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Schedule of Business Acquisitions, by Acquisition [Table Text Block] | ACQUISITION NORTH DAKOTA GATHERING AND PROCESSING ASSETS On January 1, 2017, the Partnership acquired crude oil, natural gas and produced water gathering systems and two natural gas processing facilities from Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation, GBK Investments, LLC and WBI Energy Midstream, LLC (“North Dakota Gathering and Processing Assets”) for total consideration of approximately $705 million, including payments for working capital amounts, funded with cash on-hand, which included the borrowings under our Revolving Credit Facility. The North Dakota Gathering and Processing Assets include crude oil, natural gas, and produced water gathering pipelines, natural gas processing and fractionation capacity in the Sanish and Pronghorn fields of the Williston Basin in North Dakota. With this acquisition, we expanded the assets in our Gathering and Processing segment located in the Williston Basin area of North Dakota to further grow our integrated, full-service logistics capabilities in support of third-party demand for crude oil, natural gas and water gathering services as well as natural gas processing services. In addition, this extends our capacity and capabilities by adding new origin and destination points for our common carrier pipelines in North Dakota and extends our crude oil, natural gas and water gathering and associated gas processing footprint to enhance and improve overall basin logistics efficiencies. We accounted for the North Dakota Gathering and Processing Assets acquisition using the acquisition method of accounting, which requires, among other things, that assets acquired at their fair values and liabilities assumed be recognized on the balance sheet as of the acquisition date. The purchase price allocation for the North Dakota Gathering and Processing Assets acquisition is preliminary and has been allocated based on estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date, pending the completion of an independent valuation and other information as it becomes available to us. The purchase price allocation adjustments can be made through the end of TLLP’s measurement period, which is not to exceed one year from the acquisition date. PRELIMINARY ACQUISITION DATE PURCHASE PRICE ALLOCATION (in millions)
Inventory | $ | 5 |
Property, plant and equipment | 540 |
Intangibles (a) | 154 |
Goodwill | 6 |
Total purchase price | $ | 705 |
(a) | The intangibles consist entirely of customer contracts with a weighted average amortization period of 9.6 years.
For the three months ended March 31, 2017, we recognized $99 million in revenues and $13 million of net earnings related to the assets acquired. If the North Dakota Gathering and Processing Assets acquisition had occurred prior to 2017, our pro forma revenues and net earnings would have been $344 million and $87 million, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2016.

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