DCP Midstream Partners LP Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Nov 09, 2010
DCP Midstream Partners LP (DPM, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-09-30.

Dcp Midstream Partners Lp has a market cap of $1.35 billion; its shares were traded at around $36 with a P/E ratio of 29.3 and P/S ratio of 1.4. The dividend yield of Dcp Midstream Partners Lp stocks is 6.8%.DPM is in the portfolios of Jean-Marie Eveillard of First Eagle Investment Management, LLC, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.

Highlight of Business Operations:

We incur capital expenditures for our consolidated entities and our unconsolidated affiliates. We anticipate maintenance capital expenditures of between $5 million and $10 million, and expenditures for expansion capital improvements of between $25 million and $30 million, including expenditures associated with the recently acquired Wattenberg pipeline, for the year ending December 31, 2010. The board of directors may approve additional growth capital during the year, at their discretion. This capital does not include any acquisitions or additional investment opportunities that may be identified throughout the course of the year and approved by our management and our board of directors.

On September 30, 2010, we issued $250 million of our 3.25% Senior Notes due October 1, 2015. We received net proceeds, after deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses, of $247.8 million, which we used to repay funds borrowed under the revolver portion of our Credit Facility. Interest on the notes will be paid semi-annually on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing April 1, 2011. The notes will mature on October 1, 2015 unless redeemed prior to maturity.

In August 2010, we issued 2,990,000 common units at $32.57 per unit. We received proceeds of $93.1 million, net of offering costs.

On July 30, 2010, we acquired Atlantic Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of UGI Corporation, for $49.0 million plus propane inventory and other working capital of $17.3 million. We have incurred post-closing purchase price adjustments for net working capital of $1.9 million, which we have accrued in other current liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2010. Atlantic Energy has a contractual agreement with Spectra Energy, the supplier of the acquired propane inventory, in which the final price of the acquired inventory will be determined based upon index rates at established future dates. Atlantic Energys sales agreements specify floating pricing terms in excess of the floating pricing terms established in the contractual agreement with Spectra. The acquisition was financed with borrowings under our revolving credit facility. Atlantic Energy owns and operates a marine import terminal with 20 million gallons of above ground storage in the Port of Chesapeake, Virginia. The assets serve as a supply point for propane customers in the mid-Atlantic region, and will extend our existing northeast U.S. wholesale propane business into the mid-Atlantic. This acquisition provides us with an excellent opportunity to expand our existing market position as one of the largest wholesale propane suppliers in the northeast. One of the keys to our success in the wholesale propane business has been the breadth of our supply options. The addition of the Chesapeake assets will build on our supply and logistics capabilities and help in continuing to ensure reliable deliveries to our customers.

In January 2010, we acquired the Wattenberg pipeline from Buckeye Partners, L.P., for $22.0 million in cash, funded with borrowings under our revolving credit facility. The 350-mile pipeline originates in the Denver-Julesburg, or DJ, Basin in Colorado and terminates near the Conway hub in Bushton, Kansas. The pipeline is currently utilized by DCP Midstream, LLC as a market outlet for NGL production from certain of their plants in the DJ Basin. We expect to spend approximately $18.0 million during 2010 in expansion capital improvements to connect and integrate the acquired pipeline with DCP Midstream, LLCs facilities, with cash flow contributions commencing in early 2011. In conjunction with our acquisition of the Wattenberg pipeline, we signed a transportation agreement with DCP Midstream, LLC pursuant to fee-based rates that will be applied to the volumes transported. The agreement is effective through November 2010, renewing on an evergreen basis thereafter. We have also agreed to the terms of an additional ten-year transportation agreement with DCP Midstream, LLC. The acquired pipeline will generate 100 percent fee-based revenues, with the results of the assets being included in our NGL logistics segment prospectively, from the date of acquisition.

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