September 23, 2019 [Tank News International] – Energy Transfer has entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby Energy Transfer will acquire SemGroup Corporation for approximately $5 billion.

 
The transaction is expected to close in late 2019 or early 2020, subject to the approval by SemGroup’s stockholders and other customary regulatory approvals.
 
Energy Transfer’s acquisition of SemGroup will increase Energy Transfer’s scale across multiple regions and provide increased connectivity for Energy Transfer’s crude oil and NGL transportation businesses.
 
Energy Transfer will significantly strengthen its crude oil transportation, terminalling and export capabilities with the addition of the Houston Fuel Oil Terminal (HFOTCO), a world class crude oil terminal on the Houston Ship Channel with 18.2 million barrels of crude oil storage capacity, five deep-water ship docks and seven barge docks. HFOTCO is supported by stable take-or-pay cash flows from diverse, primarily investment grade customers.
 
To enhance this optionality, Energy Transfer is also announcing its plans to construct a new crude oil pipeline, the Ted Collins Pipeline, to connect HFOTCO to Energy Transfer’s Nederland Terminal.
 
This acquisition also expands Energy Transfer’s crude oil and NGL infrastructure by adding crude oil gathering assets in the DJ Basin in Colorado and the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as crude oil and natural gas liquids pipelines connecting the DJ Basin and Anadarko Basin with crude oil terminals in Cushing, Oklahoma.

These assets will greatly increase Energy Transfer’s crude oil and NGL transportation business in the Rockies and Mid-Continent and will complement Energy Transfer’s existing crude oil and NGL transportation business in the Permian Basin. Energy Transfer’s crude oil assets on the Gulf Coast will also benefit from the Maurepas Pipeline and its connections to the St. James refining complex. The acquisition will also provide a significant crude oil gathering and transportation presence in the Alberta Basin in western Canada.
 

Ted Collins Pipeline

Energy Transfer has also announced plans to construct an approximately 75-mile crude oil pipeline between the Houston Ship Channel and Nederland, Texas to provide a strategic connection between two of the largest crude oil terminals in the U.S., Energy Transfer’s Nederland terminal and the HFOTCO terminals.

The Ted Collins Pipeline, in conjunction with the combined companies’ oil transportation assets, will provide Energy Transfer’s customers with best-in-class access to the Houston, Beaumont/Port Arthur, and St. James markets. This will provide immediate access to over one million barrels per day of existing crude oil export capacity, with plans to expand to over two million barrels, at the Nederland and the HFOTCO terminals. The Ted Collins Pipeline is expected to have an initial capacity of more than 500 thousand barrels per day. Energy Transfer anticipates commercial operations to begin in 2021.

Energy Transfer’s vast network of pipelines, which handles over four million barrels per day, will also allow customers the flexibility to access its previously announced Very Large Crude Carrier, or VLCC, project planned from its Nederland terminal.

 
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