Ryan Hamilton - Manager, Finance and Investor Relations Peter Evensen - President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Hvid - President and Chief Executive Officer, Teekay Offshore Group Ltd. Vince Lok - Chief Financial Officer.
Michael Webber - Wells Fargo Fotis Giannakoulis - Morgan Stanley Wayne Cooperman - Cobalt Capital Gregory Lewis - Credit Suisse.
Welcome to Teekay Corporation’s Third Quarter 2016 Earnings Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded. Now for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Peter Evensen, Teekay’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead..
Before Mr. Evensen begins, I would like to direct all participants to our website at www.teekay.com where you will find a copy of the third quarter of 2016 earnings presentation. Mr. Evensen will review this presentation during today’s conference call. Please allow me to remind you that our discussion today contains forward-looking statements.
Actual results may defer materially from results projected by those forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is contained in our third quarter 2016 earnings release and earnings presentation available on our website.
I’ll now turn the call over to Mr. Evensen to begin..
Thank you, Ryan. Hello, everyone and thank you for joining us today for Teekay Corporation’s third quarter of 2016 investor conference call.
I’m joined this morning on what will be my final Teekay quarterly conference call by Kenneth Hvid, the new President and CEO-elect of Teekay Corporation; our CFO, Vince Lok; and our Group Controller, Brian Fortier. During our call today, we will be taking you through the earnings presentation, which can be found on our website.
Turning to Slide 3 of the presentation, I will briefly review some recent highlights for Teekay Corporation. During the third quarter, we generated consolidated cash flow from vessel operations, or CFVO of approximately $286 million.
Our results during the quarter were partially affected by seasonal factors in our conventional tanker and shuttle tanker segments, as well as the scheduled redelivery of the Varg FPSO at the end of July 2016.
Looking ahead, we expect a stronger fourth quarter, primarily as a result of the reversal of some of the previous quarter’s seasonal factors, lower operating costs, and higher revenues from our FPSO business. For more details on our fourth quarter expectations, please refer to our fourth quarter outlook slide in the appendix of this presentation.
Teekay Corporation reported a consolidated adjusted net loss of approximately $20 million or $0.23 per share in the third quarter. For the third quarter, Teekay Corporation declared a cash dividend of $0.055 per share consistent with the previous quarter’s dividend.
In October of 2016, Teekay Parent completed the sale of its last remaining directly-owned conventional tanker, the Shoshone Spirit VLCC, which will reduce our financial leverage by $63 million in the fourth quarter. Turning to Slide 4, I will review some recent highlights from our three publically traded daughter entities.
For the third quarter, Teekay LNG Partners generated distributable cash flow or DCF of $54 million, resulting in a distributable cash flow per limited partner unit of $0.68.
The partnership continued to generate strong cash flows during the quarter with the delivery of our second MEGI LNG carrier newbuilding, the Oak Spirit, which commenced its five-year charter contract with Cheniere Energy in early-August.
For the third quarter, Teekay LNG declared a cash distribution of $0.14 per unit, resulting in a strong distribution coverage ratio of 4.8 times.
Since reporting earnings in August, the partnership has secured charter contracts for all of its previously-uncommitted LNG carrier newbuildings, by agreeing a short-term charter contract with a major energy company and a new 15 year charter contract with the Yamal LNG project.
These vessels will deliver on to their contracts in early 2017 and early 2019. With the addition of these two charter contracts to the portfolio, Teekay LNG’s forward fee based revenues now stand at $12.2 billion with a weighted-average remaining contract duration of 13 years.
Teekay LNG continues to make significant progress on securing long-term financing for its growth projects that deliver through early 2020, which I will discuss more in detail later in the presentation.
And finally, in October, the partnership increased its liquidity position through the recent issuance of $125 million in a preferred equity offering and $110 million five-year Norwegian Kroner bond issuance.
The preferred unit issuance was the partnerships first such offering and contributes to further increasing its financial flexibility, while delivering the partnerships balance sheet. As part of the oversubscribed Norwegian Kroner bond offering, the partnership agreed to repurchase 292 million Norwegian Kroner bonds, which were due in May of 2017.
For the third quarter, Teekay Offshore Partners generated DCF of approximately $32 million resulting in distributable cash flow per limited partner unit of $0.23. For the third quarter, Teekay Offshore declared a cash distribution of $0.11 per share, resulting in a distribution coverage of two-times.
