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Delek Logistics Partners, LP – IPO: ‘S-1’ on 7/11/12

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Initial Public Offering (IPO):  Registration Statement (General Form)   —   Form S-1
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‘S-1’   —   Registration Statement (General Form)
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"Table of Contents
"Prospectus Summary
"Delek Logistics Partners, LP
"Overview
"Assets and Operations
"Business Strategies
"Competitive Strengths
"Our Relationship with Delek
"Risk Factors
"Management of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
"Formation Transactions and Partnership Structure
"Ownership of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
"Principal Executive Offices and Internet Address
"Summary of Conflicts of Interest and Duties
"Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company
"The Offering
"Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data
"Risks Related to Our Business
"Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us
"Tax Risks to Common Unitholders
"Use of Proceeds
"Capitalization
"Dilution
"Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions
"General
"Our Minimum Quarterly Distribution
"Unaudited Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution for the Year Ended December 31, 2011 and the Twelve-Month Period Ended March 31, 2012
"Estimated Cash Available for Distribution for the Twelve-Month Period Ending September 30, 2013
"Assumptions and Considerations
"Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions
"Distributions of Available Cash
"Operating Surplus and Capital Surplus
"Capital Expenditures
"Subordination Period
"Distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus During the Subordination Period
"Distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus After the Subordination Period
"General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights
"Percentage Allocations of Available Cash from Operating Surplus
"General Partner's Right to Reset Incentive Distribution Levels
"Distributions from Capital Surplus
"Adjustment to the Minimum Quarterly Distribution and Target Distribution Levels
"Distributions of Cash Upon Liquidation
"Selected Historical and Pro Forma Combined Financial and Operating Data
"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
"How We Generate Revenue
"How We Evaluate Our Operations
"Factors Affecting the Comparability of Our Financial Results
"Other Factors That Will Significantly Affect Our Results
"Results of Operations
"Capital Resources and Liquidity
"Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
"Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures About Market Risk
"Business
"Assets & Operations
"Our Commercial Agreements
"Industry Overview
"Our Asset Portfolio
"Delek's Refining Operations
"Safety and Maintenance
"Insurance
"Pipeline and Terminal Control Operations
"Rate and Other Regulation
"Environmental Regulation
"Seasonality
"Title to Properties and Permits
"Facilities
"Employees
"Legal Proceedings
"Management
"Directors and Executive Officers of Our General Partner
"Board Leadership Structure
"Board Role in Risk Oversight
"Committees of the Board of Directors
"Executive Compensation
"Compensation of Directors
"Long-Term Incentive Plan
"Reimbursement of Expenses of Our General Partner
"Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
"Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions
"Distributions and Payments to Our General Partner and Its Affiliates
"Agreements Governing the Transactions
"Commercial Agreements with Delek
"Review, Approval or Ratification of Transactions with Related Persons
"Conflicts of Interest and Duties
"Conflicts of Interest
"Duties of the General Partner
"Description of the Common Units
"The Units
"Transfer Agent and Registrar
"Transfer of Common Units
"The Partnership Agreement
"Organization and Duration
"Purpose
"Capital Contributions
"Voting Rights
"Limited Liability
"Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests
"Amendment of the Partnership Agreement
"Merger, Consolidation, Conversion, Sale or Other Disposition of Assets
"Termination and Dissolution
"Liquidation and Distribution of Proceeds
"Withdrawal or Removal of the General Partner
"Transfer of General Partner Units
"Transfer of Ownership Interests in the General Partner
"Transfer of Incentive Distribution Rights
"Change of Management Provisions
"Limited Call Right
"Meetings; Voting
"Status as Limited Partner
"Ineligible Holders; Redemption
"Indemnification
"Reimbursement of Expenses
"Books and Reports
"Right to Inspect Our Books and Records
"Registration Rights
"Units Eligible for Future Sale
"Rule 144
"Our Partnership Agreement and Registration Rights
"Lock-Up Agreements
"Registration Statement on Form S-8
"Material Federal Income Tax Consequences
"Partnership Status
"Limited Partner Status
"Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership
"Tax Treatment of Operations
"Disposition of Common Units
"Uniformity of Units
"Tax-Exempt Organizations and Other Investors
"Administrative Matters
"State, Local, Foreign and Other Tax Considerations
"Investment in Delek Logistics Partners, Lp by Employee Benefit Plans
"Underwriting
"Validity of the Common Units
"Experts
"Where You Can Find More Information
"Forward-Looking Statements
"Index to Financial Statements
"Introduction
"Pro Forma Combined Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2012 (Unaudited)
"Pro Forma Combined Statement of Income for the Three Months ended March 31, 2012 (Unaudited)
"Pro Forma Combined Statement of Income for the Year Ended December 31, 2011 (Unaudited)
"Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements
"Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
"Combined Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2010 and 2011
"Combined Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011
"Combined Statements of Division Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011
"Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011
"Notes to Combined Financial Statements
"Condensed Combined Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012
"Condensed Combined Statements of Income for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2011 and 2012
"Condensed Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2011 and 2012
"Notes to Condensed Combined Financial Statements
"Combined Balance Sheet as of April 28, 2011
"Combined Statements of Operations for the Years Ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011
"Combined Statements of Division Equity for the Years Ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011
"Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011
"Statement of Operations for the Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011
"Statement of Cash Flows for the Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011
"Notes to Financial Statements
"Balance Sheet as of July 9, 2012
"Note to the Balance Sheet
"Appendix A-Form of Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Delek Logistics Partners, Lp
"Appendix B-Glossary of Terms

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  Form S-1  
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 11, 2012

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Delaware   4610   45-5379027

(State or other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification Number)

7102 Commerce Way

Brentwood, Tennessee 37027

(615) 771-6701

(Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Kent B. Thomas

7102 Commerce Way

Brentwood, Tennessee 37027

(615) 771-6701

(Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

 

Gerald M. Spedale

Baker Botts L.L.P.

One Shell Plaza

910 Louisiana Street

Houston, Texas 77002-4995

(713) 229-1234

 

Catherine S. Gallagher

Adorys Velazquez

Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Suite 500 West

Washington, D.C. 20037-1701

(202) 639-6500

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. ¨

If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer ¨   Accelerated filer ¨   Non-accelerated filer x   Smaller reporting company ¨
    (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)  

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered  

Proposed Maximum

Aggregate Offering
Price (1)(2)

 

Amount of

Registration Fee

Common units representing limited partner interests

  $135,000,000   $15,471

 

(1) Includes common units issuable upon exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units.

 

(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o).

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


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The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

Subject to Completion

Preliminary Prospectus dated July 11, 2012

PROSPECTUS

LOGO

            Common Units

Representing Limited Partner Interests

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

 

 

This is the initial public offering of our common units representing limited partner interests. We are offering              common units in this offering. We currently expect that the initial public offering price will be between $         and $         per common unit. Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common units. We intend to apply to list our common units on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DKL.” We are an “emerging growth company” as defined under the federal securities laws and, as such, are eligible for reduced reporting requirements.

Investing in our common units involves risks. Please read “Risk Factors” beginning on page 22.

These risks include the following:

 

   

Delek US Holdings, Inc., or Delek, accounts for a substantial majority of our contribution margin. Therefore, we are subject to the business risks of Delek. If Delek changes its business strategy, fails to satisfy its obligations under our commercial agreements with it for any reason or significantly reduces the volumes transported through our pipelines or handled at our terminals or its use of our marketing services, our revenues would decline and our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders would be adversely affected.

 

   

We may not have sufficient cash from operations following the establishment of cash reserves and payment of fees and expenses, including cost reimbursements to our general partner and its affiliates, to enable us to pay the minimum quarterly distribution to holders of our common and subordinated units.

 

   

On a pro forma basis, we would not have had sufficient cash available for distribution to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution on all of our units for the year ended December 31, 2011 or the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012.

 

   

Each of our commercial agreements with Delek and the agreement governing the capacity reservation on the Paline Pipeline System contain provisions that allow our counterparty to such agreement to suspend, reduce or terminate its obligations under such agreement in certain circumstances, including events of force majeure, which would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders.

 

   

Our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, have conflicts of interest with us and limited duties to us and our unitholders, and they may favor their own interests to the detriment of us and our other common unitholders.

 

   

You will experience immediate and substantial dilution in net tangible book value of $         per common unit.

 

   

Our partnership agreement restricts the remedies available to holders of our common units for actions taken by our general partner that might otherwise constitute breaches of fiduciary duty.

 

   

Holders of our common units have limited voting rights and are not entitled to elect our general partner or its directors.

 

   

Our tax treatment depends on our status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes. If the IRS were to treat us as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, which would subject us to entity-level taxation, then our cash available for distribution to our unitholders would be substantially reduced.

 

   

Our unitholders’ share of our income will be taxable to them for U.S. federal income tax purposes even if they do not receive any cash distributions from us.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

 

    

Per Common Unit

      

Total

 

Public offering price

   $           $     

Underwriting discount (1)

   $           $     

Proceeds to Delek Logistics Partners, LP (before expenses)

   $           $     

 

 

  (1) Excludes a structuring fee of an aggregate of     % of the gross offering proceeds payable to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Barclays Capital Inc. Please read “Underwriting” beginning on page 207.

We have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional              common units on the same terms and conditions as set forth above if the underwriters sell more than              common units in this offering.

The underwriters expect to deliver the common units to purchasers on or about                     , 2012, through the book-entry facilities of The Depository Trust Company.

 

 

 

BofA Merrill Lynch    Barclays

 

 

The date of this prospectus is                     , 2012.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

     1   

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

     1   

Overview

     1   

Assets and Operations

     2   

Business Strategies

     2   

Competitive Strengths

     3   

Our Relationship with Delek

     4   

Risk Factors

     5   

Management of Delek Logistics Partners, LP

     7   

Formation Transactions and Partnership Structure

     8   

Ownership of Delek Logistics Partners, LP

     9   

Principal Executive Offices and Internet Address

     10   

Summary of Conflicts of Interest and Duties

     10   

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

     11   

The Offering

     12   

Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data

     17   

RISK FACTORS

     22   

Risks Related to Our Business

     22   

Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us

     45   

Tax Risks to Common Unitholders

     56   

USE OF PROCEEDS

     61   

CAPITALIZATION

     62   

DILUTION

     63   

OUR CASH DISTRIBUTION POLICY AND RESTRICTIONS ON DISTRIBUTIONS

     64   

General

     64   

Our Minimum Quarterly Distribution

     66   

Unaudited Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution for the Year Ended December  31, 2011 and the Twelve-Month Period Ended March 31, 2012

     67   

Estimated Cash Available for Distribution for the Twelve-Month Period Ending September 30, 2013

     69   

Assumptions and Considerations

     72   

PROVISIONS OF OUR PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT RELATING TO CASH DISTRIBUTIONS

     73   

Distributions of Available Cash

     73   

Operating Surplus and Capital Surplus

     74   

Capital Expenditures

     76   

Subordination Period

     77   

Distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus During the Subordination Period

     79   

Distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus After the Subordination Period

     79   

General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights

     80   

Percentage Allocations of Available Cash from Operating Surplus

     81   

General Partner’s Right to Reset Incentive Distribution Levels

     81   

Distributions from Capital Surplus

     84   

Adjustment to the Minimum Quarterly Distribution and Target Distribution Levels

     84   

Distributions of Cash Upon Liquidation

     85   

SELECTED HISTORICAL AND PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL AND OPERATING DATA

     88   

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

     92   

Overview

     92   

How We Generate Revenue

     92   

How We Evaluate Our Operations

     96   

 

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Factors Affecting the Comparability of Our Financial Results

     97   

Other Factors That Will Significantly Affect Our Results

     98   

Results of Operations

     99   

Capital Resources and Liquidity

     103   

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

     109   

Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures About Market Risk

     110   

BUSINESS

     111   

Overview

     111   

Assets & Operations

     112   

Business Strategies

     112   

Competitive Strengths

     113   

Our Commercial Agreements

     115   

Our Relationship with Delek

     117   

Industry Overview

     118   

Our Asset Portfolio

     118   

Delek’s Refining Operations

     128   

Safety and Maintenance

     131   

Insurance

     131   

Pipeline and Terminal Control Operations

     131   

Rate and Other Regulation

     132   

Environmental Regulation

     133   

Seasonality

     138   

Title to Properties and Permits

     138   

Facilities

     139   

Employees

     139   

Legal Proceedings

     139   

MANAGEMENT

     140   

Management of Delek Logistics Partners, LP

     140   

Directors and Executive Officers of Our General Partner

     141   

Board Leadership Structure

     142   

Board Role in Risk Oversight

     142   

Committees of the Board of Directors

     142   

Executive Compensation

     143   

Compensation of Directors

     144   

Long-Term Incentive Plan

     144   

Reimbursement of Expenses of Our General Partner

     146   

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

     147   

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

     149   

Distributions and Payments to Our General Partner and Its Affiliates

     149   

Agreements Governing the Transactions

     150   

Commercial Agreements with Delek

     154   

Review, Approval or Ratification of Transactions with Related Persons

     161   

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND DUTIES

     162   

Conflicts of Interest

     162   

Duties of the General Partner

     168   

DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMON UNITS

     171   

The Units

     171   

Transfer Agent and Registrar

     171   

Transfer of Common Units

     171   

THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

     173   

Organization and Duration

     173   

Purpose

     173   

 

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Capital Contributions

     173   

Voting Rights

     173   

Limited Liability

     175   

Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests

     176   

Amendment of the Partnership Agreement

     176   

Merger, Consolidation, Conversion, Sale or Other Disposition of Assets

     178   

Termination and Dissolution

     179   

Liquidation and Distribution of Proceeds

     179   

Withdrawal or Removal of the General Partner

     180   

Transfer of General Partner Units

     181   

Transfer of Ownership Interests in the General Partner

     181   

Transfer of Incentive Distribution Rights

     181   

Change of Management Provisions

     181   

Limited Call Right

     182   

Meetings; Voting

     182   

Status as Limited Partner

     183   

Ineligible Holders; Redemption

     183   

Indemnification

     183   

Reimbursement of Expenses

     184   

Books and Reports

     184   

Right to Inspect Our Books and Records

     184   

Registration Rights

     185   

UNITS ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

     186   

Rule 144

     186   

Our Partnership Agreement and Registration Rights

     186   

Lock-Up Agreements

     187   

Registration Statement on Form S-8

     187   

MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

     188   

Partnership Status

     188   

Limited Partner Status

     190   

Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership

     190   

Tax Treatment of Operations

     196   

Disposition of Common Units

     197   

Uniformity of Units

     199   

Tax-Exempt Organizations and Other Investors

     200   

Administrative Matters

     201   

State, Local, Foreign and Other Tax Considerations

     204   

INVESTMENT IN DELEK LOGISTICS PARTNERS, LP BY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

     205   

UNDERWRITING

     207   

VALIDITY OF THE COMMON UNITS

     214   

EXPERTS

     214   

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

     214   

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

     215   

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

     F-1   

APPENDIX A—FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OF DELEK LOGISTICS PARTNERS, LP

     A-1   

APPENDIX B—GLOSSARY OF TERMS

     B-1   

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectus we may authorize to be delivered to you. We have not, and the underwriters have not, authorized anyone to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not, and the underwriters are not, making an offer to sell these securities in any

 

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jurisdiction where an offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus is accurate as of the date on the front cover of this prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.

The market data and certain other statistical information used throughout this prospectus are based on independent industry publications, government publications or other published independent sources. Some data is also based on our good faith estimates. Although we believe these third-party sources are reliable, we have not independently verified the information and cannot guarantee its accuracy and completeness.

 

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. It does not contain all of the information that you should consider before investing in the common units. You should read the entire prospectus carefully, including “Risk Factors” beginning on page 22 and the historical and pro forma financial statements and the notes to those financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. Unless indicated otherwise, the information presented in this prospectus assumes (1) an initial public offering price of $         per common unit (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) and (2) that the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional units.

We include a glossary of some of the terms used in this prospectus as Appendix B. Unless otherwise noted, references in this prospectus to “Delek Logistics,” “we,” “our,” “us” or like terms when used in a historical context refer to the businesses and assets of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor as described in “—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data” beginning on page 17, our predecessor for accounting purposes, also referenced as “our predecessor,” and when used in the present tense or prospectively, refer to Delek Logistics Partners, LP and its subsidiaries. Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this prospectus to “Delek” are to Delek US Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries, other than us. References in this prospectus to (i) “Lion Oil” are to Lion Oil Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delek; (ii) “the Contributed Lion Oil Assets” are to the assets that are being contributed to us by Lion Oil; (iii) “Paline” are to Paline Pipeline Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delek that is being contributed to us; and (iv) “our general partner” are to Delek Logistics GP, LLC, the general partner of Delek Logistics.

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Overview

We are a growth-oriented Delaware limited partnership recently formed by Delek to own, operate, acquire and construct crude oil and refined products logistics and marketing assets. A substantial majority of our existing assets are integral to the success of Delek’s refining and marketing operations. We gather, transport and store crude oil and market, distribute, transport and store refined products in select regions of the southeastern United States and west Texas for Delek and third parties, primarily in support of Delek’s refineries in Tyler, Texas and El Dorado, Arkansas.

We generate revenue by charging fees for gathering, transporting and storing crude oil and for marketing, distributing, transporting and storing refined products. Following the consummation of this offering, a substantial majority of our contribution margin, which we define as net sales less cost of goods sold and operating expenses, will be derived from our commercial agreements with Delek with initial terms ranging from five to ten years, which we believe will enhance the stability of our cash flows. Our commercial agreements with Delek will include minimum volume commitments, which we believe will provide us with a stable revenue stream in the future.

We intend to expand our business by acquiring logistics and marketing assets from Delek and third parties and through organic growth, including entering into fuel supply and marketing agreements, constructing new assets and increasing the utilization of our existing assets. Delek formed us to be the primary vehicle to grow its logistics and marketing operations in order to maximize the integrated value of its assets. In addition, Delek has granted us a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that it will retain following this offering, and Delek is required under certain circumstances to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct in the future as a condition to its ownership of such assets. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.”

 

 

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For the year ended December 31, 2011, we had pro forma EBITDA of approximately $45.5 million and pro forma net income of approximately $32.6 million. For the three months ended March 31, 2012, we had pro forma EBITDA of approximately $12.2 million and pro forma net income of approximately $9.0 million. Delek accounted for 86.9% of our pro forma contribution margin for the year ended December 31, 2011 and 80.5% of our pro forma contribution margin for the three months ended March 31, 2012. Please read “—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measure” for the definition of EBITDA and a reconciliation of EBITDA to our most directly comparable financial measures, calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP.

Assets and Operations

We operate in two business segments: our Pipelines and Transportation segment and our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment. On a pro forma basis for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the quarter ended March 31, 2012, our Pipelines and Transportation segment accounted for approximately 62.4% and 59.0%, respectively, of our contribution margin, and our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment accounted for approximately 37.6% and 41.0%, respectively, of our contribution margin.

Pipelines and Transportation Segment. Our Pipelines and Transportation segment consists of approximately 400 miles of crude oil transportation pipelines, 16 miles of refined product pipelines, an approximately 600-mile crude oil gathering system and associated crude oil storage tanks with an aggregate of approximately 1.4 million barrels of active shell capacity. These assets are primarily divided into four operating systems:

 

   

our Lion Pipeline System, which transports crude oil to, and refined products from, Delek’s 80,000 barrels per day, or bpd, El Dorado, Arkansas refinery, or the El Dorado refinery;

 

   

our SALA Gathering System, which gathers and transports crude oil production in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, primarily for the El Dorado refinery;

 

   

our Paline Pipeline System, which will transport crude oil from Longview, Texas to the Chevron-operated Beaumont terminal in Nederland, Texas; and

 

   

our East Texas Crude Logistics System, which currently transports substantially all of the crude oil delivered to Delek’s 60,000 bpd Tyler, Texas refinery, or the Tyler refinery.

Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling Segment. In our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment, we provide marketing services for 100% of the refined products output of the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke, and own and operate five light product terminals. Two of these terminals, located in Big Sandy, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee, support the Tyler and El Dorado refineries, respectively. Our west Texas marketing business markets light products that we purchase from Noble Petro, Inc., or Noble Petro, using our terminals in Abilene and San Angelo, Texas. We also market light products that we purchase from Magellan Asset Services, L.P., or Magellan, using third-party terminals in Aledo, Odessa, Big Spring and Frost, Texas. In addition, we provide products terminalling services to independent third parties and Delek’s retail segment at our light products terminal in Nashville, Tennessee.

Business Strategies

Our objectives are to maintain stable cash flows and to grow the quarterly distributions paid to our unitholders. We intend to achieve these objectives through the following business strategies:

 

   

Generate Stable Cash Flow. We will continue to pursue opportunities to provide logistics, marketing and other services to Delek and third parties pursuant to long-term, fee-based contracts.

 

 

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In new service contracts, we will endeavor to negotiate minimum throughput commitments similar to those included under our current commercial agreements with Delek.

 

   

Focus on Growing Our Business. We intend to evaluate and pursue opportunities to grow our business through both strategic acquisitions and organic expansion projects.

 

   

Pursue Accretive Acquisitions. We plan to pursue strategic acquisitions that both complement our existing assets and provide attractive returns for our unitholders. Delek has granted us a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that it will retain following this offering. In addition, Delek is required, under certain circumstances, to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct in the future. Furthermore, we believe that our current asset base and our knowledge of the regional markets in which we operate will allow us to target and consummate accretive third-party acquisitions.

 

   

Pursue Attractive Organic Expansion Opportunities. We intend to focus on organic growth opportunities that complement our existing businesses or that provide attractive returns within our current geographic footprint. We will continue to seek opportunities to further support our existing customers and attract new customers through the expansion and development of our logistics infrastructure.

 

   

Optimize Our Existing Assets and Expand Our Customer Base. We intend to enhance the profitability of our existing assets by adding incremental throughput volumes, improving operating efficiencies and increasing system-wide utilization. Additionally, we plan to further diversify our customer base by increasing third-party throughput volumes running through our existing system and expanding our asset portfolio to service more third-party customers.

Competitive Strengths

We believe we are well-positioned to successfully execute our business strategies because of the following competitive strengths:

 

   

Long-Term, Fee-Based Contracts with Minimum Volume Commitments Enhance Cash Flow Stability. Initially, we will generate a substantial majority of our contribution margin under long-term, fee-based contracts with Delek and third parties. Each of our commercial agreements with Delek will include minimum volume commitments and will have fees indexed to inflation, thereby providing us with a stable revenue stream.

 

   

Our Assets are Integral to Delek’s Operations and Strategically Located. Our marketing and logistics assets are instrumental to the operations of Delek. Our Pipelines and Transportation segment currently transports crude oil to, and refined products from, the El Dorado refinery and transports crude oil to the Tyler refinery. Our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment provides marketing services for 100% of the refined products produced by the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke. In addition, our Paline Pipeline System has been reconfigured to take advantage of its strategic location by permitting the transportation of crude oil from inland markets to the U.S. Gulf Coast, which will allow our customers to realize potentially significant positive differentials in crude oil pricing between East Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast.

 

   

Relationship with Delek. One of our key strengths is our relationship with Delek. We believe that Delek will be incentivized to grow our business as a result of its significant economic interest in us. In particular, we expect to benefit from the following aspects of our relationship with Delek:

 

   

Acquisition Opportunities. Under the omnibus agreement, Delek has granted a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that it will retain following this offering and is required, under

 

 

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certain circumstances, to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct in the future.

 

   

Strength and Stability of Delek’s Refining Business. Delek’s refineries have a combined crude oil throughput capacity of 140,000 barrels per day. These refineries are strategically located in eastern Texas and southern Arkansas, which gives Delek access to a diverse slate of advantageously priced crude oil feedstocks and attractive end-markets in which to sell its refined products. We believe these refineries’ inland locations limit their exposure to weather-related disruptions, such as hurricanes, that can impact refineries that are located closer to the coast.

 

   

Access to Operational and Industry Expertise. We expect to benefit from Delek’s extensive operational, commercial and technical expertise, as well as its industry relationships throughout the midstream and downstream value chain, as we look to optimize and expand our existing asset base.

 

   

Management and Operations Team with Extensive Acquisition and Project Management Experience. Both our management and our operations teams have significant experience in the management and operation of logistics and marketing assets and the execution of expansion and acquisition strategies. Our management team includes some of the most senior officers of Delek, who average over 20 years of experience in the energy industry.

 

   

Financial Flexibility. We believe that we will have the financial flexibility to execute our growth strategy through access to the debt and equity capital markets, as well as the approximately $75 million of available capacity under the $175 million revolving credit facility that we expect to enter into at the closing of this offering.

Our Relationship with Delek

One of our principal strengths is our relationship with Delek (NYSE: DK). Delek has a significant interest in our partnership through its ownership of a     % limited partner interest in us and a 2.0% general partner interest in us and all of our incentive distribution rights. Delek owns and operates the Tyler and El Dorado refineries, two independent refineries currently representing a combined 140,000 bpd of crude oil throughput capacity. Delek produces a variety of petroleum-based products used in transportation and industrial markets which are sold to a wide range of customers located principally in inland, domestic markets. In addition to its ownership and operation of the El Dorado and Tyler refineries, Delek also owns and operates one of the largest company-operated convenience store chains in the southeastern United States. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek reported net sales of $7.2 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively. As of March 31, 2012, Delek reported total assets of $2.3 billion. As of March 31, 2012, 68.3% of Delek’s common stock was indirectly owned by Delek Group Ltd., or Delek Group (TASE: DLEKG), an Israel-based holding company engaged in, among other things, oil and natural gas exploration, production, refining and marketing. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek Group reported revenues of $15.9 billion and $4.8 billion, respectively. As of March 31, 2012, Delek Group reported total assets of $29.9 billion. Delek Group information is reported in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board and has been converted to U.S. dollars from New Israeli shekels based on a foreign exchange rate of U.S. dollar 1.00 to New Israeli shekels 3.72 on March 31, 2012.

In connection with the closing of this offering, we will enter into long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with Delek, under which we will provide various logistics and marketing services. Each of these agreements will include minimum volume commitments, which we believe will enhance the stability of our cash flows and will have fees indexed to inflation.

 

 

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In addition to the benefits we expect to receive as a result of our long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with Delek, we also anticipate that our relationship with Delek will provide us with growth opportunities. Since 2005, Delek has made nine acquisitions valued at an aggregate of approximately $580 million. In addition, Delek and Delek Group have strong relationships with several leading international financial firms and a core competency in raising capital to fund growth opportunities.

In addition, in connection with the closing of this offering, we will enter into an omnibus agreement pursuant to which we will agree upon certain aspects of our relationship with Delek and our general partner, including Delek providing to us certain administrative services and employees, our reimbursement of Delek for the cost of providing such services and employees, certain indemnification obligations and other matters. Under the omnibus agreement, Delek has granted a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that it will retain following this offering and is required, under certain circumstances, to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct after this offering. Our general partner will enter into an operation and management services agreement with Delek, pursuant to which our general partner will use employees of Delek to provide operating, routine maintenance and other services with respect to our business. Neither our general partner nor Delek will receive any management fee or other compensation in connection with our general partner’s management of our business. However, prior to making any distribution on our common units, we will pay an annual fee to Delek for the provision of centralized corporate services and reimburse Delek for direct or allocated costs and expenses incurred by Delek on our behalf pursuant to the omnibus agreement and the operation and management services agreement. Our partnership agreement provides that our general partner will determine in good faith the expenses that are allocable to us. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions.”

Delek will own our general partner. Our general partner will own             general partner units representing a 2.0% general partner interest in us, which will entitle it to receive 2.0% of all the distributions we make. Our general partner will also own all of our incentive distribution rights, which will entitle it to increasing percentages, up to a maximum of 48.0%, of the cash we distribute in excess of $         per unit per quarter after the closing of our initial public offering. In addition, Delek will own             common units             and         subordinated units. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.”

Risk Factors

An investment in our common units involves risks associated with our business, our regulatory and legal matters, our limited partnership structure and the tax characteristics of our common units. You should carefully consider the risks described in “Risk Factors” beginning on page 22 of this prospectus and the other information in this prospectus before deciding whether to invest in our common units.

Risks Inherent in Our Business

 

   

Delek accounts for a substantial majority of our contribution margin. Therefore, we are subject to the business risks of Delek. If Delek changes its business strategy, fails to satisfy its obligations under our commercial agreements with it for any reason or significantly reduces the volumes transported through our pipelines or handled at our terminals or its use of our marketing services, our revenues would decline and our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders would be adversely affected.

 

   

We may not have sufficient cash from operations following the establishment of cash reserves and payment of fees and expenses, including cost reimbursements to our general partner and its affiliates, to enable us to pay the minimum quarterly distribution to holders of our common and subordinated units.

 

 

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On a pro forma basis, we would not have had sufficient cash available for distribution to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution on all of our units for the year ended December 31, 2011 or the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012.

 

   

The assumptions underlying the forecast of cash available for distribution that we include in “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions” are inherently uncertain and are subject to significant business, economic, financial, regulatory and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forecasted.

 

   

Each of our commercial agreements with Delek and the agreement governing the capacity reservation on the Paline Pipeline System contain provisions that allow our counterparty to such agreement to suspend, reduce or terminate its obligations under such agreement in certain circumstances, including events of force majeure, which would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders.

 

   

If Delek satisfies only its minimum obligations under, or if we are unable to renew or extend, the various commercial agreements we have with it, our ability to make distributions to our unitholders will be reduced.

 

   

We anticipate that, beginning in the first half of 2013, our East Texas Crude Logistics System will operate at levels significantly below Delek’s minimum volume commitment under its agreement with us for the foreseeable future.

 

   

A material decrease in the refining margins at either the Tyler or El Dorado refineries could materially reduce the volumes of crude oil or refined products that we handle, which could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders.

 

   

A material decrease in the supply of attractively priced crude oil could materially reduce the volumes of crude oil and refined products that we transport and store, which could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

 

   

Our substantial dependence on the Tyler and El Dorado refineries as well as the lack of diversification of our assets and geographic locations could adversely affect our ability to make distributions to our common unitholders.

 

   

Delek’s level of indebtedness, the terms of its borrowings and any future credit ratings could adversely affect our ability to grow our business, our ability to make cash distributions to our unitholders and our future credit ratings and profile. Our ability to obtain credit in the future and our future credit ratings may also be affected by Delek’s level of indebtedness.

 

   

Our logistics and marketing operations and Delek’s refining operations are subject to many risks and operational hazards, some of which may result in business interruptions and shutdowns of our or Delek’s facilities and liability for damages. If a significant accident or event occurs that results in business interruption or shutdown, our operations and financial results could be adversely affected.

 

 

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Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us

 

   

Our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, have conflicts of interest with us and limited duties to us and our unitholders, and they may favor their own interests to the detriment of us and our other common unitholders.

 

   

You will experience immediate and substantial dilution in net tangible book value of $         per common unit.

 

   

Our partnership agreement restricts the remedies available to holders of our common units for actions taken by our general partner that might otherwise constitute breaches of fiduciary duty.

 

   

Holders of our common units have limited voting rights and are not entitled to elect our general partner or its directors.

 

   

Even if holders of our common units are dissatisfied, they cannot initially remove our general partner without its consent.

Tax Risks to Common Unitholders

 

   

Our tax treatment depends on our status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes. If the IRS were to treat us as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, which would subject us to entity-level taxation, then our cash available for distribution to our unitholders would be substantially reduced.

 

   

If we were subjected to a material amount of additional entity-level taxation by individual states, it would reduce our cash available for distribution to our unitholders.

 

   

The tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships or an investment in our common units could be subject to potential legislative, judicial or administrative changes and differing interpretations, possibly on a retroactive basis.

 

   

Our unitholders’ share of our income will be taxable to them for U.S. federal income tax purposes even if they do not receive any cash distributions from us.

Management of Delek Logistics Partners, LP

We are managed and operated by the board of directors and executive officers of our general partner, Delek Logistics GP, LLC. Delek will own all of the ownership interests in our general partner and will be entitled to appoint the entire board of directors of our general partner. Our unitholders will not be entitled to elect our general partner or its directors or otherwise directly participate in our management or operations. All of the initial officers and a majority of the initial directors of our general partner are also officers and/or directors of Delek. For information about the executive officers and directors of our general partner, please read “Management.”

Under the listing requirements of the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, the board of directors of our general partner will be required to have at least three independent directors meeting the NYSE’s independence standards. At the completion of this offering, the board of directors of our general partner will be comprised of seven directors, including three independent directors.

 

 

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Formation Transactions and Partnership Structure

We were formed in April 2012 by Delek US Holdings, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Delek Logistics GP, LLC, to own, operate, acquire and construct crude oil and refined products logistics and marketing assets. In connection with the closing of this offering, Delek will contribute all of our predecessor’s assets and operations to us (excluding working capital and other noncurrent liabilities).

At or prior to the closing of this offering the following transactions, which we refer to as the formation transactions, will occur:

 

   

Delek will contribute all of our initial assets and operations, including certain subsidiaries, to us (excluding working capital and other noncurrent liabilities);

 

   

we will issue             common units and             subordinated units, representing an aggregate     % limited partner interest in us, to Delek;

 

   

we will issue             general partner units, representing a 2.0% general partner interest in us, and all of our incentive distribution rights to our general partner;

 

   

we will issue             common units to the public in this offering, representing a     % limited partner interest in us, and will apply the net proceeds as described in “Use of Proceeds”;

 

   

we will enter into a new $175 million revolving credit facility, under which we will borrow $90 million to fund an additional cash distribution to Delek;

 

   

Delek will enter into multiple long-term commercial agreements with us; and

 

   

we will enter into an omnibus agreement, and our general partner will enter into an operation and management services agreement, with Delek.

The number of common units to be issued to Delek and its subsidiaries includes             common units that will be issued at the expiration of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units, assuming that the underwriters do not exercise their option. Any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units would reduce the common units shown as issued to Delek by the number to be purchased by the underwriters in connection with such exercise. If and to the extent the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units, the number of common units purchased by the underwriters pursuant to any exercise will be sold to the public, and any remaining common units not purchased by the underwriters pursuant to any exercise of the option will be issued to Delek at the expiration of the option period. All of the net proceeds from any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units will be used to make an additional cash distribution to Delek.

 

 

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Ownership of Delek Logistics Partners, LP

The following diagram depicts our simplified organizational and ownership structure after giving effect to the formation transactions and this offering.

 

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After giving effect to the formation transactions and this offering, our units will be held as follows:

 

Public Common Units(1)

         

Delek Units:

  

Common Units

         

Subordinated Units

     49.0

General Partner Units

     2.0
  

 

 

 

Total

     100.0
  

 

 

 

 

(1) Includes up to              common units that may be purchased by certain of our directors, officers and related persons pursuant to a directed unit program, as described in more detail in “Underwriting—Reserved Common Units.”

 

 

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Principal Executive Offices and Internet Address

Our principal executive offices are located at 7102 Commerce Way, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027, and our telephone number is (615) 771-6701. Our website is located at www.                    .com and will be activated immediately following this offering. We expect to make available our periodic reports and other information filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which we refer to as the SEC, free of charge through our website, as soon as reasonably practicable after those reports and other information are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. Information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference herein and does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

Summary of Conflicts of Interest and Duties

Our general partner has a duty to manage our partnership in a manner it subjectively believes is in our best interests. However, the officers and directors of our general partner also have duties to manage our general partner in a manner beneficial to its owner, Delek. Additionally, all of our initial executive officers and the majority of our initial directors are officers and/or directors of Delek. As a result, conflicts of interest may arise in the future between us and our common unitholders, on the one hand, and Delek and our general partner, on the other hand. For a more detailed description of the conflicts of interest of our general partner, please read “Risk Factors—Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us” and “Conflicts of Interest and Duties—Conflicts of Interest.”

Delaware law provides that Delaware limited partnerships may, in their partnership agreements, expand, restrict or eliminate the fiduciary duties owed by the general partner to limited partners and the partnership. Pursuant to these provisions, our partnership agreement contains various provisions replacing the fiduciary duties that would otherwise be owed by our general partner with contractual standards governing the duties of the general partner and the methods of resolving conflicts of interest. The effect of these provisions is to restrict the remedies available to our common unitholders for actions taken by our general partner that might otherwise constitute breaches of fiduciary duty. Our partnership agreement also provides that, subject to the provisions contained in the omnibus agreement, affiliates of our general partner, including Delek and its other subsidiaries and affiliates, are permitted to compete with us. We may enter into additional agreements in the future with Delek relating to the purchase of additional assets, the provision of certain services to us by Delek and other matters. In the performance of their obligations under these agreements, Delek and its subsidiaries are not held to a fiduciary duty standard of care to us, our general partner or our limited partners, but rather to the standard of care specified in these agreements. By purchasing a common unit, the purchaser agrees to be bound by the terms of our partnership agreement, and each common unitholder is treated as having consented to various actions and potential conflicts of interest contemplated in the partnership agreement that might otherwise be considered a breach of fiduciary or other duties under applicable state law.

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Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

As a company with less than $1.0 billion in revenue during its last fiscal year, we qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the recently enacted Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the “JOBS Act.” An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified reduced reporting and other burdens that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies. These provisions include:

 

   

an ability to provide only two years of audited financial statements and related disclosures;

 

   

an exemption from the auditor attestation requirement in the assessment of the emerging growth company’s internal control over financial reporting;

 

   

reduced disclosure about the emerging growth company’s executive compensation arrangements; and

 

   

delayed adoption of certain accounting standards.

We may take advantage of these provisions for up to five years or through such earlier date that we are no longer an emerging growth company. We would cease to be an emerging growth company if we have more than $1.0 billion in annual revenues, have more than $700 million in market value of our common units held by non-affiliates, or issue more than $1.0 billion of non-convertible debt over a three-year period. In this prospectus, we have taken advantage of the reduced disclosure obligations with respect to executive compensation disclosure. We may choose to take advantage of this and other reduced reporting requirements in future filings. As a result, the information that we provide you may be different than you might get from other public companies in which you hold equity interests. Also, we have irrevocably elected to “opt out” of the exemption for the delayed adoption of certain accounting standards and, therefore, will be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.

 

 

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The Offering

 

Common units offered to the public

            common units, or            common units if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units in full.

 

Units outstanding after this offering

            common units and            subordinated units, representing a 49.0% and 49.0% limited partner interest in us, respectively. If the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional common units, we will issue an additional             common units to Delek at the expiration of the option period for no additional consideration. If and to the extent the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units, the number of common units purchased by the underwriters pursuant to any exercise will be sold to the public, and any remaining common units not purchased by the underwriters pursuant to any exercise of the option will be issued to Delek at the expiration of the option period. Accordingly, the exercise of the underwriters’ option will not affect the total number of common units outstanding or the amount of cash needed to pay the minimum quarterly distribution on all units. Our general partner will own                  general partner units, representing a 2.0% general partner interest in us.

 

Use of proceeds

We expect the net proceeds from this offering, after deducting underwriting discounts, the structuring fee and offering expenses, to be approximately $         million. We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering:

 

   

to fund an approximately $         million cash distribution to Delek;

 

   

to retire the approximately $         million of outstanding indebtedness under our predecessor’s revolving credit facility in connection with our refinancing of the facility at the closing of this offering;

 

   

to provide approximately $             million in working capital to replenish amounts distributed to Delek, in the form of trade and other accounts receivable, in connection with the closing of this offering; and

 

   

for other general partnership purposes.

 

  Additionally, at the closing of this offering, we will enter into a new $175 million credit facility, under which we will borrow $90 million to fund an additional $90 million cash distribution to Delek.

 

  If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units in full, the additional net proceeds will be approximately $         million. The net proceeds from any exercise of such option will be used to make an additional cash distribution to Delek.

 

 

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Cash distributions

We intend to pay the minimum quarterly distribution of $         per unit ($         per unit on an annualized basis) to the extent we have sufficient cash from operations after establishment of cash reserves and payment of fees and expenses, including payments to our general partner and its affiliates. We refer to this cash as “available cash,” and we define its meaning in our partnership agreement and in the glossary of terms attached as Appendix B. Our ability to pay the minimum quarterly distribution is subject to various restrictions and other factors described in more detail under the caption “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions.”

 

  We will adjust the amount of our distribution for the period from the completion of this offering through September 30, 2012, based on the actual length of that period.

 

  Our partnership agreement requires us to distribute all of our available cash each quarter in the following manner:

 

   

first, 98.0% to the holders of common units and 2.0% to our general partner, until each common unit has received the minimum quarterly distribution of $         plus any arrearages from prior quarters;

 

   

second, 98.0% to the holders of subordinated units and 2.0% to our general partner, until each subordinated unit has received the minimum quarterly distribution of $         ; and

 

   

third, 98.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until each unit has received a distribution of $        .

 

  If cash distributions to our unitholders exceed $         per unit in any quarter, our general partner will receive, in addition to distributions on its 2.0% general partner interest, increasing percentages, up to 48.0%, of the cash we distribute in excess of that amount. We refer to these distributions as “incentive distributions” because they incentivize our general partner to increase distributions to our unitholders. In certain circumstances, our general partner, as the initial holder of our incentive distribution rights, will have the right to reset the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels at which the incentive distributions receive increasing percentages of the cash we distribute to higher levels based on our cash distributions at the time of the exercise of this reset election. Please read “Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions.”

 

 

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operation and management services agreement. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions.”

 

  Pro forma cash available for distribution generated during the year ended December 31, 2011 and the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012 was approximately $40.7 million and $41.1 million, respectively. The amount of cash we will need to pay the minimum quarterly distribution for four quarters on our common units, subordinated units and general partner units to be outstanding immediately after this offering will be approximately $         million (or an average of approximately $         million per quarter). As a result, we would have had sufficient cash available for distribution to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution of $         per unit per quarter ($         per unit on an annualized basis) on all of our common units for both the year ended December 31, 2011 and the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012 but only approximately     % and     % of our subordinated units for such periods. Please read “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions—Unaudited Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution for the Year Ended December 31, 2011 and the Twelve-Month Period Ended March 31, 2012.”

 

  We believe that, based on the financial forecasts and related assumptions included under the caption “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions—Estimated Cash Available for Distribution for the Twelve-Month Period Ending September 30, 2013,” we will have sufficient cash available for distribution to make cash distributions for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013, at the minimum quarterly distribution rate of $         per unit per quarter ($         per unit on an annualized basis) on all common units, subordinated units and general partner units outstanding immediately after completion of this offering. However, our actual results of operations, cash flows and financial condition during the forecast period may vary from the forecast.

 

Subordinated units

Delek will initially indirectly own all of our subordinated units. The principal difference between our common units and subordinated units is that in any quarter during the subordination period, holders of the subordinated units are not entitled to receive any distribution of available cash until the common units have received the minimum quarterly distribution plus any arrearages in the payment of the minimum quarterly distribution from prior quarters. If we do not pay distributions on our subordinated units, our subordinated units will not accrue arrearages for those unpaid distributions.

 

Conversion of subordinated units

The subordination period will end on the first business day after we have earned and paid at least (i) $         (the minimum quarterly distribution on an annualized basis) on each outstanding common, subordinated and general partner unit, for each of three consecutive,

 

 

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non-overlapping four-quarter periods ending on or after September 30, 2015, or (ii) $         (150% of the annualized minimum quarterly distribution) on each outstanding common unit, subordinated unit and general partner unit, in addition to any distribution made in respect of the incentive distribution rights, for any four-consecutive-quarter period ending on or after September 30, 2013, in each case provided that (a) our conflicts committee, or the board of directors of our general partner based on the recommendation of our conflicts committee, reasonably expects to satisfy the tests set forth above for the succeeding four-quarter period without treating as earned any shortfall payments under our existing commercial agreements with Delek and (b) there are no arrearages on our common units at that time. In addition, the subordination period will end upon the removal of our general partner other than for cause if the units held by our general partner and its affiliates are not voted in favor of such removal.

 

  When the subordination period ends, all subordinated units will convert into common units on a one-for-one basis, and all common units thereafter will no longer be entitled to arrearages. Please read “Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Related to Cash Distributions—Subordination Period.”

 

Issuance of additional units

Our partnership agreement authorizes us to issue an unlimited number of additional units without the approval of our unitholders. Please read “Units Eligible for Future Sale” and “The Partnership Agreement—Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests.”

 

Limited voting rights

Our general partner will manage and operate us. Unlike the holders of common stock in a corporation, you will have only limited voting rights on matters affecting our business. You will not have the right to elect our general partner or its directors on an annual or other continuing basis. Our general partner may not be removed except by a vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of our outstanding common and subordinated units, including any common and subordinated units owned by our general partner and its affiliates, voting together as a single class. Upon closing of this offering, Delek will own an aggregate of approximately     % of our common and subordinated units. This will give Delek the ability to prevent the involuntary removal of our general partner. Please read “The Partnership Agreement—Voting Rights.”

 

Limited call right

If at any time our general partner and its affiliates own more than 80% of the outstanding common units, our general partner will have the right, but not the obligation, to purchase all, but not less than all, of the remaining common units at a price not less than the then-current market price of the common units, as calculated in accordance with our partnership agreement.

 

Estimated ratio of taxable income to distributions

We estimate that if you own the common units you purchase in this offering through the record date for distributions for the period ending December 31, 2015, you will be allocated, on a cumulative basis, an

 

 

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amount of federal taxable income for that period that will be     % or less of the cash distributed to you with respect to that period. For example, if you receive an annual distribution of $         per common unit, we estimate that your average allocable taxable income per year will be no more than $         per common unit. Thereafter, the ratio of allocable taxable income to cash distributions to you could substantially increase. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Ratio of Taxable Income to Distributions.”

 

Material federal income tax consequences

For a discussion of other material federal income tax consequences that may be relevant to prospective unitholders who are individual citizens or residents of the United States, please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences.”

 

New York Stock Exchange listing

We intend to apply to list our common units on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DKL.”

 

 

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Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data

The following table shows summary historical combined financial and operating data of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor, our predecessor for accounting purposes, and summary pro forma combined financial data of Delek Logistics Partners, LP for the periods and as of the dates indicated. Our summary historical combined financial data as of December 31, 2011 and 2010 and for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 are derived from the audited combined financial statements of our predecessor appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. Our summary historical combined financial data as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and for the three months ended March 31, 2011 are derived from the unaudited combined financial statements of our predecessor appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. The following table should be read together with, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the historical and unaudited pro forma combined financial statements and the accompanying notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. The table should also be read together with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor consists of the assets, liabilities and results of operations of certain crude oil and refined product pipeline, storage, wholesale marketing and terminalling assets of Delek, operated and held by Delek Marketing & Supply, Inc., Paline and Lion Oil, each a wholly owned subsidiary of Delek, to be contributed to us in connection with this offering. The historical financial data include the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the assets to be contributed by Lion Oil to us in connection with this offering, other than Paline, for all periods after April 29, 2011. The assets, liabilities and results of operations of Paline are included in the accompanying financial statements for all periods after December 19, 2011 and, for all periods through April 28, 2011, are included in the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the assets to be contributed by Lion Oil to us in connection with this offering.

The summary pro forma combined financial data presented in the following table for the year ended December 31, 2011 and as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2012 are derived from the unaudited pro forma combined financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The pro forma balance sheet assumes that the offering and the related formation transactions occurred as of March 31, 2012 and the pro forma statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012 assume that the offering and the related transactions occurred as of January 1, 2011. These transactions include, and the pro forma financial data give effect to, the following:

 

   

Delek’s contribution of all of our initial assets and operations, including certain subsidiaries, to us (excluding working capital and other noncurrent liabilities);

 

   

our execution of multiple long-term commercial agreements with Delek and recognition of incremental revenues under those agreements as discussed in “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek”;

 

   

our execution of an omnibus agreement, and our general partner’s execution of an operation and management services agreement, with Delek;

 

   

the consummation of this offering and our issuance of common units to the public, general partner units and the incentive distribution rights to our general partner and common units and subordinated units to Delek; and

 

   

the application of the net proceeds of this offering, together with the proceeds from borrowings under our revolving credit facility, as described in “Use of Proceeds.”

The pro forma combined financial data do not give effect to the estimated $2.0 million in incremental annual general and administrative expense we expect to incur as a result of being a separate publicly traded partnership.

 

 

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The following table presents the non-GAAP financial measure of EBITDA, which we use in our business as a measure of performance and liquidity. For a definition of EBITDA and a reconciliation to our most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, please read “—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.”

 

    Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor Historical     Delek Logistics Partners,
LP Pro Forma(4)
 
    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months
Ended March 31,
    Year Ended
December 31,
2011
    Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
2012
 
    2009(1)(2)     2010     2011(3)     2011     2012      
                      (unaudited)     (unaudited)  
    (In thousands, except per unit data and operating information)        

Statement of Operations Data:

             

Net sales:

             

Pipelines and transportation

  $ 6,633      $ 9,451      $ 21,878      $ 2,440      $ 6,680      $ 47,106      $ 11,573   

Wholesale marketing and terminalling(5)

    367,787        494,957        722,201        156,656        232,403        718,736        187,638   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net sales

    374,420        504,408        744,079        159,096        239,083        765,842        199,211   

Cost of goods sold

    349,493        476,678        700,505        149,809        225,409        694,795        180,928   

Operating expenses(6)

    2,643        2,920        12,940        1,003        4,210        19,125        4,362   

General and administrative expenses(7)

    5,740        4,247        5,795        1,147        2,407        6,380        1,749   

Depreciation and amortization

    2,804        2,810        4,820        690        2,134        9,347        2,287   

(Gain) loss on sale of assets

                  (2            5        (2     5   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income

    13,740        17,753        20,021        6,447        4,918        36,197        9,880   

Interest expense, net(8)

    2,173        2,564        2,011        467        488        3,569        871   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

    11,567        15,189        18,010        5,980        4,430        32,628        9,009   

Income tax expense

    4,059        5,102        5,363        2,223        1,920               —     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income

  $ 7,508      $ 10,087      $ 12,647      $ 3,757      $ 2,510      $ 32,628      $ 9,009   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

General partner interest in net income

            $        $     

Common unitholders interest in net income

             

Subordinated unitholders interest in net income

             

Pro forma net income per common unit

             

Pro forma net income per subordinated unit

             

Balance Sheet Data (at period end):

             

Property, plant and equipment, net

  $ 29,681      $ 27,934      $ 133,680        $ 156,092        $ 156,092   

Total assets

    65,096        71,831        199,827          229,880          222,002   

Total debt, including current maturities

    42,500        29,000        30,300          49,100          90,000   

Total liabilities

    63,064        59,626        92,105          120,692          131,909   

Total division equity/partners’ capital

    2,032        12,205        107,722          109,188          90,093   

Cash Flow Data:

             

Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities

  $ 5,586      $ 13,421      $ (2,859   $ (4,361   $ 6,536       

Cash flows used in investing activities

    (1,607            (885            (24,285    

Cash flows (used in) provided by financing activities

    (4,577     (13,500     3,779        4,400        17,740       

Other Financial Data:

             

EBITDA(9)

  $ 16,544      $ 20,563      $ 24,841      $ 7,137      $ 7,052      $ 45,544      $ 12,167   

Capital expenditures:

             

Maintenance

  $ 540      $      $      $      $ 475       

Expansion

                  885               538       
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

Total

  $ 540      $      $ 885      $      $ 1,013       
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

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    Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor
Historical
    Delek Logistics
Partners, LP Pro Forma(4)
 
    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months
Ended March 31,
    Year Ended
December 31,
2011
    Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
2012
 
    2009(1)(2)     2010     2011(3)     2011     2012      
                      (unaudited)     (unaudited)  
    (In thousands, except per unit data and operating information)        

Operating Information:

             

Pipeline and transportation throughputs (bpd):

             

Lion Pipeline System:

             

Crude oil throughputs

                  57,442               52,969        57,180        52,969   

Light product throughputs

                  45,337               46,823        46,203        46,823   

SALA Gathering System

                  17,676               19,710        17,358        19,710   

Paline Pipeline System

                  13,576               22,301        20,529        22,301   

East Texas Crude Logistics System

    46,153        49,388        55,341        52,862        50,388        55,341        50,388   

Wholesale marketing and terminalling:

             

East Texas—Tyler refinery sales (bpd)(5)

    50,253        50,173        57,047        54,531        53,528        51,568        47,026   

West Texas marketing sales (bpd)(5)

    13,377        14,353        15,595        14,535        19,592        15,493        15,383   

West Texas marketing gross margin per barrel

  $ 1.48      $ 1.46      $ 1.53      $ 3.26      $ 2.21      $ 1.50      $ 2.24   

Terminalling throughputs (bpd)

                  17,907               18,059        18,217        18,059   

 

(1) The Tyler refinery did not operate during the period from November 21, 2008 through May 17, 2009 due to an explosion and fire on November 20, 2008. The Tyler refinery resumed full operations on May 18, 2009. During the period for which the Tyler refinery was not in operation, Delek continued to pay us amounts consistent with historical averages despite the absence of operations at portions of our business. Accordingly, while financial information for the period reflects actual amounts received during such period, operating information on a per day basis is calculated by dividing full year volumes (including minimal sales volumes of intermediate products prior to the restart of the refinery) by 228 (the number of days in 2009 for which the Tyler refinery was operational).

 

(2) Financial information and operating information for the East Texas Crude Logistics System for the year ended December 31, 2009 is for the 275 days that we operated the system and includes payments related to minimum volume commitments in April and May 2009 as a result of reduced volumes prior to the resumption of operations at the Tyler refinery in May 2009.

 

 

(3) Financial information and operating information (other than the information relating to operations in east and west Texas) for the year ended December 31, 2011 is for the 247 days and 11 days Delek operated the El Dorado refinery and the Paline Pipeline System, respectively, in 2011.

 

(4) The pro forma net sales reflect recognition of affiliate revenues for pipelines and terminals contributed to us that have not been previously recorded in the historical financial records of the predecessor. Pro forma product volumes used in the calculations are historical volumes transported on or terminalled in facilities included in the predecessor’s financial statements. Pro forma service fees were calculated using the rates and fees in the commercial agreements to be entered into with Delek at the closing of this offering. Pro forma volumes and sales do not include any amounts related to our commercial agreements for the Paline Pipeline System and the Big Sandy terminal, as such assets were not operational or currently configured during historical periods.

 

(5) The pro forma wholesale and marketing net sales and volumes reflect the removal of activities related to the sale of jet fuel and petroleum coke from Tyler refinery sales, and the pro forma wholesale and marketing net sales reflect the removal of activities related to the sale of bulk biofuel activity from our west Texas marketing operations.

 

(6) The pro forma operating expenses reflect $1.2 million per year ($0.3 million per quarter), an increase relative to historical amounts of $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012, for business interruption, property and pollution liability insurance premiums that we expect to incur based on estimates from our insurance broker, and employee-related expenses of $0.2 million per year related to Delek personnel who will support our day-to-day operations after the closing of the offering. Pro forma operating expenses also reflect the additional operating expenses related to entities and assets acquired during 2011 and 2012, as if those entities and assets were acquired as of January 1, 2011.

 

(7) Pro forma general and administrative expenses have been adjusted to give effect to the annual service fee of $2.7 million that we will pay Delek under the terms of our omnibus agreement for performing certain centralized corporate services.

 

(8) Pro forma interest expense reflects interest expense on our new $175.0 million revolving credit facility. The facility bears interest based on predetermined pricing grids that allow us to choose between Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Rate Loans. The weighted average rate on the $90.0 million of borrowings is approximately 2.5%. Pro forma interest expense also reflects an estimated 0.30% commitment fee for the unutilized portion of the facility and fees at 2.13% of letters of credit totaling $10.0 million, as well as the related five-year amortization of debt issuance costs incurred with entering into the revolving credit facility. The annualized impact of a hypothetical one percent change in interest rates associated with this floating rate borrowing would be to change interest expense by $1.1 million.

 

 

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(9) For a definition of EBITDA and reconciliations to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, please read “—Non-GAAP Financial Measure” below.

Non-GAAP Financial Measure

We define EBITDA as net income (loss) before net interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense. EBITDA is a supplemental financial measure that management and external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies may use, to assess:

 

   

our operating performance as compared to those of other publicly traded partnerships in the midstream energy industry, without regard to capital structure or historical cost basis;

 

   

the ability of our assets to generate sufficient cash flow to make distributions to our partners;

 

   

our ability to incur and service debt and fund capital expenditures; and

 

   

the viability of acquisitions and other capital expenditure projects and the returns on investment of various investment opportunities.

We believe that the presentation of EBITDA provides information useful to investors in assessing our financial condition and results of operations. EBITDA should not be considered an alternative to net income, operating income, cash from operations or any other measure of financial performance or liquidity presented in accordance with GAAP. EBITDA has important limitations as an analytical tool because it excludes some but not all items that affect the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Additionally, because EBITDA may be defined differently by other companies in our industry, our definition of EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, thereby diminishing their utility.

 

 

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The following table presents a reconciliation of EBITDA to net income (loss) and net cash from (used in) operating activities, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, on a historical basis and pro forma basis, as applicable, for each of the periods indicated.

