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Energy Transfer LPCIK 0001276187 · Natural Gas Distribution
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About Energy Transfer LP
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed February 19, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Overview
Energy Transfer LP is a Delaware limited partnership with common units publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “ET.”
Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Partnership” and “Energy Transfer” mean Energy Transfer LP and its consolidated subsidiaries, which include SunocoCorp, Sunoco LP and USAC.
The primary activities in which we are engaged, which are located in the United States, are as follows:
•natural gas operations, including the following:
◦natural gas midstream and intrastate transportation and storage;
◦interstate natural gas transportation and storage; and
•crude oil, NGL and refined products transportation, terminalling services and acquisition and marketing activities, as well as NGL storage and fractionation services and LNG regasification.
In addition, we own investments in other businesses, including Sunoco LP and USAC, both of which are master limited partnerships, and we own the managing member of SunocoCorp, a publicly traded limited liability company.
Energy Transfer derives cash flows from distributions related to its investment in its subsidiaries, including Sunoco LP and USAC. The amount of cash that our subsidiaries distribute to us is based on earnings from their respective business activities and the amount of available cash. Energy Transfer’s primary cash requirements are for distributions to its partners, capital expenditures, general and administrative expenses and debt service requirements. Energy Transfer distributes its available cash remaining after satisfaction of the aforementioned cash requirements to its Unitholders on a quarterly basis.
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We expect our subsidiaries to utilize their resources, along with cash from their operations, to fund their announced growth capital expenditures and working capital needs; however, Energy Transfer may issue debt or equity securities from time to time as we deem prudent to provide liquidity for new capital projects of our subsidiaries or for other partnership purposes.
The following chart summarizes our organizational structure as of February 13, 2026. For simplicity, certain entities and ownership interests have not been depicted.
Segment Overview
See Note 16 to our consolidated financial statements included in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional financial information about our segments.
Intrastate Transportation and Storage Segment
Intrastate natural gas transportation pipelines receive natural gas from other mainline transportation pipelines, storage facilities and gathering systems, and deliver the natural gas to industrial end-users, storage facilities, utilities, power generators and other third-party pipelines. Through our intrastate transportation and storage segment, we own and operate (through wholly owned subsidiaries or through joint venture interests) approximately 12,200 miles of intrastate natural gas transportation pipelines with approximately 24 Bcf/d of transportation capacity, three natural gas storage facilities located in Texas and two natural gas storage facilities located in Oklahoma.
Energy Transfer operates one of the largest intrastate pipeline systems in the United States, which provides energy logistics to major trading hubs and industrial consumption areas throughout the country. In Texas, our intrastate transportation and storage segment provides transportation of natural gas to major markets from various prolific natural gas producing areas in Texas and Louisiana (Permian Basin and Barnett, Haynesville and Eagle Ford shales) through our Oasis Pipeline, Katy Pipeline, Lobo Pipeline, RIGS and Pelico Pipeline as well as our two natural gas pipeline and storage systems: ET Fuel and HPL. In Oklahoma, we operate Enable Oklahoma Intrastate Transmission, which delivers natural gas from various shale plays in the Anadarko and Arkoma basins, as further described in “Asset Overview.”
We also own a 70% interest in Red Bluff Express Pipeline, which owns a pipeline in the Delaware Basin, and 16% membership interests in Comanche Trail Pipeline and Trans-Pecos Pipeline, which own pipelines delivering natural gas from the Waha Hub to the United States/Mexico border.
Our intrastate transportation and storage segment’s results are determined primarily by the amount of capacity our customers reserve as well as the actual volume of natural gas that flows through the transportation pipelines. Under transportation contracts, our customers are charged (i) a demand fee, which is a fixed fee for the reservation of an agreed amount of capacity on the transportation pipeline for a specified period of time and which obligates the customer to pay a fee even if the customer does not transport natural gas on the respective pipeline, (ii) a transportation fee, which is based on the actual throughput of natural gas by the customer, (iii) fuel retention based on a percentage of gas transported on the pipeline or (iv) a combination of the three, generally payable monthly.
We also generate revenues and margin from the sale of natural gas to electric utilities, independent power plants, local distribution companies, industrial end-users and marketing companies. Generally, we purchase natural gas from either the market (including purchases from our marketing operations) or from producers at the wellhead. To the extent the natural gas comes from producers, it is primarily purchased at a discount to a specified market price and typically resold to customers based on an index price. In addition, our intrastate transportation and storage segment generates revenues from fees charged for storing customers’ working natural gas in our storage facilities and from managing natural gas for our own account.
Interstate Transportation and Storage Segment
Interstate natural gas transportation pipelines receive natural gas from supply sources including other transportation pipelines, storage facilities and gathering systems, and deliver the natural gas to industrial end-users and other pipelines. Through our interstate transportation and storage segment, we directly own and operate approximately 20,090 miles of interstate natural gas pipelines with approximately 20.1 Bcf/d of transportation capacity and another approximately 7,080 miles and 12.7 Bcf/d of transportation capacity through joint venture interests.
Our vast interstate natural gas network spans the United States from Florida to California and Texas to Michigan, offering a comprehensive array of pipeline and storage services. Our pipelines have the capability to transport natural gas from nearly all Lower 48 onshore and offshore supply basins to customers in the Gulf Coast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest and Northeast United States as well as Canada. Through numerous interconnections with other pipelines, our interstate systems can access virtually any supply or market in the country. As discussed further herein, our interstate transportation and storage segment’s operations are regulated by the FERC, which has broad regulatory authority over the business and operations of interstate natural gas pipelines.
Lake Charles LNG, our wholly owned subsidiary, owns an LNG import terminal and regasification facility located on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast near Lake Charles, Louisiana. The import terminal has approximately 9.0 Bcf of above ground storage capacity and the regasification facility has a send-out capacity of 1.8 Bcf/d. Lake Charles LNG derives all of its revenue from a series of long-term contracts with a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”).
Lake Charles LNG Export, our wholly owned subsidiary, was previously developing a natural gas liquefaction project at the site of our Lake Charles LNG import terminal and regasification facility. The project was expected to utilize existing dock and storage facilities owned by Lake Charles LNG located on the Lake Charles site.
From 2022 through 2025, Lake Charles LNG Export executed several LNG offtake agreements, which allowed either party to terminate the agreement if Lake Charles LNG Export did not satisfy specified conditions by a specified date. One of those conditions related to Lake Charles LNG Export making a “final investment decision” to proceed with the construction of the liquefaction project.
We were previously in discussions with several other parties for potential long-term LNG offtake and potential equity investments in the project. In December 2025, we announced the suspension of development of the Lake Charles LNG project in order to focus on allocating capital to our significant backlog of natural gas pipeline infrastructure projects that we believe provides superior risk/return profiles. Our management has determined that continued development of the project by Energy
Transfer is not warranted but we remain open to discussions with third parties who may have an interest in developing the project. In the event that a third party assumes the development of the project, it is unlikely that Energy Transfer would commit capital to the project; however, Energy Transfer would be interested in providing natural gas pipeline transportation capacity to a third party under a long term agreement to facilitate natural gas supply to the project.
As a result of Energy Transfer’s announcement, several LNG offtake agreements have been terminated based on the nonsatisfaction of the condition related to making a final investment decision by the date specified in the applicable LNG offtake agreement. Other LNG offtake agreements that have not been terminated could be assumed by a third party which continues the development of the project.
The results from our interstate transportation and storage segment are primarily derived from the fees we earn from natural gas transportation and storage services.
Midstream Segment
The midstream industry consists of natural gas gathering, compression, treating, dehydration and processing, and is generally characterized by regional competition based on the proximity of gathering systems and processing plants to natural gas producing wells and the proximity of storage facilities to production areas and end-use markets. Gathering systems generally consist of a network of small diameter pipelines and, if necessary, compression systems, that collect natural gas from points near producing wells and transports it to larger pipelines for further transportation.
Treating plants remove carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from natural gas that is higher in carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide or certain other contaminants, to ensure that it meets pipeline quality specifications. Natural gas processing involves the separation of natural gas into pipeline quality natural gas, or residue gas, and a mixed NGL stream. Some natural gas produced by a well does not meet the pipeline quality specifications established by downstream pipelines or is not suitable for commercial use and must be processed to remove the mixed NGL stream. In addition, some natural gas can be processed to take advantage of favorable margins for NGLs extracted from the gas stream.
Through our midstream segment, we own and operate (through wholly owned subsidiaries or joint venture interests) natural gas gathering pipelines, natural gas processing plants, natural gas treating facilities and natural gas conditioning facilities with an aggregate processing capacity of approximately 13.5 Bcf/d. Our midstream segment focuses on the gathering, compression, treating, blending and processing of natural gas, and our operations are currently concentrated in major producing basins and shales in Texas, New Mexico, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, North Dakota and Wyoming. Many of our midstream assets are integrated with our intrastate transportation and storage assets as well as our NGL assets.
Our midstream segment’s results are derived primarily from margins we earn from natural gas volumes that are gathered, transported, purchased and sold through our pipeline systems and the natural gas and NGL volumes processed at our processing and treating facilities.
NGL and Refined Products Transportation and Services Segment
Our NGL and refined products operations transport, store and execute acquisition and marketing activities utilizing a complementary network of pipelines, storage and blending facilities as well as strategic offtake locations that provide access to multiple markets.
Our NGL and refined products transportation and services segment includes:
•approximately 5,750 miles of NGL pipelines;
•our Nederland Terminal and connecting pipelines which provide transportation of ethane, propane, butane, natural gasoline and ethylene from our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex to our Nederland Terminal, where these products can be exported;
•our Marcus Hook Terminal which includes fractionation, storage and exporting assets. This facility is connected to our Mariner East Pipeline System, which provides for the transportation of ethane and liquefied petroleum gas (“LPG”) products from western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio to our Marcus Hook Terminal where these component products can be exported, processed or locally distributed;
•NGL fractionation facilities at our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex with an aggregate capacity of 1.15 MMBbls/d;
•NGL storage facilities at our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex with a working storage capacity of approximately 63 MMBbls; and
•other NGL storage assets with an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 37 MMBbls.
Our NGL pipelines primarily transport NGLs from the Permian Basin, the Barnett and Eagle Ford shales to Mont Belvieu, Texas. In the Northeast, our NGL pipelines transport from the Marcellus and Utica shales to our Marcus Hook Terminal, to customer facilities in Marysville, Michigan and to delivery points on the Canadian border.
In addition to providing storage capacity, our NGL terminalling services also support our liquids blending activities, including the use of our patented butane blending technology. Refined products operations provide transportation and terminalling services through the use of approximately 3,760 miles of refined products pipelines and 35 active refined products marketing terminals. Our refined product marketing terminals are located primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and Southwest United States, with approximately 8 MMBbls of refined products storage capacity. Our refined products operations utilize our integrated pipeline and terminalling assets, as well as acquisition and marketing activities, to service refined products markets in several regions throughout the United States. The mix of products delivered through our refined products pipelines varies seasonally, with gasoline demand peaking during the summer months, and demand for heating oil and other distillate fuels peaking in the winter. The products transported in these pipelines include multiple grades of gasoline and middle distillates, such as heating oil, diesel and jet fuel. Rates for shipments on these product pipelines are regulated by the FERC and other state regulatory agencies, as applicable.