Teekay Offshore’s third quarter results were negatively impacted by a number of seasonal and temporary factors and thus we expect a stronger fourth quarter for Teekay Offshore.
In September of 2016, the partnerships commercial team secured a new three-year shuttle tanker contract of affreightment or CoA, the largest shuttle contract awarded in five years in the CoA segment.
The new contract is within the consortium known as the Schiehallion co-ventures consisting of BP, Shell and OMV Group which will operate the Glen Lyon FPSO that has a capacity to produce up to 130,000 barrels per day with storage of up to 800,000 barrels.
The three-year shuttle tanker contract, not including extension options is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2017, and is estimated to fully utilize approximately two vessels from Teekay Offshore’s North Sea shuttle tanker fleet.
At the end of September, the partnership took delivery of the first of four state-of-the-art ultra-long distance towing and offshore installation newbuildings that are being constructed in Japan. Teekay Tankers reported an adjusted net loss of approximately $1.5 million or $0.01 per share, and free cash flow of approximately $27 million.
However, results during the quarter were impacted by the lowest quarterly crude tanker spot rates in three years. Various factors affected rates included including normal seasonality reduced oil supply due to temporary outages in key export regions in the Atlantic basin and lower refinery throughput.
Many of these seasonal factors in temporary outages have now diminished or passed. Resulting in higher tanker rates so far in the fourth quarter compared with this past August and we expect the tanker market to further improve over the coming winter months, due to normal winter seasonality coupled with the return of Atlantic basin oil production.
Yesterday Teekay Tankers declared a cash dividend of $0.03 per share, representing the minimum quarterly dividend according to the company's policy.
In October, Teekay Tankers agreed to sell its last remaining MR product tanker along with two 2002 built Suezmax tankers for aggregate proceeds of $47 million, which along with the cash flow generated during the quarter is expected to further deliver its balance sheet to below 49% on a net book to total capitalization basis.
Since reporting earnings in August, Teekay Tankers has continued to grow its ship-to-ship lightering business having secured two significant lightering contracts with major oil companies for periods up to 24 months.
These contracts and strengthen TNK's position on the lightering business by providing us with cargo volume to employ up to 3 Aframax vessel-equivalents per year. These contracts are expected to commence in the fourth quarter and will bring Teekay Tankers total ship-to-ship lightering cargo volume up to 5 Aframax vessel equivalents per year.
TNK's lightering business supports its growing U.S. Gulf presence and enhances its ability to earn above market returns for our fleet in the region.
Turning to Slide 5, as mentioned on the Teekay LNG conference call yesterday, the partnership has received strong interest from financing institutions, particularly in Asia to fund all of its newbuildings and we are currently on track to complete $1.3 billion of new long-term financings on Teekay LNG's various growth projects in the next few months, including four MEGI LNG newbuildings delivering in 2017 and 2018, the Bahrain Regas vacation in which Teekay LNG owns a 30% interest.
Our first two Arc7 LNG carrier newbuildings delivering in 2018, and all of for LPG carrier newbuilding vessels, which will deliver through the first quarter of 2018.
As you can see at the bottom of this slide, we now expect all of the remaining CapEx payments will be funded to a combination of new, committed, or anticipated debt facilities, as well as the proceeds from the partnership's recent $125 million preferred equity issuance in October.
Turning to Slide 6, as I covered on TK Offshore’s conference call yesterday, in Teekay Offshore the focus is on the execution of the partnership's existing growth projects, which remain largely on track to meet scheduled deliveries in 2017 through early 2018 except for the partnership's Petrojarl I FPSO upgrade project.
This project which is over 70% complete has experienced delays and an increased upgrade cost, primarily due to a larger scope of work relating to field specific requirements, the age of the unit, as well as slower than expected work process in the yard.
We've been actively engaged in discussions with the charter, the shipyard and our lenders on that particular facility to complete the project and the charterer's QGEP and Vara [ph] energy have continued to affirm their commitment to the project.
In combination, the projects listed on this slide are expected to add approximately $200 million of new CFVO to Teekay Offshore's annual run rate. Before I conclude and pass this call over to Kenneth to say a few words, I’d like to say it’s been an honor and a privilege to lead this company.
And I'm confident that Kenneth is the right person with the required experience to be my successor to lead Teekay into the next phase of his strategy.
Kenneth started his first 12 years of his career in various positions with Norsk and since starting with Teekay 16 years ago he has held leadership positions in Offshore, LNG, Tankers, Strategy and Operations.
