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Related Party Transactions (Notes)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
Related Party Transactions
Commercial Agreements
The Partnership has various long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with Delek under which we provide crude oil gathering, crude oil and refined products transportation and storage services and marketing and terminalling services to Delek. Each of these agreements include minimum quarterly volume or throughput commitments and have tariffs or fees indexed to inflation, provided that the tariffs or fees will not be decreased below the initial amount. Fees under each agreement are payable to us monthly by Delek or certain third parties to whom Delek has assigned certain of its rights. In most circumstances, if Delek or the applicable third party assignee fails to meet or exceed the minimum volume or throughput commitment during any calendar quarter, Delek, and not any third party assignee, will be required to make a quarterly shortfall payment to us equal to the volume of the shortfall multiplied by the applicable fee. Carry-over of any volumes in excess of such commitment to any subsequent quarter is not permitted. Exceptions to this requirement that Delek make minimum payments under a given agreement can exist if (i) there is an event of force majeure affecting our asset, or (ii) after the first three years of the applicable commercial agreement's term (a) there is an event of force majeure affecting the applicable Delek asset, or (b) if Delek shuts down the applicable refinery upon giving 12 months' notice, which such notice may only be given after the first two years of the applicable commercial agreement's term. In addition, Delek may terminate any of these agreements under certain circumstances.
Under each of these agreements, we are required to maintain the capabilities of our pipelines and terminals such that Delek may throughput and/or store, as the case may be, specified volumes of crude oil and refined products. To the extent that Delek is prevented by our failure to maintain such capacities from throughputting or storing such specified volumes for more than 30 days per year, Delek's minimum throughput commitment will be reduced proportionately and prorated for the portion of the quarter during which the specified throughput capacity was unavailable, and/or the storage fee will be reduced, prorated for the portion of the month during which the specified storage capacity was unavailable. Such reduction would occur even if actual throughput or storage amounts were below the minimum volume commitment levels.
The tariffs, throughput fees and the storage fees under our agreements with Delek are subject to increase or decrease on July 1 of each year, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index or, in the case of the east Texas marketing agreement, to the consumer price index and, in the case of the El Dorado Throughput and Tankage Agreement and the Tyler Throughput and Tankage Agreement, to other inflation-based indices; provided, however, that in no event will the fees be adjusted below the amount initially set forth in the applicable agreement.
We believe the terms and conditions under these agreements, as well as our other agreements with Delek described below, are generally no less favorable to either party than those that could have been negotiated with unaffiliated parties with respect to similar services. These commercial agreements with Delek include the following:
Asset/Operation
 
Initiation Date
 
Initial/Maximum Term (years) (1)
Service
 
Minimum Throughput Commitment (bpd)
 
Fee (/bbl)
Lion Pipeline System and SALA Gathering System:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Crude Oil Pipelines (non-gathered)
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
Crude oil and refined products transportation
 
    46,000 (2)
 
$ 0 .92 (3)

 Refined Products Pipelines
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
 
 
40,000
 
$
0.109

 SALA Gathering System
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
Crude oil gathering
 
14,000
 
$ 2.44 (3) 

East Texas Crude Logistics System:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Crude Oil Pipelines
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
Crude oil transportation and storage
 
35,000
 
$ 0.43 (4) 

     Storage
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
 
 
N/A
 
$271,640/month
East Texas Marketing
 
November 2012
 
10 (5)
Marketing products for Tyler Refinery
 
50,000
 
$0.616/bbl (5) 

Memphis Terminal
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
Dedicated terminalling services
 
10,000
 
$
0.54

Big Sandy Terminal: (6)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Refined Products Transportation
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
Refined products transportation, dedicated terminalling services and storage for the Tyler Refinery
 
5,000
 
$
0.54

     Terminalling
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
 
 
5,000
 
$
0.54

     Storage
 
November 2012
 
5 / 15
 
 
N/A
 
$54,280/month
Tyler Throughput and Tankage:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Refined Products Throughput
 
July 2013
 
8 / 16
Dedicated Terminalling and storage
 
50,000
 
$
0.36

     Storage
 
July 2013
 
8 / 16
 
 
N/A
 
$855,041/month
     Tyler Lease and Access
 
July 2013
 
50
Real property lease
 
N/A
 
$100 annually
     Tyler Site Services
 
July 2013
 
8 / 16
Shared services
 
N/A
 
$203,178 annually
North Little Rock Terminal:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Terminalling
 
October 2013
 
8 / 16
Dedicated terminalling and storage services
 
8,100
 
$ 0.23 (7) 

     Storage
 
October 2013
 
8 / 16
 
 
N/A
 
$64,001/month (7)
El Dorado Throughput and Tankage:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      Refined Products Throughput
 