 

     Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor Historical     Delek Logistics Partners,
LP Pro Forma
 
     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months
Ended March 31,
    Year Ended
December 31,
2011
     Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
2012
 
     2009     2010     2011     2011     2012       
                       (unaudited)    

(unaudited)

 
     (In thousands)  

Reconciliation of EBITDA to net income (loss):

               

Net income

   $ 7,508      $ 10,087      $ 12,647      $ 3,757      $ 2,510      $ 32,628       $ 9,009   

Add:

               

Income tax expense

     4,059        5,102        5,363        2,223        1,920                  

Depreciation and amortization

     2,804        2,810        4,820        690        2,134        9,347         2,287   

Interest expense, net

     2,173        2,564        2,011        467        488        3,569         871   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

EBITDA

   $ 16,544      $ 20,563      $ 24,841      $ 7,137      $ 7,052      $ 45,544       $ 12,167   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Reconciliation of EBITDA to net cash provided by operating activities:

               

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ 5,586      $ 13,421      $ (2,859   $ (4,361   $ 6,536        

Amortization of deferred financing costs

     (173     (169     (208     (46     (47     

Accretion of asset retirement obligations

     (61     (73     (91     (20     (25     

Deferred taxes

     (650     (258     4,328        (6     (1,734     

Loss on asset disposals

                                 (5     

Stock-based compensation expense

     (190     (86     (64     (14     (16     

Changes in assets and liabilities

     5,800        62        16,361        8,894        (65     

Income taxes

     4,059        5,102        5,363        2,223        1,920        

Interest expense, net

     2,173        2,564        2,011        467        488        
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

EBITDA

   $ 16,544      $ 20,563      $ 24,841      $ 7,137      $ 7,052        
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

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RISK FACTORS

Limited partner interests are inherently different from shares of capital stock of a corporation, although many of the business risks to which we are subject are similar to those that would be faced by a corporation engaged in similar businesses. We urge you to carefully consider the following risk factors together with all of the other information included in this prospectus in evaluating an investment in our common units.

If any of the following risks were to occur, our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected. In that case, we might not be able to pay the minimum quarterly distribution on our common units, the trading price of our common units could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment in us.

Risks Related to Our Business

Delek accounts for a substantial majority of our contribution margin. Therefore, we are subject to the business risks of Delek. If Delek changes its business strategy, fails to satisfy its obligations under our commercial agreements with it for any reason or significantly reduces the volumes transported through our pipelines or handled at our terminals or its use of our marketing services, our revenues would decline and our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders would be adversely affected.

Delek accounted for 86.9% and 80.5% of our pro forma contribution margin for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, respectively. Delek is the only customer for our Lion Pipeline System, our East Texas Crude Logistics System and our Big Sandy terminal and the principal customer for our SALA Gathering System. Delek has historically operated these assets solely to support the Tyler and El Dorado refineries and not as a stand-alone business. We also derive a significant portion of our contribution margin under our marketing agreement with Delek for the output of the Tyler refinery (other than jet fuel and petroleum coke), which includes an incentive fee to us of 50% of the margin, if any, above an agreed base level. As we expect to continue to derive the substantial majority of our contribution margin from Delek for the foreseeable future, we are subject to the risk of nonpayment or nonperformance by Delek under our commercial agreements. If Delek were to significantly decrease the throughput transported on our pipelines or the volumes of refined products handled at our terminals, because of business or operational difficulties or strategic decisions by Delek’s management, it is unlikely that we would be able to utilize any additional capacity on these pipelines or at these terminal facilities to service third-party customers without substantial capital outlays and delays, if at all, which could materially and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. For example, we expect a reconfigured third-party pipeline system will begin supplying crude oil to the Tyler and El Dorado refineries in 2013 and cause crude oil volumes transported on our East Texas Crude Logistics System to decrease. Additionally, any event, whether in our areas of operation or otherwise, that materially and adversely affects Delek’s financial condition, results of operations or cash flows may adversely affect our ability to sustain or increase cash distributions to our unitholders. Accordingly, we are subject to the operational and business risks of Delek, including but not limited to the following:

 

   

the risk of contract cancellation, non-renewal or failure to perform by Delek’s customers, and Delek’s inability to replace such contracts and/or customers;

 

   

disruptions due to equipment interruption or failure at Delek’s facilities, such as the November 2008 fire at the Tyler refinery that resulted in a suspension of operations for more than five months, or at third-party facilities on which Delek’s business is dependent;

 

   

the timing and extent of changes in commodity prices and demand for Delek’s refined products, and the availability and costs of crude oil and other refinery feedstocks;

 

   

the effects of the global economic downturn on Delek’s business and the business of its suppliers, customers, business partners and lenders;

 

   

Delek’s ability to remain in compliance with its supply and offtake arrangements;

 

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Delek’s ability to remain in compliance with the terms of its outstanding indebtedness;

 

   

changes in the cost or availability of third-party pipelines, terminals and other means of delivering and transporting crude oil, feedstocks and refined products, such as the reconfigured third-party pipeline system that will begin supplying crude oil to the Tyler and El Dorado refineries in 2013, the temporary suspension of crude oil shipments by a third-party pipeline operator in May 2011 that caused the El Dorado refinery to operate at reduced rates for approximately five weeks and the temporary suspension of crude oil shipments by this third-party pipeline operator in May 2012 that continues to cause the El Dorado refinery to operate at reduced rates;

 

   

state and federal environmental, economic, health and safety, energy and other policies and regulations, and any changes in those policies and regulations;

 

   

environmental incidents and violations and related remediation costs, fines and other liabilities; and

 

   

changes in crude oil and refined product inventory levels and carrying costs.

Additionally, Delek continually considers opportunities presented by third parties with respect to its refinery assets. These opportunities may include offers to purchase and joint venture propositions. Delek may also change its refineries’ operations by constructing new facilities, suspending or reducing certain operations, or modifying or closing facilities. Changes may be considered to meet market demands, to satisfy regulatory requirements or environmental and safety objectives, to improve operational efficiency or for other reasons. Delek actively manages its assets and operations, and, therefore, changes of some nature, possibly material to its business relationship with us, may occur at some point in the future.

Furthermore, conflicts of interest may arise between Delek and its affiliates, including our general partner, on the one hand, and us and our unitholders, on the other hand. We have no control over Delek, our largest source of contribution margin, and Delek may elect to pursue a business strategy that does not favor us or our business. Please read “—Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us—Our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, have conflicts of interest with us and limited duties to us and our unitholders, and they may favor their own interests to the detriment of us and our other common unitholders” and “Conflicts of Interest and Duties.”

We may not have sufficient cash from operations following the establishment of cash reserves and payment of fees and expenses, including cost reimbursements to our general partner and its affiliates, to enable us to pay the minimum quarterly distribution to holders of our common and subordinated units.

In order to pay the minimum quarterly distribution of $         per unit, or $         per unit on an annualized basis, we will require available cash of approximately $         million per quarter, or $         million per year, based on the number of common, subordinated and general partner units to be outstanding immediately after completion of this offering. We may not have sufficient available cash each quarter to enable us to pay the minimum quarterly distribution. The amount of cash we can distribute on our units principally depends upon the amount of cash we generate from our operations, which will fluctuate from quarter to quarter based on, among other things:

 

   

the volume of crude oil and refined products we handle;

 

   

our entitlement to payments associated with minimum volume commitments;

 

   

the rates and terminalling and storage fees we charge for the volumes we handle;

 

   

the margins generated on the refined products we market or sell;

 

   

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the level of our operating, maintenance and general and administrative costs; and

 

   

prevailing economic conditions.

In addition, the actual amount of cash we will have available for distribution will depend on other factors, including:

 

   

the level and timing of capital expenditures we make;

 

   

the level of our operating and general and administrative expenses, including the administrative fee under the omnibus agreement and reimbursements to Delek for services provided to us;

 

   

the cost of acquisitions, if any;

 

   

our debt service requirements and other liabilities;

 

   

fluctuations in our working capital needs;

 

   

our ability to borrow funds and access capital markets;

 

   

restrictions on distributions contained in our debt agreements;

 

   

the amount of cash reserves established by our general partner; and

 

   

other business risks affecting our cash levels.

For a description of additional restrictions and factors that may affect our ability to make cash distributions, please read “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions.”

On a pro forma basis we would not have had sufficient cash available for distribution to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution on all of our units for the year ended December 31, 2011 or the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012.

The amount of pro forma cash available for distribution for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012 would have been sufficient to allow us to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution on all of our common units, but only approximately     % and     %, respectively, of the minimum quarterly distribution on all of our subordinated units for such periods. For a calculation of our ability to make cash distributions to our unitholders based on our pro forma results for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012, please read “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions.”

The assumptions underlying the forecast of cash available for distribution that we include in “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions” are inherently uncertain and are subject to significant business, economic, financial, regulatory and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forecasted.

The forecast of cash available for distribution set forth in “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions” includes our forecast of our results of operations, EBITDA and cash available for distribution for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013. Our ability to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution in the forecast period is based on a number of assumptions that may not prove to be correct and that are discussed in “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions.” Our financial forecast has been prepared by management, and we have neither received nor requested an opinion or report on it from our or

 

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any other independent auditor. The assumptions underlying the forecast are inherently uncertain and are subject to significant business, economic, regulatory and competitive risks, including those discussed in this prospectus, which could cause our EBITDA to be materially less than the amount forecasted. If we do not generate the forecasted EBITDA, we may not be able to make the minimum quarterly distribution or pay any amount on our common units or subordinated units, and the market price of our common units may decline materially.

Each of our commercial agreements with Delek and the agreement governing the capacity reservation on our Paline Pipeline System contain provisions that allow our counterparty to such agreement to suspend, reduce or terminate its obligations under such agreement in certain circumstances, including events of force majeure, which would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders.

Each of our commercial agreements with Delek provide that Delek may suspend, reduce or terminate its obligations to us, including the requirement to pay the fees associated with the applicable minimum volume commitments, in the event of (i) a material breach of the agreement by us, (ii) Delek deciding to permanently or indefinitely suspend refining operations at one or more of its refineries or (iii) the occurrence of certain force majeure events that would prevent us or Delek from performing our or its obligations under the applicable agreement. Delek has the discretion to decide to suspend, reduce or terminate its obligations notwithstanding the fact that its decision may significantly and adversely affect us. For instance, under each of our commercial agreements with Delek, if, at any time after the second anniversary of the completion of this offering, Delek decides to permanently or indefinitely suspend refining operations at the refinery served under the applicable agreement for a period that will continue for at least twelve consecutive months, then it may terminate the agreement on no less than twelve months’ prior written notice to us. Furthermore, under such agreements, Delek has the right, commencing three years after this offering, to suspend or reduce its obligations for the duration of a force majeure event affecting its assets with respect to any affected services, and may terminate the agreements with respect to such services if the force majeure event lasts in excess of twelve months. In addition, if the force majeure event occurs on our assets at any time, Delek has the right to suspend or reduce its obligations for the duration of the force majeure event with respect to any affected services. As defined in our commercial agreements with Delek, force majeure events include any acts or occurrences that prevent services from being performed either by us or Delek under the applicable agreement, such as:

 

   

acts of God;

 

   

strikes, lockouts or other industrial disturbances;

 

   

acts of the public enemy, wars, blockades, insurrections, riots or civil disturbances;

 

   

storms, floods or washouts;

 

   

arrests or the order of any court or governmental authority having jurisdiction while the same is in force and effect;

 

   

explosions, breakage, accident to machinery, storage tanks or lines of pipe;

 

   

any inability to obtain or unavoidable delay in obtaining material or equipment;

 

   

any inability to deliver crude oil because of a failure of third-party pipelines; and

 

   

any other causes not reasonably within the control of the party claiming suspension and which by the exercise of due diligence such party is unable to prevent or overcome.

Our customer for the southbound capacity of the Paline Pipeline System is also excused from performance of its obligations under its agreement with us in the event of a force majeure, including acts of God, explosions, breakage of or accidents to machinery, equipment or pipelines and similar events. Additionally, this

 

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customer may terminate its agreement with us with it if we breach the terms of the agreement and fail to remedy the breach within 60 days.

Accordingly, there exists a broad range of events that could result in our no longer being able to utilize our pipelines or terminals and the counterparty to the applicable commercial agreement no longer having an obligation to meet its minimum volume commitments or pay amounts otherwise owing under the applicable agreement. Furthermore, a single event relating to one of Delek’s refineries could have such an impact on multiple of our commercial agreements with Delek. Any reduction, suspension or termination of any of our commercial agreements would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek.”

If Delek satisfies only its minimum obligations under, or if we are unable to renew or extend, the various commercial agreements we have with it, our ability to make distributions to our unitholders will be reduced.

Delek is not obligated to use our services with respect to volumes of crude oil or refined products in excess of the minimum volume commitments under the various commercial agreements with us. During refinery turnarounds, which typically last 30 to 60 days and are performed every three to five years, we expect that Delek may only satisfy its minimum volume commitments with respect to our assets that serve the refinery. Turnarounds are scheduled at the Tyler and El Dorado refineries in 2014. If Delek had satisfied only its minimum volume commitments during 2011 or the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012 under each of the various commercial agreements with us, we would not have been able to make the full minimum quarterly distribution on all of our outstanding common units. In addition, the terms of Delek’s obligations under those agreements range from five to ten years. If Delek fails to use our facilities and services after expiration of those agreements and we are unable to generate additional revenues from third parties, our ability to make cash distributions to unitholders will be reduced. See “—We anticipate that, beginning in the first half of 2013, our East Texas Crude Logistics System will operate at levels significantly below Delek’s minimum volume commitment under its agreement with us for the foreseeable future.”

We anticipate that, beginning in the first half of 2013, our East Texas Crude Logistics System will operate at levels significantly below Delek’s minimum volume commitment under its agreement with us for the foreseeable future.

Our East Texas Crude Logistics System is currently the only pipeline system supplying crude oil to the Tyler refinery. Beginning in the first half of 2013, however, we expect a reconfigured pipeline system that is owned and operated by third parties to also begin transporting crude oil to the Tyler refinery from west Texas. Delek has a 10-year agreement with such third parties to transport a substantial majority of the Tyler refinery’s crude oil requirements on this reconfigured system. Consequently, crude oil volumes transported on our East Texas Crude Logistics System are expected to decrease from approximately 55,000 bpd to below 10,000 bpd. For so long as Delek is required to pay the associated minimum volume commitment under its commercial agreement with us relating to the East Texas Crude Logistics System, Delek will be obligated to pay us an amount equal to the fee it would pay were we to throughput 35,000 bpd, or approximately $5.1 million annually based on the per barrel fees in our agreement, as opposed to approximately $8.5 million annually based on pro forma revenues for the year ended December 31, 2011. Without the minimum volume commitment, assuming throughput levels of 10,000 bpd, we would be entitled to payments of approximately $1.5 million annually. Furthermore, our forecasted revenues for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013 include incremental revenues of approximately $             million associated with the increased throughput fee of $0.60 per barrel for amounts throughput in excess of 50,000 bpd on the East Texas Crude Logistics System. We do not expect to realize incremental revenues associated with this fee structure following the commencement of third-party transportation to the Tyler refinery.

 

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A material decrease in the refining margins at either of Delek’s refineries could materially reduce the volumes of crude oil or refined products that we handle, which could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders.

The volumes of crude oil and refined products that we transport and refined products that we market depend substantially on Delek’s refining margins. Refining margins are dependent mostly upon the price of crude oil or other refinery feedstocks and the price of refined products. These prices are affected by numerous factors beyond our or Delek’s control, including the global supply and demand for crude oil, gasoline and other refined products. The current global economic weakness and high unemployment in the United States could depress demand for refined products. The impact of low demand may be further compounded by excess global refining capacity and high inventory levels. Several refineries in North America and Europe have been temporarily or permanently shut down in response to falling demand and excess refining capacity.

In addition to current market conditions, there are long-term factors that may impact the supply and demand of refined products in the United States, including:

 

   

changes in capacity and utilization rates of refineries worldwide;

 

   

increased fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, including greater acceptance of electric and alternative fuel vehicles;

 

   

development and marketing of alternative and competing fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel;

 

   

changes in fuel specifications required by environmental and other laws, particularly with respect to renewable fuel content;

 

   

potential and enacted climate change legislation;

 

   

the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act; and

 

   

other U.S. government regulations.

The price for a significant portion of the crude oil processed at Delek’s refineries is based upon the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark for such oil rather than the Brent benchmark. Although these two benchmarks have historically been similarly priced, elevated inventories of WTI-priced crude oil in the Mid-Continent have caused WTI prices to fall significantly below the Brent benchmark. During the year ended December 31, 2011, this differential ranged from a high of $27.88 per bbl to a low of $3.29 per bbl. During the three months ended March 31, 2012, this differential ranged from a high of $19.86 per bbl to a low of $9.17 per bbl. A substantial or prolonged narrowing in (or inversion to) the price differential between the WTI and Brent benchmarks for any reason, including, without limitation, actual or perceived reductions in Mid-Continent inventories or a continued weakening of economic conditions in the European Union, could negatively impact Delek’s refining margins. In addition, because the premium or discount Delek pays for a portion of the crude oil processed at its refineries is established based upon this differential during the month prior to the month in which the crude oil is processed, changes in the margin between the cost of crude oil and the sales price of refined products may negatively affect its results of operations and cash flows.

In addition to our indirect exposure to Delek’s refining margins, we are directly impacted by the wholesale margins of the Tyler refinery relative to U.S. Gulf Coast prices, where our marketing agreement with Delek provides that we share a portion of Delek’s margin, if any, above an agreed base level generated on the sale of refined products, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke.

 

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The Tyler refinery has historically processed primarily light sweet crude oils, while the El Dorado refinery processes primarily sour crude oils. Light sweet crude oils have historically been more costly than heavy sour crude oils, and an increase in the cost of light sweet crude oils could negatively impact Delek’s operations at the Tyler refinery, which would negatively impact revenues we generate under our marketing agreement and could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

If the demand for refined products, particularly in Delek’s primary market areas, decreases significantly, or if there were a material increase in the price of crude oil supplied to Delek’s refineries without an increase in the value of the refined products produced by those refineries, either temporary or permanent, which caused Delek to reduce production of refined products at its refineries, there would likely be a reduction in the volumes of crude oil and refined products we handle for Delek. Any such reduction could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

A material decrease in the supply of attractively priced crude oil could materially reduce the volumes of crude oil and refined products that we transport and store, which could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

The volumes of crude oil and refined products that we may transport on our pipelines in excess of Delek’s minimum volume commitments will depend on the volumes of crude oil purchased and refined products produced at Delek’s refineries. The volumes of crude oil purchased and refined products produced depends, in part, on the availability of attractively priced crude oil.

In order to maintain or increase product production levels at Delek’s refineries, Delek must continually contract for new crude oil supplies or consider connecting to alternative sources of crude oil. Adverse developments in major oil producing regions around the world could have a significantly greater impact on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows because of our lack of industry and geographic diversity and substantial reliance on Delek as a customer. Accordingly, in addition to risks related to accessing, transporting and storing crude oil and refined products, we are disproportionately exposed to risks inherent in the broader oil and gas industry, including:

 

   

the volatility and uncertainty of regional pricing differentials for crude oil and refined products;

 

   

the ability of the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, to agree to and maintain production controls;

 

   

the nature and extent of governmental regulation and taxation; and

 

   

the anticipated future prices of crude oil and refined products in markets served by Delek’s refineries.

If, as a result of any of these or other factors, the volumes of attractively priced crude oil available to Delek’s refineries are materially reduced for a prolonged period of time, the volumes of crude oil and refined products that we transport and store, and the related fees for those services, could be materially reduced, which could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders as well as the trading price of our common units.

Our substantial dependence on the Tyler and El Dorado refineries as well as the lack of diversification of our assets and geographic locations could adversely affect our ability to make distributions to our common unitholders.

We believe that a substantial majority of our contribution margin for the foreseeable future will be derived from operations supporting the Tyler and El Dorado refineries. Any event that renders either refinery temporarily or permanently unavailable would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results

 

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of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders. Furthermore, we are indirectly impacted by limitations associated with attributes of the Tyler and El Dorado refineries. For example, for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, substantially all sales of the Tyler refinery products volume were completed through Delek’s rack system located at the Tyler refinery. Neither we nor Delek owns, and, unlike most refineries, the Tyler refinery has no access to, an outbound pipeline for distribution of its refined petroleum products outside the northeast Texas market. Such limited access to an outbound pipeline may impair Delek’s ability to attract new customers or increase sales for refined petroleum products from the Tyler refinery. The Tyler refinery is currently the only supplier of a full range of refined petroleum products within a radius of approximately 100 miles of its location. If competitors commence operations within the markets served by the Tyler refinery, it could result in reduced demand for refined products from the Tyler refinery. If demand for refined products from the Tyler refinery decreases, our revenues under our marketing agreement above specified minimum throughput fees with Delek may decrease. In addition, reduced demand for refined products from the Tyler refinery could decrease the demand for crude oil transported on our East Texas Crude Logistics System, which would reduce our revenues.

We rely on revenues generated from our pipelines, gathering systems, storage and terminal operations, which are primarily located in Arkansas and Texas and, to a lesser degree, Tennessee. Due to our lack of diversification in assets and geographic location, an adverse development in our businesses or areas of operations, including adverse developments due to catastrophic events, weather, regulatory action and decreases in demand for crude oil and refined products, could have a significantly greater impact on our results of operations and cash available for distribution to our common unitholders than if we maintained more diverse assets and locations. Such events may constitute force majeure events under our commercial agreements, potentially resulting in the suspension, reduction or termination of multiple commercial agreements in the impacted geographic area. In addition, during a refinery turnaround, we expect that Delek may only satisfy its minimum volume commitments with respect to our assets that serve such refinery. Please read “—Each of our commercial agreements with Delek and the agreement governing the capacity reservation on our Paline Pipeline System contain provisions that allow our counterparty to such agreement to suspend, reduce or terminate its obligations under such agreement in certain circumstances, including events of force majeure, which would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders” and “—If Delek satisfies only its minimum obligations under, or if we are unable to renew or extend, the various commercial agreements we have with it, our ability to make distributions to our unitholders will be reduced.”

Our ability to expand may be limited if Delek’s business does not grow as expected.

Part of our growth strategy depends on the growth of Delek’s business. For example, in our terminals and storage business, we believe our growth will be driven in part by identifying and executing organic expansion projects that will result in increased throughput volumes from Delek and third parties. Our prospects for organic growth currently include projects that we expect Delek to undertake, such as constructing new tankage, and that we expect to have an opportunity to purchase from Delek. In addition, our organic growth opportunities will be limited if Delek is unable to acquire new assets for which our execution of organic projects is needed. Additionally, if Delek focuses on other growth areas or does not make capital expenditures to fund the organic growth of its logistics operations, we may not be able to fully execute our growth strategy.

We may not be able to significantly increase our third-party revenue due to competition and other factors, which could limit our ability to grow and may extend our dependence on Delek.

Our ability to increase our third-party revenue is subject to numerous factors beyond our control, including competition from third parties and the extent to which we have available capacity when third-party shippers require it. Under our commercial agreements with Delek, we may not provide service to third parties on our Lion Pipeline System, SALA Gathering System or East Texas Crude Logistics System, or at our Memphis or Big Sandy terminals, without Delek’s consent, subject to limited exceptions. In addition, our ability to obtain third-party customers on our East Texas Crude Logistics System will be dependent on our ability to make

 

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connections to third-party facilities and pipelines. If we are unable to do so, or if Delek prohibits us from doing so, the throughput on our East Texas Crude Logistics System will be limited to the demand from the Tyler refinery not satisfied by third parties and the availability of crude oil shipped from third-party destinations. Furthermore, to the extent that we have capacity at our refined products terminals available for third-party volumes, competition from other existing or future refined products terminals owned by our competitors may limit our ability to utilize this available capacity.

We can provide no assurance that we will be able to attract material third-party revenues. Our efforts to establish our reputation and attract new unaffiliated customers may be adversely affected by our relationship with Delek and our desire to provide services pursuant to fee-based contracts. Our potential third-party customers may prefer to obtain services under contracts through which we could be required to assume direct commodity exposure.

If we are unable to obtain needed capital or financing on satisfactory terms to fund expansions of our asset base, our ability to make quarterly cash distributions may be diminished or our financial leverage could increase. We do not have any commitment with any of our affiliates to provide any direct or indirect financial assistance to us following the closing of this offering.

In order to expand our asset base, we will need to make expansion capital expenditures. If we do not make sufficient or effective expansion capital expenditures, we will be unable to expand our business operations and may be unable to maintain or raise the level of our quarterly cash distributions. We will be required to use cash from our operations or incur borrowings or sell additional common units or other limited partner interests in order to fund our expansion capital expenditures. Using cash from operations will reduce cash available for distribution to our common unitholders. Our ability to obtain financing or to access the capital markets for future equity or debt offerings may be limited by our financial condition at the time of any such financing or offering as well as the covenants in our debt agreements, general economic conditions and contingencies and uncertainties that are beyond our control. Even if we are successful in obtaining funds for expansion capital expenditures through equity or debt financings, the terms thereof could limit our ability to pay distributions to our common unitholders. In addition, incurring additional debt may significantly increase our interest expense and financial leverage, and issuing additional limited partner interests may result in significant common unitholder dilution and increase the aggregate amount of cash required to maintain the then-current distribution rate, which could materially decrease our ability to pay distributions at the then-current distribution rate.

Delek’s level of indebtedness, the terms of its borrowings and any future credit ratings could adversely affect our ability to grow our business, our ability to make cash distributions to our unitholders and our credit ratings and profile. Our ability to obtain credit in the future and our future credit rating may also be affected by Delek’s level of indebtedness.

Delek has a significant amount of debt. As of March 31, 2012, Delek had total debt of $441.2 million, including current maturities of $110.1 million. In addition to its outstanding debt, as of March 31, 2012, letters of credit issued under Delek’s various credit facilities were $218.0 million. Delek’s significant level of debt could increase its and our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions and require Delek to dedicate a substantial portion of its cash flow from operations to service its debt and lease obligations, thereby reducing the availability of its cash flow to fund its growth strategy, including capital expenditures, acquisitions and other business opportunities. Furthermore, a higher level of indebtedness at Delek increases the risk that it may default on its obligations, including under its commercial agreements with us. In addition, a substantial portion of Delek’s debt has a variable rate of interest, which increases its exposure to interest rate fluctuations. The covenants contained in the agreements governing Delek’s outstanding and future indebtedness may limit its ability to borrow additional funds for development and make certain investments and may directly or indirectly impact our operations in a similar matter. For example, Delek’s indebtedness requires that any transactions it enters into with us must be on terms no less favorable to Delek than those that could have been obtained with an unrelated person. Furthermore, in the event that Delek were to default under certain of its debt obligations, there

 

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is a risk that Delek’s creditors would attempt to assert claims against our assets during the litigation of their claims against Delek. The defense of any such claims could be costly and could materially impact our financial condition, even absent any adverse determination. In the event these claims were successful, our ability to meet our obligations to our creditors, make distributions and finance our operations could be materially adversely affected.

Although we are not contractually bound by and are not liable for Delek’s debt under its credit arrangements, we are indirectly affected by certain prohibitions and limitations contained therein. Specifically, under the terms of certain of its credit arrangements, Delek will be in default if we incur indebtedness in excess of the capacity available under our new $175.0 million revolving credit facility except for (i) any indebtedness that we may incur pursuant to the exercise of the accordion feature of the facility or (ii) new debt incurred for financing or acquiring additional or newly constructed assets, working capital or growth capital expenditures. Delek must also comply with certain financial covenants. Please read “Management’s Discussion and Analysis—Capital Resources and Liquidity—Agreements Governing Certain Indebtedness of Delek.” Due to its ownership and control of our general partner, Delek has the ability to prevent us from taking actions that would cause Delek to violate any covenants in its credit arrangements, or otherwise to be in default under any of its credit arrangements. In deciding whether to prevent us from taking any such action, Delek will have no fiduciary duty to us or our unitholders. Delek’s compliance with the covenants in its credit arrangements may restrict our ability to undertake certain actions that might otherwise be considered beneficial, including borrowing under our new credit facility.

Any debt instruments that Delek or any of its affiliates enter into in the future, including any amendments to existing credit facilities, may include additional or more restrictive limitations on Delek that may impact our ability to conduct our business. These additional restrictions could adversely affect our ability to finance our future operations or capital needs or engage in, expand or pursue our business activities.

Delek’s debt is not rated by any credit ratings agencies. If we were to seek a credit rating in the future, our credit rating may be adversely affected by the leverage or any future credit rating of Delek, as credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. may consider the leverage and credit profile of Delek and its affiliates because of their ownership interest in and control of us and because Delek accounts for a substantial majority of our contribution margin. Any adverse effect on our credit rating would increase our cost of borrowing or hinder our ability to raise financing in the capital markets, which would impair our ability to grow our business and make cash distributions to our unitholders.

Our logistics and marketing operations and Delek’s refining operations are subject to many risks and operational hazards, some of which may result in business interruptions and shutdowns of our or Delek’s facilities and liability for damages. If a significant accident or event occurs that results in business interruption or shutdown, our operations and financial results could be adversely affected.

Our logistics and marketing operations are subject to all of the risks and operational hazards inherent in gathering, transporting and storing crude oil and refined products, including:

 

   

damages to pipelines and facilities, related equipment and surrounding properties caused by earthquakes, floods, fires, severe weather, explosions and other natural disasters and acts of terrorism;

 

   

the inability of third-party facilities on which our operations are dependent, including Delek’s facilities, to complete capital projects and to restart timely refining operations following a shutdown;

 

   

mechanical or structural failures at our facilities or at third-party facilities on which our operations are dependent, including Delek’s facilities;

 

   

curtailments of operations relative to severe seasonal weather;

 

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inadvertent damage to pipelines from construction, farm and utility equipment;

 

   

constrained pipeline and storage infrastructure; and

 

   

other hazards.

These risks could result in substantial losses due to personal injury and/or loss of life, severe damage to and destruction of property and equipment and pollution or other environmental damage, as well as business interruptions or shutdowns of our facilities. Any such event or unplanned shutdown could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, Delek’s refining operations, on which our operations are substantially dependent and over which we have no control, are subject to similar operational hazards and risks inherent in refining crude oil. A significant accident at our facilities or at Delek’s facilities, such as the November 2008 fire at the Tyler refinery, could result in serious injury or death to employees of our general partner or its affiliates or contractors, could expose us to significant liability for personal injury claims and reputational risk and could affect Delek’s ability and/or requirement to satisfy the minimum volume commitments under our commercial agreements.

Our insurance policies do not cover all losses, costs or liabilities that we may experience, and insurance companies that currently insure companies in the energy industry may cease to do so or substantially increase premiums.

We will be insured under the property, liability and business interruption policies of Delek, subject to the deductibles and limits under those policies. To the extent Delek experiences losses under the insurance policies, the limits of our coverage may be decreased. In addition, we are not insured against all potential losses, costs or liabilities. We could suffer losses for uninsurable or uninsured risks or in amounts in excess of existing insurance coverage. In addition, because Delek’s business interruption policy does not cover losses for up to the first 45 days of the interruption, a significant part or all of a business interruption loss could be uninsured. The occurrence of an event that is not fully covered by insurance could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The energy industry is highly capital intensive, and the entire or partial loss of individual facilities or multiple facilities can result in significant costs to both energy industry companies, such as us, and their insurance carriers. In recent years, several large energy industry claims have resulted in significant increases in the level of premium costs and deductible periods for participants in the energy industry. For example, hurricanes in recent years have caused significant damage to several pipelines along the U.S. Gulf Coast. As a result of large energy industry claims, insurance companies that have historically participated in underwriting energy-related facilities may discontinue that practice, may reduce the insurance capacity they are willing to offer or demand significantly higher premiums or deductible periods to cover these facilities. If significant changes in the number or financial solvency of insurance underwriters for the energy industry occur, or if other adverse conditions over which we have no control prevail in the insurance market, we may be unable to obtain and maintain adequate insurance at reasonable cost.

In addition, we cannot assure you that our insurers will renew our insurance coverage on acceptable terms, if at all, or that we will be able to arrange for adequate alternative coverage in the event of non-renewal. The unavailability of full insurance coverage to cover events in which we suffer significant losses could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

A material decrease in the supply, or increase in the price, of crude oil produced in the southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana area could materially reduce the volume of crude oil gathered and transported by our SALA Gathering System, which could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders.

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production levels at the El Dorado refinery, Delek must continually contract for new crude oil supplies in the southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana area or consider connecting to alternative sources of crude oil, such as crude oil supplied from Texas through third-party pipelines. Adverse developments in the southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana area, including reduced availability of production surrounding our SALA Gathering System or an increase in the price of crude oil supplied in this area, could result in decreased throughput on our SALA Gathering System, because this area is the sole source of crude oil for our SALA Gathering System. Reserves in this area could be lower than we currently anticipate, and production may decline faster than we currently project. Accordingly, in addition to general industry risks related to gathering and transporting crude oil, we are disproportionately exposed to risks in the southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana area, including:

 

   

reduced development and production associated with depressed commodity prices;

 

   

volatility and uncertainty of regional pricing differentials;

 

   

lack of drilling activity;

 

   

the availability of drilling rigs for producers;

 

   

weather-related curtailment of operations by producers and disruptions to gathering and transportation operations;

 

   

the nature and extent of governmental regulation and taxation; and

 

   

the anticipated future prices of crude oil and of refined products in markets that the El Dorado refinery serves.

Furthermore, the development of third-party crude oil gathering systems in the southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana area could disproportionately impact our SALA Gathering System, should producers ship on competing systems or using alternative methods, thereby impacting the price and availability of crude oil to be transported to the El Dorado refinery by our SALA Gathering System. If, as a result of any of these or other factors, the volume of attractively priced crude oil available to the El Dorado refinery is materially reduced for a prolonged period of time, the volume of crude oil gathered and transported by our SALA Gathering System and the related fees could be materially reduced, which could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

Any reduction in the capacity of, or the allocations to, our shippers in interconnecting, third-party pipelines could cause a reduction of volumes distributed through our terminals and through our crude oil pipelines.

We depend upon connections to third-party pipelines to transport refined products to our terminals and to ship crude oil on our pipelines. Any reduction of capacities of these interconnecting pipelines due to testing, line repair, reduced operating pressures, retirement or abandonment of facilities, or other causes could result in reduced volumes of refined products distributed through our terminals and shipments of crude oil through our pipelines. For example, the temporary suspension of crude oil shipments on a damaged pipeline by a third-party operator that began in May 2012 continues to cause volumes on our Lion Pipeline System to be below historical volumes. Similarly, if additional shippers begin transporting volumes of refined products or crude oil over interconnecting pipelines, the allocations to us and other existing shippers on these interconnecting pipelines could be reduced, which could also reduce volumes distributed through our terminals or transported through our crude oil pipelines. Allocation reductions of this nature are not infrequent and are beyond our control. Any significant reduction in volumes would adversely affect our revenues and cash flow and our ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

 

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An interruption or termination of supply and delivery of refined products to our wholesale marketing business could result in a decline in our sales and profitability.

In our west Texas wholesale marketing business, we sell refined products produced by refineries owned by unaffiliated third parties. In 2011, we received substantially all of our supply of refined products for our west Texas wholesale business from two suppliers, Noble Petro and Magellan. We could experience an interruption or termination of supply or delivery of refined products if our suppliers partially or completely ceased operations, temporarily or permanently, or ceased to supply us with refined products for any reason. The ability of these refineries and our suppliers to supply refined products to us could be disrupted by anticipated events such as scheduled upgrades or maintenance, as well as events beyond their control, such as unscheduled maintenance, fires, floods, storms, explosions, power outages, accidents, acts of terrorism or other catastrophic events, labor difficulties and work stoppages, governmental or private party litigation, or legislation or regulation that adversely impacts refinery operations. A reduction in the volume of refined products supplied to our wholesale business would adversely affect our sales and profitability.

Fluctuations in the prices of refined petroleum products that we purchase and sell in our west Texas wholesale marketing business could materially affect our results of operations.

In our west Texas wholesale marketing business, for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, approximately 33.8% and 36.3%, respectively, of the refined products we resold to our customers were purchased under our agreement with Magellan. Significant fluctuations in market prices of these products during the period between our purchase from Magellan and subsequent resale to customers could result in losses or lower profits from these activities, thereby reducing the amount of cash we generate and our ability to pay cash distributions. Additionally, significant fluctuations in market prices of these refined products could result in significant unrealized gains or losses to the extent we enter into transactions to hedge our commodity exposure. To the extent these transactions have not been designated as hedges for accounting purposes, the associated non-cash unrealized gains and losses would directly impact our results of operations.

We are exposed to the credit risks, and certain other risks, of our key customers, including Delek, and any material nonpayment or nonperformance by our key customers could reduce our ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

We are subject to risks of loss resulting from nonpayment or nonperformance by our customers. Any material nonpayment or nonperformance by our key customers, including Delek, could reduce our ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

If any of our key customers default on their obligations to us, our financial results could be adversely affected. Furthermore, some of our customers may be highly leveraged and subject to their own operating and regulatory risks. Any loss of our key customers, including Delek, could reduce our ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

Restrictions in our new revolving credit facility could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and ability to make quarterly cash distributions to our unitholders.

We expect to enter into a new revolving credit facility in connection with the closing of this offering. Our new credit facility is likely to limit our ability to, among other things:

 

   

incur or guarantee additional debt;

 

   

incur certain liens on assets;

 

   

dispose of assets;

 

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make certain cash distributions unless no default under the credit agreement then exists or would result therefrom and provided that the Total Leverage Ratio covenant is satisfied after giving effect to any such distribution on a pro forma basis;

 

   

redeem or repurchase units;

 

   

change the nature of our business;

 

   

engage in certain mergers or acquisitions and investments; and

 

   

enter into non arms-length transactions with affiliates.

 

Our new credit facility will likely contain covenants requiring us to maintain certain financial ratios. Our ability to meet those financial ratios can be affected by events beyond our control, and we cannot assure you that we will meet those ratios and tests.

The provisions of our new credit facility may affect our ability to obtain future financing and pursue attractive business opportunities and our flexibility in planning for, and reacting to, changes in business conditions. In addition, a failure to comply with the provisions of our new credit facility could result in a default or an event of default that could enable our lenders to declare the outstanding principal of that debt, together with accrued and unpaid interest, to be immediately due and payable. If the payment of our debt is accelerated, our assets may be insufficient to repay such debt in full, and our unitholders could experience a partial or total loss of their investment. The new credit facility will also have cross default provisions that apply to any other indebtedness we may have with an outstanding principal amount in excess of $         million. Please read “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Capital Resources and Liquidity—New Revolving Credit Facility.”

Our future debt levels may limit our flexibility to obtain financing and to pursue other business opportunities.

Following this offering, we will have the ability to incur debt, subject to limitations in our new revolving credit facility. Our level of debt could have important consequences to us, including the following:

 

   

our ability to obtain additional financing, if necessary, for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions or other purposes may be impaired or such financing may not be available on favorable terms;

 

   

our funds available for operations, future business opportunities and distributions to unitholders will be reduced by that portion of our cash flow required to make payments on our debt;

 

   

we may be more vulnerable to competitive pressures or a downturn in our business or the economy generally; and

 

   

our flexibility in responding to changing business and economic conditions may be limited.

Our ability to service our debt will depend upon, among other things, our future financial and operating performance, which will be affected by prevailing economic conditions and financial, business, regulatory and other factors, some of which are beyond our control. If our operating results are not sufficient to service our current or future indebtedness, we will be forced to take actions such as reducing distributions, reducing or delaying our business activities, acquisitions, investments or capital expenditures, selling assets or seeking additional equity capital. We may not be able to effect any of these actions on satisfactory terms or at all.

Increases in interest rates could adversely impact the price of our common units, our ability to issue equity or incur debt for acquisitions or other purposes and our ability to make cash distributions at our intended levels.

Interest rates on future credit facilities and debt offerings could be higher than current levels, causing our financing costs to increase accordingly. As with other yield-oriented securities, our unit price is impacted by the level of our cash distributions and implied distribution yield. The distribution yield is often used by investors

 

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to compare and rank yield-oriented securities for investment decision-making purposes. Therefore, changes in interest rates, either positive or negative, may affect the yield requirements of investors who invest in our common units, and a rising interest rate environment could have an adverse impact on the price of our common units, our ability to issue equity or incur debt for acquisitions or other purposes and our ability to make cash distributions at our intended levels.

Significant portions of our pipeline systems have been in service for several decades. There could be service interruptions due to unknown events or conditions or increased maintenance or repair expenses and downtime associated with our pipelines that could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

Significant portions of our pipeline systems and our SALA Gathering System have been in service for several decades. The age and condition of our systems could result in increased maintenance or repair expenditures, and any downtime associated with increased maintenance and repair activities could materially reduce our revenue. Any significant increase in maintenance and repair expenditures or loss of revenue due to the age or condition of our systems could adversely affect our business and results of operations and our ability to make cash distributions to our unitholders.

Our right of first offer to acquire certain of Delek’s existing logistics assets and certain assets that it may acquire or construct in the future is subject to risks and uncertainty, and ultimately we may not acquire any of those assets.

Our omnibus agreement provides us with a right of first offer for a period of ten years after the closing of this offering on certain of Delek’s existing logistics assets and certain assets that it may acquire or construct in the future, subject to certain exceptions. The consummation and timing of any future acquisitions pursuant to this right will depend upon, among other things, Delek’s willingness to offer subject assets for sale, our ability to negotiate acceptable purchase agreements and commercial agreements with respect to such assets and our ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms. We can offer no assurance that we will be able to successfully consummate any future acquisitions pursuant to our right of first offer, and Delek is under no obligation to accept any offer that we may choose to make. In addition, we may decide not to exercise our right of first offer if and when any assets are offered for sale, and our decision will not be subject to unitholder approval. In addition, our right of first offer may be terminated by Delek at any time in the event that it no longer controls our general partner. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement—Right of First Offer.”

If we are unable to make acquisitions on economically acceptable terms from Delek or third parties, our future growth would be limited, and any acquisitions we may make may reduce, rather than increase, our cash flows and ability to make distributions to unitholders.

A portion of our strategy to grow our business and increase distributions to unitholders is dependent on our ability to make acquisitions that result in an increase in cash flow. If we are unable to make acquisitions from Delek or third parties, because we are unable to identify attractive acquisition candidates or negotiate acceptable purchase contracts, we are unable to obtain financing for these acquisitions on economically acceptable terms or we are outbid by competitors, our future growth and ability to increase distributions to unitholders will be limited. Furthermore, even if we do consummate acquisitions that we believe will be accretive, they may in fact result in a decrease in cash flow. Any acquisition involves potential risks, including, among other things:

 

   

mistaken assumptions about revenues and costs, including synergies;

 

   

the assumption of unknown liabilities;

 

   

limitations on rights to indemnity from the seller;

 

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mistaken assumptions about the overall costs of equity or debt;

 

   

the diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns;

 

   

unforeseen difficulties operating in new product areas or new geographic areas; and

 

   

customer or key employee losses at the acquired businesses.

If we consummate any future acquisitions, our capitalization and results of operations may change significantly, and unitholders will not have the opportunity to evaluate the economic, financial and other relevant information that we will consider in determining the application of these funds and other resources.

We may be unsuccessful in integrating the operations of the assets we have acquired or of any future acquisitions with our existing operations, and in realizing all or any part of the anticipated benefits of any such acquisitions.

From time to time, we evaluate and acquire assets and businesses that we believe complement our existing assets and businesses. Acquisitions may require substantial capital or the incurrence of substantial indebtedness. Our capitalization and results of operations may change significantly as a result of future acquisitions. Acquisitions and business expansions involve numerous risks, including difficulties in the assimilation of the assets and operations of the acquired businesses, inefficiencies and difficulties that arise because of unfamiliarity with new assets and the businesses associated with them and new geographic areas and the diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns. Further, unexpected costs and challenges may arise whenever businesses with different operations or management are combined, and we may experience unanticipated delays in realizing the benefits of an acquisition. Also, following an acquisition, we may discover previously unknown liabilities associated with the acquired business or assets for which we have no recourse under applicable indemnification provisions.

We may incur significant costs and liabilities as a result of pipeline integrity management program testing and related repairs.

Certain of our pipeline facilities are subject to the pipeline safety regulations of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). PHMSA regulates the design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance and emergency response of crude oil, petroleum products and other hazardous liquid pipeline facilities under 49 C.F.R. Part 195.

Pursuant to the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002, as reauthorized and amended by the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act of 2006 (PIPES Act), PHMSA has adopted regulations requiring pipeline operators to develop integrity management programs for hazardous liquids pipelines located where a leak or rupture could affect “high consequence areas,” which are populated or environmentally sensitive areas. Pursuant to the PIPES Act, PHMSA issued regulations on May 5, 2011, that would, with limited exceptions, subject all low-stress hazardous liquids pipelines, regardless of location or size, to PHMSA’s pipeline safety regulations and would subject those low-stress hazardous liquids pipelines within one half mile of an environmentally sensitive area to the integrity management requirements. The integrity management regulations require operators, including us, to:

 

   

perform ongoing assessments of pipeline integrity;

 

   

identify and characterize applicable threats to pipeline segments that could impact a high consequence area;

 

   

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repair and remediate pipelines as necessary; and

 

   

implement preventive and mitigating actions.

We may incur significant costs and liabilities associated with compliance with the pipeline safety regulations and any corresponding repair, remediation, preventative or mitigation measures required for our non-exempt pipeline facilities, including lost cash flows resulting from shutting down our pipelines during the pendency of such repairs.

Moreover, changes to pipeline safety laws and regulations that result in more stringent or costly safety standards could have a significant adverse effect on us and similarly situated midstream operators. On January 3, 2012, President Obama signed the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011, which increases the maximum civil penalties for pipeline safety administrative enforcement actions; requires the Secretary of Transportation to study and report on the expansion of integrity management requirements, the sufficiency of existing gathering line regulations to ensure safety, and the use of leak detection systems by hazardous liquid pipelines; requires pipeline operators to verify their records on maximum allowable operating pressure; and imposes new emergency response and incident notification requirements. The provisions of this Act and other changes to pipeline safety laws and regulations could require us to pursue additional capital projects or conduct maintenance programs on an accelerated basis, any or all of which requirements could result in our incurring increased operating costs that could be significant and have a material adverse effect on our financial position or results of operations.

In addition, many states have adopted regulations similar to existing DOT regulations for hazardous liquids pipelines within their state. These regulations can apply to pipeline facilities exempt from PHMSA jurisdiction as well as intrastate pipeline facilities subject to PHMSA jurisdiction, but for which the state has been certified by PHMSA to inspect, regulate and enforce the regulations for the intrastate facilities.

Should we fail to comply with PHMSA regulations, we could be subject to penalties and fines.

Our expansion of existing assets and construction of new assets may not result in revenue increases and will be subject to regulatory, environmental, political, legal and economic risks, which could adversely affect our operations and financial condition.

A portion of our strategy to grow and increase distributions to unitholders is dependent on our ability to expand existing assets and to construct additional assets. We have no material commitments for expansion or construction projects as of the date of this prospectus. The construction of a new pipeline or terminal or the expansion of an existing pipeline or terminal involves numerous regulatory, environmental, political and legal uncertainties, most of which are beyond our control. If we undertake these types of projects, they may not be completed on schedule or at all or at the budgeted cost. Moreover, we may not receive sufficient long-term contractual commitments from customers to provide the revenue needed to support such projects. Even if we receive such commitments, we may not realize an increase in revenue for an extended period of time. For instance, if we build a new pipeline, the construction will occur over an extended period of time, and we will not receive any material increases in revenues until after completion of the project. Moreover, we may construct facilities to capture anticipated future growth in production in a region or gain access to crude supplies at lower costs and such growth or access may not materialize. As a result, new facilities may not be able to attract enough throughput to achieve our expected investment return, which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition and our ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

We do not own all of the land on which our pipelines and facilities are located, which could result in disruptions to our operations.

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use if we do not have valid rights-of-way, if such rights-of-way lapse or terminate or if our facilities are not properly located within the boundaries of such rights-of-way. Although many of these rights are perpetual in nature, we occasionally obtain the rights to construct and operate our pipelines on land owned by third parties and governmental agencies for a specific period of time. If we are unsuccessful in renegotiating rights-of-way, we may have to relocate our facilities. A loss of rights-of-way or a relocation could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows and our ability to make distributions to our unitholders.

Whether we have the power of eminent domain for our pipelines varies from state to state, depending upon the type of pipeline (for example, crude oil or refined products) and the laws of the particular state. In either case, we must compensate landowners for the use of their property and, in eminent domain actions, such compensation may be determined by a court. Our inability to exercise the power of eminent domain could negatively affect our business if we were to lose the right to use or occupy the property on which our pipelines are located.

We operate in a highly regulated industry and increased costs of compliance with, or liability for violation of, existing or future laws, regulations and other requirements could significantly increase our costs of doing business, thereby adversely affecting our profitability.

Our industry is subject to extensive laws, regulations and other requirements including, but not limited to, those relating to the environment, safety, pipeline tariffs, employment, labor, immigration, minimum wages and overtime pay, health care and benefits, working conditions, public accessibility and other requirements. These laws and regulations are enforced by federal agencies including the EPA, the DOT, PHMSA, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, and state agencies such as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation as well as numerous other state and federal agencies. Ongoing compliance with, or a violation of, these laws, regulations and other requirements could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We believe that our operations are in substantial compliance with applicable laws and regulations. However, these laws and regulations, and the interpretation or enforcement thereof, are subject to frequent change by regulatory authorities, and we are unable to predict the ongoing cost to us of complying with these laws and regulations or the future impact of these laws and regulations on our operations. Violation of environmental laws, regulations and permits can result in the imposition of significant administrative, civil and criminal penalties, injunctions and construction bans or delays.

Under various federal, state and local environmental requirements, as the owner or operator of terminals and pipelines, we may be liable for the costs of removal or remediation of contamination at our existing locations, whether we knew of, or were responsible for, the presence of such contamination. We have incurred such liability in the past and some of our locations are the subject of ongoing remediation and/or monitoring projects. The failure to timely report and properly remediate contamination may subject us to liability to third parties and may adversely affect our ability to sell or rent our property or to borrow money using our property as collateral. Additionally, we may be liable for the costs of remediating third-party sites where hazardous substances from our operations have been transported for treatment or disposal, regardless of whether we own or operate that site. In the future, we may incur substantial expenditures for investigation or remediation of contamination that has not yet been discovered at our current or former locations or locations that we may acquire.

A discharge of hydrocarbons or hazardous substances into the environment could, to the extent the event is not insured, subject us to substantial expense, including the cost to comply with applicable laws and regulations, fines and penalties, natural resource damages and claims made by employees, neighboring landowners and other third parties for personal injury and property damage. We may experience future

 

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catastrophic sudden or gradual releases into the environment from our pipelines and terminals or discover historical releases that were previously unidentified or not assessed. Although our inspection and testing programs are designed, to prevent, detect and address these releases promptly, damages and liabilities incurred due to any future environmental releases from our assets, have the potential to substantially affect our business. Such discharges could also subject us to media and public scrutiny that could have a negative effect on the value of our common units.

Environmental regulation is becoming more stringent, and new environmental laws and regulations are continuously being enacted or proposed and interpretations of existing requirements change from time to time. While it is impractical to predict the impact that future environmental, health and safety requirements or changed interpretations of existing requirements may have, such future activity may result in material expenditures to ensure our continued compliance. Such future activity could also adversely affect our ability to expand production, result in damaging publicity about us, or reduce demand for our products.

We could incur substantial costs or disruptions in our business if we cannot obtain or maintain necessary permits and authorizations or otherwise comply with health, safety, environmental and other laws and regulations.

Our operations require numerous permits and authorizations under various laws and regulations. These authorizations and permits are subject to revocation, renewal or modification and can require operational changes to limit impacts or potential impacts on the environment and/or health and safety. A violation of authorization or permit conditions or other legal or regulatory requirements could result in substantial fines, criminal sanctions, permit revocations, injunctions, and/or facility shutdowns. In addition, major modifications of our operations could require modifications to our existing permits or upgrades to our existing pollution control equipment. Any or all of these matters could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and cash flows.

Climate change legislation or regulations restricting emissions of greenhouse gases could result in increased operating and capital costs and reduced demand for our products and the services we provide.

In December 2009, the EPA published its findings that emissions of greenhouse gases, or GHGs, present a danger to public health and the environment because emissions of such gases are, according to the EPA, contributing to warming of the Earth’s atmosphere and other climatic conditions. Based on these findings, the EPA adopted two sets of regulations that restrict emissions of GHGs under existing provisions of the federal Clean Air Act, including one that requires a reduction in emissions of GHGs from motor vehicles and another that regulates GHG emissions from certain large stationary sources under the Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) and Title V permitting programs. In addition, EPA expanded its existing GHG emissions reporting rule to include onshore oil and natural gas processing, transmission, storage, and distribution activities, beginning in 2012 for emissions occurring in 2011. Congress has also from time to time considered legislation to reduce emissions of GHGs. Although it is not possible to predict the requirements of any GHG legislation that may be enacted, any laws or regulations that may be adopted to restrict or reduce GHG emissions may require us to incur increased operating costs. If we are unable to maintain sales of our refined products at a price that reflects such increased costs, there could be a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Further, any increase in the prices of refined products resulting from such increased costs could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Moreover, GHG regulation could also impact the consumption of refined products, thereby affecting the demand for our services.

In 2010, the EPA and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) finalized new standards, raising the required Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standard of the nation’s passenger fleet by 40% to approximately 35 miles per gallon by 2016 and imposing the first-ever federal GHG emissions standards on cars and light trucks. In September 2011, the EPA and the Department of Transportation finalized first-time standards for fuel economy of medium and heavy duty trucks. In December 2011, the EPA

 

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and NHTSA proposed further mandated decreases in passenger vehicle GHG emissions and increases in fuel economy beginning with 2017 model year vehicles and increasing to the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Such increases in fuel economy standards and potential electrification of the vehicle fleet, along with mandated increases in use of renewable fuels discussed above, could result in decreasing demand for petroleum fuels. Decreasing demand for petroleum fuels could materially affect profitability at Delek’s refineries and convenience stores, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and cash flows.

Our operations are subject to federal and state laws and regulations relating to product quality specifications, and we could be subject to damages based on claims brought against us by our customers or lose customers as a result of the failure of products we distribute to meet certain quality specifications.

Various federal and state agencies prescribe specific product quality specifications for refined products, including vapor pressure, sulfur content, ethanol content and biodiesel content. Changes in product quality specifications or blending requirements could reduce our throughput volume, require us to incur additional handling costs or require capital expenditures. For example, mandated increases in use of renewable fuels could require the construction of additional storage and blending equipment. If we are unable to recover these costs through increased revenues, our cash flows and ability to pay cash distributions to our unitholders could be adversely affected. Violations of product quality laws attributable to our operations could subject us to significant fines and penalties as well as negative publicity. In addition, changes in the product quality of the products we receive on our pipeline system could reduce or eliminate our ability to blend products.

We have a responsibility to ensure the quality and purity of the products loaded at our loading racks. Off specification product distributed for public use, even if not a violation of specific product quality laws, could result in poor engine performance or even engine damage. This type of incident could result in liability claims regarding damages caused by the off specification fuel or could result in negative publicity, impacting our ability to retain existing customers or to acquire new customers, any of which could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations and cash flows.

If we lose any of our key personnel, our ability to manage our business and continue our growth could be negatively impacted.

Our future performance depends to a significant degree upon the continued contributions of our senior management team and key technical personnel. We do not currently maintain key person life insurance policies for any of our senior management team. The loss or unavailability to us of any member of our senior management team or a key technical employee could significantly harm us. We face competition for these professionals from our competitors, our customers and other companies operating in our industry. To the extent that the services of members of our senior management team and key technical personnel would be unavailable to us for any reason, we would be required to hire other personnel to manage and operate our business and to develop our products and technology.

We cannot assure you that we would be able to locate or employ such qualified personnel on acceptable terms or at all.

A terrorist attack on our assets, or threats of war or actual war, may hinder or prevent us from conducting our business.

Terrorist attacks in the United States, as well as events occurring in response or similar to or in connection with them, including political instability in various Middle Eastern countries, may harm our business. Energy-related assets (which could include pipelines and terminals such as ours) may be at greater risk of future terrorist attacks than other possible targets in the United States. In addition, the State of Israel, where Delek Group is based, has suffered armed conflicts and political instability in recent years. We may be more susceptible to terrorist attack as a result of our connection to an Israeli owner. In the future, certain of the directors of our general partner may reside in Israel.

 

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A direct attack on our assets, Delek’s assets or the assets of others used by us could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, any terrorist attack or continued political instability in the Middle East could have an adverse impact on energy prices, including prices for the crude oil and other feedstocks we transport and refined petroleum products, and an adverse impact on the margins from our operations. Disruption or significant increases in energy prices could also result in government-imposed price controls.

Further, changes in the insurance markets attributable to terrorist attacks could make certain types of insurance more difficult for us to obtain. Moreover, the insurance that may be available to us may be significantly more expensive than our existing insurance coverage. Instability in the financial markets as a result of terrorism or war could also affect our ability to raise capital including our ability to repay or refinance debt.

