Kolibri Global Energy Q4 2025 Earnings Report

Kolibri Global Energy EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.09
• Consensus EPS: $0.12
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.03
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Kolibri Global Energy Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $14.74 million
• Expected Revenue: $22.64 million
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$7.90 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Kolibri Global Energy Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q4 2025
• Date: 3/19/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 12:00PM ET

Kolibri Global Energy (NASDAQ:KGEI) engages in the finding and exploiting oil, gas, and clean and sustainable energy in the United States. It sells crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. The company was formerly known as BNK Petroleum Inc. and changed its name to Kolibri Global Energy Inc. in November 2020. Kolibri Global Energy Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California.

Kolibri Global Energy Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Production rose to 4,013 BOE/day in 2025 (up 15% year-over-year) with December exceeding 5,600 BOE/day and a three‑year 35% CAGR; late‑2025 wells are expected to materially boost 2026 results.
• Positive Sentiment: Approved developed producing reserves increased by 30% and reserve net present value was up ~10% despite the evaluator using a much lower price deck (first‑year price $58/bbl), indicating stronger underlying asset value.
• Negative Sentiment: Financials were pressured by lower oil prices — net revenue fell 3% to $56.9M, adjusted EBITDA declined 4% to $42.1M, and net income was $15.5M ($0.44/share), with netback down to $31.49/BOE.
• Positive Sentiment: Operating costs remain low at $7.33/BOE (down from $7.44), net debt ended 2025 at $46M with management planning H1 paydown as production and prices improve, and the company has repurchased ~650k shares for $3.2M with further buybacks planned.
• Neutral Sentiment: Management plans to begin drilling in the coming months (targeting a June start and early‑to‑mid Q3 production) with a baseline of ~3 wells (~$7M each) and flexibility to accelerate; roughly half of current PDP production is unhedged though costless collars and swaps cover portions of the year.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good day, welcome to the Kolibri Global Energy's Q4 2025 financials conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Media may monitor this call in a listen-only mode. They are free to quote any member of management, but are asked to not quote remarks from any other participant without that participant's permission. If anyone has trouble and needs assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your touchtone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I advise participants that this conference is being recorded today, March 19th 2026. This call will be available on the company's website at www.kolibrienergy.com. Here is a disclaimer.

[Operator]

This call may include forward-looking information regarding Kolibri's strategic plans, anticipated production, capital expenditures, exit rates and cash flow, reserves and other estimates and forecasts. Forward-looking information is subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results will vary from the forward-looking statements. This call may include forward, future-oriented financial information and financial outlook information, which Kolibri discloses in order to provide readers with a more complete perspective on Kolibri's potential future operations, and such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. For a description of the assumptions on which such forward-looking information is based and the applicable risks and uncertainties and Kolibri's policy for updating such statements, we direct you to Kolibri's most recent annual information form and management's discussion and analysis for the period under discussion. As well as Kolibri's most recent corporate presentation, all of which are available on Kolibri's website.

[Operator]

Listeners should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Kolibri undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking, future-oriented financial or financial outlook information other than as required by applicable law. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Wolf Regener, the President and CEO of Kolibri Global Energy Inc. Please go ahead, sir.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Hi. Thank you, Dave, and thank you everyone for joining us today. With me on today's call is Gary Johnson, our Chief Financial Officer. As I'm sure you're all aware, we released our Q4 2025 results this morning and had released our reserve report two days ago. We're very pleased with what we achieved this last year, which continues to build on our last few years and results in multiple ways. Production from the field has been going well, with our production over 4,000 BOE a day, which is up 15% over 2024. This production rate calculates us to having a 35% compound annual production growth rate over the last three years, which is great.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Our operating expenses remain low with just over $7.33 a BOE, which is even lower than last year's $7.44 per BOE. Our drilling program last year resulted in our approved developed producing reserves increasing by 30%. Even though the oil price used by our reserve evaluators in Netherland, Sewell is down substantially this year, our net present value is up 10%. The example of how significant the drop is, the first year's price used in the evaluation is down 18% to $58 a barrel. This is obviously way out of line with the current oil prices that have been averaging in the 90s right now. Things are going well for us. With that, I will turn the call over to Gary to discuss our financial results.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Thanks, Wolf, and thanks everyone for joining the call. I'm just gonna go over a few highlights of our annual results for 2025, and then we can take questions at the end of the call. All amounts are in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated. As we mentioned in our earnings release this morning, we reported a 15% increase in our production to 4,013 BOE per day in 2025. The increase was due to the new wells we drilled that completed during 2025, including four at the end of the year, which increased our December production to over 5,600 BOE per day. The production and cash flow impact of the last four wells will primarily be reflected in our 2026 results.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Our net revenue for 2025 was $56.9 million, which was a decrease of 3% compared to the prior year. Prices declined by 60% in 2025, which more than offset the increase in production. Adjusted EBITDA decreased 4% to $42.1 million compared to $44 million last year due to the decrease in revenue. Net income was $15.5 million and basic EPS was $0.44 per share in 2025 compared to $18.1 million with basic EPS of $0.51 per share in 2024. The decrease was due to the lower revenue and higher operating expenses due to the production increase. Our operating expense per BOE was $7.33 for 2025 compared to $7.44 per BOE in 2024, a decrease of 1%.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Our netback from operations decreased to $31.49 per BOE compared to $38.54 per BOE in the prior year, a decrease of 18% due to the lower prices. Net debt at the end of 2025 was $46 million. We plan to pay down on this debt level in the first half of the year as we achieve higher production from the wells drilled at the end of the year. We also benefit from the recently elevated oil prices. Then the last item I wanted to mention was our share buyback program. We have purchased almost 650,000 shares since we started buying back shares for a total of $3.2 million. We will continue to repurchase additional shares to enhance shareholder value as our working capital and credit facility allows. With that, I'll hand it back to Wolf.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Thanks, Gary. As Gary laid out, we had a good year. Well, oil prices were obviously challenging, and were lower this last year than previous years, but we still performed well. Company is in solid financial shape, and we announced our intention to start drilling additional wells in the coming months. We're looking to continue the success we've had over the last years, that 35% compound annual growth rate for our production over the last three years has been great. The wells we brought on production late in the Q4, as Gary indicated, are really having the biggest impact in 2026. The timing of the oil price increase right now is really benefiting our cash flow. Overall, our plan is to continue to execute and build and grow company value for all shareholders.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

