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The Final Stretch: Energy Transfer Pushes For Mariner East Project Ahead Of The Stunning Q3 Results
12/08/21
A market share of almost 20%, double that of 18 months ago, was held by Energy Transfer LP in the third quarter, the most of any country or company in the world in NGL exports. The company, however, has a bit of a slip in the results, compared to the strong showing over the same period a year prior.
In 2020, consolidated adjusted EBITDA in the third quarter was $2.9 billion, compared to $2.6 billion this time around. In line with this, discounted cash flow (DCF) is also down to $1.31 billion, from $1.69 billion a year ago.
Energy Transfer also reported earnings of $0.20 per unit and revenues of $16.66 billion, which solidly outperformed expectations from the likes of the Zacks Consensus with their estimate of $14.96 billion.
Tom Long, co-CEO of Energy, noted that the company was able to tie itself over the higher volumes in most segments seamlessly this year due to the one-time gain of $103 million in the midstream segment and the success of the former optimizations. Long also noted that the winter storm of 2021 resulted in higher utility bills and other expenditures.
All of these gains and expenses — the result of Energy Transfer owning and operating one of the largest and most diversified portfolios of energy assets in the United States, with strategic stakes in all major domestic production basins. All of this is in addition to midstream, intrastate, and interstate natural gas transportation and storage assets, oil and petroleum products transportation and terminal assets, NGL fractionation assets, and acquisition and marketing assets.
In the meantime, though, one of the heaviest things on Energy's plate is the Mariner East project with its myriad of challenges. A new phase in the project has been commissioned, which will increase the project's capacity to 260,000 bbl/d. Yet, even with the uncompleted project, the volumes going through the system and the terminal in Marcus Hook, Pa saw a 12% increase compared to the last year.
However, the project is handicapped at the moment. New permit modifications are required for converting the final directional drill to an open cut. Afterward, Mariner East's last segment could be operational by the end of the first half of 2022. But whether or not this timeline will hold to be true is unknown for now.
Smart Investments Are The Key To Success: Williams JV Brought Benefits At The End Of The Year
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Williams boasts its Q3 results. With a revenue of $2.48 billion, the company beat the analyst estimate of $2.09 billion and also improved upon its own results over the same period in 2020. Mind you, much of this success was attributed to production in Wyoming's Green River Basin's Wamsutter Field and Williams JV with Crowheart.
No More Gas Flaring: the Permian's Double E Pipeline is brought into service in West Texas
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Permian Basins gas infrastructure boom: Summit Midstream puts into service a new pipeline system, aimed at reducing gas flaring in the area. Besides ecological concerns, the project will also transport almost 1,5 billion cubic feet of gas per day — enough to supply 5 million U.S. homes every day. According to Federal Energy Statistics, the project cost a whopping $450 million.
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Shareholder’s payout target was increased by 50% after the largest U.S. independent oil producer surpassed Wall Street’s earnings estimates on growing energy prices, said Houston-based Conoco Phillips Co. on Aug. 4. Due to Western sanctions on major producer Russia throttling energy supply amid a rebound in demand from pandemic lows, oil and gas #prices have soared. Crude has been trading more than 25% higher since the start of the year and results also benefited from high natural gas prices. Meanwhile, shares were down a fraction, to $91.03, in early trading but are up about 26% year to date. Conoco Phillips stated, that the average price obtained for a barrel of oil and gas accelerated 77% from a year earlier to $88.57. The company acknowledges that it has not hedged any of its oil and gas sales to make the most of higher market prices. The capacity of 1.69 million boe/d was in line with Wall Street estimates, however, the company expected the current quarter’s output would be between 1.71 million and 1.76 million boe/d.
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California oil joint venture, Aera Energy, of Exxon Mobil Corp. and ShellPlc is being sold to German asset manager IKAV, according to the agreement of Sept. 1. Shell noted that the sale of its 51.8% membership interest in Aera Energy is for a total consideration of about $2 billion in cash with additional contingent payments based on future oil prices, subject to regulatory approval. However, the total transaction value was not disclosed. Being one of California’s largest oil and gas producers, Aera Energy accounts for nearly 25% of the state’s production. The sale by Exxon Mobil and Shell ends a 25-year-long partnership in California, meanwhile, it persists a streak of divestments of mature oil and gas properties by the two supermajors. Aera Energy LLC operates about 13,000 wells in the San Joaquin Valley in California, producing oil and associated gas. In 2021, Aera took out about 95,000 boe/d. Exxon Mobil’s interests in the Aera oil-production operation in California contained a 48.2% share of Aera Energy LLC and a 50% share of Aera Energy Services Co. held by Mobil California Exploration & Producing Co. Moreover, Exxon Mobil affiliates have signed a separate agreement for the sale of an associated loading facility and pipeline system. The sale effectively ends Shell’s upstream position in California. The company reported that the divestiture is valued to result in a post-tax impairment of $300 million to $400 million, subject to adjustments.
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The completion of the merger between Centennial Resource Development Inc. and Colgate Energy Partners II LLC happened on Sept. 1, sealing the debut of Permian Resources Corp., which is considered the largest pure-play E&P company in the Delaware Basin. Permian Resources’ idea was to combine two successful E&P companies, creating a better, stronger, and more strategically compelling company. Centennial and Colgate announced an agreement to merge in May, denying rumors that Colgate, a privately held independent Midland-based company, had been seeking an IPO. The merger estimated Colgate at about $3.9 billion and consists of 269.3 million shares of Centennial stock, $525 million of cash, and the assumption of approximately $1.4 billion of Colgate’s outstanding net debt. Permian Resources, being the combined company, has a deep inventory of “high-quality” drilling locations on around 180,000 net acres the companies anticipate will provide more than $1 billion of free cash flow in 2023 at current strip prices, in accordance with the company release on Sept. 1.