Our customers’ operating results are seasonal and generally lower in the first and fourth quarters of the year. Our customers depend on favorable weather conditions in the spring and summer months.

Demand for gasoline is generally higher during the summer months than during the winter months due to seasonal increases in motor vehicle traffic. As a result, our customers’ operating results are generally lower for the first and fourth quarters of each year. Unfavorable weather conditions during the spring and summer months and a resulting lack of the expected seasonal upswings in traffic and sales could adversely affect our customers’ business, financial condition and results of operations, which may adversely affect our business, financial conditions and results of operations.

Our exposure to direct commodity price risk may increase in the future. We may incur losses as a result of our forward contract activities and derivative transactions.

Although we intend to enter into fixed-fee contracts with new transportation and terminalling customers in the future, our efforts to obtain such contractual terms may not be successful. In addition, we may acquire or develop additional midstream assets in the future that do not provide services primarily based on capacity reservation charges or other fixed-fee arrangements and therefore have a greater exposure to fluctuations in commodity price risk than our current operations. Increased future exposure to the volatility of commodity prices could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and ability to make quarterly cash distributions to our unitholders.

As a result of any future increased exposure to the volatility of commodity prices, we may use derivative financial instruments, such as fuel-related derivative transactions, interest rate swaps and interest rate cap agreements, to partially mitigate the risk of various financial exposures inherent in our business. In connection with such derivative transactions, we may be required to make payments to maintain margin accounts and to settle the contracts at their value upon termination. The maintenance of required margin accounts and the settlement of derivative contracts at termination could cause us to suffer losses or limited gains. In particular, derivative transactions could expose us to the risk of financial loss upon unexpected or unusual variations in the sales price of wholesale gasoline. We cannot assure you that the strategies underlying these transactions will be successful. If any of the instruments we utilize to manage our exposure to various types of risk is not effective, we may incur losses.

The recent adoption of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the Dodd-Frank Act, could have an adverse effect on our ability to use derivatives to reduce the effect of commodity price risk, interest rate and other risks associated with our business.

The U.S. Congress recently adopted comprehensive financial reform legislation that, among other things, establishes comprehensive federal oversight and regulation of over-the-counter derivatives and many of the entities that participate in that market. Although the Dodd-Frank Act was enacted on July 21, 2010, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, and the SEC, along with certain other regulators, must

 

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promulgate final rules and regulations to implement many of its provisions relating to over-the-counter derivatives. While some of these rules have been finalized, many have not and, as a result, the final form and timing of the implementation of the new regulatory regime affecting commodity derivatives remains uncertain.

In particular, on October 18, 2011, the CFTC adopted final rules under the Dodd-Frank Act establishing position limits for certain energy commodity futures and options contracts and economically equivalent swaps, futures and options. The position limit levels set the maximum amount of covered contracts that a trader may own or control separately or in combination, net long or short. The final rules also contain limited exemptions from position limits which will be phased in over time for certain bona fide hedging transactions and positions that were established in good faith before the initial limits become effective. On December 2, 2011, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association filed a legal challenge to the final rules, claiming, among other things, that the rules may adversely impact commodities markets and market participants, including end-users, by reducing liquidity and increasing price volatility.

While the timing of implementation of the final rules on position limits, their applicability to, and impact on, us and the success of any legal challenge to their validity remain uncertain, there can be no assurance that they will not have a material adverse impact on us by affecting the prices of or market for commodities relevant to our operations and/or by reducing the availability to us of commodity derivatives.

The Dodd-Frank Act will also impose a number of other new requirements on certain over-the-counter derivatives and subject certain swap dealers and major swap participants to significant new regulatory requirements, which in certain cases may cause them to conduct their activities through new entities that may not be as creditworthy as our current counterparties, all of which may have a material adverse effect on us. The impact of this new regulatory regime on the availability, pricing and terms and conditions of commodity derivatives remains uncertain, but there can be no assurance that it will not have a materially adverse effect on our ability to hedge our exposure to commodity prices.

In addition, under Dodd-Frank swap dealers and major swap participants will be required to collect initial and variation margin from certain end-users of over-the-counter derivatives. The rules implementing many of these requirements have not all been finalized and therefore the timing of their implementation and their applicability to us remains uncertain. Depending on the final rules and definitions ultimately adopted, we might in the future be required to post collateral for some or all of our derivative transactions, which could reduce our ability to use our cash or other assets for capital expenditures or other partnership purposes and reduce our ability to execute strategic hedges to reduce commodity price uncertainty and protect cash flows.

We rely on information technology in our operations, and any material failure, inadequacy or interruption of that technology could harm our business.

We inherited information technology systems and controls that monitor the movement of petroleum products through our pipeline systems. Information technology system failures, network disruptions (whether intentional by a third party or due to natural disaster), breaches of network or data security, or disruption or failure of the network system used to monitor and control pipeline operations could result in environmental damage, operational disruptions, regulatory enforcement or private litigation. Our computer systems, including our back-up systems, could be damaged or interrupted by power outages, computer and telecommunications failures, computer viruses, internal or external security breaches, events such as fires, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes, or errors by our employees. Further, the failure of any of our systems to operate effectively, or problems we may experience with transitioning to upgraded or replacement systems, could significantly harm our business and operations and cause us to incur significant costs to remediate such problems. There can be no assurance that a system failure or data security breach will not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Transportation on certain of our pipelines is subject to federal or state rate and service regulation, and the imposition and/or cost of compliance with such regulation could adversely affect our operations and cash flows available for distribution to our unitholders.

The rates and terms and conditions of service on certain of our pipelines are subject to regulation by the FERC under the Interstate Commerce Act, or ICA, or by the state regulatory commissions in the states in which we transport crude oil and refined products, including the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and the Arkansas Public Service Commission.

The FERC regulates interstate transportation under the ICA, the Energy Policy Act of 1992, or EP Act 1992, and the rules and regulations promulgated under those laws. The ICA and its implementing regulations require that tariff rates and terms and conditions of service for interstate service on oil pipelines, including pipelines that transport crude oil and refined products in interstate commerce (collectively referred to as “petroleum pipelines”), be just and reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or preferential. The ICA also requires that such rates and terms and conditions of service be filed with the FERC. Under the ICA, shippers may challenge new or existing rates or services. The FERC is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of a challenged rate that has not yet become effective for up to seven months, though rates are typically not suspended for the maximum allowable period. If the FERC determines that a protested rate is unjust and unreasonable, the FERC will order refunds of amounts charged in excess of the just and reasonable rate. If the FERC determines that a rate challenged by complaint is unjust and unreasonable, reparations may be due for two years prior to the date of the complaint.

We have filed requests with the FERC for waiver of the tariff filing and reporting requirements imposed by the FERC under the ICA for the SALA Gathering System, the Lion Pipeline System and the East Texas Crude Logistics System. If those waivers are granted, we will still be subject to the FERC’s jurisdiction under the ICA and will still be subject to the requirement to maintain our books and records in accordance with FERC accounting requirements with respect to the assets for which we receive a waiver; we intend to comply with that requirement. Assuming the FERC grants the requested waivers, if the facts upon which a waiver is based change materially (for example, if an unaffiliated shipper seeks access to our pipelines), the FERC typically requires that the pipelines inform the FERC, which may result in revocation of the waiver. If the FERC denies our requests for waiver, or if the FERC in the future revokes any waivers we might be granted, we will be required, among other things, to file tariffs for service on certain of our FERC-jurisdictional pipelines. If we file tariffs, we may be required to provide a cost justification for the transportation charge. We would also be required to provide service to all prospective shippers making reasonable requests for service without undue discrimination and to operate in a manner that does not provide any undue preference to shippers. The rates under such tariffs may be insufficient to allow us to recover fully our cost of providing service on the affected pipelines, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, regulation by the FERC may subject us to potentially burdensome and expensive operational, reporting and other requirements.

The Federal Trade Commission, the FERC and the CFTC hold statutory authority to monitor certain segments of the physical and futures energy commodities markets. These agencies have imposed broad regulations prohibiting fraud and manipulation of such markets. With regard to our physical sales of oil or other energy commodities, and any related hedging activities that we undertake, we are required to observe the market-related regulations enforced by these agencies, which hold substantial enforcement authority. Failure to comply with such regulations, as interpreted and enforced, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

While the FERC regulates rates and terms and conditions of service for transportation of crude oil or refined products in interstate commerce by pipeline, state agencies may regulate rates terms and conditions of service for liquids pipeline transportation in intrastate commerce. There is not a clear boundary between transportation service provided in interstate commerce, which is regulated by the FERC, and transportation service provided in intrastate commerce, which is not regulated by the FERC. Such determinations are highly fact-dependent and are made on a case-by-case basis. We cannot provide assurance that the FERC will not at

 

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some point assert that some or all of the transportation service we provide is within its jurisdiction. If the FERC were successful with any such assertion, the FERC’s ratemaking methodologies may subject us to potentially burdensome and expensive operational, reporting and other requirements. We own pipeline assets in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In Texas, a pipeline, with some exceptions, is required to operate as a common carrier by publishing tariffs and providing transportation without discrimination. Arkansas provides that all intrastate oil pipelines are common carriers, but it exercises light-handed regulation over crude oil and refined products pipelines. In Louisiana, all pipelines conveying petroleum from a point of origin within the state to a destination within the state are declared common carriers. The Louisiana Public Service Commission is empowered with the authority to establish reasonable rates and regulations for the transport of petroleum by a common carrier, mandating public tariffs and providing of transportation without discrimination. State commissions have generally not been aggressive in regulating common carrier pipelines, have generally not investigated the rates or practices of petroleum pipelines in the absence of shipper complaints, and generally resolve complaints informally. If the regulatory commissions in the states in which we operate change their policies and aggressively regulate the rates or terms of service of pipelines operating in those states, it could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us

Our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, have conflicts of interest with us and limited duties to us and our unitholders, and they may favor their own interests to the detriment of us and our other common unitholders.

Following this offering, Delek will own and control our general partner and will appoint all of the officers and directors of our general partner. All of the initial officers and a majority of the initial directors of our general partner are also officers and/or directors of Delek. Although our general partner has a duty to manage us in a manner that is beneficial to us and our unitholders, the directors and officers of our general partner have a fiduciary duty to manage our general partner in a manner that is beneficial to Delek. Conflicts of interest will arise between Delek and our general partner, on the one hand, and us and our unitholders, on the other hand. In resolving these conflicts of interest, our general partner may favor its own interests and the interests of Delek over our interests and the interests of our unitholders. These conflicts include the following situations, among others:

 

   

Neither our partnership agreement nor any other agreement requires Delek to pursue a business strategy that favors us or utilizes our assets, including whether to increase or decrease refinery production, whether to shut down or reconfigure a refinery or what markets to pursue or grow. The directors and officers of Delek have a fiduciary duty to make these decisions in the best interests of the stockholders of Delek, which may be contrary to our interests. Delek may choose to shift the focus of its investment and growth to areas not served by our assets.

 

   

Delek, as our primary customer, has an economic incentive to cause us not to seek higher service fees, even if such higher fees could be obtained in arm’s-length, third-party transactions. Furthermore, under our commercial agreements, Delek’s consent is required before we may enter into an agreement with any third party with respect to our assets that serve the El Dorado and Tyler refineries, and Delek has an incentive to cause us not to pursue such third-party contracts in certain circumstances.

 

   

Our general partner is allowed to take into account the interests of parties other than us, such as Delek, in resolving conflicts of interest.

 

   

All of the initial officers and a majority of the initial directors of our general partner are also officers and/or directors of Delek and will owe fiduciary duties to Delek. These officers will also devote significant time to the business of Delek and will be compensated by Delek accordingly.

 

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Delek may be constrained by the terms of its debt instruments from taking actions, or refraining from taking actions, that may be in our best interests.

 

   

Our partnership agreement replaces the fiduciary duties that would otherwise be owed by our general partner with contractual standards governing its duties, limits our general partner’s liabilities and restricts the remedies available to our unitholders for actions that, without such limitations, might constitute breaches of fiduciary duty.

 

   

Except in limited circumstances, our general partner has the power and authority to conduct our business without unitholder approval.

 

   

Disputes may arise under our commercial agreements with Delek.

 

   

Our general partner determines the amount and timing of asset purchases and sales, borrowings, issuances of additional partnership units and the creation, reduction or increase of cash reserves, each of which can affect the amount of cash available for distribution to our unitholders.

 

   

Our general partner determines the amount and timing of any capital expenditures and whether a capital expenditure is classified as a maintenance capital expenditure, which reduces operating surplus, or an expansion or investment capital expenditure, which does not reduce operating surplus. This determination can affect the amount of cash that is distributed to our unitholders and the ability of the subordinated units to convert to common units. In addition, the inability of Delek to suspend or reduce its obligations under its commercial agreements with us or to claim a force majeure event during the three-year period following the closing of this offering increases the likelihood of the conversion of the subordinated units.

 

   

Our general partner determines which costs incurred by it are reimbursable by us.

 

   

Our general partner may cause us to borrow funds in order to permit the payment of cash distributions, even if the purpose or effect of the borrowing is to make a distribution on the subordinated units, to make incentive distributions or to accelerate the expiration of the subordination period.

 

   

Our partnership agreement permits us to classify up to $         million as operating surplus, even if it is generated from asset sales, non-working capital borrowings or other sources that would otherwise constitute capital surplus. This cash may be used to fund distributions on our subordinated or general partner units or to our general partner in respect of the incentive distribution rights.

 

   

Our partnership agreement does not restrict our general partner from causing us to pay it or its affiliates for any services rendered to us or entering into additional contractual arrangements with any of these entities on our behalf.

 

   

Our general partner intends to limit its liability regarding our contractual and other obligations.

 

   

Our general partner may exercise its right to call and purchase all of the common units not owned by it and its affiliates if they own more than 80% of the common units.

 

   

Our general partner controls the enforcement of the obligations that it and its affiliates owe to us, including Delek’s obligations under the omnibus agreement and its commercial agreements with us.

 

   

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Our general partner may transfer its incentive distribution rights without unitholder approval.

 

   

Our general partner may elect to cause us to issue common units to it in connection with a resetting of the target distribution levels related to our incentive distribution rights without the approval of the conflicts committee of the board of directors of our general partner or our unitholders. This election may result in lower distributions to our common unitholders in certain situations.

Please read “Conflicts of Interest and Duties.”

Delek may compete with us.

Delek may compete with us. Under our omnibus agreement, Delek and its affiliates will agree not to engage in, whether by acquisition or otherwise, the business of owning or operating crude oil or refined products pipelines, terminals or storage facilities in the United States that are not within, directly connected to, substantially dedicated to, or otherwise an integral part of, any refinery owned, acquired or constructed by Delek. This restriction, however, does not apply to:

 

   

any assets owned by Delek at the closing of this offering (including replacements or expansions of those assets);

 

   

any asset or business that Delek acquires or constructs that has a fair market value of less than $5.0 million; and

 

   

any asset or business that Delek acquires or constructs that has a fair market value of $5.0 million or more if we have been offered the opportunity to purchase the asset or business for fair market value not later than six months after completion of such acquisition or construction, and we decline to do so.

As a result, Delek has the ability to construct assets which directly compete with our assets. The limitations on the ability of Delek to compete with us are terminable by either party if Delek ceases to control our general partner.

Pursuant to the terms of our partnership agreement, the doctrine of corporate opportunity, or any analogous doctrine, does not apply to our general partner or any of its affiliates, including its executive officers and directors and Delek. Any such person or entity that becomes aware of a potential transaction, agreement, arrangement or other matter that may be an opportunity for us will not have any duty to communicate or offer such opportunity to us. Any such person or entity will not be liable to us or to any limited partner for breach of any fiduciary duty or other duty by reason of the fact that such person or entity pursues or acquires such opportunity for itself, directs such opportunity to another person or entity or does not communicate such opportunity or information to us. This may create actual and potential conflicts of interest between us and affiliates of our general partner and result in less than favorable treatment of us and our common unitholders. Please read “Conflicts of Interest and Duties.”

If you are not an Eligible Holder, your common units may be subject to redemption.

We have adopted certain requirements regarding those investors who may own our common and subordinated units. Eligible Holders are limited partners whose (a) federal income tax status is not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the rates that can be charged by us on assets that are subject to regulation by the FERC or an analogous regulatory body and (b) nationality, citizenship or other related status would not create a substantial risk of cancellation or forfeiture of any property in which we have an interest, in each case as determined by our general partner with the advice of counsel. If you are not an Eligible Holder, in certain circumstances as set forth in our partnership agreement, your units may be redeemed by us at the then-current market price. The redemption price will be paid in cash or by delivery of a promissory note, as determined by our general partner. Please read “The Partnership Agreement—Ineligible Holders; Redemption.”

 

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Our partnership agreement requires that we distribute all of our available cash, which could limit our ability to grow and make acquisitions.

We expect that we will distribute all of our available cash to our unitholders and will rely primarily upon external financing sources, including commercial borrowings and the issuance of debt and equity securities, to fund our acquisitions and expansion capital expenditures. As a result, to the extent we are unable to finance growth externally, our cash distribution policy will significantly impair our ability to grow.

In addition, because we intend to distribute all of our available cash, our growth may not be as fast as that of businesses that reinvest their available cash to expand ongoing operations. To the extent we issue additional units in connection with any acquisitions or expansion capital expenditures, the payment of distributions on those additional units may increase the risk that we will be unable to maintain or increase our per unit distribution level. There are no limitations in our partnership agreement, and we do not anticipate there being limitations in our new credit facility, on our ability to issue additional units, including units ranking senior to the common units. The incurrence of additional commercial borrowings or other debt to finance our growth strategy would result in increased interest expense, which in turn may impact the available cash that we have to distribute to our unitholders.

It may be difficult to serve process on or enforce a United States judgment against those members of the board of directors of our general partner who may reside in Israel.

Certain of the directors of our general partner are able to and may in the future reside in the State of Israel. As a result, it may be difficult to serve legal process within the United States upon any of these persons. It also may be difficult to enforce, both in and outside the United States, judgments obtained in United States courts against these persons in any action, including actions based upon the civil liability provisions of United States federal or state securities laws, because a substantial portion of the assets of these directors is located outside of the United States. Furthermore, there is substantial doubt that the courts of the State of Israel would enter judgments in original actions brought in those courts predicated on U.S. federal or state securities laws.

There is no existing market for our common units, and a trading market that will provide you with adequate liquidity may not develop. Following this offering, the market price of our common units may fluctuate significantly, and you could lose all or part of your investment.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common units. After this offering, there will be only             publicly traded common units, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. In addition, Delek will own             common units and             subordinated units, representing an aggregate of approximately     % limited partner interest in us. We do not know the extent to which investor interest will lead to the development of a trading market or how liquid that market might be. You may not be able to resell your common units at or above the initial public offering price. Additionally, the lack of liquidity may result in wide bid-ask spreads, contribute to significant fluctuations in the market price of the common units and limit the number of investors who are able to buy the common units.

The initial public offering price for the common units will be determined by negotiations between us and the representatives of the underwriters and may not be indicative of the market price of the common units that will prevail in the trading market. The market price of our common units may decline below the initial public offering price. The market price of our common units may also be influenced by many factors, some of which are beyond our control, including:

 

   

the level of our quarterly distributions;

 

   

our quarterly or annual earnings or those of other companies in our industry;

 

   

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announcements by us or our competitors of significant contracts or acquisitions;

 

   

changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles;

 

   

general economic conditions;

 

   

the failure of securities analysts to cover our common units after this offering or changes in financial estimates by analysts;

 

   

future sales of our common units; and

 

   

other factors described in these “Risk Factors.”

You will experience immediate and substantial dilution in net tangible book value of $        per common unit.

The estimated initial public offering price of $         per common unit (the mid-point of the price range set forth on the cover of this prospectus) exceeds our pro forma net tangible book value of $         per unit. Based on the estimated initial public offering price of $         per common unit, you will incur immediate and substantial dilution of $         per common unit. This dilution results primarily because the assets contributed by Delek are recorded in accordance with GAAP at their historical cost, and not their fair value. Please read “Dilution.”

Our partnership agreement replaces our general partner’s fiduciary duties to holders of our common units with contractual standards governing its duties.

Our partnership agreement contains provisions that eliminate the fiduciary standards to which our general partner would otherwise be held by state fiduciary duty law and replace those duties with several different contractual standards. For example, our partnership agreement permits our general partner to make a number of decisions in its individual capacity, as opposed to in its capacity as our general partner, free of any duties to us and our unitholders other than the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing, which means that a court will enforce the reasonable expectations of the partners where the language in the partnership agreement does not provide for a clear course of action. This provision entitles our general partner to consider only the interests and factors that it desires and relieves it of any duty or obligation to give any consideration to any interest of, or factors affecting, us, our affiliates or our limited partners. Examples of decisions that our general partner may make in its individual capacity include:

 

   

how to allocate corporate opportunities among us and its other affiliates;

 

   

whether to exercise its limited call right;

 

   

whether to seek approval of the resolution of a conflict of interest by the conflicts committee of the board of directors of our general partner;

 

   

how to exercise its voting rights with respect to the units it owns;

 

   

whether to exercise its registration rights;

 

   

whether to elect to reset target distribution levels;

 

   

whether to transfer the incentive distribution rights to a third party; and

 

   

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By purchasing a common unit, a common unitholder agrees to become bound by the provisions in the partnership agreement, including the provisions discussed above. Please read “Conflicts of Interest and Duties—Duties of the General Partner.”

Our partnership agreement restricts the remedies available to holders of our common units for actions taken by our general partner that might otherwise constitute breaches of fiduciary duty.

Our partnership agreement contains provisions that restrict the remedies available to unitholders for actions taken by our general partner that might otherwise constitute breaches of fiduciary duty under state fiduciary duty law. For example, our partnership agreement provides that:

 

   

whenever our general partner, the board of directors of our general partner or any committee thereof (including the conflicts committee) makes a determination or takes, or declines to take, any other action in their respective capacities, our general partner, the board of directors of our general partner and any committee thereof (including the conflicts committee), as applicable, is required to make such determination, or take or decline to take such other action, in good faith, meaning that it subjectively believed that the decision was in the best interests of our partnership, and, except as specifically provided by our partnership agreement, will not be subject to any other or different standard imposed by our partnership agreement, Delaware law, or any other law, rule or regulation, or at equity;

 

   

our general partner will not have any liability to us or our unitholders for decisions made in its capacity as a general partner so long as such decisions are made in good faith;

 

   

our general partner and its officers and directors will not be liable for monetary damages to us or our limited partners resulting from any act or omission unless there has been a final and non-appealable judgment entered by a court of competent jurisdiction determining that our general partner or its officers and directors, as the case may be, acted in bad faith or engaged in fraud or willful misconduct or, in the case of a criminal matter, acted with knowledge that the conduct was criminal; and

 

   

our general partner will not be in breach of its obligations under the partnership agreement (including any duties to us or our unitholders) if a transaction with an affiliate or the resolution of a conflict of interest is:

 

   

approved by the conflicts committee of the board of directors of our general partner, although our general partner is not obligated to seek such approval;

 

   

approved by the vote of a majority of the outstanding common units, excluding any common units owned by our general partner and its affiliates;

 

   

determined by the board of directors of our general partner to be on terms no less favorable to us than those generally being provided to or available from unrelated third parties; or

 

   

determined by the board of directors of our general partner to be fair and reasonable to us, taking into account the totality of the relationships among the parties involved, including other transactions that may be particularly favorable or advantageous to us.

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third and fourth subbullets above, then it will be presumed that, in making its decision, the board of directors of our general partner acted in good faith, and in any proceeding brought by or on behalf of any limited partner or the partnership challenging such determination, the person bringing or prosecuting such proceeding will have the burden of overcoming such presumption. Please read “Conflicts of Interest and Duties.”

The administrative services fee and reimbursements due to our general partner and its affiliates for services provided to us or on our behalf will reduce our cash available for distribution to our common unitholders. The amount and timing of such reimbursements will be determined by our general partner.

Prior to making any distribution on our common units, we will reimburse our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, for costs and expenses they incur and payments they make on our behalf. Under the omnibus agreement, we will pay Delek an annual fee of $2.7 million and reimburse Delek and its subsidiaries for Delek’s provision of various centralized corporate services. Additionally, we will reimburse Delek for direct or allocated costs and expenses incurred on our behalf, including administrative costs, such as compensation expense for those persons who provide services necessary to run our business, and insurance expenses. We also expect to incur $2.0 million of incremental annual general and administrative expense as a result of being a publicly traded partnership. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement” and “—Operation and Management Services Agreement.” Our partnership agreement provides that our general partner will determine in good faith the expenses that are allocable to us. The reimbursement of expenses and payment of fees, if any, to our general partner and its affiliates will reduce the amount of available cash to pay cash distributions to our common unitholders. Please read “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions.”

Holders of our common units have limited voting rights and are not entitled to elect our general partner or its directors.

Unlike the holders of common stock in a corporation, unitholders have only limited voting rights on matters affecting our business and, therefore, limited ability to influence management’s decisions regarding our business. Unitholders will have no right on an annual or ongoing basis to elect our general partner or its board of directors. Rather, the board of directors of our general partner will be appointed by Delek. Furthermore, if the unitholders are dissatisfied with the performance of our general partner, they will have little ability to remove our general partner. As a result of these limitations, the price at which the common units will trade could be diminished because of the absence or reduction of a takeover premium in the trading price. Our partnership agreement also contains provisions limiting the ability of unitholders to call meetings or to acquire information about our operations, as well as other provisions limiting the unitholders’ ability to influence the manner or direction of management.

Even if holders of our common units are dissatisfied, they cannot initially remove our general partner without its consent.

Unitholders initially will be unable to remove our general partner without its consent because our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, will own sufficient units upon the closing of this offering to be able to prevent its removal. The vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of all outstanding common and subordinated units voting together as a single class is required to remove our general partner. Following the closing of this offering, Delek will indirectly own    % of our outstanding common and subordinated units. Also, if our general partner is removed without cause during the subordination period and units held by our general partner and its affiliates are not voted in favor of that removal, all remaining subordinated units will automatically convert into common units and any existing arrearages on our common units will be extinguished. A removal of our general partner under these circumstances would adversely affect our common units by prematurely eliminating their distribution and liquidation preference over our subordinated units, which would otherwise have continued until we had met certain distribution and performance tests. Cause is narrowly defined to mean that a court of competent jurisdiction has entered a final, non-appealable judgment finding our general

 

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partner liable to us or any limited partner for actual fraud or willful misconduct in its capacity as our general partner. Cause does not include most cases of charges of poor management of the business, so the removal of our general partner because of unitholder dissatisfaction with the performance of our general partner in managing our partnership will most likely result in the termination of the subordination period and conversion of all subordinated units to common units.

Our partnership agreement restricts the voting rights of unitholders owning 20% or more of our common units.

Unitholders’ voting rights are further restricted by a provision of our partnership agreement providing that any units held by a person that owns 20% or more of any class of units then outstanding, other than our general partner, its affiliates, their transferees and persons who acquired such units with the prior approval of the board of directors of our general partner, cannot vote on any matter.

Our general partner’s interest in us and the control of our general partner may be transferred to a third party without unitholder consent.

Our partnership agreement does not restrict the ability of Delek to transfer all or a portion of its general partner interest or its ownership interest in our general partner to a third party. Our general partner, or the new owner of our general partner, would then be in a position to replace the board of directors and officers of our general partner with its own designees and thereby exert significant control over the decisions made by the board of directors and officers of our general partner.

The incentive distribution rights of our general partner may be transferred to a third party without unitholder consent.

Our general partner may transfer its incentive distribution rights to a third party at any time without the consent of our unitholders. If our general partner transfers its incentive distribution rights to a third party but retains its general partner interest, our general partner may not have the same incentive to grow our partnership and increase quarterly distributions to unitholders over time as it would if it had retained ownership of its incentive distribution rights. For example, a transfer of incentive distribution rights by our general partner could reduce the likelihood of Delek selling or contributing additional assets to us, as Delek would have less of an economic incentive to grow our business, which in turn would impact our ability to grow our asset base.

We may issue additional units without unitholder approval, which would dilute unitholder interests.

Our partnership agreement does not limit the number of additional limited partner interests, including limited partner interests that rank senior to the common units, that we may issue at any time without the approval of our unitholders. The issuance by us of additional common units or other equity securities of equal or senior rank will have the following effects:

 

   

our existing unitholders’ proportionate ownership interest in us will decrease;

 

   

the amount of cash available for distribution on each unit may decrease;

 

   

because a lower percentage of total outstanding units will be subordinated units, the risk that a shortfall in the payment of the minimum quarterly distribution will be borne by our common unitholders will increase;

 

   

because the amount payable to holders of incentive distribution rights is based on a percentage of the total cash available for distribution, the distributions to holders of incentive distribution rights will increase even if the per unit distribution on common units remains the same;

 

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the ratio of taxable income to distributions may increase;

 

   

the relative voting strength of each previously outstanding unit may be diminished; and

 

   

the market price of the common units may decline.

Delek may sell units in the public or private markets, and such sales could have an adverse impact on the trading price of the common units.

After the sale of the common units offered by this prospectus, assuming that the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional common units, Delek will indirectly hold an aggregate of            common units and            subordinated units. All of the subordinated units will convert into common units at the end of the subordination period and may convert earlier under certain circumstances. In addition, we have agreed to provide Delek with certain registration rights. The sale of these units in the public or private markets could have an adverse impact on the price of the common units or on any trading market that may develop.

Our general partner intends to limit its liability regarding our obligations.

Our general partner intends to limit its liability under contractual arrangements so that the counterparties to such arrangements have recourse only against our assets and not against our general partner or its assets. Our general partner may therefore cause us to incur indebtedness or other obligations that are nonrecourse to our general partner. Our partnership agreement permits our general partner to limit its liability, even if we could have obtained more favorable terms without the limitation on liability. In addition, we are obligated to reimburse or indemnify our general partner to the extent that it incurs obligations on our behalf. Any such reimbursement or indemnification payments would reduce the amount of cash otherwise available for distribution to our unitholders.

Our general partner has a limited call right that may require you to sell your units at an undesirable time or price.

If at any time our general partner and its affiliates own more than 80% of our common units, our general partner will have the right, which it may assign to any of its affiliates or to us, but not the obligation, to acquire all, but not less than all, of the common units held by unaffiliated persons at a price that is not less than their then-current market price, as calculated pursuant to the terms of our partnership agreement. As a result, you may be required to sell your common units at an undesirable time or price and may not receive any return on your investment. You may also incur a tax liability upon a sale of your units. At the closing of this offering, and assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units, Delek will indirectly own approximately    % of our outstanding common units. At the end of the subordination period, assuming no additional issuances of common units (other than upon the conversion of the subordinated units), Delek will indirectly own approximately    % of our outstanding common units. For additional information about this right, please read “The Partnership Agreement—Limited Call Right.”

Our general partner, or any transferee holding a majority of the incentive distribution rights, may elect to cause us to issue common units to it in connection with a resetting of the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels related to the incentive distribution rights, without the approval of the conflicts committee of our general partner or our unitholders. This election may result in lower distributions to our common unitholders in certain situations.

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quarter), to reset the minimum quarterly distribution and the initial target distribution levels at higher levels based on our cash distribution at the time of the exercise of the reset election. Following a reset election, the minimum quarterly distribution will be reset to an amount equal to the average cash distribution per unit for the two fiscal quarters immediately preceding the reset election (such amount is referred to as the “reset minimum quarterly distribution”), and the target distribution levels will be reset to correspondingly higher levels based on percentage increases above the reset minimum quarterly distribution. Our general partner has the right to transfer the incentive distribution rights at any time, in whole or in part, and any transferee holding a majority of the incentive distribution rights shall have the same rights as our general partner with respect to resetting target distributions.

In the event of a reset of the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels, the holders of the incentive distribution rights will be entitled to receive, in the aggregate, the number of common units equal to that number of common units which would have entitled the holders to an average aggregate quarterly cash distribution in the prior two quarters equal to the average of the distributions on the incentive distribution rights in the prior two quarters. Our general partner will also be issued the number of general partner units necessary to maintain its general partner interest in us that existed immediately prior to the reset election. We anticipate that our general partner would exercise this reset right in order to facilitate acquisitions or internal growth projects that would not otherwise be sufficiently accretive to cash distributions per common unit. It is possible, however, that our general partner or a transferee could exercise this reset election at a time when it is experiencing, or expects to experience, declines in the cash distributions it receives related to its incentive distribution rights and may therefore desire to be issued common units rather than retain the right to receive incentive distribution payments based on target distribution levels that are less certain to be achieved in the then-current business environment. This risk could be elevated if our incentive distribution rights have been transferred to a third party. As a result, a reset election may cause our common unitholders to experience dilution in the amount of cash distributions that they would have otherwise received had we not issued common units to our general partner in connection with resetting the target distribution levels. Please read “Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions—General Partner’s Right to Reset Incentive Distribution Levels.”

Your 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 a number of 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 of the other states in which we do business. You could be liable for any and all of our obligations as if you 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

 

   

your 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 constitute “control” of our business.

For a discussion of the implications of the limitations of liability on a unitholder, please read “The Partnership Agreement—Limited Liability.”

Unitholders may have liability to repay distributions that were wrongfully distributed to them.

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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. Transferees of common units are liable both for the obligations of the transferor to make contributions to the partnership that were known to the transferee at the time of transfer 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.

The NYSE does not require a publicly traded limited partnership like us to comply with certain of its corporate governance requirements.

We intend to apply to list our common units on the NYSE. Because we will be a publicly traded limited partnership, the NYSE does not require us to have, and we do not intend to have, a majority of independent directors on our general partner’s board of directors or to establish a compensation committee or a nominating and corporate governance committee. Accordingly, unitholders will not have the same protections afforded to certain corporations that are subject to all of the NYSE corporate governance requirements. Please read “Management.”

We will incur increased costs as a result of being a publicly traded partnership.

We have no history operating as a publicly traded partnership. As a publicly traded partnership, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and the NYSE have required changes in the corporate governance practices of publicly traded companies. We expect these rules and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to make activities more time-consuming and costly. For example, as a result of becoming a publicly traded partnership, we are required to have at least three independent directors, create an audit committee and adopt policies regarding internal controls and disclosure controls and procedures, including the preparation of reports on internal controls over financial reporting. In addition, we will incur additional costs associated with our publicly traded partnership reporting requirements, and our general partner will maintain director and officer liability insurance under a separate policy from Delek’s corporate director and officer insurance. We have included $2.0 million of estimated annual incremental costs associated with being a publicly traded partnership in our financial forecast included elsewhere in this prospectus. However, it is possible that our actual incremental costs of being a publicly traded partnership will be higher than we currently estimate.

Pursuant to the recently enacted JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 for so long as we are an emerging growth company.

We will be required to disclose changes made in our internal control over financial reporting on a quarterly basis, and we will be required to assess the effectiveness of our controls annually. However, for as long as we are an “emerging growth company” under the recently enacted JOBS Act, we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including not being required to provide an auditor’s attestation report on management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our system of internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or Section 404, and reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports. We will remain an emerging growth company for up to five years. See “Prospectus Summary—Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company.” Effective internal controls are necessary for us to provide reliable and timely financial reports, prevent fraud and to operate successfully as a publicly traded partnership. We prepare our consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP, but our internal accounting controls may not meet all standards applicable to companies with publicly traded securities. Our efforts to develop and maintain our internal controls may not be successful, and we may be unable to maintain effective controls over our financial processes and reporting in the future or to comply with our obligations under Section 404. For example, Section 404 will require us, among other things, to annually review and report on the

 

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effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. We must comply with Section 404 (except for the requirement for an auditor’s attestation report) beginning with our fiscal year ending December 31, 2013. Any failure to develop, implement or maintain effective internal controls or to improve our internal controls could harm our operating results or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. Even if we conclude that our internal controls over financial reporting are effective, our independent registered public accounting firm may still decline to attest to our assessment or may issue a report that is qualified if it is not satisfied with our controls or the level at which the our controls are documented, designed, operated or reviewed, or if it interprets the relevant requirements differently from us.

Given the difficulties inherent in the design and operation of internal controls over financial reporting, in addition to our limited accounting personnel and management resources, we can provide no assurance as to our, or our independent registered public accounting firm’s, future conclusions about the effectiveness of our internal controls, and we may incur significant costs in our efforts to comply with Section 404. Any failure to implement and maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting will subject us to regulatory scrutiny and a loss of confidence in our reported financial information, which could have an adverse effect on our business and would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of our common units.

We may take advantage of these exemptions until we are no longer an “emerging growth company.” We cannot predict if investors will find our units less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our units less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our units and our trading price may be more volatile.

Tax Risks to Common Unitholders

In addition to reading the following risk factors, you should read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences” for a more complete discussion of the expected material federal income tax consequences of owning and disposing of common units.

Our tax treatment depends on our status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes. If the IRS were to treat us as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, which would subject us to entity-level taxation, then our cash available for distribution to our unitholders would be substantially reduced.

The anticipated after-tax economic benefit of an investment in the common units depends largely on our being treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes. We have not requested, and do not plan to request, a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, on this or any other tax matter affecting us.

Despite the fact that we are a limited partnership under Delaware law, it is possible in certain circumstances for a partnership such as ours to be 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, which is currently a maximum of 35.0%, and would likely pay state and local income tax at varying rates. Distributions would generally be taxed again as corporate dividends (to the extent of our current and accumulated earnings and profits), and no income, gains, losses, deductions, or credits would flow through to you. Because a tax would be imposed upon us as a corporation, our cash available for distribution to you would be substantially reduced. Therefore, if we were treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes there would be material reduction in the anticipated cash flow and after-tax return to our unitholders, likely causing a substantial reduction in the value of our common units.

Our partnership agreement provides that, if a law is enacted or existing law is modified or interpreted in a manner that subjects us to taxation as a corporation or otherwise subjects us to entity-level taxation for federal, state or local income tax purposes, the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution amounts may be adjusted to reflect the impact of that law on us.

 

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If we were subjected to a material amount of additional entity-level taxation by individual states, it would reduce our cash available for distribution to our unitholders.

Changes in current state law may subject us to additional entity-level taxation by individual states. 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. Imposition of such additional tax on us by a state will reduce the cash available for distribution to you. Our partnership agreement provides that, if a law is enacted or existing law is modified or interpreted in a manner that subjects us to entity-level taxation, the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution amounts may be adjusted to reflect the impact of that law on us.

The tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships or an investment in our common units could be subject to potential legislative, judicial or administrative changes and differing interpretations, possibly on a retroactive basis.

The present federal income tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships, including us, or an investment in our common units may be modified by administrative, legislative or judicial interpretation at any time. For example, from time to time members of the U.S. Congress propose and consider substantive changes to the existing federal income tax laws that affect publicly traded partnerships. Currently, one such legislative proposal would eliminate the qualifying income exception upon which we rely for our treatment as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Partnership Status.” We are unable to predict whether any of these changes or any other proposals will ultimately be enacted, but it is possible that a change in law could affect us and may, if enacted, be applied retroactively. Any such changes could negatively impact the value of an investment in our common units.

Our unitholders’ share of our income will be taxable to them for U.S. federal income tax purposes even if they do not receive any cash distributions from us.

Because a unitholder will be treated as a partner to whom we will allocate taxable income which could be different in amount than the cash we distribute, a unitholder’s allocable share of our taxable income will be taxable to it, which may require the payment of federal income taxes and, in some cases, state and local income taxes on its share of our taxable income even if it receives no cash distributions from us. Our unitholders may not receive cash distributions from us equal to their share of our taxable income or even equal to the actual tax liability that results from that income.

If the IRS contests the federal income tax positions we take, the market for our common units may be adversely impacted and the cost of any IRS contest will reduce our cash available for distribution to our unitholders.

We have not requested a ruling from the IRS with respect to our treatment as a partnership for federal income tax purposes or any other matter affecting us. The IRS may adopt positions that differ from the conclusions of our counsel expressed in this prospectus or from the positions we take, and the IRS’s positions may ultimately be sustained. It may be necessary to resort to administrative or court proceedings to sustain some or all of our counsel’s conclusions or the positions we take and such positions may not ultimately be sustained. A court may not agree with some or all of our counsel’s conclusions or the positions we take. Any contest with the IRS, and the outcome of any IRS contest, may have a materially adverse impact on the market for our common 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 the costs will reduce our cash available for distribution.

Tax gain or loss on the disposition of our common units could be more or less than expected.

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excess of your allocable share of our net taxable income decrease your tax basis in your common units, the amount, if any, of such prior excess distributions with respect to the common units you sell will, in effect, become taxable income to you if you sell such common units at a price greater than your tax basis in those common units, even if the price you receive is less than your original cost. Furthermore, a substantial portion of the amount realized on any sale or other disposition of your common units, whether or not representing gain, may be taxed as ordinary income due to potential recapture items, including depreciation recapture. In addition, because the amount realized includes a unitholder’s share of our nonrecourse liabilities, if you sell your common units, you may incur a tax liability in excess of the amount of cash you receive from the sale. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Disposition of Common Units—Recognition of Gain or Loss” for a further discussion of the foregoing.

Tax-exempt entities and non-U.S. persons face unique tax issues from owning our common units that may result in adverse tax consequences to them.

Investment in common units by tax-exempt entities, such as employee benefit plans and individual retirement accounts (known as IRAs), 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. Distributions to non-U.S. persons will be reduced by withholding taxes at the highest applicable effective tax rate, and non-U.S. persons will be required to file U.S. federal income tax returns and pay tax on their share of our taxable income. If you are a tax-exempt entity or a non-U.S. person, you should consult a tax advisor before investing in our common units.

We will treat each purchaser of common units as having the same tax benefits without regard to the actual common units purchased. The IRS may challenge this treatment, which could adversely affect the value of the common units.

Because we cannot match transferors and transferees of common units and because of other reasons, we will adopt depreciation and amortization positions that may not conform to all aspects of existing Treasury Regulations. A successful IRS challenge to those positions could adversely affect the amount of tax benefits available to you. Our counsel is unable to opine as to the validity of such filing positions. It also could affect the timing of these tax benefits or the amount of gain from your sale of common units and could have a negative impact on the value of our common units or result in audit adjustments to your tax returns. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Section 754 Election” for a further discussion of the effect of the depreciation and amortization positions we will adopt.

We prorate our items of income, gain, loss and deduction for U.S. federal income tax purposes 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 will prorate our items of income, gain, loss and deduction for U.S. federal income tax purposes 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 use of this proration method may not be permitted under existing Treasury Regulations. Recently, however, the U.S. Treasury Department issued proposed Treasury Regulations that provide a safe harbor pursuant to which publicly traded partnerships may use a similar monthly simplifying convention to allocate tax items among transferor and transferee unitholders. Nonetheless, the proposed regulations do not specifically authorize the use of the proration method we have adopted. If the IRS were to challenge this method or new Treasury regulations were issued, we may be required to change the allocation of items of income, gain, loss and deduction among our unitholders. Our counsel has not rendered an opinion with respect to whether our monthly convention for

 

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allocating taxable income and losses is permitted by existing Treasury Regulations. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Disposition of Common Units—Allocations Between Transferors and Transferees.”

A unitholder whose common units are loaned to a “short seller” to cover a short sale of common units may be considered as having disposed of those common units. If so, he would no longer be treated for federal income tax purposes as a partner with respect to those common units during the period of the loan and may recognize gain or loss from the disposition.

Because a unitholder whose common units are loaned to a “short seller” to cover a short sale of common units may be considered as having disposed of the loaned common units, he may no longer be treated for federal income tax purposes as a partner with respect to those common 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 common units may not be reportable by the unitholder and any cash distributions received by the unitholder as to those common units could be fully taxable as ordinary income. Our counsel has not rendered an opinion regarding the treatment of a unitholder where common units are loaned to a short seller to cover a short sale of common units; therefore, our 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 consult a tax advisor to discuss whether it is advisable to modify any applicable brokerage account agreements to prohibit their brokers from loaning their common units.

We will adopt certain valuation methodologies and monthly conventions for U.S. federal income tax purposes that may result in a shift of income, gain, loss and deduction between our general partner and our unitholders. The IRS may challenge this treatment, which could adversely affect the value of the common units.

When we issue additional units or engage in certain other transactions, we will determine the fair market value of our assets and allocate any unrealized gain or loss attributable to our assets to the capital accounts of our unitholders and our general partner. Our methodology may be viewed as understating the value of our assets. In that case, there may be a shift of income, gain, loss and deduction between certain unitholders and our general partner, which may be unfavorable to such unitholders. Moreover, under our valuation methods, subsequent purchasers of common units may have a greater portion of their Internal Revenue Code Section 743(b) adjustment allocated to our tangible assets and a lesser portion allocated to our intangible assets. The IRS may challenge our valuation methods, or our allocation of the Section 743(b) adjustment attributable to our tangible and intangible assets, and allocations of taxable income, gain, loss and deduction between our general partner and certain of our unitholders.

A successful IRS challenge to these methods or allocations could adversely affect the amount of taxable income or loss being allocated to our unitholders. It also could affect the amount of taxable gain from our unitholders’ sale of common units and could have a negative impact on the value of the common units or result in audit adjustments to our unitholders’ tax returns without the benefit of additional deductions.

The sale or exchange of 50% or more of our capital and profits interests during any twelve-month period will result in the termination of our partnership for federal income tax purposes.

We will be considered to have technically terminated our partnership for federal income tax purposes if there is a sale or exchange of 50% or more of the total interests in our capital and profits within a twelve-month period. Immediately following this offering, Delek will indirectly own more than 50% of the total interests in our capital and profits. Therefore, a transfer by Delek of all or a portion of its interests in us could result in a termination of our partnership for federal income tax purposes. For purposes of determining whether the 50% threshold has been met, multiple sales of the same interest will be counted only once. Our technical termination would, among other things, result in the closing of our taxable year for all unitholders, which would result in us filing two tax returns (and our unitholders could receive two Schedules K-1 if relief was not available, as

 

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described below) for one fiscal year and could result in a deferral of depreciation deductions allowable in computing our taxable income. In the case of a unitholder reporting on a taxable year other than a fiscal year ending December 31, the closing of our taxable year may also result in more than twelve months of our taxable income or loss being includable in his taxable income for the year of termination. Our termination currently would not affect our classification as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, but instead we would be treated as a new partnership for tax purposes. If treated as a new partnership, we must make new tax elections and could be subject to penalties if we are unable to determine that a termination occurred. The IRS has recently announced a publicly traded partnership technical termination relief program whereby, if a publicly traded partnership that technically terminated requests publicly traded partnership technical termination relief and such relief is granted by the IRS, among other things, the partnership will only have to provide one Schedule K-1 to unitholders for the year notwithstanding two partnership tax years. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Disposition of Common Units—Constructive Termination” for a discussion of the consequences of our termination for federal income tax purposes.

As a result of investing in our common units, you may become subject to state and local taxes and return filing requirements in jurisdictions where we operate or own or acquire properties.

In addition to federal income taxes, our unitholders will likely be subject to other taxes, including state and local taxes, unincorporated business taxes and estate, inheritance or intangible taxes that are imposed by the various jurisdictions in which we conduct business or own property now or in the future, even if they do not live in any of those jurisdictions. Our unitholders will likely be required to file state and local income tax returns and pay state and local income taxes in some or all of these various jurisdictions. Further, our unitholders may be subject to penalties for failure to comply with those requirements. We will initially own property or conduct business in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas. Arkansas and Louisiana impose a personal income tax on individuals, and each of the four states imposes an income or similar tax on corporations and certain other entities. As we make acquisitions or expand our business, we may own property or conduct business in additional states that impose a personal income tax. It is your responsibility to file all U.S. federal, state and local tax returns. Our counsel has not rendered an opinion on the state or local tax consequences of an investment in our common units.

Compliance with and changes in tax laws could adversely affect our performance.

We are subject to extensive tax laws and regulations, including federal, state and foreign income taxes and transactional taxes such as excise, sales/use, payroll, franchise and ad valorem taxes. New tax laws and regulations and changes in existing tax laws and regulations are continuously being enacted that could result in increased tax expenditures in the future. Many of these tax liabilities are subject to audits by the respective taxing authority. These audits may result in additional taxes as well as interest and penalties.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

We expect the net proceeds from this offering, after deducting underwriting discounts, the structuring fee and offering expenses, to be approximately $        million. We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering:

 

   

to fund an approximately $        million cash distribution to Delek;

 

   

to retire the approximately $        million of outstanding indebtedness under our predecessor’s revolving credit facility that we are assuming in the formation transactions in connection with our refinancing of the facility at the closing of this offering;

 

   

to provide $         million in working capital to replenish amounts distributed by us to Delek, in the form of trade and other accounts receivable, in connection with the closing of this offering; and

 

   

for other general partnership purposes.

As of March 31, 2012, $49.1 million was outstanding under our predecessor’s revolving credit facility, with a weighted-average interest rate of 3.9%. Immediately prior to the closing of this offering, we expect outstanding indebtedness under such revolving credit facility to be between $         million and $         million. Indebtedness under such credit facility matures on December 19, 2012.

At the closing of this offering, we will enter into a new $175 million revolving credit facility, which will replace our predecessor’s revolving credit facility. We will borrow $90 million under the new revolving credit facility to fund an additional $90 million cash distribution to Delek. The cash distributions to Delek from the proceeds of this offering and the borrowing under our revolving credit facility will be made in consideration of its contribution of assets to us. We are funding these distributions through a combination of net proceeds from this offering and borrowings under our revolving credit facility in order to optimize our capital structure.

If and to the extent the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units, the number of common units purchased by the underwriters pursuant to such exercise will be issued to the public and the remainder of the            additional common units, if any, will be issued to Delek. Any such units issued to Delek will be issued for no additional consideration. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units in full, the additional net proceeds would be approximately $        million. The net proceeds from any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units will be distributed to Delek.

A $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $        per common unit would cause the net proceeds from this offering, after deducting the underwriting discounts, the structuring fee and offering expenses, to increase or decrease, respectively, by approximately $        million. If the proceeds increase due to a higher initial public offering price or decrease due to a lower initial public offering price, then the cash distribution to Delek from the proceeds of this offering will increase or decrease, as applicable, by a corresponding amount.

 

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table shows:

 

   

the historical cash and cash equivalents and capitalization of our predecessor as of March 31, 2012; and

 

   

our pro forma cash and cash equivalents and capitalization as of March 31, 2012, after giving effect to the pro forma adjustments described in our unaudited pro forma financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus, including this offering and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described under “Use of Proceeds,” borrowings under our revolving credit facility and the other formation transactions described under “Prospectus Summary—Formation Transactions and Partnership Structure.”

This table is derived from, should be read in conjunction with and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, our historical and unaudited pro forma financial statements and the accompanying notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. You should also read this table in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

 

     As of March 31, 2012  
     Predecessor
Historical
     Partnership
Pro  Forma(1)
 
     (In thousands)  

Cash and cash equivalents (2)

   $ 26       $                
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Debt:

     

Predecessor revolving credit facility (3)

   $ 49,100       $   

New revolving credit facility

          

Partners’ capital/partner net investment:

     

Net parent equity

   $ 109,188       $     

Common units—public (4)

     

Common units—Delek (4)

     

Subordinated units—Delek

     

General partner units—Delek

     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total partners’ capital/partner net investment

     109,188      
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total capitalization

   $ 158,288       $     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1) On a pro forma basis, as of March 31, 2012, the public would have held              common units, Delek would have held an aggregate of              common units and              subordinated unites, and our general partner would have held              general partner units.

 

(2) As of                     , 2012, total cash and cash equivalents were $             million.

 

(3) As of                     , 2012, total borrowings under our predecessor revolving credit facility were $         million and $         million of letters of credit were outstanding.

 

(4) An increase or decrease in the initial public offering price of $1.00 per common unit would cause the net proceeds from this offering, after deducting underwriting discounts, the structuring fee and offering expenses, to increase or decrease by $        million. If the proceeds increase due to a higher initial public offering price or decrease due to a lower initial public offering price, then the cash distribution to Delek from the proceeds of this offering will increase or decrease, as applicable, by a corresponding amount.

 

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DILUTION

Dilution is the amount by which the offering price paid by the purchasers of common units sold in this offering will exceed the pro forma net tangible book value per unit after this offering. On a pro forma basis as of March 31, 2012, our net tangible book value was $        million, or $        per unit. Purchasers of common units in this offering will experience immediate and substantial dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per unit for financial accounting purposes, as illustrated in the following table:

 

Assumed initial public offering price per common unit

      $               

Pro forma net tangible book value per unit before the offering (1)

   $                  

Decrease in pro forma net tangible book value per unit attributable to purchasers in the offering

     
  

 

 

    

Less: Pro forma net tangible book value per unit after the offering (2)

     
     

 

 

 

Immediate dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per unit attributable to purchasers in the offering (3)(4)

      $    
     

 

 

 

 

(1) Determined by dividing the number of units (            common units,            subordinated units and            general partner units) to be issued to our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, for their contribution of assets and liabilities to us into the pro forma net tangible book value of the contributed assets and liabilities.

 

(2) Determined by dividing the total number of units to be outstanding after the offering (            common units,            subordinated units and            general partner units) into our pro forma net tangible book value, after giving effect to the application of the net proceeds of the offering.

 

(3) If the initial public offering price were to increase or decrease by $1.00 per common unit, then dilution in net tangible book value per common unit would equal $        and $        , respectively.

 

(4) Because the total number of units outstanding following this offering will not be impacted by any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units and any net proceeds from such exercise will not be retained by us, there will be no change to the dilution in net tangible book value per common unit to purchasers in the offering due to any such exercise of the option.

The following table sets forth the number of units that we will issue and the total consideration contributed to us by our general partner and its affiliates and by the purchasers of common units in this offering upon completion of the transactions contemplated by this prospectus:

 

     Units Acquired     Total Consideration  
     Number    Percent     Amount      Percent  
                (In thousands)         

General partner and its affiliates (1)(2)

               $              

Purchasers in this offering

               $              
  

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

        100.0   $                     100.0
  

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1) The units acquired by our general partner and its affiliates consist of            common units,             subordinated units and            general partner units.

 

(2) The assets contributed by our general partner and its affiliates were recorded at historical cost in accordance with GAAP. Book value of the consideration provided by our general partner and its affiliates, as of March 31, 2012, after giving effect to the application of the net proceeds of the offering, is as follows:

 

     (In thousands)  

Book value of net assets contributed

   $                

Less:         Distribution to Delek from net proceeds of this offering

  

Distribution to Delek from borrowings under our revolving credit facility

  
  

 

 

 

Total consideration

   $     
  

 

 

 

 

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OUR CASH DISTRIBUTION POLICY AND RESTRICTIONS ON DISTRIBUTIONS

You should read the following discussion of our cash distribution policy in conjunction with the factors and assumptions upon which our cash distribution policy is based, which are included under the heading “—Assumptions and Considerations” below. In addition, please read “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” for information regarding statements that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and certain risks inherent in our business. For additional information regarding our historical and pro forma operating results, you should refer to our historical and pro forma financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.

General

Rationale for Our Cash Distribution Policy

Our partnership agreement requires that we distribute all of our available cash quarterly. Our cash distribution policy reflects our belief that our unitholders will be better served if we distribute rather than retain available cash, because, among other reasons, we believe we will generally finance any expansion capital expenditures from external financing sources. Generally, our available cash is the sum of our (a) cash on hand at the end of a quarter after the payment of our expenses and the establishment of cash reserves and (b) cash on hand resulting from working capital borrowings made after the end of the quarter. Because we are not subject to an entity-level federal income tax, we have more cash to distribute to our unitholders than would be the case if we were subject to federal income tax.

Limitations on Cash Distributions and Our Ability to Change Our Cash Distribution Policy

There is no guarantee that our unitholders will receive quarterly distributions from us. We do not have a legal obligation to pay the minimum quarterly distribution or any other distribution except as provided in our partnership agreement. Our cash distribution policy is subject to certain restrictions and may be changed at any time. The reasons for such uncertainties in our stated cash distribution policy include the following factors:

 

   

Our ability to make cash distributions may be limited by certain covenants in our new revolving credit facility. Should we be unable to satisfy these covenants, we will be unable to make cash distributions notwithstanding our cash distribution policy. Please read “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Capital Resources and Liquidity—New Revolving Credit Facility.”

 

   

Our general partner will have the authority to establish reserves for the proper conduct of our business and for future cash distributions to our unitholders, and the establishment or increase of those reserves could result in a reduction in cash distributions to our unitholders from the levels we currently anticipate pursuant to our stated cash distribution policy. Any determination to establish cash reserves made by our general partner in good faith will be binding on our unitholders. Our partnership agreement provides that in order for a determination by our general partner to be considered to have been made in good faith, our general partner must subjectively believe that the determination is in our best interests.

 

   

While our partnership agreement requires us to distribute all of our available cash, our partnership agreement, including the provisions requiring us to make cash distributions contained therein, may be amended. Our partnership agreement generally may not be amended during the subordination period without the approval of our public common unitholders other than in certain circumstances where no unitholder approval is required. However, our partnership agreement can be amended with the consent of our general partner and the approval of a majority of the outstanding common units (including common units held by our general partner and its affiliates) after the subordination period has ended. At the closing of this offering, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-

 

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allotment option, Delek will own our general partner as well as approximately     % of our outstanding common units and all of our outstanding subordinated units, representing an aggregate     % limited partner interest in us. Please read “The Partnership Agreement—Amendment of the Partnership Agreement.”