Revenues in this segment are principally generated from fees charged to customers under dedicated contracts or take-or-pay contracts. Under a dedicated contract, the customer agrees to deliver the total output from particular processing plants that are connected to the NGL pipeline. Take-or-pay contracts have minimum throughput commitments requiring the customer to pay regardless of whether a fixed volume is transported. Fees are market-based, negotiated with customers and competitive with regional regulated pipelines and fractionators. Storage revenues are derived from base storage and throughput fees. This segment also derives revenues from fee-based export activities, the marketing of NGLs as well as processing and fractionating refinery off-gas.
Crude Oil Transportation and Services Segment
Our crude oil operations provide transportation (via pipeline and trucking), terminalling as well as acquisition and marketing services to crude oil markets throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Northeast United States. Through our crude oil transportation and services segment, we own and operate (through wholly owned subsidiaries or joint venture interests) more than 18,000 miles of crude oil trunk and gathering pipelines in the Southwest, Midcontinent and Midwest United States. This segment includes equity ownership interests in seven crude oil pipeline systems: the Bakken Pipeline, Bayou Bridge Pipeline, White Cliffs Pipeline, Maurepas Pipeline, the Permian Express pipelines, Enable South Central Pipeline and the Wink to Webster Pipeline. Our crude oil terminalling services operate with an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 73 MMBbls, including over 30 MMBbls at our Gulf Coast terminal in Nederland, Texas, approximately 18.2 MMBbls at our Gulf Coast terminal on the Houston Ship Channel and approximately 9.5 MMBbls at our Cushing Terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma, among others. Our crude oil acquisition and marketing activities utilize our pipeline and terminal assets, our proprietary fleet of crude oil tractor trailers and truck unloading facilities, as well as third-party assets to service crude oil markets principally in the Midcontinent United States.
This segment also includes the ET-S Permian joint venture, which owns more than 5,000 miles of crude oil and water gathering pipelines with crude oil storage capacity in excess of 11 MMBbls. Energy Transfer holds a 67.5% interest in the joint venture, with Sunoco LP holding the remaining 32.5%.
Revenues throughout our crude oil pipeline systems are generated from tariffs paid by shippers utilizing our transportation services. These tariffs are filed with the FERC and other state regulatory agencies, as applicable.
Our crude oil acquisition and marketing activities include the gathering, purchasing, marketing and selling of crude oil. Specifically, the crude oil acquisition and marketing activities include:
•purchasing crude oil at both the wellhead from producers and in bulk from aggregators at major pipeline interconnections and trading locations;
•storing inventory during contango market conditions (when the price of crude oil for future delivery is higher than current prices);
•buying and selling crude oil of different grades at different locations in order to maximize value;
•transporting crude oil using our pipelines, terminals and trucks or, when necessary or cost effective, pipelines, terminals or trucks owned and operated by third parties; and
•marketing crude oil to major integrated oil companies, independent refiners and resellers through various types of sale and exchange transactions.
Investment in Sunoco LP
Sunoco LP is primarily engaged in energy infrastructure and distribution of motor fuels across 32 countries and territories in North America, the Greater Caribbean and Europe. Sunoco LP’s midstream operations include an extensive network of over 14,000 miles of pipeline and over 160 terminals. Sunoco LP’s fuel distribution operations distribute over 15 billion gallons annually to approximately 11,000 Sunoco and partner branded locations, as well as independent dealers and commercial customers.
On October 31, 2025, Sunoco LP acquired Parkland, a leading international fuel distributor, marketer and convenience retailer with operations in 26 countries across the Americas. Parkland’s functional currency is the Canadian dollar, and its consolidated structure includes subsidiaries with multiple other functional currencies.
Sunoco LP’s fuel distribution business distributes motor fuels and other petroleum products which we supply to third-party dealers and distributors, to independent operators of commission agent locations, other commercial consumers of motor fuel and to its retail locations. Sunoco LP is the exclusive wholesale supplier of the Sunoco and EcoMaxx-branded motor fuels, supplying an extensive distribution network of company and third-party operated locations throughout North America, Europe and the Greater Caribbean. In addition to distributing motor fuels, Sunoco LP also distributes other petroleum products, such as propane and lubricating oil, and receives lease income from real estate that it leases or subleases.
Sunoco LP’s pipeline systems business includes an integrated pipeline and terminal network comprised of refined product pipeline, crude oil pipeline, ammonia pipeline and related terminals.
Through its terminals business, Sunoco LP operates transmix processing facilities and terminals. Transmix is the mixture of various off-specification refined products created in the supply chain (primarily in pipelines and terminals) when various products interface with each other. Transmix processing plants separate this mixture and return it to merchantable products of gasoline and distillates. Sunoco LP’s terminals provide storage and distribution services to support its fuel distribution business and other third-party customers.
Subsequent to the Parkland Acquisition in 2025, Sunoco LP also owns the Burnaby Refinery and a 29% interest in SARA, which is a refinery based in Martinique with operations to sell refined crude oil in Guadeloupe, French Guiana and Martinique.
Investment in USAC
USAC focuses its compression services in unconventional resource plays throughout the United States, including the Utica, Marcellus, Permian, Denver-Julesburg, Eagle Ford, Mississippi Lime, Granite Wash, Woodford, Barnett and Haynesville. USAC provides compression services to its customers primarily in connection with infrastructure applications, including both allowing for the processing and transportation of natural gas through the domestic pipeline system and enhancing crude oil production through artificial lift processes. As such, USAC’s compression services play a critical role in the production, processing and transportation of both natural gas and crude oil. As of December 31, 2025, USAC had 3.9 million horsepower in its fleet.
USAC operates a fleet of compression units, with an average age of approximately 13 years and a useful life that could potentially extend decades when properly maintained. USAC’s standard new-build compression units are generally configured for multiple compression stages allowing USAC to operate its units across a broad range of operating conditions. As part of USAC’s services, it engineers, designs, operates, services and repairs its compression units and maintains related support inventory and equipment.
USAC provides compression services to its customers under fixed-fee contracts with initial contract terms typically between six months to five years, depending on the application and location of the compression unit. USAC typically continues to provide compression services at a specific location beyond the initial contract term, either through contract renewal or on a month-to-month or longer basis. USAC primarily enters into fixed-fee contracts whereby its customers are required to pay a monthly fee even during periods of limited or disrupted throughput, which enhances the stability and predictability of its cash flows. USAC bills most of its customers in advance of the service date and also typically utilizes annual inflation adjustments in its term contracts. USAC is not directly exposed to commodity price risk because it does not take title to the natural gas or crude oil involved in its services and because the natural gas used as fuel by its compression units is supplied by its customers without cost to USAC.
USAC’s assets and operations are all located and conducted in the United States.
All Other Segment
Our “All Other” segment includes:
•our gas marketing activities, which optimize basis pricing differentials by purchasing and transporting natural gas, primarily on company owned pipelines, and selling that gas primarily to industrial end-users or to other marketers;
•our commodity marketing company, which focuses primarily on wholesale power trading activities;
•our natural gas compression equipment business, which has operations in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas;
•our wholly owned subsidiary, Dual Drive Technologies, Ltd., which provides compression services to customers engaged in the transportation of natural gas, including our other segments; and
•subsidiaries involved in the management of coal and natural resources properties and the related collection of royalties. We also earn revenues from other land management activities, such as selling standing timber, leasing coal-related infrastructure facilities, and collecting oil and gas royalties. These operations also include end-user coal handling facilities.
Asset Overview
The following descriptions include summaries of significant assets within the Partnership’s reportable segments. Amounts, such as capacities, volumes and miles included in the following descriptions are approximate and are based on information currently available; such amounts are subject to change based on future events or additional information.
The map below depicts the major assets of our core businesses, excluding the assets of Sunoco LP, USAC and the businesses in our all other segment. The map below and the maps included within the segment asset descriptions include certain non-wholly owned joint ventures and exclude corporate and field offices and certain assets that are less significant to the Partnership on a consolidated basis.
Intrastate Transportation and Storage
The following details our pipelines and storage facilities in the intrastate transportation and storage segment:
Description of Assets Ownership Interest Miles of Natural Gas Pipeline Pipeline Throughput Capacity
(Bcf/d) Working Storage Capacity
(Bcf)
ET Fuel System (1)
100 % 3,270 5.2 11.2
Oasis Pipeline (1)
100 % 750 2.0 —
Houston Pipeline (“HPL”) System 100 % 3,920 5.3 52.5
Katy Pipeline 100 % 460 2.9 —
Regency Intrastate Gas System (“RIGS”) 100 % 450 2.1 —
Enable Oklahoma Intrastate Transmission (“EOIT”) (1)
100 % 2,200 2.4 24.0
Comanche Trail Pipeline 16 % 195 1.1 —
Trans-Pecos Pipeline 16 % 140 1.4 —
Red Bluff Express Pipeline 70 % 120 2.0 —
(1)Includes bi-directional capabilities
The following information describes our principal intrastate transportation and storage assets:
•The ET Fuel System serves some of the most prolific production areas in the United States and is comprised of intrastate natural gas pipelines and related natural gas storage facilities. The ET Fuel System has bi-directional capabilities and has many interconnections with pipelines providing direct access to power plants and other intrastate and interstate pipelines. It is strategically located near high-growth production areas and provides access to the three major natural gas trading centers in Texas: the Waha Hub near Pecos, Texas, the Maypearl Hub in Central Texas and the Carthage Hub in East Texas.
The ET Fuel System also includes our Bethel natural gas storage facility, with a working capacity of 6.0 Bcf, an average withdrawal capacity of 300 MMcf/d and an injection capacity of 75 MMcf/d, and our Bryson natural gas storage facility, with a working capacity of 5.2 Bcf, an average withdrawal capacity of 120 MMcf/d and an average injection capacity of 96 MMcf/d.
In addition, the ET Fuel System is integrated with our Godley processing plant which gives us the ability to bypass the plant when processing margins are unfavorable by blending the untreated natural gas from our gas gathering system known as the North Texas System with natural gas on the ET Fuel System while continuing to meet pipeline quality specifications.
•The Oasis Pipeline is primarily a 36-inch natural gas pipeline. It has bi-directional capabilities with approximately 1.3 Bcf/d of throughput capacity moving west-to-east and greater than 750 MMcf/d of throughput capacity moving east-to-west. The Oasis Pipeline connects to the Waha and Katy market hubs and has many interconnections with other pipelines, power plants, processing facilities, municipalities and producers.