Kenneth was instrumental in building our gas franchise and it’s in its infancy when we first moved into the sector in 2003, and he has lead the shuttle tanker franchise out of Stavanger, Norway for several years; then took over from me as Chief Strategy Officer at Teekay, when I was appointed CEO in 2011.
And in 2015 Kenneth was promoted to his current position as President and CEO of Teekay Offshore Group. Teekay is well-positioned with a market leading businesses, a pipeline of growth projects at Teekay LNG, and Teekay Offshore which are expected to provide significant cash flow growth.
At Teekay, we are all about teams, and teamwork, as well as partnership. Kenneth will now lead this great team, including for investors and banks Teekay’s Corporate Finance team led by our CFO, Vince Lok, which will continue to be responsible for all of Teekay’s financings.
I have full confidence in the entire leadership team that will take Teekay forward with Teekay spirit. I’ll now pass the call over to Kenneth..
Thank you, Peter and hello everyone. First off, I’m excited and honored to take on this new opportunity to build upon Teekay’s past successors.
With our market leading businesses, the company is well positioned and as Teekay new leader I will together with Teekay’s leadership teams continue Peter's work, while we hold safety as our number one priority and always drive for operational leadership in all our business segments.
We will continue to build on our relationships with our customers and business partners. We will focus on maximizing the profitability from our existing businesses through efficient operations and contract renewals.
We’ll deliver the groups conversion and newbuilding projects, which I expect it to provide significant cash flow growth in the future and will continue executing on Teekay Group's financial strategy, including financing Teekay LNG's committed growth projects and addressing the Teekay Group's upcoming debt maturities.
I look forward to leading our talented and dedicated team as we enter the next phase of Teekay strategy. We will be responding effectively to the current industry challenges and opportunities, as well as building upon our past accomplishments.
I look forward to working with the Board of Directors, the Executive Team, and our 7,900 employees onshore and offshore as we build on our reputation of delivering high quality marine services to the oil and gas industry, while upholding the standards of safety and excellence.
Like Peter, I remain committed to creating value for our customers, shareholders, business partners, and employees. Thank you for joining us on the call today. Operator, we are now ready to take questions..
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And we’ll take our first question from Michael Webber with Wells Fargo..
Hi guys.
How are you?.
Good thanks..
Peter wanted to start off on a couple of the assets at the parent level, the charter in LNG carriers you brought one out of lay up to put up some short-term employment and it looks like that since rolled off and the ability to employ those assets is a decent size in near-term variable for Teekay Parent at least, can you talk a bit to what the strategy is now, I’m already seeing deforming [ph] up a little bit, at least since the summer.
So, it is what the thought process is there for 2017, and what you think we should model in from an employment standpoint?.
Sure. So, these are two LNG vessels for everyone's understanding, call the Polar Spirit and the Arctic Spirit, and we had had them laid up. We took one of them out for a short voyage in Q3, it also has a voyage in Q4, and we’re actually tendering both vessels on to multi-year contracts to start sometime in Q1 or Q2 of 2017.
Teekay Parent has chartered these in from Teekay LNG and that will end - and those charters will terminate somewhere in March 2018 or 2018. And so, than that will become the responsibility of Teekay LNG, but we don't care who has the financial responsibility.
We are looking at employing it onto multiyear contracts, probably bringing LNG into China on shallow draft terminals..
Okay. That's helpful.
Just to stick with the parent asset, [indiscernible] I think when you've laid out the guidance for Q4, the tariff there looks a bit North of what we are expecting, and I am just curious, if maybe you can revisit the timing on the pricing action associated with the tariff there and does that capture and at the end of Q3 or is that actually still running through the end of Q4 and that 10 million is an estimate for - including kind of a run-off of crude to the back end of the year?.
Hi Mike. I think, I guess you are referring to Slide 8 of our presentation..
Yes..
Yes, the additional revenue for Q4 is $10 million as you referred to, that is in addition to the normal run rate that we recognize in the first three quarters. I wasn't sure if I really captured the rest of the question..
The pricing movement, is that $10 million represents to that? Is it basically the year ended Q3 or does actually run through the calendar year.
So, I understand I guess, is there still any kind of estimate within that $10 million figure is that basically booked already?.
Or no, it’s not booked. It’s our estimate of year-end catch up. So, I think based on where we sit right now, which is early November it’s a pretty good estimate, because we kind of know what the stock price is going to be and….
