Genesis Energy, L.P.: Form 10-K
Genesis Energy, L.P.: Form 10-K
Genesis Energy, L.P.: Form 10-K
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The aggregate market value of the Class A common units held by non-affiliates of the Registrant on June 30, 2023 (the last business day of
Registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter) was approximately $995.3 million based on $9.55 per unit, the closing price of the
common units as reported on the NYSE. For purposes of this computation, all executive officers and directors are deemed to be affiliates.
Such a determination should not be deemed an admission that such executive officers and directors are affiliates. On February 22, 2024, the
Registrant had 122,424,321 Class A Common Units and 39,997 Class B Common Units outstanding.
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Part I
Item 1 Business 6
Item 1A. Risk Factors 31
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 50
Item 1C. Cybersecurity 50
Item 2. Properties 52
Item 3. Legal Proceedings 65
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 65
Part II
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Unitholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Item 5. 66
Securities
Item 6. Selected Financial Data 67
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 67
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 93
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 95
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure 95
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures 95
Item 9B. Other Information 96
Part III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 96
Item 11. Executive Compensation 102
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Unitholder Matters 111
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence 112
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 113
Part IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 114
Item 16. Form 10-K Summary 117
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Definitions
Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this annual report to “Genesis Energy, L.P.,” “Genesis,” “we,”
“our,” “us,” “the Company” or like terms refer to Genesis Energy, L.P. and its operating subsidiaries. As generally used within
the energy industry and in this annual report, the identified terms have the following meanings:
Bbl or Barrel: One stock tank barrel, or 42 U.S. gallons liquid volume, used in reference to crude oil or other liquid
hydrocarbons.
Gal: Gallon.
Natural gas liquid(s) or NGL(s): The combination of ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane and natural gasolines that,
when removed from natural gas, become liquid under various levels of higher pressure and lower temperature.
Sour gas: Natural gas containing more than four parts per million of hydrogen sulfide.
Wellhead: The point at which the hydrocarbons and water exit the ground.
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
The statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K that are not historical information may be “forward looking
statements” as defined under federal law. All statements, other than historical facts, included in this document that address
activities, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will or may occur in the future, including things such as plans for
growth of the business, future capital expenditures, competitive strengths, goals, references to future goals or intentions,
estimated or projected future financial performance, and other such references are forward-looking statements, and historical
performance is not necessarily indicative of future performance. These forward-looking statements are identified as any
statement that does not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They use words such as “anticipate,” “believe,”
“continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “could,” “plan,” “position,” “projection,”
“strategy,” “should” or “will,” or the negative of those terms or other variations of them or by comparable terminology. In
particular, statements, expressed or implied, concerning future actions, conditions or events or future operating results or the
ability to generate sales, income or cash flow are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees
of performance. They involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Future actions, conditions or events and future results of
operations may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Many of the factors that will
determine these results are beyond our ability or the ability of our affiliates to control or predict. Specific factors that could
cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include, among others:
• demand for, the supply of, our assumptions about, changes in forecast data for, and price trends related to crude oil,
liquid petroleum, natural gas, NaHS, soda ash, and caustic soda, all of which may be affected by economic activity,
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capital expenditures by energy producers, weather, alternative energy sources, international events (including the war
in Ukraine and conflict in Israel), global pandemics, inflation, the actions of OPEC (as defined below) and other oil
exporting nations, conservation and technological advances;
• our ability to successfully execute our business and financial strategies;
• our ability to continue to realize cost savings from our cost saving measures;
• throughput levels and rates;
• changes in, or challenges to, our tariff rates;
• our ability to successfully identify and close strategic acquisitions on acceptable terms (including obtaining third-
party consents and waivers of preferential rights), develop or construct infrastructure assets, make cost saving
changes in operations and integrate acquired assets or businesses into our existing operations;
• service interruptions in our pipeline transportation systems, processing operations or mining facilities, including due
to adverse weather events;
• shutdowns or cutbacks at refineries, petrochemical plants, utilities, individual plants or other businesses for which we
transport crude oil, petroleum, natural gas or other products or to whom we sell soda ash, petroleum or other
products;
• risks inherent in marine transportation and vessel operation, including accidents and discharge of pollutants;
• changes in laws and regulations to which we are subject, including tax withholding issues, regulations regarding
qualifying income, accounting pronouncements, and safety, environmental and employment laws and regulations;
• the effects of production declines resulting from a suspension of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico or otherwise;
• the effects of future laws and regulations;
• planned capital expenditures and availability of capital resources to fund capital expenditures, and our ability to
access the credit and capital markets to obtain financing on terms we deem acceptable;
• our inability to borrow or otherwise access funds needed for operations, expansions or capital expenditures as a result
of our credit agreement and the indentures governing our notes, which contain various affirmative and negative
covenants;
• loss of key personnel;
• cash from operations that we generate could decrease or fail to meet expectations, either of which could reduce our
ability to pay quarterly cash distributions (common and preferred) at the current level or to increase quarterly cash
distributions in the future;
• an increase in the competition that our operations encounter;
• cost and availability of insurance;
• hazards and operating risks that may not be covered fully by insurance;
• our financial and commodity hedging arrangements, which may reduce our earnings, profitability and cash flow;
• changes in global economic conditions, including capital and credit markets conditions, inflation and interest rates,
including the result of any economic recession or depression that has occurred or may occur in the future;
• the impact of natural disasters, international military conflicts (such as the conflict in Ukraine and the conflict in
Israel), global pandemics, epidemics, accidents or terrorism, and actions taken by governmental authorities and other
third parties in response thereto, on our business financial condition and results of operations;
• reduction in demand for our services resulting in impairments of our assets;
• changes in the financial condition of customers or counterparties;
• adverse rulings, judgments, or settlements in litigation or other legal or tax matters;
• the treatment of us as a corporation for federal income tax purposes or if we become subject to entity-level taxation for
state tax purposes;
• the potential that our internal controls may not be adequate, weaknesses may be discovered or remediation of any
identified weaknesses may not be successful and the impact these could have on our unit price; and
• a cyberattack involving our information systems and related infrastructure, or that of our business associates.
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You should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. When considering forward-looking statements,
please review the risk factors described under “Risk Factors” discussed in Item 1A. These risks may also be specifically
described in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and Form 8-K/A and other documents that we
may file from time to time with the SEC. Except as required by applicable securities laws, we do not intend to update these
forward-looking statements and information.
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PART I
Item 1. Business
General
We are a growth-oriented master limited partnership (“MLP”) formed in Delaware in 1996. Our common units are
traded on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, under the ticker symbol “GEL.” We are (i) a provider of an integrated suite
of midstream services (primarily transportation, storage, sulfur removal, blending, terminaling and processing) for a large area
of the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Coast region of the crude oil and natural gas industry and (ii) one of the leading producers
in the world of natural soda ash. We provide an integrated suite of services to refiners, crude oil and natural gas producers, and
industrial and commercial enterprises and have a diverse portfolio of assets, including pipelines, offshore hub and junction
platforms, refinery-related plants, storage tanks and terminals, railcars, barges and other vessels, and trucks. The other core
focus of our business is our trona and trona-based exploring, mining, processing, producing, marketing, logistics and selling
business based in Wyoming (our “Alkali Business”). Our Alkali Business mines and processes trona from which it produces
natural soda ash, also known as sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), a basic building block for a number of ubiquitous products,
including flat glass, container glass, dry detergent, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate (which are key inputs in the
production of lithium batteries) and a variety of chemicals and other industrial products, and has been operating for
approximately 75 years.
We currently manage our businesses through four divisions that constitute our reportable segments: offshore pipeline
transportation, soda and sulfur services, marine transportation and onshore facilities and transportation. For additional
information, please review the section entitled “Financial Measures.” Our operations include, among others, the following
diversified businesses, each of which is one of the leaders in its market, has a long commercial life and has significant barriers
to entry:
• one of the largest pipeline networks (based on throughput capacity) in the Deepwater area of the Gulf of Mexico, an
area that produced approximately 15% of the oil produced in the U.S. during 2023;
• one of the leading producers (based on tons produced) of natural soda ash in the world;
• one of the largest producers and marketers (based on tons produced) of sodium hydrosulfide (or NaHS, pronounced
“nash”) in North and South America; and
• one of the leading providers of crude oil and petroleum transportation, storage, and other handling services for two of
the largest refinery complexes in the U.S., one located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and one in Baytown, Texas, both of
which have been operational for over 100 years.
We conduct our operations and own our operating assets through our subsidiaries and joint ventures. Our general
partner, Genesis Energy, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary that owns a non-economic general partner interest in us, has sole
responsibility for conducting our business and managing our operations. Our outstanding common units (including our Class B
common units), and our outstanding Class A convertible preferred units (our “Class A Convertible Preferred Units”),
representing limited partner interests, constitute all of the economic equity interests in us.
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Our interests in operating offshore natural gas pipeline systems and related infrastructure include approximately 764
miles of pipe with an aggregate design capacity of approximately 2,308 MMcf/day. We also own an interest in two offshore
hub platforms with an aggregate processing capacity of approximately 495 MMcf/day of natural gas and 123 MBbls/day of
crude oil. Additionally, we own an interest in a number of junction and service platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, which are used
to (i) interconnect the offshore pipeline network; (ii) provide an efficient means to perform pipeline maintenance; and (iii)
increase or direct the flow on our pipelines via pumps and measurement equipment.
We generate cash flows from our offshore pipelines from fees charged to customers or substantially similar
arrangements that otherwise limit our direct exposure to changes in commodity prices.
We believe our offshore pipeline transportation segment is well positioned to participate in both the energy transition
and lower carbon world as barrels produced from the Gulf of Mexico are some of the least emission intensive barrels, from
reservoir to refinery, of any barrel refined by Gulf Coast refineries (including shipping).
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• We continue to have a significant amount of available borrowing capacity under our senior secured credit facility,
which will allow us, when combined with our increasing cash flows from operations as discussed above, to fund our
high return capital projects, including the remaining capital commitments associated with our Granger Optimization
Project, our SYNC pipeline and the expansion of our existing CHOPS pipeline (all of which are further discussed
below in “Recent Developments and Status of Certain Growth Initiatives”), which will provide increased future cash
flows to further deleverage our balance sheet once completed.
Business Strategy
Our primary business strategy is to provide an integrated suite of services to crude oil and natural gas producers,
refiners, and industrial and commercial enterprises that use natural soda ash, NaHS and caustic soda. Successfully executing
this strategy should enable us to generate and grow stable cash flows from operations.
We intend to execute this strategy by:
• Identifying and exploiting incremental profit opportunities, including cost synergies, across an increasingly integrated
footprint;
• Economically expanding our pipeline and terminal operations by utilizing capacity currently available on our existing
assets that requires minimal to no additional investment;
• Optimizing our existing assets and creating synergies through additional commercial and operating advancement;
• Leveraging customer relationships across business segments;
• Attracting new customers and expanding our scope of services offered to existing customers;
• Expanding the geographic reach of our businesses;
• Evaluating internal and third party growth opportunities (including asset and business acquisitions) that leverage our
core competencies and strengths and further integrate our businesses; and
• Focusing on health, safety and environmental stewardship, and advancement of our sustainability program.
Financial Strategy
We believe that preserving financial flexibility is an important factor in our overall strategy and success. Over the
long-term, we intend to:
• Increase the relative contribution of recurring and throughput-based revenues, emphasizing longer-term contractual
arrangements;
• Prudently manage our limited direct commodity price risks;
• Maintain a sound, disciplined capital structure, including our current and forward path to deleveraging;
• Fund capital projects through a combination of the available borrowing capacity under our senior secured credit
facility, internally generated cash flows from operations, or externally;
• Create strategic arrangements and share capital costs and risks through joint ventures and strategic alliances; and
• Pursue divestitures that support our deleveraging objective.
Competitive Strengths
We believe we are well positioned to execute our strategies and ultimately achieve our objectives due primarily to the
following competitive strengths:
• Our businesses encompass a balanced, diversified portfolio of customers, operations and assets. We operate four
business segments and own and operate assets that enable us to provide a number of services primarily to refiners,
crude oil and natural gas producers, and industrial and commercial enterprises that use natural soda ash, NaHS and
caustic soda. Our business lines complement each other by allowing us to offer an integrated suite of services to
common customers across our segments. We are not dependent upon any one segment, customer or principal location
for our revenues.
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• Certain of our businesses are among the leaders in each of their respective markets and each of which has a long
commercial life and significant barriers to entry. We operate, among others, diversified businesses, each of which is
one of the leaders in its market, has a long commercial life, and has significant barriers to entry. We operate one of the
largest pipeline networks (based on throughput capacity) in the Deepwater area of the Gulf of Mexico, an area that
produced approximately 15% of the oil produced in the U.S. during 2023. We are one of the leading producers (based
on tons produced) of natural soda ash in the world. We are one of the largest producers and marketers (based on tons
produced) of NaHS in North and South America. We are one of the leading providers of crude oil and petroleum
product transportation, storage and other handling services for two large, complex refineries in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana and Baytown, Texas, both of which have been operational for over 100 years.
• We are financially flexible and have significant liquidity. As of December 31, 2023, we had $547.2 million of
availability under our $850 million senior secured credit facility, subject to compliance with our covenants, including
up to $180.7 million available under the $200.0 million petroleum products inventory loan sublimit and $95.5 million
available for letters of credit. Our inventory borrowing base was $19.3 million at December 31, 2023.
• Our businesses provide relatively consistent consolidated financial performance. Our historically consistent financial
performance, combined with our goal of a conservative capital structure over the long term, has allowed us to generate
relatively stable and increasing cash flows from operations.
• We have limited direct commodity price risk exposure in our crude oil marketing business and cost exposure in our
soda ash and NaHS businesses. The volumes of crude oil, refined products or intermediate feedstocks we purchase are
either subject to back-to-back sales contracts or are hedged with exchange-traded derivatives to limit our direct
exposure to movements in the price of the commodity, although we cannot completely eliminate commodity price
exposure. We also try to minimize our exposure to fluctuations in natural gas, fuel and freight costs, which are key cost
inputs in our Alkali Business, through the use of hedges. We have a risk management policy that requires us to
monitor the effectiveness of the hedges as well as other limitations on the maximum levels of inventory we may hold
that is not hedged. In addition, our service contracts with refiners allow us to adjust the rates we charge for processing
to maintain a balance between NaHS supply and demand.
• Our offshore Gulf of Mexico crude oil and natural gas pipeline transportation and handling operations are located in
a significant producing region with large-reservoir, long-lived crude oil and natural gas properties. We provide a
suite of services, primarily to integrated and large independent energy companies who make intensive capital
investments to develop numerous large-reservoir, long-lived crude oil and natural gas properties in one of the largest
producing regions in the U.S., the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
• Our Alkali Business has significant cost advantages over synthetic production methods. Our Alkali Business has
significant cost advantages over synthetic production methods, including lower raw material and energy requirements.
According to Chemical Market Analytics (CMA), on average, the cash cost to produce natural soda ash has historically
been about half of the cost to produce synthetic soda ash.
• Our expertise and reputation for high performance standards and quality enable us to provide refiners with economic
and proven services. Our extensive understanding of the sulfur removal process and crude oil refining can provide us
with an advantage when evaluating new opportunities and/or markets.
• Some of our pipeline transportation and related assets are strategically located. Our pipelines are critical to the
ongoing operations of our refiner and producer customers. In addition, a majority of our terminals are located in areas
that can be accessed by pipeline, truck, rail or barge.
• Some of our onshore facilities and transportation assets are operationally flexible. Our portfolio of trucks, barges,
pipelines, rail unloading facilities, tanks and terminals affords us flexibility within our existing regional footprint and
provides us the capability to enter new markets and expand our customer relationships.
• Our marine transportation assets provide waterborne transportation throughout North America. We own and operate
a fleet of barges and boats used to provide transportation services to both inland and offshore customers within a large
North American geographic footprint. Our fleet consists of (i) 82 inland boats, of which all but four are heated and
asphalt capable; (ii) nine offshore barges that transport crude oil and refined petroleum products along the Eastern
Seaboard; and (iii) our ocean going tanker with 330,000 barrels of cargo capacity - the M/T American Phoenix. All of
our vessels operate under the U.S. flag and are qualified for U.S. coastwise trade under the Jones Act.
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• We have an experienced, knowledgeable and motivated executive management team with a proven track record. Our
executive management team has a significant level of experience in the midstream sector. Its members have worked in
leadership roles at a number of large, successful public companies, including other publicly-traded partnerships.
Through their equity interest in us and compensation package (including long term incentive awards based on
available cash before reserves, leverage, sustainability and safety metrics), our executive management team is
incentivized to create value.
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Market Update
Over the past several years, we have seen a heightened level of volatility in global markets and commodity prices
driven by various events or circumstances outside of our control including, but not limited to, global pandemics, international
military conflicts, geopolitical events and significant changes in economic policies. This volatility could negatively impact
future prices for crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products and industrial products.
Management’s estimates are based on numerous assumptions about future operations and market conditions, which we
believe to be reasonable, but are inherently uncertain. The uncertainties underlying our assumptions could cause our estimates
to differ significantly from actual results. We will continue to monitor the current market environment and to the extent
conditions deteriorate, we may identify triggering events that may require future evaluations of the recoverability of the
carrying value of our long-lived assets, intangible assets and goodwill, which could result in impairment charges that could be
material to our results of operations.
We believe the fundamentals of our core businesses continue to remain strong and, considering the current industry
environment and capital market behavior, we have continued our focus on deleveraging our balance sheet as further explained
in “Liquidity and Capital Resources.”
Ownership Structure
We conduct our operations and own our operating assets through subsidiaries and joint ventures. As is customary with
publicly traded limited partnerships, Genesis Energy, LLC, our general partner, is responsible for operating our business and
providing all necessary personnel and other resources to do so.
The following chart depicts our organizational structure at December 31, 2023.
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Throughput
Design Throughput (Bbls/day) net
Offshore crude oil System Capacity Interest (Bbls/day) to ownership
pipelines Operator Miles (Bbls/day)(1) Owned 100% basis(1) interest
Main Lines
CHOPS Pipeline Genesis 380 500,000 64 % 274,527 175,697
Poseidon Pipeline Genesis 332 490,000 64 % 306,182 195,956
Lateral Lines(2)
SEKCO Pipeline Genesis 149 115,000 100 %
Shenzi Pipeline Genesis 83 230,000 100 %
Allegheny Pipeline Genesis 40 140,000 100 %
Marco Polo Pipeline Genesis 37 120,000 100 %
Constitution Pipeline Genesis 67 80,000 100 %
Tarantula Genesis 4 30,000 100 %
(1) Capacity figures presented represent 100% of the design capacity as of December 31, 2023 and throughput figures represent 100%
of the volumes in the period; except for Eugene Island, which represents our net capacity and volumes in the undivided interest
(29%) in that system. Ultimate capacities can vary primarily as a result of pressure requirements, installed pumps, related facilities
and the viscosity of the crude oil actually moved.
(2) Represents 100% owned lateral crude oil pipelines which ultimately flow into our other offshore crude oil pipelines (including
CHOPS pipeline and Poseidon pipeline) and thus are excluded from main lines above.
• CHOPS Pipeline. CHOPS pipeline is comprised of 24- to 30-inch diameter pipelines designed to deliver crude oil
from fields in the Gulf of Mexico to refining markets along the Texas Gulf Coast via interconnections with refineries
and terminals located in Port Arthur and Texas City, Texas. Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline Company, LLC
(“CHOPS”) also owns three strategically located multi-purpose offshore platforms. A financial party owns the
remaining 36% interest in CHOPS.
• Poseidon Pipeline. The Poseidon pipeline is comprised of 16- to 24-inch diameter pipelines to deliver crude oil from
developments in the central and western offshore Gulf of Mexico to other pipelines and terminals onshore and offshore
Louisiana. An affiliate of Shell owns the remaining 36% interest in Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, LLC
(“Poseidon”).
• Odyssey Pipeline. The Odyssey pipeline is comprised of 12- to 20-inch diameter pipelines to deliver crude oil from
developments in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to other pipelines and terminals onshore Louisiana. An affiliate of Shell
owns the remaining 71% interest in Odyssey Pipeline, LLC (“Odyssey”).
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• Eugene Island. The Eugene Island system is comprised of a network of crude oil pipelines, the main pipeline of which
is 20 inches in diameter, to deliver crude oil from developments in the central Gulf of Mexico to other pipelines and
onshore terminals in Louisiana. Other owners in Eugene Island include affiliates of Exxon Mobil and Shell Oil
Company.
• SEKCO Pipeline. SEKCO pipeline is a deepwater pipeline serving the Buckskin oil, Hadrian North oil and Lucius oil
and natural gas production areas located in the southern Keathley Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Southeast
Keathley Canyon Pipeline Company, LLC (“SEKCO”) has crude oil transportation agreements with various Gulf of
Mexico producers who have dedicated their production from the Buckskin, Hadrian North and Lucius production areas
to the SEKCO pipeline for the life of their reserves. The SEKCO pipeline will be directly connected to the Salamanca
FPS, which is anticipated for first production in late 2024 or early 2025.
• Shenzi Pipeline. The Shenzi Pipeline delivers crude oil from the Shenzi production field located in the Green Canyon
area of the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana as well as from the King’s Quay FPS, which supports the Khaleesi,
Mormont and Samurai field developments, to the CHOPS pipeline and Poseidon pipeline.
• Allegheny Pipeline. The Allegheny Pipeline connects the Allegheny and South Timbalier 316 platforms in the Green
Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico with the CHOPS pipeline and Poseidon pipeline.
• Marco Polo Pipeline. The Marco Polo Pipeline transports crude oil from our Marco Polo crude oil platform to an
interconnect with the Allegheny Crude Oil Pipeline in Green Canyon Block 164.
• Constitution Pipeline. The Constitution Pipeline delivers crude oil from the Constitution, Constellation, Caesar Tonga
and Ticonderoga production fields located in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico to either the CHOPS
pipeline or the Poseidon pipeline.
None of our offshore crude oil pipelines are rate regulated with the exception of Eugene Island, which is regulated by
the FERC.
The table below reflects our interests in our operating offshore natural gas pipelines:
• High Island. The High Island Offshore System (“HIOS”) transports natural gas from producing fields located in the
Galveston, Garden Banks, West Cameron, High Island and East Breaks areas of the Gulf of Mexico to the Kinetica
Energy Express. HIOS includes 152 miles of pipeline and eight pipeline junction and service platforms that are
regulated by the FERC. In addition, this system includes the 86-mile East Breaks Gathering System, which connects
HIOS to the Hoover-Diana deepwater platform located in Alaminos Canyon Block 25.
• Anaconda. The Anaconda Gathering System gathers natural gas from producing fields located in the Green Canyon
area in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the King’s Quay FPS, which supports the Khaleesi, Mormont and Samurai field
developments, to the Nautilus System.
• Green Canyon. The Green Canyon Laterals are a collection of small diameter pipelines that gather natural gas for
delivery to HIOS and various other downstream pipelines.
• Manta Ray. The Manta Ray Offshore Gathering System gathers natural gas from producing fields located in the Green
Canyon, Southern Green Canyon, Ship Shoal, South Timbalier and Ewing Bank areas of the Gulf of Mexico for
delivery to numerous downstream pipelines, including the Nautilus System. This system includes three pipeline
junction platforms.
• Nautilus. The Nautilus System connects the Anaconda Gathering system and Manta Ray Offshore Gathering System to
the Neptune natural gas processing plant located in south Louisiana.
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• Marco Polo. The Marco Polo platform, which is located in Green Canyon Block 608, processes crude oil and natural
gas from production fields located in the South Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico.
• East Cameron. The East Cameron 373 platform has the ability to process production from the Garden Banks and East
Cameron areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
Customers
Due to the capital requirements of exploring for and developing crude oil properties in the deepwater regions of the
Gulf of Mexico, most of our offshore pipeline customers are integrated energy companies and other large independent
producers, who desire to have longer-term arrangements ensuring that their production can access the markets.
Usually, our offshore crude oil pipeline customers enter into buy-sell or other transportation arrangements, pursuant to
which the pipeline acquires possession (and, sometimes, title) from its customer of the relevant production at a specified
location (often a producer’s platform or at another interconnection) and redelivers possession (and title, if applicable) to such
customer of an equivalent volume at one or more specified downstream locations (such as a refinery or an interconnection with
another pipeline). Most of the production handled by our offshore pipelines is pursuant to life-of-lease commitments that
include both firm and interruptible capacity arrangements.
Competition
Our principal competition in our offshore pipeline transportation business includes other crude oil and natural gas
pipeline systems as well as producers who may elect to build or utilize their own production handling facilities. We compete for
new production on the basis of geographic proximity to the source, cost of connection, available capacity, transportation rates
and access to onshore markets. In addition, our access to future reserves will depend on our ability, or the producers’ ability, to
fund the significant capital expenditures required to connect to the new production. In general, most of our offshore pipelines
are not subject to regulatory rate-making authority, and the rates we charge for services are dependent on the quality of the
service required by the customer and the amount and term of the reserve commitment by that customer.
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Alkali Business
Our Alkali Business is one of the leading producers of natural soda ash worldwide. We provide our soda ash to a
variety of industries such as flat glass, container glass, detergent, solar panel and lithium producers and chemical
manufacturing. Soda ash, also known by its chemical name sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), is a highly valued raw material in the
manufacture of glass due to its properties of lowering the melting point of silica in the batch. Soda ash is also valued by
detergent manufacturers for its absorptive and water softening properties. We produce our products from trona, which we mine
at two sites in the Green River Basin in Wyoming. The vast majority of the world’s accessible trona reserves are located in the
Green River Basin. According to historical production statistics, approximately 30% of global soda ash capacity is from trona
or similar sodium carbonate containing materials, with the remaining capacity being synthetic, which requires chemical
transformation of limestone and salt using a significantly higher amount of energy. Producing soda ash from trona is
significantly less expensive than producing it synthetically. In addition, life-cycle analyses reveal that production from trona
consumes less energy and produces less carbon dioxide and fewer undesirable by-products than synthetic production.
Our Alkali Business includes the following:
• Dry mining of trona ore underground at our Westvaco facility;
• Secondary recovery of trona from previously dry mined areas underground at our Westvaco and Granger facilities
through brine (solution) mining;
• Processing of raw trona ore into soda ash and specialty sodium alkali products; and
• Marketing, sale and distribution of alkali products.
During 2023 our Alkali Business had the ability to produce approximately 4.0 million tons of soda ash and
downstream specialty products. We are expecting our production capacity to increase in 2024 as a result of the Granger
Optimization Project, which reached substantial completion and had first production in the fourth quarter of 2023. We
anticipate production from the GOP to ramp up to its expected 750,000 tons of incremental volumes over the next nine to
twelve months. All mining and processing activities related to our products take place in our facilities located in the Green
River Basin.
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Caustic soda is used in many of the same industries as NaHS. Many applications require both chemicals for use in the
same process. For example, caustic soda can increase the yields in bauxite refining, pulp manufacturing and in the recovery of
copper, gold and nickel. Caustic soda is also used as a cleaning agent (when combined with water and heated) for process
equipment and storage tanks at refineries.
Customers
Our natural soda ash is sold to a diverse customer base in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the European Community, the
European Free Trade Area, the South African Customs Union and Asia.
We provide on-site sulfur removal services utilizing NaHS units at 11 refining and petrochemical processing facilities
locations. Even though some of our customers have elected to own the sulfur removal facilities located at their refineries, we
operate those facilities. We market all of our NaHS as well as small amounts of caustic soda for a handful of third parties.
We sell our NaHS to customers in a variety of industries, with the largest customers involved in mining of base metals,
primarily copper and molybdenum, and the production of pulp and paper. We sell to customers in the copper mining industry in
the western U.S., Canada and Mexico. We also export NaHS to South America for sale to customers for mining in Peru and
Chile. Many of the industries that our NaHS customers are in (such as copper mining and the pulp and paper industry)
participate in global markets for their products. As a result, this creates an indirect exposure for NaHS to global demand for the
end products of our customers. Provisions in our service contracts with refiners allow us to adjust our sour gas processing rates
(sulfur removal) to maintain a balance between NaHS supply and demand.
We sell caustic soda to many of the same customers who purchase NaHS from us, including pulp and paper
manufacturers and customers in the copper mining industry. We also supply caustic soda to some of the refineries in which we
operate for use in cleaning processing equipment.
Our soda and sulfur services segment is not dependent on any single or small group of customers. The loss of any one
customer would not have a material adverse effect on us.
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Marine Transportation
Our marine transportation segment consists of (i) our inland marine fleet which transports intermediate refined
petroleum products, including asphalt, principally serving refineries and storage terminals along the Gulf Coast, Intracoastal
Canal and western river systems of the U.S., principally along the Mississippi River and its tributaries; (ii) our offshore marine
fleet which transports crude oil and refined petroleum products, principally serving refineries and storage terminals along the
Gulf Coast, Eastern Seaboard, Great Lakes and Caribbean; and (iii) our modern double-hulled, Jones Act qualified tanker, M/T
American Phoenix, which is currently under charter serving a customer along the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard. The below
table includes operational information relating to our marine transportation fleet:
Number of:
Push/Tug Boats 33 9 —
Barges 82 9 —
Product Tankers — — 1
(1) Represents capacity per barge ranges on our inland and offshore barge, as well as the capacity of our M/T American Phoenix.
Customers
Our marine customers are primarily refiners as well as large energy companies. In 2023, approximately 90% of the
revenue we generated stemmed from contracts with refiners. Our M/T American Phoenix is currently operating under a charter
with a refining customer. We are a provider of transportation services for our customers and, in almost all cases, do not assume
ownership of the products we transport. Marine transportation services are conducted under term contracts, some of which have
renewal options for customers with whom we have traditionally had long-standing relationships, as well as spot contracts. Most
of our customers have been our customers for many years and we generally anticipate continued relationships; however, there is
no assurance that any individual contract will be renewed.
A term contract is an agreement with a specific customer to transport cargo from a designated origin to a designated
destination at a set rate (affreightment) or at a daily rate (time charter). The rate may or may not escalate during the term of the
contract; however, the base rate generally remains constant and contracts often include escalation provisions to recover changes
in specific costs such as fuel. Time charters, which insulate us from revenue fluctuations caused by weather and navigational
delays and temporary market declines, represented over 95% of our marine transportation revenues under term contracts during
2023 and 2022. A spot contract is an agreement with a customer to move cargo from a specific origin to a designated
destination for a rate negotiated at the time the cargo movement takes place. Spot contract rates are at the current “market” rate
and are subject to market volatility. During 2023 and 2022, approximately 70% and 46%, respectively, of our marine
transportation revenues were from term contracts and 30% and 54%, respectively, were from spot contracts.
Competition
Our competitors for the marine transportation of crude oil and heavy refined petroleum products are midstream MLPs
with marine transportation divisions, refineries and other companies that are in the business of solely marine transportation
operations. Competition among common marine carriers is based on a number of factors including proximity to production,
refineries and connecting infrastructures, customer service, and transportation pricing.
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Our marine transportation segment also competes with other modes of transporting crude oil and heavy refined
petroleum products, including pipeline, rail and trucking operations. Each mode of transportation has different advantages and
disadvantages, which often are fact and circumstance dependent. For example, without requiring longer-term economic
commitments from shippers, marine and truck transportation can offer shippers much more flexibility to access numerous
markets in multiple directions (i.e., pipelines tend to flow in a single direction and are geographically limited by their receipt
and delivery points with other pipelines and facilities), and our marine transportation offers shippers certain economies of scale
as compared to truck transportation. In addition, due to construction costs and timing considerations, marine and truck
transportation can provide cost effective and immediate services to a nascent producing region, whereas new pipelines can be
very expensive and time consuming to construct and may require shippers to make longer-term economic commitments, such as
take-or-pay commitments. On the other hand, in mature developed areas serviced by extensive, multi-directional pipelines, with
extensive connections to various markets, pipeline transportation may be preferred by shippers, especially if shippers are
willing to make longer-term economic commitments, such as take-or-pay commitments. Lastly, all but four of our inland
marine transportation barges are asphalt capable and heated. This allows us to transport intermediate refined products that
require heat, which other modes of transportation are not necessarily equipped to handle.
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We own and operate four onshore common carrier crude oil pipeline systems: the Texas System, the Jay System, the
Mississippi System, and the Louisiana System.
• Texas System. Our Texas System takes delivery of crude oil volumes at Texas City (which includes the capability of
receiving various Gulf of Mexico pipeline volumes) for delivery to our Webster, Texas facility, which ultimately
connects to other crude oil pipelines. Our Texas System also transports crude oil from Hastings Junction (south of
Houston, Texas) to several delivery points near Houston, Texas (including our Webster, Texas facility). We earn a
tariff for our transportation services, with the tariff rate per barrel of crude oil varying with the distance from injection
point to delivery point.
• Jay System. Our Jay System provides crude oil shippers access to refineries, pipelines and storage near Mobile,
Alabama. That system also includes gathering connections, additional crude oil storage capacity of approximately
20,000 barrels in the field, an interconnect with our Walnut Hill rail facility, a delivery connection to a refinery in
Alabama and an interconnection to another common carrier pipeline that delivers crude oil into Mississippi.
• Mississippi System. Our Mississippi System provides shippers of crude oil in Mississippi indirect access to refineries,
pipelines, storage, terminals and other crude oil infrastructure located in the Midwest. That system is adjacent to
several crude oil fields that are in various phases of being produced through tertiary recovery strategy, including CO2
injection and flooding. We provide transportation services on our Mississippi pipeline through an “incentive” tariff
which provides that the average rate per barrel that we charge during any month decreases as our aggregate throughput
for that month increases above specified thresholds.
• Louisiana System. Our Louisiana System connects the Anchorage Tank Farm to our Port of Baton Rouge Terminal
(which was built to service Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Baton Rouge refinery, which is one of the largest refinery
complexes in North America, with more than 500,000 Bbls/day of refining capacity), allowing bidirectional flow of
crude oil, intermediates and refined products between the Anchorage Tank Farm and this terminal via a dedicated
crude oil pipeline and a dedicated intermediates pipeline. Total daily volume for the year ended December 31, 2023
includes 32,458 and 33,019 Bbls/day of intermediate refined products and crude oil, respectively, associated with our
Port of Baton Rouge Terminal pipelines. Our Louisiana system also transports crude oil from Port Hudson to our
Baton Rouge Scenic Station rail unloading facility and continues downstream to the Anchorage Tank Farm. This
pipeline system serves as a key asset in our integrated Baton Rouge area midstream infrastructure.
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Within our onshore facilities and transportation business segment, we employ many types of logistically flexible
assets. These assets include a suite of trucks and trailers, as well as terminals and other tankage with approximately 4.2 million
barrels of leased and owned storage capacity in multiple locations along the Gulf Coast, accessible by pipeline, truck, rail or
barge, in addition to tankage related to our crude oil pipelines, previously mentioned.
Credit Exposure
Our portfolio of accounts receivable is generally comprised in large part of obligations of refiners, integrated and large
independent oil and natural gas producers, industrial companies that purchase soda ash, and mining and other industrial
companies that purchase NaHS, most of which have stable payment histories. We believe that any credit risk posed by a
concentration of customers in a specific industry is offset by the creditworthiness of our specific customer base in the context of
our specific transactions as well as other factors, including the strategic nature of certain of our assets and relationships and our
credit procedures. The credit risk related to exchange-traded contracts is limited due to the daily cash settlement procedures and
other exchange related requirements.
When we market crude oil, petroleum products, NaHS, and soda ash and provide transportation and other services, we
must determine the amount, if any, of the line of credit we will extend to any given customer. We have established procedures
to manage our credit exposure, including initial credit approvals, credit limits, collateral requirements and rights of offset.
Letters of credit, prepayments and guarantees are also utilized to limit credit risk to ensure that our established credit criteria are
met. We use similar procedures to manage our exposure to our customers in the offshore pipeline transportation and marine
transportation segments.
Some of our largest customers include Shell, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Phillips 66, Occidental Petroleum Corporation
(“Occidental”), SCS - Comercial & Servicos Quimicos Ltda and Ardagh Glass.
Human Capital
We believe our employees are our most important asset and the cornerstone of our organization. We take steps to
attract and retain talented people to safely operate our assets, foster customer relationships, and achieve our long-term goals.
We are committed to employee retention and we encourage our employees to maintain long-term careers with us. Human
capital measures and objectives which we focus on in managing our business include safety, employee compensation and
benefits, diversity and inclusion, and employee development.
Safety
Safety is one of our guiding principles and it is our intention to create and sustain a workplace free from recognized
safety and health hazards. We have implemented safety programs and management practices to promote a culture of safety,
which include policies, training, procedures, audits, inspections, incident evaluations, data analysis, reporting and
communications. We also established annual safety and health targets for total recordable injury and illness rates, and tied a
portion of our management compensation to safety related goals to emphasize the importance of safety at the Company.
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Employee Development
Our success as a company is measured by the successful performance of our employees in their respective roles. Thus,
it is our policy to properly train and equip each employee to perform his or her job functions safely and in compliance with all
laws, regulations and internal procedures.
We develop our employees through performance management processes, regular coaching and supervisory and
leadership training while also offering a tuition reimbursement program. Our annual performance management cycle enables
managers and employees to collaborate to set performance goals and development objectives that align to business objectives.
We also provide in-house health and safety training and emergency response training. Employee attendance at external
workshops, conferences and other training events is also encouraged.
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In addition to the index methodology, FERC allows for rate changes under three other methods—cost-of-service,
competitive market showings and agreements between shippers and the oil pipeline company that the rate is acceptable, or
Settlement Rates. The pipeline tariff rates on our Mississippi, Jay and Louisiana systems are either rates that are subject to
change under the index methodology or Settlement Rates. None of our tariffs have been subjected to a protest or complaint by
any shipper or other interested party.
Our offshore pipelines, with the exception of our Eugene Island pipeline and HIOS, are neither interstate nor common
carrier pipelines. However, these pipelines are subject to federal regulation under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which
requires all pipelines operating on or across the outer continental shelf to provide nondiscriminatory transportation service.
Our intrastate common carrier pipeline operations in Texas are subject to regulation by the TXRRC. The applicable
Texas statutes require that pipeline rates and practices be reasonable and non-discriminatory and that pipeline rates provide a
fair return on the aggregate value of the property of a common carrier, after providing reasonable allowance for depreciation
and other factors and for reasonable operating expenses. Although no assurance can be given that the tariffs we charge would
ultimately be upheld if challenged, we believe that the tariffs now in effect can be sustained.
Marine Regulations
The operation of towboats, tugboats, barges, vessels and marine equipment create maritime obligations involving
property, personnel and cargo and are subject to regulation by the U.S. Coast Guard, or USCG, the Environmental Protection
Agency, or EPA, the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, federal laws, state laws and certain international conventions
under General Maritime Law. These obligations can create risks which are varied and include, among other things, the risk of
collision and allision, which may precipitate claims for personal injury, cargo, contract, pollution, third-party claims and
property damages to vessels and facilities. Routine towage operations can also create risk of personal injury under the Jones Act
and General Maritime Law, cargo claims involving the quality of a product and delivery, terminal claims, contractual claims
and regulatory issues. Federal regulations also require that all tank barges engaged in the transportation of oil and petroleum in
the U.S. be double hulled. All of our barges are double-hulled.
