Williams Companies, Inc. (The) (WMB) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Williams Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Mrs. Caroline Sardella, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us and for your interest in Williams. Yesterday afternoon we released our earnings press release and the presentation that our President and CEO Chad Zamarin and our Chief Financial Officer John Porter will speak to you this morning. Also joining us on the call today are Larry Larsen, our Chief Operating Officer, and Rob Wingo, our Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development. In our presentation materials, you'll find a disclaimer related to forward-looking statements. This disclaimer is important and integral to our remarks, so please review it. Also included in the presentation materials are non-GAAP measures that we reconciled with generally accepted accounting principles. These reconciliation schedules appear at the back of today's presentation materials. So with that, I'll turn it over to Chad. Thanks, Caroline. This was another quarter of accomplishment for Williams, with strong execution and meaningful growth across our business. I want to start by recognizing an awesome milestone for our power innovation business. Last week, we achieved in-service for phase one of Socrates, delivering a utility-scale 200 megawatts of power to our customer in under 18 months since commercialization. This is how America wins the race for the next generation of technology. A huge shout out to the Williams team and the incredible group of engineering, equipment, and construction partners that have worked to make t...