Buckeye Partners LP, which operates pipelines and other transportation and storage assets for liquid petroleum products, said it bought a 50% stake in VTTI BV marine terminal company for $1.15 billion.
Buckeye Partners said on Oct. 24 that the other 50% stake in VTTI BV will continue to be held jointly by Vitol, the world's largest oil trader, and Vitol's investment vehicle.
VTTI, which owns and operates about 54 million barrels of petroleum products storage through 13 terminals globally, was previously equally owned by Vitol and its investment vehicle, according to VTTI's website.
A majority of VTTI's cash flows are also supported by take-or-pay storage agreements with Vitol, Buckeye Partners said in a statement.
The company said it expects the deal to immediately add to its distributable cash flow per limited partner unit in 2017.
"We expect this investment to generate increasing quarterly distributions supported by stable fee-based cash flows," CEO Clark Smith said.
Midstream companies such as Buckeye Partners earn money by charging fees for use of their facilities, but have faced sharp declines in throughput due to the two-year-long crash in oil prices.
Buckeye also said on Oct. 24 that it opened a 7.5 million offering of limited partnership units to partly fund the deal, which is expected to close in early January 2017.
Barclays Capital Inc. was Buckeye's exclusive financial adviser.
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