 

   

Even if our cash distribution policy is not modified or revoked, the amount of cash that we distribute and the decision to make any distribution is determined by our general partner, taking into consideration the terms of our partnership agreement.

 

   

Under Section 17-607 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, or the Delaware Act, we may not make a distribution to our unitholders if the distribution would cause our liabilities to exceed the fair value of our assets.

 

   

We may lack sufficient cash to pay distributions to our unitholders due to cash flow shortfalls attributable to a number of operational, commercial or other factors, as well as increases in our operating or general and administrative expense, principal and interest payments on our debt, working capital requirements and anticipated cash needs. Our cash available for distribution to common unitholders is directly impacted by our cash expenses necessary to run our business and will be reduced dollar-for-dollar to the extent such uses of cash increase.

 

   

Our ability to make distributions to our unitholders depends on the performance of our subsidiaries and their ability to distribute cash to us. The ability of our subsidiaries to make distributions to us may be restricted by, among other things, the provisions of future indebtedness, applicable state partnership and limited liability company laws and other laws and regulations.

 

   

If and to the extent our cash available for distribution materially declines, we may elect to reduce our quarterly cash distributions in order to service or repay our debt or fund expansion capital expenditures.

All available cash distributed by us on any date from any source will be treated as distributed from operating surplus until the sum of all available cash distributed since the closing of this offering equals the operating surplus from the closing of this offering through the end of the quarter immediately preceding that distribution. We anticipate that distributions from operating surplus will generally not represent a return of capital. However, operating surplus, as defined in our partnership agreement, includes certain components, including a $        million cash basket, that represent non-operating sources of cash. Accordingly, it is possible that return of capital distributions could be made from operating surplus. Any cash distributed by us in excess of operating surplus will be deemed to be capital surplus under our partnership agreement. Our partnership agreement treats a distribution of capital surplus as the repayment of the initial unit price from this initial public offering, which is a return of capital. We do not anticipate that we will make any distributions from capital surplus.

Our Ability to Grow is Dependent on Our Ability to Access External Expansion Capital

Because we will distribute all of our available cash to our unitholders, we expect that we will rely primarily upon external financing sources, including commercial borrowings and the issuance of debt and equity securities, to fund our acquisitions and expansion capital expenditures. We do not have any commitment from our general partner or other affiliates, including Delek, to provide any direct or indirect financial assistance to us following the closing of this offering. As a result, to the extent we are unable to finance growth externally, our cash distribution policy will significantly impair our ability to grow. In addition, because we intend to distribute all of our available cash, our growth may not be as fast as that of businesses that reinvest their available cash to expand ongoing operations. To the extent we issue additional units in connection with any acquisitions or expansion capital expenditures, the payment of distributions on those additional units and the incremental distributions on the incentive distribution rights may increase the risk that we will be unable to maintain or increase our per unit distribution level. There are no limitations in our partnership agreement, and we do not

 

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anticipate that there will be limitations in our new credit facility, on our ability to issue additional units, including units ranking senior to the common units. The incurrence of additional commercial borrowings or other debt to finance our growth strategy would result in increased interest expense, which in turn may impact the available cash that we have to distribute to our unitholders.

Our Minimum Quarterly Distribution

Upon the consummation of this offering, our partnership agreement will provide for a minimum quarterly distribution of $        per unit for each complete quarter, or $        per unit on an annualized basis. Our ability to make cash distributions at the minimum quarterly distribution rate will be subject to the factors described above under “—General—Limitations on Cash Distributions and Our Ability to Change Our Cash Distribution Policy.” Quarterly distributions, if any, will be made within 45 days after the end of each quarter, on or about the 15th day of each February, May, August and November to holders of record on or about the first day of each such month. If the distribution date does not fall on a business day, we will make the distribution on the first business day immediately following the indicated distribution date. We will not make distributions for the period that begins on July 1, 2012, and ends on the day prior to the closing of this offering other than the distribution to be made to Delek in connection with the closing of this offering as described in “Prospectus Summary—Formation Transactions and Partnership Structure” and “Use of Proceeds.” We will adjust the amount of our distribution for the period from the completion of this offering through September 30, 2012 based on the actual length of the period. The amount of available cash needed to pay the minimum quarterly distribution on all of our common units, subordinated units and general partner units to be outstanding immediately after this offering for one quarter and on an annualized basis is summarized in the table below:

 

     Number of Units    Minimum Quarterly Distributions  
        One Quarter      Annualized  
          (in millions)  

Publicly held common units (1)

      $                    $                

Common units held by Delek (1)

      $         $     

Subordinated units held by Delek

      $         $     

General partner units

      $         $     

Total

      $         $     

 

(1) Assumes that the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units is not exercised. Please read “Prospectus Summary—Formation Transactions and Partnership Structure” for a description of the impact of an exercise of the option on the common unit ownership percentages.

As of the date of this offering, our general partner will own general partner units entitling it to 2.0% of all distributions that we make prior to our liquidation. Our general partner’s initial 2.0% interest in these distributions may be reduced if we issue additional units in the future and our general partner does not contribute a proportionate amount of capital to us in order to maintain its initial 2.0% general partner interest. Our general partner will also be the initial holder of the incentive distribution rights, which entitle the holder to increasing percentages, up to a maximum of 48.0%, of the cash we distribute in excess of $        per unit per quarter.

During the subordination period, before we make any quarterly distributions to our subordinated unitholders, our common unitholders are entitled to receive payment of the full minimum quarterly distribution plus any arrearages in distributions of the minimum quarterly distribution from prior quarters. Please read “Provisions of our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions—Subordination Period.” We cannot guarantee, however, that we will pay the minimum quarterly distribution on our common units in any quarter.

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partner must be made in good faith and that any such determination will not be subject to any other standard imposed by the Delaware Act or any other law, rule or regulation or at equity. Our partnership agreement provides that, in order for a determination by our general partner to be made in “good faith,” our general partner must subjectively believe that the determination is in our best interests. Please read “Conflicts of Interest and Duties.”

Our cash distribution policy, as expressed in our partnership agreement, may not be modified or repealed without amending our partnership agreement; however, the actual amount of our cash distributions for any quarter is subject to fluctuations based on the amount of cash we generate from our business and the amount of cash reserves our general partner establishes in accordance with our partnership agreement as described above.

In the sections that follow, we present in detail the basis for our belief that we will be able to fully fund our annualized minimum quarterly distribution of $         per unit for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013. In those sections, we present two tables, consisting of:

 

   

“Unaudited Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution,” in which we present the amount of cash we would have had available for distribution on a pro forma basis for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012, derived from our unaudited pro forma financial data that are included elsewhere in this prospectus, as adjusted to give pro forma effect to this offering and the related formation transactions; and

 

   

“Estimated Cash Available for Distribution for the Twelve-Month Period Ending September 30, 2013,” in which we explain our belief that we will be able to generate sufficient cash available for distribution for us to pay the minimum quarterly distribution on all units for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013.

Unaudited Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution for the Year Ended December 31, 2011 and the Twelve-Month Period Ended March 31, 2012

If we had completed this offering and related transactions on January 1, 2011, our unaudited pro forma cash available for distribution for the year ended December 31, 2011 would have been approximately $40.7 million. This amount would have been sufficient to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution of $        per unit per quarter ($        per unit on an annualized basis) on all of our common units but only $        per unit per quarter ($        per unit on an annualized basis), or approximately    % of the minimum quarterly distribution, on all of our subordinated units for such period.

If we had completed this offering and related transactions on April 1, 2011, our unaudited pro forma cash available for distribution for the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012 would have been approximately $41.1 million. This amount would have been sufficient to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution of $             per unit per quarter ($             per unit on an annualized basis) on all of our common units but only $             per unit per quarter ($             per unit on an annualized basis), or approximately     % of the minimum quarterly distribution, on all of our subordinated units for such period.

Our unaudited pro forma available cash for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012 includes $2.0 million of estimated incremental general and administrative expenses that we expect to incur as a result of becoming a publicly traded partnership. Incremental general and administrative expenses related to being a publicly traded partnership include expenses associated with annual and quarterly reporting; tax return and Schedule K-1 preparation and distribution expenses; expenses associated with listing on the NYSE; independent auditor fees; legal fees; investor relations expenses; registrar and transfer agent fees; director and officer liability insurance expenses; and director compensation. These expenses are not reflected in historical financial statements of our predecessor or our unaudited pro forma financial statements included elsewhere in the prospectus.

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution

We based the pro forma adjustments upon currently available information and specific estimates and assumptions. The pro forma amounts below do not purport to present our results of operations had this offering and related formation transactions been completed as of the date indicated. In addition, cash available for distribution is primarily a cash accounting concept, while the historical financial statements of our predecessor

and our unaudited pro forma financial statements included elsewhere in the prospectus have been prepared on an accrual basis. As a result, you should view the amount of pro forma cash available for distribution only as a general indication of the amount of cash available for distributions that we might have generated had we completed this offering on the dates indicated. The pro forma amounts below are presented on a twelve-month basis, and there is no guarantee that we would have had available cash sufficient to pay the full minimum quarterly distribution on all of our outstanding common units and subordinated units for each quarter within the twelve-month periods presented.

The following table illustrates, on a pro forma basis, for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2012, the amount of cash that would have been available for distribution to our unitholders, assuming that this offering and the related formation transactions had been completed on January 1, 2011 and April 1, 2011, respectively. Each of the adjustments reflected or presented below is explained in the footnotes to such adjustments.

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Unaudited Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution

 

    Year Ended
December 31, 2011
    Twelve Months Ended
March  31, 2012
 
    (In millions, except per unit data)  

Pro Forma Net Income:

  $ 32.6      $ 33.5   

Add:

   

Depreciation and amortization

    9.3        9.3   

Interest expense, net (1)

    3.6        3.6   

Income tax expense

             
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Pro Forma EBITDA (2)

  $ 45.5      $ 46.4   
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Less:

   

Cash interest, net (1)

    2.8        2.8   

Expansion capital expenditures (3)

    0.9        0.5   

Maintenance capital expenditures (4)

           0.5   

Incremental general and administrative expense of being a public partnership (5)

    2.0        2.0   

Add:

   

Borrowings to fund expansion capital expenditures

    0.9        0.5   
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Pro Forma Cash Available for Distribution

  $ 40.7      $ 41.1   
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Pro Forma Cash Distributions

   

Distribution per unit (based on a minimum quarterly distribution rate of $         per unit)

  $        $     

Annual distributions to:

   

Public common unitholders

  $        $     

Delek:

   

Common units (6)

   

Subordinated units (6)

   

General partner units (6)

   
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total distributions to Delek

   
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Distributions

  $        $     
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Excess (Shortfall)

  $        $     
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Percent of minimum quarterly distribution payable to common unitholders

    100     100
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Percent of minimum quarterly distribution payable to subordinated unitholders

             
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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(1) Interest expense and cash interest both include commitment fees and interest expense that would have been paid by our predecessor had our revolving credit facility been in place during the period presented and we had borrowed $         million under the facility at the beginning of the period. Interest expense also includes the amortization of debt issuance costs incurred in connection with our new revolving credit facility.

 

(2) We define EBITDA and provide a reconciliation to its most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP in “Prospectus Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.”

 

(3) Expansion capital expenditures are cash expenditures incurred for acquisitions or capital improvements that we expect will increase our operating income or operating capacity over the long term.

 

(4) Maintenance capital expenditures are cash expenditures (including expenditures for the addition or improvement to, or the replacement of, our capital assets, and for the acquisition of existing, or the construction or development of new, capital assets) made to maintain our long-term operating income or operating capacity. Examples of maintenance capital expenditures are expenditures for the repair, refurbishment and replacement of pipelines and terminals, to maintain equipment reliability, integrity and safety and to address environmental laws and regulations.

 

(5) Reflects an adjustment for estimated cash expenses associated with being a publicly traded partnership, such as expenses associated with annual and quarterly reporting; tax return and Schedule K-1 preparation and distribution expenses; expenses associated with listing on the NYSE; independent auditor fees; legal fees; investor relations expenses; registrar and transfer agent fees; and director and officer insurance expenses.

 

(6) Based on the number of common units, subordinated units and general partner units expected to be outstanding upon the completion of this offering, assuming that the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units is not exercised.

Estimated Cash Available for Distribution for the Twelve-Month Period Ending September 30, 2013

We forecast that our estimated cash available for distribution during the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013 will be approximately $        million. This amount would exceed by $        million the amount needed to pay the minimum quarterly distribution of $        per unit on all of our units for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013.

We are providing the forecast of estimated cash available for distribution to supplement the historical financial statements of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor and our unaudited pro forma financial statements included elsewhere in the prospectus in support of our belief that we will have sufficient cash available to allow us to pay cash distributions at the minimum quarterly distribution rate on all of our units for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013. Please read “—Assumptions and Considerations” for further information as to the assumptions we have made for the forecast. Please read “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” for information as to the accounting policies we have followed for the financial forecast.

Our forecast reflects our judgment as of the date of this prospectus of conditions we expect to exist and the course of action we expect to take during the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013. We believe that our actual results of operations will approximate those reflected in our forecast, but we can give no assurance that our forecasted results will be achieved. If our estimates are not achieved, we may not be able to pay the minimum quarterly distribution or any other distribution on our common units. The assumptions and estimates underlying the forecast are inherently uncertain and, though we consider them reasonable as of the date of this prospectus, are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forecast, including, among others,

 

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risks and uncertainties contained in “Risk Factors.” Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the forecast is indicative of our future performance or that actual results will not differ materially from those presented in the forecast. Inclusion of the forecast in this prospectus should not be regarded as a representation by any person that the results contained in the forecast will be achieved.

We have prepared the following forecast to present the estimated cash available for distribution to our common unitholders during the forecasted period. The accompanying prospective financial information was not prepared with a view toward complying with the guidelines established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants with respect to prospective financial information, but, in our view, was prepared on a reasonable basis, reflects the best currently available estimates and judgments, and presents, to the best of management’s knowledge and belief, the expected course of action and our expected future financial performance. However, this information is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Neither our independent registered public accounting firm, nor any other independent accountants, have compiled, examined or performed any procedures with respect to the prospective financial information contained herein, nor have they expressed any opinion or any other form of assurance on such information or its achievability, and assume no responsibility for, and disclaim any association with, the prospective financial information. The independent registered public accounting firm’s report included in this prospectus relates to historical financial information. It does not extend to prospective financial information and should not be read to do so.

We do not undertake any obligation to release publicly the results of any future revisions we may make to the financial forecast or to update this financial forecast or the assumptions used to prepare the forecast to reflect events or circumstances after the completion of this offering. In light of this, the statement that we believe that we will have sufficient cash available for distribution to allow us to make the full minimum quarterly distribution on all of our outstanding units for each quarter through June 30, 2013, should not be regarded as a representation by us, the underwriters or any other person that we will make such distribution. Therefore, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this information.

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Estimated Cash Available for Distribution

 

    Twelve Months Ending
September 30, 2013
 
    (in thousands, except
per unit data)
 

Net sales:

 

Pipelines and transportation

  $     

Wholesale marketing and terminalling

 
 

 

 

 

Total net sales

 
 

 

 

 

Cost of goods sold

 

Operating expenses

 

Contribution margin

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

General and administrative expense (1)

 
 

 

 

 

Total operating costs and expenses

 
 

 

 

 

Operating income

 

Interest expense, net(2)

 
 

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

 

Income tax expense

 
 

 

 

 

Net income

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to estimated EBITDA

 

Add:

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

Interest expense, net

 

Income tax expense

 
 

 

 

 

Estimated EBITDA (3)

 

Adjustments to reconcile estimated EBITDA to estimated cash available for distribution

 

Less:

 

Cash interest paid(2)

 

Expansion capital expenditures (4)

 

Maintenance capital expenditures (5)

 

Add:

 

Borrowings to fund expansion capital expenditures (2)

 
 

 

 

 

Estimated cash available for distribution

  $     
 

 

 

 

Distribution per unit (based on a minimum quarterly distribution rate of $        per unit)

  $     

Annual distributions to:

 

Public common unitholders

  $     

Delek:

 

Common units (6)

 

Subordinated units (6)

 

General partner units (6)

 
 

 

 

 

Total distributions to Delek

 
 

 

 

 

Total distributions at minimum quarterly distribution rate

 

Excess (Shortfall)

  $     
 

 

 

 

 

(1) Includes approximately $2.0 million of estimated annual incremental general and administrative expenses that we expect to incur as a result of being a separate publicly traded partnership.

 

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(2) Interest expense and cash interest both include commitment fees and interest expense that would have been paid by our predecessor had our revolving credit facility been in place during the period presented and we had borrowed $         million under the facility at the beginning of the period. Interest expense also includes the amortization of debt issuance costs incurred in connection with our new revolving credit facility.

 

(3) We define EBITDA and provide a reconciliation to its most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP in “Prospectus Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.”

 

(4) Expansion capital expenditures are cash expenditures incurred for acquisitions or capital improvements that we expect will increase our operating income or operating capacity over the long term.

 

(5) Maintenance capital expenditures are cash expenditures (including expenditures for the addition or improvement to, or the replacement of, our capital assets, and for the acquisition of existing, or the construction or development of new, capital assets) made to maintain our long-term operating income or operating capacity. Examples of maintenance capital expenditures are expenditures for the repair, refurbishment and replacement of pipelines and terminals, to maintain equipment reliability, integrity and safety and to address environmental laws and regulations.

 

(6) Based on the number of common units, subordinated units and general partner units expected to be outstanding upon the completion of this offering and assumes that the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units is not exercised.

Assumptions and Considerations

 

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PROVISIONS OF OUR PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT RELATING TO CASH DISTRIBUTIONS

Set forth below is a summary of the significant provisions of our partnership agreement that relate to cash distributions.

Distributions of Available Cash

General

Our partnership agreement requires that, within 45 days after the end of each quarter, beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2012, we distribute all of our available cash to unitholders of record on the applicable record date. We will adjust the amount of our distribution for the period from the closing of this offering through September 30, 2012 based on the actual length of the period.

Definition of Available Cash

Available cash generally means, for any quarter, all cash and cash equivalents on hand at the end of that quarter:

 

   

less, the amount of cash reserves established by our general partner to:

 

   

provide for the proper conduct of our business (including cash reserves for our future capital expenditures and anticipated future debt service requirements subsequent to that quarter);

 

   

comply with applicable law, any of our debt instruments or other agreements; or

 

   

provide funds for distributions to our unitholders and to our general partner for any one or more of the next four quarters (provided that our general partner may not establish cash reserves for distributions if the effect of the establishment of such reserves will prevent us from distributing the minimum quarterly distribution on all common units and any cumulative arrearages on such common units for the current quarter);

 

   

plus, if our general partner so determines, all or any portion of the cash on hand on the date of determination of available cash for the quarter resulting from working capital borrowings made subsequent to the end of such quarter.

The purpose and effect of the last bullet point above is to allow our general partner, if it so decides, to use cash from working capital borrowings made after the end of the quarter but on or before the date of determination of available cash for that quarter to pay distributions to unitholders. Under our partnership agreement, working capital borrowings are generally borrowings that are made under a credit facility, commercial paper facility or similar financing arrangement, and in all cases are used solely for working capital purposes or to pay distributions to partners, and with the intent of the borrower to repay such borrowings within twelve months with funds other than from additional working capital borrowings.

Intent to Distribute the Minimum Quarterly Distribution

We intend to make a minimum quarterly distribution to the holders of our common units and subordinated units of $         per unit, or $         per unit on an annualized basis, to the extent we have sufficient cash from our operations after the establishment of cash reserves and the payment of costs and expenses, including reimbursements of expenses to our general partner. However, there is no guarantee that we will pay the minimum quarterly distribution on our units in any quarter. Even if our cash distribution policy is not modified or revoked, the amount of distributions paid under our policy and the decision to make any distribution is determined by our general partner, taking into consideration the terms of our partnership agreement. Please read

 

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“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Capital Resources and Liquidity—New Revolving Credit Facility” for a discussion of the restrictions to be included in our new credit facility that may restrict our ability to make distributions.

General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights

Initially, our general partner will be entitled to 2.0% of all quarterly distributions since our inception that we make prior to our liquidation. This general partner interest will be represented by             general partner units. Our general partner has the right, but not the obligation, to contribute up to a proportionate amount of capital to us to maintain its current general partner interest. The general partner’s initial 2.0% interest in these distributions will be reduced if we issue additional units in the future and our general partner does not contribute a proportionate amount of capital to us to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest.

Our general partner also currently holds incentive distribution rights that entitle it to receive increasing percentages, up to a maximum of 48.0%, of the cash we distribute from operating surplus (as defined below) in excess of $         per unit per quarter. The maximum distribution of 48.0% does not include any distributions that our general partner or its affiliates may receive on common, subordinated or general partner units that they own. Please read “—General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights” for additional information.

Operating Surplus and Capital Surplus

General

All cash distributed to unitholders will be characterized as either being paid from “operating surplus” or “capital surplus.” We treat distributions of available cash from operating surplus differently than distributions of available cash from capital surplus.

Operating Surplus

We define operating surplus as:

 

   

$         million (as described below); plus

 

   

all of our cash receipts after the closing of this offering, excluding cash from interim capital transactions (as defined below), provided that cash receipts from the termination of a commodity hedge or interest rate hedge prior to its specified termination date shall be included in operating surplus in equal quarterly installments over the remaining scheduled life of such commodity hedge or interest rate hedge; plus

 

   

working capital borrowings made after the end of a quarter but on or before the date of determination of operating surplus for that quarter; plus

 

   

cash distributions (including incremental distributions on incentive distribution rights) paid in respect of equity issued, other than equity issued in this offering, to finance all or a portion of expansion capital expenditures in respect of the period from the date that we enter into a binding obligation to commence the construction, development, replacement, improvement, or expansion of a capital asset and ending on the earlier to occur of the date the capital asset commences commercial service and the date that it is abandoned or disposed of; plus

 

   

cash distributions (including incremental distributions on incentive distribution rights) paid in respect of equity issued, other than equity issued in this offering, to finance the expansion capital expenditures referred to in the prior bullet; less

 

   

all of our operating expenditures (as defined below) after the closing of this offering; less

 

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the amount of cash reserves established by our general partner to provide funds for future operating expenditures; less

 

   

all working capital borrowings not repaid within twelve months after having been incurred, or repaid within such twelve-month period with the proceeds of additional working capital borrowings; less

 

   

any cash loss realized on disposition of an investment capital expenditure.

As described above, operating surplus does not reflect actual cash on hand that is available for distribution to our unitholders and is not limited to cash generated by our operations. For example, it includes a provision that will enable us, if we choose, to distribute as operating surplus up to $         million of cash we receive in the future from non-operating sources such as asset sales, issuances of securities and long-term borrowings that would otherwise be distributed as capital surplus. In addition, the effect of including, as described above, certain cash distributions on equity interests in operating surplus will be to increase operating surplus by the amount of any such cash distributions. As a result, we may also distribute as operating surplus up to the amount of any such cash that we receive from non-operating sources.

The proceeds of working capital borrowings increase operating surplus and repayments of working capital borrowings are generally operating expenditures (as described below) and thus reduce operating surplus when repayments are made. However, if working capital borrowings, which increase operating surplus, are not repaid during the twelve-month period following the borrowing, they will be deemed repaid at the end of such period, thus decreasing operating surplus at such time. When such working capital borrowings are in fact repaid, they will not be treated as a further reduction in operating surplus because operating surplus will have been previously reduced by the deemed repayment.

We define interim capital transactions as (i) borrowings, refinancings or refundings of indebtedness (other than working capital borrowings and items purchased on open account or for a deferred purchase price in the ordinary course of business) and sales of debt securities, (ii) sales of equity securities and (iii) sales or other dispositions of assets, other than sales or other dispositions of inventory, accounts receivable and other assets in the ordinary course of business and sales or other dispositions of assets as part of normal asset retirements or replacements.

We define operating expenditures as all of our cash expenditures, including, but not limited to, taxes, reimbursements of expenses of our general partner and its affiliates, director and employee compensation, debt service payments, payments made in the ordinary course of business under interest rate hedge contracts and commodity hedge contracts (provided that payments made in connection with the termination of any interest rate hedge contract or commodity hedge contract prior to the expiration of its settlement or termination date specified therein will be included in operating expenditures in equal quarterly installments over the remaining scheduled life of such interest rate hedge contract or commodity hedge contract and amounts paid in connection with the initial purchase of a rate hedge contract or a commodity hedge contract will be amortized at the life of such rate hedge contract or commodity hedge contract), maintenance capital expenditures (as discussed in further detail below), and repayment of working capital borrowings; provided, however, that operating expenditures will not include:

 

   

repayments of working capital borrowings where such borrowings have previously been deemed to have been repaid (as described above);

 

   

payments (including prepayments and prepayment penalties) of principal of and premium on indebtedness other than working capital borrowings;

 

   

expansion capital expenditures;

 

   

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payment of transaction expenses (including taxes) relating to interim capital transactions;

 

   

distributions to our partners;

 

   

repurchases of partnership interests (excluding repurchases we make to satisfy obligations under employee benefit plans); or

 

   

any other expenditures or payments made using the proceeds of this offering that are described in “Use of Proceeds.”

Capital Surplus

Capital surplus is defined in our partnership agreement as any distribution of available cash in excess of our cumulative operating surplus. Accordingly, except as described above, capital surplus would generally be generated by:

 

   

borrowings other than working capital borrowings;

 

   

sales of our equity and debt securities; and

 

   

sales or other dispositions of assets, other than inventory, accounts receivable and other assets sold in the ordinary course of business or as part of ordinary course retirement or replacement of assets.

Characterization of Cash Distributions

Our partnership agreement requires that we treat all available cash distributed as coming from operating surplus until the sum of all available cash distributed since the closing of this offering equals the operating surplus from the closing of this offering through the end of the quarter immediately preceding that distribution. Our partnership agreement requires that we treat any amount distributed in excess of operating surplus, regardless of its source, as capital surplus. We do not anticipate that we will make any distributions from capital surplus.

Capital Expenditures

Expansion capital expenditures are cash expenditures incurred for acquisitions or capital improvements that we expect will increase our operating income or operating capacity over the long term. Examples of expansion capital expenditures include the acquisition of equipment and the construction, development or acquisition of additional pipeline, storage, gathering or terminalling capacity to the extent such capital expenditures are expected to expand our operating capacity or our operating income. Expansion capital expenditures include interest payments (and related fees) on debt incurred to finance all or a portion of expansion capital expenditures in respect of the period from the date that we enter into a binding obligation to commence the construction, development, replacement, improvement or expansion of a capital asset and ending on the earlier to occur of the date that such capital improvement commences commercial service and the date that such capital improvement is abandoned or disposed of.

Maintenance capital expenditures are cash expenditures (including expenditures for the construction or development of new capital assets or the replacement, improvement or expansion of existing capital assets) made to maintain, over the long-term, our operating capacity or operating income. Examples of maintenance capital expenditures are expenditures to repair, refurbish and replace pipelines and terminals, to maintain equipment reliability, integrity and safety and to address environmental laws and regulations. Maintenance capital expenditures are included in operating expenditures and thus will reduce operating surplus.

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capital expenditures for investment purposes, such as purchases of securities, as well as other capital expenditures that might be made in lieu of such traditional investment capital expenditures, such as the acquisition of a capital asset for investment purposes or development of facilities that are in excess of the maintenance of our existing operating capacity or operating income, but that are not expected to expand our operating capacity or operating income over the long term.

Capital expenditures that are made in part for maintenance capital purposes, investment capital purposes and/or expansion capital purposes will be allocated as maintenance capital expenditures, investment capital expenditures or expansion capital expenditure by our general partner.

Subordination Period

General

Our partnership agreement provides that, during the subordination period (which we define below), the common units will have the right to receive distributions of available cash from operating surplus each quarter in an amount equal to $         per common unit, which amount is defined in our partnership agreement as the minimum quarterly distribution, plus any arrearages in the payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units from prior quarters, before any distributions of available cash from operating surplus may be made on the subordinated units. These units are deemed “subordinated” because for a period of time, referred to as the subordination period, the subordinated units will not be entitled to receive any distributions until the common units have received the minimum quarterly distribution plus any arrearages from prior quarters. Furthermore, no arrearages will be paid on the subordinated units. The practical effect of the subordinated units is to increase the likelihood that during the subordination period there will be available cash to be distributed on the common units.

Subordination Period

Except as described below, the subordination period will begin on the closing date of this offering and will extend until the first business day following the distribution of available cash in respect of any quarter beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2015, that each of the following tests are met:

 

   

distributions of available cash from operating surplus on each of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units equaled or exceeded $         per unit (the annualized minimum quarterly distribution), for each of the three consecutive, non-overlapping four-quarter periods immediately preceding that date;

 

   

the adjusted operating surplus (as defined below) generated during each of the three consecutive, non-overlapping four-quarter periods immediately preceding that date equaled or exceeded the sum of $         (the annualized minimum quarterly distribution) on all of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units during those periods on a fully diluted basis; and

 

   

there are no arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units.

In addition to the tests outlined above, the subordination period will end only in the event that our conflicts committee, or the board of directors of our general partner based on the recommendation of our conflicts committee, reasonably expects to satisfy the tests set forth under the first and second bullet points above for the succeeding four-quarter period without treating as earned any shortfall payments that would be paid under our existing commercial agreements with Delek (or similar fees to be paid by Delek under future contracts) expected to be received during such period. For a more detailed discussion of shortfall payments that would be paid by Delek under our existing commercial agreements, please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek.”

 

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Early Termination of Subordination Period

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the subordination period will automatically terminate on the first business day following the distribution of available cash in respect of any quarter beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2013, that each of the following tests are met:

 

   

distributions of available cash from operating surplus on each of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units equaled or exceeded $         (150% of the annualized minimum quarterly distribution), for the four-consecutive-quarter period immediately preceding that date;

 

   

the adjusted operating surplus (as defined below) generated during the four-quarter period immediately preceding that date equaled or exceeded the sum of (i) $         per unit (150% of the annualized minimum quarterly distribution) on all of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units during that period on a fully diluted basis and (ii) the corresponding distributions on the incentive distribution rights; and

 

   

there are no arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distributions on the common units.

In addition to the tests outlined above, the subordination period will end only in the event that our conflicts committee, or the board of directors of our general partner based on the recommendation of our conflicts committee, reasonably expects to satisfy the tests set forth under the first and second bullet points above for the succeeding four-quarter period without treating as earned any shortfall payments that would be paid under our existing commercial agreements with Delek (or similar fees to be paid by Delek under future contracts) expected to be received during such period.

Expiration Upon Removal of the General Partner

In addition, if the unitholders remove our general partner other than for cause:

 

   

the subordinated units held by any person will immediately and automatically convert into common units on a one-for-one basis, provided (i) neither such person nor any of its affiliates voted any of its units in favor of the removal and (ii) such person is not an affiliate of the successor general partner;

 

   

if all of the subordinated units convert pursuant to the foregoing, all cumulative common unit arrearages on the common units will be extinguished and the subordination period will end; and

 

   

our general partner will have the right to convert its general partner interest and its incentive distribution rights into common units or to receive cash in exchange for those interests.

Expiration of the Subordination Period

When the subordination period ends, each outstanding subordinated unit will convert into one common unit and will thereafter participate pro rata with the other common units in distributions of available cash.

Adjusted Operating Surplus

Adjusted operating surplus is intended to reflect the cash generated from operations during a particular period and therefore excludes net drawdowns of reserves of cash established in prior periods. Adjusted operating surplus for a period consists of:

 

   

operating surplus generated with respect to that period (excluding any amounts attributable to the item described in the first bullet point under the caption “—Operating Surplus and Capital Surplus—Operating Surplus” above); less

 

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any net increase in working capital borrowings with respect to that period; less

 

   

any net decrease in cash reserves for operating expenditures with respect to that period not relating to an operating expenditure made with respect to that period; plus

 

   

any net decrease in working capital borrowings with respect to that period; plus

 

   

any net decrease made in subsequent periods to cash reserves for operating expenditures initially established with respect to that period to the extent such decrease results in a reduction in adjusted operating surplus in subsequent periods; plus

 

   

any net increase in cash reserves for operating expenditures with respect to that period required by any debt instrument for the repayment of principal, interest or premium.

Distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus During the Subordination Period

We will make distributions of available cash from operating surplus for any quarter during the subordination period in the following manner:

 

   

first, 98.0% to the common unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until we distribute for each outstanding common unit an amount equal to the minimum quarterly distribution for that quarter;

 

   

second, 98.0% to the common unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until we distribute for each outstanding common unit an amount equal to any arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units for any prior quarters during the subordination period;

 

   

third, 98.0% to the subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until we distribute for each outstanding subordinated unit an amount equal to the minimum quarterly distribution for that quarter; and

 

   

thereafter, in the manner described in “—General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights” below.

The preceding discussion is based on the assumptions that our general partner maintains its 2.0% general partner interest and that we do not issue additional classes of equity securities.

Distributions of Available Cash from Operating Surplus After the Subordination Period

We will make distributions of available cash from operating surplus for any quarter after the subordination period in the following manner:

 

   

first, 98.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until we distribute for each outstanding unit an amount equal to the minimum quarterly distribution for that quarter; and

 

   

thereafter, in the manner described in “—General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights” below.

The preceding discussion is based on the assumptions that our general partner maintains its 2.0% general partner interest and that we do not issue additional classes of equity securities.

 

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General Partner Interest and Incentive Distribution Rights

Our partnership agreement provides that our general partner initially will be entitled to 2.0% of all distributions that we make prior to our liquidation. Our general partner has the right, but not the obligation, to contribute up to a proportionate amount of capital to us in order to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest if we issue additional units. Our general partner’s 2.0% interest, and the percentage of our cash distributions to which it is entitled from such 2.0% interest, will be proportionately reduced if we issue additional units in the future (other than the issuance of common units upon exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option in this offering or upon the expiration of such option, the issuance of common units upon conversion of outstanding subordinated units or the issuance of common units upon a reset of the incentive distribution rights) and our general partner does not contribute a proportionate amount of capital to us in order to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest. Our partnership agreement does not require that our general partner fund its capital contribution with cash. It may instead fund its capital contribution by the contribution to us of common units or other property.

Incentive distribution rights represent the right to receive an increasing percentage (13.0%, 23.0% and 48.0%) of quarterly distributions of available cash from operating surplus after the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels have been achieved. Our general partner currently holds the incentive distribution rights, but may transfer these rights separately from its general partner interest, subject to restrictions in our partnership agreement.

The following discussion assumes that our general partner maintains its 2.0% general partner interest and that our general partner continues to own the incentive distribution rights.

If for any quarter:

 

   

we have distributed available cash from operating surplus to the common and subordinated unitholders in an amount equal to the minimum quarterly distribution; and

 

   

we have distributed available cash from operating surplus on outstanding common units in an amount necessary to eliminate any cumulative arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution;

then, we will distribute any additional available cash from operating surplus for that quarter among the unitholders and our general partner in the following manner:

 

   

first, 98.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until each unitholder receives a total of $         per unit for that quarter (the “first target distribution”);

 

   

second, 85.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 15.0% to our general partner, until each unitholder receives a total of $         per unit for that quarter (the “second target distribution”);

 

   

third, 75.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 25.0% to our general partner, until each unitholder receives a total of $         per unit for that quarter (the “third target distribution”); and

 

   

thereafter, 50.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 50.0% to our general partner.

 

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Percentage Allocations of Available Cash from Operating Surplus

The following table illustrates the percentage allocations of available cash from operating surplus between the unitholders and our general partner based on the specified target distribution levels. The amounts set forth under “Marginal Percentage Interest in Distributions” are the percentage interests of our general partner and the unitholders in any available cash from operating surplus we distribute up to and including the corresponding amount in the column “Total Quarterly Distribution per Unit Target Amount.” The percentage interests shown for our unitholders and our general partner for the minimum quarterly distribution are also applicable to quarterly distribution amounts that are less than the minimum quarterly distribution. The percentage interests set forth below for our general partner include its 2.0% general partner interest and assume that our general partner has contributed any additional capital necessary to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest, our general partner has not transferred its incentive distribution rights and that there are no arrearages on common units.

 

     Total Quarterly
Distribution per Unit
Target Amount
     Marginal Percentage
Interest in Distributions
 
        Unitholders     General Partner  

Minimum Quarterly Distribution

   $                     98.0     2.0

First Target Distribution

   above $                     98.0     2.0
   up to $                    

Second Target Distribution

   above $                     85.0     15.0
   up to $                    

Third Target Distribution

   above $                     75.0     25.0
   up to $                    

Thereafter

   above $                     50.0     50.0

General Partner’s Right to Reset Incentive Distribution Levels

Our general partner, as the initial holder of our incentive distribution rights, has the right under our partnership agreement, subject to certain conditions, to elect to relinquish the right to receive incentive distribution payments based on the initial target distribution levels and to reset, at higher levels, the minimum quarterly distribution amount and target distribution levels upon which the incentive distribution payments to our general partner would be set. If our general partner transfers all or a portion of our incentive distribution rights in the future, then the holder or holders of a majority of our incentive distribution rights will be entitled to exercise this right. The following discussion assumes that our general partner holds all of the incentive distribution rights at the time that a reset election is made. Our general partner’s right to reset the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution levels upon which the incentive distributions payable to our general partner are based may be exercised, without approval of our unitholders or the conflicts committee, at any time when there are no subordinated units outstanding, we have made cash distributions to the holders of the incentive distribution rights at the highest level of incentive distribution for each of the four consecutive fiscal quarters immediately preceding such time and the amount of each such distribution did not exceed adjusted operating surplus for such quarter, respectively. If our general partner and its affiliates are not the holders of a majority of the incentive distribution rights at the time an election is made to reset the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution levels, then the proposed reset will be subject to the prior written concurrence of the general partner that the conditions described above have been satisfied. The reset minimum quarterly distribution amount and target distribution levels will be higher than the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution levels prior to the reset such that our general partner will not receive any incentive distributions under the reset target distribution levels until cash distributions per unit following this event increase as described below. We anticipate that our general partner would exercise this reset right in order to facilitate acquisitions or internal growth projects that would otherwise not be sufficiently accretive to cash distributions per common unit, taking into account the existing levels of incentive distribution payments being made to our general partner.

 

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In connection with the resetting of the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution levels and the corresponding relinquishment by our general partner of incentive distribution payments based on the target distributions prior to the reset, our general partner will be entitled to receive a number of newly issued common units based on a predetermined formula described below that takes into account the “cash parity” value of the average cash distributions related to the incentive distribution rights received by our general partner for the two quarters immediately preceding the reset event as compared to the average cash distributions per common unit during that two-quarter period. In addition, our general partner will be issued the number of general partner units necessary to maintain our general partner’s interest in us immediately prior to the reset election.

The number of common units that our general partner would be entitled to receive from us in connection with a resetting of the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution levels then in effect would be equal to the quotient determined by dividing (x) the average aggregate amount of cash distributions received by our general partner in respect of its incentive distribution rights during the two consecutive fiscal quarters ended immediately prior to the date of such reset election by (y) the average of the aggregate amount of cash distributed per common unit during each of these two quarters.

Following a reset election, the minimum quarterly distribution amount will be reset to an amount equal to the average cash distribution amount per common unit for the two fiscal quarters immediately preceding the reset election (which amount we refer to as the “reset minimum quarterly distribution”) and the target distribution levels will be reset to be correspondingly higher such that we would distribute all of our available cash from operating surplus for each quarter thereafter as follows:

 

   

first, 98.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until each unitholder receives an amount equal to 115.0% of the reset minimum quarterly distribution for that quarter;

 

   

second, 85.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 15.0% to our general partner, until each unitholder receives an amount per unit equal to 125.0% of the reset minimum quarterly distribution for the quarter;

 

   

third, 75.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 25.0% to our general partner, until each unitholder receives an amount per unit equal to 150.0% of the reset minimum quarterly distribution for the quarter; and

 

   

thereafter, 50.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 50.0% to our general partner.

The following table illustrates the percentage allocations of available cash from operating surplus between the unitholders and our general partner at various cash distribution levels (i) pursuant to the cash distribution provisions of our partnership agreement in effect at the completion of this offering, as well as (ii) following a hypothetical reset of the minimum quarterly distribution and target distribution levels based on the assumption that the average quarterly cash distribution amount per common unit during the two fiscal quarters immediately preceding the reset election was $        .

 

   

Quarterly
Distribution per Unit Prior to
Reset

  Marginal Percentage
Interest in Distribution
   

Quarterly
Distribution
per Unit following
Hypothetical Reset

    Unitholders     General
Partner
   

Minimum Quarterly Distribution

  $                 98.0     2.0   $        

First Target Distribution

  above $         up to $             98.0     2.0   above $         up to $        (1)

Second Target Distribution

  above $         up to $             85.0     15.0   above $         up to $        (2)

Third Target Distribution

  above $         up to $             75.0     25.0   above $         up to $        (3)

Thereafter

  above $             50.0     50.0   above $        

 

(1) This amount is 115.0% of the hypothetical reset minimum quarterly distribution.

 

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(2) This amount is 125.0% of the hypothetical reset minimum quarterly distribution.

 

(3) This amount is 150.0% of the hypothetical reset minimum quarterly distribution.

The following table illustrates the total amount of available cash from operating surplus that would be distributed to the unitholders and our general partner, including in respect of incentive distribution rights, or IDRs, based on an average of the amounts distributed for the two quarters immediately prior to the reset. The table assumes that immediately prior to the reset there would be              common units outstanding, our general partner’s 2.0% interest has been maintained, and the average distribution to each common unit would be $         per quarter for the two consecutive non-overlapping quarters prior to the reset.

 

   

Prior to Reset

 
   

Quarterly
Distribution

per Unit

  Common
Unitholders Cash
Distribution
    General Partner Cash Distributions  
        Common
Units
    2.0%
General
Partner

Interest
    IDRs     Total     Total
Distribution
 

Minimum Quarterly Distribution

  $               $               $               $               $      $               $            

First Target Distribution

  above $         up to $                              

Second Target Distribution

  above $         up to $                         

Third Target Distribution

  above $         up to $                         

Thereafter

  above $           $               $      $               $               $               $            

The following table illustrates the total amount of available cash from operating surplus that would be distributed to the unitholders and the general partner, including in respect of IDRs, with respect to the quarter after the reset occurs. The table reflects that as a result of the reset there would be              common units outstanding, our general partner has maintained its 2.0% general partner interest, and that the average distribution to each common unit would be $            . The number of common units issued as a result of the reset was calculated by dividing (x) $             as the average of the amounts received by the general partner in respect of its IDRs for the two consecutive non-overlapping quarters prior to the reset as shown in the table above, by (y) the average of the cash distributions made on each common unit per quarter for the two consecutive non-overlapping quarters prior to the reset as shown in the table above, or $            .

 

   

After Reset

 
   

Quarterly
Distribution

per Unit

  Common
Unitholders  Cash

Distribution
    General Partner Cash Distributions  
        Common
Units Issued
As a Result of
the Reset
    2.0%
General
Partner
Interest
    IDRs     Total     Total
Distribution
 

Minimum Quarterly Distribution

  $               $               $               $               $      $               $            

First Target Distribution

  above $         up to $                              

Second Target Distribution

  above $         up to $                         

Third Target Distribution

  above $         up to $                         
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Thereafter

  above $           $               $      $               $               $               $            
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Our general partner will be entitled to cause the minimum quarterly distribution amount and the target distribution levels to be reset on more than one occasion, provided that it may not make a reset election except at a time when it has received incentive distributions for the immediately preceding four consecutive fiscal quarters based on the highest level of incentive distributions that it is entitled to receive under our partnership agreement.

 

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Distributions from Capital Surplus

How Distributions from Capital Surplus Will Be Made

We will make distributions of available cash from capital surplus, if any, in the following manner:

 

   

first, 98.0% to all unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until the minimum quarterly distribution is reduced to zero, as described below under “—Effect of a Distribution from Capital Surplus”;

 

   

second, 98.0% to the common unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until we distribute for each outstanding common unit, an amount of available cash from capital surplus equal to any unpaid arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units; and

 

   

thereafter, as if such distributions were from operating surplus.

The preceding discussion is based on the assumptions that our general partner maintains its 2.0% general partner interest and that we do not issue additional classes of equity securities.

Effect of a Distribution from Capital Surplus

Our partnership agreement treats a distribution of capital surplus as the repayment of the initial unit price from this initial public offering, which is a return of capital. The initial public offering price less any distributions of capital surplus per unit is referred to as the “unrecovered initial unit price.” Each time a distribution of capital surplus is made, the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels will be reduced in the same proportion as the corresponding reduction in the unrecovered initial unit price. Because distributions of capital surplus will reduce the minimum quarterly distribution after any of these distributions are made, it may be easier for our general partner to receive incentive distributions and for the subordinated units to convert into common units. However, any distribution of capital surplus before the unrecovered initial unit price is reduced to zero cannot be applied to the payment of the minimum quarterly distribution or any arrearages.

Once we distribute capital surplus on a unit issued in this offering in an amount equal to the initial unit price, we will reduce the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels to zero. We will then make all future distributions from operating surplus, with 50.0% being paid to the unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner and 48.0% to the holder of our incentive distribution rights.

Adjustment to the Minimum Quarterly Distribution and Target Distribution Levels

In addition to adjusting the minimum quarterly distribution and target distribution levels to reflect a distribution of capital surplus, if we combine our units into fewer units or subdivide our units into a greater number of units, we will proportionately adjust:

 

   

the minimum quarterly distribution;

 

   

target distribution levels;

 

   

the unrecovered initial unit price;

 

   

the number of general partner units comprising the general partner interest; and

 

   

the arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units.

 

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For example, if a two-for-one split of the common units should occur, the minimum quarterly distribution, the target distribution levels and the unrecovered initial unit price would each be reduced to 50.0% of its initial level, and each subordinated unit would be split into two subordinated units. We will not make any adjustment by reason of the issuance of additional units for cash or property.

In addition, if legislation is enacted or if the official interpretation of existing law is modified by a governmental authority, so that we become taxable as a corporation or otherwise subject to taxation as an entity for federal, state or local income tax purposes, our partnership agreement specifies that the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels for each quarter may be reduced by multiplying each distribution level by a fraction, the numerator of which is available cash for that quarter (reduced by the amount of the estimated tax liability for such quarter payable by reason of such legislation or interpretation) and the denominator of which is the sum of available cash for that quarter (reduced by the amount of the estimated tax liability for such quarter payable by reason of such legislation or interpretation) plus our general partner’s estimate of our aggregate liability for the quarter for such income taxes payable by reason of such legislation or interpretation. To the extent that the actual tax liability differs from the estimated tax liability for any quarter, the difference may be accounted for in subsequent quarters.

Distributions of Cash Upon Liquidation

General

If we dissolve in accordance with our partnership agreement, we will sell or otherwise dispose of our assets in a process called liquidation. We will first apply the proceeds of liquidation to the payment of our creditors. We will distribute any remaining proceeds to the unitholders and our general partner, in accordance with their capital account balances, as adjusted to reflect any gain or loss upon the sale or other disposition of our assets in liquidation.

The allocations of gain and loss upon liquidation are intended, to the extent possible, to entitle the holders of outstanding common units to a preference over the holders of outstanding subordinated units upon our liquidation, to the extent required to permit common unitholders to receive their unrecovered initial unit price plus the minimum quarterly distribution for the quarter during which liquidation occurs plus any unpaid arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units. However, there may not be sufficient gain upon our liquidation to enable the holders of common units to fully recover all of these amounts, even though there may be cash available for distribution to the holders of subordinated units. Any further net gain recognized upon liquidation will be allocated in a manner that takes into account the incentive distribution rights of our general partner.

Manner of Adjustments for Gain

The manner of the adjustment for gain is set forth in our partnership agreement. If our liquidation occurs before the end of the subordination period, we will allocate any gain to our partners in the following manner:

 

   

first, to our general partner to the extent of any negative balance in its capital account;

 

   

second, 98.0% to the common unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until the capital account for each common unit is equal to the sum of: (1) the unrecovered initial unit price; (2) the amount of the minimum quarterly distribution for the quarter during which our liquidation occurs; and (3) any unpaid arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution;

 

   

third, 98.0% to the subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until the capital account for each subordinated unit is equal to the sum of: (1) the unrecovered initial unit price; and (2) the amount of the minimum quarterly distribution for the quarter during which our liquidation occurs;

 

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fourth, 98.0% to all common and subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, until we allocate under this paragraph an amount per unit equal to: (1) the sum of the excess of the first target distribution per unit over the minimum quarterly distribution per unit for each quarter of our existence; less (2) the cumulative amount per unit of any distributions of available cash from operating surplus in excess of the minimum quarterly distribution per unit that we distributed 98.0% to the common and subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 2.0% to our general partner, for each quarter of our existence;

 

   

fifth, 85.0% to all common and subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 15.0% to our general partner, until we allocate under this paragraph an amount per unit equal to: (1) the sum of the excess of the second target distribution per unit over the first target distribution per unit for each quarter of our existence; less (2) the cumulative amount per unit of any distributions of available cash from operating surplus in excess of the first target distribution per unit that we distributed 85.0% to the common and subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 15.0% to our general partner for each quarter of our existence;

 

   

sixth, 75.0% to all common and subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 25.0% to our general partner, until we allocate under this paragraph an amount per unit equal to: (1) the sum of the excess of the third target distribution per unit over the second target distribution per unit for each quarter of our existence; less (2) the cumulative amount per unit of any distributions of available cash from operating surplus in excess of the second target distribution per unit that we distributed 75.0% to the common and subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 25.0% to our general partner for each quarter of our existence;

 

   

thereafter, 50.0% to all common and subordinated unitholders, pro rata, and 50.0% to our general partner.

The percentages set forth above are based on the assumption that our general partner has not transferred its incentive distribution rights and that we do not issue additional classes of equity securities.

If the liquidation occurs after the end of the subordination period, the distinction between common units and subordinated units will disappear, so that clause (3) of the second bullet point above and all of the fourth bullet point above will no longer be applicable.

Manner of Adjustments for Losses

If our liquidation occurs before the end of the subordination period, after making allocations of loss to the general partner and the unitholders in a manner intended to offset in reverse order the allocations of gains that have previously been allocated, we will generally allocate any loss to our general partner and unitholders in the following manner:

 

   

first, 98.0% to the holders of subordinated units in proportion to the positive balances in their capital accounts and 2.0% to our general partner, until the capital accounts of the subordinated unitholders have been reduced to zero;

 

   

second, 98.0% to the holders of common units in proportion to the positive balances in their capital accounts and 2.0% to our general partner, until the capital accounts of the common unitholders have been reduced to zero; and

 

   

thereafter, 100.0% to our general partner.

If the liquidation occurs after the end of the subordination period, the distinction between common units and subordinated units will disappear, so that all of the first bullet point above will no longer be applicable.

 

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Adjustments to Capital Accounts

Our partnership agreement requires that we make adjustments to capital accounts upon the issuance of additional units. In this regard, our partnership agreement specifies that we allocate any unrealized and, for tax purposes, unrecognized gain resulting from the adjustments to the unitholders and the general partner in the same manner as we allocate gain upon liquidation. In the event that we make positive adjustments to the capital accounts upon the issuance of additional units, our partnership agreement requires that we generally allocate any later negative adjustments to the capital accounts resulting from the issuance of additional units or upon our liquidation in a manner which results, to the extent possible, in the partners’ capital account balances equaling the amount which they would have been if no earlier positive adjustments to the capital accounts had been made. In contrast to the allocations of gain, and except as provided above, we generally will allocate any unrealized and unrecognized loss resulting from the adjustments to capital accounts upon the issuance of additional units to the unitholders and our general partner based on their respective percentage ownership of us. In this manner, prior to the end of the subordination period, we generally will allocate any such loss equally with respect to our common and subordinated units. If we make negative adjustments to the capital accounts as a result of such loss, future positive adjustments resulting from the issuance of additional units will be allocated in a manner designed to reverse the prior negative adjustments, and special allocations will be made upon liquidation in a manner that results, to the extent possible, in our unitholders’ capital account balances equaling the amounts they would have been if no earlier adjustments for loss had been made.

 

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SELECTED HISTORICAL AND PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL AND OPERATING DATA

The following table shows selected historical combined financial and operating data of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor, our predecessor for accounting purposes, and selected pro forma combined financial data of Delek Logistics Partners, LP for the periods and as of the dates indicated. Our selected historical combined financial data as of December 31, 2011 and 2010 and for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 are derived from the audited combined financial statements of our predecessor appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. Our selected historical combined financial data as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and for the three months ended March 31, 2011 are derived from the unaudited combined financial statements of our predecessor appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. Our selected historical combined financial data as of December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 and for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 are derived from our unaudited historical combined financial statements that are not included in this prospectus. The following table should be read together with, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the historical and unaudited pro forma combined financial statements and the accompanying notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. The table should also be read together with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor consists of the assets, liabilities and results of operations of certain crude oil and refined product pipeline, storage, wholesale marketing and terminalling assets of Delek, operated and held by Delek Marketing & Supply, Inc., Paline and Lion Oil, each a wholly owned subsidiary of Delek, to be contributed to us in connection with this offering. The historical financial data include the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the assets to be contributed by Lion Oil to us in connection with this offering, other than Paline, for all periods after April 29, 2011. The assets, liabilities and results of operations of Paline are included in the accompanying financial statements for all periods after December 19, 2011 and, for all periods through April 28, 2011, are included in the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the assets to be contributed by Lion Oil to us in connection with this offering.

The selected pro forma combined financial data presented in the following table for the year ended December 31, 2011 and as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2012 are derived from the unaudited pro forma combined financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The pro forma balance sheet assumes that the offering and the related formation transactions occurred as of March 31, 2012 and the pro forma statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012 assume that the offering and the related transactions occurred as of January 1, 2011. These transactions include, and the pro forma financial data give effect to, the following:

 

   

Delek’s contribution of all of our initial assets and operations, including certain subsidiaries, to us (excluding working capital and other noncurrent liabilities);

 

   

our execution of multiple long-term commercial agreements with Delek and recognition of incremental revenues under those agreements as discussed in “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek”;

 

   

our execution of an omnibus agreement, and our general partner’s execution of an operation and management services agreement, with Delek;

 

   

the consummation of this offering and our issuance of common units to the public, general partner units and the incentive distribution rights to our general partner and common units and subordinated units to Delek; and

 

   

the application of the net proceeds of this offering, together with the proceeds from borrowings under our revolving credit facility, as described in “Use of Proceeds.”

 

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The pro forma combined financial data do not give effect to the estimated $2.0 million in incremental annual general and administrative expense we expect to incur as a result of being a separate publicly traded partnership.

The following table presents the non-GAAP measure of EBITDA, which we use in our business as a measure of performance and liquidity. For a definition of EBITDA and a reconciliation to our most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, please read “—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.”