The Oasis Pipeline is integrated with our gathering system known as the Southeast Texas System and is an important component to maximizing our Southeast Texas System’s profitability. The Oasis Pipeline enhances the Southeast Texas System by (i) providing access for natural gas gathered on the Southeast Texas System to third-party supply and market points and interconnecting pipelines and (ii) allowing us to bypass our processing plants and treating facilities on the Southeast Texas System when processing margins are unfavorable by blending untreated natural gas from the Southeast Texas System with gas on the Oasis pipeline while continuing to meet pipeline quality specifications.
•The HPL System is an extensive network of intrastate natural gas pipelines, the underground Bammel storage reservoir and related transportation assets. The system has access to multiple sources of historically significant natural gas supply reserves from South Texas, the Gulf Coast of Texas, East Texas and the western Gulf of America, and is directly connected to major gas distribution, electric and industrial load centers in Houston, Corpus Christi, Texas City, Beaumont and other cities located along the Gulf Coast of Texas. The HPL System is well situated to gather and transport gas in many of the major gas producing areas in Texas including a strong presence in the key Houston Ship Channel and Katy Hub markets, allowing us to play an important role in the Texas natural gas markets. The HPL System also offers its shippers off-system opportunities due to its numerous interconnections with other pipeline systems, its direct access to multiple market hubs at Katy, the Houston Ship Channel, Carthage and Agua Dulce as well as our Bammel storage facility.
The Bammel storage facility has a total working gas capacity of approximately 52.5 Bcf, a peak withdrawal rate of 1.3 Bcf/d and a peak injection rate of 0.6 Bcf/d. The Bammel storage facility is located near the Houston Ship Channel market area and the Katy Hub, and is ideally suited to provide a physical backup for on-system and off-system customers. As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 11.8 Bcf committed under fee-based arrangements with third parties and approximately 40.3 Bcf stored in the facility for our own account.
•The Katy Pipeline connects three treating facilities, one of which we own, with our gathering system known as Southeast Texas System. The Katy Pipeline serves producers in East and North Central Texas and provides access to the Katy Hub. The Katy Pipeline expansions include the 36-inch East Texas extension to connect our Reed compressor station in Freestone County to our Grimes County compressor station, the 36-inch Katy expansion connecting Grimes to the Katy Hub and the 42-inch Southeast Bossier pipeline connecting our Cleburne to Carthage pipeline to the HPL System.
•RIGS is a 450-mile intrastate pipeline that delivers natural gas from northwest Louisiana to downstream pipelines and markets.
•EOIT is a 2,200-mile pipeline system that provides natural gas transportation and storage services to customers in Oklahoma. EOIT is a web-like configuration with multidirectional flow capabilities between numerous receipt points and delivery points. EOIT delivers natural gas from the Anadarko and Arkoma basins, including the SCOOP, STACK, Cana Woodford, Granite Wash, Cleveland, Tonkawa and Mississippi Lime Shale plays in western Oklahoma to utilities and industrial end-users connected to EOIT and to interstate and intrastate pipelines interconnected with EOIT. EOIT also has two underground natural gas storage facilities in Oklahoma, which operate at a combined capacity of 24 Bcf with a peak withdrawal rate of 0.60 Bcf/d.
•Comanche Trail Pipeline is a 195-mile intrastate pipeline that delivers natural gas from the Waha Hub near Pecos, Texas to the United States/Mexico border near San Elizario, Texas. The Partnership owns a 16% membership interest in and operates Comanche Trail Pipeline.
•Trans-Pecos Pipeline is a 143-mile intrastate pipeline that delivers natural gas from the Waha Hub near Pecos, Texas to the United States/Mexico border near Presidio, Texas. The Partnership owns a 16% membership interest in and operates Trans-Pecos Pipeline.
•The Red Bluff Express Pipeline is an approximately 120-mile intrastate pipeline that runs through the heart of the Delaware Basin and connects certain of our plants as well as third-party plants to the Waha Oasis Header. The Partnership owns a 70% membership interest in and operates Red Bluff Express Pipeline.
•Other intrastate natural gas pipelines include our 630-mile Pelico Pipeline in northern Louisiana and our 167-mile Lobo Pipeline in South Texas.
Interstate Transportation and Storage
The following details our pipelines in the interstate transportation and storage segment:
Description of Assets Ownership Interest Miles of Natural Gas Pipeline Pipeline Throughput Capacity
(Bcf/d) Working Storage Capacity
(Bcf)
Florida Gas Transmission (“FGT”) 50 % 5,375 4.4 —
Transwestern Pipeline 100 % 2,590 2.1 —
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line (1)
100 % 6,300 2.8 57.0
Trunkline 100 % 2,190 0.9 13.0
Tiger 100 % 200 2.4 —
Fayetteville Express Pipeline 50 % 185 2.0 —
Sea Robin Pipeline 100 % 765 2.0 —
Stingray Pipeline 100 % 335 0.4 —
Rover Pipeline 32.6 % 720 3.4 —
Midcontinent Express Pipeline 50 % 510 1.8 —
Enable Gas Transmission (“EGT”) 100 % 5,700 4.8 29.3
Mississippi River Transmission (“MRT”) 100 % 1,675 1.7 48.9
Southeast Supply Header (“SESH”) 50 % 290 1.1 —
Gulf Run Pipeline 100 % 335 3.0 —
(1)Storage capacity figure includes storage leased by affiliate Southwest Gas Storage and third-party leased storage.
The following information describes our principal interstate transportation and storage assets:
•FGT extends from South Texas through the Gulf Coast region of the United States to South Florida. FGT is the principal transporter of natural gas to the Florida energy market, delivering approximately 60% of the natural gas consumed in the state. In addition, FGT’s numerous intrastate and interstate pipeline interconnections with major interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines provide access to diverse natural gas supply sources. FGT’s customers include electric utilities, independent power producers, industrial end-users and local distribution companies. FGT is owned by Citrus, a 50/50 joint venture with Kinder Morgan, Inc.
•Transwestern Pipeline transports natural gas supply from the Permian Basin, the San Juan Basin and the Anadarko Basin. The system has bi-directional capabilities and can access Texas and Midcontinent natural gas market hubs as well as major western markets in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California. Transwestern’s customers include local distribution companies, producers, marketers, electric power generators and industrial end-users. An expansion of the Transwestern Pipeline, including upsizing pipeline diameter to increase capacity, is expected to be in-service by the end of 2029.
•Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line’s transmission system consists of four large diameter mainline pipelines with bi-directional capabilities, extending approximately 1,300 miles from producing areas in the Anadarko Basin of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and into Michigan. Panhandle contracts for approximately 56 Bcf of natural gas storage.
•Trunkline’s transmission system consists of one large diameter mainline pipeline with bi-directional capabilities, extending approximately 1,400 miles from the Gulf Coast areas of Texas and Louisiana through Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Trunkline has one natural gas storage field located in Louisiana.
•Tiger is a bi-directional system that extends through the heart of the Haynesville Shale and ends near Delhi, Louisiana, interconnecting with multiple interstate pipelines.
•Fayetteville Express Pipeline originates near Conway County, Arkansas and continues eastward to Panola County, Mississippi with multiple pipeline interconnections along the route. Fayetteville Express Pipeline is owned by a 50/50 joint venture with Kinder Morgan, Inc.
•Sea Robin Pipeline’s system consists of two offshore Louisiana natural gas supply pipelines extending 120 miles into the Gulf of America.
•Stingray Pipeline is an interstate natural gas pipeline system with assets located in the western Gulf of America and Johnson Bayou, Louisiana.
•Rover Pipeline is a large diameter pipeline which transports natural gas from processing plants in West Virginia, eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania for delivery to other pipeline interconnects in Ohio and Michigan, where the gas is delivered for distribution to markets across the United States and to Ontario, Canada.
•Midcontinent Express Pipeline originates near Bennington, Oklahoma and traverses northern Louisiana and central Mississippi to an interconnect with the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline system in Butler, Alabama. The Midcontinent Express Pipeline is owned by a 50/50 joint venture with Kinder Morgan, Inc., the operator of the system.
•EGT provides natural gas transportation and storage services to customers in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Kansas. EGT has two underground storage facilities in Oklahoma and one underground natural gas storage facility in Louisiana. Through numerous pipeline interconnections along the system and at the Perryville Hub, EGT customers have access to Midwest and Northeast markets as well as most of the major natural gas consuming markets east of the Mississippi River.
•MRT provides natural gas transportation and storage services in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Illinois. MRT has underground natural gas storage facilities in Louisiana and Illinois. MRT receives natural gas from a variety of interstate and intrastate pipelines through its interconnections and delivers natural gas primarily to the St. Louis market.
•SESH, a 50/50 joint venture with Enbridge Inc., provides transportation services in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. SESH transports natural gas from the Perryville Hub in Louisiana to its endpoint in Mobile County, Alabama. SESH has interconnections with third-party natural gas pipelines and provides access to major Southeast and Northeast markets and transports directly to generating facilities in Mississippi and Alabama and to interconnecting pipelines that supply companies generating electricity for the Florida power market.
•Gulf Run Pipeline is a large diameter pipeline that runs from the heart of the Haynesville Shale in East Texas and northern Louisiana to the Carthage and Perryville natural gas hubs and other key markets along the Gulf Coast.
Regasification Facility
Lake Charles LNG, our wholly owned subsidiary, owns an LNG import terminal and regasification facility located on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast near Lake Charles, Louisiana. The import terminal has approximately 9.0 Bcf of above ground LNG storage capacity and the regasification facility has a send out capacity of 1.8 Bcf/d. Lake Charles LNG derives all of its revenue from a series of long-term contracts with Shell.
Liquefaction Project
Lake Charles LNG Export, our wholly owned subsidiary, was previously developing a natural gas liquefaction project at the site of our Lake Charles LNG import terminal and regasification facility. The project was expected to utilize existing dock and storage facilities owned by Lake Charles LNG located on the Lake Charles site.
From 2022 through 2025, Lake Charles LNG Export executed several LNG offtake agreements, which allowed either party to terminate the agreement if Lake Charles LNG Export did not satisfy specified conditions by a specified date. One of those conditions related to Lake Charles LNG Export making a “final investment decision” to proceed with the construction of the liquefaction project.
We were previously in discussions with several other parties for potential long-term LNG offtake and potential equity investments in the project. In December 2025, we announced the suspension of development of the Lake Charles LNG project in order to focus on allocating capital to our significant backlog of natural gas pipeline infrastructure projects that we believe provides superior risk/return profiles. Our management has determined that continued development of the project by Energy Transfer is not warranted but we remain open to discussions with third parties who may have an interest in developing the project. In the event that a third party assumes the development of the project, it is unlikely that Energy Transfer would commit capital to the project; however, Energy Transfer would be interested in providing natural gas pipeline transportation capacity to a third party under a long term agreement to facilitate natural gas supply to the project.