As Gary said, continue to buy back shares and we'll drill more wells. We'll continue to get the word out about the company to shareholders and potential shareholders, including, we'll be attending the ROTH Conference next week, and we're doing a fireside chat at the Lithium Summit on April 1st as well. We'll continue to do other things throughout the year. This concludes the formal part of our presentation. We'll be pleased to answer any questions you now may have.

[Operator]

We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your touchtone phone. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star and then two. Our first question comes from Steve Ferazani with Sidoti. Please go ahead.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Good afternoon, Wolf. Afternoon, Gary. I appreciate the color on the call this afternoon.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Hi, Steve.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Wolf, how are you, how are you thinking about, obviously a lot has changed in terms of the price environment over the last three weeks or so. How are you now thinking about the drilling program for this year as opposed to maybe how you were thinking about it pre-conflict or even what you were talking about late last year? I'm assuming that the thought is maybe to drill more wells this year than maybe previously thought.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. Cautiously optimistic is what I'll say.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Okay. Fair.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

I don't know if the industry believes that these prices are staying up. We don't, you know, it's, we'll see how this all unfolds. As for most people, this is quite unexpected. We did take advantage of that a bit. We did a bit more hedging at the higher prices, so that helps too. As we are going forward right now, we're just planning on seeing how everything unfolds. I mentioned that we'll start drilling some wells here over the next coming months, and once we have firm dates on that, we'll announce that as well. We're building multiple locations out here, so that's always a longer lead time. This way we can quickly move if we decide to extend the drilling program, drill more wells. Like I said, we're cautious in everything we do in general, and so it's probably different this year. I do think prices are going to stay higher than they were before, no matter what happens, even if this ended tomorrow.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

I mean, we know what the strip is to the end of the year, right? Your balance sheet enables you to pivot pretty quickly if you did want to ramp up a little bit, right?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Right. Exactly. That's why we're doing the long lead items, making sure we have everything in place so we could quickly do things. That's the big advantage we have, being the size we have, right? We can-

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Right.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Start and stop much faster than some of the bigger guys that are more rigid in their financial structure, where we have a small board where we can quickly make changes to what we have proposed for the year.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Got it. In terms of, I know it changes when availability of crews, but it sounded like you indicated in the release June would be when you might start this year's drilling programs. Is that fair right now? Would mean production probably early to mid-Q3. Is that sort of the target?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah, I mean, hopefully. We'll see how things go. Hopefully, we can get started a little sooner than that. Yeah, I'd like to keep the June out there until we have everything firmed up.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Yeah.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

I'd rather underpromise.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Yeah. Understood. Things change fast, right?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

A couple of numbers surprised me in the quarter. The realized natural gas price. I know that moves quarter-to-quarter. Again, the differential can move. Seems a little bit lower than I would have expected.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. That's really hard for us as well because-

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Yeah.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

We sell all of our gas and our wet gas, which is our gas and natural gas liquids, and Exxon handles that. Where that goes and as far as how much gas is pulled out versus how much NGLs and things like that are all on their hands. We're always assuming that we get the best price that is available because they're doing the same thing for their own account.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Yep.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

It does fluctuate, and it's hard for us to forecast that, as it is for you, unfortunately.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

I understand.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Luckily, it's not a big part of our stream, thank goodness.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Right. Absolutely. The higher production operating expense, I think you noted the Q4.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yes.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

The workover [crosstalk]. That should be one-time engagement, right? Okay.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Correct [crosstalk].

