Tallgrass Energy Partners Closes Offering of $400 Million of 5.50 Percent Senior Notes
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: TEP) (“TEP” or “Tallgrass Energy”)
announced today that it, along with Tallgrass Energy Finance Corp., a
subsidiary of TEP, closed an offering of $400 million in aggregate
principal amount of 5.50 percent senior unsecured notes due 2024. TEP
used the net proceeds of the offering to repay outstanding borrowings
under its existing senior secured revolving credit facility. “We are
pleased with the execution of our inaugural senior notes issuance,” said
Tallgrass Energy President and CEO David G. Dehaemers, Jr. “With this
issuance, TEP has achieved another important financing milestone which
will provide liquidity and flexibility as we continue to execute our
business plan.”
The securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities laws.
Unless so registered, the securities may not be offered or sold in the
United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction
not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and
applicable state securities laws. TEP offered and sold the securities
only to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the
Securities Act and to non-U.S. persons in transactions outside the
United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an
offer to buy the notes or any other securities and shall not constitute
an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a sale of, the
notes or any other securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale is unlawful.
About Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: TEP) is a publicly traded,
growth-oriented limited partnership formed to own, operate, acquire and
develop midstream energy assets in North America. TEP currently provides
crude oil transportation to customers in Wyoming, Colorado, and the
surrounding regions through Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline, LLC, which
owns the Pony Express System, a crude oil pipeline commencing in
Guernsey, Wyoming and terminating in Cushing, Oklahoma that includes a
lateral in Northeast Colorado that commences in Weld County, Colorado,
and interconnects with the pipeline just east of Sterling, Colorado. TEP
provides natural gas transportation and storage services for customers
in the Rocky Mountain, Midwest and Appalachian regions of the United
States through its 25 percent membership interest in Rockies Express
Pipeline LLC, a Delaware limited liability company which owns the
Rockies Express Pipeline, a FERC-regulated natural gas pipeline system
extending from Opal, Wyoming and Meeker, Colorado to Clarington, Ohio,
the Tallgrass Interstate Gas Transmission system, a FERC-regulated
natural gas transportation and storage system located in Colorado,
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming, and the Trailblazer Pipeline
system, a FERC-regulated natural gas pipeline system extending from the
Colorado and Wyoming border to Beatrice, Nebraska. TEP provides services
for customers in Wyoming at the Casper and Douglas natural gas
processing facilities and the West Frenchie Draw natural gas treating
facility, and NGL transportation services in Northeast Colorado. TEP
also performs water business services in Colorado and Texas through BNN
Water Solutions, LLC. TEP’s operations are strategically located in and
provide services to certain key United States hydrocarbon basins,
including the Denver-Julesburg, Powder River, Wind River, Permian and
Hugoton-Anadarko Basins and the Niobrara, Mississippi Lime, Eagle Ford,
Bakken, Marcellus and Utica shale formations.
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