UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 


 

Date of Report: May 4, 2016

(Date of earliest event reported)

 

Phillips 66 Partners LP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

001-36011

 

38-3899432

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)

 

(Commission
File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

3010 Briarpark Drive

Houston, Texas 77042

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

 

(855) 283-9237

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

o

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o

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o

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Item 1.01                                                                             Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

 

On May 4, 2016, Phillips 66 Partners LP (the “Partnership”) entered into a Contribution, Conveyance and Assumption Agreement (the “Contribution Agreement”) with Phillips 66 Partners GP LLC (the “General Partner”), Phillips 66 Company (“P66 Company”), and Phillips 66 Project Development Inc. (“P66 PDI”), each a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips 66 (“PSX”). Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement, the Partnership will acquire from P66 PDI , through a series of intercompany contributions, 100 percent of the limited liability company interests (the “Acquired Interests”) in each of Phillips 66 Plymouth LLC (“Plymouth LLC”), Phillips 66 Sweeny Frac Bravo LLC (“Bravo LLC”), Phillips 66 Sweeny Frac Charlie LLC (“Charlie LLC”) and Phillips 66 Sweeny Frac Delta LLC (“Delta LLC”) (the “Fractionator Transaction).

 

At the closing of the Fractionator Transaction, Plymouth LLC will own the Standish Pipeline, a refined petroleum product pipeline system extending from the P66 Company Ponca City Refinery in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and terminating at the Partnership’s North Wichita Terminal in Wichita, Kansas.  Each of Bravo LLC, Charlie LLC and Delta LLC owns a 25 percent limited partner interest in Phillips 66 Sweeny Frac LP (“Sweeny Frac LP”).  Earlier this year, the Partnership acquired the other 25 percent interest in Sweeny Frac LP and 100 percent of the limited liability company interests in Phillips 66 Sweeny Frac GP LLC (“Sweeny Frac GP”), which owns a noneconomic general partner interest in and is the sole general partner of Sweeny Frac LP. Sweeny Frac LP owns 100 percent of the limited liability company interests in Phillips 66 Sweeny Frac LLC, which owns the assets described below:

 

·                  A natural gas liquids (“NGL”) fractionator at the P66 Company Sweeny refinery in Old Ocean, Texas, with the capacity to fractionate 100,000 barrels per day of Y-grade NGL into ethane, propane, butane, isobutane and natural gasoline.

 

·                  Five storage caverns (the “Caverns”) located between the P66 Company Sweeny refinery and Freeport, Texas, that will have a combined capacity to store 7.5 million barrels of Y-grade NGL, propane, and butane. Three of the Caverns are currently in service and the remaining two Caverns are expected to enter into service by the end of 2016.

 

In exchange for the Acquired Interests, P66 PDI will receive total consideration of approximately $775 million, consisting of the assumption by the Partnership of approximately $625 million in the aggregate of notes payable to P66 Company (the “Sponsor Notes”) and the issuance of 2,531,513 newly issued units, to be allocated between common units to be issued to P66 PDI and general partner units to be issued to the General Partner in a proportion necessary for the General Partner to maintain its two percent general partner interest in the Partnership. We have the option to elect to issue fewer common units to P66 PDI and assume a greater principal amount of the Sponsor Notes, or to issue additional common units to P66 PDI and assume a lesser principal amount of the Sponsor Notes, provided that in each case, if we so elect, the total consideration payable in the Fractionator Transaction will not exceed $775 million.

 

Each of the Sponsor Notes bears interest at the rate of three percent (3.0%) per annum, matures on October 1, 2020, may be paid in whole or in part prior to that date with no penalty, and contains customary default provisions for failure to pay principal or interest.

 

The Fractionator Transaction is expected to close later this month. The closing of the Fractionator Transaction is subject to standard closing conditions, including, among others: (i) the continued accuracy of the representations and warranties contained in the Contribution

 

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Agreement; (ii) the performance by each party of its respective obligations under the Contribution Agreement; (iii) the absence of any legal proceeding or order by a governmental authority restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Fractionator Transaction; (iv) the absence of a material adverse effect on the results of operations or financial condition of the interests to be acquired in the Fractionator Transaction; (v) the execution of certain agreements and delivery of certain documents related to the consummation of the Fractionator Transaction; and (vi) the receipt by the Partnership of sufficient proceeds from any financing arrangements undertaken by the Partnership  that are necessary or desirable to fund any amounts contemplated to be paid in connection with or immediately following the closing of the Fractionator Transaction.