 

    Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor Historical     Delek Logistics Partners,
LP Pro Forma(4)
 
    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months
Ended March 31,
    Year Ended
December 31,
2011
    Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
2012
 
    2007     2008(1)     2009(1)(2)     2010     2011(3)     2011     2012      
                                  (unaudited)     (unaudited)  
    (In thousands, except per unit data and operating information)        

Statement of Operations Data:

                 

Net sales:

                 

Pipelines and transportation

  $      $      $ 6,633      $ 9,451      $ 21,878      $ 2,440      $ 6,680      $ 47,106      $ 11,573   

Wholesale marketing and terminalling(5)

    626,571        745,520        367,787        494,957        722,201        156,656        232,403        718,736        187,638   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net sales

    626,571        745,520        374,420        504,408        744,079        159,096        239,083        765,842        199,211   

Cost of goods sold

    596,863        721,189        349,493        476,678        700,505        149,809        225,409        694,795        180,928   

Operating expenses(6)

    958        1,048        2,643        2,920        12,940        1,003        4,210        19,125        4,362   

General and administrative expenses(7)

    5,262        4,287        5,740        4,247        5,795        1,147        2,407        6,380        1,749   

Depreciation and amortization

    2,733        2,772        2,804        2,810        4,820        690        2,134        9,347        2,287   

(Gain) loss on sale of assets

                                (2            5        (2     5   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income

    20,755        16,224        13,740        17,753        20,021        6,447        4,918        36,197        9,880   

Interest expense, net(8)

    2,275        1,376        2,173        2,564        2,011        467        488        3,569        871   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

    18,480        14,848        11,567        15,189        18,010        5,980        4,430        32,628        9,009   

Income tax expense

    6,704        5,349        4,059        5,102        5,363        2,223        1,920                 
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income

  $ 11,776      $ 9,499      $ 7,508      $ 10,087      $ 12,647      $ 3,757      $ 2,510      $ 32,628      $ 9,009   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

General partner interest in net income

                 

Common unitholders interest in net income

                 

Subordinated unitholders interest in net income

                 

Pro forma net income per common unit

                 

Pro forma net income per subordinated unit

                 

Balance Sheet Data (at period end):

                 

Property, plant and equipment, net

  $ 30,257      $ 29,452      $ 29,681      $ 27,934      $ 133,680        $ 156,092        $ 156,092   

Total assets

    92,721        60,274        65,096        71,831        199,827          229,880          222,002   

Total debt, including current maturities

    34,300        18,800        42,500        29,000        30,300          49,100          90,000   

Total liabilities

    59,822        37,663        63,064        59,626        92,105          120,692          131,909   

Total division equity/partners’ capital

    32,899        22,611        2,032        12,205        107,722          109,188          90,093   

 

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    Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor
Historical
    Delek Logistics Partners,
LP Pro Forma(4)
 
    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months
Ended March 31,
    Year Ended
December 31,
2011
    Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
2012
 
    2007     2008(1)     2009(1)(2)     2010     2011(3)     2011     2012      
                                  (unaudited)     (unaudited)  
    (In thousands, except per unit data and operating information)        

Cash Flow Data:

                 

Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities

  $ 14,273      $ 36,591      $ 5,586      $ 13,421      $ (2,859   $ (4,361   $ 6,536       

Cash flows used in investing activities

    (272     (905     (1,607            (885            (24,285    

Cash flows (used in) provided by financing activities

    (15,570     (35,743     (4,577     (13,500     3,779        4,400        17,740       

Other Financial Data:

                 

EBITDA(9)

  $ 23,488      $ 18,996      $ 16,544      $ 20,563      $ 24,841      $ 7,137      $ 7,052      $ 45,544      $ 12,167   

Capital expenditures:

                 

Maintenance

  $ 283      $      $ 540      $      $      $      $ 475       

Expansion

           905                      885               538       
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

Total

  $ 283      $ 905      $ 540      $      $ 885      $      $ 1,013       
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

Operating Information:

                 

Pipeline and transportation throughputs (bpd):

                 

Lion Pipeline System:

                 

Crude oil throughputs

                                57,442               52,969        57,180        52,969   

Light product throughputs

                                45,337               46,823        46,203        46,823   

SALA Gathering System

                                17,676               19,710        17,358        19,710   

Paline Pipeline System

                                13,576               22,301        20,529        22,301   

East Texas Crude Logistics System

                  46,153        49,388        55,341        52,862        50,388        55,341        50,388   

Wholesale marketing and terminalling:

                 

East Texas—Tyler refinery sales (bpd)(5)

    54,282        47,930        50,253        50,173        57,047        54,531        53,528        51,568        47,026   

West Texas marketing sales (bpd)(5)

    17,923        16,557        13,377        14,353        15,595        14,535        19,592        15,493        15,383   

West Texas marketing gross margin per barrel

  $ 2.29      $ 1.74      $ 1.48      $ 1.46      $ 1.53      $ 3.26      $ 2.21      $ 1.50      $ 2.24   

Terminalling throughputs

                                17,907               18,059        18,217        18,059   

 

(1) The Tyler refinery did not operate during the period from November 21, 2008 through May 17, 2009 due to an explosion and fire on November 20, 2008. The Tyler refinery resumed full operations on May 18, 2009. During the period for which the Tyler refinery was not in operation, Delek continued to pay us amounts consistent with historical averages despite the absence of operations at portions of our business. Accordingly, while financial information for each of the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 reflect actual amounts received during such period, operating information on a per day basis is calculated by dividing full year volumes (including minimal sales volumes of intermediate products prior to the restart of the refinery) by 325 and 228 (the number of days in each of 2008 and 2009 for which the Tyler refinery was operational), respectively.

 

(2) Financial information and operating information for the East Texas Crude Logistics System for the year ended December 31, 2009 is for the 275 days that we operated the system and includes payments related to minimum volume commitments in April and May 2009 as a result of reduced volumes prior to the resumption of operations at the Tyler refinery in May 2009.

 

(3) Financial information and operating information (other than information relating to operations in east and west Texas) for the year ended December 31, 2011 is for the 247 days and 11 days Delek operated the El Dorado refinery and Paline Pipeline System, respectively, in 2011.

 

(4) The pro forma net sales reflect recognition of affiliate revenues for pipelines and terminals contributed to us that have not been previously recorded in the historical financial records of the predecessor. Pro forma product volumes used in the calculations are historical volumes transported on or terminalled in facilities included in the predecessor’s financial statements. Pro forma service fees were calculated using the rates and fees in the commercial agreements to be entered into with Delek at the closing of this offering. Pro forma volumes and sales do not include any amounts related to our commercial agreements for the Paline Pipeline System and the Big Sandy terminal, as such assets were not operational or currently configured during historical periods.

 

(5) The pro forma wholesale and marketing net sales and volumes reflect the removal of activities related to the sale of jet fuel and petroleum coke from Tyler refinery sales, and the pro forma wholesale and marketing net sales reflect the removal of activities related to the sale of bulk biofuel activity from our west Texas marketing operations.

 

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(6) The pro forma operating expenses reflect $1.2 million per year ($0.3 million per quarter), an increase relative to historical amounts of $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012, for business interruption, property and pollution liability insurance premiums that we expect to incur based on estimates from our insurance broker, and employee-related expenses of $0.2 million per year related to Delek personnel who will support our day-to-day operations after the closing of the offering. Pro forma operating expenses also reflect the additional operating expenses related to entities and assets acquired during 2011 and 2012, as if those entities and assets were acquired as of January 1, 2011.

 

(7) Pro forma general and administrative expenses have been adjusted to give effect to the annual service fee of $2.7 million that we will pay Delek under the terms of our omnibus agreement for performing certain centralized corporate services.

 

(8) Pro forma interest expense reflects interest expense on our new $175.0 million revolving credit facility. The facility bears interest based on predetermined pricing grids that allow us to choose between Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Rate Loans. The weighted average rate on the $90.0 million of borrowings is approximately 2.5%. Pro forma interest expense also reflects an estimated 0.30% commitment fee for the unutilized portion of the facility and fees at 2.13% of letters of credit totaling $10.0 million, as well as the related five-year amortization of debt issuance costs incurred with entering into the revolving credit facility. The annualized impact of a hypothetical one percent change in interest rates associated with this floating rate borrowing would be to change interest expense by $1.1 million.

 

(9) For a definition of EBITDA and reconciliations to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, please read “—Non-GAAP Financial Measure” below.

Non-GAAP Financial Measure

For a discussion of the non-GAAP financial measure of EBITDA, please read “Prospectus Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data Summary—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.” The following table presents a reconciliation of EBITDA to net income and net cash from operating activities, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, on a historical basis and pro forma basis, as applicable, for each of the periods indicated.

 

    Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor Historical     Delek Logistics Partners,
LP Pro Forma
 
    Year Ended December 31,     Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
    Year Ended
December 31,
2011
    Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
2012
 
    2007     2008     2009     2010     2011     2011     2012      
                                  (unaudited)     (unaudited)  
    (In thousands)        

Reconciliation of EBITDA to net income (loss):

                 

Net income

  $ 11,776      $ 9,499      $ 7,508      $ 10,087      $ 12,647      $ 3,757      $ 2,510      $ 32,628      $ 9,009   

Add:

                 

Income tax expense

    6,704        5,349        4,059        5,102        5,363        2,223        1,920                 

Depreciation and amortization

    2,733        2,772        2,804        2,810        4,820        690        2,134        9,347        2,287   

Interest expense, net

    2,275        1,376        2,173        2,564        2,011        467        488        3,569        871   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

EBITDA

  $ 23,488      $ 18,996      $ 16,544      $ 20,563      $ 24,841      $ 7,137      $ 7,052      $ 45,544      $ 12,167   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Reconciliation of EBITDA to net cash provided by operating activities:

                 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

  $ 14,273      $ 36,591      $ 5,586      $ 13,421      $ (2,859   $ (4,361   $ 6,536       

Amortization of deferred financing costs

    (819     (161     (173     (169     (208     (46     (47    

Accretion of asset retirement obligations

                  (61     (73     (91     (20     (25    

Deferred taxes

    (667     (133     (650     (258     4,328        (6     (1,734    

Loss on asset disposals

                                              (5    

Stock-based compensation expense

    (205     (212     (190     (86     (64     (14     (16    

Changes in assets and liabilities

    1,927        (23,814     5,800        62        16,361        8,894        (65    

Income taxes

    6,704        5,349        4,059        5,102        5,363        2,223        1,920       

Interest expense, net

    2,275        1,376        2,173        2,564        2,011        467        488       
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

EBITDA

  $ 23,488      $ 18,996      $ 16,544      $ 20,563      $ 24,841      $ 7,137      $ 7,052       
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF

FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

You should read the following discussion of the financial condition and results of operations for Delek Logistics Partners, LP in conjunction with the historical combined financial statements and notes of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor and the pro forma combined financial statements for Delek Logistics Partners, LP included elsewhere in this prospectus. Among other things, those historical and pro forma combined financial statements include more detailed information regarding the basis of presentation for the following information. In this section, references in this discussion to “we,” “our,” “us” or like terms when used in a historical context refer to the businesses and assets of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor and when used in the present tense or prospectively, refer to Delek Logistics Partners, LP and its subsidiaries.

Overview

We are a growth-oriented Delaware limited partnership recently formed by Delek to own, operate, acquire and construct crude oil and refined products logistics and marketing assets. A substantial majority of our existing assets are integral to the success of Delek’s refining and marketing operations. We gather, transport and store crude oil and market, distribute, transport and store refined products in select regions of the southeastern United States and west Texas for Delek and third parties, primarily in support of the Tyler and El Dorado refineries. We report our assets and operating results in two reportable segments: our Pipelines and Transportation segment and our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment. Decisions concerning the allocation of resources and assessment of operating performance are made based on this segmentation.

Pipelines and Transportation. Our Pipelines and Transportation segment consists of approximately 400 miles of crude oil transportation pipelines, 16 miles of refined product pipelines, an approximately 600-mile crude oil gathering system and associated crude oil storage tanks with an aggregate of approximately 1.4 million barrels of active shell capacity. These assets are primarily divided into four operating systems:

 

   

our Lion Pipeline System, which transports crude oil to, and refined products from, the 80,000 bpd El Dorado refinery;

 

   

our SALA Gathering System, which transports crude oil production in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, primarily for the El Dorado refinery;

 

   

our Paline Pipeline System, which will transport crude oil from Longview, Texas to the Chevron-operated Beaumont terminal in Nederland, Texas; and

 

   

our East Texas Crude Logistics System, which currently transports substantially all of the crude oil delivered to the 60,000 bpd Tyler refinery.

Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling. In our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment, we provide marketing services for 100% of the refined products output of the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke, and own and operate five light product terminals. Two of these terminals, located in Big Sandy, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee, support the Tyler refinery and the El Dorado refinery, respectively. Our west Texas marketing business markets light products that we purchase from Noble Petro using our terminals in Abilene and San Angelo, Texas. We also market light products that we purchase from Magellan using third-party terminals in Aledo, Odessa, Big Spring and Frost, Texas. In addition, we provide products terminalling services to independent third parties at our light products terminal in Nashville, Tennessee.

How We Generate Revenue

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substantial majority of our contribution margin, which we define as net sales less cost of goods sold and operating expenses will be derived from fee-based commercial agreements with Delek with initial terms ranging from five to ten years, which we believe will enhance the stability of our cash flows. Our commercial agreements with Delek will include minimum volume commitments, which we believe will provide us with a stable revenue stream in the future. We have limited direct exposure to risks associated with fluctuating commodity prices because we do not take title to any of the crude oil that we handle, and we take title to only limited volumes of light products in our marketing business. Accordingly, we generally do not need to hedge crude oil or refined products. However, from time to time, we will hedge our exposure to commodity prices for refined products in our west Texas wholesale marketing business.

Pipelines and Transportation Segment

Lion Pipeline System. We and Delek will enter into a five-year pipeline and storage facilities agreement under which we will provide transportation and storage services to the El Dorado refinery. Under the pipelines and storage facilities agreement, Delek will be obligated to throughput aggregate volumes and we expect revenues on the pipelines of our Lion Pipeline System and our SALA Gathering System as follows:

 

   

Lion Pipeline System. The minimum throughput commitment will be an aggregate of 46,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) of crude oil shipped on the El Dorado, Magnolia and rail connection pipelines, other than crude oil volumes gathered on our SALA Gathering System, for a fee of $0.85 per barrel. For the El Dorado product pipelines, the minimum throughput commitment will be an aggregate of 40,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) of diesel or gasoline shipped on these pipelines for a fee of $0.10 per barrel. During periods of normal operations, Delek and the predecessor shippers have historically shipped volumes of crude oil, diesel and gasoline in excess of the applicable minimum throughput commitments on the Lion Pipeline System, and we expect those excess shipments to continue. Based on the initial transportation fees under the agreement and actual volumes delivered in the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek would have paid us approximately $19.4 million and $4.5 million, respectively, for throughput on the Lion Pipeline System.

 

   

SALA Gathering System. The minimum throughput commitment will be an aggregate of 14,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) of crude oil transported on the SALA Gathering System for a fee of $2.25 per barrel. Volumes gathered on the SALA Gathering System will not be subject to an additional fee for transportation on our Lion Pipeline System to the El Dorado refinery. During periods of normal operations, Delek and the predecessor shippers have historically shipped volumes of crude oil in excess of the minimum throughput commitment on the SALA Gathering System, and we expect those excess shipments to continue. Based on the initial transportation fees under the agreement and actual volumes delivered in the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek would have paid us approximately $14.3 million and $4.0 million, respectively, for throughput on the SALA Gathering System.

Each throughput fee described above will be subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index, provided that the fees will not be adjusted below the initial amount.

Paline Pipeline System. We have agreed to use 100% of the southbound capacity of the Paline Pipeline System to provide pipeline transportation services to a major integrated oil company through December 31, 2014, with automatic one year extensions unless terminated by either party upon notice to the other six months prior to year end. Monthly payments under the agreement are $450,000 and will increase to $529,250 for 2013 and thereafter be subject to annual escalation during any renewal periods. The monthly fees payable to us under our agreement with this customer increase proportionately to the extent throughput volumes are above 30,000 bpd. We expect that this customer will use the Paline Pipeline System to ship crude oil and condensate from terminals in Longview, Texas to the Chevron-operated Beaumont terminal in Nederland, Texas. There is no

 

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relevant volume history on the Paline Pipeline System as the reversal to permit southbound flow is not expected to be completed until September 2012. We also expect to transport a small volume of third-party shipments on the newly constructed Longview to Kilgore, Texas pipeline segment.

East Texas Crude Logistics System. We and Delek will enter into a five-year pipeline and tankage agreement under which we will provide transportation and storage services to the Tyler refinery. Under the pipelines and tankage agreement, Delek will be obligated to pay a fee of $0.40 per barrel for a minimum throughput commitment on the pipelines of our East Texas Crude Logistics System of an aggregate of 35,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) of crude oil, as well as a fixed storage fee of $250,000 per month, subject to certain exceptions such as force majeure events. Delek will also pay us an additional $0.20 per barrel for throughput volumes in excess of 50,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis). The throughput fees and storage fee will be subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index, provided that the fees will not be adjusted below the initial amount.

Our East Texas Crude Logistics System is currently the only pipeline system supplying crude oil to the Tyler refinery. Beginning in the first half 2013, however, we expect a reconfigured pipeline system that is owned and operated by third parties to also begin supplying crude oil to the Tyler refinery from west Texas. Delek has a 10-year agreement with third parties to transport a substantial majority of the Tyler refinery’s crude oil requirements on this reconfigured system. Consequently, crude oil volumes transported on our East Texas Crude Logistics System are expected to significantly decrease, and actual throughput on our East Texas Logistics System is expected to be below the minimum volume commitment under our agreement with Delek. We believe that Delek will continue to support our East Texas Crude Logistics System after the 2017 expiration of our agreement with Delek. As the crude oil pricing markets continue to evolve, we believe that the East Texas Crude Logistics System will remain valuable to the Tyler refinery because it preserves access to a variety of feedstocks and provides supply security in the event other sources are disrupted or become cost-prohibitive. Based on the throughput fees and the storage fee under the agreement and actual volumes delivered in the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek would have paid us approximately $11.2 million and $2.6 million, respectively under the agreement. We expect that beginning in the first half of 2013, the revenues derived pursuant to this agreement will decrease to $8.1 million annually, which constitutes the minimum fees payable to us under the agreement, until throughput levels increase above the minimum volume commitment, if at all. We expect that this decrease in revenues will be partially offset by a decrease in our operating expenses.

Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling

East Texas. We will enter into a ten-year marketing agreement with Delek under which we will agree to market 100% of the output of the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke. Under the marketing agreement, Delek Refining, Ltd., a subsidiary of Delek, or Delek Refining, will be obligated to make available to us for marketing and sale at the Tyler refinery and/or our Big Sandy terminal an aggregate amount of refined products of at least 50,000 bpd, calculated on a quarterly average basis. For these services, Delek Refining will pay us a base fee of $0.5964 per barrel and has agreed to pay us 50% of the margin above an agreed base level generated on the sale as an incentive fee. The base fee is subject to increase or decrease on each August 1, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the change in the consumer price index, provided that the fee may not be adjusted below the initial amount. During periods of normal operations, Delek has historically sold volumes of refined products in excess of the minimum volume commitment under the marketing agreement, and we expect those excess sales volumes to continue. Based on the initial base fee under the agreement and actual volumes sold in the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek would have paid us approximately $11.2 million and $2.7 million, respectively, in per-barrel fees under the agreement. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek paid us incentive fees of $1.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively, under our prior marketing agreement.

 

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West Texas. In our west Texas marketing operations, we generate revenue by purchasing refined products from independent third-party suppliers for resale at our San Angelo and Abilene, Texas terminals and at third-party terminals located in Aledo, Odessa, Big Spring and Frost, Texas. Substantially all of our product sales in west Texas are on a wholesale basis. Substantially all of our petroleum products for sale in west Texas are purchased from two suppliers. Under a contract with Noble Petro, we have the right to purchase up to 20,350 bpd of petroleum products for our Abilene terminal for sales and exchange at our Abilene and San Angelo terminals. Under this agreement, we purchase refined products based on monthly average prices from Noble Petro immediately prior to our resale of these products to our customers at our San Angelo and Abilene terminals. Additionally, we have the right to purchase up to an additional 7,000 bpd of refined products pursuant to a contract with Magellan at its east Houston terminal for resale at third-party terminals along the Magellan Orion Pipeline at Aledo, Odessa, Big Springs and Frost, Texas. We do not own, lease or operate any of the assets used to transport or store the products we purchase from Magellan. Our agreement with Magellan expires in December 2015 and has no renewal options. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, we generated revenues of $709.2 million and $229.4 million, respectively, and contribution margin of $6.8 million and $3.5 million, respectively, in our west Texas marketing operations. Because of the nature of our West Texas marketing operations, we evaluate them on the basis of contribution margin. Please read “—How We Evaluate Our Operations.”

Terminalling. We will enter into five-year agreements to provide terminalling services to Delek at our light product terminals in Memphis, Tennessee and Big Sandy, Texas.

 

   

Memphis, Tennessee. We will enter into a terminalling services agreement with Delek under which we will provide Delek the exclusive use of our Memphis terminal. Under the terminalling services agreement, Delek will be obligated to throughput aggregate volumes of refined products of at least 10,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) for a terminalling service fee of $0.50 per barrel. We also will receive fees for providing related ancillary services (such as ethanol blending and additive injection) at the terminal. The terminalling service fee is subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index, provided that the fee may not be adjusted below the initial amount. During periods of normal operations, Delek and predecessors have historically throughput volumes of refined products in excess of the minimum throughput commitment for the Memphis terminal, and we expect those excess throughput volumes to continue. Based on the initial terminalling service fee under the agreement and actual volumes throughput in the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek would have paid us approximately $2.0 million and $0.6 million, respectively, under the agreement.

 

   

Big Sandy, Texas. We will enter into a terminalling services agreement with Delek under which we will provide Delek exclusive use of our Big Sandy terminal. Under the terminalling services agreement, Delek will be obligated to throughput aggregate volumes of refined products of at least 5,000 bpd, (on a quarterly average basis) for a terminalling service fee of $0.50 per barrel. In addition, Delek will pay a storage fee of $50,000 per month. We will also receive fees for providing related ancillary services (such as ethanol blending and additive injection) at the terminal. All fees under the agreement are subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index, provided that the fees may not be adjusted below the initial amounts. There is no relevant volume history at the terminal since the terminal has been idle since 2008.

We will also provide terminalling services for products to independent third parties and Delek’s retail segment through a light products terminal in Nashville, Tennessee. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, we generated terminalling fees of approximately $0.8 million and $0.2 million, respectively.

 

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Each of these agreements with Delek, other than the marketing agreement, will have an initial term of five years and may be extended, at Delek’s option, for up to two additional five-year terms. The marketing agreement will have an initial term of 10 years and will automatically extend for additional one-year periods unless either party gives notice of termination at least 10 months prior to the end of the then-current term. For a detailed description of our commercial agreements with Delek, please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Our Commercial Agreements with Delek.”

How We Evaluate Our Operations

Our management intends to use a variety of financial and operating metrics to analyze our segment performance. These metrics are significant factors in assessing our operating results and profitability and include: (i) volumes (including pipeline throughput and terminal volumes); (ii) contribution margin and gross margin per barrel; (iii) operating and maintenance expenses; (iv) EBITDA and Distributable Cash Flow. We define EBITDA and Distributable Cash Flow below.

Volumes. The amount of revenue we generate primarily depends on the volumes of crude oil and refined products that we handle with our pipeline transportation, our terminalling and our marketing operations. These volumes are primarily affected by the supply of and demand for crude oil and refined products in the markets served directly or indirectly by our assets. Although Delek has committed to minimum volumes under the commercial agreements described above, our results of operations will be impacted by:

 

   

Delek’s utilization of our assets in excess of its minimum volume commitments;

 

   

our ability to identify and execute accretive acquisitions and organic expansion projects, and capture incremental Delek or third-party volumes;

 

   

our ability to increase throughput volumes at our refined products terminals and provide additional ancillary services at those terminals, such as ethanol blending and additive injection; and

 

   

our ability to increase throughput volumes on our pipeline systems by making outlet connections to existing or new third party pipelines or rail loading facilities, which increase will be driven by the anticipated supply of and demand for additional crude oil produced.

Contribution Margin and Gross Margin per Barrel. Because we do not allocate general and administrative expense by segment, we measure the performance of our segments by the amount of contribution margin generated in operations. Contribution margin is calculated as net sales less cost of sales and operating expenses. For our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment, we also measure margin per barrel. The gross margin per barrel reflects the gross margin (net sales less cost of sales) of the wholesale marketing operations divided by the number of barrels of refined products sold during the measurement period. Both contribution margin and gross margin per barrel can be affected by fluctuations in the prices of gasoline and distillate fuel. Historically, the profitability of our wholesale marketing operations has been affected by commodity price volatility, specifically as it relates to changes in the price of refined products between the time we purchase these products from our suppliers and the time we sell these products to our wholesale customers.

Operating and Maintenance Expenses. Our management seeks to maximize the profitability of our operations by effectively managing operating and maintenance expenses. These expenses are comprised primarily of labor expenses, lease costs, utility costs, insurance premiums, repairs and maintenance expenses and related property taxes. These expenses generally remain relatively stable across broad ranges of throughput volumes but can fluctuate from period to period depending on the mix of activities performed during that period and the timing of these expenses. We will seek to manage our maintenance expenditures on our pipelines and terminals by scheduling maintenance over time to avoid significant variability in our maintenance expenditures and minimize their impact on our cash flow.

 

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Our operating and maintenance expenses will also be affected by the imbalance gain and loss provisions in our commercial agreements with Delek. Under our commercial agreements with Delek relating to our Lion Pipeline System and our East Texas Crude Logistics System, we will bear any crude oil and refined product volume losses on each of our pipelines in excess of 0.25%. Under our commercial agreements with Delek relating to our Memphis and Big Sandy terminals, we will bear any refined product volume losses in each of our terminals in excess of 0.25%. The value of any crude oil or refined product imbalance gains or losses resulting from these contractual provisions will be determined by reference to the monthly average reference price for the applicable commodity. Any gains and losses under these provisions will reduce or increase, respectively, our operating and maintenance expenses in the period in which they are realized.

EBITDA and Distributable Cash Flow. We define EBITDA as net income (loss) before net interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense. Although we have not quantified distributable cash flow on a historical basis, after the closing of this offering we intend to use distributable cash flow, which we define as EBITDA less net cash paid for interest, maintenance capital expenditures and income taxes, to analyze our performance. Distributable cash flow will not reflect changes in working capital balances. Distributable cash flow and EBITDA are not presentations made in accordance with GAAP.

EBITDA and distributable cash flow are non-GAAP supplemental financial measures that management and external users of our combined financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies, may use to assess:

 

   

our operating performance as compared to other publicly traded partnerships in the midstream energy industry, without regard to historical cost basis or, in the case of EBITDA, financing methods;

 

   

the ability of our assets to generate sufficient cash flow to make distributions to our unitholders;

 

   

our ability to incur and service debt and fund capital expenditures; and

 

   

the viability of acquisitions and other capital expenditure projects and the returns on investment of various investment opportunities.

We believe that the presentation of EBITDA and distributable cash flow provides useful information to investors in assessing our financial condition and results of operations. EBITDA and distributable cash flow should not be considered alternatives to net income, operating income, cash from operations or any other measure of financial performance or liquidity presented in accordance with GAAP. EBITDA and distributable cash flow have important limitations as analytical tools because they exclude some but not all items that affect net income and net cash provided by operating activities. Additionally, because EBITDA and distributable cash flow may be defined differently by other companies in our industry, our definition of EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, thereby diminishing their utility. For a reconciliation of EBITDA to its most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, please read “Prospectus Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.”

Factors Affecting the Comparability of Our Financial Results

Our future results of operations may not be comparable to our historical results of operations for the reasons described below:

Revenues. There are differences in the way we historically recorded revenues for services provided to Delek and the way we will record revenues following the closing of this offering. Our assets have historically been a part of the integrated operations of Delek, and we generally recognized the costs and most revenue associated with the gathering, pipeline, transportation, terminalling and storage services provided to Delek on an intercompany basis. Following the closing of this offering, revenues will be generated from the commercial

 

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agreements that we will enter into with Delek at the closing of this offering and existing agreements with third parties under which we will receive revenues for gathering, transporting and storing crude oil and marketing, transporting, storing and terminalling refined products. These contracts contain minimum volume commitments and fees that are indexed for inflation. We expect to generate revenue from ancillary services such as ethanol blending and additive injection and from transportation and terminalling fees on our pipeline systems and terminals for volumes in excess of minimum volume committed under our agreements with Delek.

General and Administrative Expenses. Our general and administrative expenses included direct monthly charges for the management and operation of our logistics assets and certain expenses allocated by Delek for general corporate services, such as treasury, accounting and legal services. These expenses were charged or allocated to us based on the nature of the expenses and our proportionate share of employee time and headcount. Following the closing of this offering, Delek will continue to charge us for the management and operation of our logistics assets, which are projected to be $             million due to Delek’s provision of additional services, and an annual fee of $2.7 million for the provision of various centralized corporate services. Additionally, we will reimburse Delek for direct or allocated costs and expenses incurred by Delek on our behalf. We also expect to incur $2.0 million of incremental annual general and administrative expense as a result of being a publicly traded partnership. For more information about such fees and services, please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement” and “—Operation and Management Services Agreement.”

Income Tax Expenses. Prior to this offering, we were included in Delek’s consolidated federal income tax return, in which we were taxed at the entity level as a C corporation. Following the closing of this offering, we will be treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, with each partner being separately taxed on its share of taxable income; therefore, there will be no income tax expense in our financial statements.

Financing. Following the closing of this offering, we intend to make cash distributions to our unitholders at an initial distribution rate of $         per unit per quarter ($         per unit on an annualized basis). Our partnership agreement requires that we distribute to our unitholders quarterly all of our available cash. As a result, we expect to fund future capital expenditures primarily from external sources, including borrowings under our revolving credit facility and future issuances of equity and debt securities. Upon the closing of this offering, we expect to enter into a $175.0 million senior secured revolving credit agreement with Fifth Third Bank, as administrative agent, and a syndicate of lenders under which we will borrow $90.0 million and distribute such amount to Delek. Please read “—Capital Resources and Liquidity—New Revolving Credit Facility.”

Other Factors That Will Significantly Affect Our Results

Supply and Demand for Crude Oil and Refined Products. We generate revenue by charging fees for gathering, transporting and storing crude oil and for marketing, distributing, transporting, terminalling and storing refined products. Following the consummation of this offering, a substantial majority of our contribution margin will be derived from fee-based commercial agreements with Delek with initial terms ranging from five to ten years, which we believe will enhance the stability of our cash flows. The volume of crude oil that we gather and transport and the volume of refined products that we market depend substantially on Delek’s refining margins. Refining margins are dependent mostly upon the price of crude oil or other refinery feedstocks and the price of refined products. These prices are affected by numerous factors beyond our or Delek’s control, including the global supply and demand for crude oil, gasoline and other refined products. The current global economic weakness and high unemployment in the United States could depress demand for refined products. The impact of low demand may be further compounded by excess global refining capacity and high inventory levels. Several refineries in North America and Europe have been temporarily or permanently shut down in response to falling demand and excess refining capacity. If the demand for refined products decreases, or if Delek’s crude oil costs exceed the value of the refined products it produces, Delek may reduce the volumes of crude oil and refined products that we handle.

 

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Acquisition Opportunities. We plan to pursue strategic acquisitions that complement our existing assets and that will provide attractive returns for our unitholders. We may acquire additional logistics assets from Delek or third parties. Under our omnibus agreement, subject to certain exceptions, Delek has agreed not to own or operate any crude oil or refined products pipelines, terminals or storage facilities in the United States that are not directly connected to, substantially dedicated to, or otherwise an integral part of, a Delek refinery, with a fair market value in excess of $5.0 million. We also have a right of first offer on certain logistics assets retained by Delek to the extent Delek decides to sell or otherwise dispose of any of those assets. In addition, Delek is required, under certain circumstances, to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct in the future. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.” Furthermore, we believe our current asset base and our knowledge of the regional markets in which we operate will allow us to target and consummate accretive third-party acquisitions. We intend to pursue these opportunities both independently and jointly with Delek in connection with Delek’s growth strategy, which may include the acquisition of additional refinery and retail assets. However, if we do not make acquisitions on economically acceptable terms, our future growth will be limited, and the acquisitions we do make may reduce, rather than increase, our cash available for distribution.

Third-Party Business. Immediately following the closing of this offering, Delek will account for a substantial majority of our contribution margin. We plan to further diversify our customer base by increasing third-party throughput volumes running through our existing system and expanding our asset portfolio to service more third-party customers. For example, our Paline Pipeline System transported minimal volumes at the time we acquired it in December 2011. By September 2012, we expect to complete a reversal of the pipeline’s flow and have leased 100% of the pipeline’s southbound capacity to a major integrated oil company through December 2014. Unless we are successful in attracting additional third-party customers, our ability to increase volumes will be dependent on Delek, which has no obligation to supply our pipeline systems or our terminals with additional volumes in excess of its minimum volume commitments under our commercial agreements with Delek. If we are unable to increase throughput volumes, future growth may be limited.

Results of Operations

Combined Overview

The following table and discussion is a summary of our combined results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 and the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011. The results of operations by segments are discussed in further detail following this combined overview discussion.

The results of operations reflect the impact of, among other things, the following events on our financial statements:

 

   

The Tyler refinery did not operate during the period from November 21, 2008 through May 17, 2009. The Tyler refinery resumed full operations on May 18, 2009. During the period for which the Tyler refinery was not in operation, Delek continued to pay us amounts consistent with historical averages despite the absence of operations at portions of our business. Accordingly, while financial information presented within this “ –Results of Operations” for the year ended December 31, 2009 reflects actual amounts received during such period, operating information on a per day basis is calculated by dividing full year volumes (including minimal sales volumes of intermediate products prior to the restart of the refinery) by 228 (the number of days in 2009 for which the Tyler refinery was operational).

 

   

Financial information and operating information for the East Texas Crude Logistics System for the year ended December 31, 2009 is for the 275 days that we operated the system, which includes payments related to minimum volume commitments in April and May 2009 as a result of reduced volumes prior to the resumption of operations at the Tyler refinery in May 2009.

 

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Financial information and operating information (other than the information relating to operations in east and west Texas) for the year ended December 31, 2011 is for the 247 and 11 days that Delek operated the El Dorado refinery and Paline Pipeline system, respectively, in 2011.

 

      Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor Historical  
      Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2009      2010      2011     2011      2012  
                         (unaudited)  
     (in thousands)  

Net Sales

   $ 374,420       $ 504,408       $ 744,079      $ 159,096       $ 239,083   

Operating costs and Expenses:

             

Cost of goods sold

     349,493         476,678         700,505        149,809         225,409   

Operating expenses

     2,643         2,920         12,940        1,003         4,210   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Contribution margin

     22,284         24,810         30,634        8,284         9,464   

General and administrative expenses

     5,740         4,247         5,795        1,147         2,407   

Depreciation and amortization

     2,804         2,810         4,820        690         2,134   

(Gain) loss on sale of assets

                     (2             5   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating income

     13,740         17,753         20,021        6,447         4,918   

Interest expense, net

     2,173         2,564         2,011        467         488   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

     11,567         15,189         18,010        5,980         4,430   

Income tax expense

     4,059         5,102         5,363        2,223         1,920   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net income

   $ 7,508       $ 10,087       $ 12,647      $ 3,757       $ 2,510   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

EBITDA(1) (unaudited)

   $ 16,544       $ 20,563       $ 24,841      $ 7,137       $ 7,052   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1) For a definition of EBITDA and reconciliation to its most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, please read “Prospectus Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Combined Financial and Operating Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measure.”

Three Months Ended March 31, 2012 compared to the Three Months Ended March 31, 2011

Net income decreased by $1.2 million, or 33.2%, to $2.5 million in the first quarter 2012 as compared to $3.8 million in the first quarter 2011. The decrease is primarily attributed to increased operating expenses, depreciation and amortization and general and administrative expenses. These increased expenses were primarily due to the acquisition of a majority interest in the Contributed Lion Oil Assets during 2011. The impact of these assets are not reflected in the results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2011. These increased expenses were partially offset by an increase in revenues, also attributable to the aforementioned acquisition.

Year Ended December 31, 2011 compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2010

Net income increased by $2.6 million, or 25.4%, to $12.6 million in 2011 as compared to $10.1 million in 2010. The increase is primarily attributed to increases in revenues in both the Pipelines and Transportation and Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segments, which were partially offset by increased operating expenses, depreciation and amortization and general and administrative expenses. The increased revenues and expenses were primarily due to the acquisition of a majority interest in the Contributed Lion Oil Assets during 2011.

Year Ended December 31, 2010 compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2009

Net income increased by $2.6 million, or 34.4%, to $10.1 million in 2010 as compared to $7.5 million in 2009. The increase in net income is primarily attributable to higher revenues at both the Pipelines and Transportation and the Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segments, which generated increases in

 

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contribution margin of $2.3 million and $0.2 million, respectively. The increased revenues and expenses were primarily due to the acquisition of our East Texas Crude Logistics System in March 2009. Further contributing to the increase in net income was a $1.5 million decrease in general and administrative expenses in 2010 as compared to 2009. This decrease was due to the decrease in certain management fees, bank expenses and legal expenses.

Pipelines and Transportation Segment

The Pipelines and Transportation segment includes our Lion Pipeline System, our SALA Gathering System, our Paline Pipeline System and our East Texas Crude Logistics System.

 

      Year Ended December 31,      Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2009      2010      2011      2011      2012  
     (in thousands, except operating information)  

Net sales

   $ 6,633       $ 9,451       $ 21,878       $ 2,440       $ 6,680   

Operating expenses

     1,419         1,955         9,530         573         3,278   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Segment contribution margin

   $ 5,214       $ 7,496       $ 12,348       $ 1,867       $ 3,402   

Throughputs (bpd):

              

Lion Pipeline System(1):

              

Crude throughputs

                     57,442                 52,969   

Light product throughputs

                     45,337                 46,823   

SALA Gathering System(1)

                     17,676                 19,710   

Paline Pipeline System(2)

                     13,576                 22,301   

East Texas Crude Logistics System(3)

     46,153         49,388         55,341         52,862         50,388   

 

(1) Throughputs for the year ended December 31, 2011 are for the 247 days Delek operated the El Dorado refinery in 2011.

 

(2) Consists of amounts shipped on the 185-mile mainline pipeline. Throughputs for the year ended December 31, 2011 are for the 11 days Delek operated the Paline Pipeline System in 2011.

 

(3) Throughputs for the year ended December 31, 2009 are for the 228 days that the Tyler refinery was operational in 2009.

Three Months Ended March 31, 2012 compared to the Three Months Ended March 31, 2011

Revenues increased by $4.2 million, or 173.8%, to $6.7 million in the first quarter 2012, as compared to $2.4 million in the first quarter of 2011. This increase was due to the acquisition of a majority interest in each of the Lion Pipeline System, SALA Gathering System and Paline Pipeline System during 2011.

Operating expenses increased by $2.7 million, or 472.1%, to $3.3 million in the first quarter of 2012, as compared to $0.6 million in the first quarter of 2011. This increase was primarily due to the additional costs of operating the assets in which we acquired a majority interest in 2011.

Year Ended December 31, 2011 compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2010

Revenues increased by $12.4 million, or 131.5%, to $21.9 million in 2011, as compared to $9.5 million in 2010. This increase was primarily due to the acquisition of a majority interest in each of the Lion Pipeline System, SALA Gathering System and Paline Pipeline System during 2011.

Operating expenses increased by $7.6 million, or 387.5%, to $9.5 million in 2011, as compared to $2.0 million in 2010. This increase was primarily due to the additional costs of operating the assets we acquired during 2011.

 

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Year Ended December 31, 2010 compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2009

Revenues increased by $2.8 million, or 42.5%, to $9.5 million in 2010, as compared to $6.6 million in 2009. This increase was primarily due to increased throughput on our McMurrey Pipeline System, which was operated for a full year in 2010, as compared to nine months during 2009 due to the acquisition of the McMurrey Pipeline System in March 2009.

Operating expenses increased to $2.0 million in 2010, as compared to $1.4 million in 2009. This increase was due to expenses of the McMurrey Pipeline System, which were included in general and administrative expenses in 2009.

Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling Segment

We use our wholesale marketing and terminalling assets to generate revenue by providing wholesale marketing and terminalling services to Delek’s refining operations and to independent third parties.

 

      Year Ended December 31,      Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2009(1)      2010      2011      2011      2012  
     (in thousands, except operating information)  

Net sales

   $ 367,787       $ 494,957       $ 722,201       $ 156,656       $ 232,403   

Cost of goods sold

     349,493         476,678         700,505         149,809         225,409   

Operating expenses

     1,224         965         3,410         430         932   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Segment contribution margin

   $ 17,070       $ 17,314       $ 18,286       $ 6,417       $ 6,062   

Operating Information:

              

East Texas — Tyler refinery sales (bpd)(2)

     50,253         50,173         57,047         54,531         53,528   

West Texas marketing throughputs (bpd)(3)

     13,377         14,353         15,595         14,535         19,592   

West Texas marketing margin per barrel

   $ 1.48       $ 1.46       $ 1.53       $ 3.26       $ 2.21   

Terminalling throughputs (bpd)(4)

                     17,907         —           18,059   

 

(1) As a result of an explosion and fire at the Tyler refinery on November 20, 2008, it ceased operations through May 17, 2009. During this period, Delek continued to pay fees to us under our then-existing marketing agreement.

 

(2) Includes jet fuel and petroleum coke.

 

(3) Includes bulk ethanol and biodiesel.

 

(4) Consists of terminalling throughputs at our Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee terminals. Throughputs for the year ended December 31, 2011 are for the 247 days Delek operated the El Dorado refinery in 2011.

Three Months Ended March 31, 2012 compared to the Three Months Ended March 31, 2011

Revenues increased by $75.7 million, or 48.4%, to $232.4 million in the first quarter of 2012, as compared to $156.7 million in the first quarter of 2011. This increase was primarily due to increases in sales volume of 1,140 bpd and the increased average sales price of both gasoline and diesel of $0.32 per gallon and $0.33 per gallon, respectively, in the first quarter of 2012, as compared to the first quarter of 2011, in our wholesale marketing business. In addition, the acquisition of the Nashville terminal during 2011 resulted in additional revenues of $0.2 million in the first quarter 2012.

Cost of goods sold increased by $75.6 million, or 50.5%, to $225.4 million in the first quarter 2012, as compared to $149.8 million in the first quarter 2011. This increase was primarily due to increases in sales volume and the increased cost of both gasoline and diesel in our wholesale marketing business.

Operating expenses increased by $0.5 million, or 116.7%, to $0.9 million in the first quarter of 2011, as compared to $0.4 million in the first quarter of 2010. This increase was primarily due to the additional costs associated with the Nashville and Memphis terminals, which we acquired during 2011.

 

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Year Ended December 31, 2011 compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2010

Revenues increased by $227.2 million, or 45.9%, to $722.2 million in 2011, as compared to $495.0 million in 2010. This increase was primarily due to increases in sales volume of 976 bpd and the increased average sales price of both gasoline and diesel of $0.70 per gallon and $0.81 per gallon, respectively, in 2011 in our wholesale marketing business. In addition, the acquisition of the Nashville and Memphis terminals during 2011 resulted in additional revenues of $0.8 million.

Cost of goods sold increased by $223.8 million, or 47.0%, to $700.5 million in 2011, as compared to $476.7 million in 2010. This increase was primarily due to increases in sales volume and the increased cost of both gasoline and diesel in our wholesale marketing business.

Operating expenses increased by $2.4 million, or 253.4%, to $3.4 million in 2011, as compared to $1.0 million in 2010. This increase was primarily due to the additional costs associated with the Nashville and Memphis terminals, which we acquired during 2011, as well as increases in environmental and insurance expenses associated with our wholesale marketing and terminalling operations.

Year Ended December 31, 2010 compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2009

Revenues increased by $127.2 million, or 34.6%, to $495.0 million in 2010, as compared to $367.8 million in 2009. This increase was primarily due to an increase in the average sales price for both gasoline and diesel of $0.42 per gallon and $0.50 per gallon, respectively, in 2010, as well as an increase in the sales volume of diesel in our wholesale marketing business. The increase in gasoline prices was partially offset by a decrease in the sales volume of gasoline.

Cost of goods sold increased by $127.2 million, or 36.4%, to $476.7 million in 2010, as compared to $349.5 million in 2009. This increase was primarily due to an increase in the average cost of both gasoline and diesel in 2010, as well as an increase in the sales volume of diesel in our wholesale marketing business. The increase in prices was partially offset by a decrease in the sales volume of gasoline.

Operating expenses decreased to $1.0 million in 2010, as compared to $1.2 million in 2009. This decrease was primarily due to a decrease in environmental expenses in 2010, partially offset by an increase in payroll expense from 2009 to 2010.

Capital Resources and Liquidity

Historically, our sources of liquidity included cash generated from operations and borrowings under our predecessor’s revolving credit facility. Delek will retain our working capital, as these balances represent assets and liabilities related to our assets prior to the closing of the offering.

In addition to the retention of a portion of the net proceeds from this offering for working capital needs we expect our ongoing sources of liquidity following this offering to include cash generated from operations, borrowings under our revolving credit facility and issuances of additional debt and equity securities. We believe that cash generated from these sources will be sufficient to meet our short-term working capital requirements and long-term capital expenditure requirements and to make quarterly cash distributions. Issuances of debt or equity securities and additional credit facilities may not, however, be available to us on acceptable terms or at all.

We intend to pay a minimum quarterly distribution of $         per unit per quarter, which equates to $ million per quarter, or $         million per year, based on the number of common, subordinated and general partner units to be outstanding immediately after completion of this offering. We do not have a legal obligation to pay this distribution. Please read “Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions.”

 

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Predecessor Revolving Credit Facility

We have a revolving credit facility with Fifth Third Bank, which we refer to as the predecessor facility, that carries a credit limit of $75.0 million, including a $35.0 million sub-limit for letters of credit. As of March 31, 2012, we had $49.1 million outstanding borrowings under the predecessor facility, as well as letters of credit issued of $12.0 million. Borrowings under the predecessor facility are secured by substantially all of the assets of Delek Marketing & Supply LP. The predecessor facility matures on December 19, 2013. The predecessor facility bears interest based on predetermined pricing grids that allow us to choose between Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Rate Loans. At March 31, 2012, the weighted average borrowing rate was approximately 3.9%. Additionally, the predecessor facility requires us to pay a quarterly fee of 0.50% per year on the average available revolving commitment. Amounts available under the predecessor facility as of March 31, 2012 were approximately $13.9 million. We are required to comply with certain usual and customary financial and non-financial covenants under the terms of the predecessor facility. We believe we were in compliance with all covenant requirements as of March 31, 2012. Upon the closing of this offering, we expect to enter into the new revolving credit facility described under “—New Revolving Credit Facility” below, which will replace the predecessor facility.

New Revolving Credit Facility

In connection with the closing of this offering, we expect to enter into a senior secured revolving credit agreement with Fifth Third Bank, as administrative agent, and a syndicate of lenders. The credit facility is expected to carry a credit limit of $175.0 million, including a $50.0 million sublimit for letters of credit. Upon the closing of this offering, we will have approximately $90.0 million in borrowings and $10.0 million in issued and outstanding letters of credit, leaving approximately $75.0 million available for future borrowings or letter of credit issuances. The initial borrowings under the credit facility will be used to fund a portion of the cash payments to Delek as consideration for its contribution of assets to us. The credit facility will be available to refinance existing indebtedness, fund working capital, finance acquisitions and other capital expenditures, fund future distributions, and for general corporate purposes. The agreement will also contain an accordion feature whereby we can increase the size of the credit facility to an aggregate of $225.0 million, subject to receiving increased commitments from the lenders. Our obligations under the credit agreement will be secured by a first priority lien on substantially all of our tangible and intangible assets. The credit facility will mature on the fifth anniversary of the closing date for the credit facility. Borrowings under the credit facility will bear interest at either a base rate, plus an applicable margin, or a LIBOR rate, plus an applicable margin. The applicable margin varies based upon our Total Leverage Ratio, which is defined as the ratio of total funded debt as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter to EBITDA for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters.

The credit agreement is expected to contain affirmative and negative covenants customary for credit facilities of this nature that, among other things, limit or restrict our ability (as well as the ability of our subsidiaries) to:

 

   

incur or guarantee additional debt;

 

   

incur certain liens on assets;

 

   

dispose of assets;

 

   

make certain cash distributions unless no default under the credit agreement then exists or would result therefrom and provided that the Total Leverage Ratio covenant is satisfied after giving effect to any such distribution on a pro forma basis;

 

   

redeem or repurchase units;

 

   

change the nature of our business;

 

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engage in certain mergers or acquisitions and investments; and

 

   

enter into non arms-length transactions with affiliates.

Additionally, we expect that we will be required to maintain a ratio of consolidated EBITDA to cash interest expense for the immediately preceding four quarter period of not less than 2.00 to 1.00 and a ratio of total funded debt to consolidated EBITDA for the immediately preceding four quarter period of less than 3.50 to 1.00. For purposes of the credit agreement, we expect EBITDA to be defined as the sum of net income, taxes, interest expense, depreciation and amortization and adjustments approved by the administrative agent including certain add backs.

The credit agreement is also expected to require us to maintain interest rate hedging arrangements, reasonably acceptable to the administrative agent, with respect to at least 50% of the amount funded at closing, which must provide coverage for a minimum of three years after the closing date.

The credit agreement is also expected to contain events of default customary for credit facilities of this nature, including, but not limited to, the failure to pay any interest, principal or fees when due, failure to satisfy any covenant, untrue representations or warranties, impairment of liens, default under any other debt agreements, insolvency, change of control, and material litigation. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an event of default under the credit agreement, the lenders may, among other things, terminate their revolving loan commitments, accelerate and declare the outstanding loans to be immediately due and payable and exercise remedies against us and the collateral as may be available to the lenders under the credit agreement and other loan documents.

Agreements Governing Certain Indebtedness of Delek

Although we are not contractually bound by and are not liable for Delek’s debt under its credit arrangements, we are indirectly affected by certain prohibitions and limitations contained therein. Specifically, under the terms of certain of its credit arrangements, Delek will be in default if we incur indebtedness in excess of the capacity available under our new $175.0 million revolving credit facility except for (i) any indebtedness that we may incur pursuant to the exercise of the accordion feature of the facility or (ii) new debt incurred for financing or acquiring additional or newly constructed assets, working capital or growth capital expenditures. These arrangements also require that Delek maintain (i) consolidated shareholders’ equity of at least $525.0 million and (ii) a ratio of consolidated shareholders’ equity to adjusted total assets, which is defined as total assets less cash and any liabilities under the financing arrangement described in “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek—El Dorado Refinery Crude Oil and Refined Products Supply and Offtake Arrangement,” of at least 0.29 to 1.00. Although these covenants do not currently limit our ability to use the full capacity available under our new revolving credit facility, we cannot assure you that such covenants will not impact such ability in the future. Delek, due to its ownership and control of our general partner, has the ability to prevent us from taking actions that would cause Delek to violate any covenant in its credit arrangements or otherwise be in default under any of its credit arrangements. Please read “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Delek’s level of indebtedness, the terms of its borrowings and any future credit ratings could adversely affect our ability to grow our business, our ability to make cash distributions to our unitholders and our credit ratings and profile. Our ability to obtain credit in the future and our future credit rating may also be affected by Delek’s level of indebtedness.”

 

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Cash Flows

Net cash provided by (used in) operating, investing and financing activities for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012 were as follows (in thousands):

 

      Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2009     2010     2011     2011     2012  
                       (unaudited)  

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ 5,586      $ 13,421      $ (2,859   $ (4,361   $ 6,536   

Net cash used in investing activities

     (1,607            (885            (24,285

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     (4,577     (13,500     3,779        4,400        17,740   

Cash Flows From Operating Activities

Cash provided by operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2012 increased $10.9 million, to cash provided of $6.5 million in the first quarter of 2012, compared to cash used of $4.4 million in the first quarter of 2011. The increase in cash provided by operating activities was primarily attributable to an increase in deferred income taxes and accounts payable to related parties and decreases in inventory and other current assets. These were partially offset by decreases in accounts payable and other current liabilities.

Cash flows provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2011 decreased $16.3 million, or 121.3%, to $(2.9) million, as compared to $13.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2010. The decrease in cash provided by operating activities is primarily attributable to decreases in deferred income taxes and accounts payable to related parties and an increase in inventories and other current assets. These were partially offset by decreases in accounts receivable and increases in accounts payable and other current liabilities.

Cash flows provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2010 increased $7.8 million, or 140.3%, to $13.4 million, as compared to $5.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2009. The increase in cash provided by operating activities is primarily attributable to an increase in net income in 2010 as compared to 2009, as well as an increase in accounts payable to related parties. These increases were partially offset by increases to inventories and other current assets.

Cash Flows From Investing Activities

Cash used in investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2012 of $24.3 million was primarily attributable to the acquisitions of the Nettleton and Big Sandy terminals in the first quarter of 2012. We also had $1.0 million in maintenance capital expenditures during the first quarter of 2012. There were no investing activities in the first quarter of 2011.

Cash flows used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2011 increased to $0.9 million, as compared to zero for the year ended December 31, 2010. Investing activities consisted of capital expenditures related to certain expansion projects during the year ended December 31, 2011.

Cash flows used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2010 decreased to zero from $1.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2009. There were no capital expenditures during the year ended December 31, 2010.

 

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Cash Flows From Financing Activities

Cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2012 increased $13.3 million, to $17.7 million in the first quarter of 2012, compared to $4.4 million in the first quarter of 2011. The increase in cash provided was primarily attributable to net proceeds from the predecessor facility of $18.8 million in the first quarter of 2012, compared to net proceeds of $4.4 million in the first quarter of 2011. This was partially offset by a $1.1 million capital distribution in the first quarter of 2012.

Cash flows used in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2011 increased $17.3 million, or 128.0%, to $3.8 million, as compared to $(13.5) million for the year ended December 31, 2010. The increase in cash used was primarily attributable to a capital distribution of $2.5 million in 2011. Offsetting the 2011 capital distribution was a net increase in notes payable in 2011, compared to net repayments in 2010.

Cash flows used in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2010 were $(13.5) million, compared to $(4.6) million for the year ended December 31, 2009, a decrease of $8.9 million, or 195.0%. The decrease in cash used in financing activities was primarily attributable to the net repayment of notes payable in 2010, compared to net borrowings in 2009. There were no capital contributions in 2010, compared to a distribution of $28.3 million in 2009.

Capital Expenditures

Our operations are capital intensive, requiring investments to expand, upgrade or enhance existing operations and to meet environmental and operational regulations. Our capital requirements have consisted of and are expected to continue to consist of maintenance capital expenditures and expansion capital expenditures. Maintenance capital expenditures include expenditures required to maintain equipment reliability, tankage, and pipeline integrity and safety and to address environmental regulations. Expansion capital expenditures include expenditures to acquire assets and expand existing facilities that increase throughput capacity on our pipelines and in our terminals or increase storage capacity at our storage facilities. For the year ended December 31, 2011, we incurred a total of $0.9 million of expansion capital expenditures and no maintenance capital expenditures. For the year ended December 31, 2009, we incurred $0.5 million in maintenance capital expenditures and no expansion capital expenditures. For the three months ended March 31, 2012, we incurred a total of $1.0 million in maintenance capital expenditures and no expansion capital expenditures. We did not incur any capital expenditures during the year ended December 31, 2010 or the three months ended March 31, 2011. We have budgeted maintenance capital expenditures of approximately $         million for the twelve months ending September 30, 2013. We anticipate that these capital expenditures will be funded primarily with cash from operations. Following this offering, we expect that we will rely primarily upon external financing sources, including borrowings under our revolving credit facility and the issuance of debt and equity securities, to fund any significant future expansion.

Under our omnibus agreement, Delek has agreed to reimburse us for any operating expenses in excess of $500,000 per year that we incur for inspections, maintenance and repairs to any of the storage tanks contributed to us by Delek that are necessary to comply with American Petroleum Institute storage tank standards for five years after the closing of this offering. In addition, Delek has agreed to reimburse us for any costs in excess of $1.0 million per event (net of any insurance recoveries), up to $20.0 million per event, that we incur for the clean up or repair of a condition caused by the failure, during the first five years after the closing of this offering, of any assets contributed to us by Delek. Furthermore, for five years after the closing of this offering, Delek will reimburse us for any maintenance capital expenditures in excess of $3.0 million per year that we make with respect to the assets contributed to us by Delek for which we have not been reimbursed as described in the preceding sentence. Delek’s reimbursement obligations will not survive any termination of the omnibus agreement.

 

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Contractual Obligations

Our current contractual obligation consists of the predecessor facility with Fifth Third Bank (Fifth Third Revolver) that carries a credit limit of $75.0 million, including a $35.0 million sub-limit for letters of credit. As of March 31, 2012, we had $49.1 million outstanding borrowings under the predecessor facility, as well as letters of credit issued of $12.0 million. The Fifth Third Revolver matures on December 19, 2012.

Effects of Inflation

Inflation in the United States has been relatively low in recent years and did not have a material impact on our results of operations for the years ended December 21, 2009, 2010 and 2011 or for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012.

Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have not entered into any transactions, agreements or other contractual arrangements that would result in off-balance sheet liabilities.

Regulatory Matters

The rates and terms and conditions of service on certain of our pipelines are subject to regulation by the FERC under the ICA or by the state regulatory commissions in the states in which we transport crude oil and refined products, including the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the Arkansas Public Service Commission. In addition, the PHMSA at the DOT regulates the design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance and emergency response of crude oil, petroleum products and other hazardous liquids pipelines and certain tank facilities. For more information on federal and state regulations affecting our business, please read “Business—Rate and Other Regulation.”

Environmental and Other Matters

Environmental Regulation. Our operation of pipelines, terminals, and associated facilities in connection with the storage and transportation of crude oil and refined products is subject to extensive and frequently-changing federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances relating to the protection of the environment. Among other things, these laws and regulations govern the emission or discharge of pollutants into or onto the land, air and water, the handling and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and the remediation of contamination. As with the industry generally, compliance with existing and anticipated environmental laws and regulations increases our overall cost of business, including our capital costs to construct, maintain, operate and upgrade equipment and facilities. While these laws and regulations affect our maintenance capital expenditures and net income, we believe they do not affect our competitive position, as the operations of our competitors are similarly affected. We believe our facilities are in substantial compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations. However, these laws and regulations are subject to frequent change by regulatory authorities and continued and future compliance with such laws and regulations, or changes in the interpretation of such laws and regulations, may require us to incur significant expenditures. Additionally, the violation of environmental laws, regulations, and permits can result in the imposition of significant administrative, civil and criminal penalties, injunctions limiting our operations, investigatory or remedial liabilities or construction bans or delays in the construction of additional facilities or equipment. Additionally, a discharge of hydrocarbons or hazardous substances into the environment could, to the extent the event is not insured, subject us to substantial expenses, including fines and penalties, costs to comply with applicable laws and regulations and to resolve claims made by third parties for personal injury or property damage. These impacts could directly and indirectly affect our business and have an adverse impact on our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. We cannot currently determine the amounts of such future impacts.