As a result of Energy Transfer’s announcement, several LNG offtake agreements have been terminated based on the nonsatisfaction of the condition related to making a final investment decision by the date specified in the applicable LNG offtake agreement. Other LNG offtake agreements that have not been terminated could be assumed by a third party which continues the development of the project.
Midstream
The following details our assets in the midstream segment:
Description of Assets Net Gas Processing Capacity
(MMcf/d)
South Texas 2,530
Ark-La-Tex 922
North Central Texas 700
Permian Basin 5,495
Midcontinent 2,865
Williston Basin 400
Powder River Basin 345
Eastern 200
The following information describes our principal midstream assets:
South Texas:
•Our South Texas assets, which include the Southeast Texas System and the Eagle Ford System, are an integrated system that gathers, compresses, treats, processes, dehydrates and transports natural gas from the Austin Chalk trend and the Eagle Ford Shale.
The assets in our Southeast Texas System include a large natural gas gathering system that covers thirteen counties between Austin and Houston, Texas and connects to the Katy Hub through the Katy Pipeline and is also connected to the
Oasis Pipeline. This system also includes three natural gas processing plants (La Grange, Alamo and Brookeland) with an aggregate capacity of 510 MMcf/d. These plants process the rich gas that flows through our gathering system to produce residue gas and NGLs. Residue gas is delivered into our intrastate pipelines and NGLs are delivered into our NGL pipelines.
Our treating facilities remove carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from natural gas gathered into our system before the natural gas is introduced to transportation pipelines to ensure that the gas meets pipeline quality specifications.
The assets in our Eagle Ford System consist of 30-inch and 42-inch natural gas gathering pipelines originating in Dimmitt County, Texas, and extending to both our King Ranch gas plant in Kleberg County, Texas and Jackson plant in Jackson County, Texas. These assets also include four processing plants (Chisholm, Kenedy, Jackson and King Ranch) with an aggregate capacity of 2.0 Bcf/d. Our Chisholm, Kenedy, Jackson and King Ranch processing plants are connected to our intrastate transportation pipeline systems for deliveries of residue gas and are also connected with our NGL pipelines.
Ark-La-Tex:
•Our Ark-La-Tex assets are comprised of several gathering systems in the Haynesville Shale with access to multiple markets through interconnects with several pipelines, including our Tiger and Gulf Run pipelines. Our northern Louisiana assets include the Bistineau, Creedence, Tristate, Logansport, Magnolia, Olympia, Amoruso, and Lumberjack systems, which collectively include 13 natural gas treating facilities, with aggregate capacity of 3.5 Bcf/d.
The Ark-La-Tex assets gather, compress, treat and dehydrate natural gas in several parishes in northwest Louisiana and several counties in East Texas. These assets also include cryogenic natural gas processing facilities, a refrigeration plant, a conditioning plant, amine treating plants, a residue gas pipeline that provides market access for natural gas from our processing plants, including connections with pipelines that provide access to the Perryville Hub and other markets in the Gulf Coast region, and an NGL pipeline that connects to a third-party that provides access to the Mont Belvieu market for NGLs produced from our processing plants. Collectively, the six natural gas processing facilities (Dubach, Lincoln, Rosewood, Mt. Olive, Sligo and Waskom) have an aggregate capacity of 0.9 Bcf/d.
Through the gathering and processing systems described above and their interconnections with our intrastate transportation pipelines, we offer producers wellhead-to-market services, including natural gas gathering, compression, processing, treating and transportation.
North Central Texas:
•The North Central Texas System is an integrated system located in North Central Texas and extends into southern Oklahoma which gathers, compresses, treats, processes and transports natural gas from the Barnett and Woodford shales. Our North Central Texas assets include our Godley plant, which processes rich gas produced from the Barnett Shale and STACK and SCOOP plays, with an aggregate capacity of 700 MMcf/d. The Godley plant is integrated with the ET Fuel System.
Permian Basin:
•The Permian Basin Gathering System offers wellhead-to-market services to producers in 11 counties in West Texas and two counties in New Mexico which surround the Waha Hub, one of Texas’s developing NGL-rich natural gas market areas. As a result of the proximity of our system to the Waha Hub, the Waha Gathering System has a variety of market outlets for the natural gas that we gather and process, including several major interstate and intrastate pipelines serving California, the Midcontinent and Texas natural gas markets. The NGL market outlets includes our NGL pipeline system. The Permian Basin Gathering System includes 22 processing facilities (Waha, Red Bluff, Halley, Keystone, Tippet, Panther, Rebel, Grey Wolf, Bear, Arrowhead, Carlsbad, Orla I, Orla II, Martin County, Red Lake, Lenorah, Sale Ranch, Benedum, Sonora, St. Lawrence, Jameson and Badger) with an aggregate processing capacity of 5.5 Bcf/d and one natural gas conditioning facility with an aggregate capacity of 200 MMcf/d.
•In addition, we own a 50% membership interest in Mi Vida JV LLC, a joint venture which owns a 200 MMcf/d cryogenic processing plant in West Texas. We operate the plant and related facilities on behalf of the joint venture. We also own a 50% equity interest in Crestwood Permian Basin LLC, a joint venture which owns the Nautilus natural gas gathering system in West Texas. We operate the gathering system on behalf of the joint venture.
Midcontinent:
•The Midcontinent Systems are located in three large natural gas producing regions in the United States: the Hugoton Basin in southwest Kansas, the Anadarko Basin in the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma, including the STACK and SCOOP plays, and the Arkoma Basin in eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas. These mature basins have continued to provide generally long-lived, predictable production volumes. Our Midcontinent assets are extensive systems that gather, compress and dehydrate
low-pressure gas. The Midcontinent Systems include 16 natural gas processing facilities (Mocane, Beaver, Wheeler I, Sunray, Spearman, Rose Valley, Hopeton, Bradley, McClure, Wheeler II, South Canadian, Clinton, Roger Mills, Canute, Cox City and Grady) with an aggregate capacity of approximately 2.9 Bcf/d.
•We operate our Midcontinent Systems primarily at low pressures to maximize the total throughput volumes from the connected wells. Wellhead pressures are therefore adequate to allow for flow of natural gas into the gathering lines without the cost of wellhead compression.
•We own the Hugoton Gathering System that has 1,900 miles of pipeline extending across parts of southwest Kansas and northwest Oklahoma. This system is operated by a third-party.
•We own a 50% membership interest in Atoka Midstream LLC, which owns a natural gas gathering system in Oklahoma.
Williston Basin:
•We own and operate the Arrow and Rough Rider systems which include natural gas gathering systems and processing facilities (Bear Den and Wild Basin). These processing facilities have an aggregate capacity of 400 MMcf/d. The Arrow and Rough Rider systems are in the core of the Bakken Shale primarily in McKenzie and Dunn Counties, North Dakota, with the Arrow system primarily located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
Powder River Basin:
•We own and operate the Jackalope rich natural gas gathering system, the Continental Express high-pressure pipeline and the Bucking Horse gas processing facility in Converse County, Wyoming. The Bucking Horse gas processing facility has an aggregate processing capacity of 345 MMcf/d.
Eastern:
•The Eastern region assets are located in eleven counties in Pennsylvania, four counties in Ohio and three counties in West Virginia, which gather natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales. Our Eastern region assets include more than 600 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines, natural gas trunklines and fresh-water pipelines, nine gathering and processing systems and the 200 MMcf/d Revolution processing plant, which feeds into our Mariner East and Rover pipeline systems.
•We own a 75% membership interest in ORS. On behalf of ORS, we operate its Ohio Utica River System, which consists of 47 miles of 36-inch, 13 miles of 30-inch and 3 miles of 24-inch gathering trunklines, and which delivers up to 3.6 Bcf/d to Rockies Express Pipeline, Texas Eastern Transmission, Leach Xpress, Rover and DEO TPL-18.
NGL and Refined Products Transportation and Services
The following details the assets in our NGL and refined products transportation and services segment:
Description of Assets Miles of Liquids Pipeline NGL Fractionation / Processing Capacity
(MBbls/d) Working Storage Capacity
(MBbls)
Liquids Pipelines:
Gulf Coast NGL Express 900 — —
West Texas Gateway 510 — —
Other Permian Basin NGL 1,600 — —
Mariner East 680 — —
Mariner West 450 — —
Mont Belvieu to Nederland 320 — —
White Cliffs(1)
540 — —
Other NGL 750 — —
Liquids Fractionation and Storage Facilities:
Mont Belvieu NGL Complex — 1,150 63,000
Spindletop — — 8,000
Crestwood assets — — 12,000
ET Geismar Olefins(2)
— 35 —
Hattiesburg — — 5,200
Cedar Bayou — — 1,600
NGL Terminals:
Nederland — — 3,100
Marcus Hook — — 6,000
Inkster — — 860
Refined Products Pipelines:
Eastern region 1,580 — —
Midcontinent region 480 — —
Southwest region 590 — —
Inland 610 — —
J.C. Nolan Pipeline 500 — —
Refined Products Terminals:
Eagle Point — — 6,700
Marcus Hook Terminal — — 930
Marcus Hook Tank Farm — — 1,900
Marketing Terminals — — 8,600
J.C. Nolan Terminal — — 130
(1)The White Cliffs Pipeline consists of two parallel, 12-inch common carrier pipelines: one crude oil pipeline and one NGL pipeline.
(2)Additionally, the ET Geismar Olefins off-gas processing facility has inlet volume capacity of 54 MMcf/d.
The following information describes our principal NGL and refined products transportation and services assets:
•Gulf Coast NGL Express (formerly known as Lone Star Express) is an interstate NGL pipeline consisting of 24-inch and 30-inch long-haul transportation pipelines, with throughput capacity of approximately 900 MBbls/d, that delivers mixed NGLs from processing plants in the Permian Basin, the Barnett Shale and from East Texas to our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex.
•West Texas Gateway transports mixed NGLs produced in the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford Shale to Mont Belvieu, Texas and has a throughput capacity of approximately 240 MBbls/d.
•The Mariner East Pipeline System, consisting of Mariner East 2 and Mariner East 2x, has an aggregate capacity of 380 MBbls/d and transports NGLs from the Marcellus and Utica shales in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio to destinations in Pennsylvania, including our Marcus Hook Terminal on the Delaware River, where they are processed, stored and distributed to local, domestic and waterborne markets.
•The Mariner West Pipeline provides transportation of ethane from the Marcellus Shale processing and fractionating areas in Houston, Pennsylvania to Marysville, Michigan and the Canadian border and has a throughput capacity of approximately 50 MBbls/d.
•The Mont Belvieu to Nederland Pipeline System consists of five pipelines, which deliver export-grade propane, butane, ethane and natural gasoline from our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex to our Nederland Terminal, having a total throughput capacity of approximately 1,140 MBbls/d. The ethane pipeline is part of the Orbit Gulf Coast NGL Exports joint venture, as described below.
•The White Cliffs NGL pipeline, in which we have 54.3% ownership interest, transports mixed NGLs produced in the DJ Basin to Cushing, Oklahoma where it interconnects with the Southern Hills Pipeline to move NGLs to Mont Belvieu, Texas and has a throughput capacity of approximately 90 MBbls/d.
