Partners' Equity, Income Allocations and Cash Distributions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Partners' Capital [Abstract]

Partners' Equity, Income Allocations and Cash Distributions

Partners’ Equity, Income Allocations and Cash Distributions

As of March 31, 2020, HFC held 59,630,030 of our common units, constituting a 57% limited partner interest in us, and held the non-economic general partner interest.

Continuous Offering Program

We have a continuous offering program under which we may issue and sell common units from time to time, representing limited partner interests, up to an aggregate gross sales amount of $200 million. As of March 31, 2020, HEP has issued 2,413,153 units under this program, providing $82.3 million in gross proceeds.

Allocations of Net Income

Net income attributable to HEP is allocated to the partners based on their weighted-average ownership percentage during the period.

Cash Distributions

On April 23, 2020, we announced our cash distribution for the first quarter of 2020 of $0.35 per unit. The distribution is payable on all common units and will be paid May 14, 2020, to all unitholders of record on May 4, 2020. However, HEP Logistics waived $2.5 million in limited partner cash distributions due to them as discussed in Note 1.

Our regular quarterly cash distribution to the limited partners will be $34.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and was $68.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019. Our distributions are declared subsequent to quarter end; therefore, these amounts do not reflect distributions paid during the respective period.

As a master limited partnership, we distribute our available cash, which historically has exceeded our net income attributable to HEP because depreciation and amortization expense represents a non-cash charge against income. The result is a decline in our partners’ equity since our regular quarterly distributions have exceeded our quarterly net income attributable to HEP. Additionally, if the asset contributions and acquisitions from HFC had occurred while we were not a consolidated VIE of HFC, our acquisition cost, in excess of HFC’s historical basis in the transferred assets, would have been recorded in our financial statements at the time of acquisition as increases to our properties and equipment and intangible assets instead of decreases to our partners’ equity.