All of our barges are inspected by the USCG and carry certificates of inspection. All of our towboats and tugboats are
certificated by the USCG. Most of our vessels are built to American Bureau of Shipping, or ABS, classification standards and
in some instances are inspected periodically by ABS to maintain the vessels in class standards. The crews we employ aboard
vessels, including captains, pilots, engineers, tankermen and ordinary seamen, are documented by the USCG.
We are required by various governmental agencies to obtain licenses, certificates and permits for our vessels
depending upon such factors as the cargo transported, the waters in which the vessels operate and other factors. We are of the
opinion that our vessels have obtained and can maintain all required licenses, certificates and permits required by such
governmental agencies for the foreseeable future.
Jones Act: The Jones Act is a federal law that restricts maritime transportation between locations in the U.S. to vessels
built and registered in the U.S. and owned and manned by U.S. citizens. We are responsible for monitoring the ownership of
our subsidiary that engages in maritime transportation and for taking any remedial action necessary to insure that no violation
of the Jones Act ownership restrictions occurs. Jones Act requirements significantly increase operating costs of U.S.-flag vessel
operations compared to foreign-flag vessel operations. Further, the USCG and ABS maintain the most stringent regime of
vessel inspection in the world, which tends to result in higher regulatory compliance costs for U.S.-flag operators than for
owners of vessels registered under foreign flags or flags of convenience. The Jones Act and General Maritime Law also provide
damage remedies for crew members injured in the service of the vessel arising from employer negligence or vessel
unseaworthiness.
Merchant Marine Act of 1936: The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is a federal law providing that, upon proclamation
by the President of the U.S. of a national emergency or a threat to the national security, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation
may requisition or purchase any vessel or other watercraft owned by U.S. citizens (including us, provided that we are
considered a U.S. citizen for this purpose). If one of our tow boats or barges were purchased or requisitioned by the U.S.
government under this law, we would be entitled to be paid the fair market value of the vessel in the case of a purchase or, in
the case of a requisition, the fair market value of charter hire. However, if one of our tow boats is requisitioned or purchased
and its associated barge or barges are left idle, we would not be entitled to receive any compensation for the lost revenues
resulting from the idled barges. We also would not be entitled to be compensated for any consequential damages we suffer as a
result of the requisition or purchase of any of our tow boats or barges.
Security Requirements: The Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 requires, among other things, submission to
and approval by the USCG of vessel and waterfront facility security plans, or VSP. Our VSP’s have been approved and we are
operating in compliance with the plans for all of its vessels and that are subject to the requirements, whether engaged in
domestic or foreign trade.
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Railcar Regulation
We operate a number of railcar unloading facilities and lease a significant number of railcars. Our railcar operations
are subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Railroad Administration of the DOT, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, or OSHA, as well as other federal and state regulatory agencies. We believe that our railcar operations are in
substantial compliance with all existing federal, state and local regulations.
DOT and OSHA have jurisdiction under several federal statutes over a number of safety and health aspects of rail
operations, including the transportation of hazardous materials. State agencies regulate some aspects of rail operations with
respect to health and safety in areas not otherwise preempted by federal law.
We have the right to mine trona through leases we hold from the U.S. Federal government, the State of Wyoming and
Sweetwater Trona OpCo LLC (“Sweetwater”). Our leases with the U.S. government are issued under the provisions of the
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 18 et. Seq.) and are administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”)
and our leases with the state of Wyoming are issued under Wyoming Statutes 36-6-101 et. seq. Sweetwater acquired the leases
and interests from Anadarko Land Corporation, a subsidiary of Occidental following Occidental’s August 2019 acquisition of
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, who was the successor to rights originally granted to the Union Pacific Railroad in
connection with the construction of the first transcontinental railroad in North America. For more information, please see
discussion of “Overview of Mining Property and Operations” in Item 2 below.
We pay royalties to the BLM, the State of Wyoming and Sweetwater Royalties, LLC (“Sweetwater Royalties”) who
acquired the mineral rights through a conveyance from Sweetwater. These royalties are calculated based upon the gross value of
soda ash and related products at a certain stage in the mining process. We are obligated to pay minimum royalties or annual
rentals to our lessors regardless of actual sales and in the case of Sweetwater Royalties to pay royalties in advance based on a
formula based on the amount of trona produced and sold in the previous year which is then credited against production royalties
owed. The royalty rates we pay to our lessors may change upon our renewal of such leases; however, we anticipate being able
to renew all material leases at the appropriate time. In the past, the U.S. Congress has passed legislation to cap royalties
collected by BLM at a rate lower than the rate stated in our federal leases.
Our mining operations in Wyoming are subject to mine permits issued by the Land Quality Division of the Wyoming
Department of Environmental Quality (“WDEQ”). WDEQ imposes detailed reclamation obligations on us as a holder of mine
permits. As of December 31, 2023, the amount of our reclamation bonds totaled to approximately $88 million. The amount of
the bonds are subject to change based upon periodic re-evaluation by WDEQ.
The health and safety of our employees working underground and on the surface are subject to detailed regulation. The
safety of our operations at Westvaco are regulated by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) and our
Granger facility by the Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“Wyoming OSHA”). MSHA administers the
provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and enforces compliance with that statute’s mandatory safety and
health standards. As part of MSHA’s oversight, representatives perform at least four unannounced inspections (approximately
once quarterly) each year at Westvaco. Wyoming OSHA regulates the health and safety of non-mining operations under a plan
approved by the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration. When our Granger facility was restarted in 2009 on brine
(solution) mine feed (i.e., without any miners working underground), Wyoming OSHA assumed responsibility for the facility.
Our business is subject to extensive regulation by federal, state, local and foreign governments. Governmental
authorities regulate the generation and treatment of waste and air emissions at our operations and facilities. We also comply
with worldwide, voluntary standards developed by the International Organization for Standardization (“ISO”), a
nongovernmental organization that promotes the development of standards and serves as a bridging organization for quality
standards, such as ISO 9001:2015 for quality management and ISO 22000 for food safety management.
Several of the production operations in our Alkali Business are subject to regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (“FDA”). Our sodium bicarbonate plant is a registered facility for the production of food and pharmaceutical
grade ingredients and we comply with strict Current Good Manufacturing Practice (“CGMP”) requirements in our operations.
The U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act requires that parts of our facility that produce human food and animal nutrition
products comply with more rigorous manufacturing standards. We believe that we materially comply with requirements
currently in effect and have a program in place to maintain such compliance. We also comply with industry standards
developed by various private organizations such as U.S. Pharmacopeia, Organic Materials Review Institute, National Sanitation
Foundation, Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America, and the Orthodox Union. Alkali has also sought and received
certification of its Wyoming facilities under ISO.9001:2015.
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Environmental Regulations
General - We are subject to stringent federal, state and local laws and regulations governing the discharge of materials
into the environment or otherwise relating to environmental protection. These laws and regulations may (i) require the
acquisition of and compliance with permits for regulated activities, (ii) limit or prohibit operations on environmentally sensitive
lands such as wetlands or wilderness area, seismically sensitive areas, or areas inhabited by endangered or threatened species,
(iii) result in capital expenditures to limit or prevent emissions or discharges, and (iv) place burdensome restrictions on our
operations, including the management and disposal of wastes. Failure to comply with these laws and regulations may result in
the assessment of administrative, civil and criminal penalties, including the assessment of monetary penalties, the imposition of
investigatory and remedial obligations, the suspension or revocation of necessary permits, licenses and authorizations, the
requirement that additional pollution controls be installed and the issuance of orders enjoining future operations or imposing
additional compliance requirements. Changes in environmental laws and regulations occur frequently, typically increasing in
stringency through time, and any changes that result in more stringent and costly operating restrictions, emission control, waste
handling, disposal, cleanup and other environmental requirements have the potential to have a material adverse effect on our
operations. While we believe that we are in substantial compliance with current environmental laws and regulations and that
continued compliance with existing requirements will not materially affect us, there is no assurance that this trend will continue
in the future. Revised or new additional regulations that result in increased compliance costs or additional operating restrictions,
particularly if those costs are not fully recoverable from our customers, could have a material adverse effect on our business,
financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
Hazardous Substances and Waste Handling - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act, as amended, or CERCLA, also known as the “Superfund” law, and analogous state laws impose liability, without
regard to fault or the legality of the original conduct, on certain classes of persons. These persons include current owners and
operators of the site where a release of hazardous substances occurred, prior owners or operators that owned or operated the site
at the time of the release of hazardous substances, and companies that disposed or arranged for the disposal of the hazardous
substances found at the site. We currently own or lease, and have in the past owned or leased, properties that have been in use
for many years with the gathering and transportation of hydrocarbons including crude oil and other activities that could cause
an environmental impact. Persons deemed “responsible persons” under CERCLA may be subject to strict and joint and several
liability for the costs of removing or remediating previously disposed wastes (including wastes disposed of or released by prior
owners or operators) or property contamination (including groundwater contamination), for damages to natural resources, and
for the costs of certain health studies. CERCLA also authorizes the EPA and, in some instances, third parties to act in response
to threats to the public health or the environment and to seek to recover the costs they incur from the responsible classes of
persons. It is not uncommon for neighboring landowners and other third parties to file claims for personal injury and property
damage allegedly caused by hazardous substances or other pollutants released into the environment.
We also may incur liability under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, or RCRA, and analogous
state laws which impose requirements and also liability relating to the management and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes.
While RCRA regulates both solid and hazardous wastes, it imposes strict requirements on the generation, storage, treatment,
transportation and disposal of hazardous wastes. Certain petroleum production wastes are excluded from RCRA’s hazardous
waste regulations. However, it is possible that these wastes, which could include wastes currently generated during our
operations, will in the future be designated as “hazardous wastes” and, therefore, be subject to more rigorous and costly
disposal requirements. Indeed, legislation has been proposed from time to time in Congress to re-categorize certain crude oil
and natural gas exploration and production wastes as “hazardous wastes.” Also, in December 2016, the EPA agreed in a consent
decree to review its regulation of oil and gas waste. However, in April 2019, the EPA concluded that revisions to the federal
regulations for the management of oil and gas waste are not necessary at this time. Any such changes in the laws and
regulations could have a material adverse effect on our capital expenditures and operating expenses.
We believe that we are in substantial compliance with the requirements of CERCLA, RCRA and related state and local
laws and regulations, and that we hold all necessary and up-to-date permits, registrations and other authorizations required
under such laws and regulations. Although we believe that the current costs of managing our wastes as they are presently
classified are reflected in our budget, any legislative or regulatory reclassification of oil and natural gas exploration and
production wastes could increase our costs to manage and dispose of such wastes.
Water Discharges - The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, also known as the “Clean Water Act,” and
analogous state laws impose restrictions and strict controls regarding the unauthorized discharge of pollutants, including crude
oil, into navigable waters of the U.S., as well as state waters. Permits must be obtained to discharge pollutants into these waters.
Spill prevention, control and countermeasure plan requirements under federal law require appropriate containment berms and
similar structures to help prevent the contamination of navigable waters in the event of a petroleum hydrocarbon tank spill,
rupture or leak. The Clean Water Act and regulations implemented thereunder also prohibit the discharge of dredge and fill
material into regulated waters, including jurisdictional wetlands, unless authorized by an appropriately issued permit.
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The scope of waters regulated under the Clean Water Act has fluctuated in recent years. On June 29, 2015, the EPA
and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or Corps, jointly promulgated final rules expanding the scope of waters protected under
the Clean Water Act. However, on October 22, 2019, the agencies repealed the 2015 rules, and then, on April 21, 2020, the
EPA and the Corps published a final rule replacing the 2015 rules, and significantly reducing the waters subject to federal
regulation under the Clean Water Act. On August 30, 2021, a federal court struck down the replacement rule and, on January
18, 2023, the EPA and the Corps published a final rule that would restore water protections that were in place prior to 2015.
However, on May 25, 2023, the Supreme Court issued an opinion substantially narrowing the scope of “waters of the United
States” protected by the Clean Water Act. On September 8, 2023, the EPA and the Corps published a final rule conforming
their regulations to the decision. These recent actions have provided some clarity. However, to the extent the EPA and the
Corps broadly interpret their jurisdiction and expand the range of properties subject to the Clean Water Act's jurisdiction, we
could face increased costs and delays with respect to obtaining permits for dredge and fill activities in wetland areas.
Also, on June 28, 2016, the EPA published a final rule prohibiting the discharge of wastewater from onshore
unconventional oil and natural gas extraction facilities to publicly owned wastewater treatment plants. In addition, the Clean
Water Act and analogous state laws require individual permits or coverage under general permits for discharges of storm water
runoff from certain types of facilities. These permits may require us to monitor and sample the storm water runoff from certain
of our facilities. Some states also maintain groundwater protection programs that require permits for discharges or operations
that may impact groundwater conditions.
The Oil Pollution Act is the primary federal law for oil spill liability. The Oil Pollution Act contains numerous
requirements relating to the prevention of and response to petroleum releases into waters of the United States, including the
requirement that operators of offshore facilities and certain onshore facilities near or crossing waterways must develop and
maintain facility response contingency plans and maintain certain significant levels of financial assurance to cover potential
environmental cleanup and restoration costs. The Oil Pollution Act subjects owners of facilities to strict liability that, in some
circumstances, may be joint and several for all containment and cleanup costs and certain other damages arising from a release,
including, but not limited to, the costs of responding to a release of oil to surface waters.
Noncompliance with the Clean Water Act or the Oil Pollution Act may result in substantial administrative, civil and
criminal penalties, as well as injunctive obligations. We believe we are in material compliance with each of these requirements.
Air Emissions - The Federal Clean Air Act, or CAA, as amended, and analogous state and local laws and regulations
restrict the emission of air pollutants, and impose permit requirements and other obligations. Regulated emissions occur as a
result of our operations, including the handling or storage of crude oil and other petroleum products. Both federal and state laws
impose substantial penalties for violation of these applicable requirements. Accordingly, our failure to comply with these
requirements could subject us to monetary penalties, injunctions, conditions or restrictions on operations, revocation or
suspension of necessary permits and, potentially, criminal enforcement actions.
On August 16, 2012, the EPA published final regulations under the CAA that establish new air emission controls for
oil and natural gas production and natural gas processing operations. Specifically, the EPA’s rule package includes New Source
Performance standards to address emissions of sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds and a separate set of emission
standards to address hazardous air pollutants frequently associated with oil and natural gas production and processing activities.
The final rules seek to achieve a 95% reduction in volatile organic compounds emitted by requiring the use of reduced emission
completions or “green completions” on all hydraulically-fractured wells constructed or refractured after January 1, 2015. The
rules also establish specific new requirements regarding emissions from compressors, controllers, dehydrators, storage tanks
and other production equipment. The EPA received numerous requests for reconsideration of these rules from both industry and
the environmental community, and court challenges to the rules were also filed. In response, the EPA has issued, and will likely
continue to issue, revised rules responsive to some of the requests for reconsideration. In particular, on May 12, 2016, the EPA
amended its regulations to impose new standards for methane and volatile organic compounds emissions for certain new,
modified, and reconstructed equipment, processes, and activities across the oil and natural gas sector. However, on August 13,
2020, in response to an executive order by former President Trump to review and revise unduly burdensome regulations, the
EPA amended the 2012 and 2016 New Source Performance standards to ease regulatory burdens, including rescinding
standards applicable to transmission or storage segments and eliminating methane requirements altogether. On June 30, 2021,
President Biden signed into law a joint resolution of Congress disapproving the 2020 amendments (with the exception of some
technical changes) thereby reinstating the 2012 and 2016 New Source Performance standards. The EPA expects owners and
operators of regulated sources to take “immediate steps” to comply with these standards. Additionally, on December 2, 2023,
the EPA announced a final rule that would expand and strengthen emission reduction requirements for both new and existing
sources in the oil and natural gas industry by requiring increased monitoring of fugitive emissions, imposing new requirements
for pneumatic controllers and tank batteries, and prohibiting venting of natural gas in certain situations. On April 17, 2023, the
EPA agreed in a consent decree to issue a proposed rule by December 10, 2024 that either revises its emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants from oil and natural gas production activities or determines that no revision is necessary. These laws
and regulations, as well as any future laws and their implementing regulations, may require us to obtain pre-approval for the
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expansion or modification of existing facilities or the construction of new facilities expected to produce air emissions, impose
stringent air permit requirements, or mandate the use of specific equipment or technologies to control emissions.
National Environmental Policy Act - Under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, a federal agency,
commonly in conjunction with a current permittee or applicant, may be required to prepare an environmental assessment or a
detailed environmental impact statement before taking any major action, including issuing a permit for a pipeline extension or
addition that would affect the quality of the environment. Should an environmental impact statement or environmental
assessment be required for any proposed pipeline extensions or additions, NEPA may prevent or delay construction or alter the
proposed location, design or method of construction.
Endangered Species Act - The federal Endangered Species Act and analogous state statutes restrict activities that may
adversely affect endangered and threatened species or their habitat. Similar protections are offered to migratory birds under the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The designation of previously unidentified endangered or threatened species in areas where we
operate could cause us to incur additional costs or become subject to operating delays, restrictions or bans.
Climate Change - In December 2009, the EPA published its findings that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and
other greenhouse gases (“GHGs”) present an endangerment to human health and the environment because emissions of such
gases are, according to the EPA, contributing to the warming of the earth’s atmosphere and other climatic changes.
Accordingly, in recent years, federal, state, and local governments have taken steps to reduce emissions of GHGs. On August
16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”), which, along with the Investment in
Infrastructure and Jobs Act, provides billions of dollars in incentives for the development of renewable energy, clean hydrogen,
clean fuels, electric vehicles, investments in advanced biofuels and supporting infrastructure and carbon capture and
sequestration. These incentives could accelerate the transition of the economy away from the use of fossil fuels towards lower
or zero-carbon emissions alternatives, which could decrease demand for, and in turn the prices of, the oil and natural gas that
we store, transport and sell and adversely impact our business.
The EPA has also finalized a series of GHG monitoring, reporting and emission control rules for the oil and natural
gas industry, and almost half of the states, either individually or through multi-state regional initiatives, have taken legal
measures to reduce GHG emissions, primarily through the planned development of GHG emission inventories and/or GHG
cap-and-trade programs. In addition, states have imposed increasingly stringent requirements related to the venting or flaring of
gas during oil and gas operations. The net effect of this regulatory regime is to impose increasing costs on the combustion of
carbon-based fuels such as crude oil, refined petroleum products and natural gas. Our compliance with any future legislation or
regulation of GHGs, if adopted, may result in materially increased compliance and operating costs.
In addition, in December 2015, the United States participated in the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France. The resulting Paris Agreement calls for the parties
to undertake “ambitious efforts” to limit the average global temperature, and to conserve and enhance sinks and reservoirs of
GHGs. The Agreement went into effect on November 4, 2016. On April 21, 2021, the United States announced that it was
setting an economy-wide target of reducing its GHG emissions by 50-52 percent below 2005 levels in 2030. In November
2021, in connection with the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow, Scotland, the United States and other world
leaders made further commitments to reduce GHG emissions, including reducing global methane emissions by at least 30% by
2030 from 2020 levels. More than 150 countries have now signed on to this pledge. The urgency to reduce GHG emissions was
further emphasized in the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP-27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Most recently, at the 28th
Conference of the Parties (COP-28) in the United Arab Emirates, world leaders agreed to transition away from fossil fuels in a
just, orderly and equitable manner and to triple renewables and double energy efficiency globally by 2030. Also at COP-28, 50
companies accounting for 40 percent of global oil production committed to eliminating their methane emissions by 2050 under
the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter. These companies also committed to ending flaring by 2030. Furthermore, many state
and local leaders have stated their intent to intensify efforts to support the international climate commitments.
Legislative efforts or related implementation regulations that regulate or restrict emissions of GHGs in areas that we
conduct business could adversely affect the demand for the products that we transport, store and distribute and, depending on
the particular program adopted, could increase our costs to operate and maintain our facilities by requiring that we, among other
things, measure and report our emissions, install new emission controls on our facilities, acquire allowances to authorize our
GHG emissions, pay any fees or taxes related to our GHG emissions and administer and manage a GHG emissions program.
We may be unable to include some or all of such increased costs in the rates charged by our pipelines or other facilities, and any
such recovery may depend on events beyond our control, including the outcome of future rate proceedings before the FERC or
state regulatory agencies and the provisions of any final legislation or implementing regulations. Any GHG emissions
legislation or regulatory programs applicable to power plants or refineries could also increase the cost of consuming, and
thereby adversely affect demand for the crude oil and natural gas that we produce. Consequently, legislation and regulatory
programs to reduce GHG emissions could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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It is not possible at this time to predict with any accuracy the structure or outcome of any future legislative or regulatory efforts
to address such emissions or the eventual costs to us of compliance.
Furthermore, there have been efforts in recent years to influence the investment community, including investment
advisors and certain sovereign wealth, pension and endowment funds promoting divestment of fossil fuel equities and
pressuring lenders to limit funding to companies engaged in the extraction of fossil fuel reserves. Such environmental activism
and initiatives aimed at limiting climate change and reducing air pollution could interfere with our business activities,
operations and ability to access capital. In addition, claims have been made against certain energy companies alleging that GHG
emissions from crude oil and natural gas operations constitute a public nuisance under federal and/or state common law. As a
result, private individuals or public entities may seek to enforce environmental laws and regulations against us and could allege
personal injury, property damages, or other liabilities. While our business is not a party to any such litigation, we could be
named in actions making similar allegations. An unfavorable ruling in any such case could adversely impact our business,
financial condition and results of operations.
Moreover, climate change may be associated with extreme weather conditions such as more intense hurricanes,
thunderstorms, tornadoes and snow or ice storms, as well as rising sea levels. Another possible consequence of climate change
is increased volatility in seasonal temperatures. Some studies indicate that climate change could cause some areas to experience
temperatures substantially hotter or colder than their historical averages. Extreme weather conditions can interfere with our
production and increase our costs and damage resulting from extreme weather may not be fully insured. However, at this time,
we are unable to determine the extent to which climate change may lead to increased storm or weather hazards affecting our
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within the next 20 years. In addition, the final rule imposes inspection requirements on pipelines in areas affected by extreme
weather events and natural disasters, such as hurricanes, landslides, floods, earthquakes, or other similar events that are likely to
damage infrastructure. The rules also extend reporting requirements to certain previously unregulated hazardous liquid gravity
and rural gathering lines. Many of the requirements will be phased in over an extended compliance schedule. Also, on
November 15, 2021, the PHMSA published a final rule extending reporting requirements to all onshore gas gathering operators
and establishing a set of minimum safety requirements for certain gas gathering pipelines with large diameters and high
operating pressures. On December 27, 2021, the PHMSA published an Interim Final Rule that designates the Great Lakes,
coastal beaches, and marine coastal waters as “Unusually Sensitive Areas,” extending more stringent IMP requirements to
hazardous liquid pipelines near such areas. Additional final rules were announced in 2022, including a final rule regarding the
installation of rupture-mitigation valves, published on April 8, 2022. Further, on August 24, 2022, the PHMSA published a final
rule strengthening integrity management requirements for onshore gas transmission lines, bolstering corrosion control standards
and repair criteria, and imposing new requirements for inspections after extreme weather events. On May 18, 2023, PHMSA
published a proposed rule to reduce methane emissions from new and existing gas pipelines, underground natural gas storage
facilities, and liquefied natural gas facilities. Significant expenses could be incurred in the future if additional safety measures
are required or if safety standards are raised and exceed the current pipeline control system capabilities.
We have developed a Risk Management Plan required by the PHMSA as part of our IMP. This plan is intended to
minimize the offsite consequences of catastrophic spills. As part of this program, we have developed a mapping program. This
mapping program identified HCAs and unusually sensitive areas along the pipeline right-of-ways in addition to mapping of
shorelines to characterize the potential impact of a spill of crude oil on waterways.
Our crude oil, refined products and soda and sulfur services operations are also subject to the requirements of OSHA
and comparable state statutes. Various other federal and state regulations require that we train all operations employees in
Hazardous Communication (“HAZCOM”) and disclose information about the hazardous materials used in our operations.
Certain information must be reported to employees, government agencies and local citizens upon request.
In most cases, states are responsible for enforcing the federal regulations and more stringent state pipeline regulations
and inspection with respect to intrastate hazardous liquids pipelines, including crude oil and natural gas pipelines. In practice,
states vary considerably in their authority and capacity to address pipeline safety. The Railroad Commission recently updated
its pipeline safety regulations consistent with PHMSA requirements, effective September 13, 2021. We do not anticipate any
significant problems in complying with applicable state laws and regulations in those states in which we operate.
Our trucking operations are licensed to perform both intrastate and interstate motor carrier services. As a motor carrier,
we are subject to certain safety regulations issued by the DOT. The trucking regulations cover, among other things, driver
operations, log book maintenance, truck manifest preparations, safety placard placement on the trucks and trailer vehicles, drug
and alcohol testing, operation and equipment safety and many other aspects of truck operations. We are also subject to OSHA
with respect to our trucking operations.
The USCG regulates occupational health standards related to our marine operations. Shore-side operations are subject
to the regulations of OSHA and comparable state statutes. The Maritime Transportation Security Act requires, among other
things, submission to and approval of the USCG of vessel security plans.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Government has issued numerous warnings that energy
assets could be the subject of future terrorist attacks. We have instituted security measures and procedures in conformity with
federal guidance. We will institute, as appropriate, additional security measures or procedures indicated by the federal
government. None of these measures or procedures should be construed as a guarantee that our assets are protected in the event
of a terrorist attack.
On May 27, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”)
announced Security Directive Pipeline-2021-01 that requires us, as a critical pipeline owner, to report confirmed and potential
cybersecurity incidents to the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) and to designate a
Cybersecurity Coordinator. It also requires us and the third-party operators of our assets to review current practices as well as to
identify any gaps and related remediation measures to address cyber-related risks and report the results to TSA and CISA
within 30 days. We designated a Cybersecurity Coordinator, developed a plan to comply with mandatory reporting timeframes
and completed the vulnerability assessment required under this directive in 2021. On July 20, 2021, the TSA issued a second
Security Directive. Then, on July 27, 2022, a third TSA-issued Security Directive took effect. We have evaluated the impacts of
this second directive to our pipeline business and have made significant progress in compliance. See “Compliance with and
changes in cybersecurity requirements has a cost impact on our business, and failure to comply with such laws and regulations
could have an impact on our assets, costs, revenue generation and growth opportunities.”
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Available Information
We make available free of charge on our internet website (www.genesisenergy.com) our Annual Report on Form 10-
K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file the
material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. These documents are also available at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov). Additionally,
on our internet website we make available our Corporate Governance Guidelines, Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Audit
Committee Charter and Governance, Compensation and Business Development Committee Charter. Information on our website
is not incorporated into this Form 10-K or our other securities filings and is not a part of this Form 10-K or our other securities
filings.
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• We do not have the same flexibility as other types of organizations to accumulate cash and equity to protect against
illiquidity in the future.
Tax Risks to Our Unitholders
• Our tax treatment depends on our status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, as well as us not being
subject to a material amount of entity-level taxation by individual states. If the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, were
to treat us as a corporation (for U.S. federal income tax purposes) or if we were to become subject to a material amount
of entity-level taxation for state tax purposes, then our cash available for distribution to our unitholders could be
substantially reduced.
• Our unitholders will be required to pay taxes on income (as well as deemed distributions, if any) from us even if they
do not receive any cash distributions from us.
• Our unitholders will likely be subject to state and local taxes in states where they do not live as a result of an
investment in our units.
General Risks
• We are exposed to the credit risk of our customers in the ordinary course of our business activities.
• A natural disaster, pandemic, epidemic, accident, terrorist attack or other interruption event could result in an
economic slowdown, severe personal injury, property damage and/or environmental damage, which could curtail our
operations or otherwise adversely affect our assets and cash flow.
• We cannot predict the impact of international military conflicts and the related humanitarian crisis on the global
economy, energy markets, geopolitical stability and our business.
• Our business could be negatively impacted by security threats, including cybersecurity threats, and related disruptions.
• Our significant unitholders may sell units or other limited partner interests in the trading market, which could reduce
the market price of our common units.
• We may issue additional common units without unitholders’ approval, which would dilute their ownership interests.
We may not be able to fully execute our growth strategy due to various factors, such as unreceptive capital markets and/or
excessive competition for acquisitions.
Our strategy contemplates growth through the development and acquisition of a wide range of midstream and other
infrastructure and mining assets while maintaining a strong balance sheet. This strategy includes constructing and acquiring
additional assets and businesses to enhance our ability to compete effectively, diversify our asset portfolio and, thereby, provide
more stable cash flow. We regularly consider and enter into discussions regarding additional potential joint ventures, stand-
alone projects and other transactions that we believe will present opportunities to realize synergies, increase our market position
and, ultimately, increase distributions to our unitholders. A number of factors could adversely affect our ability to execute our
growth strategy, including an inability to raise adequate capital on acceptable terms, competition from competitors and/or an
inability to successfully integrate one or more acquired businesses into our operations.
We will need new capital to finance the future development and acquisition of assets and businesses. Limitations on
our access to capital will impair our ability to execute this strategy. Expensive capital will limit our ability to develop or acquire
accretive assets. Although we intend to continue to expand our business, this strategy may require substantial capital, and we
may not be able to raise the necessary funds on satisfactory terms, if at all.
In addition, we experience competition for the assets we purchase or contemplate purchasing. Increased competition
for a limited pool of assets could result in our not being the successful bidder more often or our acquiring assets at a higher
relative price than that which we have paid historically. Either occurrence would limit our ability to fully execute our growth
strategy. Our ability to execute our growth strategy may impact the market price of our securities.
We may be unable to integrate successfully businesses we acquire. We may incur substantial expenses, delays or other
problems in connection with our growth strategy that could negatively impact our results of operations. Moreover, acquisitions
and business expansions involve numerous risks, including: difficulties in the assimilation of the operations, technologies,
services and products of the acquired companies or business segments; inefficiencies and complexities that can arise because of
unfamiliarity with new assets and the businesses associated with them, including unfamiliarity with their markets; and diversion
of the attention of management and other personnel from day-to-day business to the development or acquisition of new
businesses and other business opportunities.
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We may not have sufficient cash from operations after the establishment of cash reserves and payment of fees and expenses
to pay the current level of quarterly distributions.
The amount of cash we distribute to our common unitholders principally depends upon margins we generate from our
businesses, which fluctuate from quarter to quarter based on, among other things: the volumes and prices at which we purchase
and sell crude oil, natural gas, refined products and caustic soda; the volumes of sodium hydrosulfide, or NaHS, and soda ash
that we produce and the prices at which we sell NaHS and soda ash; the demand for our services; the level of competition; the
level of our operating costs; the effect of worldwide energy conservation measures; governmental regulations and taxes; the
level of our general and administrative costs; and prevailing economic conditions.
In addition, the actual amount of cash we will have available for distribution to our common unitholders will depend
on other factors that include: the level of capital expenditures and costs associated with asset retirement obligations we may
incur, including the cost of acquisitions (if any); our debt service requirements; fluctuations in our working capital; restrictions
on distributions contained in our debt instruments or organizational documents governing our joint ventures and unrestricted
subsidiaries; distributions we pay to our Class A Convertible Preferred unitholders; our ability to borrow under our senior
secured credit facility to pay distributions, and the amount of cash reserves required in the conduct of our business.
Our ability to pay distributions each quarter depends primarily on our cash flow, including cash flow from operations
and our cash requirements, which includes capital expenditures amongst other items, and is not solely a function of
profitability, which will be affected by non-cash items. As a result, we may make cash distributions during periods when we
record losses and we may not make distributions during periods when we record net income.
Our profitability and cash flow are dependent on our ability to increase or, at a minimum, maintain our current commodity
(crude oil, natural gas, refined products, soda ash, NaHS and caustic soda) volumes, which often depend on actions and
commitments by parties beyond our control.
We access commodity volumes through various sources, such as our mines, producers, service providers (including
gatherers, shippers, marketers and other aggregators) and refiners. Depending on the needs of each customer and the market in
which it operates, we can provide a service for a fee (as in the case of our pipeline, terminal, marine vessel transportation and
railcar unloading operations), we can acquire the commodity from our customer and resell it to another party, or, in the case of
soda ash, we can produce the commodity ourselves.
Our source of volumes depends on successful exploration and development of additional crude oil and natural gas
reserves by others; our successful development of our trona reserves; continued demand for refining and our related sulfur
removal and other services, for which we are paid in NaHS; the breadth and depth of our logistics operations; the extent that
third parties provide NaHS for resale; and other matters beyond our control.
The crude oil, natural gas and refined products available to us and our refinery customers are derived from reserves
produced from existing wells, and these reserves naturally decline over time. In order to offset this natural decline, our energy
infrastructure assets must access additional reserves. Additionally, some of the projects we have planned or recently completed
are dependent on reserves that we expect to be produced from newly discovered properties that producers are currently
developing.
Finding and developing new reserves is very expensive, requiring large capital expenditures by producers for
exploration and development drilling, installing production facilities and constructing pipeline extensions to reach new wells.
Many economic and business factors out of our control can adversely affect the decision by any producer to explore for and
develop new reserves. These factors include the prevailing market price of the commodity, the capital budgets of producers, the
depletion rate of existing reservoirs, the success of new wells drilled, environmental concerns, regulatory initiatives, cost and
availability of equipment, capital budget limitations or the lack of available capital and other matters beyond our control.
Additional reserves, if discovered, may not be developed in the near future or at all. The volatility in crude oil and natural gas
prices has forced some producers to significantly defer or curtail their planned capital expenditures. Thus, crude oil and natural
gas production in our market areas could decline, which could have a material negative impact on our revenues and prospects.
Demand for our midstream services is dependent on the demand for crude oil and natural gas. Any decrease in demand
for crude oil or natural gas, including by those refineries or connecting carriers to which we deliver could adversely affect our
cash flows. The demand for crude oil also is dependent on the competition from refineries, the impact of future economic
conditions, fuel conservation measures, alternative fuel requirements or alternative fuel sources such as electricity, coal, fuel
oils or nuclear energy, government regulation or technological advances in fuel economy and energy generation devices, all of
which could reduce demand for our services. A reduction in demand for our services in the markets we serve could result in
impairments of our assets and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Demand for our soda ash is dependent on worldwide economic conditions and the use of everyday end products that
utilize soda ash in their production process. Soda ash is a basic building block for a number of ubiquitous products, including
flat glass, container glass, dry detergent, solar panels, lithium batteries and a variety of chemicals and other industrial products.
Demand could be adversely affected by economic recessions and many other factors.
Our ability to access NaHS depends primarily on the demand for our proprietary sulfur removal process. Demand for
our sulfur services could be adversely affected by many factors, including lower refinery utilization rates, U.S. refineries
accessing more “sweet” (instead of “sour”) crude and the development of alternative sulfur removal processes. We are
dependent on third parties for caustic soda for use in our sulfur removal process as well as volumes to market to third parties.
Should regulatory requirements or operational difficulties disrupt the manufacture of caustic soda by these producers, we could
be affected. Caustic soda is a major component of the proprietary sulfur removal process we provide to our refinery customers.
Because we are a large consumer of caustic soda, we can leverage our economies of scale and logistics capabilities to
effectively market caustic soda to third parties. NaHS, the resulting by-product from our sulfur removal operations, is a vital
ingredient in a number of industrial and consumer products and processes. Any decrease in the supply of caustic soda could
affect our ability to provide sulfur removal services to refiners and any decrease in the demand for NaHS by the parties to
whom we sell the NaHS could adversely affect our business.
We face intense competition to obtain crude oil, natural gas and refined products volumes and to sell and market soda ash.
Our competitors, gatherers, transporters, marketers, brokers and other aggregators, include integrated, large and small
independent energy companies, as well as their marketing affiliates, who vary widely in size, financial resources and
experience. Some of these competitors have capital resources many times greater than ours and control substantially greater
supplies of crude oil, natural gas and refined products.
Even if reserves exist or refined products are produced in the areas accessed by our facilities, we may not be chosen by
the refiners or producers to gather, refine, market, transport, store or otherwise handle any of these crude oil and natural gas
reserves, NaHS, caustic soda or other refined products. We compete with others for any such volumes on the basis of many
factors, including: geographic proximity to the production and/or refineries; costs of connection; available capacity; rates;
logistical efficiency in all of our operations; operational efficiency in our sulfur removal business; customer relationships; and
access to markets.
Additionally, on our onshore pipelines, most of our third-party shippers do not have long-term contractual
commitments to ship crude oil on our pipelines. A decision by a shipper to substantially reduce or cease to ship volumes of
crude oil on our pipelines could cause a significant decline in our revenues. In Mississippi, we are dependent on
interconnections with other pipelines to provide shippers with a market for their crude oil, and in Texas we are dependent on
interconnections with other pipelines to provide shippers with transportation to our pipeline. Any reduction of throughput
available to our shippers on these interconnecting pipelines as a result of testing, pipeline repair, reduced operating pressures or
other causes could result in reduced throughput on our pipelines that would adversely affect our cash flows and results of
operations.
Fluctuations in demand for crude oil or natural gas or availability of refined products or NaHS, such as those caused
by refinery downtime or shutdowns, can negatively affect our operating results. Reduced demand in areas we service with our
pipelines, marine vessels, rail facilities and trucks can result in less demand for our transportation services.
Competition in our Alkali Business is based on a number of factors, including price, favorable logistics, customer
service, and the cost of production of natural soda ash (including energy costs and raw materials, amongst others). Adverse
effects to these factors could negatively affect our operating results.
Many of our crude oil and natural gas transportation customers are producers whose drilling activity levels and spending
for transportation have historically been, and may continue to be, impacted by volatility in the commodity markets.
Many of our customers finance their drilling activities through cash flow from operations, the incurrence of debt or the
issuance of equity. Extreme volatility in commodity prices has caused many of our customers’ equity value to substantially
decline. New credit facilities and other debt financing from institutional sources have generally become more difficult and
expensive to obtain, and there may be a general reduction in the amount of credit available in the markets in which we conduct
business. Over the last three years, prices for crude oil ranged from a high of over $120 per barrel to a low of less than $50 per
barrel, and such extreme volatility may continue going forward. Adverse price changes put downward pressure on drilling
budgets for crude oil and natural gas producers, which have resulted, and could continue to result, in lower volumes than we
otherwise would have seen being transported on our pipeline and transportation systems, which could have a material negative
impact on our revenues and prospects.
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Fluctuations in prices for crude oil, natural gas, refined petroleum products, NaHS, soda ash and caustic soda could
adversely affect our business.
