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Operating Segments | 9 Months Ended
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Operating Segments |
Operating Segments | Note 12—Operating Segments We manage our operations through three operating segments: (i) Transportation, (ii) Facilities and (iii) Supply and Logistics. Our Chief Operating Decision Maker (our Chief Executive Officer) evaluates segment performance based on measures including segment profit and maintenance capital investment. We define segment profit as revenues and equity earnings in unconsolidated entities less (i) purchases and related costs, (ii) field operating costs and (iii) segment general and administrative expenses. Each of the items above excludes depreciation and amortization. Maintenance capital consists of capital expenditures for the replacement of partially or fully depreciated assets in order to maintain the operating and/or earnings capacity of our existing assets. The following table reflects certain financial data for each segment for the periods indicated (in millions):
|  | Transportation |  | Facilities |  | Supply and Logistics |  | Total |
Three Months Ended September 30, 2014 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues (1): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
External Customers |  | $ | 198 |  | $ | 141 |  | $ | 10,788 |  | $ | 11,127 |
Intersegment (2) |  | 226 |  | 140 |  | 5 |  | 371 |
Total revenues of reportable segments |  | $ | 424 |  | $ | 281 |  | $ | 10,793 |  | $ | 11,498 |
Equity earnings in unconsolidated entities |  | $ | 29 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 29 |
Segment profit (3) (4) |  | $ | 231 |  | $ | 147 |  | $ | 152 |  | $ | 530 |
Maintenance capital |  | $ | 35 |  | $ | 19 |  | $ | 2 |  | $ | 56 |
Three Months Ended September 30, 2013 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
External Customers |  | $ | 179 |  | $ | 138 |  | $ | 10,386 |  | $ | 10,703 |
Intersegment (2) |  | 199 |  | 142 |  | — |  | 341 |
Total revenues of reportable segments |  | $ | 378 |  | $ | 280 |  | $ | 10,386 |  | $ | 11,044 |
Equity earnings in unconsolidated entities |  | $ | 19 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 19 |
Segment profit (3) (4) |  | $ | 198 |  | $ | 146 |  | $ | 64 |  | $ | 408 |
Maintenance capital |  | $ | 29 |  | $ | 6 |  | $ | 7 |  | $ | 42 |
|  | Transportation |  | Facilities |  | Supply and Logistics |  | Total |
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2014 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues (1): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
External Customers |  | $ | 574 |  | $ | 443 |  | $ | 32,988 |  | $ | 34,005 |
Intersegment (2) |  | 648 |  | 415 |  | 33 |  | 1,096 |
Total revenues of reportable segments |  | $ | 1,222 |  | $ | 858 |  | $ | 33,021 |  | $ | 35,101 |
Equity earnings in unconsolidated entities |  | $ | 73 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 73 |
Segment profit (3) (4) |  | $ | 658 |  | $ | 435 |  | $ | 534 |  | $ | 1,627 |
Maintenance capital |  | $ | 111 |  | $ | 34 |  | $ | 6 |  | $ | 151 |
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2013 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
External Customers |  | $ | 517 |  | $ | 558 |  | $ | 30,542 |  | $ | 31,617 |
Intersegment (2) |  | 594 |  | 425 |  | 2 |  | 1,021 |
Total revenues of reportable segments |  | $ | 1,111 |  | $ | 983 |  | $ | 30,544 |  | $ | 32,638 |
Equity earnings in unconsolidated entities |  | $ | 42 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 42 |
Segment profit (3) (4) |  | $ | 522 |  | $ | 445 |  | $ | 673 |  | $ | 1,640 |
Maintenance capital |  | $ | 84 |  | $ | 23 |  | $ | 17 |  | $ | 124 |
(1) Effective January 1, 2014, our natural gas sales and costs, primarily attributable to the activities performed by our natural gas storage commercial optimization group, are reported in the Supply and Logistics segment. Such items were previously reported in the Facilities segment. (2) Segment revenues and purchases and related costs include intersegment amounts. Intersegment sales are conducted at posted tariff rates, rates similar to those charged to third parties or rates that we believe approximate market. For further discussion, see “Analysis of Operating Segments” under Item 7 of our 2013 Annual Report on Form 10-K. (3) Supply and Logistics segment profit includes interest expense (related to hedged inventory purchases) of $4 million and $8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $11 million and $21 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. (4) The following table reconciles segment profit to net income attributable to PAGP (in millions):
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |
Segment profit |  | $ | 530 |  | $ | 408 |  | $ | 1,627 |  | $ | 1,640 |
Unallocated general and administrative expenses |  | (1 | ) | — |  | (3 | ) | — |
Depreciation and amortization |  | (97 | ) | (93 | ) | (294 | ) | (266 | )
Interest expense, net |  | (88 | ) | (73 | ) | (254 | ) | (227 | )
Other income/(expense), net |  | (4 | ) | 3 |  | (2 | ) | 2 |
Income before tax |  | 340 |  | 245 |  | 1,074 |  | 1,149 |
Income tax expense |  | (29 | ) | (9 | ) | (116 | ) | (79 | )
Net income |  | 311 |  | 236 |  | 958 |  | 1,070 |
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests |  | (295 | ) | (235 | ) | (913 | ) | (1,067 | )
Net income attributable to PAGP |  | $ | 16 |  | $ | 1 |  | $ | 45 |  | $ | 3 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8595-108599 + Details
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