•Other NGL pipelines include the 127-mile Justice pipeline, 63-mile Blue Ridge pipeline, the 45-mile Freedom pipeline, the 20-mile Spirit pipeline and a 50% interest in the 87 mile Liberty pipeline. We also own an undivided interest in 80 MBbls/d of capacity in a segment of the EPIC Y-Grade Pipeline, LP (EPIC) pipeline from Orla, Texas to Benedum, Texas.
•Our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex is an integrated liquids storage and fractionation facility. The storage facility has approximately 63 MMBbls of salt dome capacity providing 100% fee-based cash flows. The storage facility has access to multiple NGL and refined products pipelines, the Houston Ship Channel trading hub, numerous chemical plants, refineries and fractionators.
The fractionation facility includes eight fractionators, which process NGLs delivered from several sources, including our Gulf Coast NGL Express, West Texas Gateway and Justice pipelines.
•Our Spindletop storage facilities, located in Beaumont, Texas, have 8 MMBbls of salt dome capacity.
•The Crestwood assets, acquired in 2023, include 11 LPG terminals which offer 12 MMBbls of storage capacity located in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Mississippi, Michigan, New York and Indiana, with receipts and deliveries that are supported by both rail cars and third-party pipelines.
Other Crestwood assets include a fleet of rail and rolling stock with approximately 1.6 MMBbls/d of NGL pipeline, terminal and transportation capacity, which also includes rail-to-truck terminals located in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina and Mississippi.
•ET Geismar Olefins consists of a refinery off-gas processing unit and an o-grade NGL fractionation / Refinery-Grade Propylene (“RGP”) splitting complex located along the Mississippi River refinery corridor in southern Louisiana. The off-gas processing unit cryogenically processes refinery off-gas, and the fractionation / RGP splitting complex fractionates the streams into higher value components. The o-grade fractionator and RGP splitting complex, located in Geismar, Louisiana, is connected by approximately 100 miles of pipeline to the Chalmette processing plant, which has a processing capacity of 54 MMcf/d.
•The Hattiesburg storage facility is an integrated liquids storage facility with approximately 5 MMBbls of salt dome capacity, providing 100% fee-based cash flows.
•The Cedar Bayou storage facility is an integrated liquids storage facility with approximately 1.6 MMBbls of tank storage, generating revenues from fixed fee storage contracts, throughput fees and revenue from blending butane into refined gasoline.
•The Nederland Terminal, in addition to crude oil activities, also provides approximately 3.1 MMBbls of storage and distribution services for NGLs delivered from our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex via our Mont Belvieu to Nederland Pipeline System, where such products can be exported via ship. The ethane refrigeration facility is part of the Orbit Gulf Coast NGL Exports joint venture, as described below.
•The Orbit Gulf Coast NGL Exports joint venture consists of a 70-mile, 20-inch ethane pipeline with a throughput capacity of approximately 380 MBbls/d which delivers from our Mont Belvieu NGL Complex to our Nederland Terminal. It also includes a 180 MBbls/d ethane refrigeration facility and a 1.2 MMBbls storage facility at our Nederland Terminal. Energy Transfer owns a 58.1% interest in the joint venture.
•The Marcus Hook Terminal includes fractionation, terminalling and storage assets with a capacity of approximately 2 MMBbls of NGL storage capacity in underground caverns, 4 MMBbls of above-ground NGL refrigerated storage and related commercial agreements. The terminal has a total active refined products storage capacity of approximately 1 MMBbls. The facility can receive NGLs and refined products via marine vessel, pipeline, truck and rail, and can deliver via marine vessel, pipeline and truck. In addition to providing NGL storage and terminalling services to both affiliates and third-party customers, the Marcus Hook Terminal serves as an offtake outlet for our Mariner East Pipeline System.
The Marcus Hook Terminal also has a tank farm with total refined products storage capacity of approximately 2 MMBbls. The terminal receives and delivers refined products via pipeline and primarily provides terminalling services to support movements on our refined products pipelines.
•The Inkster Terminal, located near Detroit, Michigan, consists of multiple salt caverns with a total storage capacity of approximately 860 MBbls of NGLs. We use the Inkster Terminal’s storage in connection with the Toledo North pipeline system and for the storage of NGLs from local producers and a refinery in western Ohio. The terminal can receive and ship by pipeline in both directions and has a truck loading and unloading rack.
•The Eastern region refined products pipelines consist of 6-inch to 16-inch diameter refined product pipelines in eastern, central and north central Pennsylvania, 8-inch refined products pipeline in western New York and various diameter refined products pipelines in New Jersey (including 80 miles of the 16-inch diameter Harbor Pipeline).
•The Midcontinent region refined products pipelines primarily consist of 3-inch to 12-inch refined products pipelines in Ohio and 6-inch and 8-inch refined products pipeline in Michigan.
•The Southwest region refined products pipelines are located in East Texas and consist primarily of 8-inch and 12-inch diameter refined products pipeline.
•The Inland refined products pipeline consists of 12-, 10-, 8- and 6-inch diameter pipelines in the western, northwestern, and northeastern regions of Ohio.
•The J.C. Nolan Pipeline, a joint venture between a wholly owned subsidiary of the Partnership and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sunoco LP, transports diesel fuel from a tank farm in Hebert, Texas to Midland, Texas, and has a throughput capacity of approximately 36 MBbls/d.
•We have 37 refined products terminals with an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 8.6 MMBbls that facilitate the movement of refined products to or from storage or transportation systems, such as a pipeline, to other transportation systems, such as trucks or other pipelines. Each facility typically consists of multiple storage tanks and is equipped with automated truck loading equipment that is operational 24 hours a day.
•The Eagle Point Terminal can accommodate three marine vessels (ships or barges) to receive and deliver refined products to outbound ships and barges. The tank farm has a total active refined products storage capacity of approximately 7 MMBbls and provides customers with access to the facility via ship, barge, rail and pipeline. The terminal can deliver via ship, barge, rail, truck or pipeline, providing customers with access to various markets. The terminal generates revenue primarily by charging fees based on throughput, blending services and storage.
•The J.C. Nolan Terminal, a joint venture between a wholly owned subsidiary of the Partnership and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sunoco LP, provides diesel fuel storage in Midland, Texas.
•This segment also includes the following joint ventures: a 15% membership interest in Explorer, a 1,850-mile pipeline which originates from refining centers in Beaumont, Port Arthur and Houston, Texas and extends to Chicago, Illinois; a 31% membership interest in the Wolverine Pipe Line Company, a 1,055-mile pipeline that originates from Chicago, Illinois and extends to Detroit, Grand Haven, and Bay City, Michigan; a 17% membership interest in the West Shore Pipe Line Company, a 650-mile pipeline which originates in Chicago, Illinois and extends to Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin; a 14% membership interest in the Yellowstone Pipe Line Company, a 710-mile pipeline which originates from Billings, Montana and extends to Moses Lake, Washington.
Crude Oil Transportation and Services
The following details our pipelines and terminals in our crude oil transportation and services operations:
Description of Assets Ownership Interest Miles of Crude Pipeline Working Storage Capacity
(MBbls)
Dakota Access Pipeline 36.4 % 1,170 —
Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline 36.4 % 745 —
Bayou Bridge Pipeline 60 % 210 —
West Texas Gulf Pipeline 100.0 % 584
Permian Express Pipelines 87.7 % 1,030 —
ET-S Permian(1)
100.0 % 5,000 11,000
Wattenberg Oil Trunkline 100 % 75 360
White Cliffs Pipeline(2)
54.3 % 530 100
Maurepas Pipeline 51 % 35 —
Mid Valley Pipeline 100 % 1,040 —
Cushing Pipeline 100 % 745 —
Wink to Webster Pipeline 5 % 642 —
Other, crude gathering and water gathering and disposal 100 % 6,220 —
Nederland Terminal 100 % — 30,000
Marcus Hook Terminal 100 % — 1,000
Houston Terminal 100 % — 18,200
Cushing Terminal 100 % — 9,500
Patoka Terminal 87.7 % — 1,900
Price River Terminal 55 % — 200
Colt Hub 100 % 20 1,200
(1)A joint venture between Energy Transfer and Sunoco LP formed in 2024. Energy transfer holds a 67.5% interest in ET-S Permian, with Sunoco LP holding the remaining 32.5% interest.
(2)The White Cliffs Pipeline consists of two parallel, 12-inch common carrier pipelines: one crude oil pipeline and one NGL pipeline.
Our crude oil operations consist of an integrated set of pipeline, terminalling, trucking and acquisition and marketing assets that service the movement of crude oil from producers to end-user markets. The following details our assets in the crude oil transportation and services segment:
Crude Oil Pipelines
Our crude oil pipelines (through wholly owned subsidiaries or joint venture interests) consist of more than 18,000 miles of crude oil trunk pipelines as well as crude oil and produced water gathering pipelines throughout the Southwest, Midcontinent and Midwest United States. Our crude oil pipelines provide access to several trading hubs, including the largest trading hub for crude oil in the United States located in Cushing, Oklahoma, and other trading hubs located in Midland, Colorado City and Longview, Texas. Our crude oil pipelines also deliver to and connect with other pipelines that deliver crude oil to a number of refineries.
•Bakken Pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline are collectively referred to as the “Bakken Pipeline.” The Bakken Pipeline is a 1,915-mile pipeline that transports domestically produced crude oil from the Bakken/Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to a storage and terminal hub outside of Patoka, Illinois, or to Gulf Coast connections including our crude terminal in Nederland, Texas. The Bakken Pipeline has a capacity of up to 750 MBbls/d. The pipeline transports light, sweet crude oil from North Dakota to major refining markets in the Midwest and Gulf Coast regions.
The Dakota Access Pipeline consists of approximately 1,170 miles of 12, 20, 24 and 30-inch diameter pipeline traversing North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. Crude oil transported on the Dakota Access Pipeline originates at six terminal locations in the North Dakota counties of Mountrail, Williams and McKenzie. The pipeline delivers the crude oil to a hub outside of Patoka, Illinois where it can be delivered to the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline for delivery to the Gulf Coast or can be transported via other pipelines to refining markets throughout the Midwest.
The Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline consists of approximately 745 miles of mostly 30-inch diameter pipeline from Patoka, Illinois to Nederland, Texas, where the crude oil can be refined or further transported to additional refining markets.
•Bayou Bridge Pipeline. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline is a joint venture between Energy Transfer and a subsidiary of Phillips 66, in which we have a 60% ownership interest and serve as the operator of the pipeline. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline consists of a 30-inch pipeline from Nederland, Texas to Lake Charles, Louisiana, and a 24-inch pipeline from Lake Charles, Louisiana to St. James, Louisiana. Bayou Bridge Pipeline has a capacity of approximately 480 MBbls/d of light and heavy crude oil from different sources to the St. James crude oil hub, which is home to important refineries located in the Gulf Coast region.