Because we purchase (or otherwise acquire or, in the case of soda ash, produce) and sell crude oil, natural gas, refined
petroleum products, NaHS, soda ash and caustic soda we are exposed to some direct commodity price risks. Prices for those
commodities can fluctuate in response to changes in supply, market uncertainty and a variety of additional factors that are
beyond our control, which could have an adverse effect on our cash flows, profit and/or Segment Margin. We attempt to limit
those commodity price risks through back-to-back purchases and sales, hedges and other contractual arrangements; however,
we cannot completely eliminate our commodity price risk exposure.
Non-utilization of certain assets could significantly reduce our profitability due to the fixed costs incurred with respect to
such assets.
From time to time in connection with our business, we may lease or otherwise secure the right to use certain third party
assets (such as railcars, trucks, barges, pipeline capacity, storage capacity and other similar assets) with the expectation that the
revenues we generate through the use of such assets will be greater than the fixed costs we incur pursuant to the applicable
leases or other arrangements. However, when such assets are not utilized or are under-utilized (including pressure on the rates
we charge), our profitability is negatively affected because the revenues we earn are either non-existent or reduced (in the event
of under-utilization), but we remain obligated to continue paying any applicable fixed charges, in addition to incurring any
other costs attributable to the non-utilization of such assets. For example, in connection with our operations, we lease all of our
railcars which requires us to pay the applicable lease rate without regard to utilization. In addition, during the period of time that
we are not utilizing such assets, we will incur incremental costs associated with the cost of storing such assets, and we will
continue to incur costs for maintenance and upkeep. Our failure to utilize a significant portion of our leased assets and other
similar assets could have a significant negative impact on our profitability and cash flows.
In addition, certain of our field and pipeline operating costs and expenses are fixed and do not vary with the volumes
we gather and transport. These costs and expenses may not decrease ratably or at all should we experience a reduction in our
volumes transported by truck, marine vessel or rail or transported by our pipelines. As a result, we may experience declines in
our margin and profitability if our volumes decrease.
We cannot cause our joint ventures and certain of our unrestricted subsidiaries to take or not to take certain actions unless
some or all of the joint venture or third party participants agree.
Due to the nature of joint ventures, each participant (including us) in our material joint ventures has made substantial
investments (including contributions and other commitments) in that joint venture and, accordingly, has required that the
relevant charter documents contain certain features designed to provide each participant with the opportunity to participate in
the management of the joint venture and to protect its investment in that joint venture, as well as any other assets which may be
substantially dependent on or otherwise affected by the activities of that joint venture. These participation and protective
features often include a governance structure that consists of a management committee or other governing body composed of
members or member-designees, only some of which are appointed by us. In addition, certain of our joint ventures are operated
by our “partners” or have “stand-alone” credit agreements that limit their freedom to take certain actions. Thus, without the
concurrence of the other joint venture participants and/or the lenders of our joint venture participants, we cannot cause our joint
ventures to take or not to take certain actions, even though those actions may be in the best interest of the joint ventures or us.
The insolvency of an operator of our joint ventures, the failure of an operator of our joint ventures to adequately
perform operations or an operator’s breach of applicable agreements could reduce our earnings and cash flow and result in our
liability to governmental authorities for compliance with environmental, safety and other regulatory requirements and to the
operator’s suppliers and vendors. As a result, the success and timing of development activities of our joint ventures operated by
others and the economic results derived therefrom depends upon a number of factors outside our control, including the
operator’s timing and amount of capital expenditures, expertise and financial resources, and the inclusion of other participants.
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In addition, joint venture participants may have obligations that are important to the success of the joint venture, such
as the obligation to pay their share of capital and other costs of the joint venture. The performance and ability of third parties to
satisfy their obligations under joint venture arrangements is outside our control. If these third parties do not satisfy their
obligations under these arrangements, our business may be adversely affected.
We may not be able to renew our marine transportation time charters and contracts when they expire at favorable rates, for
extended periods, or at all, which may increase our exposure to the spot market and lead to lower revenues and increased
expenses.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, our marine transportation segment received approximately 70% of its
revenue from time charters and other fixed contracts, which help to insulate us from revenue fluctuations caused by weather,
navigational delays and short-term market declines. We earned approximately 30% of our marine transportation revenues from
spot contracts, where competition is high and rates are typically volatile and subject to short-term market fluctuations, and
where we could bear the risk of vessel downtime due to weather and navigational delays. If we deploy a greater percentage of
our vessels in the spot market, we may experience a lower overall utilization of our fleet through waiting time or ballast
voyages, leading to a decline in our operating revenue and gross profit. There can be no assurance that we will be able to enter
into future time charters or other fixed contracts on terms favorable to us. For further discussion of our marine transportation
contracts, see “Marine Transportation - Customers”.
A decrease in the cost of importing refined petroleum products could cause demand for U.S. flag product carrier and barge
capacity and charter rates to decline, which would decrease our revenues and cash flows from operations.
The demand for U.S. flag product carriers and barges is influenced by the cost of importing refined petroleum
products. Historically, charter rates for vessels qualified to participate in the U.S. coastwise trade under the Jones Act have been
higher than charter rates for foreign flag vessels. This is due to the higher construction and operating costs of U.S. flag vessels
under the Jones Act requirements that such vessels be built in the U.S. and manned by U.S. crews. This has made it less
expensive for certain areas of the U.S. that are underserved by pipelines or which lack local refining capacity, such as in the
Northeast, to import refined petroleum products carried aboard foreign flag vessels than to obtain them from U.S. refineries. If
the cost of importing refined petroleum products decreases to the extent that it becomes less expensive to import refined
petroleum products to other regions of the East Coast and the West Coast than producing such products in the U.S. and
transporting them on U.S. flag vessels, demand for our vessels and the charter rates for them could decrease.
We face periodic dry-docking costs for our vessels, which can be substantial.
Vessels must be dry-docked periodically for regulatory compliance and for maintenance and repair. Our dry-docking
requirements are subject to associated risks, including delay, cost overruns, lack of necessary equipment, unforeseen
engineering problems, employee strikes or other work stoppages, unanticipated cost increases, inability to obtain necessary
certifications and approvals and shortages of materials or skilled labor. A significant delay in dry-dockings could have an
adverse effect on our marine transportation contract commitments. The cost of repairs and renewals required at each dry-dock
are difficult to predict with certainty and can be substantial.
The U.S. inland waterway infrastructure is aging and may result in increased costs and disruptions to our marine
transportation segment.
Maintenance of the U.S. inland waterway system is vital to our marine transportation operations. The system is
composed of over 12,000 miles of commercially navigable waterway, supported by approximately 240 locks and dams
designed to provide flood control, maintain pool levels of water in certain areas of the country and facilitate navigation on the
inland river system. The U.S. inland waterway infrastructure is aging, with more than half of the locks over 50 years old. As a
result, due to the age of the locks, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance outages may be more frequent in nature, resulting in
delays and additional operating expenses. Failure of the federal government to adequately fund infrastructure maintenance and
improvements in the future would have a negative impact on our ability to deliver products for our marine transportation
customers on a timely basis. For example, when the Mississippi river floods significantly or if water levels are significantly
reduced by severe drought conditions (as they were in 2023), barges may be unable to traverse the river system and we may be
prevented from timely completing our voyages.
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Failure to obtain or renew surety bonds on acceptable terms could affect our ability to secure reclamation obligations and,
therefore, our ability to conduct our mining operations.
We are required to obtain surety bonds or post other financial security to secure performance or payment of certain
long-term obligations, such as mine closure or reclamation costs. The amount of security required to be obtained can change as
the result of new laws, as well as changes to the factors used to calculate the bonding or security amounts. We may have
difficulty procuring or maintaining our surety bonds. Our bond issuers may demand higher fees or additional collateral,
including letters of credit or other terms less favorable to us upon those renewals. Because we are required to have these bonds
or other acceptable security in place before mining can commence or continue, our failure to maintain surety bonds, letters of
credit or other guarantees or security arrangements would materially and adversely affect our ability to mine trona. That failure
could result from a variety of factors, including lack of availability, higher expense or unfavorable market terms, the exercise by
third-party surety bond issuers of their right to refuse to renew the surety and restrictions on availability of collateral for current
and future third-party surety bond issuers under the terms of our financing arrangements.
Our indebtedness could adversely restrict our ability to operate, affect our financial condition, prevent us from complying
with requirements under our debt instruments and prevent us from paying cash distributions to our unitholders.
We have outstanding debt and the potential to incur additional indebtedness. As of December 31, 2023, we had
approximately $298.3 million outstanding under our senior secured credit facility, $3,099.9 million aggregate principal amount
of senior unsecured notes outstanding and $425.0 million aggregate principal amount of Alkali senior secured notes
outstanding. We must comply with various affirmative and negative covenants contained in our credit agreement and the
indentures or purchase agreement governing our notes, some of which may restrict the way in which we would like to conduct
our business. Among other things, these covenants limit or will limit our ability to incur additional indebtedness or liens, make
payments in respect of or redeem or acquire any debt or equity issued by us, sell assets, make loans or investments, make
guarantees, enter into any hedging agreement for speculative purposes, acquire or be acquired by other companies, and amend
some of our contracts.
The restrictions under our indebtedness may prevent us from engaging in certain transactions which might otherwise
be considered beneficial to us and could have other important consequences to unitholders. For example, they could increase
our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions, limit our ability to make distributions; to fund future
working capital, capital expenditures and other general partnership requirements, to engage in future acquisitions, construction
or development activities, to access capital markets (debt and equity), or to otherwise fully realize the value of our assets and
opportunities, limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our businesses and the industries in which we
operate, and place us at a competitive disadvantage as compared to our competitors that have less debt. Moreover, the need to
dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flows from operations to payments on our indebtedness may similarly prevent us from
engaging in certain transactions which might otherwise be considered beneficial to us and could have other important
consequences to unitholders.
We may incur additional indebtedness (public or private) in the future under our existing credit agreement, by issuing
debt instruments, under new credit agreements, under joint venture credit agreements, under new credit agreements of our
unrestricted subsidiaries, under finance leases or synthetic leases, on a project-finance or other basis or a combination of any of
these. If we incur additional indebtedness in the future, it likely would be under our existing or a replacement credit agreement
or under arrangements that may have terms and conditions at least as or even more restrictive as those contained in our existing
credit agreement and the indentures or purchase agreement governing our existing notes. Failure to comply with the terms and
conditions of any existing or future indebtedness would constitute an event of default. If an event of default occurs, the lenders
or noteholders will have the right to accelerate the maturity of such indebtedness and foreclose upon the collateral, if any,
securing that indebtedness. In addition, if there is a change of control as described in our senior secured credit facility, that
would be an event of default, unless our creditors agreed otherwise, and, under our senior secured credit facility, any such event
could limit our ability to fulfill our obligations under our debt instruments and to make cash distributions to unitholders which
could adversely affect the market price of our securities.
In addition, from time to time, some of our joint ventures or unrestricted subsidiaries may have substantial
indebtedness, which will include affirmative and negative covenants and other provisions that limit their ability to conduct
certain operations, events of default, prepayment and other customary terms.
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We may not be able to access adequate capital (debt and/or equity) on economically viable terms or any terms.
The capital markets (debt and equity) have previously been disrupted and volatile as a result of adverse conditions,
including inflationary pressures, bubble-effects and volatility in commodity prices. These circumstances and events, which can
last for extended periods of time, have led to reduced capital availability, tighter lending standards and higher interest rates on
loans for companies in the energy industry, especially non-investment grade companies. Although we cannot predict the future
condition of the capital markets, future turmoil in capital markets and the related higher cost of capital could have a material
adverse effect on our business, liquidity, financial condition and cash flows, particularly if our ability to borrow money from
lenders or access the capital markets to finance our operations were to be limited.
If we are unable to access the amounts and types of capital we seek at a cost and/or on terms that have been available
to us historically, we could be materially and adversely affected. Such an inability to access capital, including renewing and
extending the terms at the relevant time on our existing debt, including the debt at our unrestricted subsidiaries, could limit or
prohibit our ability to execute significant portions of our business plan, such as executing our growth strategy and/or optimizing
our capital structure.
Our actual construction, development and acquisition costs could exceed our forecast, and our cash flow from construction
and development projects may not be immediate.
Our forecast contemplates significant expenditures for the development, construction or other acquisition of onshore
and offshore infrastructure as well as mining assets, including some construction and development projects with technological
challenges. We (or our joint ventures) may not be able to complete our projects at the costs or within the timeframes currently
estimated. If we (or our joint ventures) experience material cost overruns, we will have to finance these overruns using one or
more of the following methods: using cash from operations; delaying other planned projects; incurring additional indebtedness;
or issuing additional debt or equity.
Any or all of these methods may not be available when needed, may be prohibited or restricted by our or our joint
venture’s debt or other contractual arrangements or may adversely affect our future results of operations.
In addition, some construction projects require substantial investments over a long period of time before they begin
generating any meaningful cash flow.
The IRA could accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy away from oil and gas.
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the IRA which, among other provisions, imposes a fee on
methane emissions from sources required to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, including those sources in the onshore petroleum and natural gas production and gathering and boosting source
categories. Beginning in 2024, the IRA’s methane emissions charge imposes a fee on excess methane emissions from certain oil
and gas facilities, starting at $900 per metric ton of leaked methane in 2024 and rising to $1,200 in 2025, and $1,500 for 2026
and thereafter. The imposition of this fee and other provisions contained within the IRA could accelerate the transition away
from oil and gas, which could decrease demand for, and in turn the prices of, the oil and natural gas that we store, transport and
sell and adversely impact our business.
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Inflationary pressures and associated changes in monetary policy increased and may further increase our operating costs,
which in turn have caused and may continue to cause our capital expenditures and operating costs to rise.
Inflationary pressures have significantly increased over the last three years and could continue in the future. These
inflationary pressures have increased and may further increase our operating costs, which in turn have caused and may continue
to cause our capital expenditures and operating costs to rise. Sustained levels of high inflation have likewise caused the Federal
Reserve and other central banks to increase interest rates, which raises the cost of capital, including the cost of borrowings
under our senior secured credit facility, and depresses economic growth, which could adversely affect the financial and
operating results of our business.
Non-traditional investment criteria used by many investors may diminish investor interest in us and reduce the value of our
common units and our access to capital.
Recently, investor advocacy groups, certain institutional investors and many investment funds have increased their
focus on non-traditional investment criteria, such as environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability goals. In
particular, numerous investment firms, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions have made pledges to reduce
their carbon emissions, which in many cases may involve reducing or eliminating their investments in organizations involved in
the production, transport and use of fossil fuels. In connection with this trend, investor demand for and valuation of our
common units may decline, and our access to the debt and equity capital necessary to finance our growth projects and to
refinance our existing debt obligations when due may be reduced, either of which could adversely impact our businesses.
Our operations are subject to federal, state and local environmental protection and safety laws and regulations.
Our operations are subject to stringent federal, state and local environmental protection and safety laws and
regulations. See “Regulation-Environmental Regulations.” Failure to comply with these laws and regulations may result in the
assessment of administrative, civil and criminal penalties, including the assessment of monetary penalties, the imposition of
investigatory and remedial obligations, the suspension or revocation of necessary permits, licenses and authorizations, the
requirement that additional pollution controls be installed and the issuance of orders enjoining future operations or imposing
additional compliance requirements. While we believe that we are in substantial compliance with current environmental laws
and regulations and that continued compliance with existing requirements would not materially affect us, there is no assurance
that this trend will continue in the future. Revised or new additional regulations that result in increased compliance costs or
additional operating restrictions, particularly if those costs are not fully recoverable from our customers, could have a material
adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations and cash flows. Moreover, our operations, including the
transportation and storage of crude oil, natural gas and other commodities, involves a risk that crude oil, natural gas and related
hydrocarbons or other substances may be released into the environment, which may result in substantial expenditures for a
response action, significant government penalties, liability to government agencies for natural resources damages, liability to
private parties for personal injury or property damages and significant business interruption. These costs and liabilities could
rise under increasingly strict environmental and safety laws, including regulations and enforcement policies, or claims for
damages to property or persons resulting from our operations. If we are unable to recover such resulting costs through increased
rates or insurance reimbursements, our cash flows and distributions to our unitholders could be materially affected.
Climate change legislation and regulatory initiatives may decrease demand for the products we store, transport and sell and
increase our operating costs.
In recent years, federal, state, and local governments have taken steps to reduce emissions of GHGs. For example, the
IRA and the Investment in Infrastructure and Jobs Act include billions of dollars in incentives for the development of renewable
energy, clean hydrogen, clean fuels, electric vehicles, investments in advanced biofuels and supporting infrastructure and
carbon capture and sequestration. Also, the EPA has proposed ambitious rules to reduce harmful air pollutant emissions,
including GHGs, from light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles beginning in model year 2027. These incentives and
regulations could accelerate the transition of the economy away from the use of fossil fuels towards lower or zero-carbon
emissions alternatives, which could decrease demand for, and in turn the prices of, the oil and natural gas that we store,
transport and sell and adversely impact our business.
The EPA has also finalized a series of GHG monitoring, reporting and emission control rules for the oil and natural
gas industry, and almost half of the states, either individually or through multi-state regional initiatives, have already taken legal
measures to reduce GHG emissions, primarily through the planned development of GHG emission inventories and/or GHG
cap-and-trade programs. In addition, states have imposed increasingly stringent requirements related to the venting or flaring of
gas during oil and gas operations.
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In addition, in December 2015, the United States participated in the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France. The resulting Paris Agreement calls for the parties
to undertake “ambitious efforts” to limit the average global temperature, and to conserve and enhance sinks and reservoirs of
GHGs. The Agreement went into effect on November 4, 2016. On April 21, 2021, the United States announced that it was
setting an economy-wide target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent below 2005 levels in 2030. In
November 2021, in connection with the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow, Scotland, the United States and
other world leaders made further commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including reducing global methane
emissions by at least 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. More than 150 countries have now signed on to this pledge. Most
recently, at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP-28) in the United Arab Emirates, world leaders agreed to transition away
from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner and to triple renewables and double energy efficiency globally by 2030.
Also at COP-28, 50 companies accounting for 40 percent of global oil production committed to eliminating their methane
emissions by 2050 under the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter. These companies also committed to ending flaring by 2030.
Furthermore, many state and local leaders have stated their intent to intensify efforts to support the international climate
commitments.
Efforts to regulate or restrict emissions of GHGs in areas that we conduct business could adversely affect the demand
for the products that we transport, store and distribute and, depending on the particular program adopted, could increase our
costs to operate and maintain our facilities by requiring that we, among other things, measure and report our emissions, install
new emission controls on our facilities, acquire allowances to authorize our GHG emissions, pay any fees or taxes related to our
GHG emissions and administer and manage a GHG emissions program. We may be unable to include some or all of such
increased costs in the rates charged by our pipelines or other facilities, and any such recovery may depend on events beyond our
control, including the outcome of future rate proceedings before the FERC or state regulatory agencies and the provisions of
any final legislation or implementing regulations. Any GHG emissions legislation or regulatory programs applicable to power
plants or refineries could also increase the cost of consuming, and thereby adversely affect demand for the crude oil and natural
gas that we produce. Consequently, legislation and regulatory programs to reduce GHG emissions could have an adverse effect
on our business, financial condition and results of operations. It is not possible at this time to predict with any accuracy the
structure or outcome of any future legislative or regulatory efforts to address such emissions or the eventual costs to us of
compliance.
Moreover, climate change may be associated with extreme weather conditions such as more intense hurricanes,
thunderstorms, tornadoes and snow or ice storms, as well as rising sea levels. Another possible consequence of climate change
is increased volatility in seasonal temperatures. Some studies indicate that climate change could cause some areas to experience
temperatures substantially hotter or colder than their historical averages. Extreme weather conditions can interfere with our
production and increase our costs and damage resulting from extreme weather may not be fully insured. However, at this time,
we are unable to determine the extent to which climate change may lead to increased storm or weather hazards affecting our
operations.
We have reclamation and mine closing obligations. If the assumptions underlying our accruals are inaccurate, we could be
required to expend greater amounts than anticipated.
Our mining operations in Wyoming are subject to mine permits issued by the Land Quality Division of the Wyoming
Department of Environmental Quality (“WDEQ”). WDEQ imposes detailed reclamation obligations on us as a holder of mine
permits. We accrue for the costs of current mine disturbance and of final mine closure. The amounts recorded are dependent
upon a number of variables, including the estimated future closure costs, estimated proven reserves, assumptions involving
profit margins, inflation rates and the assumed credit-adjusted risk-free interest rates. If these accruals are insufficient or our
liability in a particular year is greater than currently anticipated, our future operating results could be materially adversely
affected.
Regulation of the rates, terms and conditions of services and a changing regulatory environment could affect our financial
position, results of operations or cash flow.
FERC regulates certain of our energy infrastructure assets engaged in interstate operations. Our intrastate pipeline
operations are regulated by state agencies. Our railcar operations are subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal
Railroad Administration of the DOT, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as other federal and state
regulatory agencies. This regulation extends to such matters as: rate structures; rates of return on equity; recovery of costs; the
services that our regulated assets are permitted to perform; the acquisition, construction and disposition of assets; and to an
extent, the level of competition in that regulated industry.
In addition, some of our pipelines and other infrastructure are subject to laws providing for open and/or non-
discriminatory access.
Given the extent of this regulation, the evolving nature of federal and state regulation and the possibility for additional
changes, the current regulatory regime may change and affect our financial position, results of operations or cash flow.
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Our business would be adversely affected if we failed to comply with the Jones Act foreign ownership provisions.
We are subject to the Jones Act and other federal laws that restrict maritime cargo transportation between points in the
U.S. only to vessels operating under the U.S. flag, built in the U.S., at least 75% owned and operated by U.S. citizens (or owned
and operated by other entities meeting U.S. citizenship requirements to own vessels operating in the U.S. coastwise trade and,
in the case of limited partnerships, where the general partner meets U.S. citizenship requirements) and manned by U.S. crews.
To maintain our privilege of operating vessels in the Jones Act trade, we must maintain U.S. citizen status for Jones Act
purposes. To ensure compliance with the Jones Act, we must be U.S. citizens qualified to document vessels for coastwise trade.
We could cease being a U.S. citizen if certain events were to occur, including if non-U.S. citizens were to own 25% or more of
our equity interest or were otherwise deemed to control us or our general partner. We are responsible for monitoring ownership
to ensure compliance with the Jones Act. The consequences of our failure to comply with the Jones Act provisions on coastwise
trade, including failing to qualify as a U.S. citizen, would have an adverse effect on us as we may be prohibited from operating
our vessels in the U.S. coastwise trade or, under certain circumstances, permanently lose U.S. coastwise trading rights or be
subject to fines or forfeiture of our vessels.
Our business would be adversely affected if the Jones Act provisions on coastwise trade or international trade agreements
were modified or repealed or as a result of modifications to existing legislation or regulations governing the crude oil and
natural gas industry.
If the restrictions contained in the Jones Act were repealed or altered or certain international trade agreements were
changed, the maritime transportation of cargo between U.S. ports could be opened to foreign flag or foreign-built vessels. The
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, or the Secretary, is vested with the authority and discretion to waive the
coastwise laws if the Secretary deems that such action is necessary in the interest of national defense. Any waiver of the
coastwise laws, whether in response to natural disasters or otherwise, could result in increased competition from foreign
product carrier and barge operators, which could reduce our revenues and cash available for distribution.
Foreign-flag vessels generally have lower construction costs and generally operate at significantly lower costs than we
do in U.S. markets, which would likely result in reduced charter rates. We believe that continued efforts will be made to modify
or repeal the Jones Act. If these efforts are successful, foreign-flag vessels could be permitted to trade in the U.S. coastwise
trade and significantly increase competition with our fleet, which could have an adverse effect on our business.
Events within the crude oil and natural gas industry may adversely affect our customers’ operations and, consequently,
our operations and may also subject companies operating in the crude oil and natural gas industry, including us, to additional
regulatory scrutiny and result in additional regulations and restrictions adversely affecting the U.S. crude oil and natural gas
industry.
Compliance with and changes in cybersecurity requirements have a cost impact on our business, and failure to comply with
such laws and regulations could have an impact on our assets, costs, revenue generation and growth opportunities.
In the third quarter of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”)
announced the revision and re-issuance of two new security directives originally issued in the second quarter of 2021. These
directives require critical pipeline owners to comply with mandatory reporting measures and provide vulnerability assessments.
We may be required to expend significant additional resources to respond to cyberattacks, to continue to modify or enhance our
protective measures, or to assess, investigate and remediate any critical infrastructure security vulnerabilities. Any failure to
remain in compliance with these government regulations may results in enforcement actions which may have a material adverse
effect on our business and operations.
We are subject to regulatory and economic risks associated with doing business outside of the United States.
Our operations outside of the United States are subject to risks that are inherent in conducting business internationally,
including compliance with both United States and foreign laws and regulations that apply to our international operations. These
laws and regulations could include tax laws, anti-competition regulations, import and export requirements, data privacy
requirements, labor relations laws, environmental, health and safety laws, and anti-bribery laws such as the U.S. Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act and similar anti-bribery laws in other jurisdictions. Given the high level of complexity of these laws,
there is a risk that some provisions may be violated inadvertently or through fraudulent or negligent behavior of individual
employees, our failure to comply with certain formal documentation requirements or otherwise. In addition, these laws are
subject to changes, which may require additional resources or make it more difficult for us to comply with these laws.
Violations of the laws and regulations governing our international operations could result in fines against us, our officers or our
employees. In addition to the foregoing, engaging in international business involves a number of other risks, including cost and
availability of international shipping channels, longer payment cycles in certain countries, and the potential of political or
economic instability. These potential risks and difficulties, individually or in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect
on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
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Individual members of the Davison family can exert significant influence over us and may have conflicts of interest with us
and may be permitted to favor their interests to the detriment of our other unitholders.
James E. Davison and James E. Davison, Jr., each of whom is a director of our general partner, each own a significant
portion of our common units, including our Class B Common Units, the holders of which elect our directors. Other members of
the Davison family also own a significant portion of our common units. Collectively, members of the Davison family and their
affiliates own approximately 11.0% of our Class A Common Units and 77.0% of our Class B Common Units and are able to
exert significant influence over us, including the ability to elect at least a majority of the members of our board of directors and
the ability to control most matters requiring board approval, such as material business strategies, mergers, business
combinations, acquisitions or dispositions of assets, issuances of additional partnership securities, incurrences of debt or other
financings and payments of distributions. In addition, the existence of a controlling group (if one were to form) may have the
effect of making it difficult for, or may discourage or delay, a third party from seeking to acquire us, which may adversely
affect the market price of our common units. Further, conflicts of interest may arise between us and other entities for which
members of the Davison family serve as officers or directors. In resolving any conflicts that may arise, such members of the
Davison family may favor the interests of another entity over our interests.
Members of the Davison family own, control and have interests in diverse companies, some of which may (or could in
the future) compete directly or indirectly with us. As a result, the interests of the members of the Davison family may not
always be consistent with our interests or the interests of our other unitholders. Members of the Davison family could also
pursue acquisitions or business opportunities that may be complementary to our business. Our organizational documents allow
the holders of our units (including affiliates, like the Davisons’) to take advantage of such corporate opportunities without first
presenting such opportunities to us. As a result, corporate opportunities that may benefit us may not be available to us in a
timely manner, or at all. To the extent that conflicts of interest may arise among us and any member of the Davison family,
those conflicts may be resolved in a manner adverse to us or you. Other potential conflicts may involve, among others, the
following situations: our general partner is allowed to take into account the interest of parties other than us, such as one or more
of its affiliates, in resolving conflicts of interest; our general partner may limit its liability and reduce its fiduciary duties, while
also restricting the remedies available to our unitholders for actions that, without such limitations, might constitute breaches of
fiduciary duty; our general partner determines the amount and timing of asset purchases and sales, capital expenditures,
borrowings, issuance of additional partnership securities, reimbursements and enforcement of obligations to the general partner
and its affiliates, retention of counsel, accountants and service providers and cash reserves, each of which can also affect the
amount of cash that is distributed to our unitholders; and our general partner determines which costs incurred by it and its
affiliates are reimbursable by us and the reimbursement of these costs and of any services provided by our general partner could
adversely affect our ability to pay cash distributions to our unitholders.
Our Class B Common Units may be transferred to a third party without unitholder consent, which could affect our strategic
direction.
Unlike the holders of common stock in a corporation, our unitholders have only limited voting rights on matters
affecting our business and, therefore, limited ability to influence management’s decisions regarding our business. Only holders
of our Class B Common Units have the right to elect our board of directors. Holders of our Class B Common Units may transfer
such units to a third party without the consent of the unitholders. The new holders of our Class B Common Units may then be in
a position to replace our board of directors and officers of our general partner with its own choices and to control the strategic
decisions made by our board of directors and officers.
Our general partner has a limited call right that may require common unitholders to sell their units at an undesirable time
or price.
If at any time our general partner, the partnership, and our subsidiaries collectively own 80% or more of the Class A
Common Units or Class B Common Units, our general partner will have the right, but not the obligation, which it may assign to
us, to acquire all, but not less than all, of the remaining common units of such class held by persons other than our general
partner, the partnership or our subsidiaries at a price not less than their then-current market price. As a result, common
unitholders may be required to sell their common units at an undesirable time or price. Such unitholders may also incur a tax
liability upon such sale of their units.
The interruption of distributions to us from our subsidiaries and joint ventures could affect our ability to make payments on
indebtedness or cash distributions to our unitholders.
We are a holding company. As such, our primary assets are the equity interests in our subsidiaries and joint ventures.
Consequently, our ability to fund our commitments (including payments on our indebtedness) and to make cash distributions
depends upon the earnings and cash flow of our subsidiaries and joint ventures and the distribution of that cash to us. While
some of our joint ventures and our unrestricted subsidiaries may generally be required to make cash distributions to us on a
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quarterly or other periodic basis, distributions from our joint ventures and our unrestricted subsidiaries are subject to the
discretion of their respective management committee or similar governing body in one or more respects even if such
distributions are generally required, such as with respect to the establishment of cash reserves. Further, the charter documents of
certain of our joint ventures and unrestricted subsidiaries may vest in the management committees or similar governing body’s
certain discretion or contain certain limitations regarding cash distributions even if such distributions are generally required.
Accordingly, our joint ventures and our unrestricted subsidiaries may not continue to make distributions to us at current levels
or at all.
We do not have the same flexibility as other types of organizations to accumulate cash and equity to protect against
illiquidity in the future.
Unlike a corporation, our partnership agreement requires us to make quarterly distributions to our unitholders of all
available cash reduced by any amounts reserved for commitments and contingencies, including capital and operating costs and
debt service requirements. The value of our units and other limited partner interests may decrease in direct correlation with
decreases in the amount we distribute per unit. Accordingly, if we experience a liquidity problem in the future, we may not be
able to issue more equity to recapitalize.
Unitholders may have liability to repay distributions that were wrongfully distributed to them.
Under certain circumstances, unitholders may have to repay amounts wrongfully returned or distributed to them.
Under Section 17-607 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, we may not make a distribution to you if the
distribution would cause our liabilities to exceed the fair value of our assets. Delaware law provides that for a period of three
years from the date of an impermissible distribution, limited partners who received the distribution and who knew at the time of
the distribution that it violated Delaware law will be liable to the limited partnership for the distribution amount. Substituted
limited partners are liable both for the obligations of the assignor to make contributions to the partnership that were known to
the substituted limited partner at the time it became a limited partner and for those obligations that were unknown if the
liabilities could have been determined from the partnership agreement. Neither liabilities to partners on account of their
partnership interest nor liabilities that are non-recourse to the partnership are counted for purposes of determining whether a
distribution is permitted.
Unitholder liability may not be limited if a court finds that unitholder action constitutes control of our business.
A general partner of a partnership generally has unlimited liability for the obligations of the partnership, except for
those contractual obligations of the partnership that are expressly made without recourse to the general partner. Our partnership
is organized under Delaware law, and we conduct business in other states. The limitations on the liability of holders of limited
partner interests for the obligations of a limited partnership have not been clearly established in some states in which we do
business or may do business in from time to time in the future. Unitholders could be liable for any and all of our obligations as
if unitholders were a general partner if a court or government agency were to determine that: we were conducting business in a
state but had not complied with that particular state’s partnership statute; or unitholders right to act with other unitholders to
remove or replace our general partner, to approve some amendments to our partnership agreement or to take other actions under
our partnership agreement constitutes “control” of our business.
Our tax treatment depends on our status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, as well as us not being subject to
a material amount of entity-level taxation by individual states. If the IRS were to treat us as a corporation (for U.S. federal
income tax purposes) or if we were to become subject to a material amount of entity-level taxation for state tax purposes,
then our cash available for distribution to our unitholders would be substantially reduced.
The anticipated after-tax economic benefit of an investment in our units depends largely on our being treated as a
partnership for federal income tax purposes. Section 7704 of the Internal Revenue Code provides that publicly traded
partnerships will, as a general rule, be taxed as corporations. However, an exception exists with respect to publicly traded
partnerships, 90% or more of the gross income of which for each taxable year consists of “qualifying income.”
If less than 90% of our gross income for any taxable year is “qualifying income” from transportation, processing or
marketing of natural resources (including minerals, crude oil, natural gas or products thereof), interest or dividends income, we
will be taxable as a corporation under Section 7704 of the Internal Revenue Code for federal income tax purposes for that
taxable year and all subsequent years. We have not requested a ruling from the IRS with respect to our treatment as a
partnership for federal income tax purposes.
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The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Tidewater Inc. v. U.S., 565 F.3d 299 (5th Cir. April
13, 2009) held that the marine time charter being analyzed in that case was a “lease” that generated rental income rather than
income from transportation services for purposes of a foreign sales corporation provision of the Internal Revenue Code. Even
though (i) the Tidewater case did not involve a publicly traded partnership and it was not decided under Section 7704 of the
Internal Revenue Code relating to “qualifying income,” (ii) some experienced practitioners believe the decision was not well
reasoned, (iii) the IRS stated in an Action on Decision (AOD 2010-01) that it disagrees with and will not acquiesce to the Fifth
Circuit’s marine time charter analysis contained in the Tidewater case and (iv) the IRS has issued several favorable private
letter rulings (which can be relied upon and cited as precedent by only the taxpayers that obtained them) relating to time
charters since the Tidewater decision was issued, the Tidewater decision creates some uncertainty regarding the status of
income from certain of our marine time charters as “qualifying income” under Section 7704 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Tidewater case is relevant authority because it is the only case of which we and our outside
tax counsel are aware directly analyzing whether a particular time charter would constitute a lease or service agreement for
certain U.S. federal tax purposes. Due to the uncertainty created by the Tidewater decision, our outside tax counsel, Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, was required to change the standard in its opinion relating to our status as a partnership for federal
income tax purposes to “should” from “will.”
Although we do not believe based upon our current operations that we are treated as a corporation for federal income
tax purposes, a change in our business (or a change in current law) could cause us to be treated as a corporation for federal
income tax purposes or otherwise subject us to taxation as an entity. If we were treated as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes, we would pay federal income tax on our taxable income at the corporate tax rate and would pay state income tax at
varying rates. Distributions to our unitholders would generally be taxable to them again as corporate distributions and no
income, gains, losses, or deductions would flow through to them. Because a tax would be imposed upon us as a corporation, our
cash available for distribution to our unitholders would be substantially reduced. Therefore, treatment of us as a corporation
would result in a material reduction in the anticipated cash flow and after-tax return to our unitholders, likely causing a
substantial reduction in the value of our units.
At the state level, because of widespread state budget deficits and other reasons, several states are evaluating ways to
subject partnerships to entity-level taxation through the imposition of state income, franchise and other forms of taxation. For
example, we are required to pay Texas franchise tax on our gross income apportioned to Texas. Imposition of any such taxes on
us by any other state would reduce our cash available for distribution to our unitholders.
The tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships or an investment in our units could be subject to potential legislative,
judicial or administrative changes and differing interpretations, possibly on a retroactive basis.
The present U.S. federal income tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships, including us, or an investment in our
units may be modified by administrative, legislative or judicial interpretation at any time. From time to time, members of
Congress propose and consider substantive changes to the existing U.S. federal income tax laws that affect publicly traded
partnerships, including the elimination of partnership tax treatment for certain publicly traded partnerships.
Any modifications to the U.S. federal income tax laws may be applied retroactively and could make it more difficult
or impossible for us to meet the exception for certain publicly traded partnerships to be treated as partnerships for U.S. federal
income tax purposes. We are unable to predict whether any of these changes, or other proposals, will ultimately be enacted.
Any such changes could cause a material reduction in our anticipated cash flows and could cause us to be treated as an
association taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes subjecting us to the entity-level tax and adversely
affecting the value of our units.
A successful IRS contest of the federal income tax positions we take may adversely affect the market for our units, and the
costs of any IRS contest would reduce our cash available for distribution to our unitholders and our general partner.
The IRS may adopt positions that differ from the positions we take. It may be necessary to resort to administrative or
court proceedings to sustain some or all of the positions we take. A court may not agree with some or all of the positions we
take. Any contest with the IRS may materially and adversely impact the market for our units and the price at which they trade.
In addition, our costs of any contest with the IRS will be borne indirectly by our unitholders and our general partner because
these costs will reduce our cash available for distribution.
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Pursuant to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, if the IRS makes
adjustments to our income tax returns, it (and some states) may assess and collect any taxes (including any applicable penalties
and interest) resulting from such audit adjustments directly from us. To the extent possible under the rules, our general partner
may elect to either cause us to pay the taxes (including any applicable penalties and interest) directly to the IRS or, if we are
eligible, issue a revised information statement to each unitholder and former unitholder with respect to an audited and adjusted
return. Although our general partner may elect to have it, our unitholders and former unitholders take such audit adjustments
into account and pay any resulting taxes (including applicable penalties or interest) in accordance with their interests in us
during the tax year under audit, there can be no assurance that such election will be practical, permissible or effective in all
circumstances. If we make payments of taxes and any penalties and interest directly to the IRS in the year in which the audit is
completed, our cash available for distribution to our unitholders might be substantially reduced, in which case our current
unitholders may bear some or all of the tax liability resulting from such audit adjustments, even if such unitholders did not own
units in us during the tax year under audit.
Our unitholders will be required to pay taxes on income (as well as deemed distributions, if any) from us even if they do not
receive any cash distributions from us.
Our unitholders will be required to pay any federal income taxes and, in some cases, state and local income taxes on
their share of our taxable income (as well as deemed distributions, if any) even if unitholders receive no cash distributions from
us. Our unitholders may not receive cash distributions from us equal to their share of our taxable income (or deemed
distributions, if any) or even the tax liability that results from that income (or deemed distribution).
Tax gain or loss on the disposition of our units could be more or less than expected.