 

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Environmental Liabilities. Delek has been party to various litigation and contingent loss matters, including environmental matters, arising in the ordinary course of business. The outcome of these matters cannot always be accurately predicted, but we have recognized historical liabilities for these matters based on our best estimates and applicable accounting guidelines and principles. These liabilities were based on estimates including engineering assessments and it is reasonably possible that the estimates will change and that additional remediation costs could be incurred as more information becomes available.

Accrued liabilities for estimated site remediation costs to be incurred in the future at our facilities and properties have been included in our historical combined financial statements. Liabilities were recorded when site restoration and environmental remediation and cleanup obligations were known or considered probable and could be reasonably estimated.

We are currently, and expect to continue, incurring expenses for environmental cleanup at a number of our pipelines, terminals and storage facilities. As part of the omnibus agreement, Delek will indemnify us for certain of these expenses. For a further description of the indemnification, please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.”

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 to our audited combined financial statements appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. We prepare our combined financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, and in the process of applying these principles, we must make judgments, assumptions and estimates based on the best available information at the time. To aid a reader’s understanding, management has identified our critical accounting policies. These policies are considered critical because they are both most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results, and require our most difficult, subjective or complex judgments. Often they require judgments and estimation about matters which are inherently uncertain and involve measuring, at a specific point in time, events which are continuous in nature. Actual results may differ based on the accuracy of the information utilized and subsequent events, some over which we may have little or no control.

Revenue Recognition

Revenues for products sold are recorded at the point of sale upon delivery of the product, which is the point at which title to the product is transferred, and when payment has either been received or collection is reasonably assured. Service revenues are recognized as crude oil and refined products are shipped through, delivered by or stored in our pipelines, terminals and storage facility assets, as applicable. We do not recognize product sales revenues for these services, as title on the product never passes to us. All revenues are based on regulated tariff rates or contractual rates and contain minimum volume commitments and fees that are indexed for inflation.

Property, Plant and Equipment and Intangibles Impairment

Property, plant and equipment and definite life intangibles are evaluated for impairment whenever indicators of impairment exist. Accounting standards require that if an impairment indicator is present, we must assess whether the carrying amount of the asset is unrecoverable by estimating the sum of the future cash flows expected to result from the asset, undiscounted and without interest charges. We derive the required undiscounted cash flow estimates from our historical experience and our internal business plans. We use quoted market prices when available and our internal cash flow estimates discounted at an appropriate interest rate to determine fair value, as appropriate. If the carrying amount is more than the recoverable amount, an impairment charge must be recognized based on the fair value of the asset.

 

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Goodwill and Potential Impairment

Goodwill is reviewed at least annually for impairment or more frequently if indicators of impairment exist. Goodwill is tested by comparing net book value of the operating segments to the estimated fair value of the reporting unit. In assessing the recoverability of goodwill, assumptions are made with respect to future business conditions and estimated expected future cash flows to determine the fair value of a reporting unit. We use a market participant weighted average cost of capital, estimated minimal growth rates for revenue, gross profit, and capital expenditures based on history and our best estimate of future forecasts. We also estimate the fair values of our reporting units using a multiple of expected future cash flows such as those used by third party analysts. If these estimates and assumptions change in the future due to such factors as a decline in general economic conditions, competitive pressures on sales and margins, and other economic and industry factors beyond management’s control, an impairment charge may be required.

Environmental Expenditures

It is our policy to accrue environmental and clean-up related costs of a non-capital nature when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. Environmental liabilities represent the current estimated costs to investigate and remediate contamination at our properties. This estimate is based on internal and third-party assessments of the extent of the contamination, the selected remediation technology and review of applicable environmental regulations. Accruals for estimated costs from environmental remediation obligations generally are recognized no later than completion of the remedial feasibility study, and include, but are not limited to, costs to perform remedial actions and costs of machinery and equipment that is dedicated to the remedial actions and that does not have an alternative use. Such accruals are adjusted as further information develops or circumstances change. We discount environmental liabilities to their present value if payments are fixed and determinable. Expenditures for equipment necessary for environmental issues relating to ongoing operations are capitalized.

Changes in laws and regulations, the financial condition of state trust funds associated with environmental remediation and actual remediation expenses compared to historical experience could significantly impact our results of operations and financial position. We believe the estimates selected, in each instance, represent our best estimate of future outcomes, but the actual outcomes could differ from the estimates selected.

Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Commodity Price Risk. Market risk is the risk of loss arising from adverse changes in market rates and prices. As we do not do not take title to any of the crude oil that we handle, and we take title to only limited volumes of light products in our marketing business, we have minimal direct exposure to risks associated with fluctuating commodity prices. However, from time to time, we enter into Gulf Coast product swap arrangements with respect to the products we purchase to hedge our exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices for the period between our purchase of products from Magellan and subsequent sales to our customers. At December 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012, we had open swap contracts representing 7,000 barrels and 107,000 barrels, of refined petroleum products with an unrealized net gain (loss) of a nominal amount and $(1.4) million, respectively. In addition, our commercial agreements with Delek are indexed to inflation.

Interest Rate Risk. Debt that we incur under our revolving credit facility will bear interest at a variable rate and will expose us to interest rate risk. From time to time, we may use certain derivative instruments to hedge our exposure to variable interest rates. Additionally, our new revolving credit facility is expected to require us to maintain interest rate hedging arrangements with respect to at least 50% of the amount funded at closing of the credit facility, which must provide coverage for a minimum of three years after the closing date. We do not currently have in place any interest rate hedges or forward contracts.

 

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BUSINESS

Unless otherwise noted, the historical operating information (i) as it relates to the Contributed Lion Oil Assets prior to Delek’s April 29, 2011 acquisition of a majority interest in Lion Oil and (ii) as it relates to the Paline Pipeline prior to Delek’s December 19, 2011 acquisition thereof reflects amounts provided by the operator prior to such acquisition date. While applicable accounting rules provide for the presentation of only operating information from and after the date of such acquisitions within our predecessor’s financial statements and corresponding “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” we have included within this section such pre-acquisition information in order to provide greater insight into the historical operations of our predecessor.

Overview

We are a growth-oriented Delaware limited partnership recently formed by Delek to own, operate, acquire and construct crude oil and refined products logistics and marketing assets. A substantial majority of our existing assets are integral to the success of Delek’s refining and marketing operations. We gather, transport and store crude oil and market, distribute, transport and store refined products in select regions of the southeastern United States and west Texas for Delek and third parties, primarily in support of Delek’s refineries in Tyler, Texas and El Dorado, Arkansas.

We generate revenue by charging fees for gathering, transporting and storing crude oil and for marketing, distributing, transporting and storing refined products. Following the consummation of this offering, a substantial majority of our contribution margin, which we define as net sales less cost of goods sold and operating expenses will be derived from our commercial agreements with Delek with initial terms ranging from five to ten years, which we believe will enhance the stability of our cash flows. Our commercial agreements with Delek will include minimum volume commitments, which we believe will provide us with a stable revenue stream in the future. We have limited direct exposure to risks associated with short-term fluctuations in commodity prices because we do not take title to any of the crude oil that we handle, and we take title to only limited volumes of light products in our marketing business. Accordingly, we generally do not need to hedge crude oil or refined products. However, from time to time, we will hedge our exposure to commodity prices for refined products in our west Texas wholesale marketing business.

We intend to expand our business by acquiring logistics and marketing assets from Delek and third parties and through organic growth, including entering into fuel supply and marketing agreements, constructing new assets and increasing the utilization of our existing assets. Delek formed us to be the primary vehicle to grow its logistics and marketing operations in order to maximize the integrated value of its assets. In addition, Delek has granted us a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that it will retain following this offering, and Delek is required under certain circumstances to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct in the future as a condition to its ownership of such assets. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.”

For the year ended December 31, 2011, we had pro forma EBITDA of approximately $45.5 million and pro forma net income of approximately $32.6 million. For the three months ended March 31, 2012, we had pro forma EBITDA of approximately $12.2 million and pro forma net income of approximately $9.0 million. Delek accounted for 86.9% of our pro forma contribution margin for the year ended December 31, 2011 and 80.5% of our pro forma contribution margin for the three months ended March 31, 2012. Please read “Prospectus Summary—Summary Historical and Pro Forma Financial and Operating Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measure” for the definition of EBITDA and a reconciliation of EBITDA to our most directly comparable financial measures, calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.

 

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Assets and Operations

We operate in two business segments: our Pipelines and Transportation segment and our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment. On a pro forma basis for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the quarter ended March 31, 2012, our Pipelines and Transportation segment accounted for approximately 62.4% and 59.0%, respectively, of our contribution margin, and our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment accounted for approximately 37.6% and 41.0%, respectively, of our contribution margin.

Pipelines and Transportation Segment. Our Pipelines and Transportation segment consists of approximately 400 miles of crude oil transportation pipelines, 16 miles of refined product pipelines, an approximately 600-mile crude oil gathering system and associated crude oil storage tanks with an aggregate of approximately 1.4 million barrels of active shell capacity. These assets are primarily divided into four operating systems:

 

   

our Lion Pipeline System, which transports crude oil to, and refined products from, the 80,000 bpd El Dorado refinery;

 

   

our SALA Gathering System, which gathers and transports crude oil production in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, primarily for the El Dorado refinery;

 

   

our Paline Pipeline System, which will transport crude oil from Longview, Texas to the Chevron-operated Beaumont terminal in Nederland, Texas; and

 

   

our East Texas Crude Logistics System, which currently transports substantially all of the crude oil delivered to the 60,000 bpd Tyler refinery.

Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling Segment. In our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment, we provide marketing services for 100% of the refined products output of the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke, and own and operate five light product terminals. Two of these terminals, located in Big Sandy, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee, support the Tyler refinery and El Dorado refinery, respectively. Our west Texas wholesale marketing business markets light products that we purchase from Noble Petro using our terminals in Abilene and San Angelo, Texas. We also market light products that we purchase from Magellan using third-party terminals in Aledo, Odessa, Big Spring and Frost, Texas. In addition, we provide products terminalling services to independent third parties at our light products terminal in Nashville, Tennessee.

Business Strategies

Our objectives are to maintain stable cash flows and to grow the quarterly distributions paid to our unitholders. We intend to achieve these objectives through the following business strategies:

 

   

Generate Stable Cash Flow. We will continue to pursue opportunities to provide logistics, marketing and other services to Delek and third parties pursuant to long-term, fee-based contracts. In new service contracts, we will endeavor to negotiate minimum throughput commitments similar to those included under our current commercial agreements with Delek. In addition, although we currently have limited direct commodity price exposure, we will continue to evaluate entering into commodity derivative contracts to mitigate any exposure we have to commodity price fluctuations.

 

   

Focus on Growing Our Business. We intend to evaluate and pursue opportunities to grow our business through both strategic acquisitions and organic expansion projects.

 

   

Pursue Accretive Acquisitions. We plan to pursue strategic acquisitions that both complement our existing assets and provide attractive returns for our unitholders. For example, Delek has

 

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granted us a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that Delek will retain following this offering. In addition, Delek is required under certain circumstances to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that it may acquire or construct in the future. Furthermore, we believe that our current asset base and our knowledge of the regional markets in which we operate will allow us to target and consummate accretive third-party acquisitions. We intend to pursue these opportunities both independently and jointly with Delek in connection with Delek’s growth strategy, which may include the acquisition of additional refinery and retail assets.

 

   

Pursue Attractive Organic Expansion Opportunities. We intend to focus on organic growth opportunities that complement our existing businesses or that provide attractive returns within our current geographic footprint. We will continue to seek opportunities to further support our existing customers and attract new customers through the expansion and development of our logistics infrastructure. For example, we believe we are well positioned to support Delek’s continued growth by expanding our logistics and marketing capabilities, as needed, to support Delek’s operations, including developing infrastructure that provides Delek with access to new crude oil supplies and refined product markets.

 

   

Optimize Our Existing Assets and Expand Our Customer Base. We intend to enhance the profitability of our existing assets by adding incremental throughput volumes, improving operating efficiencies and increasing system-wide utilization. For example, we believe that increased drilling activity in the area served by our SALA Gathering System will result in increased utilization of that system. We also believe that we will be able to increase volumes in our West Texas wholesale business. Additionally, we plan to further diversify our customer base by increasing third-party throughput volumes running through our existing system and expanding our asset portfolio to service more third-party customers. For example, our Paline Pipeline System transported minimal volumes at the time we acquired it in December 2011. By September 2012, we expect to complete a reversal of the pipeline’s flow and have leased 100% of the pipeline’s southbound capacity to a major integrated oil company through December 2014.

Competitive Strengths

We believe we are well-positioned to successfully execute our business strategies because of the following competitive strengths:

 

   

Long-Term, Fee-Based Contracts with Minimum Volume Commitments Enhance Cash Flow Stability. Initially, we will generate a substantial majority of our contribution margin under long-term, fee-based contracts with Delek and third parties. Each of our commercial agreements with Delek will include minimum volume commitments and will have fees indexed to inflation, provided that fees may not be adjusted below the initial amounts, thereby providing us with a stable revenue stream. Assuming we are paid only the minimum amounts due under these agreements, we project that we will generate a contribution margin of $             million under these agreements with Delek for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013. In addition, a major integrated oil company has contracted with us for 100% of the southbound capacity of the Paline Pipeline System through 2014 for a monthly fee of $450,000, which will increase to $529,250 in 2013 and thereafter be subject to annual escalation during any renewal periods. The monthly fees payable to us under our agreement with this customer increase proportionately to the extent throughput volumes are above 30,000 bpd.

 

   

Our Assets are Integral to Delek’s Operations and Strategically Located. Our marketing and logistics assets are instrumental to the operations of Delek. For example, our SALA Gathering System gathers crude oil production, primarily for the El Dorado refinery, and has historically

 

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provided the refinery’s most cost-effective crude oil source. Additionally, our Lion Pipeline System currently transports crude oil production to, and refined products from, the El Dorado refinery and can be configured to allow the refinery to access multiple sources of advantageously priced inland crude oil. Further, our East Texas Crude Logistics System currently transports substantially all of the crude oil processed at the Tyler refinery and will continue to provide Delek with long-term strategic benefits as other crude oil sources become available to the refinery. Our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment provides marketing services for 100% of the refined products produced by the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke. In addition, our Paline Pipeline System has been reconfigured to take advantage of its strategic location by permitting the transportation of crude oil from inland markets to the U.S. Gulf Coast, which will allow our customers to realize potentially significant positive differentials in crude oil pricing between East Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast.

 

   

Relationship with Delek. One of our key strengths is our relationship with Delek. We believe that Delek will be incentivized to grow our business as a result of its significant economic interest in us as the owner of a     % limited partner interest and the owner of our general partner and all of our incentive distribution rights. In particular, we expect to benefit from the following aspects of our relationship with Delek:

 

   

Acquisition Opportunities. Under the omnibus agreement, Delek has granted a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that it will retain following this offering and is required, under certain circumstances, to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct in the future. Furthermore, Delek is a growth-oriented company with a history of identifying, acquiring, financing and integrating complementary assets.

 

   

Strength and Stability of Delek’s Refining Business. Delek’s refineries have a combined crude oil throughput capacity of 140,000 barrels per day. These refineries are strategically located in eastern Texas and southern Arkansas, which gives Delek access to a diverse slate of advantageously priced crude oil feedstocks and attractive end-markets in which to sell its refined products. We believe these refineries’ inland locations limit their exposure to weather-related disruptions, such as hurricanes, that can impact refineries that are located closer to the coast.

 

   

Access to Operational and Industry Expertise. We expect to benefit from Delek’s extensive operational, commercial and technical expertise, as well as its industry relationships throughout the midstream and downstream value chain, as we look to optimize and expand our existing asset base.

 

   

Management and Operations Team with Extensive Acquisition and Project Management Experience. Both our management and our operations teams have significant experience in the management and operation of logistics and marketing assets and the execution of expansion and acquisition strategies. Our management team includes some of the most senior officers of Delek, who average over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. These officers have extensive experience in acquiring assets for Delek, including nine transactions valued at an aggregate of approximately $580 million since 2005, and in completing capital projects on time and on budget. We believe that this experience will benefit our management and operations teams in pursuing and consummating accretive acquisitions and efficiently operating our assets.

 

   

Financial Flexibility. We believe that we will have the financial flexibility to execute our growth strategy through access to the debt and equity capital markets, as well as the approximately $75 million of available capacity under the $175 million revolving credit facility that we expect to enter into at the closing of this offering. Our revolving credit facility is also expected to contain an accordion feature that would allow us to increase the borrowing capacity under the facility to $225 million.

 

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Our Commercial Agreements

Commercial Agreements with Delek

In connection with the closing of this offering, we will enter into long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with Delek, under which we will provide various logistics and marketing services. Each of these agreements will include minimum volume commitments, which we believe will enhance the stability of our cash flows, and will have fees indexed to inflation, provided that the fees may not be adjusted below the initial amounts. For the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2013, we project the minimum volume commitments associated with these commercial agreements will generate approximately $        million of our contribution margin.

The following table outlines the key terms of these commercial agreements with Delek. For a more detailed discussion, please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek.”

 

Asset / Operation

  Initial /
Maximum
Term

(years) (1)
    Service   Year ended
December 31,
2011

Throughput
(bpd) (2)
    Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
2012

Throughput
(bpd) (2)
    Minimum
Throughput
Commitment
(bpd)
    Fee  

Lion Pipeline System and SALA Gathering System:

Crude Oil Pipelines (non-gathered)

    5 / 15      Crude oil and
refined
products
transportation
    57,180        52,969        46,000 (3)    $ 0.85/bbl (4) 

Refined Products Pipelines

        46,203        46,823        40,000      $ 0.10/bbl   

SALA Gathering System

    Crude oil
gathering
    17,358        19,710        14,000      $ 2.25/bbl (4) 

East Texas Crude Logistics System:

           

Crude Oil Pipelines

    5 / 15      Crude oil
transportation
and storage
    55,341        50,388        35,000      $ 0.40/bbl (5) 

Storage

        N/A        N/A        N/A      $
 
250,000/
month
 
  

East Texas Marketing

    10(6   Marketing
products for
Tyler refinery
    51,568        47,026        50,000      $
 
 
 
0.5964/bbl
+ 50% of
the agreed
margin
  
  
 
  

Memphis Terminal

    5 / 15      Dedicated
terminalling
services
    10,773        12,180        10,000      $ 0.50/bbl   

Big Sandy Terminal:

Terminalling

    5 / 15      Dedicated

terminalling

    (7)     

(7) 
    5,000      $ 0.50/bbl   

Storage

    services for
Tyler refinery
and storage
   
N/A
  
   
N/A
  
    N/A      $
 
50,000/
month
 
  

 

(1) Maximum term gives effect to the extension of the commercial agreement pursuant to the terms thereof. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek.”

 

(2) Represents average daily throughput for the period indicated, excluding jet fuel and petroleum coke in our east Texas marketing operations.

 

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(4) Volumes gathered on the SALA Gathering System will not be subject to an additional fee for transportation on our Lion Pipeline System to the El Dorado refinery.

 

(5) For any volumes in excess of 50,000 bpd, the throughput fee will be $0.60/bbl.

 

(6) Following the primary term, the marketing agreement automatically renews for successive one-year terms unless either party provides notice of non-renewal 10 months prior to the expiration of the then-current term.

 

(7) There is no relevant volume history at the terminal for the periods shown as the terminal has been idle since 2008.

Other Agreements with Delek

In addition to the commercial agreements described above, we also will enter into the following agreements with Delek:

Omnibus Agreement. Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into an omnibus agreement with Delek under which Delek will agree not to compete with us under certain circumstances and will grant us a right of first offer to acquire certain of its retained logistics assets, including certain terminals, storage facilities and other related assets located at the Tyler and El Dorado refineries and, under specified circumstances, logistics and marketing assets that Delek may acquire or construct in the future. Under the omnibus agreement, Delek will also be required, under certain circumstances, to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct after this offering. The omnibus agreement will also address our payment of a $2.7 million annual fee to Delek, indexed for inflation, for Delek’s provision of centralized corporate services, including executive management services of Delek employees who devote less than 50% of their time to our business, financial and administrative services, information technology services, legal services and health, safety and environmental services. In addition, the omnibus agreement provides for Delek’s reimbursement of us for certain maintenance capital expenditures and Delek’s indemnification of us for certain matters, including environmental, title and tax matters. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement” and “Risk Factors—Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us—Our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, have conflicts of interest with us and limited fiduciary duties to us and our unitholders, and they may favor their own interests to the detriment of us and our other common unitholders.”

Operation and Management Services Agreement. Our general partner will operate our business on our behalf and will be entitled under our partnership agreement to be reimbursed for the cost of providing those services. Upon the closing of this offering, our general partner will enter into an operational and management services agreement with Delek, pursuant to which our general partner will use employees of Delek to provide operational and management services with respect to our pipelines, storage and terminalling facilities and related assets, including operating and maintaining flow and pressure control, maintaining and repairing our pipelines, storage and terminalling facilities and related assets, conducting routine operational activities, and managing transportation and logistics, contract administration, crude oil and refined product measurement, database mapping, rights-of-way, materials, engineering support and such other services as our general partner and Delek may mutually agree upon from time to time. We and/or our general partner will reimburse Delek for such services under the operation and management services agreement.

Contribution Agreement. Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into a contribution, conveyance and assignment agreement, which we refer to as our contribution agreement, with Delek and our general partner under which Delek will contribute all of our initial assets to us.

Paline Pipeline System Capacity Reservation

A major integrated oil company has contracted with us for 100% of the southbound capacity of the Paline Pipeline System for a monthly fee of $450,000, which will increase to $529,250 per month in 2013 and thereafter be subject to annual escalation during any renewal periods. The monthly fees payable to us under our agreement with this customer increase proportionately to the extent throughput volumes are above 30,000 bpd.

 

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The agreement extends through December 31, 2014 and will renew automatically each year unless terminated by either party at least six months prior to the year end.

Our Relationship with Delek

One of our principal strengths is our relationship with Delek (NYSE: DK). Delek has a significant interest in our partnership through its ownership of a    % limited partner interest and a 2.0% general partner interest in us and all of our incentive distribution rights. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek reported net sales of $7.2 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively. As of March 31, 2012, Delek reported total assets of $2.3 billion. As of March 31, 2012, 68.3% of Delek’s common stock was indirectly owned by Delek Group (TASE: DLEKG), an Israel-based holding company engaged in, among other things, oil and natural gas exploration, production, refining and marketing. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, Delek Group reported revenues of $15.9 billion and $4.8 billion, respectively. As of March 31, 2012, Delek Group reported total assets of $29.9 billion. Delek Group information is reported in accordance with IFRS, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board and has been converted to U.S. dollars from New Israeli shekels based on a foreign exchange rate of U.S. dollar 1.00 to New Israeli shekels 3.72 on March 31, 2012.

In addition to its ownership and operation of the Tyler and El Dorado refineries, Delek owns and operates one of the largest company-operated convenience store chains in the southeastern United States. As of March 31, 2012, Delek sold gasoline, diesel and other refined products and convenience store merchandise through a network of approximately 375 company-operated retail fuel and convenience stores and a network of 67 dealer sites located in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia.

In addition to the benefits we expect to receive as a result of our long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with Delek, we also anticipate that our relationship with Delek will provide us with growth opportunities. Under the omnibus agreement, Delek has granted a right of first offer on certain logistics assets that it will retain following this offering and is required, under certain circumstances, to offer us the opportunity to purchase additional logistics assets that Delek may acquire or construct after this offering. Since 2005, Delek has made nine acquisitions valued at an aggregate of approximately $580 million, including the acquisitions listed in the table below through which it acquired assets or interests that will be contributed to us in connection with the closing of this offering. Delek and Delek Group have strong relationships with several leading international financial firms and a core competency in raising capital to fund growth opportunities.

 

Date

  

Company or Assets
Acquired by Delek

  

Assets Contributed to Us

April 2005

   Tyler, Texas refinery, terminal and related assets   

•    McMurrey Pipeline System and storage facilities

August 2006

   Refined petroleum products terminals and related assets   

•    Abilene and San Angelo, Texas terminals and storage tanks and associated refined products pipelines

•    Rights under supply contracts with Noble Petro and Magellan

August 2007 to October 2011

   Lion Oil   

•    Lion Pipeline System

•    SALA Gathering System

•    Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee terminals

December 2011

   Paline Pipeline Company, LLC   

•    185-mile pipeline system

January 2012

   Nettleton pipeline   

•    36-mile pipeline system

February 2012

   Big Sandy terminal   

•    Light petroleum products terminal and an associated 19-mile pipeline system

 

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Industry Overview

Pipeline logistics companies play a key role in transporting and storing crude oil and refined products. Refined products wholesalers and terminal operators facilitate the movement of refined products to wholesalers and consumers around the country. A substantial majority of the petroleum product refining that occurs in the United States is concentrated in the Gulf Coast region, which necessitates the transportation of crude oil to the region and refined products from the region to other areas, such as the East Coast, Midwest and West Coast regions of the country. Additionally, imported refined products must be moved from ports of entry to end use locations.

Crude Oil Transportation, Storage and Gathering

Crude oil pipelines and storage facilities supply refineries with crude oil from various sources, and pipelines generally provide the lowest cost option for transporting crude oil. Common carrier pipelines have published tariffs that are regulated by FERC or state authorities. Pipelines may also be proprietary or leased entirely to a single customer.

Crude oil gathering assets provide the link between crude oil produced at the well site and crude oil terminals, storage facilities, long-haul crude oil pipelines and refineries. Crude oil gathering assets generally consist of a network of smaller diameter pipelines that are connected directly to the well site or central receipt points delivering into larger diameter trunk lines. Competition in the crude oil gathering industry is typically regional and based on proximity to crude oil producers, as well as access to viable delivery points. Overall demand for gathering services in a particular area is generally driven by crude oil production in the area and access to alternate delivery and transportation infrastructure.

Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling

In the wholesale marketing business, a wholesale customer expresses a desire to purchase, or nominates, refined product volumes to its supplier. These nominations are generally made one month or less in advance. The price the wholesale customer pays to its supplier may be based on average market prices over a specified period of time or spot market prices at the time the wholesale customer takes title to the products. If the wholesale customer immediately resells the products to its customers, its direct exposure to commodity prices is minimal. Where the refined products are not immediately resold by the wholesale customer, the wholesale customer may use forward sale agreements to hedge its exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices.

Terminals are generally used for distribution, storage, inventory management, and blending to achieve specified grades of gasoline, injection of additives, blending of biofuels including ethanol and biodiesel, and other ancillary services. At the terminals, the various refined petroleum products are segregated and stored in tanks. Typically, refined product terminals are equipped with automated truck loading facilities commonly referred to as “truck racks” that operate 24 hours a day. Truck racks provide for control of security, allocations, credit and carrier certification by remote data input. Trucks pick up refined products at the truck racks and transport them to commercial, industrial and retail end-users. Additionally, some terminals use rail cars or barges to deliver refined products from and receive refined products into the terminal. During the loading process, additives may be introduced into refined products by computer-controlled injection systems that enable the refined products being loaded to conform to governmental regulations and individual customer requirements.

Our Asset Portfolio

Pipelines and Transportation Segment

Our Pipelines and Transportation segment assets primarily generate revenue by providing crude oil gathering, transportation and storage services to Delek’s refining operations pursuant to long-term commercial agreements with Delek.

 

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Lion Pipeline System. Our Lion Pipeline System consists of the Magnolia pipeline, the Magnolia Station west of the El Dorado refinery, the El Dorado Pipeline System, which includes a 28-mile crude oil pipeline from Magnolia Station to Sandhill Station adjacent to the El Dorado refinery, two refined product pipelines that transport gasoline and diesel from the El Dorado refinery to the Enterprise TE Products Pipeline and a crude oil pipeline connecting a rail offloading point near the El Dorado refinery Sandhill Station. Delek acquired the Lion Pipeline System in connection with its acquisition of Lion Oil.

The Magnolia pipeline is a 77-mile crude oil pipeline running from a connection with ExxonMobil’s North Line pipeline near Shreveport, Louisiana to our Magnolia Station. In addition, a new third-party pipeline is expected to link a third-party pipeline to the Magnolia pipeline near Haynesville, Louisiana to allow for the receipt of crude oil transported from Longview, Texas beginning in the first half of 2013. The El Dorado Pipeline System transports crude oil from our Magnolia Station to Sandhill Station and includes the Magnolia Station with approximately 135,000 barrels of active shell capacity. We also have 35,000 barrels of shell capacity that is currently not in service and would require additional costs to return to service.

Magnolia Pipeline System

 

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El Dorado Pipeline System

 

LOGO

Our Magnolia pipeline was originally constructed in 1919. Lion Oil purchased the Magnolia pipeline in 2002 and refurbished the Finney to Haynesville, Louisiana segment that year to increase its flow. As a result of pipeline replacements in 2006 and 2007, Lion Oil increased the capacity of the pipeline from approximately 30,000 bpd to 68,500 bpd.

The 28-mile crude oil pipeline of our El Dorado Pipeline System was originally constructed by Lion Oil in the 1930s. The El Dorado Pipeline System has been upgraded several times since its initial construction. These upgrades include the construction of a 12-inch diesel line from the El Dorado refinery to the Enterprise system in 2008 and the construction of a 10-inch gasoline line from the El Dorado refinery to the Enterprise system in 2001.

In addition, we have an approximately one-mile, 8-inch crude oil pipeline connecting a rail offloading point near the El Dorado refinery to Sandhill Station.

The following table details certain operating data for our Lion Pipeline System. We own 100% of each of these pipelines.

 

         Average Daily Throughput (bpd)      
      Year Ended
  December 31,  
     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2011          2011              2012      

Crude Oil Pipelines (Non-Gathered)(1)

     57,180         57,477         52,969   

Refined Products Pipelines to Enterprise System

     46,203         47,572         46,823   

 

(1) Excludes crude oil gathered on our SALA Gathering System and transferred on our Lion Pipeline System.

SALA Gathering System. Acquired by Delek in connection with its acquisition of Lion Oil, the SALA Gathering System includes approximately 600 miles of three- to eight-inch crude oil gathering and transportation lines in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana located primarily within a 60-mile radius of the El Dorado refinery. The SALA Gathering System primarily gathers crude oil production from multiple fields in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, including the El Dorado, Lisbon and Smackover fields, for delivery to the El Dorado refinery both directly and through the El Dorado Pipeline System. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA, crude oil production in Arkansas totaled approximately 5.9 million barrels,

 

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5.7 million barrels, and 5.9 million barrels for 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively. We gather the majority of this production. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, the El Dorado refinery sourced approximately 22.4% and 26%, respectively, of its crude oil supply from the SALA Gathering System.

SALA Gathering System

 

LOGO

The SALA Gathering System primarily gathers and transports crude oil that Delek purchases from various crude oil producers at individual crude oil leases. In addition, the gathering system transports small volumes of crude oil that Delek receives from other sources and condensate that Delek purchases from a third party in east Texas. The table below sets forth historical throughput information for the SALA Gathering System.

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2009      2010      2011          2011              2012      

Throughput (average bpd):

              

Purchases from crude oil producers

     15,161         14,921         15,477         15,177         17,312   

Other crude

     652         404         719         481         1,282   

East Texas condensate

                     484         360         398   

Refinery slop and transmix

             575         678         826         718   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     15,813         15,900         17,358         16,844         19,710   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The SALA Gathering System includes over 40 crude oil storage tanks and breakout tanks with a total combined active shell capacity of approximately 0.5 million barrels, 14 truck receipt locations, approximately 500 pipeline gathering and receiving stations and 17 relay stations to deliver crude oil to the El Dorado refinery. We also have 0.5 million barrels of combined shell capacity that is currently not in service.

In addition, we own 37 miles of eight-inch crude oil lines and two storage tanks with 117,000 barrels of shell capacity that we allow Martin Operating Partnership LP, or MOP, to utilize to supply its 6,000 bpd Smackover, Arkansas refinery pursuant to a ten-year agreement, and for which MOP pays us a throughput fee of $0.50 per barrel. Throughput revenues from MOP were $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 and none for the three months ended March 31, 2012.

 

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Paline Pipeline System. Delek acquired the Paline Pipeline System, a 185-mile, 10-inch crude oil pipeline running from Longview, Texas to the Chevron-operated Beaumont terminal in Nederland, Texas and an approximately seven-mile idle pipeline from Port Neches to Port Arthur, Texas. Prior to this acquisition, the Nederland to Longview, Texas portion of the Paline Pipeline System was operating at low throughput levels because Gulf Coast crude oil prices were generally higher than inland crude oil prices, resulting in low demand for northbound transportation. By September 2012, we expect to complete the reversal of the flow of the Paline Pipeline System and the addition of a new three-mile pipeline segment between Longview and Kilgore, Texas. We have agreed to use 100% of the southbound capacity of the Paline Pipeline System to provide pipeline transportation services to a major integrated oil company through December 31, 2014, with automatic one year extensions unless terminated by either party upon notice to the other six months prior to year end. Monthly payments under the agreement are $450,000 and will increase to $529,250 for 2013 and thereafter be subject to annual escalation during any renewal periods. The monthly fees payable to us under our agreement with this customer increase proportionately to the extent throughput volumes are above 30,000 bpd. We expect that this customer will use the Paline Pipeline System to ship crude oil and condensate from terminals in Longview, Texas to the Chevron-operated Beaumont terminal in Nederland, Texas. We also expect to transport a small volume of third-party shipments on the Kilgore to Longview, Texas pipeline segment.

Paline Pipeline System

 

LOGO

East Texas Crude Logistics System. Our East Texas Crude Logistics System includes two owned and operated crude oil pipeline systems serving the Tyler refinery: the Nettleton pipeline, a 36-mile pipeline acquired in January 2012 from a subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., or Plains, which transports crude oil from Nettleton Station to the Tyler refinery; and the McMurrey Pipeline System, a 65-mile pipeline system acquired in 2005 from La Gloria, which transports crude oil from inputs between our La Gloria Station and the Tyler refinery.

 

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East Texas Crude Logistics System and Big Sandy Terminal

 

LOGO

Our East Texas Crude Logistics System is currently the only pipeline system capable of supplying crude oil transportation and storage for the Tyler refinery and delivers substantially all of the refinery’s crude oil needs. Delek is the owner and shipper of all of the crude oil handled on these assets. The table below sets forth historical average daily throughput for the East Texas Crude Logistics System.

 

     Average Daily Throughput (bpd)  
     Year Ended
December 31,
    Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2009     2010     2011         2011             2012      

East Texas Crude Logistics System

     46,153        49,388        55,341        52,862        50,388   

% of Tyler Refinery Throughput

     93.6     98.8     98.8     98.6     99.1

Our East Texas Crude Logistics System also includes the following owned or leased crude oil storage terminals at which we store crude oil owned by Delek for the Tyler refinery. These terminals were acquired in 2005 in connection with Delek’s acquisition of the McMurrey pipeline system. Delek pays us a fixed storage fee of $250,000 per month for the exclusive use of these facilities.

 

Terminal

   Number of Tanks      Active
Aggregate Shell
Storage
Capacity (bbls)
 

La Gloria Station

     2         450,000   

Nettleton Station (1)

     5         165,000   

Bradford Station (1)

     2         55,000   

Arp Station

     2         110,000   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

             11         780,000 (2) 
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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(1) Located on property that we lease from a third party as described in more detail below under “—Facilities.”

 

(2) In addition, we have 120,000 barrels of shell capacity that is currently not in service and would require additional costs to return to service.

Anticipated Impact of New Third-Party Pipeline Systems on Our Operations

Our East Texas Crude Logistics System is currently the only pipeline system supplying crude oil to the Tyler refinery. Beginning in the first half of 2013, however, we expect a reconfigured pipeline system that is owned and operated by third parties to also begin supplying crude oil to the Tyler refinery from west Texas. Delek has a 10-year agreement with third parties to transport a substantial majority of the Tyler refinery’s crude oil requirements on this reconfigured system. Consequently, upon commencement of these third party agreements, crude oil volumes transported on our East Texas Crude Logistics System are expected to significantly decrease, and actual throughput on our East Texas Logistics System is expected to be below the minimum volume commitment under our agreement with Delek. However, Delek will be obligated under the agreement to pay a fee for minimum throughput on the pipelines through 2017 whether or not such volumes are actually throughput as well as a fixed storage fee of $250,000 per month, subject to certain exceptions such as force majeure events. We believe that Delek will continue to support our East Texas Crude Logistics System after the 2017 expiration of our agreement with Delek. As the crude oil pricing markets continue to evolve, we believe that the East Texas Crude Logistics System will remain valuable to the Tyler refinery because it preserves access to a variety of feedstocks and provides supply security in the event other sources are disrupted or become cost-disadvantaged. We expect that beginning in the first half of 2013, the revenues derived pursuant to this agreement will decrease from $10.5 million annually based on pro forma revenues for the year ended December 31, 2011 to $8.1 million annually during the term of our agreement with Delek, which constitutes the minimum fees payable to us under the agreement, until throughput levels increase above the minimum volume commitment, if at all. We expect that this decrease in revenues will be partially offset by a decrease in our operating expenses. Please read “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—We anticipate that, beginning in the first half of 2013, our East Texas Crude Logistics System will operate at levels significantly below Delek’s minimum volume commitment under its agreement with us for the foreseeable future.”

Currently, crude oil is not being supplied to our Magnolia pipeline because the Exxon North Line pipeline is out of service. The temporary suspension of crude oil shipments on the Exxon North Line pipeline that began in May 2012 continues to cause volumes on our Lion Pipeline System to be below historical volumes. Delek is currently negotiating alternative arrangements to supply crude oil to our Magnolia pipeline. We expect to begin supplying the El Dorado refinery with crude oil transported on a third-party pipeline from Longview, Texas through a new connection to the Magnolia pipeline, beginning in the first half of 2013.

Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling Segment

We use our wholesale marketing and terminalling assets to generate revenue by providing marketing and terminalling services to Delek’s refining operations and to independent third parties.

East Texas. Pursuant to a 10-year agreement with Delek to be entered into in connection with the closing of this offering, we have agreed to market 100% of the refined products output of the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke. This agreement will replace the current agreement between Delek and us under which we market all of the refined products output of the Tyler refinery. Our services will consist of identifying potential customers, negotiating and recommending for Delek’s approval purchase orders and supply contracts, monitoring anticipated sales volumes and inventories and serving as a contact point for sales and marketing issues. We typically do not take title to the products that we market to third parties for Delek; however, we may purchase nominal volumes of refined products from Delek from time to time for resale to our own customers.

 

 

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As the only full range product supplier within 100 miles of the Tyler refinery, we believe the refinery’s location gives it a natural advantage over more distant competitors. The Tyler refinery’s customers include major oil companies, independent refiners and wholesale customers, jobbers, distributors, utility and transportation companies, the U.S. government and independent retail fuel operators. The vast majority of the transportation fuels and other products are sold directly through the Tyler refinery’s truck loading facilities, which are owned and operated by Delek.

Under the marketing agreement, Delek has agreed to provide us with a minimum volume commitment of 50,000 bpd and to pay us a fee of $0.5964 per barrel of products it sells, plus an incentive fee of 50% of the margin, if any, above an agreed base level generated on the sale. On average, the total fee amounted to approximately $0.65 per barrel for the year ended December 31, 2011, reflecting the base fee under the prior agreement of $0.5365 per barrel and the incentive fee. The following table sets forth the historical production of the Tyler refinery and the fees earned under the existing marketing agreement.

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2009 (1)      2010      2011      2011      2012  

Sales volumes (average bpd):

              

Gasoline and gasoline blendstocks

     25,465         26,851         29,110         28,349         28,116   

Diesel/jet (2)

     14,716         15,479         17,926         17,155         15,095   

Petrochemicals, LPG, NGLs

     2,015         1,613         1,814         1,772         2,108   

Other (2)

     3,304         1,450         2,718         1,581         1,707   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total sales volumes

     45,500         45,393         51,568         48,857         47,026   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Annual total products sold (thousands of barrels) (2)

     10,374         16,568         18,822         4,397         4,279   

Total fees (in thousands) (2)

   $ 11,009       $ 10,597       $ 12,161       $ 2,579       $ 2,827   

Fees per barrel (1)(2)

   $ 1.06       $ 0.64       $ 0.65       $ 0.59       $ 0.66   

 

(1) During the period for which the Tyler refinery was not in operation, Delek continued to pay us amounts consistent with historical averages despite the absence of operations at portions of our business. Accordingly, while total fees for the period reflects actual amounts received during such period, operating information on a per day basis is calculated by dividing full year volumes (including minimal sales volumes of intermediate products prior to the restart of the refinery) by 228 (the number of days in 2009 for which the Tyler refinery was operational). Fees per barrel for the year ended December 31, 2009 as calculated on a 365 day basis would have been $0.66.

 

(2) Prior to the completion of this offering, we also marketed jet fuel and petroleum coke, which resulted in approximately $0.6 million, $0.9 million, $1.0 million, $0.3 million and $0.3 million of the fees we earned under the marketing agreement for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, respectively. Following the completion of this offering, we will no longer market jet fuel and petroleum coke; however, the base throughput fee under the marketing agreement will increase from $0.5334 per bbl to $0.5964 per bbl. These amounts are presented excluding all volumes and fees associated with jet fuel and petroleum coke.

 

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West Texas and Tennessee. In our west Texas marketing operations, we generate revenue by purchasing refined products from independent third-party suppliers for resale at our San Angelo and Abilene, Texas terminals and at third-party terminals located in Aledo, Odessa, Big Spring and Frost, Texas. Substantially all of our product sales in west Texas are on a wholesale basis. We also own approximately 114 miles of product pipelines that connect our San Angelo and Abilene terminals to the Magellan Orion Pipeline.

Abilene Area Terminals and Product Pipelines

 

LOGO

Substantially all of our petroleum products for sale in west Texas are purchased from two suppliers. Under a contract with Noble Petro, we have the right to purchase up to 20,350 bpd of petroleum products for our Abilene terminal for sales and exchange at our Abilene and San Angelo terminals. Under this agreement, we purchase refined products based on monthly average prices from Noble Petro immediately prior to our resale of these products to our customers at our San Angelo and Abilene terminals. Under this arrangement, we have limited direct exposure to risks associated with fluctuating prices for these refined products. Our agreement with Noble Petro expires in December 2017 and has no renewal options. Under our agreement with Noble Petro, we are required to maintain letters of credit to support Noble Petro’s working capital under this agreement.

Additionally, we have the right to purchase up to an additional 7,000 bpd of refined products pursuant to a contract with Magellan at its east Houston terminal for resale at third-party terminals along the Magellan Orion Pipeline at Aledo, Odessa, Big Spring and Frost, Texas. We do not own, lease or operate any of the assets used to transport or store these products. Our agreement with Magellan expires in December 2015 and has no renewal options. To hedge our exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices for the period between our purchase of products from Magellan and subsequent sales to our customers, from time to time we enter into Gulf Coast product swap arrangements with respect to the products we purchase.

 

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The following table details the average aggregate daily number of barrels and total barrels of refined products that we sold in our west Texas wholesale operations for the periods indicated.

 

     Year Ended December 31,      Three Months
Ended March 31,
 
     2009      2010      2011      2011      2012  

Throughput (bpd)(1):

              

Owned terminals

     8,294         8,318         8,574         8,063         7,793   

Third-party terminals

     5,083         6,035         6,919         6,472         7,590   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total (bpd)

     13,377         14,353         15,493         14,535         15,383   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total (MBbls)(1)

     4.88         5.24         5.65         1.31         1.40   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Gross margin (in thousands)(1)

   $ 7,241       $ 7,639       $ 8,488       $ 4,260       $ 3,133   

Gross margin per barrel(1)

   $ 1.48       $ 1.46       $ 1.50       $ 3.26       $ 2.24   

 

(1) Excludes bulk ethanol and biodiesel.

In addition, we provide terminalling services for products to independent third parties and Delek’s retail segment through a light products terminal in Nashville, Tennessee and to Delek for products through our light products terminal in Memphis, Tennessee. Delek will use our Memphis terminal pursuant to a five-year throughput agreement that we will enter into with Delek in connection with this offering. We also provide terminalling services to Delek at our light products terminal in Big Sandy, Texas. Under a five-year agreement that we will enter into with Delek in connection with this offering, Delek will have exclusive use of our light products terminal in Big Sandy, Texas, which we acquired in February 2012. Each of these agreements has a minimum throughput commitment, and Delek also will pay us a storage fee of $50,000 per month for our Big Sandy terminal.

Delek acquired our west Texas marketing assets from Pride Companies, L.P. and its affiliates, or Pride, in August 2006. Our west Texas marketing assets include our Abilene and San Angelo terminals and product pipelines totaling approximately 114 miles that connect our San Angelo and Abilene terminals to each other and to the Magellan Orion Pipeline. Delek acquired our Memphis and Nashville terminals in connection with its acquisition of Lion Oil.

The following table provides the location of our refined product terminals and their storage capacities, supply source, number of truck loading lanes, average truck loading volume and maximum daily available truck loading capacity for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012.

 

Terminal Location

  Number
of Tanks
    Active
Aggregate
Shell
Capacity
(bbls)
    Supply Source   Number of
Truck
Loading
Lanes
    Maximum
Daily
Available
Truck
Loading
Capacity
(bpd)
  Average Daily
Truck
Loading
Volume for
2011
(bpd)
    Average Daily
Truck
Loading
Volume for
Q1 2012

(bpd)
 

Abilene, TX (3)

    7        325,007      Noble Petro     2      17,700     6,141        4,678   

San Angelo, TX

    5          92,641      Noble Petro     2        8,400     3,919        4,118   

Big Sandy, TX

    13        165,816      Tyler Refinery     3        9,100     N/A (1)      N/A (1) 

Memphis, TN

    12        114,492      Enterprise System     3      26,743     10,773        12,180   

Nashville, TN

    10        132,423      Pilot/MAPCO/Valero     2        8,914     7,444        5,879   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

    47        830,379 (2)        12         
 

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

       

 

(1) The Big Sandy terminal was idle during the period.

 

(2) In addition, we have 107,600 barrels of shell capacity that is currently not in service and would require additional costs to return to service.

 

(3) Excludes 363,200 barrels of shell capacity that is out of service, off-site storage capacity and 118,230 barrels of shell capacity related to the JP-8 delivery system.

 

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Abilene Terminal. Delek acquired the Abilene terminal from Pride in 2006. The Abilene terminal has six operating tanks. Refined products for the Abilene terminal are supplied under our agreement with Noble Petro. Refined products are loaded on two loading lanes, each having four bottom-loading arms. The loading racks are fully automated. Our Abilene terminal handles unbranded products and competes with a nearby terminal that handles exclusively branded products supplied by Alon USA’s Big Spring refinery.

San Angelo Terminal. Delek acquired the San Angelo terminal from Pride in 2006. The San Angelo terminal has five tanks. Products for the San Angelo terminal are supplied under our agreement with Noble Petro. Products are loaded on two loading lanes, each having four bottom-loading arms. The loading racks are fully automated. The San Angelo terminal is the only refined products terminal within a 90-mile radius.

Memphis Terminal. Our Memphis light products terminal was acquired by Delek in connection with its acquisition of Lion Oil. Through the Enterprise Pipeline system, the El Dorado refinery is able to directly supply our Memphis terminal. Under a five-year terminalling agreement to be entered into in connection with this offering, Delek will terminal a minimum of 10,000 bpd of refined products at the Memphis terminal. Refined products are loaded on three fully automated loading lanes loading arms. The Memphis terminal has 12 tanks (eight for gasoline and diesel and four for additives, ethanol, transmix and water). The Memphis terminal competes with other terminals in the greater-Memphis area.

Nashville Terminal. Our Nashville light products terminal was acquired by Delek in connection with its acquisition of Lion Oil. Delek also has the ability to indirectly supply this terminal through product exchange agreements. Although we do not have a terminalling agreement with Delek for the Nashville terminal, we believe that the Nashville terminal could benefit from Delek’s large network of convenience stores in the greater Nashville area. Refined products are loaded on two loading lanes. The loading racks are fully automated. The Nashville terminal has 10 tanks (seven for gasoline and diesel and three for additives, ethanol and water). The Nashville terminal competes with other terminals in the greater Nashville area, including terminals supplied by the Colonial pipeline.

Big Sandy Terminal. Our Big Sandy terminal includes an eight-inch diameter Hopewell-Big Sandy Pipeline originating at Hopewell Junction, Texas and terminating at the Big Sandy Station in Big Sandy, Texas. Delek acquired these assets from subsidiaries of Sunoco Logistics in February 2012. The terminal had previously been supplied by the Tyler refinery but has been idle since November 2008. Sunoco Logistics acquired these assets from a subsidiary of Chevron in 2010 and significantly renovated the terminal. Under a five-year agreement to be entered into in connection with this offering, Delek will pay us to terminal at the Big Sandy terminal a minimum of 5,000 bpd of refined products from the Tyler refinery and will pay us a storage fee of $50,000 per month. Refined products are loaded on three loading lanes, with a total of 13 bottom-loading arms. The Big Sandy terminal has 13 tanks (four for gasoline and diesel and nine for additives and ethanol). The Big Sandy terminal competes with Delek’s terminal at the Tyler refinery and third-party terminals in Waskom and Mt. Pleasant, Texas.

Delek’s Refining Operations

Delek owns and operates two independent refineries located in Tyler, Texas and El Dorado, Arkansas, currently representing a combined 140,000 bpd of crude oil throughput capacity. Delek produces a variety of petroleum-based products used in transportation and industrial markets which are sold to a wide range of customers located principally in inland, domestic markets. While both of Delek’s refineries are located in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, neither is on the coast and both source crude oil from both inland and Gulf Coast sources.

There are only two operating refineries in Arkansas, including MOP’s Smackover refinery and the El Dorado refinery. The El Dorado refinery has approximately 80,000 bpd of crude oil distillation capacity. The EIA reported that at January 1, 2011, 26 refineries, representing approximately 5.0 million bpd of crude oil

 

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distillation capacity, were operating in Texas, concentrated primarily along the Gulf Coast. The Tyler refinery is an inland niche refinery and the only major distributor of a full range of refined petroleum products within a radius of approximately 100 miles of its location.

Delek’s refineries sell products on a wholesale basis to inter-company and third-party customers. The Tyler refinery sells its refined products through its terminal located at the refinery. The El Dorado refinery transports most of its light products via our El Dorado pipeline to the Enterprise pipeline system, where it is transported to customers in Arkansas, Tennessee and the Ohio River Valley.

The refining industry is highly competitive and includes fully integrated national and multinational oil companies engaged in many segments of the petroleum business, including exploration, production, transportation, refining, marketing and retail fuel and convenience stores. Delek’s principal competitors are petroleum refiners in the Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast regions, in addition to wholesale distributors operating in these markets. The principal competitive factors affecting Delek’s refinery operations are crude oil and other feedstock costs, the differential in price between various grades of crude oil, refinery product margins, refinery efficiency, refinery product mix, and distribution and transportation costs.

Tyler Refinery

Originally constructed in 1928, the Tyler refinery is a high conversion, moderate complexity, independent refinery with a design crude oil distillation capacity of 60,000 bpd, and an associated light products loading facility, located in Tyler, Texas. Delek acquired the Tyler refinery in 2005, and has invested $465.6 million in capital expenditures for the refinery from 2005 to 2011, including $168.2 million of discretionary capital expenditures and $99.2 million of maintenance capital expenditures. The Tyler refinery’s principal competitors are regional product terminals supplied via pipeline from the Gulf Coast. We believe the Tyler refinery’s location gives it an advantage over more remote suppliers as it is the only full range product supplier within 100 miles.

The Tyler refinery includes a crude oil processing unit with a 60,000 bpd atmospheric distillation unit and a 21,000 bpd vacuum distillation tower. The refinery’s fluid catalytic cracking unit and delayed coker enable the refinery to produce a significant percentage of higher-value light products, including a full range of gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas liquids (NGLs). For 2011, total light products accounted for approximately 96% of total production, including approximately 54% gasoline and 38% diesel and jet fuels. For the three months ended March 31, 2012, total light products accounted for approximately 96% of total production, including approximately 56% gasoline and 36% diesel and jet fuels. This configuration and associated yield positions the Tyler refinery to remain profitable in lower-margin environments. The Tyler refinery has a complexity rating of 9.5.

The table below sets forth information concerning throughput at the Tyler refinery for the periods indicated.

 

    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended March 31,  
    2009     2010     2011     2011     2012  
    Bpd(1)     %     Bpd     %     Bpd     %     Bpd     %     Bpd     %  

Refinery throughput
(average bpd)

                   

Crude oil:

                   

Sweet

    46,053        85.6     48,300        89.0     54,291        89.7     50,131        85.7     50,835        91.6

Sour

    3,251        6.0     1,700        3.1     1,737        2.9     3,485        6.0              
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total crude oil

    49,304        91.6     50,000        92.1     56,028        92.6     53,616        91.7     50,835        91.6

Other stocks (2)

    4,498        8.4     4,286        7.9     4,492        7.4     4,845        8.3     4,690        8.4
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total refinery throughput

    53,802        100.0     54,286        100.0     60,520        100.0     58,461        100.0     55,525        100.0
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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The Tyler refinery did not operate during the period from November 21, 2008 through May 17, 2009 due to an explosion and fire on November 20, 2008. The Tyler refinery resumed full operations on May 18, 2009. Operating information on a per day basis is calculated by dividing full year volumes (including minimal

 

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  sales volumes of intermediate products prior to the restart of the refinery) by 228 (the number of days in 2009 for which the Tyler refinery was operational).

 

(2) Includes other feedstocks and blendstocks, such as denatured ethanol and biodiesel.

El Dorado Refinery

The El Dorado refinery was constructed in 1925 to process local crude oil. As the capacity of the El Dorado refinery has increased, the refinery has been reconfigured to process crude oils sourced from west Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, approximately 62.7% and 38.6%, respectively, of the crude oil received at the El Dorado refinery was sourced from Gulf Coast or foreign suppliers and the balance was sourced from inland and local sources, including 22.4% and 26%, respectively, gathered through our SALA Gathering System. Our gathering system and trucking activities provide local producers with the lower cost alternative to transporting their crude oil to more distant regional refineries or markets. As a result, Delek is able to purchase the local crude oil at a discount to other crude oil, such as Gulf Coast crude oil.

The El Dorado refinery has a crude oil throughput capacity of 80,000 bpd and is the largest refinery in Arkansas. Delek acquired the El Dorado refinery in connection with its acquisition of Lion Oil. The El Dorado refinery includes a crude oil processing unit with 100,000 bpd of capacity, a 55,000 bpd vacuum unit, a fluid catalytic cracking unit, a reformer, a distillate hydrotreater, a gas oil hydrotreater, an isomerization unit, an alkylation unit and a hydrogen plant. Almost all of the process units have either been recently constructed or revamped. The El Dorado refinery produces a wide range of refined products, from multiple grades of gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuels, LPGs, refinery-grade propylene and a variety of asphalt products, including paving grade asphalt and roofing flux. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, gasoline and diesel fuels accounted for approximately 75.7% and 80.5%, respectively, of the El Dorado refinery’s production, while 24.3% and 19.5%, respectively, of the product slate included various grades of asphalt, black oils and other residual products. The El Dorado refinery has a complexity rating of 9.0. The El Dorado refinery’s principal competitors are regional product terminals supplied via pipeline from the Gulf Coast.

The table below sets forth information concerning the throughput at the El Dorado refinery for the periods indicated.

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended March 31,  
     2010     2011     2011     2012  
     Bpd      %     Bpd      %     Bpd      %     Bpd      %  

Refinery throughput (average bpd):

                    

Crude oil:

                    

Sweet

     22,229         28.4     11,469         14.4     18,694         24.2     28,348         36.1

Sour

     50,179         64.2     62,522         78.3     53,764         69.5     44,188         56.3
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total crude oil

     72,408         92.6     73,991         92.7     72,458         93.7     72,536         92.4

Other stocks (1)

     5,806         7.4     5,815         7.3     4,896         6.3     5,956         7.6
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total refinery throughput

     78,214         100.0     79,806         100     77,354         100.0     78,492         100.0
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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The El Dorado refinery is a supplier of a portion of Delek’s convenience store network and a wide range of third-party customers in Mid-Continent markets. In the first quarter of 2012, the El Dorado refinery supplied approximately 14% of Delek’s fuel purchases for its MAPCO retail fuel and convenience stores. Our El Dorado pipeline connects the refinery to the Enterprise Products pipeline system, making the refinery a key supplier of refined products to wholesale customers via our and third-party terminals situated in close proximity to the Enterprise system.

 

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Safety and Maintenance

We perform preventive and normal maintenance on all of our pipeline systems, storage tanks and terminals and make repairs and replacements when necessary or appropriate. We also conduct routine and required inspections of those assets as required by regulation.

