Energy Transfer and Sunoco Announce Strategic Permian Basin Crude Oil Joint Venture
16 July 2024 - 11:10PM
Business Wire
Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) (“Energy Transfer”) and Sunoco LP
(NYSE: SUN) (“Sunoco”) today announced the formation of a joint
venture combining their respective crude oil and produced water
gathering assets in the Permian Basin.
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Energy Transfer will serve as the operator of the joint venture
and contribute its Permian crude oil and produced water gathering
assets and operations. Sunoco will contribute all of its Permian
crude oil gathering assets and operations to the joint venture.
Energy Transfer’s long-haul crude pipeline network that provides
transportation of crude oil out of the Permian Basin to Nederland,
Houston, and Cushing is excluded from the joint venture.
As depicted in the included map, the joint venture will operate
more than 5,000 miles of crude oil and water gathering pipelines
with crude oil storage capacity in excess of 11 million
barrels.
Energy Transfer will hold a 67.5% interest in the joint venture
with Sunoco holding a 32.5% interest.
The formation of the joint venture has an effective date of July
1, 2024, and is expected to be immediately accretive to
distributable cash flow per LP unit for both Energy Transfer and
Sunoco.
Intrepid Partners, LLC served as financial advisor to Energy
Transfer’s conflicts committee, while Guggenheim Securities, LLC
served as financial advisor to Sunoco’s special committee. Potter
Anderson & Corroon LLP acted as Delaware counsel for Energy
Transfer’s conflicts committee, and Richards, Layton & Finger,
P.A. acted as Delaware counsel for Sunoco’s special committee.
Vinson & Elkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
also acted as legal counsel to the partnerships on the
transaction.
About Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) owns and operates one of the
largest and most diversified portfolios of energy assets in the
United States, with more than 130,000 miles of pipeline and
associated energy infrastructure. Energy Transfer’s strategic
network spans 44 states with assets in all of the major U.S.
production basins. Energy Transfer is a publicly traded limited
partnership with core operations that include complementary natural
gas midstream, intrastate and interstate transportation and storage
assets; crude oil, natural gas liquids (“NGL”) and refined product
transportation and terminalling assets; and NGL fractionation.
Energy Transfer also owns Lake Charles LNG Company, as well as the
general partner interests, the incentive distribution rights and
approximately 21% of the outstanding common units of Sunoco LP
(NYSE: SUN), and the general partner interests and approximately
39% of the outstanding common units of USA Compression Partners, LP
(NYSE: USAC). For more information, visit the Energy Transfer LP
website at www.energytransfer.com.
About Sunoco LP
Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) is a leading energy infrastructure and
fuel distribution master limited partnership operating in over 40
U.S. states, Puerto Rico, Europe, and Mexico. The Partnership’s
midstream operations include an extensive network of approximately
14,000 miles of pipeline and over 100 terminals. This critical
infrastructure complements the Partnership’s fuel distribution
operations, which serve approximately 7,400 Sunoco and partner
branded locations and additional independent dealers and commercial
customers. SUN's general partner is owned by Energy Transfer LP
(NYSE: ET).
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may include certain statements concerning
expectations for the future that are forward-looking statements as
defined by federal law. Such forward-looking statements are subject
to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other
factors that are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond
management’s control. An extensive list of factors that can affect
future results are discussed in Energy Transfer’s and Sunoco’s
Annual Reports on Forms 10-K and other documents filed from time to
time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Energy Transfer
and Sunoco undertake no obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statement to reflect new information or events.
The information contained in this press release is available on
Energy Transfer’s website at www.energytransfer.com and Sunoco’s
website at www.sunocolp.com.
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Energy Transfer Investors: Bill Baerg, Vice President –
Investor Relations Brent Ratliff, Vice President – Investor
Relations Lyndsay Hannah, Director – Investor Relations (214)
840-0795, InvestorRelations@energytransfer.com
Media: Vicki Granado – Vice President, Media &
Communications (214) 981-0761, vicki.granado@energytransfer.com
Sunoco LP Investors: Scott Grischow, Treasurer, Senior
Vice President – Finance (214) 840-5660,
scott.grischow@sunoco.com
Media: Chris Cho, Senior Manager – Communications (210)
918-3953, chris.cho@sunoco.com
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