OREANDA-NEWS. American Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:AMID) (“Partnership” or “AMID”) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of the Partnership’s Propane Marketing and Services (“Propane”) business to SHV Energy N.V. for $170 million in cash, subject to working capital adjustments. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017.

Through the transaction, the Partnership will divest 100% of Propane, including Pinnacle Propane’s 40 service locations; Pinnacle Propane Express’ cylinder exchange business and related logistic assets; and the Alliant Gas utility system.

For the past several quarters, the Partnership’s management has reiterated its intention of growing distributable cash flow and creating balance sheet flexibility to pursue its growth objectives. In the second quarter of 2017, AMID began executing on a capital optimization strategy to simplify its businesses and redeploy capital from non-core assets toward complementary opportunities in the Partnership’s Gulf of Mexico, Permian Basin and East Texas assets.

Core Area Capital Redeployment

Through a series of executed and anticipated transactions, the Partnership expects that substantially all proceeds from the Propane sale will be reallocated within the third quarter of 2017, further enhancing AMID’s cash flow profile.

This includes the Partnership’s June 2, 2017 acquisition of the Viosca Knoll system (“Viosca Knoll”) from Genesis Energy, L.P. for total consideration of approximately $32 million. Viosca Knoll serves producing fields located in Main Pass, Mississippi Canyon and Viosca Knoll areas in deep-water Gulf of Mexico that connect to several major delivery pipelines, including AMID’s High Point and Destin pipelines. The acquisition of Viosca Knoll continues the Partnership’s development of a premier Gulf of Mexico system offering strong interconnectivity across the Gulf Coast and providing customers with more efficient delivery options. The acquisition was initially funded with borrowings from the Partnership’s senior secured credit facility and will be repaid commensurate with closing of the Propane transaction.

“Over the past few months, AMID’s management team has communicated its strategy to strengthen the Partnership’s competitive position in our core areas, evaluate non-core asset sales and reallocate capital to areas with the greatest long-term value. The sale of the Propane business and acquisition of Viosca Knoll are the first steps in implementing a strategy that achieves these goals,” stated Lynn Bourdon, the Partnership’s Chief Executive Officer. “Reallocating capital from non-core assets into more strategic investments significantly repositions AMID’s ability to compete and to generate significant unitholder value.”

The Partnership expects to announce further beneficial outcomes of its capital optimization strategy over the coming months and is maintaining its previously announced 2017 Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $190 to 205 million. Based on anticipated outcomes of its growth strategy and other opportunities the Partnership is pursuing, American Midstream expects a material increase in 2018 Adjusted EBITDA.

Closing of the sale of the Propane business is subject to customary closing conditions, including clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP served as legal counsel to American Midstream for the Propane transaction.

About American Midstream Partners, LP

American Midstream Partners, LP is a growth-oriented limited partnership formed to provide critical midstream infrastructure that links producers of natural gas, crude oil, NGLs, condensate and specialty chemicals to end-use markets. American Midstream’s assets are strategically located in some of the most prolific onshore and offshore basins in the Permian, Eagle Ford, East Texas, Bakken and Gulf Coast. American Midstream owns or has an ownership interest in approximately 4,000 miles of interstate and intrastate pipelines, as well as ownership in gas processing plants, fractionation facilities, an offshore semisubmersible floating production system with nameplate processing capacity of 100 MBbl/d of crude oil and 240 MMcf/d of natural gas; and terminal sites with approximately 6.7 MMBbls of storage capacity.

About SHV Energy

SHV Energy is one of the world’s leading LPG distributors. In addition, SHV Energy also provides small-scale LNG, biomass and soon also bio-LPG to customers that do not have access to the natural gas grid. SHV Energy enables its customers to switch from heating oil and solid fuels to cleaner fuels such as LPG, LNG and renewables, resulting in a lower carbon impact and improved air quality. SHV Energy has 16,000 employees and operates in more than 20 countries under brands such as Primagaz, Calor Gas, Liquigas and Ipragaz. Revenues in 2016 were USD 6.6 billion. As part of the 121 years old Dutch privately owned SHV Holdings, SHV Energy is committed to working sustainably with communities, stakeholders and policymakers.

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