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Acquisitions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Acquisitions
2.  ACQUISITIONS

The following table presents the acquisitions completed by WES during 2015 and 2014, and identifies the funding sources for such acquisitions:
thousands except unit and percent amounts
 
Acquisition
Date
 
Percentage
Acquired
 
Deferred Purchase Price Obligation - Anadarko
 
Borrowings
 
Cash
On Hand
 
WES
Common
Units Issued to Anadarko
 
WES
Class C Units Issued to Anadarko
TEFR Interests (1)
 
03/03/2014
 
Various (1)

 
$

 
$
350,000

 
$
6,250

 
308,490

 

DBM (2)
 
11/25/2014
 
100
%
 

 
475,000

 
298,327

 

 
10,913,853

DBJV system (3)
 
03/02/2015
 
50
%
 
174,276

 

 

 

 

(1) 
WES acquired a 20% interest in each of TEG and TEP and a 33.33% interest in FRP from Anadarko. These assets gather and transport NGLs primarily from the Anadarko and Denver-Julesburg (“DJ”) Basins. The interests in these entities are accounted for under the equity method of accounting. In connection with the issuance of WES common units, WES GP purchased 6,296 general partner units in exchange for WES GP’s proportionate capital contribution of $0.4 million.
(2) 
WES acquired Nuevo Midstream, LLC (“Nuevo”) from a third party. Following the acquisition, WES changed the name of Nuevo to Delaware Basin Midstream, LLC (“DBM”). The assets acquired include cryogenic processing plants, a gas gathering system, and related facilities and equipment, which are collectively referred to as the “DBM complex” and serve production from Reeves, Loving and Culberson Counties, Texas and Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico.
(3) 
WES acquired Anadarko’s interest in Delaware Basin JV Gathering LLC (“DBJV”), which owns a 50% interest in a gathering system and related facilities (the “DBJV system”). The DBJV system is located in the Delaware Basin in Loving, Ward, Winkler and Reeves Counties, Texas. WES will make a cash payment on March 31, 2020, to Anadarko as consideration for the acquisition of DBJV. WES currently estimates the future payment will be $282.8 million, the net present value of which was $174.3 million as of the acquisition date. See Deferred purchase price obligation - Anadarko below.

DBJV acquisition. Because the acquisition of DBJV was a transfer of net assets between entities under common control, WGP’s historical financial statements previously filed with the SEC have been recast in this Form 10-Q to include the results attributable to the DBJV system as if WES owned DBJV for all periods presented. The consolidated financial statements for periods prior to WES’s acquisition of DBJV have been prepared from Anadarko’s historical cost-basis accounts and may not necessarily be indicative of the actual results of operations that would have occurred if WES had owned DBJV during the periods reported.
The following table presents the impact of the DBJV system on revenue, equity income, net and net income as presented in WGP’s historical consolidated statements of income:
 
 
Three Months Ended March 31, 2014
thousands
 
WGP Historical
 
DBJV System
 
Combined
Revenues
 
$
279,457

 
$
14,260

 
$
293,717

Equity income, net
 
9,251

 

 
9,251

Net income
 
90,175

 
3,621

 
93,796



2.  ACQUISITIONS (CONTINUED)

Deferred purchase price obligation - Anadarko. The consideration to be paid by WES for the acquisition of DBJV consists of a cash payment to Anadarko due on March 31, 2020. The cash payment will be equal to eight multiplied by (a) the average of WES’s share in the Net Earnings (see definition below) of the DBJV system for the calendar years 2018 and 2019, less (b) WES’s share of all capital expenditures incurred for the DBJV system between March 1, 2015, and February 29, 2020. Net Earnings is defined as all revenues less cost of product, operating expenses and property taxes, in each case attributable to the DBJV system on an accrual basis. As of the acquisition date, the estimated future payment obligation was $282.8 million, which had a net present value of $174.3 million, using a discount rate of 10%. As of March 31, 2015, the net present value of this obligation was $175.7 million and has been recorded on the consolidated balance sheet under Deferred purchase price obligation - Anadarko. Accretion expense for the three months ended March 31, 2015, was $1.4 million and has been recorded as a charge to interest expense. The fair value measurement was calculated using Level 3 inputs, which consisted of management’s estimate of WES’s share of forecasted Net Earnings and capital expenditures for the DBJV system.

DBM acquisition. The DBM acquisition has been accounted for under the acquisition method of accounting. The assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the DBM acquisition were recorded in the consolidated balance sheet at their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date. Results of operations attributable to the DBM acquisition were included in the consolidated statement of income beginning on the acquisition date in the fourth quarter of 2014.
The following is the preliminary allocation of the purchase price as of March 31, 2015, including $3.5 million of post-closing purchase price adjustments, to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the DBM acquisition as of the acquisition date, pending final review of support related to the acquired entity’s assets:
thousands
 
 
Current assets
 
$
63,020

Property, plant and equipment
 
467,171

Goodwill
 
282,999

Other intangible assets
 
811,048

Accounts payables
 
(17,679
)
Accrued liabilities
 
(38,684
)
Deferred income taxes
 
(1,342
)
Asset retirement obligations and other
 
(9,060
)
Total purchase price
 
$
1,557,473



The purchase price allocation is based on an assessment of the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the DBM acquisition using inputs that are not observable in the market and thus represent Level 3 inputs. The fair values of the processing plants, gathering system, and related facilities and equipment are based on market and cost approaches. The fair value of the intangible assets was determined using an income approach. Deferred taxes represent the tax effects of differences in the tax basis and acquisition-date fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed.