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Related Party Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Related Party Transactions  
Related Party Transactions

Note 15—Related Party Transactions

 

Reimbursement of Expenses of Our General Partner and its Affiliates

 

We do not pay our general partner a management fee, but we do reimburse our general partner for all direct and indirect costs of services provided to us or incurred on our behalf, including the costs of employee, officer and director compensation and benefits allocable to us as well as all other expenses necessary or appropriate to the conduct of our business (other than expenses related to grants of AAP Management Units). We record these costs on the accrual basis in the period in which our general partner incurs them. Our partnership agreement provides that our general partner will determine the expenses that are allocable to us in any reasonable manner determined by our general partner in its sole discretion. Total costs reimbursed by us to our general partner for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012 were $598 million, $567 million and $535 million, respectively.

 

Transactions with Oxy

 

On November 14, 2014, we purchased Oxy’s 50% interest in BridgeTex. See Note 8 for further discussion. Also on November 14, 2014, Oxy exchanged a portion of its interest in our general partner for Class A shares of PAGP and immediately sold such shares through a secondary public offering completed by PAGP. As of December 31, 2014, Oxy owned approximately 13.2% of the limited partner interests in our general partner and had a representative on the board of directors of GP LLC.

 

During the three years ended December 31, 2014, we recognized sales and transportation revenues and purchased petroleum products from Oxy. These transactions were conducted at posted tariff rates or prices that we believe approximate market. See detail below (in millions):

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

 

Revenues

 

$
1,212 

 

$
1,309 

 

$
1,636 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases and related costs

 

$
925 

 

$
863 

 

$
557 

 

 

We currently have a netting arrangement with Oxy. Our gross receivable and payable amounts with Oxy were as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

Trade accounts receivable and other receivables

 

$
489 

 

$
133 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$
441 

 

$
181 

 

 

Transactions with Equity Method Investees

 

We also have transactions with companies in which we hold an investment accounted for under the equity method of accounting (see Note 8 for information related to these investments). We recorded revenues of $3 million, $33 million and $18 million during the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The revenues for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 were primarily associated with sales of crude oil to Eagle Ford Pipeline LLC for its linefill requirements. These sales did not result in any gain for us. During the three years ended December 31, 2014, we utilized transportation services and purchased petroleum products provided by these companies. Costs related to these services totaled $75 million, $79 million and $42 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. These transactions were conducted at posted tariff rates or contracted rates or prices that we believe approximate market. Receivables from our equity method investees totaled less than $1 million at December 31, 2014 and $2 million at December 31, 2013. Accounts payable to our equity method investees were $6 million at both December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013.

 

In 2014, we sold land to Eagle Ford Pipeline LLC for proceeds of $25 million. Such proceeds are included in “Proceeds from sales of assets” on our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. We did not recognize any gain in connection with this transaction.