On our pipelines, we use external coatings and impressed current cathodic protection systems to protect against external corrosion. We conduct our cathodic protection work in accordance with National Association of Corrosion Engineers standards. We continually monitor, test, and record the effectiveness of these corrosion inhibiting systems. We also monitor the structural integrity of selected segments of our pipelines through a program of periodic internal assessments using high resolution internal inspection tools, as well as hydrostatic testing, that conforms to federal standards. We accompany these assessments with a review of the data and mitigate or repair anomalies, as required, to ensure the integrity of the pipeline. Following PHMSA standards, we have initiated a risk-based approach to prioritizing the pipeline segments for future integrity assessments to ensure that the highest risk segments receive the highest priority for scheduling internal inspections or pressure tests for integrity.

At our terminals, the tanks designed for gasoline and some distillate storage are equipped with internal or external floating roofs that minimize regulated emissions and prevent potentially flammable vapor accumulation. Our terminal facilities have response plans, spill prevention and control plans, and other programs to respond to emergencies. Our truck loading racks are protected with fire systems, actuated either by sensors or an emergency switch. We continually strive to maintain compliance with applicable air, solid waste, and wastewater regulations.

Insurance

Pipelines, terminals, storage tanks, and similar facilities may experience damage as a result of an accident or natural disaster. These hazards can cause personal injury and loss of life, severe damage to and destruction of property and equipment, pollution or environmental damage and suspension of operations. We will be insured under the property, liability and business interruption policies of Delek and/or certain of its subsidiaries, subject to the deductibles and limits under those policies, which we believe are reasonable and prudent under the circumstances to cover our operations and assets. However, such insurance does not cover every potential risk associated with our operating pipelines, terminals and other facilities, and we cannot ensure that such insurance will be adequate to protect us from all material expenses related to potential future claims for personal and property damage, or that these levels of insurance will be available in the future at commercially reasonable prices. We will not maintain our own property, liability and business interruption insurance policies. As we continue to grow, we will continue to monitor our policy limits and retentions as they relate to the overall cost and scope of our insurance program.

Pipeline and Terminal Control Operations

Our pipeline systems are monitored and controlled remotely via our regional control centers. Each control center utilizes supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to receive, process, and retransmit real-time information, The control centers, which are staffed around the clock, are located in Abilene and Nettleton, Texas, and El Dorado, Arkansas. Modes of communication include radio, telephone, frame relay, and satellite.

Our refined products terminals are automated and generally unmanned outside of normal business hours, during the weekends, and most holidays. Our customers’ truck drivers are provided with security badges to access and use the truck loading racks. In addition, individual trucks are required to be registered in our system to ensure that required regulatory inspections are maintained by either our customers or their common carriers.

 

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Rate and Other Regulation

FERC, CFTC and State Economic Regulation

The rates and terms and conditions of service on certain of our pipelines are subject to regulation by the FERC, under the ICA, or by the state regulatory commissions in the states in which we transport crude oil and refined products, including the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, the Louisiana Office of Conservation and the Arkansas Public Service Commission.

The FERC regulates interstate transportation by pipeline of oil and liquid petroleum products under the ICA, the Energy Policy Act of 1992, or EPAct 1992, and the rules and regulations promulgated under those laws. The ICA and its implementing regulations require that tariff rates and terms and conditions of service for interstate service on oil pipelines, including pipelines that transport crude oil and refined products in interstate commerce (collectively referred to as “petroleum pipelines”), be just and reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or preferential. The ICA also requires that such rates and terms and conditions of service be filed with the FERC and applied uniformly to all shippers. Under the ICA, shippers may challenge new or existing rates or services. The FERC is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of a challenged rate that has not yet become effective for up to seven months, though rates are typically not suspended for the maximum allowable period. If the FERC determines that a protested rate is unjust and unreasonable, the FERC will order refunds of amounts charged in excess of the just and reasonable rate. If the FERC determines that a rate challenged by complaint is unjust and unreasonable, reparations may be due for two years prior to the date of the complaint.

Certain of our pipelines are subject to FERC jurisdiction. We believe, however, that such pipelines qualify for waivers of many ICA requirements including those pertaining to the filing of rates, terms and charges as well as annual or special reports. We have filed with the FERC requests for waivers of the tariff filing and reporting requirements imposed by the FERC under the ICA for the SALA Gathering System, the Lion Pipeline System and the East Texas Crude Logistics System. These waiver requests are currently pending before the FERC, and we can provide no assurance that the FERC will grant the waivers we have requested. If those waivers are granted, these pipeline systems will still be subject to the FERC’s jurisdiction under the ICA and we will still be subject to the requirement to maintain our books and records in accordance with the FERC accounting requirements with respect to the assets for which we receive a waiver. We intend to comply with that requirement. Assuming the FERC grants the requested waivers, if the facts upon which a waiver is based change materially (for example, if an unaffiliated shipper seeks access to our pipelines), the FERC typically requires that the pipelines inform the FERC, which may result in revocation of the waiver. If the FERC denies our request for waivers, or if the FERC in the future revokes any waivers we might be granted, we will be required, among other things, to file tariffs for service on our FERC jurisdictional pipelines. If we file tariffs, we may be required to provide a cost justification for the transportation charges on these systems and provide service to all prospective shippers making reasonable requests for service without undue discrimination and to operate in a manner that does not provide any undue preference to shippers. The rates under such tariffs may be insufficient to allow us to recover fully our cost of providing service on the affected pipelines, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, regulation by the FERC may subject us to potentially burdensome and expensive operational, reporting and other requirements.

The Federal Trade Commission, the FERC and the CFTC hold statutory authority to monitor certain segments of the physical and futures energy commodities markets. These agencies have imposed broad regulations prohibiting fraud and manipulation of such markets. With regard to our physical sales of crude oil or other energy commodities, and any related hedging activities that we undertake, we are required to observe the market-related regulations enforced by these agencies, which hold substantial enforcement authority. Failure to comply with such regulations, as interpreted and enforced, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

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of service for liquids pipeline transportation in intrastate commerce. There is not a clear boundary between transportation service provided in interstate commerce, which is regulated by the FERC, and transportation service provided in intrastate commerce, which is not regulated by the FERC. Such determinations are highly fact-dependent and are made on a case-by-case basis. We cannot provide assurance that the FERC will not at some point assert that some or all of the transportation service we provide is within its jurisdiction. If the FERC were successful with any such assertion, the FERC’s ratemaking methodologies may subject us to potentially burdensome and expensive operational, reporting and other requirements. We own pipeline assets in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In Texas, a pipeline, with some exceptions, is required to operate as a common carrier by publishing tariffs and providing transportation without discrimination. Arkansas provides that all intrastate oil pipelines are common carriers. In Louisiana, all pipelines conveying petroleum from a point of origin within the state to a destination within the state are declared common carriers. The Louisiana Public Service Commission is empowered with the authority to establish reasonable rates and regulations for the transport of petroleum by a common carrier, mandating public tariffs and providing of transportation without discrimination. State commissions have generally not been aggressive in regulating common carrier pipelines, have generally not investigated the rates or practices of petroleum pipelines in the absence of shipper complaints, and generally resolve shipper complaints informally.

DOT

The PHMSA at the DOT regulates the design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance and emergency response of crude oil, petroleum products and other hazardous liquids pipelines and certain tank facilities. These requirements are complex, subject to change and, in certain cases, can be costly to comply with. We believe our operations are in substantial compliance with these regulations but cannot assure you that future requirements will not require substantial expenditures on our part to remain in compliance. Moreover, certain of these rules are difficult to insure adequately and we cannot assure you that we will have adequate insurance to address damages from any noncompliance.

On December 13, 2011, the United States Congress passed the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011, or Pipeline Safety Act. The President signed the Pipeline Safety Act into law on January 3, 2012. Under the Pipeline Safety Act, maximum civil penalties for certain violations have been increased from $100,000 to $200,000 per violation per day, and from a total cap of $1 million to $2 million. A number of the provisions of the Pipeline Safety Act have the potential to cause owners and operators of pipeline facilities to incur significant capital expenditures and/or operating costs. We believe any additional requirements resulting from these directives will not impact us differently than our competitors. We will work closely with our industry associations to participate with and monitor DOT-PHMSA’s efforts. The DOT has issued guidelines with respect to securing regulated facilities against terrorist attack. We have instituted security measures and procedures in accordance with such guidelines to enhance the protection of certain of our facilities. We cannot provide any assurance that these security measures would fully protect our facilities from an attack.

Environmental Regulation

General

Our operation of pipelines, terminals, and associated facilities in connection with the storage and transportation of crude oil and refined products is subject to extensive and frequently-changing federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances relating to the protection of the environment. Among other things, these laws and regulations govern the emission or discharge of pollutants into or onto the land, air and water, the handling and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and the remediation of contamination. As with the industry generally, compliance with existing and anticipated environmental laws and regulations increases our overall cost of business, including our capital costs to construct, maintain, operate and upgrade equipment and facilities. While these laws and regulations affect our maintenance capital expenditures and net income, we believe they do not affect our competitive position, as the operations of our competitors are similarly affected. We believe our

 

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facilities are in substantial compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations. However, these laws and regulations are subject to frequent change by regulatory authorities and continued and future compliance with such laws and regulations, or changes in the interpretation of such laws and regulations, may require us to incur significant expenditures. Additionally, the violation of environmental laws, regulations, and permits can result in the imposition of significant administrative, civil and criminal penalties, injunctions limiting our operations, investigatory or remedial liabilities or construction bans or delays in the construction of additional facilities or equipment. Additionally, a discharge of hydrocarbons or hazardous substances into the environment could, to the extent the event is not insured, subject us to substantial expenses, including fines and penalties, costs to comply with applicable laws and regulations and to resolve claims made by third parties for personal injury or property damage. These impacts could directly and indirectly affect our business and have an adverse impact on our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. We cannot currently determine the amounts of such future impacts.

The prior owner of the Nettleton pipeline had negotiated a consent decree with the EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice regarding operation of that and other pipelines. As a condition to the purchase of the pipeline, Delek agreed to be named to the Consent Decree and to operate the pipeline in accordance with certain provisions of the Consent Decree. Delek was not required to pay any penalties and the prior owner had completed most of the capital projects required for the pipeline prior to the acquisition; however, the Consent Decree requires certain on-going operational changes and work practices that we do not believe will have a material effect on the operation of the pipeline.

Under the omnibus agreement, Delek will indemnify us for all known and unknown environmental and toxic tort liabilities associated with the ownership or operation of our assets and arising at or before the closing of this offering. Indemnification for any unknown environmental and toxic tort liabilities will be limited to liabilities arising on or before the closing of this offering and identified prior to the fifth anniversary of the closing of this offering, and will be subject to a $250,000 aggregate annual deductible before we are entitled to indemnification in any calendar year. Neither we nor our general partner will have any contractual obligation to investigate or identify any such unknown environmental liabilities after the closing of this offering. We have agreed to indemnify Delek for events and conditions associated with the ownership or operation of our assets that occur after the closing of this offering and for environmental and toxic tort liabilities related to our assets to the extent Delek is not required to indemnify us for such liabilities.

Air Emissions and Climate Change

Our operations are subject to the Clean Air Act and comparable state and local laws. Under these laws, permits may be required before construction can commence on a new or modified source of potentially significant air emissions, and operating permits may be required for emission sources that are already constructed. Although our facilities are currently minor sources of volatile organic compound and nitrogen oxide emissions, we may become subject to more stringent regulations requiring the installation of additional emission control technologies. Any such future obligations may require us to incur significant additional capital or operating costs. Although we can give no assurances, we are aware of no changes to air quality regulations that will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.

In addition, Title V of the Clean Air Act (Title V) requires an operating permit for major sources of air pollution. None of our facilities are currently subject to Title V. Future expenditures may be required to comply with the Clean Air Act and other federal, state and local requirements for our various sites, including our pipelines, terminals and tank farms.

These air emissions requirements also affect Delek’s refineries from which we will receive a substantial portion of our revenues. Delek has been required in the past, and will be required in the future, to incur significant capital expenditures to comply with new legislative and regulatory requirements relating to its operations. For example, EPA has indicated they plan to propose rules in 2012 requiring additional controls on flares and cokers.

 

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Currently, various legislative and regulatory measures to address greenhouse gas emissions (including carbon dioxide, methane and other gases) are in various phases of discussion or implementation. These include requirements effective in January 2010 to report emissions of greenhouse gases to the EPA beginning in 2011 and proposed federal legislation and regulation as well as state actions to develop statewide or regional programs, each of which require or could require reductions in our greenhouse gas emissions or those of Delek. None of our facilities are presently subject to the federal greenhouse gas reporting rule or the greenhouse gas “tailoring” rule, which subjects certain facilities to the additional permitting obligations under the NSR/PSD and Title V programs of the Clean Air Act based on a facility’s greenhouse gas emissions. As such, we do not expect any substantial impacts from the tailoring rule on our facilities. However, requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions could result in increased costs to (i) operate and maintain our facilities, (ii) install new emission controls at our facilities and (iii) administer and manage any greenhouse gas emissions programs, including acquiring emission credits or allotments. These requirements may also significantly affect Delek’s refinery operations and may have an indirect effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In addition, on April 17, 2012, the EPA issued final rules that subject oil and natural gas operations, including production, processing, transmission, and storage to regulation under the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) programs. The finalized regulations establish specific new requirements for emissions from compressors, controllers, dehydrators, storage tanks, gas processing plants and certain other equipment. We do not expect these rules to have a significant impact on our business.

Federal Renewable Fuels Standard

In December 2007, the U.S. Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act that created a second Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). This standard requires the total volume of renewable transportation fuels (including ethanol and advanced biofuels) sold or introduced annually in the U.S. to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022. The requirements could reduce future demand for petroleum products and thereby have an effect on certain aspects of our business, although it could increase demand for our ethanol blending services at our truck loading racks.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires increasing amounts of renewable fuel to be incorporated into the gasoline pool through 2012. Under final rules implementing this Act (the Renewable Fuel Standard), Delek’s Tyler and El Dorado refineries were classified as a small refinery exempt from renewable fuel standards through 2010. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) increased the amounts of renewable fuel required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. RFS2 requires that refiners blend increasing amounts of biofuels with refined products beginning with approximately 7.8% of their combined gasoline and diesel volume in 2011, increasing to 9.2% in 2012 and escalating to approximately 18% in 2022. The rule could cause decreased crude oil runs in future years and materially affect Delek’s and our profitability unless fuel demand rises at a comparable rate or other outlets are found for the displaced products. Although exempt from these rules at the time, the Tyler refinery began supplying an E-10 gasoline-ethanol blend in January 2008. Delek has initiated projects at both refineries that will allow it to blend increasing amounts of ethanol and biodiesel into its fuels.

Hazardous Substances and Waste

To a large extent, the environmental laws and regulations affecting our operations relate to the release of hazardous substances or solid wastes into soils, groundwater, and surface water, and include measures to control pollution of the environment. These laws generally regulate the generation, storage, treatment, transportation, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. They also require corrective action, including investigation and remediation, at a facility where such waste may have been released or disposed. For instance, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), which is also known as Superfund, and comparable state laws, impose liability, without regard to fault or to the legality of the original conduct, on certain classes of persons that contributed to the release of a “hazardous substance” into the environment. These

 

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persons include the owner or operator of the site where the release occurred and companies that disposed of, or arranged for the disposal of, the hazardous substances found at the site. Under CERCLA, these persons may be subject to joint and several liability for the costs of cleaning up the hazardous substances that have been released into the environment, 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 from the responsible classes of persons the costs they incur. 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. In the course of our ordinary operations, we generate waste that falls within CERCLA’s definition of a “hazardous substance” and, as a result, may be jointly and severally liable under CERCLA for all or part of the costs required to clean up sites. Subject to an annual deductible, costs for these remedial actions, if any, as well as any related claims are all covered by an indemnity from Delek to the extent occurring or existing before the closing of this offering.

We also generate small quantities of solid wastes, including hazardous wastes that are subject to the requirements of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and comparable state laws. From time to time, the EPA considers the adoption of stricter disposal standards for non-hazardous wastes, including crude oil and refined products wastes. We are not currently required to comply with a substantial portion of the RCRA requirements because our operations generate minimal quantities of hazardous wastes. However, it is possible that additional wastes, which could include wastes currently generated during operations, will in the future be designated as “hazardous wastes.” Hazardous wastes are subject to more rigorous and costly disposal requirements than are non-hazardous wastes. Any changes in the regulations could increase our and our competitors’ maintenance capital expenditures and operating expenses.

We currently own and lease, and Delek has in the past owned and leased, properties where hydrocarbons are being or have been handled for many years. Although we have utilized operating and disposal practices that were standard in the industry at the time, hydrocarbons or other waste may have been disposed of or released on or under the properties owned or leased by us or on or under other locations where these wastes have been taken for disposal. In addition, many of these properties have been operated by third parties whose treatment and disposal or release of hydrocarbons or other wastes were not under our control. These properties and wastes disposed thereon may be subject to CERCLA, RCRA, and analogous state laws. Under these laws, we could be required to remove or remediate previously disposed wastes (including wastes disposed of or released by prior owners or operators), to clean up contaminated property (including contaminated groundwater), or to perform remedial operations to prevent future contamination to the extent we are not indemnified for such matters.

Water

Our operations can result in the discharge of pollutants, including crude oil and refined products. Several of our pipelines and terminals are located near, or cross under or over environmentally sensitive waters such as streams, creeks, rivers, lakes and wetlands. Pipeline and other petroleum product transportation operations are regulated by federal, state and local agencies and monitored by environmental interest groups. The transportation and storage of crude oil and refined products over and adjacent to water involves risk and subjects us to the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), the Clean Water Act and related state requirements. These requirements subject owners of covered facilities to strict, joint, and potentially unlimited liability for containment and removal costs, natural resource damages and certain other consequences of an oil spill where the spill is into navigable waters, along shorelines or in the exclusive economic zone of the United States. In the event of an oil spill into navigable waters, substantial liabilities could be imposed upon us. States in which we operate have also enacted similar and more stringent laws.

Regulations under the Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Clean Water Act), the OPA and state laws also impose additional regulatory burdens on our operations. Spill prevention control and countermeasure requirements of federal laws and some state laws require containment to mitigate or prevent contamination of navigable waters in the event of an oil overflow, rupture, or leak. For example, the Clean Water Act requires us

 

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to maintain spill prevention control and countermeasure plans at many of our facilities. In addition, the OPA requires that most oil transport and storage companies maintain and update various oil spill prevention and oil spill contingency plans. We maintain such plans, and where required have submitted plans and received federal and state approvals necessary to comply with the OPA, the Clean Water Act and related regulations. Our crude oil and refined product spill prevention plans and procedures are frequently reviewed and modified to prevent crude oil and refined product releases and to minimize potential impacts should a release occur.

The Clean Water Act also imposes restrictions and strict controls regarding the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters. Our facilities contract with third parties for wastewater disposal, discharge to local Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW), or discharge under the terms of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for wastewater and stormwater. In the event regulatory requirements change, or interpretations of current requirements change, and our facilities are required to undertake different wastewater management arrangements, we could incur substantial additional costs. The Clean Water Act imposes substantial potential liability for the violation of permits or permitting requirements and for the costs of removal, remediation, and damages resulting from such discharges. In addition, some states maintain groundwater protection programs that require permits for discharges or operations that may impact groundwater conditions. We believe that compliance with existing permits and compliance with foreseeable new permit requirements will not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.

At each of our facilities, we maintain spill-response capability to mitigate the impact of a spill from our facilities and Delek has entered into contracts with various parties to provide spill response services augmenting that capability, if required. In addition, we contract with various spill-response specialists to ensure appropriate expertise is available for any contingency. We believe these contracts provide the additional services necessary to meet or exceed all regulatory spill-response requirements and support our commitment to environmental stewardship. We also maintain insurance to protect against the risk of spills. Please read “—Insurance” for a discussion of coverages.

Employee Safety

We are subject to the requirements of the OSHA and comparable state statutes that regulate the protection of the health and safety of workers. In addition, the OSHA hazard communication standard requires that information be maintained about hazardous materials used or produced in operations and that this information be provided to employees, state, and local government authorities and citizens. We believe that our operations are in substantial compliance with OSHA requirements, including general industry standards, record keeping requirements, and monitoring of occupational exposure to regulated substances.

Endangered Species Act

The Endangered Species Act restricts activities that may affect endangered species or their habitats. While some of our facilities are in areas that may be designated as habitat for endangered species, we believe that we are in substantial compliance with the Endangered Species Act. However, the discovery of previously unidentified endangered species could cause us to incur additional costs or become subject to operating restrictions or bans in the affected area.

Hazardous Materials Transportation Requirements

The DOT regulations affecting pipeline safety require pipeline operators to implement measures designed to reduce the environmental impact of crude oil and refined product discharge from onshore crude oil and refined products pipelines. These regulations require operators to maintain comprehensive spill response plans, including extensive spill response training for pipeline personnel. We believe our operations are in substantial compliance with these regulations.

 

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Environmental Liabilities

Contamination resulting from spills of crude oil and refined products is not unusual within the petroleum terminalling or pipeline industries. Historic spills along our pipelines, gathering systems and terminals as a result of past operations have resulted in contamination of the environment, including soils and groundwater. Site conditions, including soils and groundwater, are being evaluated at a few of our properties where operations may have resulted in releases of hydrocarbons and other wastes. Our San Angelo, Memphis and Nashville terminals have known hydrocarbon or other hazardous material contamination that we are monitoring and/or remediating.

Under the omnibus agreement, Delek will indemnify us for all known and unknown environmental and toxic tort liabilities associated with the ownership or operation of our assets and arising at or before the closing of this offering. Indemnification for any unknown environmental and toxic tort liabilities will be limited to liabilities occurring on or before the closing of this offering and identified prior to the fifth anniversary of the closing of this offering and will be subject to a $250,000 aggregate annual deductible before we are entitled to indemnification in any calendar year. We will not be indemnified for any future spills or releases of hydrocarbons or hazardous materials at our facilities, or, in addition to any other environmental and toxic tort liabilities, otherwise resulting from our operations. In addition, we have agreed to indemnify Delek for events and conditions associated with the ownership or operation of our assets that occur after the closing of this offering and for environmental and toxic tort liabilities related to our assets to the extent Delek is not required to indemnify us for such liabilities. As a result, we may incur such expenses in the future, which may be substantial.

Seasonality

The crude oil and refined product throughput in our pipelines and terminals is affected by the level of supply and demand for crude oil and refined products in the markets served directly or indirectly by our assets. However, many effects of seasonality on our revenues will be substantially mitigated due to our commercial agreements with Delek that include minimum volume commitments. Demand for gasoline is generally higher during the summer months than during the winter months due to seasonal increases in motor vehicle traffic. As a result, our customers’ operating results are generally lower for the first and fourth quarters of each year.

Title to Properties and Permits

Substantially all of our pipelines are constructed on rights-of-way granted by the apparent record owners of the property and in some instances these rights-of-way are revocable at the election of the grantor. In many instances, lands over which rights-of-way have been obtained are subject to prior liens that have not been subordinated to the right-of-way grants. We have obtained permits from public authorities to cross over or under, or to lay facilities in or along, watercourses, county roads, municipal streets, and state highways and, in some instances, these permits are revocable at the election of the grantor. We have also obtained permits from railroad companies to cross over or under lands or rights-of-way, many of which are also revocable at the grantor’s election. In some states and under some circumstances, we have the right of eminent domain to acquire rights-of-way and lands necessary for our common carrier pipelines.

Some of the leases, easements, rights-of-way, permits, and licenses that will be transferred to us will require the consent of the grantor to transfer these rights, which in some instances is a governmental entity. Our general partner believes that it has obtained or will obtain sufficient third-party consents, permits, and authorizations for the transfer of the assets necessary for us to operate our business in all material respects as described in this prospectus. With respect to any consents, permits, or authorizations that have not been obtained, our general partner believes that these consents, permits, or authorizations will be obtained after the closing of this offering, or that the failure to obtain these consents, permits, or authorizations will not have a material adverse effect on the operation of our business.

 

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Our general partner believes that we will have satisfactory title to all of the assets that will be contributed to us at the closing of this offering. Under our omnibus agreement, Delek will indemnify us for certain title defects and for failures to obtain certain consents and permits necessary to conduct our business, in each case, that are identified prior to the fifth anniversary of the closing of this offering. This indemnification is subject to a $250,000 aggregate annual deductible before we are entitled to indemnification in any calendar year. Record title to some of our assets may continue to be held by subsidiaries of Delek until we have made the appropriate filings in the jurisdictions in which such assets are located and obtained any consents and approvals that are not obtained prior to transfer. We will make these filings and obtain these consents upon completion of this offering. Although title to these properties is subject to encumbrances in some cases, such as customary interests generally retained in connection with acquisition of real property, liens that can be imposed in some jurisdictions for government-initiated action to clean up environmental contamination, liens for current taxes and other burdens, and easements, restrictions, and other encumbrances to which the underlying properties were subject at the time of acquisition by our predecessor or us, our general partner believes that none of these burdens should materially detract from the value of these properties or from our interest in these properties or should materially interfere with their use in the operation of our business.

Facilities

Delek leases its corporate headquarters at 7102 Commerce Way, Brentwood, Tennessee. The lease is for 54,000 square feet of office space. The lease term expires in April 2022. We pay a proportionate share of the costs to operate the building to Delek pursuant to the omnibus agreement. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.”

Our Nettleton Station is located on property that we lease from Chevron. The lease is renewable, at our option, for successive one-year terms on 30 days’ notice prior to the end of the then-current term and payment in advance of a nominal amount, and we have exercised our renewal option through May 2013.

Our Bradford Station is located on property that we lease from a local family. The lease is renewable, at our option, for successive one-year terms upon payment in advance of a nominal amount, and we have exercised our renewal option through March 2013.

Employees

We do not have any employees. We are managed and operated by the directors and officers of our general partner. All of our executive management personnel will be employees of our general partner or Delek or a subsidiary of Delek and will devote the portion of their time to our business and affairs that is required to manage and conduct our operations. Our general partner will enter into an operation and management services agreement with Delek, pursuant to which our general partner will use employees of Delek to operate our assets and Delek will be reimbursed for such services. We will pay an annual fee for the provision of centralized corporate services and reimburse Delek for direct or allocated costs and expenses incurred by Delek on our behalf pursuant to the omnibus agreement and the operation and management services agreement. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions.”

Legal Proceedings

In the ordinary course of business various legal and regulatory claims and proceedings are pending or threatened against us. While the amounts claimed may be substantial, we are unable to predict with certainty the ultimate outcome of such claims and proceedings. We have established reserves for pending litigation, which we believe are adequate, and after consultation with counsel and giving appropriate consideration to available insurance, we believe that the ultimate outcome of any matter currently pending against us will not materially affect our financial position, results of operations or liquidity.

 

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MANAGEMENT

Management of Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Our general partner, Delek Logistics GP, LLC, will manage our operations and activities on our behalf through its directors and officers. Our general partner is not elected by our unitholders and will not be subject to re-election in the future. Directors of our general partner will oversee our operations. Unitholders will not be entitled to elect the directors of our general partner, which will all be appointed by Delek, or directly or indirectly participate in our management or operations. However, our general partner owes a duty to our unitholders. Our general partner will be liable, as general partner, for all of our debts (to the extent not paid from our assets), except for indebtedness or other obligations that are made expressly non-recourse to it. Our general partner therefore may cause us to incur indebtedness or other obligations that are non-recourse to it.

The directors of our general partner will oversee our operations. The board of directors of our general partner is comprised of four directors. We intend to increase the size of the board of directors to seven members prior to the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Delek will appoint all members to the board of directors of our general partner, and, when the size of the board increases to seven directors, we will have three directors who are independent as defined under the independence standards established by the NYSE. The NYSE does not require a publicly traded limited partnership like us to have a majority of independent directors on the board of directors of our general partner or to establish a compensation or a nominating and corporate governance committee. We are, however, required to have an audit committee of at least three members within twelve months of the date our common units are first traded on the NYSE, and all of our audit committee members are required to meet the independence and experience tests established by the NYSE and the Exchange Act.

In compliance with the requirements of the NYSE, upon the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, Delek will have appointed three independent members to the board of directors of our general partner. Independent members of the board of directors of our general partner will serve as the initial members of the audit and the conflicts committees of the board of directors of our general partner.

In identifying and evaluating candidates as possible director-nominees of our general partner, Delek will assess the experience and personal characteristics of the possible nominee against the following individual qualifications, which Delek may modify from time to time:

 

   

possesses appropriate skills and professional experience;

 

   

has a reputation for integrity and other qualities, including industry knowledge;

 

   

possesses expertise, determined in the context of the needs of the board of directors of our general partner;

 

   

has experience in positions with a high degree of responsibility;

 

   

is a leader in the organizations with which he or she is affiliated; and

 

   

has the time, energy, interest and willingness to serve as a member of the board of directors of our general partner; and

 

   

meets such standards of independence and financial knowledge as may be required or desirable.

All of our general partner’s initial executive officers will be employees of Delek and will devote such portion of their productive time to our business and affairs as is required to manage and conduct our operations. Our executive officers will manage the day-to-day affairs of our business and conduct our operations. We will also utilize a significant number of employees of Delek to operate our business and provide us with general and administrative services. We will pay an annual fee to Delek for certain centralized corporate services, including

 

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the management services of Delek employees who devote less than 50% of their time to our business. In addition, we will reimburse Delek for allocated expenses of personnel who devote 50% or more of their time performing services for our benefit. Please read “—Reimbursement of Expenses of Our General Partner.”

Directors and Executive Officers of Our General Partner

The following table shows information for the directors and executive officers of our general partner as of the date of this prospectus.

 

Name

   Age     

Position with Delek Logistics GP, LLC

Ezra Uzi Yemin

     43       Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Mark B. Cox

     53       Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director

Assaf Ginzburg

     37       Executive Vice President and Director

Frederec C. Green

     47       Executive Vice President and Director

Harry P. (Pete) Daily

     63       Executive Vice President

Kent B. Thomas

     43       Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Our directors hold office until the earlier of their death, resignation, removal or disqualification or until their successors have been elected and qualified. Officers serve at the discretion of the board of directors of our general partner. There are no family relationships among any of our directors or executive officers.

Ezra Uzi Yemin has been the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of our general partner since April 2012. Mr. Yemin has served as chief executive officer of Delek since June 2004 and as president and a director of Delek since April 2001. Mr. Yemin also served as Delek’s treasurer from April 2001 to November 2003 and as Delek’s secretary from May 2001 to August 2005. Prior to joining Delek, Mr. Yemin served from 2000 to 2001 as the chief financial officer of Delek—The Israel Fuel Corporation, Ltd., a fuel corporation in Israel and one of our affiliated entities. Additionally, he spent two years with Clal Insurance Company Ltd., an insurance company in Israel and two years in the Insurance Commissioner’s Office of the Israel Ministry of Finance. We believe that Mr. Yemin’s service on the board of directors and as its chairman provides it with important interaction with, and access to, management’s principal policy maker which facilitates the board of directors’ development and implementation of company policies.

Mark B. Cox has been executive vice president, chief financial officer and a director of our general partner since April 2012. Mr. Cox has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Delek since September 2009. From June 2007 until September 2009, Mr. Cox served as the Senior Vice President—Treasurer and Director of Investor Relations of Western Refining, Inc., a publicly traded refining company. Between 1994 and 2007, he was employed by Giant Industries, Inc., and served in various positions including Vice President, Executive Vice President, Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary. We believe that Mr. Cox’s energy industry and financial experience provides the board of directors with valuable expertise in our financial and accounting matters.

Assaf Ginzburg has been executive vice president and a director of our general partner since April 2012. Mr. Ginzburg has served as Delek’s executive vice president since May 2009 and as a vice president since February 2005. Prior to joining Delek in November 2004, Mr. Ginzburg served as a financial advisor from July 2001 to March 2003 for Swary-Yohman Financial Consultants, and from April 1999 to July 2001 for Itzhak Swary Ltd., two consulting firms in Israel. Mr. Ginzburg has been a member of the Israel Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 2001 and served as trustee of court for a large Israeli public company in 2002 and 2003. We believe that Mr. Ginzburg’s financial experience provides the board of directors with valuable expertise in our financial and accounting matters.

Frederec Green has been executive vice president and a director of our general partner since April 2012. Mr. Green has served as Delek’s executive vice president since May 2009 and as the primary operational officer for Delek’s refining operations since joining the company in January 2005. From January 2004 until he joined

 

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Delek, Mr. Green operated Green Energy Advisors LLC, an independent consulting practice servicing commercial insurance carriers on petroleum refining and electrical matters. Mr. Green has 26 years experience in the refining industry working for UOP LLC, a refinery technology licensing firm, from 1987 to 1990 and Murphy Oil USA, Inc., from 1990 to 2004, where he served as a senior vice president during his last six years. Mr. Green has experience ranging from crude oil and feedstock supply, through all aspects of managing a refining business to product trading, transportation and sales. We believe that Mr. Green’s energy industry experience provides the board of directors with valuable expertise in energy industry matters.

Pete Daily has been executive vice president of our general partner since April 2012. Mr. Daily has served as Delek’s executive vice president since November 2011 and as the primary operational officer for Delek’s marketing and supply operations since joining that company in September 2006. Mr. Daily’s duties include supervising the purchase and supply of fuels for Delek’s convenience stores, marketing the refined products produced by our refineries and marketing Delek’s supply of refined products in west Texas. Mr. Daily has over 30 years of experience in marketing and supply of refined products.

Kent B. Thomas has been executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of our general partner since April 2012. Mr. Thomas has served as Delek’s executive vice president since November 2011 and as Delek’s general counsel and secretary since joining Delek in August 2005. Mr. Thomas has practiced law for more than 15 years in Nashville, Tennessee with a focus on securities regulation, corporate governance, executive compensation, equity plan administration, human resources and litigation.

Board Leadership Structure

Our chief executive officer currently serves as the chairman of the board. The board of directors of our general partner has no policy with respect to the separation of the offices of chairman of the board and chief executive officer; rather, that relationship is defined and governed by the limited liability company agreement of our general partner, which permits the same person to hold both offices. Members of the board of directors of our general partner are appointed by Delek. Accordingly, unlike holders of common stock in a corporation, our unitholders will have only limited voting rights on matters affecting our business or governance, subject in all cases to any specific unitholder rights contained in our partnership agreement.

Board Role in Risk Oversight

Our corporate governance guidelines will provide that the board of directors of our general partner is responsible for reviewing the process for assessing the major risks facing us and the options for their mitigation. This responsibility will be largely satisfied by the audit committee, which is responsible for reviewing and discussing with management and our registered public accounting firm our major risk exposures and the policies management has implemented to monitor such exposures, including our financial risk exposures and risk management policies.

Committees of the Board of Directors

Audit Committee

Our general partner will have an audit committee comprised of at least three directors who meet the independence and experience standards established by the NYSE and the Exchange Act. The audit committee will assist the board of directors of our general partner in its oversight of the integrity of our financial statements and our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and corporate policies and controls. The audit committee will have the sole authority to retain and terminate our independent registered public accounting firm, approve all auditing services and related fees and the terms thereof, and pre-approve any non-audit services to be rendered by our independent registered public accounting firm. The audit committee will also be responsible for confirming the independence and objectivity of our independent registered public accounting firm. Our independent registered public accounting firm will be given unrestricted access to the audit committee.

 

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Conflicts Committee

At least two members of the board of directors of our general partner will serve on our conflicts committee. The conflicts committee will determine if the resolution of any conflict of interest referred to it by our general partner is in our best interests. There is no requirement that our general partner seek the approval of the conflicts committee for the resolution of any conflict. The members of the conflicts committee may not be officers or employees of our general partner or directors, officers or employees of its affiliates, may not hold an ownership interest in the general partner or its affiliates other than common units or awards under any long-term incentive plan, equity compensation plan or similar plan implemented by the general partner or the partnership, and must meet the independence and experience standards established by the NYSE and the Exchange Act to serve on an audit committee of a board of directors. Any matters approved by the conflicts committee in good faith will be deemed to be approved by all of our partners and not a breach by our general partner of any duties it may owe us or our unitholders. Any unitholder challenging any matter approved by the conflicts committee will have the burden of proving that the members of the conflicts committee did not believe that the matter was in the best interests of our partnership. Moreover, any acts taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon the advice or opinions of experts such as legal counsel, accountants, appraisers, management consultants and investment bankers, where our general partner (or any members of the board of directors of our general partner including any member of the conflicts committee) reasonably believes the advice or opinion to be within such person’s professional or expert competence, will be conclusively presumed to have been done or omitted in good faith.

Executive Compensation

We and our general partner were formed in April 2012. Accordingly, our general partner has not accrued any obligations with respect to management incentive or retirement benefits for its directors and executive officers for the 2011 fiscal year or prior periods. We do not directly employ any of the persons responsible for managing our business, and our general partner does not have a compensation committee. All of the initial executive officers of our general partner are also officers of Delek, and therefore will have responsibilities for both us and Delek. These officers and all other personnel necessary for our business to function will be employed and compensated by Delek or one of its subsidiaries, subject to the administrative services fee or reimbursement by us in accordance with the terms of the omnibus agreement and the operation and management services agreement. Under the omnibus agreement, none of Delek’s long-term incentive compensation expense will be allocated to us. However, we will be responsible for paying the long-term incentive compensation expense associated with our long-term incentive plan described below. The executive officers of our general partner who are also executive officers of Delek will continue to participate in employee benefit plans and arrangements sponsored by Delek including plans that may be established in the future. Our general partner has not entered into any employment agreements with any of its executive officers. The board of directors of our general partner may grant awards to our executive officers, key employees of Delek who support our operations and/or our independent directors pursuant to the long-term incentive plan described below under “—Long-Term Incentive Plan” following the closing of this offering; however, the board has not yet made any determination as to the number of awards, the type of awards, the recipients of awards or when the awards would be granted.

We are not presenting any compensation for historical periods as we and our general partner were formed in April 2012. Compensation paid or awarded by us in 2012 with respect to the executive officers of our general partner who also perform services for Delek will reflect only the portion of compensation paid by Delek that is allocated to us pursuant to Delek’s allocation methodology and subject to the terms of the omnibus agreement. Responsibility and authority for compensation-related decisions for executive officers of our general partner who also perform services for Delek will reside with the board of directors of Delek and its committees (other than compensation under our long-term incentive plan). Any such compensation decisions will not be subject to any approvals by the board of directors of our general partner or any committees thereof. Responsibility and authority for compensation-related decisions for any executive officers of our general partner who do not also perform services for Delek will reside with the board of directors of our general partner, but will be based in large part on the recommendation of the board of directors of Delek and its committees.

 

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Compensation of Directors

Officers or employees of Delek or its subsidiaries who also serve as directors of our general partner will not receive additional compensation for such service. Our general partner anticipates that its directors who are not also officers or employees of Delek or its subsidiaries will receive compensation for service on the board of directors and its committees. We currently expect to pay such directors an annual retainer of $35,000 and award such directors $                 in equity interests. We currently expect to pay the audit committee chairman an annual amount of $10,000 and the conflicts committee chairman an annual amount of $5,000. In addition, each such director will be reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses in connection with attending meetings of the board and committee meetings. We currently expect to pay meeting fees to such directors in the amount of $1,500 for each in-person board meeting, $1,000 for each in-person committee meeting, $750 for each telephonic board meeting and $500 for each telephonic committee meeting. Each director will be fully indemnified by us for actions associated with being a director to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law pursuant to our partnership agreement.

Long-Term Incentive Plan

Our general partner intends to adopt the Delek Logistics GP, LLC 2012 Long-Term Incentive Plan for officers, directors and employees of our general partner or its affiliates, and any consultants, affiliates of our general partner or other individuals who perform services for us. We may issue our executive officers long-term equity based awards under the plan, which awards will be intended to compensate the officers based on the performance of our common units and their continued employment during the vesting period, as well as align their long-term interests with those of our unitholders. We will be responsible for the cost of awards granted under the long-term incentive plan to be adopted by us. The following description reflects the terms that are currently expected to be included in the long-term incentive plan.

The long-term incentive plan will consist of the following components: unit options, restricted units, phantom units, unit appreciation rights, distribution equivalent rights, other unit-based awards and unit awards. The purpose of awards under the long-term incentive plan is to provide additional incentive compensation to employees providing services to us, and to align the economic interests of such employees with the interests of our unitholders. The long-term incentive plan will limit the number of units that may be delivered pursuant to vested awards to                  common units, subject to proportionate adjustment in the event of unit splits and similar events. Common units cancelled, forfeited or withheld to satisfy exercise prices or tax withholding obligations will be available for delivery pursuant to other awards. The plan will be administered by the board of directors of our general partner or a committee thereof, which we refer to as the plan administrator. We currently expect that the board of directors of our general partner or a committee thereof will be designated as the plan administrator.

The plan administrator may terminate or amend the long-term incentive plan at any time with respect to any units for which a grant has not yet been made. The plan administrator also has the right to alter or amend the long-term incentive plan or any part of the plan from time to time, including increasing the number of units that may be granted subject to the requirements of the exchange upon which the common units are listed at that time. However, no change in any outstanding grant may be made that would materially reduce the rights or benefits of the participant without the consent of the participant. The plan will expire on the earliest of (i) the date common units are no longer available under the plan for grants, (ii) termination of the plan by the plan administrator or (iii) the date 10 years following its date of adoption.

Restricted Units

A restricted unit is a common unit that vests over a period of time and during that time is subject to forfeiture. The plan administrator may make grants of restricted units containing such terms as it shall determine, including the period over which restricted units will vest. The plan administrator, in its discretion, may base its determination upon the achievement of specified financial or other performance objectives. Restricted units will be entitled to receive quarterly distributions during the vesting period if the terms of the relevant award agreements so provides.

 

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Phantom Units

A phantom unit entitles the grantee to receive a common unit upon the vesting of the phantom unit or, in the discretion of the plan administrator, cash equivalent to the value of a common unit. The plan administrator may make grants of phantom units under the plan containing such terms as the plan administrator shall determine, including the period over which phantom units granted will vest. The plan administrator, in its discretion, may base its determination upon the achievement of specified financial objectives.

Unit Options

The long-term incentive plan will permit the grant of options covering common units. The plan administrator may make grants containing such terms as the plan administrator shall determine. Unit options must have an exercise price that is not less than the fair market value of the common units on the date of the grant. In general, unit options granted will become exercisable over a period determined by the plan administrator.

Unit Appreciation Rights

The long-term incentive plan will permit the grant of unit appreciation rights. A unit appreciation right is an award that, upon exercise, entitles the participant to receive the excess of the fair market value of a common unit on the exercise date over the exercise price established for the unit appreciation right. Such excess will be paid in cash or common units. The plan administrator may make grants of unit appreciation rights containing such terms as the plan administrator shall determine. Unit appreciation rights must have an exercise price that is not less than the fair market value of the common units on the date of grant. In general, unit appreciation rights granted will become exercisable over a period determined by the plan administrator.

Distribution Equivalent Rights

The long-term incentive plan will permit the grant of distribution equivalent rights, or DERs, as a stand-alone award or with respect to phantom unit awards or other awards under the long-term incentive plan. DERs entitle the participant to receive cash or additional awards equal to the amount of any cash distributions made by us with respect to a common unit during the period the right is outstanding. Payment of a DER issued in connection with another award may be subject to the same vesting terms as the award to which it relates or different vesting terms, in the discretion of the plan administrator.

Other Unit-Based Awards

The long-term incentive plan will permit the grant of other unit-based awards, which are awards that are based, in whole or in part, on the value or performance of a common unit. Upon vesting, the award may be paid in common units, cash or a combination thereof, as provided in the grant agreement.

Unit Awards

The long-term incentive plan will permit the grant of common units that are not subject to vesting restrictions. Unit awards may be in lieu of or in addition to other compensation payable to the individual.

Change in Control; Termination of Service

Awards under the long-term incentive plan will vest and/or become exercisable, as applicable, upon a “change in control” of us or our general partner, unless provided otherwise by the plan administrator at the time of grant. The consequences of the termination of a grantee’s employment, consulting arrangement or membership on the board of directors will be determined by the plan administrator in the terms of the relevant award agreement.

 

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Source of Units

Common units to be delivered pursuant to awards under the long-term incentive plan may be common units acquired by our general partner in the open market, from any other person, directly from us or any combination of the foregoing. If we issue new common units upon the grant, vesting or payment of awards under the long-term incentive plan, the total number of common units outstanding will increase.

Reimbursement of Expenses of Our General Partner

Our general partner will not receive any management fee or other compensation for its management of our partnership under the omnibus agreement with Delek or otherwise. Under the terms of the omnibus agreement, we will pay Delek an annual fee of $2.7 million for the provision of various centralized corporate services and reimburse Delek for direct or allocated costs and expenses incurred by Delek on our behalf (including certain incremental costs and expenses we will incur as a result of being a publicly traded partnership) pursuant to the omnibus agreement and the operation and management services agreement. The partnership agreement provides that our general partner will determine the expenses that are allocable to us. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions.”

 

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

The following table sets forth the beneficial ownership of our units that will be owned upon the consummation of this offering by:

 

   

each person known by us to be a beneficial owner of more than 5% of the units;

 

   

each of the directors of our general partner;

 

   

each of the named executive officers of our general partner; and

 

   

all directors and executive officers of our general partner as a group.

The amounts and percentage of units beneficially owned are reported on the basis of regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of securities. Under the rules of the SEC, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares “voting power,” which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting of such security, or “investment power,” which includes the power to dispose of or to direct the disposition of such security. Except as indicated by footnote, the persons named in the table below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all units shown as beneficially owned by them, subject to community property laws where applicable.

Percentage of total units to be beneficially owned after this offering is based on             common units outstanding. The table assumes that the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units is not exercised.

 

Name of Beneficial Owner (1)

   Common
Units To  Be
Beneficially

Owned (2)
   Percentage of
Common
Units To Be
Beneficially

Owned
    Subordinated
Units To Be
Beneficially

Owned
   Percentage of
Subordinated
Units To Be
Beneficially

Owned
    Percentage of
Total Common
and Subordinated
Units To Be
Beneficially

Owned
 

Delek (3)

                    100         

Ezra Uzi Yemin

                             *   

Mark B. Cox

                             *   

Assaf Ginzburg

                             *   

Frederec C. Green

                             *   

Harry P. (Pete) Daily

                             *   

Kent B. Thomas

                             *   

All directors and executive officers as a group (6 persons)

                             *   

 

* Less than 1%.

 

(1) Unless otherwise indicated, the address for all beneficial owners in this table is 7102 Commerce Way, Brentwood, Tennessee, 37027.

 

(2) Does not include common units that may be purchased in the directed unit program.

 

(3) Delek is the ultimate parent company of our general partner and of each of Lion Oil and Delek Marketing & Supply, Inc. Lion Oil and Delek Marketing & Supply, Inc. own              and             common units, respectively, and              and              subordinated units, respectively. Delek may, therefore, be deemed to beneficially own the units held by Lion Oil and Delek Marketing & Supply, Inc.

 

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The following table sets forth, as of March 12, 2012 the number of shares of common stock of Delek owned by each of the named executive officers and directors of our general partner and all directors and executive officers of our general partner as a group.

 

Name of Beneficial Owner

   Total Shares
of Common
Stock
Beneficially
Owned (1)
     Percentage of
Total Shares
of Common
Stock
Beneficially
Owned (2)
 

Ezra Uzi Yemin (3)

     951,495         1.64

Mark B. Cox (4)

     45,827         *   

Frederec C. Green (4)

     153,780         *   

Assaf Ginzburg

     33,271         *   

Harry P. (Pete) Daily (4)

     39,442         *   

Kent B. Thomas (4)

     59,284         *   
  

 

 

    

All directors and executive officers as a group (6 persons) (3)

     1,283,099         2.21

 

* Less than 1%.

 

(1) For purposes of this table, a person is deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of any shares of Delek’s common stock when such person has the right to acquire them within 60 days after March 12, 2012 (the “measurement date”). For non-qualified stock options (“NQSOs”) and restricted stock units (“RSUs”), Delek reports shares equal to the number of NQSOs or RSUs that are vested or that will vest within 60 days of the measurement date. For stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), Delek reports the shares that would be delivered upon exercise of SARs that are vested or that will vest within 60 days of the measurement date (which is calculated by multiplying the number of SARs by the difference between the $14.22 fair market value of Delek’s common stock at the measurement date and the exercise price divided by $14.22). For purposes of computing the percentage of outstanding shares of common stock held by each person named above, any shares which such person has the right to acquire within 60 days after the measurement date are deemed to be outstanding but are not deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.

 

(2) Based on 58,187,424 shares of Delek’s common stock outstanding on the measurement date.

 

(3) Includes 307,486 shares of Delek’s common stock that would have been delivered to Mr. Yemin on the measurement date upon the exercise of 640,440, 246,400, 246,400 and 246,400 SARs with base prices of $8.57, $12.40, $13.20 and $14.00, respectively. Does not include 67,200 SARs with base prices in excess of $14.22 that were vested on (or will vest within 60 days of) the measurement date because no shares of common stock would have been delivered to Mr. Yemin on the measurement date upon the exercise of such SARs.

 

(4) Includes 827 shares of Delek’s common stock that would have been delivered to each of Messrs. Cox, Green, Daily and Thomas on the measurement date upon the exercise of 1,625 SARs with base prices of $6.98. No other SARs were vested on (or will vest within 60 days of) the measurement date.

 

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

After this offering, Delek will indirectly own (a) our general partner and (b)             common units and             subordinated units representing a     % limited partner interest in us. Our general partner will own a 2.0% general partner interest in us and the incentive distribution rights.

Distributions and Payments to Our General Partner and Its Affiliates

The following information summarizes the distributions and payments made or to be made by us to our general partner and its affiliates in connection with our formation, ongoing operation and any liquidation. These distributions and payments were determined by and among affiliated entities and, consequently, may not equal the distributions and payments that would result from arm’s-length negotiations.

Formation Stage

The aggregate consideration received by our general partner and its affiliates for the contribution of certain assets and liabilities to us:

 

   

             common units;

 

   

             subordinated units;

 

   

general partner units representing a 2.0% general partner interest;

 

   

all of the incentive distribution rights;

 

   

$         million cash payment from the proceeds of this offering;

 

   

an additional $90.0 million cash distribution funded with borrowings under our revolving credit facility; and

 

   

our assumption and retirement of approximately $             million of indebtedness under our predecessor facility.

Operational Stage

Distributions of available cash to our general partner and its affiliates. We will generally make cash distributions of 98.0% to unitholders pro rata, including our general partner and its affiliates as holders of an aggregate of             common units, all of the subordinated units and 2.0% to our general partner. In addition, if distributions exceed the minimum quarterly distribution and other higher target levels, our general partner will be entitled to increasing percentages of the distributions, up to 48.0% of the distributions above the highest target level.

Payments to our general partner and its affiliates. We will pay an annual fee to Delek for the provision of certain centralized corporate services, including the management services of Delek employees who devote less than 50% of their time to our business. We also will reimburse Delek for allocated expenses of personnel who devote 50% or more of their time performing services for our benefit. In addition, we are required to reimburse our general partner and its affiliates for all direct and indirect expenses that they incur on our behalf. Except to the extent specified under our omnibus agreement or our operation and management services agreement, our general partner determines the amount of these expenses. Please read “—Agreements Governing the Transactions” below and “Management—Executive Compensation.”

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pressure control, maintaining and repairing our pipelines, storage and terminalling facilities and related assets, conducting routine operational activities, and managing transportation and logistics, contract administration, crude oil and refined product measurement, database mapping, rights-of-way, materials and engineering support. Please read “—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Operation and Management Services Agreement” below.

Withdrawal or removal of our general partner. If our general partner withdraws or is removed, its general partner interest and its incentive distribution rights will either be sold to the new general partner for cash or converted into common units, in each case for an amount equal to the fair market value of those interests. Please read “The Partnership Agreement—Withdrawal or Removal of the General Partner.”

Liquidation Stage

Upon our liquidation, the partners, including our general partner, will be entitled to receive liquidating distributions according to their particular capital account balances.

Agreements Governing the Transactions

We have entered into or will enter into various documents and agreements with Delek that will effect the transactions relating to our formation, including the vesting of assets in us and our subsidiaries, and the application of the proceeds of this offering. These agreements will not be the result of arm’s-length negotiations. All of the transaction expenses incurred in connection with our formation transactions will be paid from the proceeds of this offering.

Omnibus Agreement

Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into an omnibus agreement with Delek and certain of its subsidiaries, including our general partner, that will address the following matters:

 

   

our obligation to pay Delek an administrative fee, initially in the amount of $2.7 million per year, for the provision by Delek of centralized corporate services (which fee is in addition to certain expenses of our general partner and its affiliates that are reimbursed under our partnership agreement);

 

   

our agreement to reimburse Delek for all other direct or allocated costs and expenses incurred by Delek on our behalf;

 

   

Delek’s and its subsidiaries’ agreement not to compete with us under certain circumstances;

 

   

our right of first offer to acquire certain of Delek’s logistics assets, including certain logistics assets that Delek may acquire in the future;

 

   

Delek’s right of first refusal to purchase our assets that serve Delek’s refineries and our Paline Pipeline System;

 

   

an indemnity by Delek for certain environmental and other liabilities, and our obligation to indemnify Delek for liabilities associated with the operation of our assets after the closing of this offering and for environmental liabilities related to our assets to the extent Delek is not required to indemnify us for such liabilities; and

 

   

Delek’s agreement to reimburse us for certain maintenance capital and other expenditures related to our initial assets for a period of five years after the closing of this offering.

 

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So long as Delek controls our general partner, the omnibus agreement will remain in full force and effect. If Delek ceases to control our general partner, either Delek or we may terminate the omnibus agreement, provided that the indemnification obligations under the omnibus agreement will remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms.

Payment of Administrative Fee. We will pay Delek an administrative fee, initially in the amount of $2.7 million per year (prorated for the first year of services), payable in equal monthly installments, for the provision of various centralized corporate services for our benefit, including executive management services of Delek employees who devote less than 50% of their time to our business, financial and administrative services, information technology services, legal services and health, safety and environmental services. In addition, we also will reimburse Delek for allocated expenses of personnel who devote 50% or more of their time performing services for our benefit. This fee and reimbursement will be in addition to reimbursement of our general partner and its affiliates for certain costs and expenses incurred on our behalf for managing and controlling our business and operations as required by our partnership agreement. The omnibus agreement provides that the administrative fee will be adjusted annually, commencing on the second year following this offering, by a percentage equal to the change in the consumer price index or to reflect any increase in the cost of providing such services to us due to changes in any law, rule or regulation applicable to us or Delek. In addition, our general partner may agree on our behalf to increases in the administrative fee in connection with expansions of our operations through the acquisition or construction of new assets or businesses. Please read “Risk Factors—Risks Inherent in an Investment in Us” and “Conflicts of Interest and Duties—Conflicts of Interest—We reimburse the general partner and its affiliates for expenses.”

Noncompetition. Delek will agree, and will cause its subsidiaries to agree, not to own, operate, engage in, acquire or invest in any business that owns or operates crude oil or refined products pipelines, terminals or storage facilities in the United States. This restriction will not apply to:

 

   

any assets owned by Delek at the closing of this offering (including replacements or expansions of those assets);

 

   

any assets acquired or constructed by Delek that are within, directly connected to, substantially dedicated to, or an integral part of any of Delek’s refineries;

 

   

any asset or business that Delek acquires or constructs that has a fair market value of less than $5.0 million;

 

   

any asset or business that Delek acquires or constructs that has a fair market value of $5.0 million or more (other than assets within, directly connected to, substantially dedicated to, or an integral part of any of Delek’s refineries), if we have been offered the opportunity to purchase the asset or business for fair market value, and we decline to do so or if certain exceptions apply;

 

   

the purchase and ownership of a non-controlling interest in any publicly traded entity; and

 

   

the ownership of the equity interests in us, our general partner and our affiliates.

Right of First Offer. Under the omnibus agreement, if Delek decides to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of the assets listed below (other than in connection with the sale, transfer or other disposal by Delek of the related refinery), Delek will provide us with the opportunity, subject to certain exceptions, to make the first offer to it, in each case for a 10-year period following the closing of this offering:

 

   

Tyler Refinery Refined Products Terminal. This terminal is located at the Tyler refinery and consists of a truck loading rack with three loading bays supplied by pipeline from storage tanks located at the refinery. This terminal does not have refined product storage capacity. Total

 

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throughput capacity for the terminal is estimated to be approximately 76,000 bpd. For the year ended December 31, 2011, approximately 59,700 bpd of refined products were throughput at this terminal.

 

   

Tyler Storage Tanks. 86 storage tanks are located in Tyler, Texas adjacent to the Tyler refinery. The aggregate active shell capacity of these tanks is approximately 1.8 million barrels.

 

   

El Dorado Refined Products Terminal. This terminal is located at the El Dorado refinery and consists of a truck loading rack supplied by pipeline from storage tanks located at the refinery. This terminal does not have refined product storage capacity. Total throughput capacity for the terminal is estimated to be approximately 22,000 bpd. For the year ended December 31, 2011, approximately 9,600 bpd of refined products were throughput at this terminal.

