THE WOODLANDS, Texas,
Jan. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit
Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) announced today that the board
of directors of its general partner, Summit Midstream GP, LLC, has
declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.575 per unit on all of its outstanding common
and subordinated units, or $2.30 per
unit on an annualized basis, for the quarter ended December 31, 2015. The distribution will be
paid on February 12, 2016 to
unitholders of record as of the close of business on February 5, 2016.
This quarterly distribution represents an increase of
$0.015 per unit, or 2.7%, over the
$0.56 per unit distribution paid for
the quarter ended December 31, 2014
and is flat to the $0.575 per unit
distribution paid for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. For fiscal year 2015,
SMLP paid $2.285 per unit which
represents an increase of 7.8% over fiscal year 2014.
This release is intended to be a qualified notice under Treasury
Regulation Section 1.1446-4(b). Brokers and nominees should treat
one hundred percent (100.0%) of SMLP's distributions to foreign
investors as being attributable to income that is effectively
connected with a United States
trade or business. Accordingly, SMLP's distributions to foreign
investors are subject to federal income tax withholding at the
highest applicable effective tax rate.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LP
SMLP is a
growth-oriented limited partnership focused on developing, owning
and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are
strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional
resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental
United States. SMLP currently
provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering
services pursuant to primarily long-term and fee-based gathering
and processing agreements with customers and counterparties in four
unconventional resource basins: (i) the Appalachian Basin, which
includes the Marcellus Shale formation in northern West Virginia; (ii) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and
Three Forks shale formations in northwestern North Dakota; (iii) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett
Shale formation in north-central Texas; and (iv) the Piceance Basin, which
includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in
western Colorado and eastern
Utah. SMLP owns and operates more
than 2,600 miles of pipeline and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas with regional corporate
offices in Denver, Colorado and
Atlanta, Georgia.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LLC
Summit Midstream
Partners, LLC ("Summit Investments") directly and indirectly owns a
44.0% limited partner interest in SMLP and indirectly owns and
controls the general partner of SMLP, Summit Midstream GP, LLC,
which has sole responsibility for conducting the business and
managing the operations of SMLP. Summit Investments owns, operates
and is developing various natural gas, crude oil and produced
water-related midstream energy infrastructure assets in the Utica
Shale in southeastern Ohio, the
Bakken Shale in northwestern North
Dakota, and the DJ Basin in northeastern Colorado. Summit Investments also owns a 40%
interest in a joint venture that is developing natural gas
gathering and condensate stabilization infrastructure in the Utica
Shale in southeastern Ohio. Summit
Investments is a privately held company controlled by Energy
Capital Partners II, LLC, and certain of its affiliates. An
affiliate of Energy Capital Partners II, LLC directly owns a 1.5%
limited partner interest in SMLP.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release
includes certain statements concerning expectations for the future
that are forward-looking within the meaning of the federal
securities laws. Forward-looking statements contain known and
unknown risks and uncertainties (many of which are difficult to
predict and beyond management's control) that may cause SMLP's
actual results in future periods to differ materially from
anticipated or projected results. An extensive list of
specific material risks and uncertainties affecting SMLP is
contained in its 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K as updated and
superseded by our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on September 11, 2015 and as amended and updated
from time to time. Any forward-looking statements in this press
release are made as of the date of this press release and SMLP
undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements to reflect new information or events.
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