Energy Transfer and Sunoco Announce Permian Basin Joint Venture

Energy Transfer LP (“Energy Transfer”) and Sunoco LP (“Sunoco”) today announced the formation of a joint venture combining their respective crude oil and produced water-gathering assets in the Permian Basin.

Energy Transfer will serve as the operator of the joint venture and contribute its Permian crude oil and produced water gathering assets and operations. Sunoco will contribute all of its Permian crude oil gathering assets and operations to the joint venture. Energy Transfer’s long-haul crude pipeline network that provides transportation of crude oil out of the Permian Basin to Nederland, Houston, and Cushing is excluded from the joint venture.

Source: Business Wire

As shown in the map, the joint venture will operate more than 5,000 miles of crude oil and water gathering pipelines with crude oil storage capacity in excess of 11 million barrels.

Energy Transfer will hold a 67.5% interest in the joint venture with Sunoco holding a 32.5% interest.

The formation of the joint venture has an effective date of July 1, 2024, and is expected to be immediately accretive to distributable cash flow per LP unit for both Energy Transfer and Sunoco.