•West Texas Gulf Pipeline. West Texas Gulf Pipeline is a 26-inch and 20-inch pipeline system that transports barrels from Colorado City, Texas to Longview, Texas for delivery onto Mid Valley Pipeline and additional delivery points along the Gulf Coast via joint tariff.
•Permian Express Pipelines. The Permian Express pipelines are part of the PEP joint venture and include the Permian Express 1, Permian Express 2, Permian Express 3, Permian Express 4, Permian Longview and Louisiana Access, Longview to Louisiana and Nederland Access pipelines. These pipelines are comprised of crude oil trunk pipelines and crude oil gathering pipelines in Texas and Oklahoma and provide takeaway capacity from the Permian Basin, with origins in multiple locations in West Texas.
•ET-S Permian. ET-S Permian includes over 5,000 miles of crude oil and water gathering pipelines in the Permian Basin. It also has total crude oil storage capacity in excess of 11 million barrels in two terminals in Midland, Texas (described below), one terminal in Colorado City, Texas and several other storage facilities throughout the Permian Basin.
•White Cliffs Pipeline. White Cliffs Pipeline owns a 12-inch common carrier, crude oil pipeline, with a throughput capacity of 100 MBbls/d, that transports crude oil from Platteville, Colorado to Cushing, Oklahoma.
•Maurepas Pipeline. The Maurepas Pipeline consists of three pipelines, with an aggregate throughput capacity of 460 MBbls/d, which service refineries in the Gulf Coast region.
•Mid Valley Pipeline. The Mid Valley Pipeline originates in Longview, Texas and passes through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio and terminates in Samaria, Michigan. This pipeline provides crude oil to a number of refineries, primarily in the Midwest United States.
•Cushing Pipeline. The Cushing Pipeline consists of two 16-inch crude oil pipelines, providing service from the Permian Basin to Cushing, Oklahoma and to third-party systems in North Texas.
•Wink to Webster Pipeline. The Wink to Webster Pipeline is capable of transporting approximately 1,000 MBbl/d from origin points at Wink and Midland in the Permian Basin for delivery to multiple Houston area locations.
•Crude Gathering and Water Gathering and Disposal. We own integrated crude oil and water gathering systems across multiple basins in the United States.
◦Permian Basin: Our Permian Basin gathering assets in West Texas and eastern New Mexico encompass multiple systems in highly active areas of both the Delaware and Midland basins, with the ability to deliver virtually all gathered crude to major market hubs, including Midland, Wink and Crane, as well as our own long-haul pipelines that provide service to the Gulf Coast and Cushing. Our Permian Basin operations also consist of produced water gathering and disposal services in the Delaware Basin.
◦Williston Basin: Our Williston Basin gathering assets in North Dakota and eastern Montana include several systems built for gathering and transporting crude production from the wellhead to long-haul pipelines, including our Bakken Pipeline. Additionally, we have multiple water gathering systems in the Williston Basin that transport produced water to wholly owned and third-party disposal wells.
◦Midcontinent: Our Midcontinent gathering assets in Oklahoma and Kansas primarily transport wellhead and truck-delivered volumes to several local refineries as well as to Cushing, Oklahoma. A portion of these operations are conducted through Enable South Central Pipeline, a joint venture with a subsidiary of CVR Energy, Inc., which is operated by us and in which we own a 60% membership interest.
Crude Oil Terminals
•Nederland, TX. The Nederland Terminal, located on the Sabine-Neches waterway between Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, is a large marine terminal providing storage and distribution services for refiners and other large transporters of crude oil and NGLs. The terminal receives, stores and distributes crude oil, NGLs, feedstocks, petrochemicals and bunker oils (used for fueling ships and other marine vessels). The terminal currently has a total storage capacity of over 30 MMBbls in more than 80 above ground storage tanks with individual capacities of up to 660 MBbls.
The Nederland Terminal can receive crude oil at three of its seven ship docks and all three of its barge berths. The three ship docks are capable of receiving over 2 MMBbls/d of crude oil. In addition to our crude oil pipelines, the terminal can also receive crude oil through a number of other pipelines, including the DOE. The DOE pipelines connect the terminal to the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s West Hackberry caverns at Hackberry, Louisiana and Big Hill caverns near Winnie, Texas, which have an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 395 MMBbls. The terminal also has crude oil rail unloading facilities, including steam availability for heating heavy oils prior to loading.
The Nederland Terminal can deliver crude oil and other petroleum products via pipeline, barge and ship. The terminal has three ship docks and three barge berths that are capable of delivering crude oils for international transport. In total, the terminal is capable of delivering over 2 MMBbls/d of crude oil to our crude oil pipelines or a number of third-party pipelines including the DOE. The Nederland Terminal generates crude oil revenues primarily by providing term or spot storage services and throughput capabilities to a number of customers.
•Midland, TX. We have two terminals in Midland, Texas. Midland South includes approximately 1 MMBbls of crude oil storage and a combined 20 lanes of truck loading and unloading; the terminal provides access to the Permian Express pipelines. Midland North offers 2 MMBbls of crude oil storage capacity and additional supply and demand connectivity.
•Marcus Hook, PA. The Marcus Hook Terminal can receive crude oil via marine vessel and can deliver via marine vessel and pipeline. The terminal has a total active crude oil storage capacity of approximately 1 MMBbls.
•Houston, TX. The Houston Terminal consists of storage tanks located on the Houston Ship Channel with an aggregate storage capacity of 18.2 MMBbls used to store, blend and transport refinery products and refinery feedstocks via pipeline, barge, rail, truck and ship. This facility has five deep-water ship docks on the Houston Ship Channel capable of loading and unloading Suezmax cargo vessels, and seven barge docks that can accommodate 23 barges simultaneously, three inbound
crude oil pipelines, two outbound crude oil pipelines connecting to three refineries, and numerous rail and truck loading spots.
•Cushing, OK. The Cushing Terminal has approximately 9.5 MMBbls of crude oil storage. The storage terminal has inbound connections with the White Cliffs Pipeline from Platteville, Colorado, the Great Salt Plains Pipeline from Cherokee, Oklahoma, the Cimarron Pipeline from Boyer, Kansas and two-way connections with all of the other major storage terminals in Cushing. The Cushing Terminal also includes truck unloading facilities.
•Patoka, IL. The Patoka Terminal is a tank farm owned by the PEP joint venture and is located in Marion County, Illinois. The facility includes 234 acres of owned land and provides for approximately 1.9 MMBbls of crude oil storage.
•Price River Terminal. The Price River Terminal is a rail terminal joint venture in Carbon County, Utah, capable of transloading local waxy crude production as well as other bulk materials. The terminal has 200 MBbls of heated storage and more than 60 MBbls/d of rail loading capacity.
•Colt Hub. The Colt Hub is located in the heart of the Williston Basin in Williams County, North Dakota. The Colt Hub has approximately 1.2 MMBbls of crude oil storage capacity and 160 MBbls/d of rail loading capacity.
Crude Oil Acquisition and Marketing
Our crude oil acquisition and marketing operations are conducted using our assets, which include 367 crude oil transport trucks, 356 trailers and 242 crude oil truck unloading facilities as well as third-party truck, rail, pipeline and marine assets.
Investment in Sunoco LP
Sunoco LP purchases motor fuel primarily from independent refiners and major oil companies and distributes it across more than 40 U.S. states and territories, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico, as well as Canada, Mexico, the Greater Caribbean and Europe (32 countries and territories in North America, the Greater Caribbean and Europe) to:
•206 company-operated retail stores;
•1,638 independently operated commission agent locations where Sunoco LP sells motor fuel to customers under commission agent arrangements with such operators;
•8,363 retail stores operated by independent operators, which are referred to as “dealers” or “distributors,” pursuant to long-term distribution agreements; and
•over 13,000 other commercial customers, including unbranded retail stores, other fuel distributors, school districts and municipalities and other industrial customers.
Sunoco LP’s fuel distributions operations also includes its retail operations in Hawaii and New Jersey, credit card services and franchise royalties.
Sunoco LP’s pipeline systems operations is comprised of approximately 6,000 miles of refined product pipeline (including the pipeline in the J.C. Nolan joint venture), approximately 6,000 miles of crude oil pipeline (including the pipeline in the ET-S Permian joint venture), approximately 2,000 miles of ammonia pipeline and 69 terminals (including the J.C. Nolan and ET-S Permian joint ventures).
Additionally, Sunoco LP’s terminals operations include four transmix processing facilities and 83 terminals (two in Europe, six in Hawaii and 53 in the continental United States). Transmix is the mixture of various refined products (primarily gasoline and diesel) created in the supply chain (primarily in pipelines and terminals) when various products interface with each other. Transmix processing plants separate this mixture and return it to salable products of gasoline and diesel. Sunoco LP’s refined product terminals provide storage and distribution services used to supply its own retail stations as well as third-party customers. In addition, Sunoco LP provides services at its terminals to various third-party throughput customers.
Following its acquisition of Parkland, Sunoco LP also operates the Burnaby Refinery in British Colombia, which has approximately 55,000 barrels per day of operational capacity. The refinery consumes primarily sweet conventional crude oil and sweet synthetic crude oil to produce gasoline, diesel and jet fuel among other products. The refinery meets federal and provincial regulations for lower carbon intensity transportation fuels through a combination of co-processing of bio feedstocks (i.e. canola oil, tallow, tall oil and others) and blending of low-carbon intensity fuels such as bio-diesel, renewable diesel, ethanol and others. Fuel from the refinery is sold primarily through Sunoco LP-owned retail network in British Columbia (“BC”), directly to Vancouver International Airport, and to commercial and cardlock customers.
Investment in USAC
The following details the assets of USAC:
USAC’s standardized compression unit fleet is powered primarily by the Caterpillar, Inc.’s 3400, 3500 and 3600 engine classes, which range from 400 to 5,000 horsepower per unit. These larger horsepower units, which USAC defines as 400 horsepower per unit or greater, represented 87.6% of its total fleet horsepower as of December 31, 2025. The remainder of its fleet consists of smaller horsepower units ranging from 40 horsepower to 399 horsepower that are primarily used in gas lift applications.
The following table provides a summary of USAC’s compression units by horsepower as of December 31, 2025:
Unit Horsepower Fleet Horsepower Number of Units Horsepower on Order Number of Units on Order Total Horsepower Number of Units Percent of Fleet Horsepower Percent of Units
Small horsepower
<400 488,813 2,878 — — 488,813 2,878 12.4 % 53.4 %
Large horsepower
>400 and <1,000 422,920 722 — — 422,920 722 10.6 % 13.4 %
>1,000 2,982,599 1,764 63,250 28 3,045,849 1,792 77.0 % 33.2 %
Total large horsepower 3,405,519 2,486 63,250 28 3,468,769 2,514 87.6 % 46.6 %
Total horsepower 3,894,332 5,364 63,250 28 3,957,582 5,392 100.0 % 100.0 %
All Other
The following details the significant assets in the “All Other” segment.
