American Midstream to acquire assets from DCP
American Midstream Partners, LP has announced the execution of a purchase and sale agreement with an affiliate of DCP Midstream, LLC to acquire entities holding onshore natural gas processing and offshore natural gas gathering and transportation and oil gathering assets for consideration of approximately US$ 115 million.
The acquisition complements American Midstream’s High Point system located in Southeast Louisiana, and improves AMID’s ability to compete for increased shallow-water and deepwater production from new drilling in the prolific oil and gas eastern region of the Gulf of Mexico. The acquisition is expected to be funded through the private placement of American Midstream common units. The acquisition is expected to close in August 2014, subject to approval under Hart-Scott-Rodino and other customary closing conditions.
The assets to be acquired include the Mobile Bay gas processing plant, Dauphin Island gathering and transmission system, and DCP’s interest in the Main Pass Oil Gathering System, which collectively provide strong cash flow visibility with the majority of volumes generated by life-of-lease contracts from a growing, high quality customer base, including several super major producer customers. Asset details include:
- Mobile Bay is a 300 million ft3 cryogenic gas processing plant located in Mobile County, Alabama , and is currently operating at nearly 70% of available capacity.
- DIGP is a 270 mile FERC and non-FERC regulated gas gathering and transmission system that delivers gas to the Mobile Bay plant, and has a design capacity of approximately 1 billion ft3/d. Additional production from new and existing customers on DIGP is expected to add approximately 70 million ft3/d in processed volumes at Mobile Bay by the end of 2015 on an exit-rate basis.
- MPOG is an oil gathering system with a design capacity of 160 000 bpd. American Midstream will acquire DCP’s 67% interest in MPOG. MPOG is operated by Panther Midstream, the minority interest owner.
Total consideration for the assets equates to an Adjusted EBITDA multiple of approximately 8.5x for the next 12 months, which is expected to improve to an Adjusted EBITDA multiple of approximately 6.5x for full-year 2015 as a result of identified increases in throughput volume and cost savings.
“We are excited to acquire assets that complement and enhance our current offshore gas gathering and transmission business in the eastern Gulf of Mexico,” said Steve Bergstrom, Executive Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. “The acquisition is consistent with our growth strategy to pursue third-party and bolt-on opportunities, and upon closing the acquisition we will have the ability to offer oil gathering and natural gas processing services to offshore producers, which will allow us to more effectively compete for deepwater Gulf of Mexico production. Drilling and permitting activity in this region of the Gulf continues to increase after the end of the drilling moratorium, and we are well positioned to capture incremental volume. As a result of this accretive acquisition, management intends to recommend to the board of directors an increase to the quarterly distribution of three to five percent for the fourth quarter 2014 distribution.”
Adapted from press release by Hannah Priestley-Eaton
Read the article online at: https://www.worldpipelines.com/business-news/15072014/american_midstream_to_acquire_assets_from_dcp_midstream/
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