If our unitholders sell their units, they will recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized
and their tax basis in those units. Because distributions in excess of their allocable share of our net taxable income decrease
their tax basis in their units, the amount, if any, of such prior excess distributions with respect to the units a unitholder sells will,
in effect, become taxable income to the unitholder if it sells such units at a price greater than its tax basis in those units, even if
the price received is less than its original cost. A substantial portion of the amount realized, whether or not representing gain,
may be ordinary income due to potential recapture items, including depreciation recapture. In addition, because the amount
realized includes a unitholder’s share of our non-recourse liabilities, if our unitholders sell their units, they may incur a tax
liability in excess of the amount of cash they receive from the sale.
Unitholders may be subject to limitations on their ability to deduct interest expense by us.
Our ability to deduct interest paid or accrued on indebtedness properly allocable to our trade or business during our
taxable year may be limited in certain circumstances. If this limitation were to apply with respect to a taxable year, it could
result in an increase in the taxable income allocable to a unitholder for such taxable year without any corresponding increase in
the cash available for distribution to such unitholder. However, in certain circumstances, a unitholder may be able to utilize a
portion of a business interest deduction subject to this limitation in future taxable years. Unitholders should consult their tax
advisors regarding the impact of this business interest deduction limitation on an investment in our units.
Tax-exempt entities and non-U.S. persons face unique tax issues from owning our units that may result in adverse tax
consequences to them.
Investment in our units by tax-exempt entities, such as individual retirement accounts (known as IRAs), other
retirement plans and non-U.S. persons, raises issues unique to them. For example, virtually all of our income allocated to
organizations that are exempt from federal income tax, including IRAs and other retirement plans, will be unrelated business
taxable income and will be taxable to them. With respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, subject to the
proposed aggregation rules for certain similarly situated businesses or activities issued by the Treasury Department, a tax-
exempt entity with more than one unrelated trade or business (including by attribution from investment in a partnership such as
ours) is required to compute the unrelated business taxable income of such tax-exempt entity separately with respect to each
trade or business (including for purposes of determining any net operating loss deduction). As a result, for years beginning
after December 31, 2017, it may not be possible for tax exempt entities to utilize losses from an investment in our partnership to
offset unrelated business taxable income from another unrelated trade or business and vice versa. Tax-exempt entities should
consult a tax advisor before investing in our units.
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Non-U.S. unitholders are generally taxed and subject to income tax filing requirements by the United States on income
effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business (“effectively connected income”). Income allocated to our unitholders and
any gain from the sale of our units will generally be considered to be “effectively connected” with a U.S. trade or business. As
a result, distributions to a non-U.S. unitholder will be subject to withholding at the highest applicable effective tax rate and a
non-U.S. unitholder who sells or otherwise disposes of a unit will also be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the gain realized
from the sale or disposition of that unit. Moreover, the transferee of an interest in a partnership that is engaged in a U.S. trade
or business is generally required to withhold 10% of the “amount realized” by the transferor unless the transferor certifies that it
is not a foreign person. While the determination of a partner’s “amount realized” generally includes any decrease of a partner’s
share of the partnership’s liabilities, recently issued Treasury regulations provide that the “amount realized” on a transfer of an
interest in a publicly traded partnership, such as our common units, will generally be the amount of gross proceeds paid to the
broker effecting the applicable transfer on behalf of the transferor, and thus will be determined without regard to any decrease
in that partner’s share of a publicly traded partnership’s liabilities. The Treasury regulations further provide that withholding on
a transfer of an interest in a publicly traded partnership will not be imposed on a transfer that occurs prior to January 1, 2023,
and after that date, if effected through a broker, the obligation to withhold is imposed on the transfer’s broker. Non-U.S.
unitholders should consult a tax advisor before investing in our units.
We will treat each purchaser of our common units as having the same tax benefits without regard to the common units
actually purchased. The IRS may challenge this treatment, which could adversely affect the value of our common units.
Because we cannot match transferors and transferees of our common units, we adopt depreciation and amortization
conventions that may not conform to all aspects of existing Treasury Regulations and may result in audit adjustments to our
unitholders’ tax returns without the benefit of additional deductions. A successful IRS challenge to those conventions could
adversely affect the amount of tax benefits available to a common unitholder. It also could affect the timing of these tax benefits
or the amount of gain from a sale of common units and could have a negative impact on the value of our common units or result
in audit adjustments to the common unitholder’s tax returns.
Our unitholders will likely be subject to state and local taxes in states where they do not live as a result of an investment in
our units.
In addition to federal income taxes, our unitholders will likely be subject to other taxes, including foreign, state and
local taxes, unincorporated business taxes and estate inheritance or intangible taxes that are imposed by the various jurisdictions
in which we do business or own property, even if our unitholders do not live in any of those jurisdictions. Our unitholders will
likely be required to file foreign, state, and local income tax returns and pay state and local income taxes in some or all of these
jurisdictions. Further, our unitholders may be subject to penalties for failure to comply with those requirements. We currently
own assets and do business in more than 20 states including Texas, Louisiana, Wyoming, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
Arkansas and Oklahoma. Many of the states we currently do business in impose a personal income tax. It is our unitholders’
responsibility to file all applicable U.S. federal, foreign, state and local tax returns. Unitholders should consult with their own
tax advisors regarding the filing of such tax returns, the payment of such taxes, and the deductibility of any taxes paid.
We have subsidiaries that are treated as corporations for federal income tax purposes and subject to corporate-level income
taxes.
We conduct a portion of our operations through subsidiaries that are, or are treated as, corporations for federal income
tax purposes. We may elect to conduct additional operations in corporate form in the future. These corporate subsidiaries will
be subject to corporate-level tax, which, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, is 21%, and will likely
pay state (and possibly local) income tax at varying rates, on their taxable income. Any such entity level taxes will reduce the
cash available for distribution to us and, in turn, to our unitholders. If the IRS were to successfully assert that these corporate
subsidiaries have more tax liability than we anticipate or legislation was enacted that increased the corporate tax rate, our cash
available for distribution to our unitholders would be further reduced.
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We generally prorate our items of income, gain, loss and deduction between transferors and transferees of our units each
month based upon the ownership of our units on the first day of each month, instead of on the basis of the date a particular
unit is transferred. The IRS may challenge this treatment, which could change the allocation of items of income, gain, loss
and deduction among our unitholders.
We generally prorate our items of income, gain, loss, and deduction between transferors and transferees of our units
each month based upon the ownership of our units on the first day of each month (the “Allocation Date”), instead of on the
basis of the date a particular unit is transferred. Similarly, we generally allocate (i) certain deductions for depreciation of capital
additions, (ii) gain or loss realized on a sale or other disposition of our assets and (iii) in the discretion of the general partner,
any other extraordinary item of income, gain, loss or deduction based upon ownership on the Allocation Date. Treasury
Regulations allow a similar monthly simplifying convention, but such regulations do not specifically authorize all aspects of our
proration method. If the IRS were to challenge our proration method, we may be required to change the allocation of items of
income, gain, loss and deduction among our unitholders.
A unitholder whose units are loaned to a “short seller” to cover a short sale of units may be considered as having disposed
of those units. If so, such unitholder would no longer be treated for tax purposes as a partner with respect to those units
during the period of the loan and may recognize gain or loss from the disposition.
Because a unitholder whose units are loaned to a “short seller” to cover a short sale of units may be considered as
having disposed of the loaned units, such unitholder may no longer be treated for tax purposes as a partner with respect to those
units during the period of the loan to the short seller and the unitholder may recognize gain or loss from such disposition.
Moreover, during the period of the loan to the short seller, any of our income, gain, loss or deduction with respect to those units
may not be reportable by the unitholder and any cash distributions received by the unitholder as to those units could be fully
taxable as ordinary income. Unitholders desiring to assure their status as partners and avoid the risk of gain recognition from a
loan to a short seller are urged to modify any applicable brokerage account agreements to prohibit their brokers from borrowing
their units.
The IRS could challenge our treatment of the holders of Class A Convertible Preferred Units as partners for tax purposes,
and if such challenge were sustained, certain holders of Class A Convertible Preferred Units could be adversely impacted.
The IRS may disagree with our treatment of the Class A Convertible Preferred Units as equity for U.S. federal income
tax purposes, and no assurance can be given that our treatment will be sustained. If the IRS were to successfully characterize
the Class A Convertible Preferred Units as indebtedness for tax purposes, certain holders of Class A Convertible Preferred
Units may be subject to additional withholding and reporting requirements. Further, if the Class A Convertible Preferred Units
were treated as indebtedness for U.S. federal tax purposes, rather than equity, distributions likely would be treated as payments
of interest by us to the holders of Class A Convertible Preferred Units. Holders of Class A Convertible Preferred Units are
encouraged to consult their tax advisors regarding the tax consequences applicable to the re-characterization of the Class A
Convertible Preferred Units as indebtedness for tax purposes.
The amount that a Class A Convertible Preferred unitholder would receive upon liquidation may be less than the liquidation
value of the Class A Convertible Preferred Units.
In general, we intend to specially allocate to the Class A Convertible Preferred Units items of our gross income in an
amount equal to the distributions paid in respect of the Class A Convertible Preferred Units during the taxable year. If the
distributions paid in respect of the Class A Convertible Preferred Units during a taxable year exceed the amount of our gross
income allocated to the Class A Convertible Preferred Units for such taxable year (as in the case of prior distributions during
the PIK period), the per unit capital account balance of the Class A Convertible Preferred unitholders would be reduced by the
amount of such excess. If we were to dissolve or liquidate, after satisfying all of our liabilities, our unitholders (including the
Class A Convertible Preferred unitholders) would be entitled to receive liquidating distributions in accordance with their capital
account balances. In such event, Class A Convertible Preferred unitholders would be specially allocated items of gross income
and gain in a manner designed to cause the capital account balance of a preferred unit to equal the liquidation value of a
preferred unit. If we were to have insufficient gross income and gain to cause the capital account balance to equal the
liquidation value of a preferred unit, then the amount that a Class A Convertible Preferred unitholder would receive upon
liquidation would be less than the liquidation value of the Class A Convertible Preferred Units, even though there may be cash
available for distribution to the holders of common units or any other junior securities with respect to their capital accounts.
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General Risks
We are exposed to the credit risk of our customers in the ordinary course of our business activities.
When we (or our joint ventures) market our products or services, we (or our joint ventures) must determine the
amount, if any, of the line of credit to extend to our customers. Since certain transactions can involve very large payments, the
risk of nonpayment and nonperformance by customers, industry participants and others is an important consideration in our
business.
For example, in those cases where we provide division order services for crude oil and natural gas purchased at the
wellhead, we may be responsible for distribution of proceeds to all of the interest owners. In other cases, we pay all of or a
portion of the production proceeds to an operator who distributes these proceeds to the various interest owners. These
arrangements expose us to operator credit risk. As a result, we must determine that operators have sufficient financial resources
to make such payments and distributions and to indemnify and defend us in case of a protest, action or complaint.
Additionally, we sell NaHS, soda ash and caustic soda to customers in a variety of industries. Some of these customers
are in industries that have been or could be impacted by a decline in demand for their products and services. Even if our credit
review and analytical procedures work properly, we have experienced, and we could continue to experience losses in dealings
with other parties.
We utilize ANSAC as our exclusive export vehicle for soda ash sales to customers in all countries excluding Canada,
South Africa, members of the European Community and European Free Trade Area and the South African Customs Union. As
a result, we are exposed to ANSAC’s customer relationships and the credit and other terms ANSAC extended to its customers.
Further, many of our customers could be impacted by weakened economic conditions, and volatility in commodity
prices, such as crude oil, natural gas, copper, molybdenum, and aluminum in a manner that could influence the need for our
products and services and their ability to pay us for those products and services. It is uncertain to what extent commodity prices
will experience increased volatility in the future.
A natural disaster, pandemic, epidemic, accident, terrorist attack or other interruption event could result in an economic
slowdown, severe personal injury, property damage and/or environmental damage, which could curtail our operations or
otherwise adversely affect our assets and cash flow.
Some of our operations involve significant risks of severe personal injury, property damage and environmental
damage, any of which could curtail our operations or otherwise expose us to liability and adversely affect our cash flow.
Virtually all of our operations are exposed to the elements, including hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, floods, earthquakes and
extended periods of below freezing weather. A significant portion of our operations are located along the U.S. Gulf Coast, and
our offshore pipelines are located in the Gulf of Mexico, which can be heavily subjected to these types of disasters or storms
throughout a given year.
If one or more facilities that are owned by us or that connect to us or our customers is damaged or otherwise affected
by severe weather or any other disaster, pandemic, epidemic, accident, catastrophe or event, our operations could be
significantly interrupted. Similar interruptions could result from damage to production or other facilities that supply our
facilities or other stoppages arising from factors beyond our control. These interruptions might involve significant damage to
people, property or the environment, and repairs or recovery might take several months or even longer. Any event that
interrupts the fees generated by our energy infrastructure assets, or which causes us to make significant expenditures not
covered by insurance, could adversely affect our cash flows available for paying our interest obligations as well as unitholder
distributions and, accordingly, adversely impact the market price of our securities. Additionally, the proceeds of any property
insurance maintained by us may not be paid in a timely manner or be in an amount sufficient to meet our needs if such an event
were to occur, and we may not be able to renew it or obtain other desirable insurance on commercially reasonable terms, if at
all.
Any terrorist attack at our facilities, those of our customers and, in some cases, those of other pipelines, could have a
material adverse effect on our business.
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In addition, a natural disaster, pandemic, epidemic, accident, terrorist attack or other interruption event may cause
significant volatility in global financial markets, disruptions to commerce and reduced economic activity. The degree to which a
pandemic or any other public health crisis adversely impacts our results will depend on future developments, which are highly
uncertain and cannot be predicted. These developments include, but are not limited to, the duration and spread of the outbreak,
its severity, the actions to contain the virus or treat its impact, its impact on the economy and market conditions and how
quickly and to what extent normal economic and operating conditions can resume. In addition, vaccine mandates or health
prerequisites may be announced in jurisdictions in which our businesses operate. Our implementation of any such requirements
if and when they are deemed to be enforceable may result in attrition, including attrition of critically skilled labor, and difficulty
securing future labor needs. These potential impacts, while uncertain, could adversely affect our operating results. The resulting
macroeconomic conditions could adversely affect our cash flows, as well as the market price of our securities.
We cannot predict the impact of the ongoing international military conflicts and any related humanitarian crisis on the
global economy, energy markets, geopolitical stability and our business.
The ultimate consequences of the war in Ukraine and the military conflict in Israel, which may include further
sanctions, embargoes, supply chain disruptions, regional instability and geopolitical shifts, may have adverse effects on global
macroeconomic conditions, increase volatility in the price of and demand for oil and natural gas, increase exposure to
cyberattacks, cause disruptions in global supply chains, increase foreign currency fluctuations, cause constraints or disruption in
the capital markets and limit sources of liquidity. We cannot predict the extent of these conflicts’ effect on our business and
results of operations, as well as on the global economy and energy and soda ash markets.
Our business could be negatively impacted by security threats, including cybersecurity threats, and related disruptions.
We rely on our information technology infrastructure to process, transmit and store electronic information, including
information we use to safely operate our assets. While we believe that we maintain appropriate information security policies
and protocols, we face cybersecurity and other security threats to our information technology infrastructure, which could
include threats to our operational and safety systems that operate our pipelines, facilities and other assets. We could face
unlawful attempts to gain access to our information technology infrastructure, including coordinated attacks from hackers,
whether state-sponsored groups, “hacktivists” or private individuals. The age, operating systems or condition of our current
information technology infrastructure and software assets and our ability to maintain and upgrade such assets could affect our
ability to resist cybersecurity threats. Additionally, our sensitive information may be subject to improper disclosure or
fabrication by artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning technologies on systems external to ours, leading to
compromises in cybersecurity. AI and machine learning technology may also be flawed, and data sets used in generative AI
may be insufficient or contain biased, incorrect or incomplete information.
Our information technology infrastructure is critical to the efficient operation of our business and essential to our
ability to perform day-to-day operations. Breaches in our information technology infrastructure or physical facilities, or other
disruptions, could result in damage to our assets, loss of intellectual property, impairment of our ability to conduct our
operations, disruption of our customers’ operations, loss or damage to our customer data delivery systems, safety incidents,
damage to the environment and could have a material adverse effect on our operations, financial position and results of
operations. It is also possible that breaches to our systems could go unnoticed for some period of time.
We and our third-party service providers may therefore be vulnerable to security events that are beyond our control,
and we may be the target of cyberattacks, as well as physical attacks, which could result in information security breaches and
significant disruption to our business. Such data breaches and cyberattacks could compromise our operational or other
capabilities and cause significant damage to our business and our reputation. Our information systems have experienced threats
to the security of our digital infrastructure, but none of these have had a significant impact on our business, operations or
reputation relating to such attacks. We maintain a 24/7 dedicated security operations center to anticipate, detect and prevent
cyberattacks; however, there is no assurance that we will not suffer such losses or breaches in the future. As cyberattacks
continue to evolve, we may be required to expend significant additional resources to respond to cyberattacks, to continue to
modify or enhance our protective measures or to investigate and remediate any information systems and related infrastructure
security vulnerabilities. We may also be subject to regulatory investigations or litigation relating from cybersecurity issues.
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Our significant unitholders may sell units or other limited partner interests in the trading market, which could reduce the
market price of our common units.
As of December 31, 2023, we have a number of significant unitholders. For example, certain members of the Davison
family (including their affiliates) and management owned approximately 18 million, or approximately 14%, of our common
units. From time to time, we also may have other unitholders that have large positions in our common units. In the future, any
such parties may acquire additional interest or dispose of some or all of their interest. If they dispose of a substantial portion of
their interest in the trading markets, such sales could reduce the market price of common units. In connection with certain
transactions, we have put in place resale shelf registration statements, which allow unit holders thereunder to sell their common
units at any time (subject to certain restrictions) and to include those securities in any equity offering we consummate for our
own account.
We may issue additional common units without common unitholders’ approval, which would dilute their ownership
interests.
We may issue an unlimited number of limited partner interests of any type without the approval of our common
unitholders. The issuance of additional common units or other equity securities of equal or senior rank will have the following
effects: our unitholders’ proportionate ownership interest in us will decrease; the amount of cash available for distribution on
each unit may decrease; the relative voting strength of each previously outstanding unit may be diminished; and the market
price of our common units may decline.
If we are unable to attract and retain senior management and key technical professionals with elite skills, we may not be
able to execute our business strategy effectively and, our operations could be adversely affected.
The success of our business and ability to meet our strategic objectives depends upon our ability to attract, develop,
retain and replace key qualified technical and management professionals. The market for these professionals is competitive in
the sectors in which we operate, and we rely heavily upon the expertise and leadership of our professionals. If we are unable to
attract and retain a sufficient number of elite skilled professionals, our ability to pursue our business objectives may be
adversely affected thus reducing our revenue, increasing our cost, or damaging our reputation.
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Item 2. Properties
See Item 1. “Business,” in addition to the Summary Overview of Mining Operations disclosure below. We also have
various operating leases for rental of office space, facilities and field equipment and transportation equipment. See
“Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements” in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations, and Note 5 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for details on our right of use assets and
related lease liabilities. Such information is incorporated herein by reference.
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The Green River trona beds are collectively the largest known deposit of trona and the undisputed largest source of
raw material feed for the production of natural soda ash in the world. The trona deposits are the result of very unusual,
geological circumstances. Sodium-rich springs are believed to have fed ancient Lake Gosiute, a large, shallow inland lake that
reached a maximum extent of over 15,000 square miles around 50 million years ago. In response to repetitive cycles of lake
expansion, contraction and evaporation, and changes in temperature and salinity, trona was precipitated in beds of remarkable
purity and extent. In addition to trona, the evaporite sodium mineral assemblage includes variable levels of other sodium
carbonate minerals as well as halite (NaCl). At least 25 beds of natural trona in the Wilkins Peak Member of the Eocene Green
River Formation exceed at least three feet in thickness and are estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey (“USGS”) to contain a
cumulative resource of over 100 billion tons of trona. Individual trona beds are numbered in ascending order and trona beds of
significance lie at depths between approximately 400 to 2,000 feet. Our current dry mining and brine (solution) mining
operations exploit three trona beds, and our reserves are contained in four trona beds.
Genesis has one trona mineral property, located in the Known Sodium Leasing Area in Southwest Wyoming, primarily
encompassed by the Westvaco area and the Granger area. Due to differences in geology between these two mine areas, the
mineral leases and, ultimately, the trona resources and reserve estimates have been separated into Westvaco contiguous leases,
Granger contiguous leases and Granger non-contiguous leases. The table and figures below are summaries of our acreage under
each mineral lease type as of December 31, 2023.
Area by lessor (acres)
Contiguous leases Non-contiguous leases
Lessor Granger Westvaco Granger Remaining
Federal 4,236 19,699 — 320
State 1,280 6,403 640 13,280
Sweetwater 8,320 27,379 4,480 —
Total Area 13,836 53,481 5,120 13,600
Our trona resources and mining operations are held under leases covering 86,037 acres over portions of 23 townships,
primarily in two contiguous units informally known as the “Westvaco” and “Granger” blocks. Mineral and mining rights are
secured by leases from the Federal government, the State of Wyoming, and Sweetwater. We lease approximately 24,255 acres
from the U.S. Government under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (Title 30 §181) which includes trona under its definition of a
“solid leasable mineral.” Federal minerals are administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”). We lease
40,179 acres from Sweetwater who acquired the mineral rights from Anadarko Land Corporation, a subsidiary of Occidental
following Occidental’s August 2019 acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, which acquired the ownership from the
Union Pacific Resources Group (“UPRG”) in 2000. The lease includes alternate sections of land for 20 miles on either side of
the trans-continental railroad, originally granted to UPRG under the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 and subsequent railroad land
grants. We also lease 21,603 acres from the State of Wyoming. Our mineral leases have varying terms. Our private leases are
held indefinitely by production, BLM and State Leases expire and are renewed every 10 years. Royalty payments range from
2% to 8% of the sales value of soda ash products. We believe that all of our leases were entered into at market terms.
See Item 1. “Business—Recent Developments and Status of Certain Growth Initiatives—Granger Production Facility
Expansion” for more information.
Our senior secured credit facility is guaranteed by substantially all of our restricted subsidiaries and is secured by liens
on a substantial portion of our assets, including our trona leases. Refer to further discussion of our senior secured credit facility
in Item 7. “Liquidity and Capital Resources.” Our Alkali senior secured notes are secured by GA ORRI’s fifty-year 10%
limited term overriding royalty interest in substantially all of the Alkali Business’ trona mineral leases. See Item 1. “Recent
Developments and Status of Certain Growth Initiatives—Alkali Senior Secured Notes Issuance and Related Transactions” for
more information.
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The table below shows certain key information for leases in the Westvaco contiguous leases, Granger contiguous
leases, and Granger non-contiguous leases that are included in the resource and reserve estimates, including lessor, lease term,
size, royalty information and expiration date.
Our Westvaco site is a production stage property that mines trona through both dry mining and brine (solution) mining
methods.
The location of the Westvaco site and contiguous lease boundary can be found in Figure 2.2. It is located in
Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 18 miles west of Green River and is accessible from Interstate 80 (I-80), a four-lane divided
highway. I-80 exit 72 is approximately seven miles from the processing plant. The Union Pacific Railroad passes just north of
the Westvaco facilities with siding to access the mainline. The two main population centers of Green River, Wyoming and Rock
Springs, Wyoming are 18 miles and 30 miles to the east, respectively. Evanston, Wyoming is 66 miles to the west. The area
population provides a more than adequate base for staffing the Westvaco facilities, with a pool of talent for management.
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The Westvaco site has been in uninterrupted, continuous operation since its start in 1947 by Westvaco Chemical
Corporation. Westvaco Chemical Corporation notified Union Pacific in 1946 of its intention to sink a mine shaft and to
construct a trona processing plant. A shaft was sunk in 1947 to the top of Bed 17 bringing the first skipload of trona to the
surface in late 1947. In the fall of 1948, Westvaco Chemical Corporation was acquired by the Food Machinery Corporation
(later known as “FMC”). In 1952, the Westvaco Division of FMC formed the Intermountain Chemical Company as Wyoming’s
first trona mining company. In 1953, Intermountain Chemical Company began producing refined soda ash by a sesquicarbonate
process through a plant with a 300,000-ton capacity. The Alkali Chemical Division of FMC, including the trona mining and
processing operations in the Green River Basin of Wyoming, was acquired by Tronox Alkali in May 2015. In September 2017,
we acquired the Westvaco facility from Tronox Alkali and currently operate the facility through Genesis Alkali Wyoming, LP.
Infrastructure on the Westvaco site is very well developed as the facilities have been in operation for over 75 years.
The infrastructure consists of sufficient truck and rail loadout facilities, electrical generation and transmission facilities, tailings
facilities, product storage facilities, process facilities, natural gas pipelines and distribution facilities and water pipelines,
treatment and distribution facilities. The Westvaco site also has ample buildings for offices, labs, change rooms, warehouses
and maintenance shops.
Our Granger site is a production stage property that mines trona through brine (solution) mining methods.
The location of the Granger site and contiguous lease boundary can be found in Figure 2.2. The Granger site is located
in Sweetwater County, Wyoming and can be accessed by traveling eight miles west of Green River, Wyoming on I-80, then
turning north on state highway 372 and traveling about 12 miles to county road 11. The Granger site is accessible to the Union
Pacific Railroad by a spur line that connects to the mainline near the town of Granger, Wyoming. The two main population
centers of Green River, Wyoming and Rock Springs, Wyoming are 18 miles and 30 miles to the east, respectively. Evanston,
Wyoming is 66 miles to the west. The area population provides a more than adequate base for staffing the Granger facilities,
with a pool of talent for management.
The Granger mine and processing facility operated as an underground mine from 1976 to 2002. FMC acquired the
properties in 1999 by acquiring Tg Soda Ash Inc., originally developed as a unit of Texasgulf and then owned by Elf Atochem.
FMC converted the mine and mill to brine (solution) mining in 2005. The Alkali Chemical Division of FMC, including the
trona mining and processing operations in the Green River Basin of Wyoming, was acquired by Tronox Alkali in May 2015. In
September 2017, we acquired the Granger facility from Tronox Alkali and currently operate the facility through Genesis Alkali
Wyoming, LP.
Infrastructure on the Granger site is very well developed as the facilities have operated for over 35 years. The
infrastructure consists of sufficient rail loadout facilities, electrical transmission facilities, tailings facilities, product storage
facilities, process facilities, natural gas pipelines and distribution facilities and water pipelines, treatment and distribution
facilities. The Granger site also has ample buildings for offices, labs, change rooms, warehouses and maintenance shops.
As both the Westvaco site and Granger site have been operating for many years, all permits necessary for the operation
of these facilities are in place. The Westvaco site includes approximately 36,000 permitted acres, of which the processing,
support facilities, and tailings and evaporation ponds cover about 2,600 surface acres. The Granger facility includes about
16,000 permitted acres of which the processing, support facilities, and tailings and evaporation ponds cover about 1,800 surface
acres. The WDEQ is the primary issuer of the environmental permits relevant to our operations, including air quality permits,
mining and reclamation permits, as well as class III and class V underground injection control permits. With respect to each
facility, permits, licenses and approvals are obtained as needed in the normal course of business based on our mine plans and
federal, state, provincial and local regulatory provisions regarding mine permitting and licensing. There have been no
outstanding violations or orders that would prevent continued operation of the plants and mines. This includes air, land, surface
and groundwater, drinking water, wildlife, and waste. Approved reclamation plans are in place along with surety in the amounts
of approximately $55 million for the Westvaco site and $33 million for the Granger site. Based on our historical permitting
experience, we expect to be able to continue to obtain necessary mining permits and approvals to support historical rates of
production.
At our Wyoming property, we use both mechanical and brine mining to mine the trona ore:
• Dry Mining of Trona Ore. We extract trona ore from our Westvaco underground mine by mechanized, continuous
mining methods. Our current underground dry mine production is from trona bed 17, a near-horizontal bed
approximately 10 feet thick at a depth from the surface of 1,500-1,650 feet. Ore is extracted primarily by our single
longwall mining machine from an extensive network of parallel drifts and connecting cross-cuts, known as room-and-
pillar mining. Longwall miners shear off successive panels of ore which drops onto a conveyor belt for delivery to the
vertical hoisting shafts. Longwall mining provides higher recovery rates leading to extended mine life compared to
other dry mining techniques. Development of the “tunnels” necessary to access and ventilate our longwall is through
room-and-pillar mining completed primarily by our fleet of borer miners. The ore is conveyed underground to two
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hoisting operations where it travels about 1,600 feet vertically to the surface and is either taken directly into our
processing facilities or stored on two outdoor stockpiles for future consumption.
• Secondary Recovery Brine Mining. We brine (solution) mine trona at both our Westvaco and Granger sites using
secondary recovery techniques. Our secondary recovery mining starts with the recovery of water streams from our
operations and non-trona solids (“insolubles”) remaining from the processing of dry mined trona. The water and some
insolubles are injected through a number of wells into the old dry mine workings at both our Westvaco and Granger
sites. The insolubles settle out while the water travels through the old workings, dissolving sodium carbonate and
sodium bicarbonate from the trona left behind during previous dry mining. Multiple pumping systems are used to
pump the enriched brine to the surface for processing.
Our mineral recovery consists of four processing plants producing soda ash at two surface sites, Westvaco and
Granger.
Dry mined and brine mined trona are processed into soda ash at our Westvaco site, located within the boundaries of
our Westvaco contiguous lease blocks, involving multiple processing lines, steam generation facilities, evaporation ponds, spare
parts warehouses, maintenance shops, and offices for engineering, production, and support staff. Mineral recovery at Westvaco
site consists of three plants: the Sesqui plant, the Mono plant and the evaporation, lime, decahydrate crystallization, and
monohydrate crystallization (“ELDM”) plant.
Our Sesqui and Mono plants process dry-mined trona into soda ash. Crushing, dissolution in water, filtration, and
crystallization techniques are used to produce the desired final products. The Mono plant consists of two separate processing
lines to produce soda ash. Mono I began operation in May 1972, while Mono II was started up in January 1976. In the Mono
plant, the ore is calcined with heat, prior to dissolution, to process the trona into soda ash by the removal of water and carbon
dioxide. A final calcining step using steam produces a dense soda ash product from the Mono process. The Sesqui plant was the
first soda ash plant built and operated at the Westvaco site. In our Sesqui plant, the calcination is performed at the end of the
process, producing a light density soda ash that is preferred in applications desiring increased absorptivity. The Sesqui process
also has the ability to produce refined sodium sesquicarbonate (which we sell under the names S-Carb® and Sesqui®™) for use
as a buffer in animal feed formulations and in cleaning and personal care applications.
Our ELDM plant was constructed in 1995 and started operations in 1996. Our brine based ELDM plant uses the
tailings return water as a feed source for soda ash production. Solution mined trona brine is processed into dense soda ash in our
ELDM operation. The steps to produce soda ash are similar to the dry mined processes, except the crushing and dissolving steps
are eliminated because the trona is already in a water solution as it leaves the mine.
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The Westvaco site also has a facility producing food, feed, and pharmaceutical grade sodium bicarbonate from a
Sesqui plant intermediate product. Fifty percent caustic is produced on the Westvaco site for commercial sale from a Mono
plant intermediate product.
The Westvaco site has successfully mined and processed trona ore at a profit for over 75 years. In this time, capital has
been expended as appropriate to sustain the operation at the current production and operating cost level. We plan for capital
expenditures necessary to replace equipment and facilities over time in order to sustain production and operating costs. We
believe that the Westvaco site and its operating equipment are maintained in good working condition.
Solution mined trona brine is processed into soda ash at our Granger plant, located within the boundaries of the
Granger contiguous lease blocks, and involves multiple processing lines, steam generation facilities, evaporation ponds, spare
parts warehouses, maintenance shops, and offices for engineering, production, and support staff. The steps to produce soda ash
are similar to the dry mined processes, except the crushing and dissolving steps are eliminated because the trona is already in a
water solution as it leaves the mine.
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The Granger site has successfully mined and processed trona ore at a profit for over 35 years. In this time, capital has
been expended as appropriate to sustain the operation at the current production and operating cost level. In 2023, the Granger
Optimization Project reached substantial completion and achieved first production. Capital expenditures are generally for
sustaining production and operating costs except for some remaining capital for our Granger Optimization Project. We believe
that the Granger site and its operating equipment are maintained in good working condition.
The total book value of the Westvaco and Granger sites as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 was
approximately $1,668 million and $1,528 million, respectively.
In many cases, market demand drives annual production so that actual production may be less than plant capacities.
The table below shows annual production from our trona property and its four plants for the fiscal years ended December 31,
2023, 2022 and 2021.
On January 1, 2023, we restarted our original Granger facility (which was put in cold standby in the second half of
2020) and its estimated 500,000 tons of annual production capacity. Also in 2023, our Granger Optimization Project reached
substantial completion and achieved first production and is expected to ramp up to incremental 750,000 tons of annual
production capacity in 2024.
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Summaries of our mineral resources and reserves for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 are set forth
in the tables below:
Granger Non-Contiguous
Leases Measured 87 85 87 85
Indicated 60 84 60 84
Measured + Indicated 147 85 147 85
Inferred 3 84 3 84
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Total dry extraction and solution mining Total Reserves 865 87 872 87
(1) Our trona ore reserves are calculated from in-place trona-bearing material that can be economically and legally extracted and
processed into commercial products at the time of reserve determination. Our reserves estimates are developed using industry-
standard procedures and have been reviewed internally and externally to ensure compliance with subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K.
(2) We use “measured and indicated” resources as the primary basis in determining our proven and probable reserves. We define
proven reserves and probable reserves as follows:
a. Proven dry-mining reserves are measured reserves that fall within a 0.5 mile radius from drillhole data points or
previously mined areas with a 7.0 feet minimum ore thickness.
b. Probable dry-mining reserves are indicated reserves that fall between 0.5 miles and 1.0 miles from drillhole data points or
previously mined areas with a 7.0 feet minimum ore thickness.
c. All brine (solution) mining reserves are designated as probable based on the degree of confidence in the reserve estimate
related to uncertainties involving brine flow paths, trona ore surface area available for dissolution, and the inaccuracy of
depletion verification methods. They consist of both measured resources falling within a 0.5 mile radius from drillhole
data points or previously mined areas and indicated resources that fall between 0.5 miles and 1.0 miles from drillhole data
points or previously mined areas. Brine (solution) mining reserves are not limited to a minimum ore thickness, but rather
are subjected to a 50 foot halo limit into large blocks of trona adjacent to areas impacted by previous dry mining and
adjacent to areas planned for future dry mining.
(3) Estimated dry mining ore reserves include dilution from un-mineralized material within and marginal to the trona ore bed. We
exclude support pillars from dry mining reserves, but a portion of the trona contained in the pillars is recovered by brine (solution)
mining. We apply a bulk density factor of 133 lb/cu ft for conversion of volumes to mass. Key dry mining parameters include
minimum trona ore bed thickness.
(4) Our brine (solution) mining ore reserves are reported on an in-place basis, inclusive of dilution from insoluble material that remains
in the ground. The brine (solution) mining reserves are calculated using recovery parameters developed from our 20-plus years of
cumulative secondary recovery brine (solution) mining experience. Key factors include the surface area of remaining support pillars
and other trona-mineralized surfaces exposed to liquid brines injected into voids created by dry mining, solubility and alkalinity
data, and predicted dissolution rates.
(5) Our ore reserves have a minimum trona grade of 66.2% (occurs in Bed 15). The balance of the ore consists of clays, shales, and
other impurities.
Total trona reserves for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 decreased approximately seven million short tons
from fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, representing approximately 0.8% of the total reserves.
Dry mining reserves at year end 2023 are approximately four million short tons, or 1.0%, lower than year end 2022
reserves as a result of dry mine extraction in 2023.
Brine (solution) mining reserves at year end 2023 are approximately three million short tons, or 0.7% lower than year
end 2022 reserves as a result of brine (solution) mining extraction in 2023.
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Our mineral resource and reserve estimates are based on many factors, including the area and volume covered by our
mining rights, assumptions regarding our extraction rates (based upon an expectation of operating the mines on a long-term
basis) and the quality of in-place reserves. Stantec reviewed our data at the end of 2023 and 2022 and determined that, other
than updating reserves to reflect ore consumption, there has not been any material changes in our mineral resources and
reserves since the issuance of the TRS and the TRS can be relied upon in stating 2023 and 2022 reserves. Key assumptions and
parameters relating to our mineral resources and reserves at the Westvaco site are discussed in the TRS, and include, among
other things, the following:
• The economic analysis of our resources and reserves was prepared based on 2022 dollars with annual inflation at 2.5%
which has been applied to revenue, operating costs, and capital spending.
• The production schedule to mine and process the remaining reserves is based on the existing production capacity of the
mine and processing plants.
• Bed 15, which lies approximately 35 to 55 feet below bed 17, can be effectively dry mined starting in roughly the year
2071, after the completion of longwall mining in overlying areas of Bed 17.
• Future secondary brine (solution) mining recoveries are similar to those that have been demonstrated thus far in certain
areas of our Westvaco mine.
• Prices for bulk soda ash are based on the 2020 USGS price, which was escalated to establish the 2022 price while
prices for bag and specialty products were consistent with recent history.
• Cash production costs include dry mining, brine (solution) mining, processing, royalties and production taxes,
insurance, and administrative costs. Administrative costs include mine administration and corporate overhead
allocations. Other costs include distribution, sales general and administrative, and research and development costs.
• The operating costs are based on our historical averages. Other costs are based on our five-year estimate. Costs are
assumed to be similar in the future with annual inflation similar to pricing inflation. Modeled underground dry mining
costs include a step change in approximately 50 years when longwall mining is phased out and replaced by borer and
continuous mining in Bed 15 and the remaining areas of Bed 17.
• Capital expenditures are generally for sustaining production and operating costs. Sustaining capital expenditures in the
future is assumed similar to recent history and short-term projections, with inflation similar to product pricing
escalation.
• All leases remain valid throughout the time required to mine the reserves
• All permits remain valid throughout the life of the operation, and no new laws are enacted that require any
extraordinary compliance which would significantly impact production or cost.
• New permits and approved mine plans will be obtained for mining reserves that lie within existing leases, but outside
of our current mining permit areas.
• Tailings storage capacity will be developed as necessary over the life of the mine and processing plants.
• Because our Alkali Business is structured as a pass-through entity for income tax purposes, there is no provision for
income taxes in the cash flow analysis.
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In preparing our reserve estimates for our Alkali operations at Green River, Wyoming, we follow accepted mining
industry practice and are guided by our long-term experience in extraction of trona ore from underground mining and sodium
carbonate from brine (solution) mining in the district. Estimates of recoverable reserves for both techniques are routinely
reconciled with actual production, and our Alkali ore reserves disclosures comply with subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K.
All estimates require a combination of historical data and key assumptions and parameters. When possible, resources
and data from generally accepted industry sources, such as governmental resource agencies, were used to develop these
estimations.