Compression
We own Dual Drive Technologies, Ltd, which provides compression services to customers engaged in the transportation of natural gas, including our other segments.
Natural Resources Operations
Our Natural Resources operations primarily involve the management and leasing of coal properties and the subsequent collection of royalties. We also earn revenues from other land management activities, such as selling standing timber, leasing fee-based coal-related infrastructure facilities to certain lessees and end-user industrial plants, collecting oil and gas royalties and from coal transportation, or wheelage fees. As of December 31, 2025, we owned or controlled approximately 725 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves in central and northern Appalachia, properties in eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia, and in the Illinois Basin, properties in southern Illinois, Indiana, and western Kentucky and as the operator of end-user coal handling facilities.
Business Strategy
We believe we have engaged, and will continue to engage, in a well-balanced plan for growth through strategic acquisitions, internally generated expansion, measures aimed at increasing the profitability of our existing assets and executing cost control measures where appropriate to manage our operations.
We intend to continue to operate as a diversified, growth-oriented limited partnership. We believe that by pursuing independent operating and growth strategies we will be best positioned to achieve our objectives. We balance our desire for growth with our goal of preserving a strong balance sheet, ample liquidity and investment grade credit metrics.
Following is a summary of the business strategies of our core businesses:
Growth through acquisitions. We intend to continue to make strategic acquisitions that offer the opportunity for operational efficiencies and the potential for increased utilization and expansion of our existing assets while supporting our investment grade credit ratings.
Engage in construction and expansion opportunities. We intend to leverage our existing infrastructure and customer relationships by constructing and expanding systems to meet new or increased demand for midstream and transportation services.
Increase cash flow from fee-based businesses. We intend to increase the percentage of our business conducted with third parties under fee-based arrangements in order to provide for stable, consistent cash flows over long contract periods while reducing exposure to changes in commodity prices.
Enhance profitability of existing assets. We intend to increase the profitability of our existing asset base by adding new volumes under long-term producer commitments, undertaking additional initiatives to enhance utilization and reducing costs by improving operations.
Competition
Natural Gas
The business of providing natural gas gathering, compression, treating, transportation, storage and marketing services is highly competitive. Since pipelines are generally the only practical mode of transportation for natural gas over land, the most significant competitors of our transportation and storage segment are other pipelines. Pipelines typically compete with each other based on location, capacity, price and reliability.
We face competition with respect to retaining and obtaining significant natural gas supplies under terms favorable to us for the gathering, treating and marketing portions of our business. Our competitors include major integrated oil and gas companies, interstate and intrastate pipelines and other companies that gather, compress, treat, process, transport and market natural gas. Many of our competitors, such as major oil and gas and pipeline companies, have capital resources and control supplies of natural gas substantially greater than ours.
In marketing natural gas, we have numerous competitors, including marketing affiliates of interstate pipelines, major integrated oil and gas companies, and local and national natural gas gatherers, brokers and marketers of widely varying sizes, financial resources and experience. Local utilities and distributors of natural gas are, in some cases, engaged directly, and through affiliates, in marketing activities that compete with our marketing operations.
NGL
In markets served by our NGL pipelines, we face competition with other pipeline companies, including those affiliated with major oil, petrochemical and natural gas companies, and barge, rail and truck fleet operations. In general, our NGL pipelines compete with these entities in terms of transportation fees, reliability and quality of customer service. We face competition with other storage facilities based on fees charged and the ability to receive and distribute the customer’s products. We compete with a number of NGL fractionators in Texas and Louisiana. Competition for such services is primarily based on the fractionation fee charged.
Crude Oil and Refined Products
In markets served by our crude oil and refined products pipelines, we face competition from other pipelines as well as rail and truck transportation. Generally, pipelines are the safest, lowest cost method for long-haul, overland movement of products and crude oil. Therefore, the most significant competitors for large volume shipments in the areas served by our pipelines are other pipelines. In addition, pipeline operations face competition from rail and trucks that deliver products in a number of areas that our pipeline operations serve. While their costs may not be competitive for longer hauls or large volume shipments, rail and trucks compete effectively for incremental and marginal volume in many areas served by our pipelines.
With respect to competition from other pipelines, the primary competitive factors consist of transportation charges, access to crude oil supply and market demand. Competitive factors in crude oil purchasing and marketing include price and contract flexibility, quantity and quality of services, and accessibility to end markets.
Our refined product terminals compete with other independent terminals with respect to price, versatility and services provided. The competition primarily comes from integrated petroleum companies, refining and marketing companies, independent terminal companies and distribution companies with marketing and trading operations.
Wholesale Fuel Distribution and Retail Marketing
In our wholesale fuel distribution business, we compete primarily with other independent motor fuel distributors. The markets for distribution of wholesale motor fuel and the large and growing convenience store industry are highly competitive and
fragmented, which results in narrow margins. We have numerous competitors, some of which may have significantly greater resources and name recognition than we do. Significant competitive factors include the availability of major brands, customer service, price, range of services offered and quality of service, among others. We rely on our ability to provide value-added and reliable service and to control our operating costs in order to maintain our margins and competitive position.
In our retail business, we face strong competition in the market for the sale of retail gasoline and merchandise. Our competitors include service stations of large integrated oil companies, independent gasoline service stations, convenience stores, fast food stores, supermarkets, drugstores, dollar stores, club stores and other similar retail outlets, some of which are well-recognized national or regional retail systems. The number of competitors varies depending on the geographical area. It also varies with gasoline and convenience store offerings. The principal competitive factors affecting our retail marketing operations include gasoline and diesel acquisition costs, site location, product price, selection and quality, site appearance and cleanliness, hours of operation, store safety, customer loyalty and brand recognition. We compete by pricing gasoline competitively, combining our retail gasoline business with convenience stores that provide a wide variety of products, and using advertising and promotional campaigns.
Refinery
Sunoco LP’s Burnaby Refinery, acquired in the Parkland acquisition, competes with other refineries owned by major energy companies. The majority of the Burnaby Refinery’s production remains in British Columbia, Canada but faces competition with Alberta, Canada-based refineries which consume crude from Alberta, Canada and sell to the British Columbia market with transportation through the Trans Mountain Pipeline and other means. Competition is based primarily on transportation charges, reliability of supply and proximity to end users.
Credit Risk and Customers
Credit risk refers to the risk that a counterparty may default on its contractual obligations resulting in a loss to the Partnership. Credit policies have been approved and implemented to govern the Partnership’s portfolio of counterparties with the objective of mitigating credit losses. These policies establish guidelines, controls and limits to manage credit risk within approved tolerances by mandating an appropriate evaluation of the financial condition of existing and potential counterparties, monitoring agency credit ratings and by implementing credit practices that limit exposure according to the risk profiles of the counterparties. Furthermore, the Partnership may, at times, require collateral under certain circumstances to mitigate credit risk as necessary. The Partnership also uses industry standard commercial agreements which allow for the netting of exposures associated with transactions executed under a single commercial agreement. Additionally, we utilize master netting agreements to offset credit exposure across multiple commercial agreements with a single counterparty or affiliated group of counterparties.
Our natural gas transportation and midstream revenues are derived significantly from companies that engage in exploration and production activities. In addition to oil and gas producers, the Partnership’s counterparties consist of a diverse portfolio of customers across the energy industry, including petrochemical companies, commercial and industrial end-users, municipalities, gas and electric utilities, midstream companies and independent power generators. Our overall exposure may be affected positively or negatively by macroeconomic or regulatory changes that impact our counterparties to one extent or another. Currently, management does not anticipate a material adverse effect in our financial position or results of operations as a consequence of counterparty non-performance.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, none of our customers individually accounted for more than 10% of our consolidated revenues.
Regulation
Regulation of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines. The FERC has broad regulatory authority over the business and operations of interstate natural gas pipelines. Under the NGA, the FERC generally regulates the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce. For FERC regulatory purposes, “transportation” includes natural gas pipeline transmission (forwardhauls and backhauls), storage and other services. FGT, Transwestern, Panhandle, Trunkline, Tiger, Fayetteville Express, Rover, Sea Robin, Midcontinent Express, EGT, MRT, SESH, Stingray, Gulf Run and Southwest Gas transport natural gas in interstate commerce and thus each qualifies as a “natural-gas company” under the NGA subject to the FERC’s regulatory jurisdiction. We also hold certain natural gas storage facilities that are subject to the FERC’s regulatory oversight under the NGA.
The FERC’s NGA authority includes the power to:
•approve the siting, construction and operation of new facilities;
•review and approve transportation rates;
•determine the types of services our regulated assets are permitted to perform;
•regulate the terms and conditions associated with these services;
•permit the extension or abandonment of services and facilities;
•require the maintenance of accounts and records; and
•authorize the acquisition and disposition of facilities.
Under the NGA, interstate natural gas companies must charge rates that are just and reasonable. In addition, the NGA prohibits natural gas companies from unduly preferring or unreasonably discriminating against any person with respect to pipeline rates or terms and conditions of service.
The maximum rates to be charged by NGA-jurisdictional natural gas companies and their terms and conditions for service are required to be on file with the FERC. Most natural gas companies are authorized to offer discounts from their FERC-approved maximum just and reasonable rates when competition warrants such discounts. Natural gas companies are also generally permitted to offer negotiated rates different from rates established in their tariff if, among other requirements, such companies’ tariffs offer a cost-based recourse rate to a prospective shipper as an alternative to the negotiated rate. Natural gas companies must make offers of rate discounts and negotiated rates on a basis that is not unduly discriminatory. Existing tariff rates may be challenged by complaint or on the FERC’s own motion, and if found unjust and unreasonable in a FERC order, may be altered on a prospective basis from no earlier than the date of such FERC order. The FERC must also approve all rate changes. We cannot guarantee that the FERC will allow us to charge rates that fully recover our costs or continue to pursue its approach of pro-competitive policies.
Pursuant to the FERC’s rules promulgated under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (the “EPAct of 2005”), it is unlawful for any entity, directly or indirectly, in connection with the purchase or sale of electric energy or natural gas or the purchase or sale of transmission or transportation services subject to FERC jurisdiction: (i) to defraud using any device, scheme or artifice; (ii) to make any untrue statement of material fact or omit a material fact; or (iii) to engage in any act, practice or course of business that operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) also holds authority to monitor certain segments of the physical and futures energy commodities market pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”). In addition, the Federal Trade Commission has the authority under the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to regulate wholesale petroleum markets. With regard to our physical purchases and sales of natural gas, NGLs or other energy commodities; our transportation of these energy commodities; and any related hedging activities that we undertake, we are required to observe these anti-market manipulation laws and related regulations enforced by the FERC, the CFTC and/or the Federal Trade Commission. These agencies hold substantial enforcement authority, including the ability to assess or seek civil penalties of up to approximately $1.5 million per day per violation, to order disgorgement of profits and to recommend criminal penalties. Should we violate the anti-market manipulation laws and regulations, we could also be subject to related third-party damage claims by, among others, sellers, royalty owners and taxing authorities.
