Enterprise Completes Acquisition of Eagle Ford Midstream Assets

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD) today announced it has closed on its purchase of the member interests in EFS Midstream LLC (“EFS Midstream”) from affiliates of Pioneer Natural Resources Company (“Pioneer”) and Reliance Holding USA Inc. (“Reliance”). The purchase price of $2.15 billion is being paid in two installments. The first installment of $1.15 billion was paid at closing today with the final payment of $1.0 billion to be made no later than the first anniversary of the closing date. The effective date of the transaction is July 1, 2015.

EFS Midstream provides natural gas gathering, treating, compression and condensate processing services in the Eagle Ford Shale. The EFS Midstream system includes approximately 460 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines, 10 central gathering plants, 780 million cubic feet per day of natural gas treating capacity and 119 thousand barrels per day of condensate stabilization capacity.

“We are pleased to close this acquisition,” said Michael A. Creel, chief executive officer of Enterprise’s general partner. “These assets ‘bolt on’ to our existing Eagle Ford crude oil, natural gas and NGL infrastructure network. We are looking forward to expanding our capabilities to provide Pioneer and Reliance as well as new customers with market flow assurance and market access. Supported by long-term, fixed-fee contracts and minimum volume commitments, this transaction will be immediately accretive to distributable cash flow per common unit and support future distribution growth.”

Under the terms of the agreements, the Pioneer and Reliance joint development dedicated its Eagle Ford Shale acreage to Enterprise under a 20-year, fixed-fee gathering agreement that includes a minimum volume requirement for the first seven years. Pioneer and Reliance also dedicated their Eagle Ford Shale acreage under related 20-year fee-based agreements with Enterprise for natural gas processing, natural gas liquids transportation and fractionation, and for natural gas, processed condensate and crude oil transportation services.

After closing the transaction today, Enterprise had consolidated liquidity of approximately $4.3 billion, which is comprised of unrestricted cash on hand and available borrowing capacity under its $3.5 billion multi-year revolving credit facility and $1.5 billion 364-day credit facility.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; offshore production platforms; petrochemical transportation and services; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems and in the Gulf of Mexico. The partnership’s assets include approximately 51,000 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines; 225 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

This press release includes “forward-looking statements” as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein that address activities, events, developments or transactions that Enterprise and its general partner expect, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations, including required approvals by regulatory agencies, the possibility that the anticipated benefits from such activities, events, developments or transactions cannot be fully realized, the possibility that costs or difficulties related thereto will be greater than expected, the impact of competition, and other risk factors included in Enterprise’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates. Except as required by law, Enterprise does not intend to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


Legal Notice