Enterprise and TEPPCO Complete Merger; Announce Results of Exchange Offer for TEPPCO Notes
October 26 2009 - 11:55AM
Business Wire
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) and
TEPPCO Partners, L.P. (“TEPPCO”) today announced that the merger of
the two partnerships has been completed. The merger agreement was
previously approved by TEPPCO unitholders at a special meeting held
October 23, 2009 in Houston. With an enterprise value of
approximately $30 billion, 48,000 miles of pipelines and market
capitalization of $18 billion, Enterprise is now the nation’s
largest publicly traded partnership.
“This strategic combination opens up new avenues of growth for
Enterprise by diversifying our asset portfolio, strengthening our
presence in key geographic regions, and offering new service
options, which will give us the opportunity to extend our
successful integrated energy value chain business model,” said
Enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer Michael A. Creel.
“In addition to Enterprise’s well-established infrastructure that
serves producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids,
crude oil and petrochemicals, we now offer access to one of the
nation’s largest transportation and storage networks for refined
products and crude oil.”
With the completion of the merger TEPPCO has become a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Enterprise. The common units of
Enterprise will continue to be traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the ticker symbol EPD. TEPPCO’s units, which had
been trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TPP, will be
delisted and no longer publicly traded. Enterprise expects that the
combined administrative services agreement the two partnerships
have been operating under since 2005 will help facilitate a smooth
transition for customers and investors.
As previously announced, Enterprise is offering to exchange
TEPPCO senior and subordinated notes validly tendered for exchange,
and not validly withdrawn, prior to their expiration date for
Enterprise notes. Enterprise’s obligation to complete the exchange
offers and consent solicitations are conditioned upon, among other
things, completion of the proposed merger of TEPPCO with a wholly
owned subsidiary of Enterprise and receipt of valid consents
sufficient to effect all of the proposed amendments to the TEPPCO
indentures. The merger and related transactions were not
conditioned upon the commencement or completion of the exchange
offers or consent solicitations. As of 9 a.m. New York City time
today (the expiration date) approximately $1.95 billion of the $2
billion aggregate principal amount of TEPPCO notes had been
tendered for exchange. The following amounts of TEPPCO notes had
been tendered for exchange:
TEPPCO Notes CUSIP No.
Aggregate
Principal
Amount
Outstanding Principal
Amount Tenderedas of Early Consent
Date
Percentage of
Outstanding Principal Amount Tendered as of
Early Consent Date
7.625% Senior Notes due 2012 872384AA0 $500,000,000
$490,467,000 98.09% 6.125% Senior Notes due 2013 872384AB8
$200,000,000 $182,560,000 91.28% 5.90% Senior Notes due 2013
872384AD4 $250,000,000 $237,600,000 95.04% 6.65% Senior Notes due
2018 872384AE2 $350,000,000 $349,690,000 99.91% 7.55% Senior Notes
due 2038 872384AF9 $400,000,000 $399,575,000 99.89%
7.00% Junior
Fixed/FloatingSubordinated Notes due 2067
872384AC6 $300,000,000
$285,759,000
95.25% $2,000,000,000 $1,945,651,000 97.28%
The exchange is scheduled to be completed at the close of
business on October 27, 2009.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is the largest publicly traded
partnership and a leading North American provider of midstream
energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs,
crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. The partnership’s
assets include: more than 48,000 miles of onshore and offshore
pipelines; approximately 200 million barrels of storage capacity
for NGLs, refined products and crude oil; and 27 billion cubic feet
of natural gas storage capacity. Services include: natural gas
transportation, gathering, processing and storage; NGL
fractionation (or separation), transportation, storage, and import
and export terminaling; crude oil and refined products storage,
transportation and terminaling; offshore production platform;
petrochemical transportation and storage; and a marine
transportation business that operates primarily on the United
States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems and in the Gulf of
Mexico. For additional information visit www.epplp.com. Enterprise
Products Partners L.P. is managed by its general partner,
Enterprise Products GP LLC, which is wholly owned by Enterprise GP
Holdings L.P. (NYSE: EPE). For more information on Enterprise GP
Holdings L.P., visit www.enterprisegp.com.
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