Management also assesses risks inherent in mineral resource and reserve estimates, such as the accuracy of
geophysical data that is used to support mine planning, identify hazards and inform operations of the presence of mineable
deposits. Also, management is aware of risks associated with potential gaps in assessing the completeness of mineral extraction
licenses, entitlements or rights, or changes in laws or regulations that could directly impact the ability to assess mineral
resources and reserves or impact production levels. Risks inherent in overestimated reserves can impact financial performance
when revealed, such as changes in amortizations that are based on life of mine estimates.
Documentation of sample security measures, quality control and assurance (“QAQC”) was not observed by the QP.
However, given that there has been successful underground dry mining of Bed 17 and Bed 20 within and nearby the exploration
sample sites, it would appear that previous sampling methods, sample security, analysis methods, and internal QAQC measures
met the requirements for successful mine planning over the history of the Westvaco site and Granger site mining operations.
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PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Unitholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our Class A Common Units are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, under the symbol “GEL.”
At February 23, 2024, we had 122,424,321 Class A Common Units outstanding. As of December 31, 2023, the closing
price of our common units was $11.58 and we had approximately 26,400 record holders of our Class A Common Units, which
include holders who own units through their brokers “in street name.” Additionally, we have issued 23,111,918 Class A
Convertible Preferred Units for which there is no established public trading market.
Available cash generally means, for each fiscal quarter, all cash on hand at the end of the quarter:
• less the amount of cash reserves that our general partner determines in its reasonable discretion is necessary or
appropriate to:
• provide for the proper conduct of our business;
• comply with applicable law, any of our debt instruments, or other agreements; or
• provide funds for distributions to our unitholders for any one or more of the next four quarters;
• plus all cash on hand on the date of determination of available cash for the quarter resulting from working capital
borrowings. Working capital borrowings are generally borrowings that are made under our senior secured credit
facility and in all cases are used solely for working capital purposes or to pay distributions to partners.
The full definition of available cash is set forth in our partnership agreement and amendments thereto, which are
incorporated by reference as an exhibit to this Form 10-K.
See Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Liquidity and
Capital Resources – Capital Expenditures and Distributions Paid to our Unitholders” and Note 12 to our Consolidated Financial
Statements in Item 8 for further information regarding restrictions on our distributions. See Item 12. “Security Ownership of
Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Unitholder Matters” for information regarding securities authorized
for issuance under equity compensation plans.
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Introduction
We are a growth-oriented MLP formed in Delaware in 1996. Our common units are traded on the New York Stock
Exchange, or NYSE, under the ticker symbol “GEL.” We are (i) a provider of an integrated suite of midstream services
(primarily transportation, storage, sulfur removal, blending, terminaling and processing) for a large area of the Gulf of Mexico
and the Gulf Coast region of the crude oil and natural gas industry and (ii) one of the leading producers in the world of natural
soda ash. We provide an integrated suite of services to refiners, crude oil and natural gas producers, and industrial and
commercial enterprises and have a diverse portfolio of assets, including pipelines, offshore hub and junction platforms,
refinery-related plants, storage tanks and terminals, railcars, rail unloading facilities, barges and other vessels, and trucks. The
other core focus of our business is our trona and trona-based exploring, mining, processing, producing, marketing, logistics and
selling business based in Wyoming (our “Alkali Business”). Our Alkali Business mines and processes trona from which it
produces natural soda ash, also known as sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), a basic building block for a number of ubiquitous
products, including flat glass, container glass, dry detergent, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate (which are key inputs in
the production of lithium batteries) and a variety of chemicals and other industrial products, and has been operating for
approximately 75 years.
Included in Management’s Discussion and Analysis are the following sections:
• Overview of 2023 Results
• Recent Developments and Initiatives
• Results of Operations
• Other Consolidated Results
• Financial Measures
• Liquidity and Capital Resources
• Guarantor Summarized Financial Information
• Critical Accounting Estimates
• Recent Accounting Pronouncements
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Available Cash before Reserves (as defined below in “Financial Measures”) decreased $1.4 million in 2023 to $351.2
million as compared to 2022 Available Cash before Reserves of $352.6 million, primarily due to the following items: i) an
increase in distributions to preferred unitholders of $11.8 million; ii) an increase in interest expense of $18.5 million; iii) an
increase in maintenance capital utilized of $10.3 million; iv) an increase in corporate general and administrative expenses of
$8.0 million; and v) a decrease in income related to cancellation of debt of $8.6 million., as we repurchased and extinguished
certain of our senior unsecured notes during 2022 This was almost fully offset by our increase in Segment Margin, which is
further discussed below in “Results from Operations.” See “Financial Measures” below for additional information on Available
Cash before Reserves.
Segment Margin was $827.1 million in 2023, an increase of $57.0 million as compared to 2022. We currently manage
our businesses through four divisions that constitute our reportable segments - offshore pipeline transportation, soda and sulfur
services, marine transportation and onshore facilities and transportation. A more detailed discussion of our segment results and
other costs is included below in “Results of Operations”.
Distributions to Unitholders
On February 14, 2024, we paid a distribution of $0.15 per common unit related to the fourth quarter of 2023.
With respect to our Class A Convertible Preferred Units, we declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.9473 per unit
(or $3.789 on an annualized basis). These distributions were paid on February 14, 2024 to unitholders holders of record at the
close of business January 31, 2024.
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Results of Operations
In the discussions that follow, we will focus on our revenues, costs and expenses, as well as two measures that we use
to manage the business and to review the results of our operations - Segment Margin and Available Cash before Reserves.
Segment Margin and Available Cash before Reserves are defined in the “Financial Measures” section below.
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costs include activities associated with mining and extracting trona ore, including energy costs and employee compensation. In
our Alkali Business, during 2023, as noted above, we had positive effects to our revenues compared to 2022 (with a lesser
impact to costs) due to slightly higher domestic and export pricing of soda ash and higher sales volumes. For additional
information, see our segment-by-segment analysis below.
Our offshore Gulf of Mexico crude oil and natural gas pipeline transportation and handling operations focus on
integrated and large independent energy companies who make intensive capital investments (often in excess of a billion dollars)
to develop large reservoir, long-lived crude oil and natural gas properties. Our revenues are primarily derived from the fees,
typically on a per barrel basis, we charge to transport and deliver commodities (or reserve capacity on our infrastructure in some
cases) downstream to other pipelines or refineries along the Gulf Coast. The shippers on our offshore pipelines are mostly
integrated and large independent energy companies whose production is ideally suited for the vast majority of refineries along
the Gulf Coast. Their large-reservoir properties and the related pipelines and other infrastructure needed to develop them are
capital intensive and yet, we believe, economically viable, in most cases, even in volatile commodity price environments. Costs
include activities associated with employee compensation and benefits, the maintenance of our pipelines and pipeline related
infrastructure, marketing, and other variable type expenses associated with operating the business. We do not expect changes in
commodity prices to impact our Net income (loss), Available Cash before Reserves or Segment Margin derived from our
offshore Gulf of Mexico crude oil and natural gas pipeline transportation and handling operations in the same manner in which
they impact our revenues and costs derived from the purchase and sale of crude oil and petroleum products.
In addition to our crude oil marketing business, Alkali Business and offshore pipeline transportation and handling
operations discussed above, we continue to operate in our other core businesses, including our sulfur services business and our
onshore-based refinery-centric operations located primarily in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S., which focus on providing a
suite of services primarily to refiners. Refiners are the shippers of approximately 98% of the volumes transported on our
onshore crude pipelines, and refiners account for approximately 90% of the revenues from our marine transportation segment
during 2023, where we primarily transport intermediate refined products (not crude oil) between refining complexes.
Additionally, changes in certain of our operating costs between the respective periods, such as those associated with
our soda and sulfur services, offshore pipeline transportation and marine transportation segments, are not directly correlated
with crude oil prices. We discuss certain of those costs in further detail below in our segment-by-segment analysis.
Included below is additional detailed discussion of the results of our operations focusing on Segment Margin and other
costs including general and administrative expenses, depreciation, depletion and amortization, gain on sale of assets, interest
expense and income taxes.
Segment Margin
The contribution of each of our segments to total Segment Margin in each of the last three years was as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
2023 2022 2021
(in thousands)
Offshore pipeline transportation $ 406,672 $ 363,373 $ 317,560
Soda and sulfur services 282,014 306,718 166,773
Marine Transportation 110,423 66,209 34,572
Onshore facilities and transportation 27,953 33,755 98,824
Total Segment Margin $ 827,062 $ 770,055 $ 617,729
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Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2022
(1) Offshore pipeline transportation Segment Margin includes distributions received from our offshore pipeline joint ventures
accounted for under the equity method of accounting in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
(2) Offshore pipeline transportation Segment Margin in 2022 includes distributions received from one of our unrestricted subsidiaries,
Independence Hub LLC, of $32.0 million associated with the sale of our 80% owned platform asset.
(3) One of our wholly-owned subsidiaries (GEL Offshore Pipeline, LLC, or “GOPL”) owns our undivided interest in the Eugene Island
pipeline system.
(4) Volumes are the product of our effective ownership interest throughout the year multiplied by the relevant throughput over the
given year.
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Offshore Pipeline Transportation Segment Margin for 2023 increased $43.3 million, or 12%, from 2022, primarily due
to increased crude oil and natural gas activity, primarily from volumes associated with the King’s Quay FPS, as first oil
production was achieved during 2022, and the Argos FPS, which achieved first oil production in the second quarter of 2023.
The 2023 period benefited from a full year of volumes from King’s Quay, including its ramp up in production to levels reaching
approximately 130,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day during 2023. The King’s Quay FPS supports volumes from the
Khaleesi, Mormont, and Samurai field developments and is life of lease dedicated to our 100% owned crude oil and natural gas
lateral pipelines and further downstream to our 64% owned Poseidon pipeline and 64% owned CHOPS pipeline and our
25.67% owned Nautilus natural gas system for ultimate delivery to shore. The Argos FPS, which supports BP’s operated Mad
Dog 2 field development, achieved production levels of approximately 90,000 barrels of oil per day in 2023, with 100% of the
volumes flowing through our 64% owned and operated CHOPS pipeline for ultimate delivery to shore. We expect to continue
to benefit from King’s Quay FPS and Argos FPS volumes during 2024 and over their anticipated production profiles. In
addition to these developments, activity in and around our Gulf of Mexico asset base continues to be robust, including
incremental in-field drilling at existing fields that tie into our infrastructure. Lastly, 2023 had less overall downtime as
compared to 2022, which was primarily a result of no weather-related events during the year. These increases were offset by
distributions received from one of our unrestricted subsidiaries, Independence Hub LLC, of $32.0 million from the sale of its
platform asset in 2022.
Soda and sulfur services external operating costs, excluding non-cash items (1,366,260) (855,883)
(1) Sales volumes represent soda ash volumes that are produced and supplied by our Alkali Business and excludes any alkali specialty
products. See discussion above in “Results of Operations — Revenues and Costs and Expenses” regarding revenues associated
with our Alkali Business.
(2) Revenues in 2023 include sales by ANSAC that were not produced and supplied by our Alkali Business that are included in our
consolidated revenues. See discussion above in “Results of Operations — Revenues and Costs and Expenses” regarding revenues
associated with our Alkali Business.
(3) Source: IHS Chemical.
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Soda and sulfur services Segment Margin for 2023 decreased $24.7 million, or 8%, from 2022. This decrease is
primarily attributable to lower NaHS and caustic soda sales volumes and pricing in our sulfur services business which was
partially offset by higher soda ash sales volumes and slightly higher domestic and export pricing in our Alkali Business during
2023. We successfully restarted our original Granger production facility on January 1, 2023 and ramped up the production to its
original nameplate capacity of approximately 500,000 tons on an annual basis during 2023. We also reached substantial
completion and achieved first production from the GOP in the fourth quarter of 2023 and anticipate ramping up to the expected
750,000 incremental tons of annual production in 2024. Additionally, we had higher pricing on our domestic and export sales in
2023 due to a strong supply and demand balance in the first half of the year, which weakened in the second half of the year as a
result of new global supply entering the market and a slower than anticipated re-opening of China’s economy. We expect this
volatility to continue into 2024.
In our sulfur services business, we experienced lower than expected production during 2023 due to multiple factors,
including a slower than expected ramp up in production from the completion of a major turnaround at one of our largest host
refineries in the fourth quarter of 2022, unplanned operational and weather-related outages at several of our host refineries
during the second quarter of 2023 (which returned to normal operations later in 2023), and lower production from a host
refinery that partially converted its facility into a renewable diesel facility in the fourth quarter of 2022. In addition, we have
experienced continued pressure on demand primarily in South America, which has negatively impacted sales volumes and
pricing. In comparison, during 2022, we experienced robust NaHS sales volumes and prices due to an increase in demand from
our mining customers, primarily in South America, and due to our ability to leverage our multi-faceted supply and terminal
sites in our sulfur services business to capitalize on incremental spot volumes as certain of our competitors experienced one-off
supply challenges.
Fleet Utilization:(2)
Inland Barge Utilization 100.0 % 98.6 %
Offshore Barge Utilization 98.1 % 96.9 %
(1) Under certain of our marine contracts, we “rebill” our customers for a portion of our operating costs.
(2) Utilization rates are based on a 365 day year, as adjusted for planned downtime and drydocking.
Marine Transportation Segment Margin for 2023 increased $44.2 million, or 67%, from 2022. This increase is
primarily attributable to an increase in our overall day rates (including both spot and term) in our inland and offshore business,
including the M/T American Phoenix, during 2023. The increase in our day rates is due to the continued high demand for our
barge services to move intermediate and refined products as a result of strong refinery utilization rates and a lack of new supply
of similar type vessels (primarily due to higher construction costs and long lead times for construction) combined with the
retirement of older vessels in the market. Additionally, we entered into a new three-and-a-half-year contract on the M/T
American Phoenix, which started in January 2024 with a credit-worthy counterparty at the highest day rate we have received
since we first purchased the vessel in 2014.
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Operating results for our onshore facilities and transportation segment were as follows:
Segment Margin for our onshore facilities and transportation segment decreased $5.8 million, or 17% , in 2023 as
compared to 2022. The decrease is primarily due to an overall decrease in activity associated with our Baton Rouge corridor
assets, specifically our rail unload and pipeline volumes, and a decrease in volumes on our Texas pipeline system during 2023.
Total general and administrative expenses decreased $0.8 million between 2023 and 2022. The decrease is primarily
due to lower costs associated with business development activities and growth projects as 2022 included costs associated with
the issuance of our Alkali senior secured notes and related sale of the ORRI Interests, as well as costs associated with the
divestiture of our previously owned Independence Hub platform. This decrease was partially offset by an increase in costs
associated with our long-term incentive compensation plan as a result of the assumptions used to value our outstanding awards
during 2023.
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Total depreciation, depletion and amortization expense decreased $16.0 million between 2023 and 2022. This decrease
is primarily attributable to an acceleration of depreciation on our asset retirement obligation assets as a result of updates to the
estimated timing and costs associated with certain of our non-core offshore gas assets in 2022. This decrease was partially
offset by an overall increase in our depreciable asset base due to our continued growth and maintenance capital expenditures
and placing new assets into service subsequent to the period ended December 31, 2022.
Net interest expense increased $18.5 million between 2023 and 2022 primarily due to an increase in interest expense
associated with our senior secured credit facility, our Alkali senior secured notes (which we issued in May 2022 and incurred a
full year of interest expense during 2023), and our senior unsecured notes. The increase in interest expense associated with our
senior secured credit facility is primarily due to an increase in the SOFR rate, which is one of the main components of our
interest rate, compared to 2022, and higher outstanding indebtedness during 2023. The increase in interest expense associated
with our senior unsecured notes was primarily related to the issuance of our 2030 Notes in January 2023, which have a higher
principal and interest rate than the 2024 Notes that were redeemed in January 2023.
This increase was partially offset by higher capitalized interest during 2023 as a result of our increased capital
expenditures associated with the GOP and our offshore growth capital construction projects during the year.
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A discussion of the operating results for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared with the year ended December
31, 2021 has been omitted from this Form 10-K. This discussion can be found within our previously filed 2022 Form 10-K,
which was filed with the SEC on February 24, 2023.
General
To help evaluate our business, this Annual Report on Form 10-K includes the non-generally accepted accounting
principles (“non-GAAP”) financial measure of Available Cash before Reserves. We also present total Segment Margin as if it
were a non-GAAP measure. Our non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies
because such measures may include or exclude other specified items. The accompanying schedules provide reconciliations of
these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP). A reconciliation of Net income (loss)
attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. to total Segment Margin is included in our segment disclosure in Note 14 to our
Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. Our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered (i) as alternatives to
GAAP measures of liquidity or financial performance or (ii) as being singularly important in any particular context; they should
be considered in a broad context with other quantitative and qualitative information. Our Available Cash before Reserves and
total Segment Margin measures are just two of the relevant data points considered from time to time.
When evaluating our performance and making decisions regarding our future direction and actions (including making
discretionary payments, such as quarterly distributions) our board of directors and management team have access to a wide
range of historical and forecasted qualitative and quantitative information, such as our financial statements; operational
information; various non-GAAP measures; internal forecasts; credit metrics; analyst opinions; performance, liquidity and
similar measures; income; cash flow expectations for us; and certain information regarding some of our peers. Additionally,
our board of directors and management team analyze, and place different weight on, various factors from time to time. We
believe that investors benefit from having access to the same financial measures being utilized by management, lenders,
analysts and other market participants. We attempt to provide adequate information to allow each individual investor and other
external user to reach her/his own conclusions regarding our actions without providing so much information as to overwhelm or
confuse such investor or other external user. Our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as an alternative to
GAAP measures such as net income, operating income, cash flow from operating activities or any other GAAP measure of
liquidity or financial performance.
Segment Margin
We define Segment Margin as revenues less product costs, operating expenses, and segment general and
administrative expenses (all of which are net of the effects of our noncontrolling interest holders), plus or minus applicable
Select Items (defined below). Although, we do not necessarily consider all of our Select Items to be non-recurring, infrequent
or unusual, we believe that an understanding of these Select Items is important to the evaluation of our core operating results.
Our chief operating decision maker (our Chief Executive Officer) evaluates segment performance based on a variety of
measures including Segment Margin, segment volumes where relevant and capital investment.
A reconciliation of Net income (loss) attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. to total Segment Margin is included in our
segment disclosure in Note 14 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
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(5) our ability to make certain discretionary payments, such as distributions on our preferred and common units, growth
capital expenditures, certain maintenance capital expenditures and early payments of indebtedness.
We define Available Cash before Reserves (“Available Cash before Reserves”) as Net income (loss) attributable to
Genesis Energy, L.P. before interest, taxes, depreciation, depletion and amortization (including impairment, write-offs,
accretion and similar items) after eliminating other non-cash revenues, expenses, gains, losses and charges (including any loss
on asset dispositions), plus or minus certain other select items that we view as not indicative of our core operating results
(collectively, “Select Items”), as adjusted for certain items, the most significant of which in the relevant reporting periods have
been the sum of maintenance capital utilized, net interest expense, cash tax expense and cash distributions paid to our Class A
convertible preferred unitholders. Although we do not necessarily consider all of our Select Items to be non-recurring,
infrequent or unusual, we believe that an understanding of these Select Items is important to the evaluation of our core
operating results. The most significant Select Items in the relevant reporting periods are set forth below.
Year Ended
December 31,
2023 2022
I. Applicable to all Non-GAAP Measures (in thousands)
Differences in timing of cash receipts for certain contractual arrangements(1) $ 56,341 $ 51,102
Distributions from unrestricted subsidiaries not included in income(2) — 32,000
Certain non-cash items:
Unrealized losses (gains) on derivative transactions excluding fair value hedges, net of
changes in inventory value(3) 36,688 (5,717)
Loss on debt extinguishment(4) 4,627 794
Adjustment regarding equity investees(5) 24,635 21,199
Other (23,200) (2,598)
Sub-total Select Items, net 99,091 96,780
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We believe our maintenance capital utilized measure is the most useful quarterly maintenance capital requirements
measure to use to derive our Available Cash before Reserves measure. We define our maintenance capital utilized measure as
that portion of the amount of previously incurred maintenance capital expenditures that we utilize during the relevant quarter,
which would be equal to the sum of the maintenance capital expenditures we have incurred for each project/component in prior
quarters allocated ratably over the useful lives of those projects/components.
Our maintenance capital utilized measure constitutes a proxy for non-discretionary maintenance capital expenditures
and it takes into consideration the relationship among maintenance capital expenditures, operating expenses and depreciation
from period to period. Because we did not use our maintenance capital utilized measure before 2014, our maintenance capital
utilized calculations will reflect the utilization of solely those maintenance capital expenditures incurred since December 31,
2013.
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Available Cash before Reserves for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was as follows:
General
On April 8, 2021, we entered into our Fifth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “old credit agreement”),
which initially provided for a $950 million senior secured credit facility, which was comprised of a revolving senior secured
credit facility (the “old revolving credit facility”) with a borrowing capacity of $650 million and a term loan with a borrowing
capacity of $300 million, with the ability to increase the aggregate size of the old revolving credit facility by an additional $200
million subject to lender consent and certain other customary conditions. Our term loan was paid off in full on November 17,
2021 with a portion of the gross proceeds of $418 million received from the sale of a 36% minority interest in CHOPS. On
February 17, 2023, we entered into the Sixth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (our “credit agreement”) to replace our
old credit agreement. Our credit agreement provides for a $850 million senior secured revolving credit facility that matures on
February 13, 2026, subject to extension at our request for one additional year on up to two occasions and subject to certain
conditions.
On April 29, 2022, we received $40 million, or $32 million net to our ownership interests, for the sale of our 80%
owned Independence Hub platform which allowed us to repay a portion of the borrowings outstanding under our old revolving
credit facility and further increase our borrowing capacity.
On May 17, 2022, Genesis Energy, L.P., through its newly created indirect unrestricted subsidiary, GA ORRI, issued
$425 million principal amount of our 5.875% Alkali senior secured notes due 2042 to certain institutional investors, secured by
GA ORRI’s fifty-year 10% limited term overriding royalty interest in substantially all of the Company’s Alkali Business trona
mineral leases. The issuance generated net proceeds of $408 million, net of the issuance discount of $17 million. We make
quarterly interest payments on our Alkali senior secured notes until March 2024, at which time we begin making quarterly
principal and interest payments through the maturity date. We used a portion of net proceeds from the issuance to fully redeem
the outstanding Alkali Holdings preferred units and utilized the remainder to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings
under our old revolving credit facility. The redemption of our Alkali Holdings preferred units, which carried an implied interest
rate of 12-13%, and the issuance of our Alkali senior secured notes with a coupon rate of 5.875%, has allowed us to simplify
our capital structure and lower our cost of capital, provide us additional flexibility under our senior secured credit facility, and
remove any risk of refinancing our Alkali Holdings preferred units that were initially due in 2026.
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On January 25, 2023, we issued $500 million in aggregate principal amount of our 8.875% senior unsecured notes due
April 15, 2030 (the “2030 Notes”); interest payments are due April 15 and October 15 of each year. That issuance generated net
proceeds of approximately $491 million, net of issuance costs incurred. The net proceeds were used to purchase approximately
$316 million of our existing 2024 Notes, including the related accrued interest and tender premium and fees on those notes that
were tendered in the tender offer that ended January 24, 2023 and the remaining proceeds at the time were used to repay a
portion of the borrowings outstanding under our old revolving credit facility and for general partnership purposes. On January
26, 2023, we issued a notice of redemption for the remaining principal of approximately $25 million of our 2024 Notes, and
discharged the indebtedness with respect to the 2024 Notes on February 14, 2023 by depositing the redemption amount with the
trustee of the 2024 Notes for redemption of the 2024 Notes on February 25, 2023, all in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the indenture governing the 2024 Notes.
On April 3, 2023, July 3, 2023 and October 2, 2023, we entered into purchase agreements with the Class A
Convertible Preferred unitholders whereby we redeemed a total of 2,224,860 Class A Convertible Preferred Units at an average
purchase price of $33.71 per unit. The redemption of these Class A Convertible Preferred Units, which carried an annual
coupon rate of 11.24%, has allowed us to lower our overall cost of capital.
In an effort to return capital to our investors, we announced the Repurchase Program on August 8, 2023. The
Repurchase Program authorizes the repurchase from time to time of up to 10% of our then outstanding Class A Common Units,
or 12,253,922 units, via open market purchases or negotiated transactions conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory
requirements. These repurchases may be made pursuant to a repurchase plan or plans that comply with Rule 10b5-1 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Repurchase Program will be reviewed no later than December 31, 2024 and may be
suspended or discontinued at any time prior thereto. The Repurchase Program does not create an obligation for us to acquire a
particular number of Class A Common Units and any Class A Common Units repurchased will be canceled. During 2023, we
repurchased and canceled a total of 114,900 Class A Common Units at an average price of approximately $9.09 per unit for a
total purchase price of $1.0 million, including commissions, which is reflected as a reduction to the carrying value of our
“Partners’ Capital - Common unitholders” on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2023. We
anticipate funding any future repurchase activity with a portion of our cash flows from operations and liquidity available under
our senior secured credit facility.
On December 7, 2023, we issued $600.0 million in aggregate principal amount of our 8.25% senior unsecured notes
due January 15, 2029 (the “2029 Notes). Interest payments are due January 15 and July 15 of each year with the initial interest
payment due on July 15, 2024. The issuance of our 2029 Notes generated net proceeds of approximately $583 million, after
deducting the underwriters’ discount and payment of offering expenses. The net proceeds were used to purchase approximately
$514 million of our senior unsecured notes due October 1, 2025 (the “2025 Notes”) and pay the related accrued interest and
tender premium and fees on those notes that were tendered in the tender offer that ended December 6, 2023. On December 8,
2023, we issued a notice of redemption for the remaining principal of approximately $21 million of our 2025 Notes, and
discharged the indebtedness with respect to the 2025 Notes on December 28, 2023 by depositing the redemption amount with
the trustee of the 2025 Notes for redemption of the 2025 Notes, all in accordance with the terms and conditions of the indenture
governing the 2025 Notes.
The successful completion of the above events has resulted in no scheduled maturities of our senior unsecured notes
until 2026 and has provided us a significant amount of available borrowing capacity under our senior secured credit facility,
subject to compliance with covenants in the credit agreement, to, amongst other things, utilize for funding the remaining growth
capital expenditures associated with our GOP and our offshore growth projects discussed earlier. Additionally, these events
have allowed us to simplify our capital structure and eliminate our highest interest rate instrument, the Alkali Holdings
preferred units.
As of December 31, 2023, we believe our balance sheet and liquidity position remained strong, including $547.2
million of borrowing capacity available under our $850.0 million senior secured credit facility, as of such date, subject to
compliance with covenants in the credit agreement.
We anticipate that our future internally-generated funds and the funds available under our senior secured credit facility
will allow us to meet our ordinary course capital needs. Our primary sources of liquidity have historically been cash flows from
operations, borrowing availability under our senior secured credit facility, proceeds from the sale of assets, the creation of
strategic arrangements to share capital costs through joint ventures or strategic alliances, and the proceeds from issuances of
equity (common and preferred) and senior unsecured or secured notes.
Our primary cash requirements consist of:
• working capital, primarily inventories and trade receivables and payables;
• routine operating expenses;
• capital growth (as discussed in more detail below) and maintenance expenditures;
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Capital Resources
Our ability to satisfy future capital needs will depend on our ability to raise substantial amounts of additional capital
from time to time, including through equity and debt offerings (public and private), borrowings under our senior secured credit
facility and other financing transactions, and to implement our growth strategy successfully. No assurance can be made that we
will be able to raise necessary funds on satisfactory terms.
At December 31, 2023, we had $298.3 million borrowed under our senior secured credit facility, with $19.3 million of
the borrowed amount designated as a loan under the inventory sublimit. Our senior secured credit facility does not include a
“borrowing base” limitation except with respect to our inventory loans. Due to the revolving nature of loans under our senior
secured credit facility, additional borrowings and periodic repayments and re-borrowings may be made until the maturity date
of our senior secured credit facility. The total amount available for borrowings under our senior secured credit facility at
December 31, 2023 was $547.2 million, subject to compliance with covenants in the credit agreement.
At December 31, 2023, our long-term debt totaled approximately $3.8 billion, consisting of $298.3 million outstanding
under our senior secured credit facility (including $19.3 million borrowed under the inventory sublimit tranche), $3.1 billion of
senior unsecured notes, and $425.0 million of Alkali senior secured notes (of which $11.6 million is current), which are secured
by the ORRI Interests. Our senior unsecured notes balance is comprised of $339.3 million of our 2026 Notes, $981.2 million of
our 2027 Notes, $679.4 million of our 2028 Notes, $600.0 million of our 2029 Notes, and $500.0 million of our 2030 Notes.
Future payment obligations related to our senior secured credit facility and senior unsecured notes as of December 31,
2023, including both principal and estimated interest payments, are summarized in the table below:
Estimated Annual
Interest Rate Maturity Date Principal Interest Payable
(in thousands)
Senior secured credit facility(1) Varies February 13, 2026 $ 298,300 $ 25,284
2026 Notes(2) 6.250% May 15, 2026 339,310 21,207
2027 Notes(2) 8.000% January 15, 2027 981,245 78,500
2028 Notes(2) 7.750% February 1, 2028 679,360 52,650
2029 Notes(2) 8.250% January 15, 2029 600,000 49,500
2030 Notes(2) 8.875% April 15, 2030 500,000 44,375
Total estimated payments $ 3,398,215 $ 271,516
(1) Amounts shown above for estimated interest payments represent the amounts that would be paid on an annual basis if the debt
outstanding at December 31, 2023 remained outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2024, and interest rates remained
constant.
(2) Each series of senior unsecured notes is further discussed and defined in Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in
Item 8.
Future payment obligations associated with our Alkali senior secured notes, as of December 31, 2023, including both
estimated principal and interest payments, are summarized in the table below:
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We have the right to redeem each of our series of senior unsecured notes beginning on specified dates as summarized
below, at a premium to the face amount of such notes that varies based on the time remaining to maturity on such notes.
Additionally, we may redeem up to 35% of the principal amount of each of our series of senior unsecured notes with the
proceeds from an equity offering of our common units during certain periods. A summary of the applicable redemption periods
is provided in the table below.
2026 Notes 2027 Notes 2028 Notes 2029 Notes 2030 Notes
February 15, January 15, February 1, January 15, April 15,
Redemption right beginning on 2021 2024 2023 2026 2026
Redemption of up to 35% of the
principal amount of notes with the
proceeds of an equity offering January 15, April 15,
permitted prior to N/A N/A N/A 2026 2026
For additional information on our long-term debt and covenants see Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements
in Item 8.
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From time to time after we had drawn at least $251.8 million, we had the option to redeem the outstanding preferred
units in whole for cash at a price equal to the initial $1,000 per preferred unit purchase price, plus no less than the greater of a
predetermined fixed internal rate of return amount or a multiple of invested capital metric, net of cash distributions paid to date
(“Base Preferred Return”). Additionally, if all outstanding preferred units were redeemed, we had not drawn at least $251.8
million, and BXC was not a “defaulting member” under the LLC Agreement, BXC had the right to a make-whole amount on
the number of undrawn preferred units.
On May 17, 2022 (the “Redemption Date”), we fully redeemed the 251,750 outstanding Alkali Holdings preferred
units a Base Preferred Return Amount of $288.6 million utilizing a portion of the proceeds we received from the issuance of our
Alkali senior secured notes. As of December 31, 2022 and 2023, there were no Alkali Holdings preferred units outstanding.
See Note 12 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for additional information regarding our mezzanine
capital.
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Net cash flows provided by our operating activities were $521.1 million and $334.4 million for 2023 and 2022,
respectively. The increase in operating cash flow for 2023 compared to 2022 was primarily attributable to higher Segment
Margin reported during 2023, a gain on sale of assets of $40.0 million in 2022 associated with the sale of our 80% owned
Independence Hub platform, of which $8.0 million was attributable to our noncontrolling interests and $32.0 million that is
included in Segment Margin but is considered a cash inflow from investing activities, and changes in our working capital
requirements.
See Note 16 in our Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for information regarding changes in components of
operating assets and liabilities during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
Capital Expenditures for Fixed and Intangible Assets and Equity Investees
The following table summarizes our expenditures for fixed and intangible assets and equity investees in the periods
indicated:
(1) Growth capital expenditures in our offshore pipeline transportation segment for 2023 and 2022 represent 100% of the costs
incurred, including those funded by our noncontrolling interest holder (see further discussion below in “Growth Capital
Expenditures”).
Expenditures for capital assets to grow the partnership distribution will depend on our access to debt and equity
capital. We will look for opportunities to acquire assets from other parties that meet our criteria for stable cash flows. We
continue to pursue a long term growth strategy that may require significant capital.
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Distributions to Unitholders
Our partnership agreement requires us to distribute 100% of our available cash (as defined therein) within 45 days
after the end of each quarter to unitholders of record. Available cash generally means, for each fiscal quarter, all cash on hand at
the end of the quarter:
• less the amount of cash reserves that our general partner determines in its reasonable discretion is necessary or
appropriate to:
• provide for the proper conduct of our business;
• comply with applicable law, any of our debt instruments, or other agreements; or
• provide funds for distributions to our common and preferred unitholders for any one or more of the next four
quarters;
• plus all cash on hand on the date of determination of available cash for the quarter resulting from working capital
borrowings. Working capital borrowings are generally borrowings that are made under our senior secured credit
facility and in all cases are used solely for working capital purposes or to pay distributions to partners.
On February 14, 2024, we paid a distribution of $0.15 per common unit related to the fourth quarter of 2023. With
respect to our Class A Convertible Preferred Units, we declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.9473 per unit (or $3.7892 on
an annualized basis). These distributions were paid on February 14, 2024 to unitholders holders of record at the close of
business January 31, 2024.
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Our historical distributions to common unitholders and Class A Convertible Preferred unitholders are shown in the
table below (in thousands, except per unit amounts).
Per Common
Unit Total Per Preferred Total
Distribution For Date Paid Amount Amount Unit Amount Amount
2021
1st Quarter May 14, 2021 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.7374 $ 18,684
nd
2 Quarter August 13, 2021 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.7374 $ 18,684
3rd Quarter November 12, 2021 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.7374 $ 18,684
4th Quarter February 14, 2022 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.7374 $ 18,684
2022
1st Quarter May 13, 2022 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.7374 $ 18,684
2nd Quarter August 12, 2022 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.7374 $ 18,684
3rd Quarter November 14, 2022 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.7374 $ 18,684
4th Quarter February 14, 2023 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.9473 $ 24,002
2023
1st Quarter May 15, 2023 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.9473 $ 24,002
2nd Quarter August 14, 2023 $ 0.1500 $ 18,387 $ 0.9473 $ 23,314
3rd Quarter November 14, 2023 $ 0.1500 $ 18,370 $ 0.9473 $ 22,612
4th Quarter(1) February 14, 2024 $ 0.1500 $ 18,370 $ 0.9473 $ 21,894
(1) This distribution was paid on February 14, 2024 to unitholders of record as of January 31, 2024.
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The guarantees are senior unsecured obligations of each Guarantor Subsidiary and rank equally in right of payment
with other existing and future senior indebtedness of such Guarantor Subsidiary, and senior in right of payment to all existing
and future subordinated indebtedness of such Guarantor Subsidiary. The guarantee of our senior unsecured notes by each
Guarantor Subsidiary is subject to certain automatic customary releases, including in connection with the sale, disposition or
transfer of all of the capital stock, or of all or substantially all of the assets, of such Guarantor Subsidiary to one or more persons
that are not us or a restricted subsidiary, the exercise of legal defeasance or covenant defeasance options, the satisfaction and
discharge of the indentures governing our senior unsecured notes, the designation of such Guarantor Subsidiary as a non-
Guarantor Subsidiary or as an unrestricted subsidiary in accordance with the indentures governing our senior unsecured notes,
the release of such Guarantor Subsidiary from its guarantee under our senior secured credit facility, or liquidation or dissolution
of such Guarantor Subsidiary (collectively, the “Releases”). The obligations of each Guarantor Subsidiary under its note
guarantee are limited as necessary to prevent such note guarantee from constituting a fraudulent conveyance under applicable
law. We are not restricted from making investments in the Guarantor Subsidiaries and there are no significant restrictions on the
ability of the Guarantor Subsidiaries to make distributions to Genesis Energy, L.P.
The rights of holders of our senior unsecured notes against the Guarantor Subsidiaries may be limited under the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code or state fraudulent transfer or conveyance law.
On May 17, 2022, we entered into an amendment to our old credit agreement, which designated GA ORRI and GA
ORRI Holdings as unrestricted subsidiaries under our credit agreement. In addition, the amendment re-designated Genesis
Alkali Holdings Company LLC, Genesis Alkali Holdings, LLC, Genesis Alkali, LLC and Genesis Alkali Wyoming, LP (the
subsidiary entities that own our Alkali Business, other than the ORRI Interests) as restricted entities and guarantors of our old
credit agreement. On May 17, 2022, we designated GA ORRI and GA ORRI Holdings as unrestricted subsidiaries and
reclassified the entities that originally held our Alkali Business as restricted subsidiaries under the indentures governing our
senior unsecured notes. The Alkali Business was historically presented as non-guarantor subsidiaries and because of such
designation are now presented as guarantor subsidiaries. The changes made did not impact the Company’s previously reported
consolidated net operating results, financial position, or cash flows.
The following is the summarized financial information for Genesis Energy, L.P. and the Guarantor Subsidiaries on a
combined basis after elimination of intercompany transactions among the Guarantor Subsidiaries (which includes related
receivable and payable balances) and the investment in and equity earnings from the non-Guarantor Subsidiaries.
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Fair Value of Assets and Liabilities Acquired and Identification of Associated Goodwill and Intangible Assets
In conjunction with each acquisition we make, we must allocate the cost of the acquired entity to the assets and
liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values at the date of acquisition. As additional information becomes available,
we may adjust the original estimates within one year subsequent to the acquisition. In addition, we are required to recognize
intangible assets separately from goodwill. Determining the fair value of assets and liabilities acquired, as well as intangible
assets such as customer relationships, contracts, trade names and non-compete agreements involves professional judgment and
is ultimately based on acquisition models and management’s assessment of the value of the assets and liabilities acquired, and
to the extent available, third-party assessments. Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized over their estimated useful life
as determined by management. Goodwill, if any, is not amortized but instead is periodically assessed for impairment, as
discussed further below. Uncertainties associated with these estimates include fluctuations in economic obsolescence factors in
the area and potential future sources of cash flow.