Failure to comply with the NGA, the EPAct of 2005, the CEA and the other federal laws and regulations governing our operations and business activities can result in the imposition of administrative, civil and criminal remedies.
Regulation of Intrastate Natural Gas and NGL Pipelines. Intrastate transportation of natural gas and NGLs is largely regulated by the state in which such transportation takes place. To the extent that our intrastate natural gas transportation systems transport natural gas in interstate commerce, the rates and terms and conditions of such services are subject to FERC jurisdiction under Section 311 of the NGPA. The NGPA regulates, among other things, the provision of transportation services by an intrastate natural gas pipeline on behalf of a local distribution company or an interstate natural gas pipeline. The rates and terms and conditions of some transportation and storage services provided on our pipeline systems of Enable Oklahoma Intrastate Transmission, LLC, Oasis Pipeline, LP, Houston Pipe Line Company LP, ETC Katy Pipeline, LLC, Energy Transfer Fuel, LP, Lobo Pipeline Company, LLC, Pelico Pipeline, LLC, Regency Intrastate Gas LP, Red Bluff Express Pipeline, LLC, Trans-Pecos Pipeline, LLC and Comanche Trail Pipeline, LLC are subject to FERC regulation pursuant to Section 311 of the NGPA. Under Section 311, rates charged for intrastate transportation must be fair and equitable, and amounts collected that are determined to be in excess of fair and equitable rates are subject to refund with interest. The terms and conditions of service set forth in the intrastate facility’s statement of operating conditions are also subject to FERC review and approval. Should the FERC determine not to authorize rates equal to or greater than our currently approved Section 311 rates, our business may be adversely affected. Failure to observe the service limitations applicable to transportation and storage services under Section 311, failure to comply with the rates approved by the FERC for Section 311 service, and failure to comply with the terms and conditions of service established in the pipeline’s FERC-approved statement of operating conditions could result in an alteration of jurisdictional status, and/or the imposition of administrative, civil and criminal remedies.
Our intrastate natural gas operations are also subject to regulation by various agencies in Texas, principally the TRRC. Our intrastate pipeline and storage operations in Texas are also subject to the Texas Utilities Code, as implemented by the TRRC.
Generally, the TRRC is vested with authority to ensure that rates, operations and services of gas utilities, including intrastate pipelines, are just and reasonable and not discriminatory. The rates we charge for transportation services are deemed just and reasonable under Texas law unless challenged in a customer or TRRC complaint. We cannot predict whether such a complaint will be filed against us or whether the TRRC will change its regulation of these rates. Failure to comply with the Texas Utilities Code can result in the imposition of administrative, civil and criminal remedies.
Our NGL pipelines and operations are subject to state statutes and regulations which could impose additional environmental, safety and operational requirements relating to the design, siting, installation, testing, construction, operation, replacement and management of NGL transportation systems. In some jurisdictions, state public utility commission oversight may include the possibility of fines, penalties and delays in construction related to these regulations. In addition, the rates, terms and conditions of service for shipments of NGLs on our pipelines are subject to regulation by the FERC under the Interstate Commerce Act (“ICA”) and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (the “EPAct of 1992”) if the NGLs are transported in interstate or foreign commerce whether by our pipelines or other means of transportation. Since we do not control the entire transportation path of all NGLs shipped on our pipelines, FERC regulation could be triggered by our customers’ transportation decisions.
Regulation of Sales of Natural Gas and NGLs. The price at which we buy and sell natural gas currently is not subject to federal regulation and, for the most part, is not subject to state regulation. The price at which we sell NGLs is not subject to federal or state regulation.
To the extent that we enter into transportation contracts with natural gas pipelines that are subject to FERC regulation, we are subject to FERC requirements related to the use of such capacity. Any failure on our part to comply with the FERC’s regulations and policies, or with an interstate pipeline’s tariff, could result in the imposition of civil and criminal penalties.
Our sales of natural gas are affected by the availability, terms and cost of pipeline transportation. As noted above, the price and terms of access to pipeline transportation are subject to extensive federal and state regulation. The FERC frequently proposes and implements new rules and regulations affecting those segments of the natural gas industry. These initiatives also may affect the intrastate transportation of natural gas under certain circumstances. The stated purpose of many of these regulatory changes is to promote competition among the various sectors of the natural gas industry and these initiatives generally reflect more light-handed regulation. We cannot predict the ultimate impact of these regulatory changes to our natural gas marketing operations, and we note that some of the FERC’s regulatory changes may adversely affect the availability and reliability of interruptible transportation service on interstate pipelines. We do not believe that we will be affected by any such FERC action in a manner that is materially different from other natural gas marketers with whom we compete.
Regulation of Gathering Pipelines. Section 1(b) of the NGA exempts natural gas gathering facilities from the jurisdiction of the FERC under the NGA. We own a number of natural gas pipelines that we believe meet the traditional tests the FERC uses to establish a pipeline’s status as a gathering pipeline not subject to FERC jurisdiction. However, the distinction between FERC-regulated transmission services and federally unregulated gathering services has been the subject of substantial litigation and varying interpretations, so the classification and regulation of our gathering facilities could be subject to change based on future determinations by the FERC, the courts and Congress. State regulation of gathering facilities generally includes various safety, environmental and, in some circumstances, nondiscriminatory take requirements and complaint-based rate regulation.
In Texas, our gathering facilities are subject to regulation by the TRRC under the Texas Utilities Code in the same manner as described above for our intrastate pipeline facilities. Louisiana’s Pipeline Operations Section of the Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation is generally responsible for regulating intrastate pipelines and gathering facilities in Louisiana and has authority to review and authorize natural gas transportation transactions and the construction, acquisition, abandonment and interconnection of physical facilities.
Historically, apart from pipeline safety, Louisiana has not acted to exercise this jurisdiction respecting gathering facilities. In Louisiana, our Chalkley System is regulated as an intrastate transporter, and the Louisiana Office of Conservation has determined that our Whiskey Bay System is a gathering system.
We are subject to state ratable take and common purchaser statutes in all of the states in which we operate. The ratable take statutes generally require gatherers to take, without undue discrimination, natural gas production that may be tendered to the gatherer for handling. Similarly, common purchaser statutes generally require gatherers to purchase without undue discrimination as to source of supply or producer. These statutes are designed to prohibit discrimination in favor of one producer over another producer or one source of supply over another source of supply. These statutes have the effect of restricting the right of an owner of gathering facilities to decide with whom it contracts to purchase or transport natural gas.
Natural gas gathering may receive greater regulatory scrutiny at both the state and federal levels. For example, the TRRC has approved changes to its regulations governing transportation and gathering services performed by intrastate pipelines and gatherers, which prohibit such entities from unduly discriminating in favor of their affiliates. Many of the producing states have
adopted some form of complaint-based regulation that generally allows natural gas producers and shippers to file complaints with state regulators in an effort to resolve grievances relating to natural gas gathering access and rate discrimination allegations. Our gathering operations could be adversely affected should they be subject in the future to the application of additional or different state or federal regulation of rates and services. Our gathering operations also may be or become subject to safety and operational regulations relating to the design, installation, testing, construction, operation, replacement and management of gathering facilities. Additional rules and legislation pertaining to these matters are considered or adopted from time to time. We cannot predict what effect, if any, such changes might have on our operations, but the industry could be required to incur additional capital expenditures and increased costs depending on future legislative and regulatory changes.
Regulation of Interstate Crude Oil, NGL and Products Pipelines. Interstate common carrier pipeline operations are subject to rate regulation by the FERC under the ICA, the EPAct of 1992, and related rules and orders. The ICA requires that tariff rates for petroleum pipelines be “just and reasonable” and not unduly discriminatory and that such rates and terms and conditions of service be filed with the FERC. This statute also permits interested persons to challenge proposed new or changed rates. The FERC is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of such rates for up to seven months, though rates are typically not suspended for the maximum allowable period. If the FERC finds that the new or changed rate is unlawful, it may require the carrier to pay refunds for the period that the rate was in effect. The FERC also may investigate, upon complaint or on its own motion, rates that are already in effect and may order a carrier to change its rates prospectively. Upon an appropriate showing, a shipper may obtain reparations for damages sustained for a period of up to two years prior to the filing of a complaint.
The FERC generally has not investigated interstate rates on its own initiative when those rates, like those we charge, have not been the subject of a protest or a complaint by a shipper. However, the FERC could investigate our rates at the urging of a third-party if the third-party is either a current shipper or has a substantial economic interest in the tariff rate level. Although no assurance can be given that the tariff rates charged by us ultimately will be upheld if challenged, management believes that the tariff rates now in effect for our pipelines are within the maximum rates allowed under current FERC policies and precedents.
For many locations served by our product and crude pipelines, we are able to establish negotiated rates. Otherwise, we are permitted to charge cost-based rates, or in many cases, grandfathered rates based on historical charges or settlements with our customers. To the extent we rely on cost-of-service ratemaking to establish or support our rates, the issue of the proper allowance for federal and state income taxes could arise. In July 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion in United Airlines, Inc., et al. v. FERC, finding that the FERC had failed to demonstrate that permitting an interstate petroleum products pipeline organized as a master limited partnership, or MLP, to include an income tax allowance in the cost of service underlying its rates, in addition to the discounted cash flow return on equity, would not result in the pipeline partnership owners double recovering their income taxes. The court vacated the FERC’s order and remanded to the FERC to consider mechanisms for demonstrating that there is no double recovery as a result of the income tax allowance.
In March 2018, the FERC issued a Revised Policy Statement on Treatment of Income Taxes in which the FERC found that an impermissible double recovery results from granting an MLP pipeline both an income tax allowance and a return on equity pursuant to the FERC’s discounted cash flow methodology. The FERC revised its previous policy, stating that it would no longer permit an MLP pipeline to recover an income tax allowance in its cost of service. The FERC stated it will address the application of the United Airlines decision to non-MLP partnership forms as those issues arise in subsequent proceedings. In July 2018, the FERC dismissed requests for rehearing and clarification of the March 2018 Revised Policy Statement, but provided further guidance, clarifying that a pass-through entity will not be precluded in a future proceeding from arguing and providing evidentiary support that it is entitled to an income tax allowance and demonstrating that its recovery of an income tax allowance does not result in a double recovery of investors’ income tax costs. On July 31, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion upholding FERC’s March 2018 Revised Policy Statement, as clarified and revised on rehearing. In light of the rehearing order’s clarification regarding individual entities’ ability to argue in support of recovery of an income tax allowance and the court’s subsequent opinion upholding denial of an income tax allowance to a master limited partnership, the impacts the FERC’s policy on the treatment of income taxes may have on the rates an interstate pipeline held in a tax-pass-through entity can charge for the FERC regulated transportation services are unknown at this time. Please see “