Yeah, I know you got paid in Q4, you know if it ended at the end of Q3. That’s helpful though. Just one more from me and I’ll turn it over, and this is kind of bigger picture.
Peter Yamal is becoming a bigger piece of the overall Teekay cash flow profile and there’s been a lot of progress there in terms of project financing and vessel financing, and there still seems to be a fair amount of conventional business kind of hanging out there, there’s been - in terms of new bookings and new tenders and new asserts or sign.
There is a bit of speculation around the idea that the North Sea root could need some dredging, which could push back, maybe modestly some of that Arc7 volumes; there are obviously two different directions those volumes can go and as a conventional site of the tender for a reason.
So, I guess my question is, is that something, is there anything to that to your knowledge and if so do you think that pulls forward more tenders for the conventional side of that business and is that something you guys could participate in?.
No, I don't know anything about this dredging that you referred to, but for everyone's benefit the LNG volumes that leave from Yamal in the summer months when there is no ice will go directly to China.
That’s a route that takes about 19 days, but during the winter in order to be able to supply China with LNG, 365 days a year, those same Arc7 vessels will go west and then they will transship in Belgium or in France; and then conventional vessels will take it through the Suez Canal and around the Indian subcontinent.
So there’s never been an idea that the conventional vessels will look at Yamal. That will always go out on Arc7 vessels..
Right. It is [indiscernible] another, which route they take and if there is dredging they could just expedite the need for those additional carriers, it will be a positive, just make sure if there is anything to it. I think that’s from me. I appreciate the time guys..
Thank you..
Thanks..
The next question is from Fotis Giannakoulis with Morgan Stanley..
Yes, good morning guys, and thank you.
Peter, I want to thank you once again for leading Teekay all this 13 years and leading the entire industry in the financial markets, and I want to ask you between now and January 31 what would be your main priorities, the key topics that you would like to resolve, and if you can give us a little bit more detail about your role as an advice or what this role will entail and how long this is going to last?.
Sure. Well, thank you very much for the complement Fotis, first of all. I would say that in the next three months we’ve already laid out a transition plan and that transition plan isn’t just Kenneth taking over from me. We have a huge group of people who are assuming new leadership positions.
We have Mark Kremin stepping up on the gas side; we have Ingvild Saether stepping out on the offshore side; and so I have been in many cases the face of Teekay to a lot of investors, and so going forward you will see a greater team.
So, we are going to hit the road with the investors, but more important, we are going to hit the road and talk to our customers and our suppliers.
So Kenneth and I have laid out an ambitious travel schedule that includes taking small breaks at Christmas and Thanksgiving, and we're going to be travelling the globe and showing the Teekay flag all around the world. And that’s the same thing that Bjorn and I did when I took over five years ago.
And that’s the priority, but we are building a lot of projects over 20 units, all around the world and that’s what we’ve been working on for a couple of months..
And regarding….
And then you asked the advisor. So, I’m basically available to help out beyond January 31. We haven't defined it, but I would expect that you will see me popping up in various places. But Kenneth is going to be the person steering the ship and my job will be to support him, wherever I'm needed.
Would you add anything?.
No, I have your number..
So, thank you, just wanted to clarify it’s not some specific project that you are working on and I was wondering if there was one.
Kenneth congratulations for your new role and all the best for your new position to do you and your team, I would like to ask you, if the market is very different from the time that Peter took on the company, the company is much larger right now and it has a number of subsidiaries, public listed subsidiaries and offshore listed subsidiaries, is there any thought from the new management team and the board about changing certain parts of the strategy or the focus of the company? I was wondering also if the new team also signals the potential of bringing the daughter companies closer.
For example, Teekay investments is a company that we do not hear much about, but still exist as a different entity, can you also describe your priorities and your vision for the company?.
Yes, certainly, Fortis thanks a lot for your kind words. Well first of all my number one priority is basically that all our stakeholders out there doesn't really see any difference and I don't think they will, and we will ensure as Peter said that the team is intact and in place.
So the number one priority is really to ensure that we have great continuity of our business and that’s something that I’ve worked with instrumentally. I have been a part of for many years. So that is number one. For sure we are facing a different industry outlook to date. There are challenges, but there are also opportunities.
And I think that’s one of the things that we’ve always been good at Teekay, it’s in our DNA. I would say that we’ve been good at assessing and responding to those.