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On January 1, 2023, we became the sole member of ANSAC and assumed 100% of the voting rights of the entity, and
it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Genesis. We determined that ANSAC met the definition of a business and we
accounted for our acquisition of ANSAC as a business combination. We have reflected the financial results of ANSAC within
our soda and sulfur services segment from the date of acquisition, January 1, 2023. The purchase price has been allocated to the
assets acquired and the liabilities assumed based on their respective fair values. There was no consideration transferred as a
result of becoming the sole member of ANSAC. The assets acquired include inventories principally related to finished goods
(soda ash), fixed assets primarily related to leasehold improvements at the leased facility that supports our logistics operations,
an intangible asset related to our assets supporting our logistical and marketing footprint, right of use assets and our
corresponding lease liabilities, primarily associated with our right to use certain assets to store and load finished goods, the
vessels we utilize to ship finished goods to distributors and end users, as well as office space. Our leasehold improvements and
intangible asset both have an estimated useful life of ten years, which is consistent with the term of our primary lease
facilitating our logistics operations.
Recoverability of Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase prices we paid for certain businesses over their respective fair values.
We do not amortize goodwill. Goodwill is tested annually (at the reporting unit level) for possible impairment as of October 1
of each fiscal year, and on an interim basis when indicators of possible impairment exist.
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We have the option to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value
of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. Qualitative factors assessed for each of the applicable reporting units include,
but are not limited to, changes in macroeconomic conditions, industry and market considerations, cost factors, discount rates,
competitive environments and financial performance of the reporting units. If the qualitative assessment indicates that it is more
likely than not that the carrying value of a reporting unit exceeds its estimated fair value, a quantitative test is required.
We also have the option to proceed directly to the quantitative test. Under the quantitative impairment test, the
estimated fair value of the reporting unit is compared to its carrying value, including goodwill. If the carrying value of the
reporting unit including goodwill exceeds its fair value, an impairment charge equal to the excess would be recognized, up to a
maximum amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. We can resume the qualitative assessment in any subsequent
period for any reporting unit.
The determination of a reporting unit’s fair value is predicated on our assumptions regarding the future economic
prospects of the reporting unit. Such assumptions include (i) discrete financial forecasts for the assets contained within the
reporting unit, which rely on management’s estimates of operating margins, (ii) long-term growth rates for cash flows beyond
the discrete forecast period, (iii) appropriate discount rates and (iv) estimates of the cash flow multiples to apply in estimating
the market value of our reporting units. Changes in these estimates could have a significant impact on fair value. If the fair
value of the reporting unit (including its inherent goodwill) is less than its carrying value, a charge to earnings may be required
to reduce the carrying value of goodwill to its implied fair value. If future results are not consistent with our estimates, we could
be exposed to future impairment losses that could be material to our results of operations. We monitor the markets for our
products and services, in addition to the overall market, to determine if a triggering event occurs that would indicate that the fair
value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. One of our other monitoring procedures is the comparison of our market
capitalization to our book equity to determine if there is an indicator of impairment.
We performed a qualitative assessment as of October 1, 2023 and 2022 for our refinery services reporting unit, which
is the only reporting unit as of our assessment date that has goodwill. We did not identify any relevant events or circumstances
indicating that it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the respective carrying value. As
such, a quantitative goodwill test was not required, and no goodwill impairment was recognized for the year ended December
31, 2023 and 2022.
We performed a quantitative assessment as of October 1, 2021 for our refinery services reporting unit, which is the
only reporting unit as of our assessment date that has goodwill. No impairment was recorded in our refinery services reporting
unit during 2021 as the fair value far exceeded the carrying value. Additionally, when performing sensitivity analyses to the
significant inputs in the fair value, including the discount rate and assumptions related to the future cash flows, a 10% change in
these assumptions did not impact of our overall conclusion surrounding the valuation of our goodwill.
For additional information regarding our goodwill, see Note 10 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
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The fair value of the embedded derivative associated with our Class A Convertible Preferred Units was estimated
using a Monte Carlo simulation approach that contained inputs, including our common unit price relative to the issuance price,
dividend yield, discount yield, equity volatility, 30-year U.S. Treasury rates, and default and redemption probabilities and
timing estimates, which involved management judgment.
During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, we recorded unrealized losses of $18.6 million and $30.8
million, respectively, associated with fair value changes of the embedded derivative. Changes in the fair value estimate during
2022 were primarily driven by the election of the rate reset, which increased the distribution rate from 8.75% to 11.24%, and
changes in the fair value estimate during 2021 were primarily driven by fluctuations in the discount yield from period to period.
A significant increase or decrease in these inputs could have materially affected our fair value estimate, resulting in impacts to
our Consolidated Financial Statements. For example, a 10% increase or decrease in the volatility used in the calculation could
have caused a decrease or an increase to the fair value of our embedded derivative of approximately $8 million or $11 million,
respectively as of September 29, 2022.
For additional information regarding the Class A Convertible Preferred Units and the associated embedded derivative,
see Note 12 and Note 19 to our Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
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The table below presents information about our open derivative contracts at December 31, 2023. Notional amounts in
barrels, MMBtu, gallons (“Gal”), or metric tons (“MT”), the weighted average contract price, total contract amount and total
fair value amount in U.S. dollars of our open positions are presented below. Fair values were determined by using the notional
amount in barrels, MMBtu, gallons, or metric tons multiplied by the December 31, 2023 quoted market prices. The table does
not include offsetting physical exposures hedged by our derivative contracts.
Weighted Mark-to
Unit of Contract Unit of Average Contract Market Settlement
Measure Volumes Measure Market Value Change Value
for Volume (in 000’s) for Price Price (in 000’s) (in 000’s) (in 000’s)
Futures and Swap Contracts
Sell (Short) Contracts:
Crude Oil Bbl 242 Bbl $ 74.71 $ 18,080 $ (715) $ 17,365
Natural Gas MMBtu 2,100 MMBtu $ 2.54 $ 5,332 $ 137 $ 5,469
Option Contracts
Written Contracts:
Natural Gas MMBtu 60 MMBtu $ 0.75 $ 45 $ 5 $ 50
Purchased Contracts:
Natural Gas MMBtu 30 MMBtu $ 0.02 $ 1 $ (1) $ —
Diesel Gal 2,750 Gal $ 0.33 $ 912 $ (445) $ 467
We manage our risks of volatility in NaOH prices by indexing prices for the sale of NaHS to the market price for
NaOH in most of our contracts. Given the competitive advantages associated with our naturally produced soda ash as
previously discussed (relative to that which is synthetically produced), we believe this somewhat mitigates market risk within
our Alkali Business.
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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.
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Presently, our board of directors believes that, because Mr. Grant E. Sims is the director most familiar with our
business and industry and the most capable of leading the discussion of, and executing on, our business strategy, he is best
situated to serve as Chairman, regardless of the fact that he is the Chief Executive Officer of our general partner. Our board of
directors also believes that the appointment of a lead independent director, who will preside over executive sessions of non-
management directors of our board of directors, will facilitate teamwork and communication between the non-management
directors and management. Our board of directors appointed Mr. Jastrow as our lead independent director because of his
executive experience and service as a director of other companies. Our board of directors believes that the combined role of
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer working with the lead independent director is currently in the best interest of
unitholders, providing the appropriate balance between developing our strategy and overseeing management.
On September 1, 2017, we sold $750 million of Class A Convertible Preferred Units in a private placement, comprised
of 22,249,494 units for a cash purchase price per unit of $33.71 (subject to certain adjustments, the “Issue Price”) to two initial
purchasers. In connection with the private placement, we have granted each initial purchaser (including its applicable affiliate
transferees) certain rights, including (i) the right to appoint an observer, who shall have the right to attend our board meetings
for so long as an initial purchaser (including its affiliates) owns at least $200 million of our Class A Convertible Preferred Units
and (ii) the right to appoint two directors to our general partner’s board of directors if (and so long as) we fail to pay in full any
three quarterly distribution amounts, whether or not consecutive. As of December 31, 2023, we had 23,111,918 Class A
Convertible Units outstanding.
We are committed to sound principles of governance. Such principles are critical for us to achieve our performance
goals and maintain the trust and confidence of investors, personnel, suppliers, business partners and stakeholders. We believe
independent directors are a key element for strong governance, although we have reserved or exercised our right as a limited
partnership under the listing standards of the NYSE not to comply with certain requirements of the NYSE. For example,
although at least a majority of the members of our board of directors is independent under the NYSE rules, we reserve the right
not to comply with Section 303A.01 of the NYSE Listed Company Manual in the future, which would require that our board of
directors be comprised of at least a majority of independent directors. In addition, among other things, we have elected not to
comply with Sections 303A.04 and 303A.05 of the NYSE Listed Company Manual, which would require our board of directors
to maintain a nominating/corporate governance committee and a compensation committee, each consisting entirely of
independent directors. Our corporate governance guidelines are available on our website (www.genesisenergy.com) free of
charge. For further discussion of director independence, please see Item 13. “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions,
and Director Independence—Director Independence.”
Risk Oversight
We face a number of risks, including exposure to matters relating to the environment, regulation, competition,
fluctuations in commodity prices and interest rates, pandemics, cybersecurity threats and severe weather. Management is
responsible for the day-to-day management of the risks our company faces, although our board of directors, as a whole and
through its committees, has responsibility for the oversight of risk management. In fulfilling its risk oversight role, our board of
directors must determine whether risk management processes designed and implemented by our management are adequate and
functioning as designed. Senior management regularly delivers presentations to our board of directors on strategic matters,
operations, risk management and other matters, and are available to address any questions or concerns raised by our board of
directors. Board of directors meetings also regularly include discussions with senior management regarding strategies, key
challenges and risks and opportunities for our company.
Our board committees assist our board of directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities in certain areas of risk. For
example, the audit committee assists with risk management oversight in the areas of financial reporting, internal controls,
cybersecurity, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and our risk management policy relating to our hedging
program. The governance, compensation and business development committee assists our board of directors with risk
management relating to our compensation policies and programs.
Our board of directors believes that it is important to align (when practical) the interests of the members of our board
of directors and certain of our officers with the interests of our long-term stakeholders. Our board of directors has adopted
certain policies to further promote that alignment of interests. For example, among other things, our policies prohibit our
directors and officers from (i) buying, selling or engaging in transactions with respect to our common units while they are
aware of material non-public information and (ii) engaging in short sales of our securities. Certain of our directors and/or
officers own substantial amounts of our units, some of which are pledged, including being held in broker margin accounts. See
Item 12. “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Unitholder Matters.”
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Audit Committee
The audit committee of our board of directors generally oversees our accounting policies and financial reporting and
the audit of our financial statements. The audit committee assists our board of directors in its oversight of the quality and
integrity of our financial statements and our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Our independent registered
public accounting firm is given unrestricted access to the audit committee. Our board of directors has determined that the
members of the audit committee meet the independence and experience standards established by NYSE and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In accordance with the NYSE rules and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
our board of directors has named three of its members to serve on the audit committee—Sharilyn S. Gasaway, Conrad P. Albert
and Jack T. Taylor. Ms. Gasaway is the chairperson. Our board of directors believes that Ms. Gasaway and Mr. Taylor qualify
as audit committee financial experts as such term is used in the rules and regulations of the SEC. The charter of the audit
committee is available on our website (www.genesisenergy.com) free of charge. Each member of the audit committee is an
independent director under NYSE rules.
Conflicts Committee
To the extent requested by our board of directors, a conflicts committee of our board of directors would be appointed
to review specific matters in connection with the resolution of conflicts of interest and potential conflicts of interest between
any of our affiliates and us. If a specific review is requested by our board of directors, our conflicts committee would be formed
by our Board and would be comprised solely of independent directors. See Item 13. “Certain Relationships and Related
Transactions, and Director Independence—Review or Special Approval of Material Transactions with Related Persons.”
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Grant E. Sims has served as a director and Chief Executive Officer of our general partner since August 2006 and
Chairman of the Board of our general partner since October 2012. Mr. Grant E. Sims was affiliated with Leviathan Gas Pipeline
Partners, LP from 1992 to 1999, serving as the Chief Executive Officer and a director beginning in 1993 until he left to pursue
personal interests, including investments. Leviathan (subsequently known as El Paso Energy Partners, L.P. and then GulfTerra
Energy Partners, L.P.) was a NYSE listed MLP. Mr. Grant E. Sims has an established track record of developing strong
companies and has led his companies through a period of substantial growth while increasing geographic and operational
diversity. Mr. Grant E. Sims provides leadership skills, executive management experience and significant knowledge of our
business environment, which he has gained through his vast experience with other MLPs.
Conrad P. Albert has served as a director of our general partner since July 2013. Mr. Albert is a private investor and
was formerly a director of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from 1986 to 2006. Mr. Albert also served as a director of
DeepTech International, Inc. from 1992 to 1998. From 1969 to 1991, Mr. Albert served in various positions with Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Company, ultimately serving as Executive Vice President in charge of worldwide energy lending and corporate
finance. Mr. Albert’s extensive financial, executive and directorial experience and his service in various roles in the
management of other energy-related companies will allow him to provide valuable expertise to our board of directors.
James E. Davison has served as a director of our general partner since July 2007. Mr. Davison served as chairman of
the board of Davison Transport, Inc. for over 30 years. He also serves as President of Terminal Services, Inc. Mr. Davison has
over forty years of experience in the energy-related transportation and sulfur removal businesses. Mr. Davison brings to our
board of directors significant energy-related transportation and sulfur removal experience and industry knowledge.
James E. Davison, Jr. has served as a director of our general partner since July 2007. Mr. Davison is also a director of
another public company, Origin Bancorp, Inc., and serves on its finance, risk and insurance committees. Mr. Davison is the son
of James E. Davison. Mr. Davison’s executive and leadership experience enable him to make valuable contributions to our
board of directors.
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Sharilyn S. Gasaway has served as a director of our general partner since March 2010 and serves as chairperson of the
audit committee. Ms. Gasaway is a private investor and was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alltel
Corporation, a wireless communications company, from 2006 to 2009, and served as Controller of Alltel Corporation from
2002 through 2006. In her role as CFO, Ms. Gasaway was responsible for the company’s finance, financial reporting, and risk
management roles, and gained extensive experience in corporate performance and strategic planning. She brings this vast
knowledge to the partnership. Ms. Gasaway is a director of JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc., a public company where she also
serves as the chair of the audit committee. Additionally, Ms. Gasaway serves on the compensation and nominating committees
of JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Ms. Gasaway provides our board of directors valuable business experience, risk
management and financial expertise, including an understanding of the accounting, compliance and financial matters that we
address on a regular basis.
Kenneth M. Jastrow II has served as a director of our general partner since March 2010 and serves as our lead
independent director and the chairperson of the G&C Committee. Mr. Jastrow served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Temple-Inland, Inc., a manufacturing company and the former parent of Forestar Group, from 2000 to 2007. Prior to that,
Mr. Jastrow served in various roles at Temple-Inland, including President and Chief Operating Officer, Group Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Jastrow served as a director of MGIC Investment Corporation and a director and Director
Emeritus of KB Home. Mr. Jastrow formerly served as Non-Executive Chairman of Forestar Group, Inc. Mr. Jastrow’s
executive experience and service as director of other companies enable him to make valuable contributions to our board of
directors and particularly well suited to be the lead independent director.
Jack T. Taylor has served as a director of our general partner since July 2013. Mr. Taylor is currently a director of
Sempra Energy and Murphy USA Inc. Additionally, Mr. Taylor currently serves on the audit committee of Sempra Energy and
Murphy USA Inc. Mr. Taylor was a partner of KPMG LLP for 29 years, where from 2005 to 2010 he served as KPMG's Chief
Operating Officer-Americas and Executive Vice Chair of U.S. Operations and from 2001 to 2005 he served as the Vice
Chairman of U.S. Audit and Risk Advisory Services. Mr. Taylor’s extensive experience with financial and public accounting
issues, his various leadership roles at KPMG LLP and his extensive knowledge of the energy industry make him a valuable
resource to our board of directors.
Kristen O. Jesulaitis has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Legal Officer of our general partner since April
2023. Ms. Jesulaitis leads Genesis’ accounting, finance and legal organizations, including financial reporting, capital markets
execution, treasury and cash management. She also oversees all legal matters of Genesis, including those related to acquisitions
and commercial transactions, compliance and regulatory affairs, corporate governance, finance, securities and sustainability.
Previously, Ms. Jesulaitis served as Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of our general partner from July 2011 until
April 2023. Prior to joining Genesis, she was a partner at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, principally
engaged in the areas of corporate and securities law, with primary focus in the midstream energy sector.
Ryan S. Sims has served as President and Chief Commercial Officer of our general partner since April 2023. He is
responsible for the execution of Genesis’ long-term strategy and the ultimate leadership of our commercial, operational,
corporate development, planning, investor relations and financial activities. Mr. Ryan S. Sims joined Genesis in 2011 and most
recently served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development of our general partner from March 2019 to April
2023, where he was responsible for the corporate development, planning and investor relations functions. Prior to joining
Genesis, Mr. Ryan S. Sims spent six years in the investment banking industry. Mr. Ryan S. Sims is the son of Grant E. Sims,
our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Robert V. Deere has served as Chief Administrative Officer of our general partner since April 2023 and served as
Chief Financial Officer of our general partner from October 2008 to March 2023. Mr. Deere served as Vice President,
Accounting and Reporting at Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) from 2003 through 2008.
Edward T. Flynn has served as Executive Vice President of our general partner and President of Genesis Alkali since
we acquired that business from Tronox Ltd. in September 2017. Prior to joining Genesis, Mr. Flynn worked for Tronox
Corporation as Executive Vice President and President of Tronox Alkali since April 2015 and was with FMC Corporation for
33 years, serving most recently as President FMC Minerals. Mr. Flynn is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of
ANSAC.
Garland G. Gaspard has served as Senior Vice President of our general partner since January 2017 and is responsible
for the operational aspects of our onshore and offshore pipelines, rail facilities, terminals, offshore facilities and assets,
engineering, trucking, and health, safety, security and environmental compliance. Mr. Gaspard joined Genesis in 2015 as a
result of our acquisition of the offshore Gulf of Mexico assets from Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and has had responsibility
for the operational aspects of our offshore assets since that time. Prior to this acquisition, Mr. Gaspard served in various
capacities within Enterprise Products' operations including underground gas storage, natural gas liquids, natural gas pipelines
and offshore operations.
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Louis V. Nicol has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of our general partner since April
2023. He is responsible for Genesis’ accounting and financial reporting organizations. Mr. Nicol joined Genesis in June 2014 in
the finance and accounting department and has held oversight roles with increasing levels of responsibility. Prior to Genesis,
Mr. Nicol worked in the audit practice at KPMG LLP for approximately six years.
Richard R. Alexander has served as Vice President of our general partner since November 2014. Mr. Alexander is
responsible for the commercial aspects of our marine transportation segment. Since 2008, Mr. Alexander has served in various
capacities within our marine operations.
William W. Rainsberger has served as Senior Vice President of our general partner since April 2023. He is responsible
for the commercial aspects of our offshore pipelines. Mr. Rainsberger joined Genesis in 2010 and has served as Vice President
of our general partner since 2019. Previously, Mr. Rainsberger was responsible for the corporate development and planning
functions. Prior to joining Genesis, Mr. Rainsberger worked in the investment banking industry.
Jeffrey J. Rasmussen has served as Vice President of our general partner since April 2023 and is responsible for the
commercial aspects of our sulfur services business. Mr. Rasmussen joined Genesis in 2017 as a result of our acquisition of the
Alkali Business, where he most recently served as Director of Specialty Products. Prior to joining Genesis, he spent 15 years
with FMC Corporation.
Code of Ethics
We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that is applicable to, among others, the principal financial
officer and the principal accounting officer. Our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is posted at our website
(www.genesisenergy.com), where we intend to report any changes or waivers.
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Committee/Board Process
Following the end of each calendar year, our CEO reviews the compensation of all the other NEOs and makes a
proposal to the G&C Committee regarding their compensation. The CEO’s proposal is based on (among other things) our
financial results for the prior year, the relevant executive’s areas of responsibility, market data provided by our independent
compensation consultant, and recommendations from the relevant executive’s supervisor (if other than our CEO). The G&C
Committee reviews the compensation of our CEO and the proposal of our CEO regarding the compensation of the other NEOs
and makes a final determination (and a recommendation to our board of directors) regarding the compensation of our NEOs.
Depending on the nature and quantity of changes made to that proposal, there may be additional G&C Committee meetings
and discussions with our CEO in advance of that determination. Our board of directors has final approval authority for all
such compensation matters.
Committee/Board Approval
The G&C Committee determines salaries, annual cash incentives and long-term awards for executive officers, taking
into consideration the CEO’s recommendation regarding the NEOs. In April, any applicable salary increases, retention and
annual bonuses, and long-term incentive awards are typically made or granted.
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At the request of the G&C Committee, Meridian reviewed and provided input on the compensation of our NEOs,
trends in executive compensation, meeting materials circulated to the G&C Committee, and management’s recommendations
regarding executive compensation plans. Meridian also developed assessments of market levels of compensation through an
analysis of peer data and information disclosed in our peer companies’ public filings, but did not determine or recommend the
amount of compensation.
For purposes of reviewing the compensation amounts related to 2023, Meridian performed a market analysis using a
peer group that consisted of the following 14 companies in the energy industry: Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., Targa
Resources Corp., HF Sinclair Corporation, Equitrans Midstream Corporation, EnLink Midstream, LLC, Magellan Midstream
Partners, L.P. (subsequently acquired during 2023 by ONEOK), Delek US Holdings, Inc., NGL Energy Partners LP, NuStar
Energy L.P., Sunoco LP, Crestwood Equity Partners LP, USA Compression Partners, LP, U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. and
Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. These companies were selected as the compensation peer group for any or all of the
following reasons:
1) they reflect our industry competitors for products and services;
2) they operate in similar markets or have comparable geographical reach;
3) they are of similar size and maturity to us; or
4) they are companies that have similar credit profiles to us and/or their growth or capital programs are similar to
ours.
The G&C Committee reviews the peer group annually and may, from time to time, add or remove companies in order
to assure the composition of the group meets the criteria outlined above.
The information that Meridian compiled included compensation trends for MLPs and levels of compensation for
similarly-situated executive officers of companies within this peer group. We believe that compensation levels of executive
officers in our peer group are relevant to our compensation decisions because we compete with those companies for executive
management talent.
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with the goal of retaining key employees and NEOs. Our long-term incentive plan is linked to our generation of Available
Cash before Reserves, our sustainability and safety record, as well as the partnership’s Consolidated Leverage ratio (as defined
in our senior secured credit facility agreement).
Base Salaries
We believe that base salaries should provide a fixed level of competitive pay that reflects the executive officer’s
primary duties and responsibilities and provides a foundation for incentive opportunities and benefit levels. As discussed
above, the base salaries of our NEOs are reviewed annually by the G&C Committee, taking into account recommendations
from our CEO regarding NEOs other than himself. We pay base salaries at a level that we feel is appropriate for the skills and
qualities of the individual NEOs based on their past performance, current scope of responsibilities and future potential. Base
salaries may be adjusted to achieve what is determined to be a reasonably competitive level or to reflect promotions, the
assignment of additional responsibilities, individual performance or company performance. Salaries are also periodically
adjusted based on analysis of peer group practices as described above.
In April 2023, the G&C Committee reviewed the assessments of market levels of compensation developed by
Meridian in conjunction with a discussion of individual performance and responsibilities. As a result of this review and taking
into account current market conditions and their respective levels of responsibility, the G&C Committee approved increases in
the base salaries of Mr. Grant E. Sims, Mr. Ryan S. Sims, Ms. Jesulaitis, Mr. Deere and Mr. Flynn. Mr. Grant E. Sims’ 2023
base salary increased to $860,000, representing an increase of 8%. Mr. Ryan S. Sims’ 2023 base salary increased to $525,000,
representing an increase of 46%. Ms. Jesulaitis’ 2023 base salary increased to $500,000, representing an increase of 11%. Mr.
Deere’s 2023 base salary increased to $475,000, representing an increase of 6%. Mr. Flynn’s 2023 base salary increased to
$525,000, representing an increase of 5%.
Bonuses
Our NEOs typically participate in a bonus program, or the Bonus Plan, in which a majority of company employees
participate. As designed by the G&C Committee, each NEO has an annual bonus target based on a stated percentage of his or
her base salary. The targeted amount for the NEOs is established based on the analysis of market practices of the peer group
and consideration of the level of salary and targeted long-term incentives for each NEO. Based on the G&C Committee's
subjective review of the 2023 operational and financial performance, in the context of total NEO compensation, a
discretionary bonus was granted to Mr. Flynn in the amount of $210,000 associated with the performance of the Alkali
Business. This bonus will be paid in March 2024, contingent on Mr. Flynn’s employment on the payment date. Further, it was
determined by the G&C Committee that each NEO will be considered for a retention bonus for 2023, as further discussed
below.
Our NEOs may participate in a retention bonus program for which certain key employees, managers and officers are
eligible. These retention bonuses are discretionary and are awarded based on individual and company performance with the
goal of retaining key employees. In 2023, Mr. Grant E. Sims was granted a retention bonus of $1,075,000, Mr. Ryan S. Sims
and Mr. Flynn were granted a retention bonus of $525,000, Ms. Jesulaitis was granted a retention bonus of $500,000, and Mr.
Deere was granted a retention bonus of $375,000, to be paid in four equal installments on or before the last day of the quarter
ended on the following dates: March 31, 2024, June 30, 2024, September 30, 2024, and December 31, 2024, contingent upon
continued employment at those dates.
We believe that these retention bonuses are an appropriate mechanism to incentivize key executives to remain with us
so that we may benefit from their experience in the industry and other competitive opportunities available to them.
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In 2018, our G&C Committee adopted our 2018 LTIP. Like our 2010 LTIP, our 2018 LTIP permits awards of
equity-based compensation in the form of phantom units and distribution equivalent rights (“DERs”). Phantom units are
notional units representing unfunded and unsecured promises to pay to the participant a specified amount of cash based on the
market value of our common units should specified vesting requirements be met. DERs are tandem rights to receive on a
quarterly basis an amount of cash equal to the amount of distributions that would have been paid on outstanding phantom units
had they been limited partner units issued by us. In addition, our 2018 LTIP permits cash-based awards.
Our G&C Committee administers our LTIPs and has broad authority to grant awards under and alter, amend, or
terminate our LTIPs. For example, our G&C Committee has the authority to determine (i) who (if anyone) will receive awards
from time to time as well as (ii) the size, nature, terms and conditions of such award. Our G&C Committee also has the
authority to adopt, alter, and repeal rules, guidelines and practices relating to our LTIPs and interpret our LTIPs. Our board of
directors can terminate the LTIPs at any time.
During 2023, 2022 and 2021, we granted cash-based awards to certain officers and other employees under our 2018
LTIP, including our NEOs. We established target grant values for NEOs based on an analysis of market practices of our
compensation peer group and consideration of the level of salary and targeted bonus for each NEO.
For 2023, 2022 and 2021, the G&C Committee established the following long-term incentive cash grant target values
for each of our NEOs:
Long-Term Incentive
Cash Grant Value
Name 2023 (1) 2022 (1) 2021 (1)
Grant E. Sims $ 4,500,000 $ 4,000,000 $ 3,600,000
Ryan S. Sims 2,000,000 700,000 500,000
Kristen O. Jesulaitis 1,625,000 1,000,000 650,000
Robert V. Deere 850,000 800,000 800,000
Edward T. Flynn 1,575,000 1,500,000 1,500,000
(1) See additional discussion of awards granted to NEOs under the 2018 LTIP during 2023, 2022 and 2021 included in the “Grants of
Plan-Based Awards” disclosure below.
In addition to the established target values noted above for 2021, on April 7, 2021, we granted one-time supplemental
cash-based awards to certain officers and other employees under our 2018 LTIP, including our NEOs. The supplemental
awards were 100% service-based and were paid out on their two year anniversary, or April 7, 2023, contingent on each
employee’s continued employment at that date. These awards were granted, and included a shorter vesting period with the goal
of retaining key employees. The amounts of one-time supplemental awards granted to our NEOs were as follows: $720,000 for
Mr. Grant E. Sims, $150,000 for Mr. Ryan S. Sims, $130,000 for Ms. Jesulaitis, $160,000 for Mr. Deere and $300,000 for Mr.
Flynn.
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The foregoing report is provided by the following directors, who constitute the G&C Committee:
• Kenneth M. Jastrow II, Chairman
• Conrad P. Albert
• James E. Davison
• James E. Davison, Jr.
• Sharilyn S. Gasaway
• Jack T. Taylor
The information contained in this report shall not be deemed to be soliciting material or filed with the SEC or subject
to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate it by reference into a
document filed under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
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(1) For awards granted to Mr. Grant E. Sims, Mr. Deere and Mr. Flynn on April 11, 2023, 60% of the amount represents the cash to be
paid if the Company meets certain performance conditions (threshold, target and maximum) associated with our Available Cash
before Reserves, our Consolidated Leverage Ratio (as defined in the credit agreement), and safety and sustainability metrics during
2025, and the remaining 40% of the awards are service-based.
(2) For awards granted to Mr. Ryan S. Sims on April 11, 2023, 75% of the amount represents the cash to be paid if the Company
meets certain performance conditions (threshold, target and maximum) associated with our Available Cash before Reserves, our
Consolidated Leverage Ratio (as defined in the credit agreement), and safety and sustainability metrics during 2025, and the
remaining 25% of the awards are service-based.
(3) For awards granted to Ms. Jesulaitis on April 11, 2023, approximately 70% of the amount represents the cash to be paid if the
Company meets certain performance conditions (threshold, target and maximum) associated with our Available Cash before
Reserves, our Consolidated Leverage Ratio (as defined in the credit agreement), and safety and sustainability metrics during 2025,
and approximately 30% of the awards are service-based.
There were no equity-based awards granted to our NEOs as of December 31, 2023.
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If termination occurs due to death or disability, Messrs. Grant E. Sims, Ryan S. Sims, Deere, Flynn, and Ms.
Jesulaitis would vest in outstanding awards under our 2018 LTIP at 100%, including the awards granted in 2023, 2022 and
2021, would result in payments under the 2018 LTIP of the following amounts upon death or disability:
Upon a change of control for the outstanding LTIP awards granted in April 2023, April 2022 and April 2021, the
unvested service tranche of the cash awards granted will become fully vested and the unvested performance tranche of the
cash award granted will vest at 200% of the performance metric. Based on a hypothetical simultaneous change of control and
termination date of December 31, 2023, the change of control termination benefits for Messrs. Grant E. Sims, Ryan S. Sims,
Deere, Flynn, and Ms. Jesulaitis would have been as follows:
Beginning in July 2022, our non-employee directors are entitled to a base compensation of $240,000 per year, with
$120,000 paid in cash and $120,000 paid in phantom units. The lead director, the chairpersons of the audit committee and
G&C Committee, and any non-chair members of the audit committee each receive an additional amount of base compensation
split equally between cash and phantom units. The cash compensation is paid in equal quarterly installments. Such additional
amount is $10,000 for the lead director, $25,000 for the chair of the audit committee, $15,000 for the chair of the G&C
Committee and $15,000 for any audit committee non-chair members.
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Cash is paid, and phantom units are awarded, on the first day of each calendar quarter. During 2023, 2022 and 2021,
we awarded phantom units under our 2010 LTIP only to directors, all of which were service-based awards with no
performance conditions. The number of phantom units awarded is determined by dividing the closing market price of our
units on the date of the award into the amount to be paid in phantom units. So long as he or she is a director on the relevant
date of determination, each director will receive: (i) a quarterly distribution equal to the number of phantom units held by such
director multiplied by the quarterly distribution amount we will pay in respect of each of our outstanding common units on
such distribution date, and (ii) for all phantom units granted prior to July 2021, on the third anniversary of each award date for
such director, an amount equal to the number of phantom units granted to such director on such award date multiplied by the
average closing price of our common units for the 20 trading days ending on the day immediately preceding such anniversary
date. Beginning in July 2021, all phantom units granted to our directors will vest and pay out after their one year anniversary
at an amount equal to the number of phantom units granted multiplied by the average closing price of our common units for
the 20 trading days ending on the day immediately preceding such anniversary date.
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Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Unitholder Matters
(7)
Steven K. Davison 2,155,617 1.8 % 7,676 19.2 %
Global X Management Company LLC 6,307,420 5.2 % —
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 6,175,844 5.0 % —
Invesco LTD 17,430,289 14.2 % —
ALPS Advisors, Inc. 18,776,684 15.3 % —
* Less than 1%
(1) The Class B Common Units, which also are included in the Class A Common Unit total, are identical in most respects to the Class
A Common Units and have voting and distribution rights equivalent to those of the Class A Common Units. In addition, the Class
B Common Units have the right to elect all of our board of directors and are convertible into Class A Common Units under certain
circumstances, subject to certain exceptions.
(2) In addition to his direct ownership interests, Mr. Davison is the sole stockholder of Terminal Services, Inc., which owns 1,010,835
Class A Common Units.
(3) 1,339,383 of these Class A Common Units are held by trusts for Mr. Davison's children. 187,856 of these Class A Common Units
are held by the James E. and Margaret A. B. Davison Special Trust.
(4) Mr. Grant E. Sims pledged 2,943,650 of these Class A Common Units as collateral for loans from a bank.
(5) 100,000 of these Class A Common Units are held by a family trust of which Mr. Ryan S. Sims has the right to become the trustee.
(6) Includes 4,745 Class A Common Units held by Mr. Alexander’s parents over which Mr. Alexander has trading authority. Mr.
Alexander pledged 10,000 Class A Common Units as collateral for margin brokerage accounts.
(7) Includes 147,941 Class A Common Units held by the Steven Davison Family Trust.
Except as noted, each unitholder in the above table is believed to have sole voting and investment power with respect
to the units beneficially held, subject to applicable community property laws.
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The following table sets forth certain information as of December 31, 2023, regarding the beneficial ownership of our
Class A Convertible Preferred Units. This information is based on data furnished by the persons named.
(1) The percentage of beneficial ownership is calculated based on 23,111,918 Class A Convertible Preferred Units deemed outstanding
as of December 31, 2023.
(2) Reflects Class A Convertible Preferred Units directly owned by GSO Rodeo Holdings LP. GSO Rodeo Holdings Associates LLC
is the general partner of GSO Rodeo Holdings LP. GSO Holdings I L.L.C. is the managing member of GSO Rodeo Holdings
Associates LLC. Blackstone Holdings II L.P. is the managing member of GSO Holdings I L.L.C. Blackstone Holdings I/II GP Inc.
is the general partner of Blackstone Holdings II L.P. The Blackstone Group Inc. is the sole member of Blackstone Holdings I/II GP,
L.L.C. Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. is the sole holder of Class C common stock of The Blackstone Group Inc. Blackstone
Group Management L.L.C. is wholly-owned by Blackstone’s senior managing directors and controlled by its founder, Stephen A.
Schwarzman. In addition, Bennett J. Goodman may be deemed to have shared voting power and/or investment power with respect
to the securities held by GSO Rodeo Holdings LP. Each of the foregoing (other than GSO Rodeo Holdings LP) disclaims beneficial
ownership of the Class A Convertible Preferred Units beneficially owned by GSO Rodeo Holdings LP. The business address for
GSO Rodeo Holdings LP is c/o GSO Capital Partners LP, 345 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10154.
(3) Reflects Class A Convertible Preferred Units directly owned by KKR Aggregator L.P.. KKR Rodeo Aggregator GP LLC, as the
general partner of KKR Rodeo Aggregator L.P., KKR Global Infrastructure Investors II (Rodeo) L.P., as the sole member of KKR
Rodeo Aggregator GP LLC, KKR Associates Infrastructure II AIV L.P., as the general partner of KKR Global Infrastructure
Investors II (Rodeo) L.P., KKR Infrastructure II AIV GP LLC, as the general partner of KKR Associates Infrastructure II AIV L.P.,
KKR Financial Holdings LLC, as the Class B member of KKR Infrastructure II AIV GP LLC, KKR Fund Holdings L.P., as the
Class A member of KKR Infrastructure II AIV GP LLC and the sole member of KKR Financial Holdings LLC, KKR Fund
Holdings GP Limited, as a general partner of KKR Fund Holdings L.P., KKR Group Holdings Corp., as the sole shareholder of
KKR Fund Holdings GP Limited and a general partner of KKR Fund Holdings L.P., KKR & Co. Inc., as the sole shareholder of
KKR Group Holdings Corp., KKR Management LLC, as the Class B common stockholder of KKR & Co. Inc., and Messrs. Kravis
and Roberts, as the designated members of KKR Management LLC, may be deemed to be the beneficial owners having shared
voting and investment power with respect to the Class A Convertible Preferred Units described in this footnote. The principal
business address of each of the entities and persons identified in this paragraph, except Mr. Roberts, is c/o Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
& Co. L.P., 9 West 57th Street, Suite 4200, New York, NY 10019. The principal business address for Mr. Roberts is c/o Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P., 2800 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
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Director Independence
Because we are a limited partnership, the listing standards of the NYSE do not require that we have a majority of
independent directors (although at least a majority of the members of our board of directors is independent, as defined by the
NYSE rules) or that we have either a nominating committee or a compensation committee of our board of directors. We are,
however, required to have an audit committee consisting of at least three members, all of whom are required to be
“independent” as defined by the NYSE.
Under NYSE rules, to be considered independent, our board of directors must determine that a director has no material
relationship with us other than as a director. The rules specify the criteria by which the independence of directors will be
determined, including guidelines for directors and their immediate family members with respect to employment or affiliation
with us or with our independent public accountants. Our board of directors has determined that each of Ms. Gasaway and
Messrs. Jastrow, Albert and Taylor is an independent director under the NYSE rules. See Item 10. “Directors, Executive
Officers and Corporate Governance” for additional discussion relating to our directors and director independence.
(1) Includes fees for the annual audit and quarterly reviews (including internal control evaluation and reporting), SEC registration
statements, comfort letters and accounting and financial reporting consultations and research work regarding Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles. Effective June 2023, we changed our registered independent public accounting firm from Ernst & Young
LLP to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The fees for professional services seen above are for services rendered by
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for the year ended December 31, 2023, and Ernst & Young LLP for the year ended December 31,
2022.
(2) Includes fees associated with non-audit related services and licenses for accounting research software.
Pre-Approval Policy
The services by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Ernst & Young LLP in 2023 and 2022 were pre-approved in
accordance with the pre-approval policy and procedures adopted by the audit committee. This policy describes the permitted
audit, audit-related, tax and other services, which we refer to collectively as the Disclosure Categories that the independent
auditor may perform. The policy requires that each fiscal year, a description of the services, or the Service List expected to be
performed by the independent auditor in each of the Disclosure Categories in the following fiscal year be presented to the audit
committee for approval.
Any requests for audit, audit-related, tax and other services not contemplated on the Service List must be submitted to
the audit committee for specific pre-approval and cannot commence until such approval has been granted. Normally, pre-
approval is provided at regularly scheduled meetings.
In considering the nature of the non-audit services provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Ernst & Young LLP
in 2023 and 2022, the audit committee determined that such services are compatible with the provision of independent audit
services. The audit committee discussed these services with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Ernst & Young LLP and
management of our general partner to determine that they are permitted under the rules and regulations concerning auditor
independence promulgated by the SEC to implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants.
