially and possibly just more production, but at a tighter diff?
Yeah, I think the key thing on why the emphasis on infrastructure is that's the core of our business. We're an infrastructure company. Over 95% of our earnings comes from infrastructure. We intentionally spent a lot of time talking about it today. I firmly believe it's the infrastructure business that drives the value for Gibson shareholders. We spent a tremendous amount of time on growing that business and growing the customer relationships that support a strong growing infrastructure business. The marketing business is always going to be an interesting part of the Gibson business that we get the advantage of getting some additional earnings power to the business over the cycle. Boy, it will be lumpy. It's just the nature of that business. Over the last six years, the Gibson marketing business contributed around $100 million a year, but it is all over the place.
Every year goes up and down. It depends on what's going on in the market from a sort of shape of the curve, refining cracks, spreads, demand for asphalt. There's just a number of factors. Is there a disruption in the market from a pipeline perspective? There are so many different things that it is a challenging business to predict. When we look forward today for what we know today, we feel good about sort of the guidance we're giving you today for, we expect it's going to be a fairly muted year for marketing. As I'd say again, we love our infrastructure business, and that muted environment for marketing is a great environment for our infrastructure customers. We feel quite fine about that.
Do we have any other questions online or in the room? Perfect.
With that, thank you again for joining, and I will ask Curtis if he has any closing remarks.
No, thanks, Beth. And thank you, everybody, for joining. It's great to see everybody that traveled, joined us online. I think I saw a huge number for the number of people that are online. Great to see that and that kind of support in person. Thank you again to the number of people that traveled the long distance to be with us here today. Thank you very much. I see 161 people. Thank you. All right. Thank you.