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Debt (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Debt |
Components of debt |
|  | March 31, |  | December 31, |
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
SHORT-TERM DEBT |  |  |  |  |
Credit Facilities: |  |  |  |  |
Senior secured hedged inventory facility bearing a weighted-average interest rate of 1.5% at December 31, 2011 |  | $ | — |  | $ | 75 |
PAA senior unsecured revolving credit facility, bearing a weighted-average interest rate of 1.5% and 1.6% at March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively (1) |  | 217 |  | 32 |
PNG senior unsecured revolving credit facility, bearing a weighted-average interest rate of 2.1% at both March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 (2) |  | 37 |  | 68 |
4.25% senior notes due September 2012 (3) |  | 500 |  | 500 |
Other |  | 3 |  | 4 |
Total short-term debt |  | 757 |  | 679 |
LONG-TERM DEBT |  |  |  |  |
Senior Notes: |  |  |  |  |
5.63% senior notes due December 2013 |  | 250 |  | 250 |
5.25% senior notes due June 2015 |  | 150 |  | 150 |
3.95% senior notes due September 2015 |  | 400 |  | 400 |
5.88% senior notes due August 2016 |  | 175 |  | 175 |
6.13% senior notes due January 2017 |  | 400 |  | 400 |
6.50% senior notes due May 2018 |  | 600 |  | 600 |
8.75% senior notes due May 2019 |  | 350 |  | 350 |
5.75% senior notes due January 2020 |  | 500 |  | 500 |
5.00% senior notes due February 2021 |  | 600 |  | 600 |
3.65% senior notes due June 2022 (4) |  | 750 |  | — |
6.70% senior notes due May 2036 |  | 250 |  | 250 |
6.65% senior notes due January 2037 |  | 600 |  | 600 |
5.15% senior notes due June 2042 (4) |  | 500 |  | — |
Unamortized discounts |  | (15 | ) | (13 | )
Senior notes, net of unamortized discounts |  | 5,510 |  | 4,262 |
Credit Facilities and Other: |  |  |  |  |
PNG senior unsecured revolving credit facility, bearing a weighted-average interest rate of 2.1% at both March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 (2) |  | 79 |  | 54 |
PNG GO Zone term loans, bearing a weighted-average interest rate of 1.5% at both March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 |  | 200 |  | 200 |
Other |  | 5 |  | 4 |
Total long-term debt |  | 5,794 |  | 4,520 |
Total debt (1) (2) (5) |  | $ | 6,551 |  | $ | 5,199 |
(1) We classify as short-term certain borrowings under our PAA senior unsecured revolving credit facility. These borrowings are primarily designated as working capital borrowings, must be repaid within one year and are primarily for hedged NGL and crude oil inventory and NYMEX and ICE margin deposits. (2) PNG classifies as short-term debt any borrowings under the PNG senior unsecured revolving credit facility that have been designated as working capital borrowings and must be repaid within one year. Such borrowings are primarily related to a portion of PNG’s hedged natural gas inventory. (3) Our $500 million 4.25% senior notes will mature in September 2012. The proceeds from these notes are being used to supplement capital available from our hedged inventory facility, to fund working capital needs associated with base levels of waterborne cargos and for seasonal NGL inventory requirements. After these notes mature, we intend to use our credit facilities to finance hedged inventory. Concurrent with the issuance of these senior notes in July 2009, we entered into interest rate swaps. See Note 6 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part IV of our 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion of our interest rate swaps. (4) In March 2012, we completed the issuance of $750 million, 3.65% senior notes due 2022 and $500 million, 5.15% senior notes due 2042. The senior notes were sold at 99.823% and 99.755% of face value, respectively. Interest payments are due on June 1 and December 1 each year, beginning on December 1, 2012. We used the net proceeds from these offerings to fund a portion of the consideration for the BP NGL Acquisition and for general partnership purposes. See Note 4 for more information regarding this acquisition. (5) Our fixed-rate senior notes had a face value of approximately $6.0 billion and $4.8 billion as of March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. We estimated the aggregate fair value of these notes as of March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 to be approximately $6.7 billion and $5.4 billion, respectively. Our fixed-rate senior notes are traded among institutions, and these trades are routinely published by a reporting service. Our determination of fair value is based on reported trading activity near quarter end. We estimate that the carrying value of outstanding borrowings under our credit facilities approximates fair value as interest rates reflect current market rates. The fair value estimates for both our senior notes and credit facilities are based upon observable market data and are classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

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