Company: DK
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050541
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Company: Delek US Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 events anticipated by any forward-looking statements will occur or, if any of them do, what impact they will have on our results of operations and financial condition. All forward-looking statements included in this report are based on information available to us on the date of this report. We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Management's Discussion and Analysis

Executive Summary: Management's View of Our Business and Strategic Overview 

Management's View of Our Business

We are an integrated downstream energy business focused on petroleum refining and the transportation, storage and wholesale distribution of crude oil, intermediate and refined products as well as wastewater processing, disposal, and recycling.

Business and Economic Environment Overview

Our focus on safe and reliable operations is a pillar which underlines all of our business activities. We continue to identify opportunities to mitigate market risk and focus on efforts that improve our overall cost structure while not compromising operational excellence. During the third quarter of 2025, the Refining segment provided higher margins than the second quarter of 2025 and the prior year third quarter due to increased crack spreads. Crack spreads were higher during the third quarter of 2025 than the prior fifteen months. Our disciplined approach to cost control, coupled with a focus on our enterprise optimization plan ("EOP") margin enhancements, as well as the impact related to the small refinery exemptions granted in the third quarter supported earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") growth and improved cash flow, while our capital deployment remained aligned with our strategic priorities. The domestic West Texas Intermediate ("WTI") differentials compared to Brent continued to be favorable while the WTI Midland to Cushing differential widened unfavorably compared to the second quarter of 2025. The increased refining margins compared to the third quarter of 2024 continues to demonstrate that demand for refined products continues to be strong. Logistics continued to contribute strong results driven by incremental contributions from H2O Midstream and Gravity. We will continue to execute on our priorities of running safe and reliable operations, making further progress on our "sum of the parts" efforts, and delivering shareholder value while maintaining our financial strength and flexibility.

Our refining operations continue to be impacted by requirements to comply with RFS-2. In the third quarter of 2025, we were returned 2019-2023 RINs after being granted small refinery exemptions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to the 2019-2024 compliance periods