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3.1 Certificate of Limited Partnership of Genesis Energy, L.P. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to
Amendment No. 2 of the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on November 15, 1996, File No.
333-11545).
3.2 Amendment to the Certificate of Limited Partnership of Genesis Energy, L.P. (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period
ended June 30, 2011, File No. 001-12295).
3.3 Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Genesis Energy, L.P. (incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 5.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 3, 2011, File
No. 001-12295).
3.4 First Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Genesis Energy,
L.P., dated September 1, 2017 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current
Report on Form 8-K filed on September 7, 2017, File No. 001-12295).
3.5 Second Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Genesis
Energy, L.P., dated December 31, 2017 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s
Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2018, File No. 001-12295).
3.6 Certificate of Conversion of Genesis Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation, into Genesis Energy, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current
Report on Form 8-K filed on January 7, 2009, File No. 001-12295).
3.7 Certificate of Formation of Genesis Energy, LLC (formerly Genesis Energy, Inc.) (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 5.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 7, 2009, File
No. 001-12295).
3.8 Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Genesis Energy, LLC dated
December 28, 2010 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form
8-K filed on January 3, 2011, File No. 001-12295).
3.9 Certificate of Incorporation of Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, dated as of November 27, 2006
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.7 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on
September 26, 2011, File No. 333-177012).
3.10 Bylaws of Genesis Energy Finance Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.8 to the
Company's Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on September 26, 2011, File No. 333-177012).
4.1 Description of Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2019, File No. 001-12295).
4.2 Form of Common Unit Certificate of Genesis Energy, L.P. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to
the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, File No.
001-12295).
4.3 Davison Unitholder Rights Agreement dated July 25, 2007 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to
the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 31, 2007, File No. 001-12295).
4.4 Amendment No. 1 to the Davison Unitholder Rights Agreement dated October 15, 2007 (incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 19, 2007,
File No. 001-12295).
4.5 Amendment No. 2 to the Davison Unitholder Rights Agreement dated December 28, 2010 (incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 3, 2011,
File No. 001-12295).
4.6 Davison Registration Rights Agreement dated July 25, 2007 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3
to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 31, 2007, File No. 001-12295).
4.7 Amendment No. 1 to the Davison Registration Rights Agreement, dated November 16, 2007
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on
November 16, 2007, File No. 001-12295).
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4.8 Amendment No. 2 to the Davison Registration Rights Agreement, dated December 6, 2007
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on
December 11, 2007, File No. 001-12295).
4.9 Amendment No. 3 to the Davison Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 28, 2010
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on
January 3, 2011, File No. 001-12295).
4.10 Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 28, 2010, by and among Genesis Energy, L.P.
and the former unitholders of Genesis Energy, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 3, 2011, File No. 001-12295).
4.11 Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 1, 2017, by and among Genesis Energy, L.P., GSO
Rodeo Holdings LP and Rodeo Finance Aggregator LLC (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.1 to
the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 7, 2017, File No. 001-12295).
4.12 Indenture, dated May 21, 2015, among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation,
certain subsidiary guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May
21, 2015, File No. 001-12295).
4.13 Ninth Supplemental Indenture for 6.50% Senior Notes due 2025, dated as of August 14, 2017, among
Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named therein
and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.2 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 14, 2017, File No. 001-12295).
4.14 Tenth Supplemental Indenture for 6.50% Senior Notes due 2025, dated as of November 13, 2017,
among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the Guarantors named therein and
U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.69 to the Company's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, File No. 001-12295).
4.15 Eleventh Supplemental Indenture for 6.250% Senior Notes Due 2026, dated as of December 11, 2017,
among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the Guarantors named therein and
U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s
Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 11, 2017, File No. 001-12295).
4.16 Twelfth Supplemental Indenture for 6.50% Senior Notes due 2025, and 6.250% Senior Notes due 2026,
dated as of August 28, 2018, among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the
Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 4.3 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
2018, File No. 001-12295).
4.17 Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture for 6.50% Senior Notes due 2025, and 6.250% Senior Notes due
2026, dated as of March 22, 2019, among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation,
the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2019,
File No. 001-12295).
4.18 Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture for 7.750% Senior Notes due 2028, dated as of January 16, 2020,
among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named
therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 16, 2020, File No. 001-12295).
4.19 Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture for 8.0% Senior Notes due 2027, dated as of December 17, 2020,
among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named
therein and the Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company's Current Report on
Form 8-K filed on December 17, 2020, File No. 001-12295).
4.20 Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture for 6.50% Senior Notes due 2025, 6.250% Senior Notes due 2026,
7.750% Senior Notes due 2028, and 8.0% Senior Notes due 2027, dated as of June 28, 2021, among
Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the Guarantors named therein and Regions
Bank, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, File No. 001-12295).
4.21 Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture for 6.50% Senior Notes due 2025, 6.250% Senior Notes due 2026,
7.750% Senior Notes due 2028, and 8.0% Senior Notes due 2027, dated as of June 28, 2021, among
Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the Guarantors named therein and Regions
Bank, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, File No. 001-12295).
4.22 Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture for 8.875% Senior Notes due 2030, dated as of January 25, 2023,
among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the Guarantors named therein and
Regions Bank, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company's Current Report on
Form 8-K filed on January 25, 2023, File No. 001-12295).
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4.23 Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture for 6.50% Senior Notes due 2025, 6.250% Senior Notes due 2026,
7.750% Senior Notes Due 2028, and 8.0% Senior Notes due 2027, dated as of February 28, 2023,
among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the Guarantors named therein and
Regions Bank, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, File No. 001-12295).
4.24 Twentieth Supplemental Indenture for 8.250% Senior Notes due 2029, dated as of December 7, 2023,
among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation, the Guarantors named therein and
Regions Bank, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Current Report on
Form 8-K filed on December 7, 2023, File No. 001-12295).
10.1 Fifth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 8, 2021, among Genesis Energy, L.P.,
as borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A.,
as syndication agent, and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, File No.
001-12295).
10.2 First Amendment and Consent to Fifth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of November
17, 2021, among Genesis Energy, L.P., as borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent, and the lenders party thereto
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2021, File No. 001-12295).
10.3 Second Amendment and Consent to Fifth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May
17, 2022, among Genesis Energy, L.P., as borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent, and the lenders party thereto
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended June 30, 2022, File No. 001-12295).
10.4 Sixth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 17, 2023, among Genesis Energy,
L.P., as borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, Bank of America,
N.A., as syndication agent, and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to
the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 23, 2023, File No. 001-12295).
10.5 Form of Indemnity Agreement, among Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy, LLC and each of the
Directors of Genesis Energy, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current
Report on Form 8-K filed on March 5, 2010, File No. 001-12295).
10.6 + Genesis Energy, L.P. 2010 Long-Term Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, File No.
001-12295).
10.7 + Genesis Energy, LLC 2010 Long-Term Incentive Plan Form of Directors Phantom Unit with DERs
Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-
Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, File No. 001-12295).
10.8 + Genesis Energy, LLC 2010 Long-Term Incentive Plan Form of Executive Phantom Unit with DERs
Award – Officers (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, File No. 001-12295).
10.9 + Genesis Energy, LLC 2010 Long-Term Incentive Plan Form of Employee Phantom Unit with DERs
Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-
Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, File No. 001-12295).
10.10 + Genesis Energy 2018 Long-Term Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.1 to the
Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, File No. 001-12295).
10.11 + Form of Award for 2018 LTIP (General) (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, File No. 001-12295)
10.12 + Form of Award for 2018 LTIP (Alkali) (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, File No. 001-12295)
10.13 + Form of Award for 2018 LTIP (Marine) (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.4 to the Company's
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, File No. 001-12295)
10.14 Board Observer Agreement, dated September 1, 2017, by and among Genesis Energy, L.P., GSO Rodeo
Holdings LP and Rodeo Finance Aggregator LLC (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.1 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 7, 2017, File No. 001-12295).
* 21.1 Subsidiaries of the Registrant.
* 22.1 List of Issuers and Guarantor Subsidiaries.
* 23.1 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
* 23.2 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
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* Filed herewith
+ A management contract or compensation plan or arrangement.
Not Applicable
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
as General Partner
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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Financial Statements of Genesis Energy, L.P.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 238) 1
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 42) 3
Consolidated Balance Sheets 4
Consolidated Statements of Operations 5
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income 6
Consolidated Statements of Partners’ Capital 7
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 8
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 9
1. Organization 9
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies 9
3. Revenue Recognition 14
4. Business Consolidation 17
5. Lease Accounting 19
6. Receivables 21
7. Inventories 22
8. Fixed Assets, Mineral Leaseholds and Asset Retirement Obligations 23
9. Equity Investees 24
10. Intangible Assets, Goodwill and Other Assets 25
11. Debt 26
12. Partners' Capital, Mezzanine Equity and Distributions 29
13. Net Income (Loss) Per Common Unit 35
14. Business Segment Information 35
15. Transactions with Related Parties 38
16. Supplemental Cash Flow Information 38
17. Equity-Based Compensation Plans 39
18. Major Customers and Credit Risk 40
19. Derivatives 40
20. Fair-Value Measurements 45
21. Employee Benefit Plans 46
22. Commitments and Contingencies 49
23. Income Taxes 49
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To the Board of Directors of Genesis Energy, LLC and Unitholders of Genesis Energy, L.P.
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Genesis Energy, L.P. and its subsidiaries (the “Partnership”) as of
December 31, 2023, and the related consolidated statements of operations, of comprehensive income (loss), of partners’ capital and of cash
flows for the year then ended, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). We also have
audited the Partnership's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control -
Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the
Partnership as of December 31, 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Partnership maintained, in all material
respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control -
Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the COSO.
The Partnership’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over
financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’s Report
on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on the Partnership’s
consolidated financial statements and on the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public
accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be
independent with respect to the Partnership in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and
whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the
consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures
included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audit also
included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an
understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the
design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as
we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions.
As described in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, management has excluded American Natural Soda Ash
Corporation (ANSAC) from its assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, because it was acquired by
the Partnership in a purchase business combination during 2023. We have also excluded American Natural Soda Ash Corporation from our
audit of internal control over financial reporting. American Natural Soda Ash Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary whose total assets
and total revenues excluded from management’s assessment and our audit of internal control over financial reporting represent approximately
5% and 27%, respectively, of the related consolidated financial statement amounts as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023.
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of
financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of
records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide
reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of
management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any
evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or
that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
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The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that
was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (i) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to
the consolidated financial statements and (ii) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of
critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by
communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to
which it relates.
Estimation of variable consideration – Long-term contracts in the offshore pipeline transportation segment
As described in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the Partnership has recognized current and non-current contract liabilities of
$11.5 million and $112.7 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2023. As disclosed by management, the Partnership’s offshore pipeline
transportation segment has certain long-term contracts with customers that include variable consideration that must be estimated at contract
inception and re-assessed at each reporting period. Total consideration for these arrangements is recognized as revenue over the applicable
contract period and is based on the Partnership’s measure of satisfaction of its corresponding performance obligation. The estimated
performance obligation over the life of a contract includes significant judgments by management including volume and forecasted production
information, future price indexing, the Partnership’s ability to transport volumes produced by its customers, and the contract period. The
Partnership also constrains the estimates of variable consideration such that it is probable that a significant reversal of previously-recognized
revenue will not occur throughout the life of the contract. Differences between the consideration received from customers from invoicing
compared to the revenue recognized creates a contract asset or liability.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the estimation of variable consideration related to
long-term contracts in the offshore pipeline transportation segment is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment by management
when developing the estimated variable consideration, which includes the assumption for volumes and forecasted production information
specific to each contract, and (ii) a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity, and effort in performing procedures and evaluating audit
evidence related to management’s estimates of variable consideration for these contracts.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the
consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to the revenue recognition process,
including the control over the estimates of variable consideration. These procedures also included, among others (i) testing management’s
process for developing the estimates of variable consideration; (ii) evaluating the appropriateness of the methodology used by management;
(iii) testing the completeness and accuracy of underlying data used in calculating the estimate; and (iv) evaluating, on a sample basis, the
reasonableness of the significant assumption used by management related to volumes and forecasted production information specific to each
contract. Evaluating management’s assumption related to volumes and forecasted production information involved evaluating whether the
assumption used by management was reasonable considering (i) management's historical forecasting accuracy; (ii) evidence to support the
relevant aforementioned assumption; (iii) the consistent application of accounting policies; and (iv) the timely identification of circumstances
which may require a modification to the previous estimate.
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To the Board of Directors of Genesis Energy, LLC and Unitholders of Genesis Energy, L.P.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Genesis Energy, L.P. (the Partnership) as of December 31, 2022, the related
consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), partners’ capital and cash flows for each of the two years in the period
ended December 31, 2022, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the
consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Partnership at December 31, 2022, and
the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2022, in conformity with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles.
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Partnership’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
Partnership’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be
independent with respect to the Partnership in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to
obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits
included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and
performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and
disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis
for our opinion.
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MEZZANINE CAPITAL:
Class A Convertible Preferred Units, 23,111,918 and 25,336,778 issued and outstanding
at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. 813,589 891,909
PARTNERS’ CAPITAL:
Common unitholders, 122,464,318 and 122,579,218 units issued and outstanding at
December 31, 2023 and 2022 519,698 567,277
Accumulated other comprehensive income 8,040 6,114
Noncontrolling interests 369,450 310,162
Total partners’ capital 897,188 883,553
TOTAL LIABILITIES, MEZZANINE CAPITAL AND PARTNERS’ CAPITAL $ 7,018,778 $ 6,365,992
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.
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Accumulated
Number of Other
Common Partners’ Noncontrolling Comprehensive
Units Capital Interest Income (Loss) Total
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2020 122,579 $ 829,326 $ (1,113) $ (9,365) $ 818,848
Net income (loss) — (165,067) 1,637 — (163,430)
Cash distributions to partners — (73,548) — — (73,548)
Sale of noncontrolling interest in subsidiary — 125,338 294,422 — 419,760
Cash distributions to noncontrolling interests — — (903) — (903)
Cash contributions from noncontrolling interests — — 703 — 703
Other comprehensive income — — — 3,758 3,758
Distributions to Class A Convertible Preferred
unitholders — (74,736) — — (74,736)
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2021 122,579 641,313 294,746 (5,607) 930,452
Net income — 75,457 23,235 — 98,692
Cash distributions to partners — (73,548) — — (73,548)
Adjustment to valuation of noncontrolling interest
in subsidiary — (1,209) 1,209 — —
Cash distributions to noncontrolling interests — — (31,867) — (31,867)
Cash contributions from noncontrolling interests — — 22,839 — 22,839
Other comprehensive income — — — 11,721 11,721
Distributions to Class A Convertible Preferred
unitholders — (74,736) — — (74,736)
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2022 122,579 567,277 310,162 6,114 883,553
Repurchase of Class A Common Units (115) (1,044) — — (1,044)
Net income — 117,720 28,627 — 146,347
Cash distributions to partners — (73,530) — — (73,530)
Cash distributions to noncontrolling interests — — (44,579) — (44,579)
Cash contributions from noncontrolling interests — — 75,240 — 75,240
Other comprehensive income — — — 1,926 1,926
Distributions and returns attributable to Class A
Convertible Preferred unitholders — (90,725) — — (90,725)
Partners’ Capital, December 31, 2023 122,464 $ 519,698 $ 369,450 $ 8,040 $ 897,188
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
Year Ended December 31,
2023 2022 2021
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income (loss) $ 146,347 $ 129,135 $ (138,032)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by
operating activities -
Depreciation, depletion and amortization 280,189 296,205 309,746
Gain on sale of assets — (40,000) —
Amortization and write-off of debt issuance costs, premium and discount 12,889 9,271 13,716
Payments received under previously owned direct financing leases — — 70,000
Equity in earnings of investments in equity investees (66,198) (54,206) (57,898)
Cash distributions of earnings of equity investees 64,972 55,571 57,080
Non-cash effect of long-term incentive compensation plans 25,379 17,810 8,783
Deferred and other tax liabilities (624) 2,355 980
Cancellation of debt income — (8,618) —
Unrealized losses (gains) on derivative transactions 36,635 (5,823) 30,700
Other, net 17,363 20,513 12,832
Net changes in components of operating assets and liabilities (See Note 16) 4,174 (87,818) 30,044
Net cash provided by operating activities 521,126 334,395 337,951
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Payments to acquire fixed and intangible assets (620,019) (424,195) (301,395)
Cash distributions received from equity investees—return of investment 26,050 19,646 27,026
Investments in equity investees (4,489) (10,301) (352)
Proceeds from asset sales 478 40,331 604
Other, net 4,332 — —
Net cash used in investing activities (593,648) (374,519) (274,117)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Borrowings on senior secured credit facility 1,183,566 971,500 776,300
Repayments on senior secured credit facility (1,090,666) (815,100) (1,371,000)
Net proceeds from issuance of Alkali senior secured notes (Note 11) — 408,000 —
Redemption of redeemable noncontrolling interests (Note 12) — (288,629) —
Proceeds from issuance of senior unsecured notes (Note 11) 1,093,766 — 259,375
Repayment of senior unsecured notes (875,969) (72,241) (80,859)
Net proceeds from issuance of preferred units (Note 12) — — 93,100
Debt issuance costs (24,765) (6,019) (12,348)
Redemption of Class A Convertible Preferred Units (Note 12) (75,000) — —
Contributions from noncontrolling interests 75,240 22,839 703
Distributions to noncontrolling interests (44,579) (31,867) (903)
Distributions to Class A Convertible Preferred unitholders (Note 12) (93,930) (74,736) (74,736)
Distributions to common unitholders (Note 12) (73,530) (73,548) (73,548)
Repurchase of Class A Common Units (Note 12) (1,044) — —
Cash proceeds from the sale of a noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary — — 418,140
Other, net 904 1,500 (84)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities 73,993 41,699 (65,860)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash 1,471 1,575 (2,026)
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period 26,567 24,992 27,018
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period $ 28,038 $ 26,567 $ 24,992
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.
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1. Organization
We are a growth-oriented master limited partnership founded in Delaware in 1996 and focused on the midstream
segment of the crude oil and natural gas industry as well as the production of natural soda ash. Our operations are primarily
located in the Gulf of Mexico, Wyoming and in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. We provide an integrated suite of
services to refiners, crude oil and natural gas producers and industrial and commercial enterprises. We have a diverse portfolio
of assets, including pipelines, offshore hub and junction platforms, our trona and trona-based exploring, mining, processing,
producing, marketing, logistics and selling business based in Wyoming (our “Alkali Business”), refinery-related plants, storage
tanks and terminals, railcars, barges and other vessels and trucks. We are owned 100% by our limited partners. Genesis
Energy, LLC, our general partner, is a wholly-owned subsidiary. Our general partner has sole responsibility for conducting our
business and managing our operations. We conduct our operations and own our operating assets through our subsidiaries and
joint ventures.
We currently manage our businesses through the following four divisions that constitute our reportable segments:
• Offshore pipeline transportation, which includes transportation and processing of crude oil and natural gas in the
Gulf of Mexico;
• Soda and sulfur services involving trona and trona-based exploring, mining, processing, soda ash production,
marketing, logistics and selling activities, as well as processing of high sulfur (or “sour”) gas streams for refineries
to remove the sulfur, and selling the related by-product, sodium hydrosulfide (or “NaHS,” commonly pronounced
“nash”);
• Marine transportation to provide waterborne transportation of petroleum products (primarily fuel oil, asphalt and
other heavy refined products) and crude oil throughout North America; and
• Onshore facilities and transportation, which include terminaling, blending, storing, marketing, and transporting
crude oil and petroleum products.
Joint Ventures
We participate in several joint ventures, including, in our offshore pipeline transportation segment, a 64% interest in
Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (“Poseidon”), a 29% interest in Odyssey Pipeline L.L.C. (“Odyssey”), a 26.8% interest
in Paloma Pipeline Company (“Paloma”), and a 25.7% interest in Neptune Pipeline Company, LLC, (“Neptune”). We account
for our investments in these joint ventures by the equity method of accounting. See Note 9.
Noncontrolling interests
Noncontrolling interests represent any third party or affiliate interest in non-wholly owned entities that we consolidate.
For financial reporting purposes, the assets and liabilities of these entities are consolidated with those of our own, with any third
party or affiliate interest in our Consolidated Balance Sheets amounts shown as noncontrolling interests in equity. See Note 12
for additional discussion regarding our noncontrolling interests.
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Use of Estimates
The preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect
the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, if any, at the date of the
Consolidated Financial Statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. We based
these estimates and assumptions on historical experience and other information that we believed to be reasonable under the
circumstances. Significant estimates that we make include: (1) liability and contingency accruals, including the estimates of
future asset retirement obligations, (2) estimated fair value of assets and liabilities acquired and identification of associated
goodwill and intangible assets, (3) estimates of future net cash flows from assets for purposes of determining whether
impairment of those assets has occurred, (4) estimates of variable consideration for revenue recognition, (5) estimated fair value
of derivative instruments, and (6) estimated useful lives of our fixed and intangible assets (including the reserve life of our
mineral leaseholds) for the use in calculating depreciation, depletion, and amortization of long-lived assets and intangible
assets. While we believe these estimates are reasonable, actual results could differ from these estimates. Changes in facts and
circumstances may result in revised estimates.
Restricted Cash
Our restricted cash balance represents a liquidity reserve account owned by GA ORRI to be held as collateral for
future interest and principal payments associated with the Alkali senior secured notes. See Note 11 for definitions of and
additional discussion regarding GA ORRI and our Alkali senior secured notes.
Accounts Receivable
We review our outstanding accounts receivable balances on a regular basis and estimate an allowance for amounts that
we expect will not be fully recovered. An allowance for credit losses is determined based upon historical collectability trends,
recoveries, historical write-offs, and current market data for the partnership’s customers in order to estimate projected losses.
Actual balances are not applied against the reserve until substantially all collection efforts have been exhausted.
Inventories
Our inventories are valued at the lower of cost and net realizable value. Within our Alkali Business, the cost of
inventories are determined using the FIFO method, except for materials and supplies which are recorded at average cost, and
raw materials which are recorded at standard cost, which approximates actual cost.
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Lease Accounting
We enter into operating lease contracts for the right to utilize certain transportation equipment, facilities and
equipment, and office space from third parties. For contracts that contain a lease and extend for a period greater than 12 months,
we recognize a right of use asset and a corresponding lease liability on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The present value of
each lease is based on the future minimum lease payments in accordance with ASC 842 and is determined by discounting these
payments using an incremental borrowing rate. From time to time, we enter into agreements in which we are lessors of our
property or equipment. For operating leases, revenue is recognized upon the satisfaction of the respective performance
obligation. For direct finance leases, we record the gross finance receivable, unearned income and the estimated residual value
of the leased pipelines. Unearned income represents the excess of the gross receivable plus the estimated residual value over the
costs of the pipelines. Unearned income is recognized as financing income using the interest method over the term of the
transaction. The pipeline cost is not included in fixed assets. Refer to Note 5 for additional information.
Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of purchase price over fair value of net assets acquired. We evaluate, and test if
necessary, goodwill for impairment annually at October 1, and more frequently if indicators of impairment are present. During
the evaluation, we may perform a qualitative assessment of relevant events and circumstances to determine the likelihood of
goodwill impairment. If it is deemed more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying
amount, we calculate the fair value of the reporting unit. Otherwise, further testing is not necessary. We may also elect to
exercise our unconditional option to bypass this qualitative assessment, in which case we would also calculate the fair value of
the reporting unit. If the calculated fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value including associated goodwill
amounts, no impairment charge is required. If the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value including
associated goodwill amounts, the goodwill of that reporting unit is considered to be impaired and a charge to earnings must be
recorded. The impact to earnings is the excess amount of carrying value over fair value, however the charge is not to exceed the
total amount of goodwill allocated to the reporting unit under evaluation. See Note 10 for further information.
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Environmental Liabilities
We provide for the estimated costs of environmental contingencies when liabilities are probable to occur and a
reasonable estimate of the associated costs can be made. Ongoing environmental compliance costs, including maintenance and
monitoring costs, are charged to expense as incurred.
Equity-Based Compensation
The phantom units issued under our 2010 Long-Term Incentive Plan result in the payment of cash to our employees or
directors of our general partner upon exercise or vesting of the related award. The fair value of our phantom units is equal to the
market price of our common units. Our phantom units outstanding at December 31, 2023 include only service-based awards
issued to our directors. See Note 17 for more information.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue across our operating segments upon the satisfaction of their respective performance obligations.
Refer to Note 3 for additional details on what constitutes a performance obligation in each of our businesses.
Income Taxes
We are a limited partnership, organized as a pass-through entity for federal income tax purposes. As such, we do not
directly pay federal income tax. Our taxable income or loss, which may vary substantially from the net income or net loss we
report in our Consolidated Statements of Operations, is included in the federal income tax returns of each partner.
Some of our corporate subsidiaries pay U.S. federal, state, and foreign income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and
liabilities for certain operations conducted through corporations are recognized for temporary differences between the assets
and liabilities for financial reporting and tax purposes. Changes in tax legislation are included in the relevant computations in
the period in which such changes are effective. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance for the amount of any
tax benefit not expected to be realized. Penalties and interest related to income taxes will be included in income tax expense in
the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
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Pension benefits
We sponsor a defined benefit plan for employees of our Alkali Business. The defined benefit plan is accounted for
using actuarial valuations as required by GAAP. We recognize the funded status of the defined pension plan on the balance
sheet and recognize changes in the funded status that arise during the period but are not recognized as components of net
periodic benefit cost within other comprehensive income (loss).
Business Acquisitions
For acquired businesses, we apply the acquisition method and generally recognize the identifiable assets acquired, the
liabilities assumed and any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree at their estimated fair values on the date of acquisition. The
fair value of the assets acquired, liabilities assumed, or noncontrolling interest in the acquiree may be adjusted during the
measurement period, which is a period not to exceed one year from the date of acquisition, as additional information about
conditions existing at the acquisition date becomes available. Refer to Note 4 for further information.
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3. Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue upon the satisfaction of its performance obligations under its contracts. The timing
of revenue recognition varies for the revenue streams described in more detail below. In general, we recognize revenue either
over time as services are being performed or at a point in time for product sales.
Fee-based Revenues
We provide a variety of fee-based transportation and logistics services to our customers across several of our
reportable segments as outlined below.
Service contracts generally contain a series of distinct services that are substantially the same and have the same
pattern of transfer to the customer over the contract period, and therefore, qualify as a single performance obligation that is
satisfied over time. The customer receives and consumes the benefit of our services simultaneously with the provision of those
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In addition to these offshore pipeline transportation revenue streams, we also have certain customer contracts in which
the transportation fee has a tiered pricing structure based on cumulative milestones of throughput on the related pipeline asset
and contract, or on a specified date. The performance obligation for these contracts is to transport, gather or process commodity
volumes for the customer based on firm (stand ready) service or from monthly nominations made by our customers, which can
also be on an interruptible basis. While our transportation rate changes when milestones are achieved for certain cumulative
throughput, our performance obligation does not change throughout the life of the contract. Therefore revenue is recognized on
an average rate basis throughout the life of the contract. We have estimated the total consideration to be received under the
contract beginning at the contract inception date based on the estimated volumes (including certain minimum volumes we are
required to stand ready for), price indexing, estimated production or contracted volumes, and the contract period. We have
constrained the estimates of variable consideration such that it is probable that a significant reversal of previously-recognized
revenue will not occur throughout the life of the contract. These estimates are reassessed at each reporting period as required.
Billings to our customers are reflected at the contract rate. Differences between the amounts we bill our customers and the
revenue recognized on any one contract results in the recognition of a contract asset or liability. In circumstances where the
estimated average contract rate is less than the billed current price tier in the contract, we will recognize a contract liability. In
circumstances where the estimated average contract rate is higher than the billed current price tier in the contract, we will
recognize a contract asset.
Marine Transportation
Our marine transportation business consists of revenues from the inland and offshore marine transportation of heavy
refined petroleum products, asphalt and crude oil, using our barges or vessels. This revenue is recognized over the passage of
time of individual trips as determined on an individual contract basis. Revenue from these contracts is typically based on a set
day-rate or a set fee per cargo movement. The costs of fuel and certain other operational costs may be directly reimbursed by
the customer, if stipulated in the contract.
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Our performance obligation consists of providing transportation services using our vessels for a single day either under
a term or spot based contract. The transaction price is usually fixed per the contract either as a day rate or as a lump sum to be
allocated over the days required to complete the service. Revenue is recognizable as the transportation service utilizing our
vessels occurs, as the customer simultaneously receives and consumes these services as they are provided. If provided in the
contract, certain items such as fuel or operational costs can be rebilled to the customer in the same period in which the costs are
incurred. In the event the timing of a trip to provide our services crosses a reporting period under a lump sum fee contract, the
revenue earned is accrued based on the progress completed in the current period on the related performance obligation as we are
entitled to payment for each day. Customer invoicing occurs at the completion of a trip, or earlier at the customer’s request.
Product Sales
Sulfur Services
Our sulfur services business primarily provides sulfur removal services to refiners’ high sulfur (or “sour”) gas streams
that the refineries have generated from crude oil processing operations. Our process applies our proprietary technology, which
uses caustic soda to act as a scrubbing agent at a prescribed temperature and pressure to remove sulfur. The technology returns
a clean (sulfur-free) hydrocarbon stream to the refinery for further processing into refined products, and simultaneously
produces NaHS. Units of NaHS are produced ratably as a gas stream is processed. We obtain control and ownership of the
NaHS immediately upon production, which constitutes the sole consideration that we receive for our sulfur removal services.
We later market this product to third parties as part of our product sales, as described above. As part of some of our
arrangements, we pay a refinery access fee (“RSA fee”) for any benefits received by virtue of our plant’s proximity to the
customer’s refinery. Our RSA fee is recorded as a reduction of revenue.
Providing sulfur removal services is the singular performance obligation in our refinery service agreements. As our
customers simultaneously receive and consume the refinery service benefits, control is transferred and revenue is recognized
over time based on the extent of progress towards completion of the performance obligation. We use units of NaHS produced
during a period to measure progress as the amount we receive corresponds directly with the efforts to provide our services
completed to date. The transaction price for each performance obligation is determined using the fair value of a unit of NaHS
on the contract inception date for each refinery services agreement. Accordingly, we record the value of NaHS received as non-
cash consideration in inventory until it is subsequently sold to our customers (see “Product Sales,” above).
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For the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, $2.6 million, $2.6 million and $3.0 million, respectively, that
was classified as a contract liability at the beginning of each period was recognized as revenue. During 2023, we deferred
$11.5 million of revenue associated with a change in estimate to the measure of progress on the satisfaction of our performance
obligation related to a contract within our offshore pipeline transportation segment. Additionally, we recognized $4.1 million of
revenue during 2021 as a result of a contract modification related to one of our offshore pipeline transportation contracts.
2) Revenue recognized from the satisfaction of performance obligations where we have a right to consideration in an
amount that corresponds directly with the value provided to customers; and
3) Contracts that contain variable consideration, such as index-based pricing or variable volumes, that is allocated entirely
to a wholly unsatisfied performance obligation or to a wholly unsatisfied promise to transfer a distinct good or service
that is part of a series.
We apply these practical expedients and exemptions to our revenue streams recognized over time. The majority of our
contracts qualify for one of these expedients or exemptions. After considering these practical expedients and identifying the
remaining contract types that involve revenue recognition over a long-term period and include long term fixed consideration
(adjusted for indexing as required), we determined our allocations of transaction price that relate to unsatisfied performance
obligations. As it relates to our tiered pricing offshore transportation contracts, we provide firm capacity for both fixed and
variable consideration over a long-term period. Therefore, we have allocated the remaining contract value (as estimated and
discussed above) to future periods. In our onshore facilities and transportation segment, we have certain contractual
arrangements in which we receive fixed minimum payments for our obligation to provide minimum capacity on our pipelines
and related assets.
The following chart depicts how we expect to recognize revenues for future periods related to these contracts:
4. Business Consolidation
American Natural Soda Ash Corporation (“ANSAC”)
ANSAC is an organization whose purpose is to promote and market the use and sale of domestically produced natural
soda ash in specified countries outside of the United States. Prior to 2023, our Alkali Business and another domestic soda ash
producer were the two members of ANSAC. On January 1, 2023, we became the sole member of ANSAC and assumed 100%
of the voting rights of the entity, and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Genesis.
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We will continue to supply levels of our soda ash produced in the Green River Basin to ANSAC to utilize their
logistical and marketing capabilities as an export vehicle for our Alkali Business. We determined that ANSAC met the
definition of a business and have accounted for our acquisition of ANSAC as a business combination. We have reflected the
financial results of ANSAC within our soda and sulfur services segment from the date of acquisition, January 1, 2023. The
purchase price has been allocated to the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed based on their respective fair values. There
was no consideration transferred as a result of becoming the sole member of ANSAC.
The allocation of the purchase price, as presented within our Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2023, is
summarized as follows:
Year Ending
December 31, 2023
Revenues $ 394,948
Net Income Attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. 8,139
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The following unaudited pro forma financial information was prepared from our historical financial statements that
have been adjusted to give the effect of the consolidation of ANSAC as though we had become the sole member on January 1,
2022. It is based upon assumptions deemed appropriate by us and may not be indicative of actual results. This pro forma
information was prepared using financial data of ANSAC and reflects certain estimates and assumptions made by our
management. Our unaudited pro forma financial information is not necessarily indicative of what our consolidated financial
results would have been had we become the sole member on January 1, 2022. Pro forma net income attributable to common
unitholders includes the effects of distributions attributable to our Class A Preferred Units. The dilutive effect of our preferred
units is calculated using the if-converted method.
5. Lease Accounting
Lessee Arrangements
We lease a variety of transportation equipment (primarily railcars and vessels), terminals, land and facilities, and office
space and equipment. Lease terms vary and can range from short term (not greater than 12 months) to long term (greater than
12 months). A majority of our leases contain options to extend the life of the lease at our sole discretion. We considered these
options when determining the lease terms used to derive our right of use asset and associated lease liability. Leases with a term
of 12 months or less are not recorded on our Consolidated Balance Sheets and we recognize lease expense for these leases on a
straight-line basis over the lease term.
Certain lease agreements include lease and non-lease components. We have elected to combine lease and non-lease
components for all of our underlying assets for the purpose of deriving our right of use asset and lease liability. Additionally,
certain lease payments are driven by variable factors, such as plant production or indexing rates. Variable costs are expensed as
incurred and are not included in our determination of our lease liability and right of use asset.
As a lessee, we do not have any finance leases and none of our leases contain material residual value guarantees or
material restrictive covenants. In addition, most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, and as such, we determined our
incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the inception of the lease in determining the present value of
lease payments.
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Our lease portfolio consists of operating leases within three major categories: Transportation Equipment, Office Space
and Equipment, and Facilities and Equipment. These values are recorded within “Right of Use Assets, net” on the Consolidated
Balance Sheets. Current and non-current lease liabilities are recorded within “Accrued liabilities” and “Other long-term
liabilities”, respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Refer to the table below for our lease balances as of
December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022.
December 31, December 31,
Leases Classification Financial Statement Caption 2023 2022
Assets
Transportation Right of Use Assets, net
Equipment $ 115,689 $ 65,375
Office Space & Right of Use Assets, net
Equipment 9,014 7,238
Facilities and Right of Use Assets, net
Equipment 115,638 52,664
Total Right of Use Assets, net $ 240,341 $ 125,277
Liabilities
Current Accrued liabilities 29,869 17,978
Non-Current Other long-term liabilities 214,946 113,844
Total Lease Liability $ 244,815 $ 131,822
Our “Right of Use Assets, net” balance includes our unamortized initial direct costs associated with certain of our
transportation equipment, office space and equipment, and facilities and equipment leases. Additionally, it includes our
unamortized prepaid rents, our deferred rents, and our previously classified intangible asset associated with a favorable lease.
Our “Right of Use Asset, net,” “Accrued liabilities” and “Other long-term liabilities” balances at December 31, 2023
include amounts related to the leases associated with our January 1, 2023 consolidation of ANSAC. See further discussion
regarding the consolidation of ANSAC in Note 4.
We recorded total operating lease expense of $41.4 million, $13.6 million, and $18.4 million for the years ended
December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The total operating lease expense is net of the variable railcar mileage credits
we receive in our Alkali Business of $22.5 million, $22.4 million and $20.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2023,
2022, and 2021, respectively. The total operating cost includes the amounts associated with our existing lease liabilities, along
with both short term lease and variable lease costs incurred during the period which are not significant to the operating lease
cost individually, or in the aggregate.
The following table presents the maturities of our operating lease liabilities as of December 31, 2023 on an
undiscounted cash flow basis reconciled to the present value recorded on our Consolidated Balance Sheets:
Transportation Office Space and Facilities and
Maturity of Lease Liabilities Equipment Equipment Equipment Operating Leases
2024 $ 30,039 $ 2,355 $ 15,259 $ 47,653
2025 23,649 2,778 15,295 41,722
2026 16,550 2,453 15,347 34,350
2027 13,545 2,186 15,392 31,123
2028 10,023 1,805 15,438 27,266
Thereafter 82,215 9,585 151,204 243,004
Total Lease Payments 176,021 21,162 227,935 425,118
Less: Interest (64,394) (6,081) (109,828) (180,303)
Present value of operating lease liabilities $ 111,627 $ 15,081 $ 118,107 $ 244,815
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The following table presents the weighted average remaining terms and discount rates related to our right of use assets:
Lease Term and Discount Rate December 31, 2023 December 31, 2022
Weighted-average remaining lease term 13.18 years 13.70 years
Weighted-average discount rate 8.35% 7.75%
The following table provides information regarding the cash paid and right of use assets obtained related to our
operating leases:
Year Ended
December 31,
For the year ended December 31, 2023, cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities and
leased assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities includes those amounts related to leases associated with
our January 1, 2023 consolidation of ANSAC. See further discussion regarding the consolidation of ANSAC in Note 4.
Lessor Arrangements
We have certain contracts discussed below in which we act as a lessor. We also, from time to time, sublease certain of
our transportation and facilities equipment to third parties.
Operating Leases
During the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, we acted as a lessor in our revenue contracts associated
with our 330,00 barrel-capacity ocean going tanker, the M/T American Phoenix, included in our marine transportation segment.
Our lease revenues for this arrangement were $23.6 million, $16.4 million and $15.0 million for the years ended December 31,
2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
The M/T American Phoenix is under contract through mid-2027. For 2024, 2025, 2026 and through the expiration of
the contract in 2027, we expect to receive undiscounted cash flows from fixed lease payments of $28.1 million, $29.6 million,
$30.7 million and $15.2 million, respectively. Our agreements generally contain clauses that may limit the use of the asset or
require certain actions be taken by the lessee to maintain the asset for future performance.