 

Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement, and subject to certain limitations, the Partnership has agreed to indemnify P66 Company, P66 PDI and their respective affiliates (other than the Partnership and its subsidiaries), directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives (collectively, the “P66 Company Parties”) for any and all damages resulting from any breach of a representation, warranty, agreement or covenant of the Partnership and for certain other matters. Similarly, P66 Company and P66 PDI have agreed, subject to certain limitations, to indemnify the Partnership, its subsidiaries and its and their respective affiliates (other than any of the P66 Company Parties), directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives for any and all damages resulting from any breach of a representation, warranty, agreement or covenant of P66 Company or P66 PDI and for certain other matters.

 

The above summary is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Contribution Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Relationships

 

Each of the parties to the Contribution Agreement described above is a direct or indirect subsidiary of PSX. As a result, certain individuals, including officers of PSX and officers and directors of the General Partner, serve as officers and/or directors of one or more of such entities. P66 PDI currently (as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K) owns 58,761,865 common units of the Partnership representing a 69.5 percent limited partner interest in the Partnership based on the number of common units outstanding as of May 3, 2016. P66 PDI also owns an indirect two percent general partner interest in the Partnership and all of the Partnership’s incentive distribution rights through its ownership of the General Partner.

 

The terms of the Contribution Agreement were approved on behalf of the Partnership by the conflicts committee and the board of directors of the General Partner. The conflicts committee, which is comprised of independent members of the board of directors of the General Partner, retained independent legal and financial advisors to assist it in evaluating and negotiating the Fractionator Transaction. In approving the terms of the Fractionator Transaction, the conflicts committee based its decision in part on an opinion from the independent financial advisor that the consideration to be paid by the Partnership pursuant to the Contribution Agreement is fair, from a financial point of view, to the holders of common units unaffiliated with P66 Company and its affiliates.

 

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Item 7.01                                                              Regulation FD Disclosure

 

On May 4, 2016, the Partnership announced that it entered into the Contribution Agreement. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The information furnished pursuant to this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and will not be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act unless specifically identified therein as being incorporated therein by reference.

 

Item 9.01                                                                             Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(a)                                 Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired

 

Audited financial statements of Sweeny Fractionator/Standish as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2015, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 99.2 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(b)                                 Pro Forma Financial Information.

 

Unaudited pro forma consolidated financial statements of the Partnership as of March 31, 2016, and for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2016, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2015, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 99.3 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

 

 

 

Description

2.1

 

 

Contribution, Conveyance and Assumption Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2016, by and among Phillips 66 Partners LP, Phillips 66 Partners GP LLC, Phillips 66 Company and Phillips 66 Project Development Inc.

23.1

 

 

Consent of Ernst & Young.

99.1

 

 

Press release of Phillips 66 Partners LP, dated May 4, 2016.

99.2

 

 

Audited financial statements of Sweeny Fractionator/Standish as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2015.

99.3

 

 

Unaudited pro forma consolidated financial statements of the Partnership as of March 31, 2016, and for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2016, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2015.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

Phillips 66 Partners LP

 

By:

Phillips 66 Partners GP LLC, its general partner

 

 

 

Dated: May 4, 2016

By:

/s/ J.T. Liberti

 

 

J.T. Liberti

 

 

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

 

 

Description

2.1

 

 

Contribution, Conveyance and Assumption Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2016, by and among Phillips 66 Partners LP, Phillips 66 Partners GP LLC, Phillips 66 Company and Phillips 66 Project Development Inc.

23.1

 

 

Consent of Ernst & Young.

99.1

 

 

Press release of Phillips 66 Partners LP, dated May 4, 2016.

99.2

 

 

Audited financial statements of Sweeny Fractionator/Standish as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2015.

99.3

 

 

Unaudited pro forma consolidated financial statements of the Partnership as of March 31, 2016, and for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2016, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2015.

 

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