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Okay.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

That's exactly right. For the year, you know, we were still looking great, and we do have-

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Oh, yeah.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Budgeted, you know, reworks throughout the year. It just depends on when they come in, and if it's multiple in a quarter, then our wells are really low maintenance. We're lucky on that.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Right.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

They do need maintenance from time to time.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Understood. In terms of, you noted a lot of the there were oil-rich wells you brought online, mostly.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Mm-hmm.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

In the second half of 2025. You'd previously noted the much slower decline rates. Is that playing out over the last few months?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. I mean, we haven't seen a change. We're happy with how those wells performing. I think, Netherland, Sewell over the years has been increasing what our decline rates or decreasing the decline rates-

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Right.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

I should say over the years. On the newer wells, they usually hit those a little bit harder, and then in the following years, they kinda bring it up a little bit because they do perform well. We expect the same thing out of wells we drilled last year.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Got it. Last one for me. You may choose not to answer, but given that it's March 19th, can you give any sense of what 1Q production might look like?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. No, we haven't put it out there, so I can't really.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

Okay.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Speak to that on this call, unfortunately. Yeah.

[Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti]

I understand. Thanks so much, Wolf. Thanks, Gary.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Oh, absolutely.

[Operator]

The next question comes from Poe Fratt with Alliance Global Partners. Please go ahead.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Hi. Good morning, Wolf. Can you

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Hi, Poe.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Can you give me at least a ballpark on your CapEx, you know, for 2026?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

You know, we haven't put anything out there, so I have to be careful. What I've said in the past is kind of my goal, and speaking just for myself, not from our board-approved or anything else, is to keep the production flat to growing a little bit in general. That shouldn't take more than three wells or so. That's kind of as close as I can get, from my own opinion, as far as what we should do for the year. Now that oil prices are higher, we'll probably be higher than that. You know, if we add more wells, it adds a lot. Our wells are, you know, in the roughly $7 million range each. It just depends on how many we end up drilling for the year, so. Once we have that pinned down, we'll put that out precisely. Our CapEx, you know, will be lower this year than it was last year by a long shot, unless we really accelerate what we're doing out there.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Yeah. I guess closer to 2024, the full year CapEx for 2024, maybe even lower than that.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. I mean, yeah. As we talked about earlier, it's like with we were going into this kinda talking about what we were doing with oil prices being a lot lower than they are. With that lower oil price number in mind, you know, I think from my point of view, I think it'll end up being reasonable to drill, you know, three wells or so at least. That's in the low 20s. Then if oil prices stay higher, I anticipate that, you know, we would recommend and the board would agree that we should drill some more wells. That would increase the CapEx quite a bit.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

That's helpful. I apologize, I couldn't find any info on your hedging program. Can you just summarize, you know, your hedging program for, you know, the Q1 and then the full year?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Gary, do you wanna take that? You probably have that in front of you.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. Well, the Q1, we didn't really hedge much recently 'cause it was already in March when the prices went up. For the Q1, we have costless collars in place. We're about 16,000 barrels of oil per day. The costless collar range is $58.50-$77.25. But we have hedged in April, we have a fixed price swap at $94 for 16,000 BOE per day. And then we've also hedged, like, next May and June as well in the 80s. We've basically done as much hedging as we're allowed to do on our credit facility right now for the Q2.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. Those hedges were about 500 barrels a day, wasn't it, roughly?

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Just in rough numbers. Yeah.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah, rough numbers. Yeah.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

We have a substantial amount of our production that's not hedged. I'd say over 50% that's free floating still.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Is the second half production pretty much open right now?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

No, we still have hedges there.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Yes.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

We still have some old hedges from the costless collars, right? We added some other costless collars. Go ahead, Gary.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah. We put in some more costless collars for the second half of the year. We have about half of these were entered into obviously before the price uptick. $50.25 is the low and $66.75 is the high. We just did new ones where the low is $61.50 and the high is $91. Those are our costless collars, and those take place across the rest of the year.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Right. That's 50% roughly of our current PDP. Anything new that we drill.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Yeah.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Is completely unhedged.

[Gary Johnson, CFO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Correct.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Okay. Great. Then when you look at your cost structure, you know, for 2026, any changes that you could highlight? I'm wondering about the royalty per barrel. Looked like it was, you know, pretty low in the Q4. Is that just because of the prices or just can you help me understand how that might move in 2026?

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

The royalty percentage changes a little bit depending on where the majority of our production coming from, because each square mile out here has a different royalty structure. In general, you know, we're averaging 22-ish% burdens on everything. Then the dollar amount would float up and down with pricing.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Yes. That's all [crosstalk].

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Because it is a percentage.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Yeah.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Because it is a percentage. Right. So.

[Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners]

Great. Thank you so much.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

Absolutely. Thanks for the questions. Good talking to you.

[Operator]

This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Wolf Regener for any closing remarks.

[Wolf Regener, President and CEO at Kolibri Global Energy Inc]

I just wanted to say thank you, everyone, for participating and those of you that will hopefully listen to this later as well. We're looking forward to having a really good 2026 year, and I think we're off to a really good start between our production levels and the pricing, which is helping out. Thank you everyone very much. Have a great day.

[Operator]

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Gary Johnson, CFO
• Wolf Regener, President and CEO

Analysts

• Poe Fratt, Managing Director and Senior Transportation Analyst at Alliance Global Partners
• Steve Ferazani, Senior Equity Analyst at Sidoti