6. Receivables
Accounts receivable – trade, net consisted of the following:
December 31,
2023 2022
Accounts receivable - trade $ 762,116 $ 724,419
Allowance for credit losses (2,569) (2,852)
Accounts receivable - trade, net $ 759,547 $ 721,567
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The following table presents the activity of our allowance for credit losses for the periods indicated:
December 31,
2023 2022 2021
Balance at beginning of period $ 2,852 $ 4,825 $ 6,258
Charges to (recoveries of) costs and expenses, net 1,666 172 (902)
Amounts written off (1,949) (2,145) (531)
Balance at end of period $ 2,569 $ 2,852 $ 4,825
7. Inventories
The major components of inventories were as follows:
December 31,
2023 2022
Petroleum products $ — $ 56
Crude oil 22,320 6,673
Caustic soda 9,150 15,258
NaHS 17,605 7,085
Raw materials - Alkali Business 8,355 5,819
Work-in-process - Alkali Business 11,404 9,599
Finished goods, net - Alkali Business 48,706 18,772
Materials and supplies, net - Alkali Business 17,691 14,881
Total $ 135,231 $ 78,143
Inventories are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value. The net realizable value of inventories were below
cost by $0.2 million as of December 31, 2023, which triggered a reduction of the value of inventory in our Consolidated
Financial Statements by this amount. We recorded $2.9 million in inventory reduction adjustments as of December 31, 2022.
Materials and supplies include chemicals, maintenance supplies, and spare parts which will be consumed in the mining
of trona ore and production of soda ash processes.
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Fixed Assets
Fixed assets consisted of the following:
December 31,
2023 2022
Crude oil and natural gas pipelines and related assets $ 2,945,215 $ 2,844,288
Alkali facilities, machinery, and equipment 1,147,291 701,313
Onshore facilities, machinery, and equipment 271,271 269,949
Transportation equipment 24,913 22,340
Marine vessels 1,021,080 1,017,087
Land, buildings and improvements 293,733 231,651
Office equipment, furniture and fixtures 25,029 24,271
Construction in progress(1) 731,197 712,971
Other 41,168 41,168
Fixed assets, at cost 6,500,897 5,865,038
Less: Accumulated depreciation (1,972,596) (1,768,465)
Net fixed assets $ 4,528,301 $ 4,096,573
(1) Construction in progress primarily relates to our ongoing offshore growth capital projects, which are expected to be completed in
2024 and 2025.
Mineral Leaseholds
Our Mineral Leaseholds, relating to our Alkali Business, consist of the following:
Depreciation expense was $263.5 million, $281.4 million and $295.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2023,
2022, and 2021, respectively. Depletion expense was $4.6 million, $3.9 million, and $3.6 million for the years ended
December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
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At December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, $26.1 million and $26.6 million are included as current in “Accrued
liabilities” on our Consolidated Balance Sheets, respectively. The remainder of the ARO liability at each period is included in
“Other long-term liabilities” on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Revisions in timing and estimated costs during 2023, 2022
and 2021 are primarily attributable to the accelerated timing and updated costs associated with the abandonment of certain of
our non-core offshore assets in the Gulf of Mexico. Such revisions take into account several factors, including changes to legal
or regulatory requirements, changes in our estimated useful lives of the associated asset, and the timing and method of
abandonment. As there are significant judgements involved in deriving our estimates, actual costs, including the scope of work
once it is approved by the relative regulatory agency or contracted party, may differ from our estimates.
9. Equity Investees
We account for our ownership in our joint ventures under the equity method of accounting (see Note 2 for a
description of these investments). The price we pay to acquire an ownership interest in a company may exceed or be less than
the underlying book value of the capital accounts we acquire. At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the unamortized differences in
carrying value totaled $291.4 million and $305.6 million, respectively. We amortize the differences in carrying value as a
change in equity earnings.
The following table presents information included in our Consolidated Financial Statements related to our equity
investees:
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Intangible Assets
The following table reflects the components of intangible assets being amortized at December 31, 2023 and 2022:
December 31, 2023 December 31, 2022
The offshore pipeline contract intangibles relate to customer contracts surrounding certain transportation agreements
with producers in the Lucius production area in Southeast Keathley Canyon, which support our SEKCO pipeline.
We are recording amortization of our intangible assets based on the period over which the asset is expected to
contribute to our future cash flows. All of our current intangible assets are being amortized on a straight-line basis.
Amortization expense on intangible assets was $11.6 million, $10.3 million and $10.3 million for the years ended December 31,
2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
The following table reflects our estimated amortization expense for each of the five subsequent fiscal years:
Goodwill
The carrying amount of goodwill in our soda and sulfur services segment was $301.9 million at December 31, 2023
and December 31, 2022. We have not recognized any impairment losses related to goodwill for any of the periods presented.
Other Assets
Other assets consisted of the following:
December 31,
2023 2022
Deferred marine charges, net (1) $ 19,651 $ 20,503
Unamortized debt issuance costs on senior secured credit facility 5,676 2,591
Other deferred charges, net 12,914 9,114
Other assets, net of amortization $ 38,241 $ 32,208
(1) See discussion of deferred charges on marine transportation assets in the Summary of Accounting Policies (Note 2).
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11. Debt
At December 31, 2023 and 2022, our obligations under debt arrangements consisted of the following:
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At December 31, 2023, we had $298.3 million borrowed under our senior secured credit facility, with $19.3 million of
the borrowed amount designated as a loan under the inventory sublimit. Our credit agreement allows up to $100.0 million of the
capacity to be used for letters of credit, of which $4.5 million was outstanding at December 31, 2023. Due to the revolving
nature of loans under our senior secured credit facility, additional borrowings and periodic repayments and re-borrowings may
be made until the maturity date of our credit agreement. The total amount available for borrowings under our senior secured
credit facility at December 31, 2023 was $547.2 million, subject to compliance with our covenants. Our credit agreement does
not include a “borrowing base” limitation except with respect to our inventory loans.
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On January 16, 2020, we issued $750 million in aggregate principal amount of our 7.75% senior unsecured notes due
February 1, 2028 (the “2028 Notes”). Interest payments are due February 1 and August 1 of each year with the initial interest
payment due on August 1, 2020. That issuance generated net proceeds of approximately $737 million net of issuance costs
incurred. We used approximately $555 million of the net proceeds to redeem a portion of our 6.75% senior unsecured notes due
August 1, 2022 (including principal, accrued interest and tender premium) that were validly tendered, and the remaining net
proceeds were used to repay a portion of the borrowings outstanding under our senior secured credit facility.
On December 17, 2020, we issued $750 million in aggregate principal amount of our 8.00% senior unsecured notes
due January 15, 2027 (the “2027 Notes”). Interest payments are due January 15 and July 15 of each year with the initial interest
payment due on July 15, 2021. That issuance generated net proceeds of approximately $737 million net of issuance costs
incurred. We used approximately $317 million of the net proceeds to repay the portion of the 6.00% 2023 Notes (including
principal, accrued interest and tender premium) that were validly tendered, and the remaining proceeds at the time were used to
repay a portion of the borrowings outstanding under our senior secured credit facility.
On April 22, 2021, we completed our offering of an additional $250 million in aggregate principal amount of the 2027
Notes. The additional $250 million of notes have identical terms as (other than with respect to the issue price) and constitute
part of the same series of the 2027 Notes. The $250 million of the 2027 Notes were issued at a premium of 103.75% plus
accrued interest from December 17, 2020. We used the net proceeds from the offering for general partnership purposes,
including repaying a portion of the borrowings outstanding under our senior secured credit facility.
On January 25, 2023, we issued $500 million in aggregate principal amount of 8.875% senior unsecured notes due
April 15, 2030 (the “2030 Notes”). Interest payments are due April 15 and October 15 of each year with the initial interest
payment due on October 15, 2023. The issuance generated proceeds of approximately $491 million, net of issuance costs
incurred. The net proceeds were used to purchase approximately $316 million of our existing 5.625% senior unsecured notes
due June 15, 2024 (the “2024 Notes”), and pay the related accrued interest and tender premium and fees on those notes that
were tendered in the tender offer that ended January 24, 2023, and the remaining proceeds at the time were used to repay a
portion of the borrowings outstanding under our senior secured credit facility and for general partnership purposes. On January
26, 2023, we issued a notice of redemption for the remaining principal of approximately $25 million of our 2024 Notes, and
discharged the indebtedness with respect to the 2024 Notes on February 14, 2023 by depositing the redemption amount with the
trustee of the 2024 Notes for redemption of the 2024 Notes on February 25, 2023, all in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the indenture governing the 2024 Notes.
On December 7, 2023, we issued $600 million in aggregate principal amount of our 8.25% senior unsecured notes due
January 15, 2029 (the “2029 Notes). Interest payments are due January 15 and July 15 of each year with the initial interest
payment due on July 15, 2024. The issuance of our 2029 Notes generated net proceeds of approximately $583 million, net of
the discount of $6.2 million and issuance costs incurred. The net proceeds were used to purchase approximately $514 million of
approximately $535 million then outstanding on our 2025 Notes and pay the related accrued interest and tender premium and
fees on those notes that were tendered in the tender offer that ended December 6, 2023. On December 8, 2023 we issued a
notice of redemption for the remaining principal of approximately $21 million of our 2025 Notes, and discharged the indenture
governing the 2025 Notes as to all 2025 Notes issued thereunder on December 28, 2023 by depositing the redemption amount
in trust with the trustee of the 2025 Notes for redemption of the 2025 Notes, all in accordance with the terms and conditions of
the indenture governing the 2025 Notes.
We have the right to redeem each of our series of notes beginning on specified dates as summarized below, at a
premium to the face amount of such notes that varies based on the time remaining to maturity on such notes. Additionally, we
may redeem up to 35% of the principal amount of each of our series of notes with the proceeds from an equity offering of our
common units during certain periods. A summary of the applicable redemption periods is provided in the table below:
2026 Notes 2027 Notes 2028 Notes 2029 Notes 2030 Notes
February 15, January 15, February 1, January 15, April 15,
Redemption right beginning on 2021 2024 2023 2026 2026
Redemption of up to 35% of the
principal amount of notes with the
proceeds of an equity offering January 15, April 15,
permitted prior to N/A N/A N/A 2026 2026 .
During the year ended December 31, 2022, we repurchased $80.9 million of our senior unsecured notes on the open
market and recorded cancellation of debt income of $8.6 million. This is recorded within “Other expense, net” in our
Consolidated Statements of Operations.
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Guarantees of our 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 Notes will be released under certain circumstances, including (i)
in connection with any sale or other disposition of (a) all or substantially all of the properties or assets of a guarantor (including
by way of merger or consolidation) or (b) all of the capital stock of such guarantor, in each case, to a person that is not a
restricted subsidiary of the partnership (ii) if the partnership designates any restricted subsidiary that is a guarantor as an
unrestricted subsidiary, (iii) upon legal defeasance, covenant defeasance or satisfaction and discharge of the applicable
indenture, (iv) upon the liquidation or dissolution of such guarantor, or (v) at such time as such guarantor ceases to guarantee
any other indebtedness of either of the issuers and any other guarantor.
Our $3.1 billion aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes co-issued by Genesis Energy, L.P. and Genesis
Energy Finance Corporation are fully and unconditionally guaranteed jointly and severally by all of Genesis Energy, L.P.'s
current and future 100% owned domestic subsidiaries (the “Guarantor Subsidiaries”), except GA ORRI and GA ORRI
Holdings, and certain other subsidiaries. The non-guarantor subsidiaries are indirectly owned by Genesis Crude Oil, L.P., a
Guarantor Subsidiary. The Guarantor Subsidiaries largely own the assets, other than the ORRI Interests, that we use to operate
our business. As a general rule, the assets and credit of our unrestricted subsidiaries are not available to satisfy the debts of
Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation or the Guarantor Subsidiaries, and the liabilities of our unrestricted
subsidiaries do not constitute obligations of Genesis Energy, L.P., Genesis Energy Finance Corporation or the Guarantor
Subsidiaries.
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In an effort to return capital to our investors, we announced a common equity repurchase program (the “Repurchase
Program”) on August 8, 2023. The Repurchase Program authorizes the repurchase from time to time of up to 10% of our then
outstanding Class A Common Units, or 12,253,922 units, via open market purchases or negotiated transactions conducted in
accordance with applicable regulatory requirements. These repurchases may be made pursuant to a repurchase plan or plans
that comply with Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Repurchase Program will be reviewed no later
than December 31, 2024 and may be suspended or discontinued at any time prior thereto. The Repurchase Program does not
create an obligation for us to acquire a particular number of Class A Common Units and any Class A Common Units
repurchased will be canceled. During 2023, we repurchased and canceled a total of 114,900 Class A Common Units at an
average price of approximately $9.09 per unit for a total purchase price of $1.0 million, including commissions, which is
reflected as a reduction to the carrying value of our “Partners’ Capital - Common unitholders” on our Consolidated Balance
Sheet.
Distributions
Generally, we will distribute 100% of our available cash (as defined by our partnership agreement) within 45 days
after the end of each quarter to common unitholders of record. Available cash generally means, for each fiscal quarter, all cash
on hand at the end of the quarter:
• less the amount of cash reserves that our general partner determines in its reasonable discretion is necessary or
appropriate to:
• provide for the proper conduct of our business;
• comply with applicable law, any of our debt instruments, or other agreements; or
• provide funds for distributions to our common and preferred unitholders for any one or more of the next four
quarters;
• plus all cash on hand on the date of determination of available cash for the quarter resulting from working capital
borrowings. Working capital borrowings are generally borrowings that are made under our senior secured credit
facility and in all cases are used solely for working capital purposes or to pay distributions to partners.
We paid the following cash distributions to common unitholders:
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Each holder of our Class A Convertible Preferred Units may elect to convert all or any portion of its Class A
Convertible Preferred Units into common units initially on a one-for-one basis (subject to customary adjustments and an
adjustment for accrued and accumulated but unpaid distributions and limitations) at any time after September 1, 2019 (or earlier
upon a change of control, liquidation, dissolution or winding up), provided that any conversion is for at least $50 million or
such lesser amount if such conversion relates to all of a holder’s remaining Class A Convertible Preferred Units or has
otherwise been approved by us.
If we fail to pay in full any preferred unit distribution amount after March 1, 2019 in respect of any two quarters,
whether or not consecutive, then until we pay such distributions in full, we will not be permitted to (a) declare or make any
distributions (subject to a limited exceptions for pro rata distributions on our Class A Convertible Preferred Units and parity
securities), redemptions or repurchases of any of our limited partner interests that rank junior to or pari passu with our Class A
Convertible Preferred Units with respect to rights upon distribution and/or liquidation (including our common units), or
(b) issue any such junior or parity securities. If we fail to pay in full any preferred unit distribution after March 1, 2019 in
respect of any two quarters, whether or not consecutive, then the preferred unit distribution amount will be reset to a cash
amount per preferred unit equal to the amount that would be payable per quarter if a preferred unit accrued interest on the Issue
Price at an annualized rate equal to the then-current annualized distribution rate plus 200 basis points until such default is cured.
We have granted each initial purchaser (including its applicable affiliate transferees) certain rights, including (i) the
right to appoint an observer, who shall have the right to attend our board meetings for so long as an initial purchaser (including
its affiliates) owns at least $200 million of our Class A Convertible Preferred Units; (ii) the right to purchase up to 50% of any
parity securities on substantially the same terms offered to other purchasers for so long as an initial purchaser (including its
affiliates) owns at least 11,124,747 of our Class A Convertible Preferred Units, and (iii) the right to appoint two directors to our
general partner’s board of directors if (and so long as) we fail to pay in full any three quarterly distribution amounts, whether or
not consecutive, attributable to any quarter ending after March 1, 2019.
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We paid the following cash distributions to our Class A Convertible Preferred unitholders:
On April 3, 2023, July 3, 2023, and October 3, 2023 we entered into purchase agreements with the Class A
Convertible Preferred unitholders whereby we redeemed a total of 2,224,860 Class A Convertible Preferred Units (the
“Redeemed Units”) at an average purchase price of $33.71 per unit. The Redeemed Units had a carrying value of $35.20 per
unit resulting in returns attributable to the Class A Convertible Preferred Units of $3.2 million for the year ended December 31,
2023. There were 23,111,918 Class A Convertible Preferred Units outstanding as of December 31, 2023.
Net Income Attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. is adjusted for distributions and returns attributable to the Class A
Convertible Preferred Units that accumulate in the period. Net income attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. for the year ended
2023 was reduced by $90.7 million due to Class A Convertible Preferred Unit distributions of $93.9 million that accumulated
during the period, offset partially by returns of $3.2 million discussed above. Net income (loss) attributable to Genesis Energy,
L.P. was reduced by $80.1 million, and $74.7 million for the years ended 2022 and 2021, respectively, due to Class A
Convertible Preferred Unit distributions that accumulated during each period.
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On May 17, 2022 (the “Redemption Date”), we fully redeemed the 251,750 outstanding Alkali Holdings preferred
units at a Base Preferred Return Amount of $288.6 million utilizing a portion of the proceeds we received from the issuance of
our Alkali senior secured notes (Note 11). As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, there were no Alkali Holdings preferred units
outstanding.
Accounting for Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests
Classification
Prior to the Redemption Date, the Alkali Holdings preferred units issued and outstanding were accounted for as a
redeemable noncontrolling interest in the mezzanine section on our Consolidated Balance Sheets due to the redemption features
for a change of control.
Initial and Subsequent Measurement
We recorded the Alkali Holdings preferred units at their issuance date fair value, net of issuance costs. The fair value
of the Alkali Holdings preferred units was approximately $270.1 million as of May 16, 2022, which represented the carrying
amount based on the issued and outstanding Alkali Holdings preferred units most probable redemption event on the six and a
half year anniversary of the closing, which was the IRR measure accreted using the effective interest method to the redemption
value as of each reporting date. On May 16, 2022, certain events occurred that made it probable that an early redemption event
on the Alkali Holdings preferred units would occur and the outstanding preferred units would be redeemed at the MOIC, as it
was greater than the IRR at the time of the redemption. This required the Company to revalue the Alkali Holdings preferred
units to the redemption amount of $288.6 million, which represented the MOIC, net of cash distributions (including tax
distributions) paid to date.
Net income Attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. for the year ended December 31, 2022 includes $30.4 million of
adjustments, of which $10.0 million was allocated to the PIK distributions on the outstanding preferred units and $1.9 million
was attributable to redemption accretion value adjustments, and $18.5 million was attributable to a change in the Base Preferred
Return Amount of the Alkali Holdings preferred units. Net Loss Attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. for the year ended
December 31, 2021 includes $25.4 million of adjustments, of which $21.3 million was allocated to the PIK distributions on the
outstanding preferred units and $4.1 million was attributable to redemption accretion value adjustments.
The following table shows the change in our redeemable noncontrolling interests from December 31, 2021 to
December 31, 2022:
Noncontrolling Interests
On November 17, 2021, we, through a subsidiary, sold 36% of the membership interests in CHOPS for proceeds of
approximately $418 million. We retained 64% of the membership interests in CHOPS and remain the operator of the CHOPS
pipeline and associated assets.
We also own an 80% membership interest in Independence Hub, LLC. On April 29, 2022, we entered into an
agreement to sell the Independence Hub platform to a producer group in the Gulf of Mexico for gross proceeds of
$40.0 million, of which $8.0 million, or 20%, was attributable and paid to our noncontrolling interest holder. For the year ended
December 31, 2022, we recorded a gain of $40.0 million recorded in “Gain on sale of asset” on the Consolidated Statement of
Operations, of which $8.0 million, or 20%, is attributable to our noncontrolling interest holder, as the platform asset sold had no
book value at the time of the sale. For financial reporting purposes, the assets and liabilities of these entities are consolidated
with those of our own, with any third party or affiliate interest in our Consolidated Balance Sheets amounts shown as
noncontrolling interests in equity.
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Year Ended
December 31,
2023 2022 2021
Net income (loss) attributable to Genesis Energy L.P. $ 117,720 $ 75,457 $ (165,067)
Less: Accumulated distributions attributable to Class A Convertible
Preferred Units (90,725) (80,052) (74,736)
Net income (loss) available to common unitholders $ 26,995 $ (4,595) $ (239,803)
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per common unit $ 0.22 $ (0.04) $ (1.96)
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Offshore Onshore
Pipeline Soda and Marine Facilities and
Transportation Sulfur Services Transportation Transportation Total
Year Ended December 31, 2023
Segment Margin(1) $ 406,672 $ 282,014 $ 110,423 $ 27,953 $ 827,062
Capital expenditures(2) $ 410,237 $ 219,393 $ 42,681 $ 19,018 $ 691,329
Revenues:
External customers $ 377,842 $ 1,743,327 $ 327,464 $ 728,363 $ 3,176,996
(3)
Intersegment 4,312 (9,079) — 4,767 $ —
Total revenues of reportable segments $ 382,154 $ 1,734,248 $ 327,464 $ 733,130 $ 3,176,996
Year Ended December 31, 2022
Segment Margin(1) $ 363,373 $ 306,718 $ 66,209 $ 33,755 $ 770,055
Capital expenditures(2) $ 241,446 $ 174,518 $ 39,084 $ 5,878 $ 460,926
Revenues:
External customers $ 319,045 $ 1,258,236 $ 292,925 $ 918,751 $ 2,788,957
Intersegment(3) — (10,151) 370 9,781 $ —
Total revenues of reportable segments $ 319,045 $ 1,248,085 $ 293,295 $ 928,532 $ 2,788,957
Year Ended December 31, 2021
Segment Margin(1) $ 317,560 $ 166,773 $ 34,572 $ 98,824 $ 617,729
Capital expenditures(2) $ 50,546 $ 227,118 $ 34,456 $ 4,609 $ 316,729
Revenues:
External customers $ 278,459 $ 973,354 $ 188,011 $ 685,652 $ 2,125,476
(3)
Intersegment — (8,722) 2,816 5,906 $ —
Total revenues of reportable segments $ 278,459 $ 964,632 $ 190,827 $ 691,558 $ 2,125,476
(1) A reconciliation of Net income (loss) attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. to total Segment Margin to for each year is presented
below.
(2) Capital expenditures include maintenance and growth capital expenditures, such as fixed asset additions (including enhancements to
existing facilities and construction of growth projects) as well as contributions to equity investees, if any.
(3) Intersegment sales were conducted under terms that we believe were no more or less favorable than then-existing market conditions.
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Reconciliation of Net income (loss) attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. to total Segment Margin:
Year Ended
December 31,
2023 2022 2021
Net income (loss) attributable to Genesis Energy, L.P. $ 117,720 $ 75,457 $ (165,067)
Corporate general and administrative expenses 73,876 71,820 61,287
Depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion 291,731 307,519 315,896
Interest expense 244,663 226,156 233,724
Adjustment to include distributable cash generated by equity investees not
included in income and exclude equity in investees net income(1) 24,635 21,199 26,207
(2)
Other non-cash items 13,488 (8,315) 30,907
Distributions from unrestricted subsidiaries not included in income(3) — 32,000 70,000
Cancellation of debt income (Note 11) — (8,618) —
Loss on extinguishment of debt (Note 11) 4,627 794 1,627
Differences in timing of cash receipts for certain contractual arrangements(4) 56,341 51,102 15,482
Gain on sale of asset, net to our ownership interest (Note 8) — (32,000) —
Change in provision for leased items no longer in use — (671) 598
Income tax expense (benefit) (19) 3,169 1,670
Redeemable noncontrolling interest redemption value adjustments(5) — 30,443 25,398
Total Segment Margin $ 827,062 $ 770,055 $ 617,729
(1) Includes distributions attributable to the period and received during or promptly following such period.
(2) 2023 includes unrealized losses of $36.7 million from the valuation of our commodity derivative transactions (excluding fair value
hedges). 2022 includes unrealized gains of $24.4 million from the valuation of our commodity derivative transactions (excluding
fair value hedges) and unrealized losses of $18.6 million from the valuation of the embedded derivative associated with our Class A
Convertible Preferred Units. 2021 includes unrealized gains of $0.1 million from the valuation of our commodity derivative
transactions (excluding fair value hedges) and unrealized losses of $30.8 million from the valuation of the embedded derivative
associated with our Class A Convertible Preferred Units.
(3) 2022 includes $32.0 million in cash receipts associated with the sale of the Independence Hub platform by our 80% owned
unrestricted subsidiary (as defined under our credit agreement), Independence Hub, LLC. 2021 includes $70.0 million in cash
receipts associated with principal repayments on our previously owned NEJD pipeline not included in income.
(4) Includes the difference in timing of cash receipts from customers during the period and the revenue we recognize in accordance
with GAAP on our related contracts.
(5) 2022 includes PIK distributions and accretion on the redemption feature of our Alkali Holdings preferred units, and valuation
adjustments to the redemption feature as the associated Alkali Holdings preferred units were redeemed during the year ended
December 31, 2022. 2021 includes PIK distributions and accretion on the redemption feature attributable to our Alkali Holdings
preferred units. Refer to Note 12 for additional information.
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Expenses:
Amounts paid to our CEO in connection with the use of his aircraft $ 660 $ 660 $ 660
Charges for products purchased from Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, LLC(1) 9,124 1,057 965
Charges for services from ANSAC — 9,891 1,213
(1) We own a 64% interest in Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, LLC.
Our CEO, Mr. Grant E. Sims, owns an aircraft which is used by us for business purposes in the course of operations.
We pay Mr. Grant E. Sims a fixed monthly fee and reimburse the aircraft management company for costs related to our usage
of the aircraft, including fuel and the actual out-of-pocket costs. Based on current market rates for chartering of private aircraft
under long-term, priority arrangements with industry recognized chartering companies, we believe that the terms of this
arrangement reflect what we would expect to obtain in an arms-length transaction.
Poseidon
We provide management, administrative and pipeline operator services to Poseidon under an Operation and
Management Agreement. Currently, that agreement automatically renews annually unless terminated by either party (as defined
in the agreement). Our revenues for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021 include $10.0 million, $9.7 million and
$9.4 million, respectively, of fees we earned through the provision of services under that agreement. At December 31, 2023,
and 2022, Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, LLC owed us $1.9 million and $2.4 million for services rendered, respectively.
Payments of interest and commitment fees were $276.2 million, $236.9 million and $202.0 million during the years
ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We capitalized interest of $43.2 million, $18.1 million and $4.4
million during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
During the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, we paid income taxes of $0.9 million, $1.0 million and
$0.7 million, respectively.
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At December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, we had incurred liabilities for fixed and intangible asset additions totaling
$172.7 million, $93.5 million and $51.7 million, respectively, which had not been paid at the end of the year. Therefore, these
amounts were not included in the caption “Payments to acquire fixed and intangible assets” under Cash Flows from Investing
Activities in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The increase in this amount is principally due to the increase in capital
expenditures associated with our Granger Optimization Project (Note 12) and our offshore growth capital projects.
We recorded compensation expense of $1.2 million, $0.7 million, and $1.4 million for the years ended December 31,
2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively, in “General and administrative expenses” on the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Our liability for these awards totaled $1.4 million and $2.1 million at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and is
included within “Accrued liabilities” on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
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19. Derivatives
Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Hedges
We have exposure to commodity price changes related to our petroleum inventory and purchase commitments. We
utilize derivative instruments (exchange-traded futures, options and swap contracts) to hedge our exposure to crude oil, fuel oil
and other petroleum products. Our decision as to whether to designate derivative instruments as fair value hedges for
accounting purposes relates to our expectations of the length of time we expect to have the commodity price exposure and our
expectations as to whether the derivative contract will qualify as highly effective under accounting guidance in limiting our
exposure to commodity price risk. We recognize any changes in the fair value of our derivative contracts as increases or
decreases in “Onshore facilities and transportation product costs” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The
recognition of changes in fair value of the derivative contracts not designated as hedges for accounting purposes can occur in
reporting periods that do not coincide with the recognition of gain or loss on the actual transaction being hedged. Therefore, we
will, on occasion, report gains or losses in one period that will be partially offset by gains or losses in a future period when the
hedged transaction is completed.
We have designated certain crude oil futures contracts as hedges of crude oil inventory due to our expectation that
these contracts will be highly effective in hedging our exposure to fluctuations in crude oil prices during the period that we
expect to hold that inventory. We account for these derivative instruments as fair value hedges under the accounting guidance.
Changes in the fair value of these derivative instruments designated as fair value hedges are used to offset related changes in the
fair value of the hedged crude oil inventory. Any hedge ineffectiveness in these fair value hedges and any amounts excluded
from effectiveness testing are recorded as a gain or loss within “Onshore facilities and transportation product costs” in the
Consolidated Statements of Operations.
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At December 31, 2023, we had the following outstanding derivative contracts that were entered into to economically
hedge inventory, fixed price purchase commitments or forecasted purchases.
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The following table summarizes the accounting treatment and classification of our derivative instruments on our
Consolidated Financial Statements.
Impact of Unrealized Gains and Losses
Consolidated Consolidated
Derivative Instrument Hedged Risk Balance Sheets Statements of Operations
Designated as hedges under accounting guidance:
Crude oil futures Volatility in crude oil Derivatives are recorded in Excess, if any, over effective
contracts (fair value prices - effect on market “Current Assets - Other” (offset portion of hedge is recorded in
hedge) value of inventory against margin deposits) and “Onshore facilities and
offsetting change in fair value of transportation product costs”
inventory is recorded
in “Inventories” Effective portion is offset in cost
of sales against change in value
of inventory being hedged
Not qualifying or not designated as hedges under accounting guidance:
Hedges consisting of Volatility in crude oil, Natural gas swap derivatives are Entire amount of change in fair
crude oil, heating oil, natural gas, bunker fuel, recorded in “Current Assets - value of derivative is recorded in
fuel oil, bunker fuel, diesel fuel and petroleum Accounts receivable - trade, net” “Onshore facilities and
diesel fuel, petroleum products prices - effect on or “Current liabilities - Accrued transportation costs - product
products and natural gas market value of inventory, liabilities” costs” and “Soda and sulfur
futures, forward fixed price purchase services operating costs”
contracts, swaps and put commitments or forecasted Other derivatives are recorded in
and call options purchases “Current Assets - Other” (offset
against margin deposits)
Preferred Distribution This instrument is not Derivative no longer existed as Entire amount of change in fair
Rate Reset Election related to a specific risk, of December 31, 2022. value of derivative is recorded in
but is a part of a host “Other expense, net”
contract with the issuance
of our Class A Convertible
Preferred Units
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The following tables reflect the estimated fair value position of our derivatives at December 31, 2023 and 2022:
Consolidated
Balance Sheets Location December 31, 2023 December 31, 2022
Asset Derivatives:
Natural Gas Swap (undesignated hedge) Current Assets - Accounts
receivable - trade, net 3,710 36,844
Commodity derivatives—futures and put and call options
(undesignated hedges):
Gross amount of recognized assets
Current Assets - Other(1) $ 1,235 $ 1,238
Gross amount offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Current Assets - Other(1) (1,235) (1,238)
Net amount of assets presented in the Consolidated Balance
Sheets $ — $ —
Commodity derivatives—futures (designated hedges):
Gross amount of recognized assets
Current Assets - Other(1) $ 716 $ —
Gross amount offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Current Assets - Other(1) (716) —
Net amount of assets presented in the Consolidated Balance
Sheets $ — $ —
Liability Derivatives:
Natural Gas Swap (undesignated hedge)
Current Liabilities -
Accrued Liabilities (5,536) (4,692)
Commodity derivatives—futures and put and call options
(undesignated hedges):
Gross amount of recognized liabilities
Current Assets - Other(1) $ (12,384) $ (11,061)
Gross amount offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Current Assets - Other(1) 12,384 5,217
Net amount of liabilities presented in the Consolidated
Balance Sheets $ — $ (5,844)
Commodity derivatives—futures (designated hedges):
Gross amount of recognized liabilities
Current Assets - Other(1) $ (120) $ —
Gross amount offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Current Assets - Other(1) 120 —
Net amount of liabilities presented in the Consolidated
Balance Sheets $ — $ —
(1) As noted above, our exchange-traded derivatives are transacted through brokerage accounts and subject to margin requirements. We
offset fair value amounts recorded for our exchange-traded derivative contracts against required margin deposits recorded in our
Consolidated Balance Sheets under “Current Assets - Other”.
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Preferred Distribution Rate Reset Election Other expense, net $ — $ (18,584) $ (30,838)
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Our commodity derivatives include exchange-traded futures and exchange-traded options contracts. The fair value of
these exchange-traded derivative contracts is based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets and is, therefore, included in
Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy. The fair value of the swaps contracts was determined using market price quotations and a
pricing model. The swap contracts were considered a level 2 input in the fair value hierarchy at December 31, 2023 and 2022.
The fair value of the embedded derivative feature was based on a valuation model that estimates the fair value of the
convertible preferred units with and without a Rate Reset Election. This model contained inputs, including our common unit
price relative to the issuance price, the current dividend yield, the discount yield (which is adjusted periodically for changes
associated with the industry’s credit markets), default probabilities, equity volatility, U.S. Treasury yields and timing estimates
which involved management judgment. Our equity volatility rate used to value our embedded derivative feature was 50% at
September 29, 2022, which represented the final valuation date of the embedded derivative due to the Rate Reset Election. Due
primarily to the election of the rate reset increasing the distribution rate from 8.75% to 11.24%, we recorded an unrealized loss
of $18.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Due primarily to a decrease in our discount yield compared to
December 31, 2020 as a result of significant fluctuations in the energy industry credit markets and volatility in our common unit
price during the period, we recorded an unrealized loss of $30.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. We report
unrealized gains and losses associated with this embedded derivative in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as “Other
expense, net.”
See Note 19 for additional information on our derivative instruments.
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The change in benefit obligations, plan assets and funded status along with amounts recognized in the Consolidated
Balance Sheets are as follows:
December 31,
2023 2022
Change in benefit obligation:
Benefit Obligation, beginning of year $ 42,065 $ 55,934
Service Cost 3,119 5,181
Interest Cost 2,205 1,804
Actuarial Gain (Loss) 1,358 (19,557)
Benefits Paid (1,449) (1,297)
Benefit Obligation, end of year 47,298 42,065
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Employer Contributions
Expected 2024 Contributions by Employer $ 4,488
Future Expected Benefit Payments
2024 $ 1,436
2025 1,750
2026 1,898
2027 2,072
2028 2,220
2029-2033 13,166
December 31,
2023 2022 2021
Service Cost $ 3,119 $ 5,181 $ 6,020
Interest Cost 2,205 1,804 1,576
Expected Return on Assets (2,099) (1,959) (1,831)
Amortization of Prior Service Cost 487 487 487
Actuarial Gain (434) — —
Total Net Periodic Benefit Costs $ 3,278 $ 5,513 $ 6,252
Significant Assumptions
Discount rates are determined annually and are based on rates of return of high-quality long-term fixed income
securities currently available and expected to be available during the maturity of the pension benefits.
The long-term rate of return estimation for the Alkali Business pension plan is based on a capital asset pricing model
using historical data and a forecasted earnings model. An expected return on plan assets analysis is performed which
incorporates the current portfolio allocation, historical asset-class returns and an assessment of expected future performance
using asset-class risk factors.
The Alkali Business pension plan is administered by a Board-appointed committee that has fiduciary responsibility for
the plan’s management. The committee is responsible for the oversight and management of the plan’s investments. The
committee maintains an investment policy that provides guidelines for selection and retention of investment managers or funds,
allocation of plan assets and performance review procedures and updating of the policy. The objective of the committee’s
investment policy is to manage the plan assets in such a way that will allow for the on-going payment of the Company’s
obligation to the beneficiaries.
Weighted average assumptions used to
determine benefit obligation: December 31, 2023 December 31, 2022
Discount Rate 5.16 % 5.33 %
Expected Long-term Rate of Return 6.69 % 6.71 %
Rate of Compensation Increase N/A N/A
The discount rate used to determine the net periodic cost at the beginning of the period was 5.33%.
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A summary of total investments for our pension plan assets measured at fair value is presented as of December 31 for
the periods below:
2023 2022
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Cash and cash equivalents $ 5,212 $ — $ — $ 5,212 $ 4,592 $ — $ — $ 4,592
Equity securities 24,612 — — 24,612 20,838 — — 20,838
Fixed income and other
securities 7,170 — — 7,170 4,643 — — 4,643
$ 36,994 $ — $ — $ 36,994 $ 30,073 $ — $ — $ 30,073
Other Matters
Our facilities and operations may experience damage as a result of an accident or natural disaster. These hazards can
cause personal injury or loss of life, severe damage to and destruction of property and equipment, pollution or environmental
damage and suspension of operations. We maintain insurance that we consider adequate to cover our operations and properties,
in amounts we consider reasonable. Our insurance does not cover every potential risk associated with operating our facilities,
including the potential loss of significant revenues. The occurrence of a significant event that is not fully-insured could
materially and adversely affect our results of operations. We believe we are adequately insured for public liability and property
damage to others and that our coverage is similar to other companies with operations similar to ours. No assurance can be made
that we will be able to maintain adequate insurance in the future at premium rates that we consider reasonable.
We are subject to lawsuits in the normal course of business and examination by tax and other regulatory authorities.
We do not expect such matters presently pending to have a material effect on our financial position, results of operations or
cash flows.
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Deferred income taxes relate to temporary differences based on tax laws and statutory rates that were enacted at the
balance sheet date. Deferred tax assets and liabilities consist of the following:
December 31,
2023 2022
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards $ 13,631 $ 15,313
Right of use liabilities 36,148 —
Other 4,823 2,333
Total long-term deferred tax asset 54,602 17,646
Valuation allowances (3,802) (3,471)
Total deferred tax assets $ 50,800 $ 14,175
Deferred tax liabilities:
Long-term:
Fixed assets $ (2,408) $ (1,730)
Intangible assets (29,635) (27,033)
Right of use assets (36,150) —
Other (117) (2,064)
Total long-term liability (68,310) (30,827)
Total deferred tax liabilities $ (68,310) $ (30,827)
Total net deferred tax liability $ (17,510) $ (16,652)
We record a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will
not be realized. The ultimate realization of the deferred tax assets depends on the ability to generate sufficient taxable income of
the appropriate character in the future and in the appropriate taxing jurisdictions.
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The reconciliation between the partnership’s effective tax rate on income (loss) from operations and the statutory tax
rate is as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
2023 2022 2021
Income (loss) from operations before income taxes $ 146,328 $ 132,304 $ (136,362)
Partnership income (loss) not subject to federal income tax (135,349) (126,403) 140,092
Income subject to federal income taxes $ 10,979 $ 5,901 $ 3,730
Tax expense at federal statutory rate $ 2,306 $ 1,239 $ 783
State income taxes, net of federal tax (467) 1,248 574
Return to provision, federal and state (169) 44 (227)
Other (2,077) (18) 112
Valuation allowance 388 656 428
Income tax expense (benefit) $ (19) $ 3,169 $ 1,670
Effective tax rate on income (loss) from operations before income taxes (0.01)% 2.4 % (1.2)%
At December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, we had no uncertain tax positions.
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