Q1 2026 Ithaca Energy PLC Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Ithaca Energy PLC (FRA:XE3) reported strong production of 126,000 barrels per day in Q1 2026, supporting robust cash flow generation.
- The company has a strong hedge book that underpins shareholder returns and investment plans, allowing them to hedge attractive prices into 2028.
- Ithaca Energy PLC completed the Tobermory farm-in and farmed down a 45% stake in Fotla to Harbour Energy, supporting organic growth opportunities.
- The company has maintained excellent safety and environmental performance, with zero Tier 1 and Tier 2 process safety events and a positive trend in incident frequency.
- Ithaca Energy PLC is actively pursuing M&A opportunities in the UK and internationally, aiming to deliver attractive shareholder returns with expected dividends at the higher range for 2026.
- The company faced extraordinarily challenging weather conditions in Q1, impacting operations for several weeks.
- An equipment handling incident caused a rig to come offline in April, with an estimated remediation period of three to four months.
- There is uncertainty in the UK political environment, which could impact regulatory processes and consent for projects.
- The company is facing potential delays and cost implications due to the rig incident affecting the Rosebank project.
- Ithaca Energy PLC is operating in a volatile commodity market, which poses challenges in managing hedging strategies and cash flow stability.
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our Q1 2026 results presentation. I'm Yaniv Friedman. I'm the Executive Chairman of Ithaca Energy PLC. With me on our call today is Luciano Vasques, our CEO, and Iain Lewis, our CFO. A strong Q1, as the first slide says, delivering on our strategy. And in today's agenda, we'll cover our Q1 2026 highlights, strategic and operational highlights.
And financial highlights. And as always, we'll close with Q&A. If we'll move to slide 4. So our capital allocation policy supports our attractive shareholders return. So what we wanted to show you is how this plays into this quarter. As mentioned, strong production, robust production that is supporting strong cash flow generation. And we're seeing the strong performance trending into Q2, in Q1, 126,000 barrels a day of production.
We took a hard look in optimizing and accelerating activity across our portfolio in this elevated commodity price environment. So that's been a focus of the business in the past few months on really how
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