15. Equity

We had 15,866,761 common units held by the public outstanding as of December 31, 2015. Western owns 8,579,623 common units and 22,811,000 of our subordinated units constituting a total ownership interest of 66.4%. The Offering transactions were allocated in accordance with agreements signed concurrently with the Offering and the pro-rata ownership of the units held by Western. During 2014, WNRL issued 1,160,092 common units to Western in connection with the Wholesale Acquisition. During 2015, 34,748 and 8,605 common units were issued upon the vesting of phantom units from our Western Refining Logistics, LP 2013 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP") on March 26, 2015 and September 25, 2015, respectively. Additionally, WNRL issued 421,031 common units and 80,000 TexNew Mex Units to Western in connection with the TexNew Mex Pipeline Acquisition. See Note 4, Acquisitions, for further information.

In accordance with our partnership agreement, Western's subordinated units will convert to common units once we have met specified distribution targets and successfully completed other tests set forth in the partnership agreement.

Issuance of TexNew Mex Units

The Second A&R Partnership Agreement sets forth the rights, preferences and obligations of the TexNew Mex Units. The TexNew Mex Units are generally entitled to participate in 80% of the economics attributable to the TexNew Mex Shared Segment resulting from crude oil throughput on the TexNew Mex Pipeline above the 13,000 bpd contemplated by the commitment in the Amendment to Pipeline Agreement. To the extent there is sufficient available cash from operating surplus under the Second A&R Partnership Agreement, the holder of the TexNew Mex Units will be entitled to receive a distribution equal to 80% of the excess of TexNew Mex Shared Segment Distributable Cash Flow over the TexNew Mex Base Amount. The TexNew Mex Unit distributions are preferential to all other unit holder distributions. During the year ended December 31, 2015, we declared distributions to TexNew Mex unitholders in the amount of $0.3 million. We made no distributions prior to 2015.

Holders of TexNew Mex Units will generally not have voting rights, except for limited voting rights related to amendments to the rights of holders of the TexNew Mex Units, the issuance of additional TexNew Mex Units or partnership securities with distribution rights senior to or on a parity with the TexNew Mex Units, the sale of any material portion of the TexNew Mex Pipeline, and the reservation by the Partnership of any distribution amounts to which the holders of TexNew Mex Units would otherwise be entitled.

The TexNew Mex Units are perpetual and have no rights of redemption or of conversion. No holder of any TexNew Mex Unit may transfer any or all of the TexNew Mex Units held by such holder without the prior written approval of the General Partner, unless the transfer either is to an affiliate of the holder or is to any person who is, or will be substantially concurrently with the completion of the transfer, an affiliate of the General Partner.

Issuance of Additional Interests

Our partnership agreement authorizes us to issue additional partnership interests for consideration and on the terms and conditions determined by our General Partner without the approval of the unitholders. We may fund future acquisitions through the issuance of additional common units, subordinated units or other partnership interests. Holders of any additional common units we issue will be entitled to share proportionally in accordance with their respective percentage interests with the then-existing common unitholders in our distributions of available cash. See Note 16, Equity-Based Compensation, for further information.

Allocations of Net Income

Our partnership agreement contains provisions for the allocation of net income and loss to the unitholders and the General Partner. For purposes of maintaining partner capital accounts, the partnership agreement specifies that items of income and loss shall be allocated among the partners in accordance with their respective percentage interest. Normal allocations according to percentage interests are made after giving effect, if any, to priority income allocations in an amount equal to incentive distribution right payments allocated 100% to the General Partner.

Percentage Allocations of Available Cash from Operating Surplus

The following table illustrates the percentage allocations of available cash from operating surplus between the unitholders and our General Partner (as the holder of our incentive distribution rights) based on the specified target distribution levels, subject to the preferential distribution rights of holders of the TexNew Mex Units. The amounts set forth under the column heading "Marginal Percentage Interest in Distributions" are the percentage interests of our General Partner and the unitholders in any available cash from operating surplus we distribute up to and including the corresponding amount in the column "Total Quarterly Distribution per Unit Target Amount". The percentage interests shown for our unitholders and our General Partner for the minimum quarterly distribution are also applicable to quarterly distribution amounts that are less than the minimum quarterly distribution. The percentage interests set forth below assume our General Partner has not transferred its incentive distribution rights and there are no arrearages on common units.



	Total Quarterly Distribution per Unit Target Amount	Marginal Percentage Interest in Distributions
	Total Quarterly Distribution per Unit Target Amount	Unitholders		General Partner
Minimum Quarterly Distribution	$0.2875	100.0	%	—
First Target Distribution	above $0.2875 up to $0.3306	100.0	%	—
Second Target Distribution	above $0.3306 up to $0.3594	85.0	%	15.0	%
Third Target Distribution	above $0.3594 up to $0.4313	75.0	%	25.0	%
Thereafter	above $0.4313	50.0	%	50.0	%

Our partnership agreement sets forth the calculation to be used to determine the amount and priority of cash distributions that the common and subordinated unitholders and general partner will receive. We declare distributions subsequent to quarter end. The table below summarizes our 2015 quarterly distribution declarations, payments and scheduled payments through December 31, 2015:



Declaration Date	Record Date	Payment Date	Distribution per Common and Subordinated Unit
January 30	February 13	February 23	$	0.3325
May 1	May 15	May 26	0.3475
July 31	August 14	August 24	0.3650
October 30	November 13	November 23	0.3825
Total			$	1.4275

On February 1, 2016, our general partner's board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.3925 per unit for the fourth quarter of 2015. We paid the distribution on February 26, 2016 to all unitholders of record on February 11, 2016.

During 2015, we declared and paid distributions that were in excess of the target distribution amounts set forth in our partnership agreement, resulting in distributions to our General Partner as the holder of incentive distribution rights. The total quarterly cash distributions made to general and limited partners for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, was as follows:



	Year Ended
	December 31, 2015		December 31, 2014
	(In thousands, except per unit data)
General Partners' distributions:
General Partner's incentive distribution rights	$	1,085	$	—
Total General Partner's distributions	$	1,085	$	—

Limited partners' distributions:
Common	$	34,436	$	26,902
Subordinated	32,563		26,534
Total limited partners' distributions	66,999		53,436
Total cash distributions	$	68,084	$	53,436

Cash distributions per limited partner unit	$	1.4275	$	1.1632

We currently have an effective universal shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 that provides for the registration and sale of up to $1 billion of equity or debt securities of us and certain of our subsidiaries. We may over time, and subject to market conditions, in one or more offerings, offer and sell any combination of the securities described in the prospectus.