February 2014
 
8 / 16
Dedicated terminalling and storage
 
11,000
 
$0.51/bbl
      Storage
 
February 2014
 
8 / 16
 
 
N/A
 
$1,319,641/month
El Dorado Lease and Access
 
February 2014
 
50
Real property lease
 
N/A
 
$100 annually
El Dorado Site Services
 
February 2014
 
8 / 16
Shared services
 
N/A
 
$203,178 annually
            
(1)
Maximum term gives effect to the extension of the commercial agreement pursuant to the terms thereof.
(2)
Excludes volumes gathered on the SALA Gathering System
(3)
Volumes gathered on the SALA Gathering System will not be subject to an additional fee for transportation on our Lion Pipeline System to the El Dorado Refinery
(4)
For any volumes in excess of 50,000 bpd, the throughput fee will be $0.652/bbl.
(5)
Following the primary term, the marketing agreement automatically renews for successive one-year terms unless either party provides notice of non-renewal 10 months prior to the expiration of the then-current term. An additional fee of 50% of the margin on products sold is also paid pursuant to the agreement. The fee shall not be less than $175,000 nor greater than $500,000 per quarter.
(6)
On July 19, 2013, we acquired the Hopewell Pipeline in order to effectively connect it with the Big Sandy Pipeline and thereby return the Big Sandy Terminal to operation. In connection with the acquisition, on July 25, 2013, we and Delek entered into the Amended and Restated Services Agreement (Big Sandy Terminal and Pipeline), which amended and restated the terminalling services agreement for the Big Sandy Terminal originally entered into in connection with the Offering.
(7)
Pursuant to the agreement, capital projects are to be completed in two phases in order to support and enhance blending activities at the terminal. Upon completion of phase II capital projects, the minimum throughput fees will decrease and storage fees will increase.
Pursuant to an arrangement with Delek and Lion Oil, to which we are not a party, J. Aron & Company ("J. Aron") acquires and holds title to substantially all crude oil and refined products transported on our Lion Pipeline System and SALA Gathering System. J. Aron is therefore considered the shipper for the liquid it owns on the Lion Pipeline System and the SALA Gathering System. J. Aron also has title to the refined products stored at our Memphis, North Little Rock and El Dorado terminals and in the El Dorado Storage Tanks. Under (i) our pipelines and storage agreement with Lion Oil relating to the Lion Pipeline System and the SALA Gathering System, (ii) our terminalling agreements with Lion Oil relating to the Memphis and North Little Rock terminals and (iii) our throughput and tankage agreement relating to the El Dorado Terminal and Tank Assets, Lion Oil has assigned to J. Aron certain of its rights under these agreements, including the right to have J. Aron's crude oil and intermediate and refined products stored in or transported on or through these systems, Memphis and North Little Rock terminals and the El Dorado Terminal and Tank Assets, with Lion Oil acting as J. Aron's agent for scheduling purposes. Accordingly, even though this is effectively a financing arrangement for Delek whereby J. Aron sells the product back to Delek, J. Aron is technically our primary customer under each of these agreements. J. Aron will retain these storage and transportation rights for the term of its arrangement with Delek and Lion Oil, which currently runs through April 30, 2017, and J. Aron will pay us for the transportation, throughput and storage services we provide to it. The rights assigned to J. Aron will not alter Lion Oil's obligations to meet certain throughput minimum volumes under our agreements with respect to the transportation, throughputting and storage of crude oil and refined products through our facilities, but J. Aron's throughput will be credited toward Lion Oil's minimum throughput commitments. Accordingly, Lion Oil will be responsible for making any shortfall payments incurred under the pipelines and storage agreement or the terminalling agreement which may result from minimum throughputs or volumes not being met.
Other Agreements with Delek
In addition to the commercial agreements described above, the Partnership has entered into the following agreements with Delek:

