Western Midstream Partners, Enbridge and Plains Announce Cactus II Pipeline Transaction
03 November 2022 - 7:05AM
Western Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: WES) (“WES”), Enbridge Inc.
(TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB) (“Enbridge”), and Plains All American
Pipeline, L.P. and Plains GP Holdings (Nasdaq: PAA, PAGP)
(“Plains”), today announced that certain of their subsidiaries
closed a transaction whereby Enbridge and Plains purchased WES’s
15% interest in Cactus II Pipeline, LLC (“Cactus II”) for an
aggregate amount of $265 million. Enbridge acquired 10% and Plains
acquired 5% of Cactus II, with each paying a proportionate share of
the purchase price. Plains and Enbridge are now the sole owners of
Cactus II, with 70% and 30% respective ownership interests. Plains
will continue to serve as operator.
The Cactus II pipeline is a 26-inch diameter, 670,000
barrel-per-day oil pipeline that extends from the Delaware basin in
West Texas to Corpus Christi, with further connectivity to the
Ingleside area. Cactus II, in combination with Enbridge’s Ingleside
Energy Center, provides a premier and industry-leading solution to
deliver abundant, responsibly produced North American energy
supplies to the U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) and global markets.
“We are pleased to announce the divestiture of our interest in
Cactus II to our former operating partners, Plains and Enbridge.
This transaction demonstrates our disciplined approach in
evaluating our portfolio, focusing on our core gathering and
processing businesses in the Delaware and DJ Basins, and returning
value to our unitholders,” stated Michael Ure, Chief Executive
Officer of Western.
“Today’s announcement is another important step in advancing our
USGC strategy to connect growing Permian production to global
export markets,” said Colin Gruending, President Liquids Pipelines
and Executive Vice President of Enbridge Inc. "The Cactus II
pipeline specifically adds to our advantaged light oil integrated
value chain providing low-cost access to the best markets for our
shippers.”
“We’re pleased to reach this agreement with Western Midstream
and further strengthen our relationship with Enbridge,” said Willie
Chiang, Plains’ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “This is
another example of our continued focus on optimizing our portfolio
and creating mutually beneficial transactions for all involved. We
appreciate Western’s partnership over the years and look forward to
continuing to work with Enbridge.”
About Western Midstream PartnersWestern
Midstream Partners, LP (“WES”) is a Delaware master limited
partnership formed to acquire, own, develop, and operate midstream
assets. With midstream assets located in Texas, New Mexico,
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania, WES is engaged in the
business of gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and
transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing, and transporting
condensate, natural-gas liquids, and crude oil; and gathering and
disposing of produced water for its customers. In its capacity as a
natural-gas processor, WES also buys and sells natural gas,
natural-gas liquids, and condensate on behalf of itself and as an
agent for its customers under certain contracts. For more
information about Western Midstream Partners, LP, please visit
www.westernmidstream.com
About Enbridge Inc.At Enbridge, we safely
connect millions of people to the energy they rely on every day,
fueling quality of life through our North American natural gas, oil
or renewable power networks and our growing European offshore wind
portfolio. We're investing in modern energy delivery infrastructure
to sustain access to secure, affordable energy and building on two
decades of experience in renewable energy to advance new
technologies including wind and solar power, hydrogen, renewable
natural gas and carbon capture and storage. We're committed to
reducing the carbon footprint of the energy we deliver, and to
achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Headquartered
in Calgary, Alberta, Enbridge's common shares trade under
the symbol ENB on the Toronto (TSX) and New
York (NYSE) stock exchanges. To learn more, visit us
at enbridge.com
About PlainsPAA is a publicly traded master
limited partnership that owns and operates midstream energy
infrastructure and provides logistics services for crude oil and
natural gas liquids (NGL). PAA owns an extensive network of
pipeline gathering and transportation systems, in addition to
terminalling, storage, processing, fractionation and other
infrastructure assets serving key producing basins, transportation
corridors and major market hubs and export outlets in the United
States and Canada. On average, PAA handles more than 7 million
barrels per day of crude oil and NGL.
PAGP is a publicly traded entity that owns an indirect,
non-economic controlling general partner interest in PAA and an
indirect limited partner interest in PAA, one of the largest energy
infrastructure and logistics companies in North America.
PAA and PAGP are headquartered in Houston, Texas. More
information is available at www.plains.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE
CONTACT:
Enbridge Investment CommunityToll Free: (800)
481-2804investor.relations@enbridge.com
Enbridge MediaToll Free: (888)
992-0997media@enbridge.com
Western Investor RelationsDaniel
JenkinsDirector, Investor
RelationsDaniel.Jenkins@westernmidstream.com832.636.1009
Plains Investor RelationsMichael
GladsteinDirector, Investor
RelationsMrgladstein@paalp.com (866) 809-1291
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