Lease revenue

The Company has certain regasification and services contracts that are accounted for as operating or sales-type leases. The Company’s revenue from leases is presented within revenues in the consolidated statements of income and for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 consists of the following (in thousands):

Sales-type leases

Sales-type lease income is interest income that is presented within lease revenues on the consolidated statements of income. The Company earns sales-type lease income from two floating regasification terminals and one fixed terminal as Excelerate is reasonably certain that the ownership of these assets will transfer to the customer at the end of the term. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company recorded lease income from the net investment in the leases within revenue from lease contracts of $16.7 million and $33.5 million, respectively, as compared to $17.6 million and $26.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively.

Operating leases

Revenue from regasification contracts accounted for as operating leases is recognized by the Company on a straight-line basis over the term of the contract. As of June 30, 2025, the Company is the lessor to regasification agreements with customers on eight of its floating regasification terminals. The following represents the amount of property and equipment that is leased to customers as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 (in thousands):

The future minimum revenues presented in the table below should not be construed to reflect total charter hire revenues for any of the years presented. Minimum future revenues included below are based on the fixed components and do not include variable or contingent revenue. Additionally, revenue generated from short-term charters is not included as the duration of each contract is less than a year. As of June 30, 2025, the minimum contractual future revenues to be received under the regasification and services contracts during the next five years and thereafter are as follows (in thousands):

Revenue from contracts with customers

Assets and liabilities related to contracts with customers

Under most LNG, gas and power revenue contracts, invoicing occurs once the Company’s performance obligations have been satisfied, at which point payment is unconditional. Invoicing timing for regasification and other services varies and occurs according to the contract. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, receivables from contracts with customers were $46.0 million and $88.1 million, respectively. These amounts are presented within accounts receivable, net on the consolidated balance sheets. In addition, revenue for services recognized in excess of the invoiced amounts, or accrued revenue, outstanding at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, was $1.9 million and $0.6 million, respectively. Accrued revenue represents current contract assets that will turn into accounts receivable within the next 12 months and be collected during the Company’s normal business operating cycle. Accrued revenue is presented in accounts receivable, net on the consolidated balance sheets. Other items included in accounts receivable, net represent receivables associated with leases, which are accounted for in accordance with the leasing standard. There were no write downs of trade receivables for lease and services or contract assets for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.

Contract liabilities from advance payments in excess of revenue recognized for services as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were $3.4 million and $27.4 million, respectively. If the performance obligations are expected to be satisfied during the next 12 months, the contract liabilities are classified within current portion of deferred revenue on the consolidated balance sheets. Amounts to be recognized in revenue after 12 months are recorded in long-term deferred revenue. The remaining portion of current deferred revenue relates to the lease component of the Company’s regasification and services contracts that are accounted for in accordance with the leasing standard. Noncurrent deferred revenue presented in long-term deferred revenue on the consolidated balance sheets represents payments allocated to the Company’s performance obligation for drydocking services within lease and operations contracts in which the lease component is accounted for as a sales-type lease, customer requested upgrades made to certain floating regasification terminals, and repositioning. Revenue will be recognized as the performance obligations are completed.

Some of the Company’s contracts are short-term in nature with a contract term of less than a year. The Company applied the optional exemption not to report any unfulfilled performance obligations related to these contracts.

The Company has long-term arrangements with customers in which it provides regasification and other services. The price under these agreements is typically stated in the contracts. In 2025, Excelerate finalized the Acquisition of the assets and operations of the Montego Bay LNG Terminal, the Old Harbour LNG Terminal and the Clarendon combined heat and power plant. Beginning in 2026, Excelerate will provide take-or-pay LNG volumes to Bangladesh through the Company’s 15-year LNG sale and purchase agreement with Bangladesh Oil, Gas & Mineral Corporation. In the third quarter of 2024, Excelerate signed a medium-term LNG, gas and power revenue agreement to sell approximately 0.65 million tonnes of LNG per annum. The estimated fixed transaction price allocated to the performance obligations under these arrangements is $12,903.3 million using commodity futures prices as of June 30, 2025. The Company expects to recognize revenue from contracts exceeding one year over the following time periods (in thousands):