Phillips 66 Partners LP

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Limited Liability Company or Limited Partnership, Business Organization and Operations [Abstract]

Phillips 66 Partners, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a publicly traded MLP formed in 2013 to own, operate, develop and acquire primarily fee-based midstream assets. Phillips 66 Partners’ operations currently consist of crude oil, refined petroleum product and NGL transportation, fractionation, processing, terminaling, and storage assets.

We consolidate Phillips 66 Partners because we determined it is a VIE of which we are the primary beneficiary. As general partner of Phillips 66 Partners, we have the ability to control its financial interests, as well as the ability to direct the activities that most significantly impact its economic performance. As a result of this consolidation, the public common and perpetual convertible preferred unitholders’ ownership interests in Phillips 66 Partners are reflected as noncontrolling interests in our financial statements. At June 30, 2020, we owned 170 million Phillips 66 Partners common units, representing a 74% limited partner interest in Phillips 66 Partners, while the public owned a 26% limited partner interest and 13.8 million perpetual convertible preferred units.

The most significant assets of Phillips 66 Partners that are available to settle only its obligations, along with its most significant liabilities for which its creditors do not have recourse to Phillips 66’s general credit, were:


	Millions of Dollars
	June 30 2020		December 31 2019

Cash and cash equivalents	$	7	286
Equity investments*	3,340		2,961
Net properties, plants and equipment	3,500		3,349
Short-term debt	265		25
Long-term debt	3,442		3,491
* Included in the “Investments and long-term receivables” line item on the Phillips 66 consolidated balance sheet.

For the six months ended June 30, 2020, on a settlement-date basis, Phillips 66 Partners generated net proceeds of $2 million from common units issued under its continuous offering of common units, or at-the-market (ATM) programs, with no issuances in the second quarter of 2020. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, Phillips 66 Partners generated net proceeds of $10 million and $42 million, respectively, under its ATM programs.

Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC was formed to develop and construct the Gray Oak Pipeline, which transports crude oil from the Permian and Eagle Ford to Texas Gulf Coast destinations that include Corpus Christi and the Sweeny area, including the Phillips 66 Sweeny Refinery, as well as access to the Houston market. Phillips 66 Partners has a consolidated holding company that owns 65% of Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC. In December 2018, a third party exercised its option to acquire a 35% interest in the holding company. Because the holding company’s sole asset was its ownership interest in Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC, which was considered a financial asset, and because certain restrictions were placed on the third party’s ability to transfer or sell its interest in the holding company during the construction of the Gray Oak Pipeline, the legal sale of the 35% interest did not qualify as a sale under GAAP at that time. The Gray Oak Pipeline commenced full operations in the second quarter of 2020, and the restrictions placed on the co-venturer were lifted on June 30, 2020, resulting in the recognition of the sale under GAAP. Accordingly, at June 30, 2020, the co-venturer’s 35% interest in the holding company was recharacterized from a long-term obligation to a noncontrolling interest on our consolidated balance sheet. In addition, the premium of $84 million previously paid by the co-venturer in 2019 was recharacterized from a long-term obligation to a gain in our consolidated statement of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020. For the six months ended June 30, 2020, the co-venturer contributed an aggregate of $61 million to the holding company to fund its portion of Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC’s cash calls. Excluding the co-venturer’s 35% interest in the consolidated holding company, Phillips 66 Partners has an effective ownership interest of 42.25% in Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC. See Note 5—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, for further discussion regarding Phillips 66 Partners’ investment in Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC, Dakota Access and ETCO, and Liberty.