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Revenues and Accounts Receivable (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]

Disaggregation of Revenue

The following table presents the reconciliation of our revenues from contracts with customers (as described above for each segment) to segment revenues and total revenues as disclosed in our Consolidated Statement of Operations (in millions):

Year Ended December 31, 2018		Transportation				Facilities				Supply and Logistics				Total
Revenues from contracts with customers		$	1,976			$	1,136			$	32,700			$	35,812
Other items in revenues		14				25				122				161
Total revenues of reportable segments		$	1,990			$	1,161			$	32,822			$	35,973
Intersegment revenues														(1,918		)
Total revenues														$	34,055

Contracts with Customers, Assets and Liabilities

The following is a reconciliation of trade accounts receivable from revenues from contracts with customers to total Trade accounts receivable and other receivables, net as presented on our Consolidated Balance Sheet (in millions):

	December 31,
	2018				2017
Trade accounts receivable arising from revenues from contracts with customers	$	2,277			$	2,584
Other trade accounts receivables and other receivables (1)	2,732				3,709
Impact due to contractual rights of offset with counterparties	(2,555		)		(3,264		)
Trade accounts receivable and other receivables, net	$	2,454			$	3,029

⁽¹⁾  The balance is comprised primarily of accounts receivable associated with buy/sell arrangements that are not within the scope of Topic 606.

The following table presents the change in the contract liability balance during the year ended December 31, 2018 (in millions):

		Contract Liabilities
Balance at December 31, 2017		$	90
Amounts recognized as revenue		(81		)
Additions (1) (2)		332
Other		(3		)
Balance at December 31, 2018		$	338

⁽¹⁾  Includes approximately $116 million associated with crude oil sales agreements that are entered into in conjunction with storage arrangements and future inventory exchanges. Such amount is expected to be recognized as revenue in the first quarter of 2019.

⁽²⁾  Includes $100 million associated with long-term capacity agreements with Cactus II Pipeline LLC. See Note 9 for additional information.

Remaining Performance Obligations

The following table presents the amount of consideration associated with remaining performance obligations for the population of contracts with external customers meeting the presentation requirements as of December 31, 2018 (in millions):

	2019				2020				2021				2022				2023				2024 and Thereafter
Pipeline revenues supported by minimum volume commitments and long-term capacity agreements (1)	$	157			$	198			$	189			$	188			$	188			$	635
Long-term storage, terminalling and throughput agreement revenues	389				312				225				168				132				436
Total	$	546			$	510			$	414			$	356			$	320			$	1,071

⁽¹⁾  Includes revenues from certain contracts for which the amount and timing of revenue is subject to the completion of underlying construction projects.     

Supply and Logistics

Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]

Disaggregation of Revenue

The following table presents our Supply and Logistics segment revenues from contracts with customers disaggregated by type of activity (in millions):

		Year Ended December 31, 2018
Supply and Logistics segment revenues from contracts with customers
Crude oil transactions		$	29,592
NGL and other transactions		3,108
Total Supply and Logistics segment revenues from contracts with customers		$	32,700

Transportation

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Disaggregation of Revenue

The following table presents our Transportation segment revenues from contracts with customers disaggregated by type of activity (in millions):

		Year Ended December 31, 2018
Transportation segment revenues from contracts with customers
Tariff activities:
Crude oil pipelines		$	1,724
NGL pipelines		103
Total tariff activities		1,827
Trucking		149
Total Transportation segment revenues from contracts with customers		$	1,976

Facilities

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The following table presents our Facilities segment revenues from contracts with customers disaggregated by type of activity (in millions):

		Year Ended December 31, 2018
Facilities segment revenues from contracts with customers
Crude oil, NGL and other terminalling and storage		$	688
NGL and natural gas processing and fractionation		364
Rail load / unload		84
Total Facilities segment revenues from contracts with customers		$	1,136

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