Second Amended and Restated Omnibus Agreement
The Partnership entered into an omnibus agreement with Delek, our general partner, OpCo, Lion Oil and certain of the Partnership’s and Delek’s other subsidiaries on November 7, 2012 (the "Omnibus Agreement"). On July 26, 2013, in connection with the Tyler Acquisition, the Partnership and the other parties entered into an amendment and restatement of the Omnibus Agreement (the "First Omnibus Amendment"), which was amended and restated on February 10, 2014, in connection with the El Dorado Acquisition (the "Second Omnibus Amendment").
The Second Omnibus Amendment includes, among other things, (i) modifications in the reimbursement by Delek and certain of its subsidiaries under the Omnibus Agreement for certain operating expenses and capital expenditures incurred by the Partnership or its subsidiaries, (ii) modifications of the indemnification provisions under the Omnibus Agreement in favor of the Partnership with respect to certain environmental matters, and (iii) an increase in the annual administrative fee payable by us to Delek under the Omnibus Agreement from $3.0 million as of December 31, 2013 to $3.3 million as of December 31, 2014 for general corporate and administrative services. We paid Delek approximately $3.3 million, $2.8 million and $0.4 million pursuant to the Omnibus Agreement during the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively, for general corporate and administrative services.
Under the Second Omnibus Amendment, Delek has agreed to reimburse us for (i) certain expenses that we incur for inspections, maintenance and repairs to any storage tanks we acquired in the El Dorado Acquisition to cause such storage tanks to comply with applicable regulatory and/or industry standards, (ii) certain expenses that we incur for inspections, maintenance and repairs to most of the storage tanks contributed to us by Delek (subject to a deductible of $0.5 million per year) that are necessary to comply with the DOT pipeline integrity rules and certain American Petroleum Institute storage tank standards for a period of five years, and (iii) certain non-discretionary maintenance capital expenditures with respect to certain of our assets in excess of specified amounts, as disclosed in the full agreement filed as Exhibit 10.2 to our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on February 14, 2014.
Operation and Management Services Agreement
Our general partner operates our business on our behalf and is entitled under our partnership agreement to be reimbursed for the cost of providing those services. Prior to the Tyler Acquisition, we and our general partner entered into an operation and management services agreement with Delek, pursuant to which our general partner uses employees of Delek to provide operation and management services with respect to our pipelines, storage and terminalling facilities and related assets. We and/or our general partner reimbursed Delek for such services under the operation and management services agreement for the period beginning November 7, 2012 and ending July 26, 2013, at which time our general partner and Delek Logistics Services Company terminated the operation and management services agreement in connection with the Tyler Acquisition. We and our subsidiaries paid Delek approximately $5.9 million and $1.3 million pursuant to this agreement during the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Subsequent to the termination of the agreement, we continued to reimburse our general partner for the services it provides to us under our partnership agreement. We reimbursed our general partner $12.3 million and $6.5 million pursuant to the partnership agreement during the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Other Agreements
Paline Pipeline System Capacity Reservation. Prior to the Partnership's acquisition of Paline, Paline had entered into a contract with an unrelated third party for such company to exclusively use 100% of the southbound capacity of our Paline Pipeline. This agreement expired by its terms on December 31, 2014.
Pursuant to the Omnibus Agreement, Delek indemnified us $0.9 million and $0.4 million during the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively, for lost service fees attributable to the failure of our customer to pay 100% of the full monthly fee for the capacity of the Paline Pipeline System. We were not indemnified for lost service fees during the year ended December 31, 2014, as we received the entire monthly amount payable to us from our customer during this period.
Predecessors' Transactions
Related-party transactions of the Predecessors were settled through division equity. Revenues from affiliates consist of revenues from gathering, pipeline transportation, storage, wholesale marketing and products terminalling services to Delek and its affiliates based on regulated tariff rates or contractually based fees.
Costs related specifically to us have been identified and included in the accompanying consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income. Prior to the formation of the Partnership, the El Dorado Acquisition and the Tyler Acquisition, we were not allocating certain corporate costs. These costs were primarily allocated based on a percentage of salaries expense and property, plant and equipment costs. In the opinion of management, the methods for allocating these costs are reasonable. It is not practicable to estimate the costs that would have been incurred by us if we had been operated on a stand-alone basis.
Summary of Transactions
A summary of revenue and expense transactions with Delek, including expenses directly charged and allocated to our Predecessors, are as follows (in thousands):
 
 
Year Ended December 31,
 
 
2014
 
2013
 
2012
Revenues
 
$
114,583

 
$
78,173

 
$
43,614

Operating and maintenance expenses (1) 
 
$
20,210

 
$
16,068

 
$
4,678

General and administrative expenses (2)
 
$
5,799

 
$
4,010

 
$
5,650


            
(1) 
Operating and maintenance expenses include costs allocated to the Tyler Predecessor and the El Dorado Predecessor for operating support provided to the Tyler Predecessor by Delek Refining and to the El Dorado Predecessor by Lion Oil, including certain labor related costs, property and liability insurance costs and certain other operating expenses. The costs that were allocated to us by Delek Refining were $1.4 million and $2.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The costs that were allocated to us by Lion Oil were $0.4 million, $1.4 million, and $1.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
(2) 
General and administrative expenses include costs allocated to the Tyler Predecessor and the El Dorado Predecessor for general and administrative support provided to the Tyler Predecessor by Delek Refining and to the El Dorado Predecessor by Lion Oil, including services such as corporate management, risk management, accounting and human resources. The costs that were allocated to us by Delek Refining were $0.5 million and $0.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The costs that were allocated to us by Lion Oil were $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2014 and $0.7 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
Quarterly Cash Distribution
In accordance with our partnership agreement, our common, subordinated and general partner unitholders are entitled to receive quarterly distributions of available cash. During the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, we paid quarterly cash distributions, of which $28.1 million and $21.5 million respectively, were paid to Delek and our general partner. On January 27, 2015, our general partner's board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution totaling $13.1 million, based on the available cash as of the date of determination for the end of the fourth quarter of 2014, payable on February 13, 2015 to unitholders of record on February 6, 2015. The distribution included $7.8 million, paid to both Delek and our general partner, including incentive distribution rights.