Alex Rygiel
Analyst · FBR & Company.
Our Washington Policy team has done a ton of work on the FERC and clearly with quorum last night, they agree with you that projects could start to get passed and processed through there within days if not weeks. And obviously, there is a tremendous amount of backlog; clearly, I suspect that bodes well for you being able to fill that kind of fourth quarter gap but if that fourth quarter gap develops does it also turn into a 1Q gap, is that a possibility? And then more broadly on the bullish side, can you talk a little bit about the revenue capacity that you have within your oil and gas segment? And I have a follow-up.
José Mas: Sure. So when we look at our business for 2018 and again, if you go back a couple of years, we had a great quarter where we had $500 million of revenue at one time in the pipeline business, at the time we started saying, "hey, we actually think we have the capacity to do $2 billion", we hit the $2 billion, we hit $750 million in a quarter, we said, "hey, we think we can potentially do $3 billion in our oil and gas business", we've now done $3 billion. So we did a $1.1 billion in a quarter, you can't just multiply it by four but quite frankly, we obviously have the capacity in place in terms of our teams, our people, our equipment to do over $1 billion a quarter, you annualize that; we're at a $ billion, $4.5 billion capacity in our pipeline business and what we've got to do is win and secure the work on a consistent basis to try to get there as close to that as we can. We're not really worried about early 2018, we've got a good idea of what projects we're going to be on. Early in 2018; obviously, FERC approval was important, we haven't really been concerned about it because we've thought all along that these projects would get approved and these projects would go forward at some point. The fourth quarter -- I know we talked a little bit about the fourth quarter gap, you know, for us it's all upside and again, if we can -- irrespective of what happens in the fourth quarter, we don't think that the fourth quarter gap kind of fully goes into Q1 because there is other stuff that we anticipate starting in Q1 that has nothing to do with the fourth quarter.