HOUSTON – Enterprise Products Partners has officially announced that it has executed definitive agreements to purchase all of the member interests in EFS Midstream LLC (“EFS Midstream”) from affiliates of Pioneer Natural Resources Company (“Pioneer”) and Reliance Industries Limited (“Reliance”) for $2.15 billion. The purchase price will be paid in two installments with the first installment of $1.15 billion paid at closing and the final installment of $1.0 billion paid no later than the first anniversary of the closing date.
EFS Midstream provides 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. Under the terms of the agreements, the Pioneer and Reliance joint development will dedicate 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 will also dedicate 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.
“We are pleased to announce the acquisition of EFS Midstream,” said Michael A. Creel, chief executive officer of Enterprise’s general partner. “This purchase and the associated long-term, fee-based agreements expand our relationship with Pioneer and Reliance and broaden the midstream services that we provide to them. This ‘bolt on’ acquisition extends our integrated system deeper into the NGL and condensate rich areas of the Eagle Ford, which will provide us with the ability to offer services to additional producers and increase volumes on our system,” continued Creel.
“The minimum volume commitments support annual revenue growth and cash flow assurance. We expect the transaction to be immediately accretive to distributable cash flow. Attracting volumes from additional producers and incremental cash flows earned by our downstream system, would further improve our distributable cash flow accretion,” stated Creel.
Completion of this transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.