Tallgrass Energy Increases Quarterly Distributions and Announces Date for Fourth Quarter 2015 Financial Results and 2016 Guidance
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: TEP) and Tallgrass Energy GP, LP
(NYSE: TEGP) (“Tallgrass”) today announced their quarterly distributions
for the fourth quarter of 2015. The distributions will be paid on
Friday, February 12, 2016, to unitholders and shareholders of record as
of the close of business on Friday, January 29, 2016. Tallgrass also
announced that it will release fourth quarter 2015 financial results and
hold a conference call on Wednesday, February 17, 2016.
TEP
The board of directors of TEP’s general partner declared a quarterly
cash distribution of $0.64 per common unit for the fourth quarter of
2015, or $2.56 on an annualized basis. This represents a 32 percent
increase from the fourth quarter 2014 distribution of $0.485 per common
unit and a 6.7 percent sequential increase from the third quarter 2015
distribution of $0.60 per common unit. It is TEP’s tenth consecutive
increase since its IPO in May 2013.
TEGP
The board of directors of TEGP’s general partner declared a quarterly
cash distribution of $0.173 per Class A share for the fourth quarter of
2015, or $0.692 on an annualized basis. This represents a 20.1 percent
sequential increase from the third quarter 2015 distribution of $0.144
per Class A share and its second consecutive increase since its IPO in
May 2015.
Fourth Quarter 2015 Financial Results, 2016
Guidance and Conference Call
Tallgrass plans to report fourth quarter 2015 financial results and
release 2016 financial guidance on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, after
the market close. Tallgrass will hold a conference call at 4:00 pm
Central Time that same day to provide further details on these topics.
Tallgrass invites unitholders, shareholders and other interested parties
to listen to the call through a link posted on the Investor Relations
section of Tallgrass’s website at www.tallgrassenergy.com.
About Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: TEP) is a publicly traded,
growth-oriented limited partnership formed to own, operate, acquire and
develop midstream energy assets in North America. TEP currently provides
natural gas transportation and storage services for customers in the
Rocky Mountain and Midwest regions of the United States through its
Tallgrass Interstate Gas Transmission and Trailblazer Pipeline systems.
It provides crude oil transportation to customers in Wyoming, Colorado
and the surrounding regions through its membership interest in Tallgrass
Pony Express Pipeline. TEP also provides services for customers in
Wyoming through Tallgrass Midstream at its Casper and Douglas natural
gas processing and its West Frenchie Draw natural gas treating
facilities and provides water business services to customers in Colorado
and Texas through BNN Water Solutions. TEP’s operations are
strategically located in and provide services to certain key United
States hydrocarbon basins, including the Denver-Julesburg, Powder River,
Wind River, Permian and Hugoton-Anadarko Basins and the Niobrara,
Mississippi Lime, Eagle Ford and Bakken shale formations.
About Tallgrass Energy GP, LP
Tallgrass Energy GP, LP (NYSE: TEGP) is a limited partnership that has
elected to be treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax
purposes. TEGP owns a controlling membership interest in Tallgrass
Equity, LLC through its role as the sole managing member. Tallgrass
Equity, LLC owns, both directly and through its ownership of the general
partner of TEP, all of TEP's incentive distribution rights, 100 percent
of the general partner interest in TEP and 20,000,000 TEP Common Units.
To learn more, please visit our website at www.tallgrassenergy.com.
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