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Acquisitions and Divestitures
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]  
Acquisitions and Divestitures
2.  ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES

The following table presents the acquisitions completed by WES during 2016 and 2015, and identifies the funding sources for such acquisitions:
thousands except unit and percent amounts
 
Acquisition
Date
 
Percentage
Acquired
 
Deferred Purchase Price
Obligation - Anadarko
 
Borrowings
 
WES Common Units
Issued
 
WES’s Series A Preferred Units
DBJV (1)
 
03/02/2015
 
100
%
 
$
174,276

 
$

 

 

Springfield (2)
 
03/14/2016
 
100
%
 

 
247,500

 
2,089,602

 
14,030,611

(1) 
WES acquired Delaware Basin JV Gathering LLC (“DBJV”) from Anadarko. DBJV owns a 50% interest in a gathering system and related facilities, such interest being referred to in this report as the “DBJV system”. The DBJV gathering system and related facilities are 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 DBJV acquisition—deferred purchase price obligation - Anadarko below.
(2) 
WES acquired Springfield Pipeline LLC (“Springfield”) from Anadarko for $750.0 million, consisting of $712.5 million in cash and the issuance of 1,253,761 of WES common units. Springfield owns a 50.1% interest in an oil gathering system and a gas gathering system, such interest being referred to in this report as the “Springfield system.” The Springfield oil and gas gathering systems are located in Dimmit, La Salle, Maverick and Webb Counties in South Texas. WES financed the cash portion of the acquisition through: (i) borrowings of $247.5 million on the WES RCF, (ii) the issuance of 835,841 of WES common units to WGP and (iii) the issuance of WES Series A Preferred units noted above to private investors (the “initial issuance”). See Note 4 for further information regarding the WES Series A Preferred units, including the full exercise of an option granted in connection with the initial issuance. WGP financed the purchase of the WES common units by borrowing $25.0 million on the WGP RCF. See Note 9.

Springfield acquisition. Because the acquisition of Springfield 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 Springfield system as if WES owned Springfield for all periods presented. The consolidated financial statements for periods prior to WES’s acquisition of Springfield 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 Springfield during the periods reported.
The following table presents the impact of the Springfield system on Revenues and other, Equity income, net and Net income (loss) as presented in WGP’s historical consolidated statements of income:
 
 
Three Months Ended March 31, 2015
thousands
 
WGP Historical
 
Springfield System
 
Eliminations
 
Combined
Revenues and other
 
$
388,409

 
$
48,614

 
$
(17
)
 
$
437,006

Equity income, net
 
18,220

 

 

 
18,220

Net income (loss)
 
(177,392
)
 
23,297

 

 
(154,095
)


2.  ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES (CONTINUED)

DBJV acquisition - 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 (a) eight multiplied by the average of WES’s share in the Net Earnings (see definition below) of DBJV for the calendar years 2018 and 2019, less (b) WES’s share of all capital expenditures incurred for DBJV 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 DBJV on an accrual basis. As of the acquisition date, the estimated future payment obligation (based on management’s estimate of WES’s share of forecasted Net Earnings and capital expenditures for DBJV) was $282.8 million, which had a net present value of $174.3 million, using a discount rate of 10%. As of March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, the net present value of this obligation was $193.2 million and $188.7 million, respectively, which was recorded on the consolidated balance sheet under Deferred purchase price obligation - Anadarko. Accretion expense for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015, was $4.5 million and $1.4 million, respectively, which was recorded as a charge to Interest expense. Any subsequent changes to the estimated future payment obligation, if applicable, will be calculated using a discounted cash flow model with a 10% discount rate. Such changes will be recorded as adjustments within Common units on the consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of equity and partners’ capital, with accretion adjustments (financing-related) as a result of these changes recorded within Interest expense on the consolidated statements of income in the period of the change.