And maybe you’ve seen us that we’ve been responding a lot to opportunities, but for sure it’s the same as same DNA that you need when as you are maneuvering through some of the more narrow waters that we're facing right now. But as I said in my prepared remarks, the provinces are quite clear. I think our path is set.
It is about executing on our projects that we have right now focusing on those that will give a significant cash flow. I think we are very fortunate that we are sitting in a couple of the segments where our customers want our assets and there will be cash flowing.
We don't have too many assets sitting out there going into markets, which have collapsed. So, Teekay and the way we have built the company over the past decade has really been on focusing on a stable cash flow as possible and that’s what we will continue to do..
Can you also comment about the Teekay Investments, if there are any thoughts of potentially leap merging it with Teekay Tankers and having one less company floating? And also which are the sectors that you - more attractive, you see more opportunities for this type of projects that you are looking at with long-term contracts.
And my last question, just I asked them all together Teekay LNG has done a series of refinancing and has strength and significant late liquidity over the last quarter.
At what point, do you envision that the company will be in position to reinstate a higher dividend?.
Yes, so that was quite a few questions and that probably requires a small Investor Day here, which we will be having at some point. First of all, a number of us have been in this industry for quite some years and I think what we all understand is that you have sectors that fall in and out of favor.
We have sectors that we predict are going to perform well. And then we are surprised suddenly that they don't perform as we all thought that they would perform. What we are very focused on at Teekay is to build a portfolio where there is some balancing here, where there is, what we consider some good flows on the risks that we are taking on.
And a really a lot of our segments of course impacted by the macros that we are all facing. And therefore, I don't think it’s really a time now to say, here are the segments we like, and here are the segments we don't like based on today's performance of those businesses.
We run our company for the very long term and during those - over the long term, we do know that these sectors pull in and out of favor.
So as we are had the Tankers for a number of years that performed extremely well, and we had a period where they don't perform so well, and then we had a short period where they performed well again, but the market was different.
We're very committed to that segment as we are committed to all the other segments, the offshore and the LNG segments that we have entered into over the past decade, and we like our positions there.
We've built market leading positions and we're ready to defend those and continue to build them, and respond to the challenges that the macros represents to us in each of those.
So that’s where our focus is going to be, but of course right now as we’ve laid out and communicated in our past quarters, we have some near-term priorities, which we absolutely must deliver on and they will be on completing projects, and they will be on completing our financings. And I think that’s what you’re all expecting us to focus on..
Okay, thank you I appreciate your answers..
Thanks Fortis..
And the next question is from Wayne Cooperman with Cobalt Capital..
Hi, Peter just wanted to wish you good luck, and hope you guys can hear me all right?.
Yes, we can..
Okay.
So at the daughter companies you kind of are continually doing these financings whether it’s preferred stock or common stock, and it just seems like the IDRs of the potential IDRs kind of gets keep - gets pushed further and further out of the money, I just wonder if you could comment on that and if you guys have just sort of reconsidered the whole daughter structure entity structure as a lot of the other companies are doing..
Yes, thanks Wayne. I look forward to coming to see you as we transition and introducing Kenneth to you as well as other competitors. No, we haven't changed our policy.
In fact if you look at the preferred equity issuance at Teekay LNG, we thought that was the best issuance rather than issuing common equity because that will honor DCF per share basis be more accretive, and so that just helped us complete the financings, but that was a much better or equity issuance for limited partner holders of Teekay LNG then issuing new equity.
We’re trying to limit the amount of equity that we’re issuing at the daughter companies, so that as we benefit from the rebound we’ll have higher DCF per share.
And that was the whole essence of temporarily cutting the distributions last December, that if we hadn't cut the distributions we would have been forced to issue a lot of equity at subpar levels. And so we are….
And even when you issued like preferred equity at TOO was 8% coupon, it just seems like it pushes the - you need, how more vessel cash flow to get to the tipping point where you start taking in the IDRs and I wonder if you guys have what the breakeven, what the flip point is on cash flow where you do tick in to the IDRs now?.
Yes, we have - well basically if you look at Teekay LNG, we're waiting for - in total $250 million of cash flow, but for us really it’s about completing the financings. Obviously, the financing environment became negative to offshore and that impacted us. So, yes we issued $200 million of preferred in June.
Thank you for your participation in preferred and common, but that was the best financing at that time, but as our cash flows come on, on our four big projects in offshore, as well as our multiple projects in LNG, on a consolidated basis we will get $450 million of incremental cash flow.
So, when the distributions are increased, it will be on a higher DCF per share..
Okay. I just want you guys to want to put specific numbers out there, exactly..
Yeah, we’re not prepared to do that yet, but right now our priority is, you heard us say on the prepared remarks was to complete the financings. We did a lot of work first half on Teekay Offshore, now we are completing that on Teekay LNG and that is why I feel comfortable handing over the reins to Kenneth..
I got it, thanks..
Thanks..
[Operator Instructions] And we will go now to Gregory Lewis with Credit Suisse..
Hi. Thank you and good morning..
Hi Greg..
Peter, it has been a pleasure, thank you. Definitely we will be missing you, but certainly won't be a stranger.
I guess, I just had - the first question was on, you mentioned the financings and sort of the new term goal here to get these financings done, I know it may still be too early to tell, but has the shift or has Hanjin or some of the concerns across the global markets, has that sort of slowed down or had any sort of negative impact on the near medium term ability to sort of finish of these financings?.
Sure. Why don't I start and Vince will take over. So, Vince and I were actually just on two significant trips. One out to Asia, with a focus on China and Korea, as well as to Europe and visiting all of our banks and export credit agencies and leasing companies.
And there certainly was a concern about Hanjin, Hanjin certainly with 85 ships suddenly coming back out onto the market and there was a huge concern about counterparty, which I think hadn't been as much there.
There was also a concern about offshore, but what we heard was that Teekay - that people were narrowing the number of people that they wanted to do financing business with, but Teekay given our fix rate contracts was someone that they wanted to support.
So, we were gratified in a weird way that the problems in the industry more particularly in drive, bulk, and offshore meant that more people wanted to business with us.
And we’re taking advantage of that and Vince you’re in the process of closing a lot of financings, right?.
That is right. I guess first of all, as Peter said, when we talk to a lot of the Chinese banks and leasing companies. Although they do have some challenges on the other sectors like dry bulk, they actually are looking to diversify their portfolio into LNG.
They liked that sector, they think it’s about to turn, and it’s a stable, a long-term stable business. And they do want to focus on larger companies like Teekay. So that’s why we’re doing the bulk of our LNG financings in Asia. They have, I guess a large portfolio of U.S. dollars. They wanted to invest as well.
And of course LNG is very strategically important to China, given the projects that are involved in.
In terms of the general bank market, even though on the offshore sector as you saw in the first half of the year, we are a very supportive bank group and that’s particularly because we are on the production side of the offshore chain, not the exploration side. And we continue to get very strong support from our core group of banks..
Okay great, and then just, kind of congratulations.
Just kind of in-line with what Fotis was asking in terms of how you see, I mean it’s interesting right, I think if we were to flashback when Peter took over the reins, he came in as from the been CFO, you are coming in from being an - running operations, whether it was LNG or then Offshore, as you look out and knowing the inner workings of these companies, I guess two things; one is, is the infrastructure appropriately set for, how you view the next couple of years and is there any areas where the companies have really grown like a weed over the last 5 plus 5, 10 years, is it possible we see the potential for the company to shrink anywhere over the next couple of years?.
Well, first of all, I think we put a structure in place that suits the businesses that we are running and I don't think it’s timely to comment on that, but obviously we will always review that and as when we put in the structure to meet our gas and offshore ambition that was certainly the right structure then.
Our focus always has been to basically figure out how can we be relevant to our customers, how do we continue to develop a product that delivers customer value.
And that really started with our originations in Tankers and when we sat there and looked at what else could we get into on shuttle tankers, we clearly had the common sense to do, we didn't have everything, but we had a lot of the things that our customers liked in the tanker business and we moved it into shuttle tankers.
And the story goes as all of you are familiar with. Same thing on the gas business, but our number one focus has always been are we relevant to our customers and how can we deliver a product that’s - that they want. And then that’s really through our operations at Teekay..
Okay. Thank you very much for the time. Good luck Peter, good luck Kenneth..
Thanks..
Thanks..
I will be skiing..
And with no questions remaining in the queue, I’ll turn the call back to Mr. Evensen for any additional or closing remarks..
Okay, thank you all very much. I just want to say, it’s been a pleasure working with all of you. As I said, I’m looking forward to my retirement from Teekay, but I want everyone to know I have full confidence in this team that is going to take Teekay forward. You’re a great bunch of guys and I would go into battle with you every time.
Thank you all very much..
And this concludes today's call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect..