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Debt (Notes)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Long-term Debt, Unclassified [Abstract]  
Debt
DEBT

Our total debt at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 was comprised of the following (in thousands):
Debt, including current maturities:
March 31, 2014
 
December 31, 2013
Revolving Credit Facility
$

 
$

5.875% TLLP Senior Notes due 2020 (a)
605,426

 
605,598

6.125% TLLP Senior Notes due 2021
550,000

 
550,000

Capital lease obligations
8,680

 
8,745

Total Debt
1,164,106

 
1,164,343

Current maturities
(328
)
 
(323
)
Debt, less current maturities
$
1,163,778

 
$
1,164,020


____________ 
 
 
(a)
Includes an unamortized premium of $5.4 million and $5.6 million as of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.

Revolving Credit Facility

As of March 31, 2014, our revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”) provided for total loan availability of $575.0 million and allows us to request that the loan availability be increased up to an aggregate of $650.0 million, subject to receiving increased commitments from the lenders. Our Revolving Credit Facility is non-recourse to Tesoro, except for TLGP, and is guaranteed by all of our subsidiaries and secured by substantially all of our assets. We had no borrowings and $0.3 million in letters of credit outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility, resulting in a total unused loan availability of $574.7 million as of March 31, 2014. The Revolving Credit Facility is scheduled to mature on December 31, 2017.

As of March 31, 2014, our Revolving Credit Facility was subject to the following expenses and fees:
Credit Facility
 
30 day Eurodollar (LIBOR) Rate
 
Eurodollar Margin
 
Base Rate
 
Base Rate Margin
 
Commitment Fee
(unused portion)
Revolving Credit Facility (b)
 
0.15%
 
2.50%
 
3.25%
 
1.50%
 
0.50%
____________
(b) We have the option to elect if the borrowings will bear interest at either a base rate plus the base rate margin, or a Eurodollar rate, for the applicable period, plus the Eurodollar margin at the time of the borrowing. The applicable margin varies based upon a certain leverage ratio, as defined by the Revolving Credit Facility. We also incur commitment fees for the unused portion of the Revolving Credit Facility at an annual rate. Letters of credit outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility incur fees at the Eurodollar margin rate.

Exchange Offer

The Partnership entered into a registration rights agreement (“Registration Rights Agreement”) in connection with the December 2013 private offering of $250.0 million of Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Unregistered Notes”). On April 11, 2014, pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Partnership filed a registration statement related to an offer to exchange the Unregistered Notes for notes registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Exchange Notes”). The registration statement is not yet effective and the related exchange offering has not yet commenced.  Once the offer has commenced, each holder of the Unregistered Notes will be entitled to receive Exchange Notes which are identical in all material respects to the Unregistered Notes (including principal amount, interest rate, maturity and redemption rights), except that the Exchange Notes generally are not subject to transfer restrictions.

Subsidiary Guarantors

The parent company of the Partnership has no independent assets or operations. The Partnership’s operations are conducted by its wholly-owned guarantor subsidiaries, other than Tesoro Logistics Finance Corp., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Partnership whose sole purpose is to act as co-issuer of any debt securities. The guarantees are full and unconditional and joint and several, subject to certain automatic customary releases, including sale, disposition, or transfer of the capital stock or substantially all of the assets of a subsidiary guarantor, exercise of legal defeasance option or covenant defeasance option, and designation of a subsidiary guarantor as unrestricted in accordance with the applicable indenture. There are no significant restrictions on the ability of the Partnership or any guarantor to obtain funds from its subsidiaries by dividend or loan. None of the assets of the Partnership or a guarantor represent restricted net assets pursuant to Rule 4-08(e)(3) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.