 

   

El Dorado Product Storage Tanks. Storage tanks are located at Sandhill Station and adjacent to the El Dorado refinery. The aggregate active shell capacity of these tanks is approximately 2.2 million barrels.

In addition, the omnibus agreement provides that if we do not purchase an asset that Delek acquires or constructs that has a fair market value of $5.0 million or more pursuant to the provision described in the fifth bullet point under “—Noncompetition” above, such assets will also be subject to our right of first offer until the tenth anniversary of the closing of this offering.

The consummation and timing of any acquisition by us of the assets covered by our right of first offer will depend on, among other things, Delek’s decision to sell an asset covered by our right of first offer, our ability to reach an agreement with Delek on price and other terms and our ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms. Accordingly, we can provide no assurance whether, when or on what terms we will be able to successfully consummate any future acquisitions pursuant to our right of first offer, and Delek is under no obligation to accept any offer that we may choose to make.

Right of First Refusal. The omnibus agreement also contains the terms under which Delek will have a right of first refusal to purchase our assets that serve its refineries, including the Lion Pipeline System, the SALA Gathering System, the East Texas Crude Logistics System, the Big Sandy terminal, the Memphis terminal and the Paline Pipeline System. Before we enter into any contract to sell such assets, we must give written notice of the terms of such proposed sale to Delek. The notice must set forth the name and address of the proposed third party purchaser, the assets to be sold, the purchase price, reasonable detail concerning any non-cash portion of the consideration and our estimate of the fair market value of such consideration and all other material terms and conditions of the offer. To the extent the third party offer consists of consideration other than cash (or in addition to cash), the purchase price shall be deemed equal to the amount of any such cash plus the fair market value of such non-cash consideration, determined as set forth in the omnibus agreement. Delek will then have the sole and exclusive option for a period of 60 days following receipt of such notice, to purchase the subject assets on the terms specified in the notice.

Indemnification. Under the omnibus agreement, Delek will indemnify us for all liabilities arising out of any violation of environmental laws and any environmental condition or event associated with the operation of our assets and occurring before the closing of this offering. Indemnification for environmental liabilities will be limited to liabilities identified prior to the fifth anniversary of the closing of this offering, and will be subject to a $250,000 aggregate annual deductible before we are entitled to indemnification for losses incurred in any calendar year. Delek will also indemnify us for certain defects in title to the assets contributed to us and failure to obtain certain consents and permits necessary to conduct our business, in each case that are identified prior to the fifth anniversary of the closing of this offering, subject to a $250,000 aggregate annual deductible before we are entitled to indemnification for losses incurred in any calendar year.

 

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Delek will also indemnify us for liabilities relating to:

 

   

the assets contributed to us, other than environmental liabilities, that arise out of the ownership or operation of the assets prior to the closing of this offering and that are asserted during the period ending on the tenth anniversary of the closing of this offering;

 

   

legal actions related to the assets contributed to us that are currently pending against Delek;

 

   

events and conditions associated with any assets retained by Delek; and

 

   

all federal, state and local income tax liabilities attributable to the ownership or operation of the contributed assets prior to the closing of this offering.

We have agreed to indemnify Delek for events and conditions associated with the operation of our assets that occur after the closing of this offering and for environmental liabilities related to our assets to the extent Delek is not required to indemnify us as described above.

Reimbursement of Maintenance Capital and Other Expenditures. Delek has agreed to reimburse us for any operating expenses in excess of $500,000 per year that we incur for inspections, maintenance and repairs to any of the storage tanks contributed to us by Delek that are necessary to comply with American Petroleum Institute storage tank standards for five years after the closing of this offering. In addition, Delek has agreed to reimburse us for any costs in excess of $1.0 million per event (net of any insurance recoveries), up to $20.0 million per event, that we incur for the clean up or repair of a condition caused by the failure, during the first five years after the closing of this offering, of any assets contributed to us by Delek. Furthermore, for five years after the closing of this offering, Delek will reimburse us for any maintenance capital expenditures in excess of $3.0 million per year that we make with respect to the assets contributed to us by Delek for which we have not been reimbursed as described in the preceding sentence. Delek’s reimbursement obligations will not survive any termination of the omnibus agreement.

Operation and Management Services Agreement

Our general partner will operate our business on our behalf and will be entitled under our partnership agreement to be reimbursed for the cost of providing those services. Upon the closing of this offering, our general partner will enter into an operational and management services agreement with Delek, pursuant to which our general partner will use employees of Delek to provide operational and management services with respect to our pipelines, storage and terminalling facilities and related assets, including operating and maintaining flow and pressure control, maintaining and repairing our pipelines, storage and terminalling facilities and related assets, conducting routine operational activities, and managing transportation and logistics, contract administration, crude oil and refined product measurement, database mapping, rights-of-way, materials, engineering support and such other services as our general partner and Delek may mutually agree upon from time to time. We and/or our general partner will reimburse Delek for such services under the operation and management services agreement.

The operation and management services agreement will terminate upon the termination of the omnibus agreement. If a force majeure event prevents a party from carrying out its obligations (other than to make payments due) under the agreement, such obligations, to the extent affected by force majeure, will be suspended during the continuation of the force majeure event. These force majeure events include acts of God, strikes, lockouts or other industrial disturbances, acts of the public enemy, wars, blockades, insurrections, riots, storms, floods, washouts, arrests, the order of any court or governmental authority, civil disturbances, explosions, breakage, accident to machinery, storage tanks or pipelines, inability to obtain or unavoidable delay in obtaining material or equipment, and any other causes not reasonably within the control of the party claiming suspension and which by the exercise of due diligence such party is unable to prevent or overcome.

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of the agreement to the extent caused by Delek’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Our general partner will indemnify Delek from any claims, losses or liabilities incurred by Delek, including any third-party claims, arising from Delek’s performance of the agreement, except to the extent such claims, losses or liabilities are caused by Delek’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Neither party is liable for any consequential, incidental or punitive damages under the agreement. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under the agreement without the prior written consent of the other party, except that we may make a collateral assignment of this agreement solely to secure financing.

Commercial Agreements with Delek

In connection with the closing of this offering, we will enter into long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with certain wholly owned subsidiaries of Delek pursuant to which we will provide various pipeline transportation, terminal distribution and storage services. Each of these agreements with Delek will include minimum volume commitments and, in some cases, a fixed monthly storage fee.

Fees under each agreement are payable by the applicable Delek subsidiary monthly. If the applicable Delek subsidiary fails to meet or exceed the minimum throughput commitment with respect to any pipeline during any calendar quarter, the applicable Delek subsidiary will be required to make a shortfall payment quarterly to us equal to the volume of the shortfall on such pipeline multiplied by the applicable throughput fee. Carry-over of any volumes in excess of such commitment to any subsequent quarter is not permitted.

Each of our commercial agreements with Delek, other than the marketing agreement, will have an initial term of five years, which may be extended at the option of the applicable Delek subsidiary for up to two additional five-year terms. Additionally, each of our commercial agreements with Delek will not terminate in the event of a change of control of our general partner.

In addition, the applicable Delek subsidiary may request that we make capital improvements to the pipelines or the storage tanks. For any requested capital improvement, the applicable Delek subsidiary will send us a written proposal which will include the details of the proposed project. We may then choose to construct the capital improvement at our own expense in exchange for an additional monthly fee payable by the applicable Delek subsidiary sufficient to provide us with a rate of return equal to prime rate plus an agreed-upon rate of return (taking into account anticipated increased cash flows generated from such capital improvement). The applicable Delek subsidiary will be required to continue paying this monthly fee if it terminates the agreement other than in connection with a breach of the agreement by us or a force majeure event affecting our ability to provide service to the applicable Delek subsidiary under the agreement. If we do not make any requested capital improvement, the applicable Delek subsidiary may complete such capital improvement itself provided that the project will not have a material adverse impact on our operations or the efficiency of our pipelines or storage tanks or result in any material additional unreimbursed costs to us. We will own any capital improvements made by us, and the applicable Delek subsidiary will own any capital improvements made by it.

Prior to the second anniversary of the closing of this offering, the applicable Delek subsidiary is not permitted to suspend or reduce its obligations under the applicable agreement in connection with the shutdown of the applicable Delek refinery served under such agreement for any reason other than certain force majeure events, including for scheduled turnarounds or other regular servicing or maintenance. After the second anniversary of the closing of this offering, if the applicable Delek subsidiary decides to permanently or indefinitely suspend refining operations at the El Dorado or Tyler refinery, as the case may be, for a period that will continue for at least twelve consecutive months, then the applicable Delek subsidiary may terminate the agreement on no less than twelve months’ prior written notice to us, which notice period may run concurrently with the twelve-month suspension period described above. During the twelve-month notice period, the applicable Delek subsidiary will continue to owe shortfall payments for any calendar quarter in which it does not throughput aggregate volumes at least equal to its minimum throughput commitment; provided, however, we and the applicable Delek subsidiary may agree to terminate the agreement prior to the expiration of the twelve-month notice period in order for us to enter into a new agreement with any third party.

 

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If a force majeure event occurs that renders either party unable to perform its obligations under the agreement, such party must provide the other party with written notice of the force majeure event and identify the approximate length of time the affected party believes that force majeure event will continue. Until the third anniversary of the closing of this offering, if a force majeure event occurs, the applicable Delek subsidiary will continue to be required to make shortfall payments to us unless the force majeure event affects our ability to perform the services we are required to perform under the agreement; however, if the force majeure affects our ability to perform, the term of the agreement will be extended by the length of such force majeure (up to one year). After the third anniversary of the closing of this offering, the obligations of each party will be suspended to the extent affected by force majeure unless the agreement is terminated as provided in the following two sentences. Beginning on the third anniversary of the closing of this offering, if the affected party believes that a force majeure event will continue for twelve consecutive months or more, then either party will have the right to terminate the agreement to the extent affected by the force majeure on no less than twelve months’ prior written notice to the other party; provided, however, that we and the applicable Delek subsidiary may agree to terminate the agreement to the extent affected by the force majeure event prior to the expiration of the twelve-month notice period in order for us to enter into a new agreement with any third party. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, the applicable Delek subsidiary will have the right, prior to the effectiveness of the force majeure termination notice, to elect to continue making shortfall payments and we will not be permitted to terminate the applicable agreement for so long as the applicable Delek subsidiary continues to make such shortfall payments.

Pipelines and Storage Facilities Agreement (Lion Pipeline System)

Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into a pipelines and storage facilities agreement with Lion Oil under which we will provide transportation and storage services to the El Dorado refinery. Under the pipelines and storage facilities agreement, Lion Oil will be obligated to throughput aggregate volumes on the pipelines of our Lion Pipeline System and our SALA Gathering System as follows:

 

   

Lion Pipeline System. The minimum throughput commitment will be an aggregate of 46,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) of crude oil shipped on the El Dorado, Magnolia and rail connection pipelines, other than crude oil volumes gathered on our SALA Gathering System, for a fee of $0.85 per barrel. For the El Dorado refined product pipelines, the minimum throughput commitment will be an aggregate of 40,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) of diesel or gasoline shipped on these pipelines for a fee of $0.10 per barrel.

 

   

SALA Gathering System. The minimum throughput commitment will be an aggregate of 14,000 bpd (on a quarterly average basis) of crude oil transported on the SALA Gathering System for a fee of $2.25 per barrel. Volumes gathered on the SALA Gathering System will not be subject to an additional fee for transportation on our Lion Pipeline System to the El Dorado refinery.

We are required to maintain the capabilities of our Lion Pipeline System such that Lion Oil may throughput at least 30,000 bpd (Magnolia Pipeline System), 60,000 bpd (El Dorado crude oil pipeline), 25,000 bpd (El Dorado gasoline pipeline) and 25,000 bpd (El Dorado diesel pipeline), in each case on a quarterly average basis, of crude oil or refined products, as the case may be, on the applicable pipeline and to maintain the SALA Gathering System and the rail connection pipeline in good working order. To the extent that (i) Lion Oil is prevented from throughputting at least such volumes on the Magnolia Pipeline System, on a quarterly average basis, for more than 30 days per year as a result of our failure to maintain capacities and (ii) the aggregate throughput capacity of the Magnolia Pipeline System and the El Dorado crude oil pipeline is less than 46,000 bpd, on a quarterly average basis, then Lion Oil’s aggregate throughput commitment for these pipelines will be reduced proportionately to the extent of the difference between such minimum throughput capacities and the actual available throughput capacities, prorated for the portion of the quarter during which throughput capacity was unavailable. With respect to the El Dorado crude oil pipeline and the El Dorado refined products pipelines, to the extent that Lion Oil is prevented from throughputting at least such volumes, on a quarterly average basis, for more than 30 days per year as a result of our failure to maintain capacities, its applicable minimum

 

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throughput commitment will be reduced proportionately to the extent of the difference between such capacity level and the actual available throughput capacity, prorated for the portion of the quarter during which throughput capacity was unavailable. Such reductions would occur even if actual throughput amounts were below the minimum volume commitment at such time.

Each throughput fee described above will be adjusted on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index.

During the term of the agreement, we will not be permitted to change the direction of any pipeline in the Lion Pipeline System or change, alter or modify the product service of our pipeline operations or their origination or destination points without Lion Oil’s prior written consent, which may not be unreasonably withheld. Additionally, if new laws or regulations are adopted that require us to make substantial and unanticipated capital expenditures (other than maintenance capital expenditures), we and Lion Oil will renegotiate in good faith the fees under the agreement to compensate us for the incremental expenditures.

A party will be in default under the agreement if (i) such party fails to pay when due amounts owed under the agreement; (ii) such party fails to perform any material obligation or covenant under the agreement, if not cured within ten business days; (iii) such party breaches any material representation or warranty under the agreement, if not cured within ten business days; or (iv) such party becomes insolvent, declares bankruptcy or takes any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, a similar proceeding. Additionally, we will be in default if we fail to complete maintenance of the storage tanks within the stated time under the agreement or allow to exist any liens on the crude oil or products stored in our tanks. With respect to Lion Oil or us, a change of control where the successor entity does not assume all obligations under the agreement or the creditworthiness of such surviving entity is materially weaker than Lion Oil or us, as the case may be, will also cause an event of default. If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the non-defaulting party will have the right to terminate the agreement. Additionally, if we are the defaulting party, Lion Oil will be entitled to suspend its payment and other obligations under the agreement and Lion Oil or its designee may reclaim any products or crude oil in our possession.

Under the agreement, we will indemnify Lion Oil for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) our handling, storage, transportation or disposal of any crude oil or products under the agreement; (iii) our failure to comply with any applicable law; or (iv) personal injury or property damage caused by us or our agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification.

Lion Oil will indemnify us for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by it of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) any failure by it to comply with any applicable law; or (iii) any personal injury or property damage caused by it or its agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification. Additionally, Lion Oil will indemnify us for any losses or liabilities arising out of Lion Oil’s default under the agreement. Recoveries by either party under the indemnity will be net of any insurance proceeds actually received by such party.

Pipelines and Tankage Agreement (East Texas Crude Logistics)

Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into a pipelines and tankage agreement with Delek Refining under which we will provide crude oil transportation and storage services for the Tyler refinery. Under the pipelines and tankage agreement, Delek Refining will be obligated to throughput aggregate volumes of crude oil of at least 35,000 bpd, calculated on a quarterly average basis, on our East Texas Crude Logistics System for a transportation fee of $0.40 per barrel. For any volumes in excess of 50,000 bpd, calculated on a quarterly average basis, Delek Refining will be required to pay an additional fee of $0.20 per barrel in excess of 50,000 bpd. In

 

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addition, Delek Refining will pay a storage fee of $250,000 per month for the use of our crude oil storage tanks along our East Texas Crude Logistics system. The throughput fees and the storage fee are subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index; provided, however, that the fees will not be adjusted below the initial amount.

We are required to maintain the capabilities of our East Texas Crude Logistics System such that Delek Refining may throughput at least 47,000 bpd, on a quarterly average basis, and store at least 600,000 barrels of crude oil. To the extent that Delek Refining is prevented from throughputting at least 47,000 bpd, on a quarterly average basis, or storing at least 600,000 barrels of crude oil for more than 30 days per year, as a result of our failure to maintain such capacities its minimum throughput commitment will be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between 47,000 bpd and the actual available throughput capacity, prorated for the portion of the quarter during which throughput capacity was unavailable, and/or the storage fee will be reduced by $0.4167 for each barrel by which 600,000 barrels exceeds the actual storage capacity, prorated for the portion of the month during which the storage capacity was unavailable. Such reduction would occur even if actual throughput or storage amounts were below the minimum volume commitment levels.

Under the agreement, we will be responsible for any volumetric losses in excess of 0.25%, and Delek Refining will be responsible for any volumetric losses up to 0.25% and entitled to any volumetric gains.

During the term of the agreement, we will not be permitted to change the direction of either pipeline in our East Texas Crude Logistics system or change, alter or modify the product service of our pipeline operations or their origination or destination points without Delek Refining’s prior written consent, which may not be unreasonably withheld. Additionally, if new laws or regulations are adopted that require us to make substantial and unanticipated capital expenditures (other than maintenance capital expenditures), we and Delek Refining will renegotiate in good faith the fees under the agreement to compensate us for the incremental expenditures.

The agreement permits us to provide transportation and storage services to third parties. However, the provision of such services will not be permitted unless such services are not reasonably likely to negatively affect Delek Refining’s ability to use the pipelines and tanks in our East Texas Crude Logistics System in accordance with the agreement. Prior to entering into an agreement with a third party, we will be required to obtain Delek Refining’s written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld. If we enter into a storage agreement with a third party, the storage fee payable by Delek Refining will be reduced by $0.4167 per barrel of storage capacity made available to the third party that reduces the storage capacity available to Delek Refining below 600,000 bbls.

The agreement will have an initial term of five years and may be extended, at Delek Refining’s option, for up to two additional five-year terms. If Delek Refining does not exercise its renewal option, we will have the right to enter into new agreements with third parties that would commence upon the expiration of the agreement. However, until the pipelines and tankage agreement is terminated, Delek Refining will have the right to enter into a new agreement with us on commercial terms that substantially match the terms upon which we propose to enter into any such agreements with third parties. The agreement is terminable by either party in the event of a material breach of any provision thereof by the other party that remains uncured for 15 days.

The agreement may be assigned by us or Delek Refining only with the other party’s prior written consent, except that Delek Refining may assign this agreement without our prior written consent in connection with a sale of the Tyler refinery and we may assign this agreement without Delek Refining’s prior written consent in connection with our sale of the pipelines and tanks in our East Texas Crude Logistics system, in each case, if the transferee agrees to assume all of the assigning party’s obligations under the agreement and is financially and operationally capable of fulfilling the assigning party’s obligations under the agreement. We and Delek Refining may also make a collateral assignment of the agreement solely to secure financing. In addition, we may not assign this agreement to one of Delek Refining’s competitors.

 

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Under the agreement, we will indemnify Delek Refining for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by us of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) our handling, storage, transportation or disposal of any crude oil under the agreement; (iii) our failure to comply with any applicable law; or (iv) personal injury or property damage caused by us or our agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification.

Delek Refining will indemnify us for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by it of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) any failure by it to comply with any applicable law; or (iii) any personal injury or property damage caused by it or its agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification. Recoveries by either party under the indemnity will be net of any insurance proceeds actually received by such party.

East Texas Marketing Agreement

Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into a marketing agreement with Delek Refining under which we will agree to market 100% of the output of the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke. This agreement will replace the current marketing agreement between Delek Refining and our predecessor. Under the marketing agreement, Delek Refining will be obligated to make available to us for marketing and sale at the Tyler refinery and/or our Big Sandy terminal an aggregate amount of refined products of at least 50,000 bpd, calculated on a quarterly average basis. In exchange for our marketing services, Delek Refining will pay us a base fee of $0.5964 per barrel of products it sells and has agreed to pay us 50% of the margin, if any, above an agreed base level generated on the sale as an incentive fee. The contract structure mirrors the structure in place historically between our predecessor and Delek pursuant to which we generated a total fee of approximately $0.66 per barrel for the year ended December 31, 2011, reflecting the base fee under the prior agreement of $0.5334 per barrel and the incentive fee structure under the prior agreement. Under our marketing agreement, the base fee will be subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of the change in the consumer price index.

The base fee and the incentive fee are payable by Delek Refining monthly. If Delek Refining fails to make available a volume of refined products equal to or exceeding the minimum volume commitment during any calendar quarter, Delek Refining will be required to pay us a shortfall payment quarterly equal to the volume of the shortfall multiplied by the base fee. Carry-over of any volumes in excess of the minimum volume commitment to any subsequent quarter is not permitted.

The agreement will have an initial term of 10 years and will automatically extend for additional one-year periods unless either party gives notice of termination at least 10 months prior to the end of the then-current term. The agreement is terminable by either party in the event of a material breach of any provision thereof by the other party that remains uncured for 15 days.

The agreement may be assigned by us or Delek Refining only with the other party’s prior written consent, except that Delek Refining may assign this agreement without our prior written consent in connection with its sale of the Tyler refinery and we may assign this agreement without Delek Refining’s prior written consent in connection with our sale of all or substantially all of our assets, in each case, if the transferee agrees to assume all of the assigning party’s obligations under the agreement and is financially and operationally capable of fulfilling the assigning party’s obligations under the agreement. We and Delek Refining may also make a collateral assignment of the agreement solely to secure financing. In addition, we may not assign this agreement to one of Delek Refining’s competitors.

 

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Under the agreement, we will indemnify Delek Refining for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by us of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) our handling of any refined products under the agreement; (iii) our failure to comply with any applicable law; or (iv) personal injury or property damage caused by us or our agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification.

Delek Refining will indemnify us for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by it of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) any failure by it to comply with any applicable law; or (iii) any personal injury or property damage caused by it or its agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification. Recoveries by either party under the indemnity will be net of any insurance proceeds actually received by such party.

Terminalling Services Agreement (Big Sandy Terminal)

Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into a terminalling services agreement with Delek Refining under which we will provide Delek Refining exclusive use of our Big Sandy terminal. Under the terminalling services agreement, Delek Refining will be obligated to throughput aggregate volumes of refined products of at least 5,000 bpd, calculated on a quarterly average basis, for a terminalling service fee of $0.50 per barrel. In addition, Delek Refining will pay a storage fee of $50,000 per month. We also will perform such additional ancillary services as are requested by Delek Refining for the rates set forth in the agreement or as we otherwise agree. All fees under the agreement are subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index.

We are required to maintain the capabilities of our Big Sandy terminal such that Delek Refining may throughput at least 6,000 bpd, on a quarterly average basis, and store at least 87,000 barrels of refined products. To the extent that Delek Refining is prevented from throughputting at least 6,000 bpd, on a quarterly average basis, or storing at least 87,000 barrels of refined products for more than 30 days per year as a result of our failure to maintain such capacities, its minimum throughput commitment will be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between 6,000 bpd and the actual available throughput capacity, prorated for the portion of the quarter during which throughput capacity was unavailable, and/or the storage fee will be reduced by $0.57 for each barrel by which 87,000 barrels exceeds the actual storage capacity, prorated for the portion of the month during which the storage capacity was unavailable. Such reduction would occur even if actual throughput or storage amounts were below the minimum volume commitment levels.

Under the agreement, we will be responsible for any volumetric losses in excess of 0.25%, and Delek Refining will be responsible for any volumetric losses up to 0.25% and entitled to any volumetric gains.

The agreement will have an initial term of five years from the commencement date and may be extended at Delek Refining’s option for up to two additional five-year terms. Each party will have the right to terminate the agreement upon a material breach or default by the other party which remains uncured for 15 days following notice of such breach or default.

The agreement may be assigned by us or Delek Refining only with the other party’s prior written consent, except that Delek Refining may assign this agreement without our prior written consent in connection with its sale of the Tyler refinery and we may assign this agreement without Delek Refining’s prior written consent in connection with our sale of the Big Sandy terminal, in each case, if the transferee agrees to assume all of the assigning party’s obligations under the agreement and is financially and operationally capable of fulfilling the assigning party’s obligations under the agreement. We and Delek Refining may also make a collateral assignment of the agreement solely to secure financing. In addition, we may not assign this agreement to one of Delek Refining’s competitors.

 

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Under the agreement, we will indemnify Delek Refining for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by us of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) our handling, storage transportation or disposal of any refined products under the agreement; (iii) any failure to comply with any applicable law; or (iv) personal injury or property damage caused by us or our agents in the exercise of any rights hereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification.

Delek Refining will indemnify us for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by it of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) any failure by it to comply with any applicable law; or (iii) any personal injury or property damage caused by Delek Refining or its agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification. Recoveries by either party under the indemnity will be net of any insurance proceeds actually received by such party.

Terminalling Services Agreement (Memphis Terminal)

Upon the closing of this offering, we will enter into a terminalling services agreement with Lion Oil under which we will provide Lion Oil the non-exclusive use of our Memphis terminal. Under the terminalling services agreement, Lion Oil will be obligated to throughput aggregate volumes of refined products of at least 10,000 bpd, calculated on a quarterly average basis, for a terminalling service fee of $0.50 per barrel. We also will perform such additional ancillary services as are requested by Lion Oil for the rates set forth in the agreement or as we otherwise agree. All fees under the agreement are subject to increase or decrease on August 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2013, by the amount of any change in the FERC oil pipeline index.

We are required to maintain the capabilities of our Memphis terminal such that Lion Oil may throughput at least 10,000 bpd, on a quarterly average basis. To the extent that Lion Oil is prevented from throughputting at least 10,000 bpd, on a quarterly average basis, for more than 30 days per year, as a result of our failure to maintain such capacities, its minimum throughput commitment will be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between 10,000 bpd and the actual available throughput capacity, prorated for the portion of the quarter during which throughput capacity was unavailable. Such reduction would occur even if actual throughput were below the minimum volume commitment levels.

The agreement will have an initial term of five years which may be extended at Lion Oil’s option for up to two additional five-year terms.

A party will be in default under the agreement if (i) such party fails to pay when due amounts owed under the agreement; (ii) such party fails to perform any material obligation or covenant under the agreement, if not cured within ten business days; (iii) such party breaches any material representation or warranty under the agreement, if not cured within ten business days; or (iv) such party becomes insolvent, declares bankruptcy or takes any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, a similar proceeding. Additionally, we will be in default if we fail to complete maintenance of the terminal within the stated time under the agreement or allow to exist any liens on the products at the terminal. With respect to Lion Oil or us, a change of control where the successor entity does not assume all obligations under the agreement or the creditworthiness of such surviving entity is materially weaker than Lion Oil or us, as the case may be, will also cause an event of default. If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the non-defaulting party will have the right to terminate the agreement.

Under the agreement, we will indemnify Lion Oil for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) our handling, storage transportation or disposal of any refined products under the agreement; (iii) any failure to comply with any applicable law; or (iv) personal injury or property damage caused by us or our agents in the exercise of any rights hereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification.

 

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Lion Oil will indemnify us for any losses or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other fees, court costs or disbursements) arising out of (i) any breach by it of a covenant or agreement or any representation or warranty under the agreement; (ii) any failure by it to comply with any applicable law; or (iii) any personal injury or property damage caused by Lion Oil or its agents in the exercise of any rights thereunder, except to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification. Recoveries by either party under the indemnity will be net of any insurance proceeds actually received by such party.

El Dorado Refinery Crude Oil and Refined Products Supply and Offtake Arrangement

Pursuant to a supply and offtake arrangement among Delek, Lion Oil, J. Aron & Company, or Aron, and certain other parties, Aron acquires and holds title to crude oil and refined products transported on our Lion Pipeline System and SALA Gathering System or terminalled in our Memphis terminal, and Aron has agreed to sell the crude oil to Lion Oil and refined products to Lion Oil. Under our agreements with Lion Oil relating to the Lion Pipeline System, the SALA Gathering System and the Memphis terminal, Lion Oil is permitted and intends to grant to Aron the exclusive right to have Aron’s crude oil and refined products stored in or transported on or through these systems and the Memphis terminal, with Lion Oil acting as Aron’s agent for scheduling purposes. Aron will retain these storage and transportation rights for the term of the supply and offtake arrangement. The rights assigned or granted to Aron will not alter our obligations to Delek or Lion Oil or Delek or Lion Oil’s obligations to us, including Lion Oil’s obligations to make payments to us under our agreements with respect to the transportation and storage of crude oil and refined products through our facilities.

Other Related Party Transactions

In connection with our acquisition of the McMurrey Pipeline System from Delek Refining and certain of its subsidiaries in March 2009, Delek Refining and such subsidiaries agreed to make a quarterly payment of approximately $0.2 million through June 30, 2029 to reimburse us for the tax consequences resulting from the depreciation expense that will not be incurred as a result of such acquisition. For the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three months ended March 31, 2012, these fees totaled approximately $0.8 million and $0.2 million, respectively.

Review, Approval or Ratification of Transactions with Related Persons

The board of directors of our general partner expects to adopt a written related party transactions policy to document procedures pursuant to which “related party transactions” are reviewed, approved or ratified. Under Item 404 of Regulation S-K, a “related party transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions in which we are a participant, the amount involved exceeds $120,000, and any related person has a direct or indirect material interest. The policy covers all transactions between us and any related party (including any transactions requiring disclosure under Item 404), other than transactions generally available to all employees and transactions involving less than $5,000, when aggregated with all similar transactions.

The policy is expected to state that, in most instances, the conflicts committee is best suited to review and approve related party transactions that may arise within our partnership. However, the policy permits the disinterested members of the board of directors of our general partner to exercise any authority otherwise assigned to the conflicts committee by the policy. In particular, the board of directors of our general partner believes that any related party transaction in which any director is interested should typically be reviewed and approved by all disinterested members of the board. An interested director is not allowed to vote upon a transaction in which he is involved. Depending upon the issue presented, the disinterested members of the board may request to hear from the interested director during the course of its deliberations, but the interested director does not vote upon the matter and is not present during the vote on the matter.

A related party transaction may be consummated only if it is ratified or approved by the conflicts committee or disinterested members of the board of directors of our general partner and if it is on terms comparable to those that could be obtained in arm’s length dealings with an unrelated third party.

 

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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND DUTIES

Conflicts of Interest

Conflicts of interest exist and may arise in the future as a result of the relationships between our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, on the one hand, and us and our limited partners, on the other hand. The directors and officers of our general partner have fiduciary duties to manage our general partner in a manner beneficial to its owners. At the same time, our general partner has a duty to manage us in a manner beneficial to us and our limited partners. The Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, which we refer to as the Delaware Act, provides that Delaware limited partnerships may, in their partnership agreements, expand, restrict or eliminate the fiduciary duties otherwise owed by a general partner to limited partners and the partnership. Pursuant to these provisions, our partnership agreement contains various provisions replacing the fiduciary duties that would otherwise be owed by our general partner with contractual standards governing the duties of the general partner and the methods of resolving conflicts of interest. Our partnership agreement also specifically defines the remedies available to limited partners for actions taken that, without these defined liability standards, might constitute breaches of fiduciary duty under applicable Delaware law.

Whenever a conflict arises between our general partner or its affiliates, on the one hand, and us or any other partner, on the other hand, our general partner will resolve that conflict. Our general partner may seek the approval of such resolution from the conflicts committee of the board of directors of our general partner. There is no requirement that our general partner seek the approval of the conflicts committee for the resolution of any conflict, and, under our partnership agreement, our general partner may decide to seek such approval or resolve a conflict of interest in any other way permitted by our partnership agreement, as described below, in its sole discretion. Our general partner will decide whether to refer the matter to the conflicts committee on a case-by-case basis. An independent third party is not required to evaluate the fairness of the resolution.

Our general partner will not be in breach of its obligations under the partnership agreement or its duties to us or our limited partners if the resolution of the conflict is:

 

   

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approved by the vote of a majority of the outstanding common units, excluding any common units owned by our general partner or any of its affiliates;

 

   

determined by the board of directors of our general partner to be on terms no less favorable to us than those generally being provided to or available from unrelated third parties; or

 

   

determined by the board of directors of our general partner to be fair and reasonable to us, taking into account the totality of the relationships between the parties involved, including other transactions that may be particularly favorable or advantageous to us.

If our general partner does not seek approval from the conflicts committee and our general partner’s board of directors determines that the resolution or course of action taken with respect to the conflict of interest satisfies either of the standards set forth in the third and fourth bullet points above, then it will be presumed that, in making its decision, the board of directors of our general partner acted in good faith, and in any proceeding brought by or on behalf of any limited partner or the partnership challenging such determination, the person bringing or prosecuting such proceeding will have the burden of overcoming such presumption. Unless the resolution of a conflict is specifically provided for in our partnership agreement, our general partner or the conflicts committee of our general partner’s board of directors may consider any factors it determines in good faith to consider when resolving a conflict. When our partnership agreement requires someone to act in good faith, it requires that person to subjectively believe that he is acting in the best interests of the partnership or

 

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meets the specified standard, for example, a transaction on terms no less favorable to the partnership than those generally being provided to or available from unrelated third parties. Please read “Management—Committees of the Board of Directors—Conflicts Committee” for information about the conflicts committee of our general partner’s board of directors.

Conflicts of interest could arise in the situations described below, among others.

Neither our partnership agreement nor any other agreement requires Delek to pursue a business strategy that favors us or utilizes our assets or dictates what markets to pursue or grow. Delek’s directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to make these decisions in the best interests of Delek, which may be contrary to our interests.

Because the officers and directors of our general partner are also directors and/or officers of Delek, such directors and officers have fiduciary duties to Delek that may cause them to pursue business strategies that disproportionately benefit Delek or which otherwise are not in our best interests

Contracts between us, on the one hand, and our general partner and its affiliates, on the other hand, are not and will not be the result of arm’s-length negotiations.

Neither our partnership agreement nor any of the other agreements, contracts and arrangements between us and our general partner and its affiliates are or will be the result of arm’s-length negotiations. Our partnership agreement generally provides that any affiliated transaction, such as an agreement, contract or arrangement between us and our general partner and its affiliates that does not receive unitholder or conflicts committee approval, must be determined by the board of directors of our general partner to be:

 

   

on terms no less favorable to us than those generally being provided to or available from unrelated third parties; or

 

   

“fair and reasonable” to us, taking into account the totality of the relationships between the parties involved (including other transactions that may be particularly favorable or advantageous to us).

Our general partner and its affiliates have no obligation to permit us to use any facilities or assets of our general partner and its affiliates, except as may be provided in contracts entered into specifically dealing with that use. Our general partner may also enter into additional contractual arrangements with any of its affiliates on our behalf. There is no obligation of our general partner and its affiliates to enter into any contracts of this kind.

Our general partner’s affiliates may compete with us and neither our general partner nor its affiliates have any obligation to present business opportunities to us.

Our partnership agreement provides that our general partner is restricted from engaging in any business activities other than those incidental to its ownership of interests in us. However, except as provided in the omnibus agreement, certain affiliates of our general partner, including Delek, are not prohibited from engaging in other businesses or activities, including those that might directly compete with us. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.” In addition, under our partnership agreement, the doctrine of corporate opportunity, or any analogous doctrine, will not apply to the general partner and its affiliates. As a result, neither the general partner nor any of its affiliates have any obligation to present business opportunities to us.

Our general partner is allowed to take into account the interests of parties other than us, such as Delek, in resolving conflicts of interest.

Our partnership agreement contains provisions that permissibly modify and reduce the standards to which our general partner would otherwise be held by state fiduciary duty law. For example, our partnership agreement permits our general partner to make a number of decisions in its individual capacity, as opposed to in its capacity as our general partner or otherwise, free of any duty or obligation whatsoever to us and our

 

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unitholders, including any duty to act in the best interests of us or our unitholders, other than the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing, which means that a court will enforce the reasonable expectations of the partners where the language in the partnership agreement does not provide for a clear course of action. This entitles our general partner to consider only the interests and factors that it desires and relieves it of any duty or obligation to give any consideration to any interest of, or factors affecting, us, our affiliates or any limited partner. Examples of decisions that our general partner may make in its individual capacity include the allocation of corporate opportunities among us and our affiliates, the exercise of its limited call right or its voting rights with respect to the units it owns, whether to reset target distribution levels, whether to transfer the incentive distribution rights or any units it owns to a third party and whether or not to consent to any merger, consolidation or conversion of the partnership or amendment to the partnership agreement.

We do not have any officers or employees and rely solely on officers and employees of our general partner and its affiliates.

Affiliates of our general partner conduct businesses and activities of their own in which we have no economic interest. There could be material competition for the time and effort of the officers and employees who provide services to our general partner.

All of the initial officers and a majority of the initial directors of our general partner are also officers and/or directors of Delek. These officers will devote such portion of their productive time to our business and affairs as is required to manage and conduct our operations. These officers are also required to devote time to the affairs of Delek or its subsidiaries and are compensated by them for the services rendered to them. Our non-executive directors devote as much time as is necessary to prepare for and attend board of directors and committee meetings.

Our partnership agreement replaces the fiduciary duties that would otherwise be owed by our general partner with contractual standards governing its duties and limits our general partner’s liabilities and the remedies available to our unitholders for actions that, without the limitations, might constitute breaches of fiduciary duty under applicable Delaware law.

In addition to the provisions described above, our partnership agreement contains provisions that restrict the remedies available to our limited partners for actions that might constitute breaches of fiduciary duty under applicable Delaware law. For example, our partnership agreement:

 

   

permits our general partner to make a number of decisions in its individual capacity, as opposed to in its capacity as our general partner. This entitles our general partner to consider only the interests and factors that it desires, and it has no duty or obligation to give any consideration to any interest of, or factors affecting, us, our affiliates or any limited partner;

 

   

provides that the general partner shall not have any liability to us or our limited partners for decisions made in its capacity so long as such decisions are made in good faith;

 

   

generally provides that in a situation involving a transaction with an affiliate or a conflict of interest, any determination by our general partner must be made in good faith. If an affiliate transaction or the resolution of a conflict of interest is not approved by our public common unitholders or the conflicts committee and the board of directors of our general partner determines that the resolution or course of action taken with respect to the affiliate transaction or conflict of interest is either on terms no less favorable to us than those generally being provided to or available from unrelated third parties or is “fair and reasonable” to us, considering the totality of the relationships between the parties involved, including other transactions that may be particularly advantageous or beneficial to us, then it will be presumed that in making its decision, the board of directors of our general partner acted in good faith, and in any proceeding brought by or on behalf of any limited partner or us challenging such decision, the person bringing or prosecuting such proceeding will have the burden of overcoming such presumption; and

 

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provides that our general partner and its officers and directors will not be liable for monetary damages to us or our limited partners resulting from any act or omission unless there has been a final and non-appealable judgment entered by a court of competent jurisdiction determining that our general partner or its officers or directors, as the cases may be, acted in bad faith or engaged in fraud or willful misconduct or, in the case of a criminal matter, acted with knowledge that the conduct was criminal.

By purchasing a common unit, a common unitholder will be deemed to have agreed to become bound by the provisions in the partnership agreement, including the provisions discussed above.

Except in limited circumstances, our general partner has the power and authority to conduct our business without unitholder approval.

Under our partnership agreement, our general partner has full power and authority to do all things, other than those items that require unitholder approval or with respect to which our general partner has sought conflicts committee approval, on such terms as it determines to be necessary or appropriate to conduct our business including, but not limited to, the following:

 

   

the making of any expenditures, the lending or borrowing of money, the assumption or guarantee of, or other contracting for, indebtedness and other liabilities, the issuance of evidences of indebtedness, including indebtedness that is convertible into or exchangeable for equity interests of the partnership, and the incurring of any other obligations;

 

   

the making of tax, regulatory and other filings, or rendering of periodic or other reports to governmental or other agencies having jurisdiction over our business or assets;

 

   

the acquisition, disposition, mortgage, pledge, encumbrance, hypothecation or exchange of any or all of our assets or the merger or other combination of us with or into another person;

 

   

the negotiation, execution and performance of any contracts, conveyances or other instruments;

 

   

the distribution of cash held by the partnership;

 

   

the selection and dismissal of employees and agents, outside attorneys, accountants, consultants and contractors and the determination of their compensation and other terms of employment or hiring;

 

   

the maintenance of insurance for our benefit and the benefit of our partners and indemnitees;

 

   

the formation of, or acquisition of an interest in, and the contribution of property and the making of loans to, any further limited or general partnerships, joint ventures, corporations, limited liability companies or other entities;

 

   

the control of any matters affecting our rights and obligations, including the bringing and defending of actions at law or in equity and otherwise engaging in the conduct of litigation, arbitration or mediation and the incurring of legal expense and the settlement of claims and litigation;

 

   

the indemnification of any person against liabilities and contingencies to the extent permitted by law;

 

   

the purchase, sale or other acquisition or disposition of our equity interests, or the issuance of additional options, rights, warrants and appreciation rights relating to our equity interests; and

 

   

the entering into of agreements with any of its affiliates to render services to us or to itself in the discharge of its duties as our general partner.

 

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Please read “The Partnership Agreement” for information regarding the voting rights of unitholders.

Actions taken by our general partner may affect the amount of cash available to pay distributions to unitholders or accelerate the right to convert subordinated units.

The amount of cash that is available for distribution to unitholders is affected by decisions of our general partner regarding such matters as:

 

   

amount and timing of asset purchases and sales;

 

   

cash expenditures;

 

   

borrowings;

 

   

issuance of additional units; and

 

   

the creation, reduction or increase of reserves in any quarter.

Our general partner determines the amount and timing of any capital expenditures and whether a capital expenditure is classified as a maintenance capital expenditure, which reduces operating surplus, or an expansion capital expenditure, which does not reduce operating surplus. This determination can affect the amount of cash that is distributed to our unitholders and to our general partner and the ability of the subordinated units to convert into common units.

In addition, our general partner may use an amount, initially equal to $         million, which would not otherwise constitute available cash from operating surplus or capital surplus, in order to permit the payment of cash distributions on its units and incentive distributions rights. All of these actions may affect the amount of cash distributed to our unitholders and our general partner and may facilitate the conversion of subordinated units into common units.

In addition, borrowings by us and our affiliates do not constitute a breach of any duty owed by our general partner to our unitholders, including borrowings that have the purpose or effect of:

 

   

enabling our general partner or its affiliates to receive distributions on any subordinated units held by them or the incentive distribution rights; or

 

   

hastening the expiration of the subordination period.

For example, in the event we have not generated sufficient cash from our operations to pay the minimum quarterly distribution on our common units and our subordinated units, our partnership agreement permits us to borrow funds, which would enable us to make this distribution on all outstanding units. Please read “Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions—Subordination Period.”

Our partnership agreement provides that we and our subsidiaries may borrow funds from our general partner and its affiliates, but may not lend funds to our general partner or its affiliates.

Delek’s inability to suspend or reduce its obligations under its commercial agreements with us in connection with the shutdown of its refineries or to claim a force majeure event during the three-year period following the closing of this offering increases the likelihood of the conversion of the subordinated units.

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the shutdown of the Tyler or El Dorado refineries for any reason other a force majeure event that affects our ability to perform services under any of the agreements. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek.” The inability of Delek to suspend or reduce its obligations or to claim a force majeure event during the three-year period following the closing of this offering increases the likelihood of the conversion of the subordinated units.

We reimburse our general partner and its affiliates for expenses.

We reimburse our general partner and its affiliates for costs incurred in managing and operating us, including costs incurred in rendering corporate staff and support services to us. Our partnership agreement provides that our general partner will determine in good faith the expenses that are allocable to us. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.”

Our general partner intends to limit its liability regarding our obligations.

Our general partner intends to limit its liability under contractual arrangements so that the other party to such agreements has recourse only to our assets and not against our general partner or its assets or any affiliate of our general partner or its assets. Our partnership agreement permits our general partner to limit its or our liability, even if we could have obtained terms that are more favorable without the limitation on liability.

Common units are subject to our general partner’s limited call right.

Our general partner may exercise its right to call and purchase common units as provided in the partnership agreement or assign this right to one of its affiliates or to us free of any liability or obligation to us or our partners. As a result, a common unitholder may have his common units purchased from him at an undesirable time or price. Please read “The Partnership Agreement—Limited Call Right.”

Limited partners have no right to enforce obligations of our general partner and its affiliates under agreements with us.

Any agreements between us, on the one hand, and our general partner and its affiliates, on the other, will not grant to the limited partners, separate and apart from us, the right to enforce the obligations of our general partner and its affiliates in our favor.

We may choose not to retain separate counsel, accountants or others for ourselves or for the holders of common units.

The attorneys, independent accountants and others who perform services for us have been retained by our general partner. Attorneys, independent accountants and others who perform services for us are selected by our general partner or the conflicts committee and may also perform services for our general partner and its affiliates. We may retain separate counsel for ourselves or the holders of common units in the event of a conflict of interest between our general partner and its affiliates, on the one hand, and us or the holders of common units, on the other, depending on the nature of the conflict. We do not intend to do so in most cases.

Our general partner may elect to cause us to issue common units to it in connection with a resetting of the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels related to our general partner’s incentive distribution rights without the approval of the conflicts committee of our general partner or our unitholders. This may result in lower distributions to our common unitholders in certain situations.

Our general partner has the right, at any time when there are no subordinated units outstanding, it has received incentive distributions at the highest level to which it is entitled (48.0%) for each of the prior four consecutive fiscal quarters and the amount of each such distribution did not exceed the adjusted operating surplus

 

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for such quarter, respectively, to reset the initial minimum quarterly distribution and cash target distribution levels at higher levels based on the average cash distribution amount per common unit for the two fiscal quarters prior to the exercise of the reset election. Following a reset election by our general partner, the minimum quarterly distribution amount will be reset to an amount equal to the average cash distribution amount per common unit for the two fiscal quarters immediately preceding the reset election (such amount is referred to as the “reset minimum quarterly distribution”) and the target distribution levels will be reset to correspondingly higher levels based on percentage increases above the reset minimum quarterly distribution amount. We anticipate that our general partner would exercise this reset right in order to facilitate acquisitions or internal growth projects that would not be sufficiently accretive to cash distributions per common unit without such conversion; however, it is possible that our general partner could exercise this reset election at a time when we are experiencing declines in our aggregate cash distributions or at a time when our general partner expects that we will experience declines in our aggregate cash distributions in the foreseeable future. In such situations, our general partner may be experiencing, or may be expected to experience, declines in the cash distributions it receives related to its incentive distribution rights and may therefore desire to be issued our common units, which are entitled to specified priorities with respect to our distributions and which therefore may be more advantageous for the general partner to own in lieu of the right to receive incentive distribution payments based on target distribution levels that are less certain to be achieved in the then current business environment. As a result, a reset election may cause our common unitholders to experience dilution in the amount of cash distributions that they would have otherwise received had we not issued new common units to our general partner in connection with resetting the target distribution levels related to our general partner incentive distribution rights. Please read “Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions—General Partner Interest—Incentive Distribution Rights.”

Duties of the General Partner

The Delaware Act provides that Delaware limited partnerships may, in their partnership agreements, expand, restrict or eliminate the fiduciary duties otherwise owed by a general partner to limited partners and the partnership.

Pursuant to these provisions, our partnership agreement contains various provisions replacing the fiduciary duties that would otherwise be owed by our general partner with contractual standards governing the duties of the general partner and the methods of resolving conflicts of interest. We have adopted these provisions to allow our general partner or its affiliates to engage in transactions with us that otherwise might be prohibited or restricted by state-law fiduciary standards and to take into account the interests of other parties in addition to our interests when resolving conflicts of interest. We believe this is appropriate and necessary because the board of directors of our general partner has fiduciary duties to manage our general partner in a manner beneficial both to its owner, Delek, as well as to our limited partners. Without these provisions, the general partner’s ability to make decisions involving conflicts of interests would be restricted. These provisions benefit our general partner by enabling it to take into consideration all parties involved in the proposed action. These provisions also strengthen the ability of our general partner to attract and retain experienced and capable directors. These provisions represent a detriment to the limited partners, however, because they restrict the remedies available to limited partners for actions that, without those provisions, might constitute breaches of fiduciary duty, as described below and permit our general partner to take into account the interests of third parties in addition to our interests when resolving conflicted interests. The following is a summary of:

 

   

the fiduciary duties imposed on general partners of a limited partnership by the Delaware Act in the absence of partnership agreement provisions to the contrary;

 

   

the contractual duties of our general partner contained in our partnership agreement that replace the fiduciary duties that would otherwise be imposed by Delaware law on our general partner; and

 

   

certain rights and remedies of limited partners contained in the Delaware Act.

 

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State law fiduciary duty standards

Fiduciary duties are generally considered to include an obligation to act in good faith and with due care and loyalty. The duty of care, in the absence of a provision in a partnership agreement providing otherwise, would generally require a general partner of a Delaware limited partnership to use that amount of care that an ordinarily careful and prudent person would use in similar circumstances and to consider all material information reasonably available in making business decisions. The duty of loyalty, in the absence of a provision in a partnership agreement providing otherwise, would generally prohibit a general partner of a Delaware limited partnership from taking any action or engaging in any transaction where a conflict of interest is present unless such transaction were entirely fair to the partnership.

Partnership agreement standards

Our partnership agreement contains provisions that waive or consent to conduct by our general partner and its affiliates that might otherwise raise issues as to compliance with fiduciary duties or applicable law. For example, our partnership agreement provides that when our general partner is acting in its capacity as our general partner, as opposed to in its individual capacity, it must act in “good faith,” meaning that it subjectively believed that the decision was in our best interests, and will not be subject to any other standard under applicable law, other than the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. In addition, when our general partner is acting in its individual capacity, as opposed to in its capacity as our general partner, it may act free of any duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, other than the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. These standards reduce the obligations to which our general partner would otherwise be held under applicable Delaware law.

Our partnership agreement generally provides that affiliated transactions and resolutions of conflicts of interest not approved by the public common unitholders or the conflicts committee of the board of directors of our general partner must be determined by the board of directors of our general partner to be:

 

   

on terms no less favorable to us than those generally being provided to or available from unrelated third parties; or

 

   

“fair and reasonable” to us, taking into account the totality of the relationships between the parties involved (including other transactions that may be particularly favorable or advantageous to us).

If our general partner does not seek approval from the public common unitholders or the conflicts committee and the board of directors of our general partner determines that the resolution or course of action taken with respect to the conflict of interest satisfies either of the standards set forth in the bullet points above, then it will be presumed that, in making its decision, the board of directors of our general partner acted in good faith, and in any proceeding brought by or on behalf of any limited partner or the partnership challenging such determination, the person bringing or prosecuting such proceeding will have the burden of overcoming such presumption. These standards reduce the obligations to which our general partner would otherwise be held. In addition to the other more specific provisions limiting the obligations of our general partner, our partnership agreement further provides that our general partner, its affiliates and their officers and directors will not be liable for monetary damages to us or, our limited partners for losses sustained or liabilities incurred as a result of any acts or omissions unless there has been a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction determining that such person acted in bad faith or engaged in fraud or willful misconduct or, in the case of a criminal matter, acted with knowledge that the conduct was criminal.

Rights and remedies of limited partners

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action or where an effort to cause a general partner to do so is not likely to succeed. These actions include actions against a general partner for breach of its fiduciary duties, if any, or of the partnership agreement. In addition, the statutory or case law of some jurisdictions may permit a limited partner to institute legal action on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated limited partners to recover damages from a general partner for violations of its fiduciary duties to the limited partners.

A transferee of or other person acquiring a common unit will be deemed to have agreed to be bound, by the provisions in the partnership agreement, including the provisions discussed above. Please read “Description of the Common Units—Transfer of Common Units.” This is in accordance with the policy of the Delaware Act favoring the principle of freedom of contract and the enforceability of partnership agreements. The failure of a limited partner to sign our partnership agreement does not render the partnership agreement unenforceable against that person.

Under the partnership agreement, we must indemnify our general partner and its officers, directors and managers, to the fullest extent permitted by law, against liabilities, costs and expenses incurred by our general partner or these other persons. We must provide this indemnification unless there has been a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction determining that these persons acted in bad faith or engaged in fraud or willful misconduct. We also must provide this indemnification for criminal proceedings unless our general partner or these other persons acted with knowledge that their conduct was unlawful. Thus, our general partner could be indemnified for its negligent acts if it meets the requirements set forth above. To the extent that these provisions purport to include indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is contrary to public policy and therefore unenforceable. If you have questions regarding the duties of our general partner please read “The Partnership Agreement—Indemnification.”

 

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DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMON UNITS

The Units

The common units and the subordinated units are separate classes of limited partner interests in us. The holders of units are entitled to participate in partnership distributions and exercise the rights or privileges available to limited partners under our partnership agreement. For a description of the relative rights and preferences of holders of common units and subordinated units in and to partnership distributions, please read this section and “Our Cash Distribution Policy and Restrictions on Distributions.” For a description of the rights and privileges of limited partners under our partnership agreement, including voting rights, please read “The Partnership Agreement.”

Transfer Agent and Registrar

Duties

American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC will serve as registrar and transfer agent for the common units. We will pay all fees charged by the transfer agent for transfers of common units except the following that must be paid by unitholders:

 

   

surety bond premiums to replace lost or stolen certificates, taxes and other governmental charges;

 

   

special charges for services requested by a common unitholder; and

 

   

other similar fees or charges.

There will be no charge to unitholders for disbursements of our cash distributions. We will indemnify the transfer agent, its agents and each of their stockholders, directors, officers and employees against all claims and losses that may arise out of acts performed or omitted for its activities in that capacity, except for any liability due to any gross negligence or intentional misconduct of the indemnified person or entity.

Resignation or Removal

The transfer agent may resign, by notice to us, or be removed by us. The resignation or removal of the transfer agent will become effective upon our appointment of a successor transfer agent and registrar and its acceptance of the appointment. If no successor has been appointed and has accepted the appointment within 30 days after notice of the resignation or removal, our general partner may act as the transfer agent and registrar until a successor is appointed.

Transfer of Common Units

By transfer of common units in accordance with our partnership agreement, each transferee of common units shall be admitted as a limited partner with respect to the common units transferred when such transfer admission is reflected in our register and such limited partner becomes the record holder of the common units so transferred. Each transferee:

 

   

will become bound and will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of our partnership agreement;

 

   

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makes the consents, acknowledgements and waivers contained in our partnership agreement, such as the approval of all transactions and agreements we are entering into in connection with our formation and this offering

all with or without executing our partnership agreement.

We are entitled to treat the nominee holder of a common unit as the absolute owner in the event such nominee is the record holder of such common unit. In that case, the beneficial holder’s rights are limited solely to those that it has against the nominee holder as a result of any agreement between the beneficial owner and the nominee holder.

Common units are securities and are transferable according to the laws governing transfer of securities. Until a common unit has been transferred on our register, we and the transfer agent may treat the record holder of the unit as the absolute owner for all purposes, except as otherwise required by law or stock exchange regulations.

 

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THE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

The following is a summary of the material provisions of our partnership agreement. The form of our partnership agreement is included in this prospectus as Appendix A. We will provide prospective investors with a copy of our partnership agreement upon request at no charge.

We summarize the following provisions of our partnership agreement elsewhere in this prospectus:

 

   

with regard to distributions of available cash, please read “Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions”;

 

   

with regard to the duties of our general partner, please read “Conflicts of Interest and Duties”;

 

   

with regard to the transfer of common units, please read “Description of the Common Units—Transfer of Common Units”; and

 

   

with regard to allocations of taxable income and taxable loss, please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences.”

Organization and Duration

Our partnership was organized on April 24, 2012 and will have a perpetual existence unless terminated pursuant to the terms of our partnership agreement.

Purpose

Our purpose under the partnership agreement is limited to any business activity that is approved by our general partner and that lawfully may be conducted by a limited partnership organized under Delaware law; provided that our general partner shall not cause us to engage, directly or indirectly, in any business activity that our general partner determines would be reasonably likely to cause us to be treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxable as an entity for federal income tax purposes.

Although our general partner has the ability to cause us and our subsidiaries to engage in activities other than the business of gathering, transporting and storing crude oil and distributing, marketing, transporting and storing refined products, our general partner has no current plans to do so and may decline to do so free of any duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, including any duty to act in the best interests of us or the limited partners, other than the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Our general partner is authorized in general to perform all acts it determines to be necessary or appropriate to carry out our purposes and to conduct our business.

Capital Contributions

Unitholders are not obligated to make additional capital contributions, except as described below under “—Limited Liability.”

For a discussion of our general partner’s right to contribute capital to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest if we issue additional units, please read “—Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests.”

Voting Rights

The following is a summary of the unitholder vote required for the matters specified below. Matters requiring the approval of a “unit majority” require:

 

   

during the subordination period, the approval of a majority of the outstanding common units, excluding those common units held by our general partner and its affiliates, and a majority of the outstanding subordinated units, voting as separate classes; and

 

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after the subordination period, the approval of a majority of the outstanding common units.

In voting their common and subordinated units, our general partner and its affiliates will have no duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, including any duty to act in the best interests of us or the limited partners, other than the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

 

Issuance of additional units

No unitholder approval right.

 

Amendment of the partnership agreement

Certain amendments may be made by the general partner without the approval of the unitholders. Other amendments generally require the approval of a unit majority. Please read “—Amendment of the Partnership Agreement.”

 

Merger of our partnership or the sale of all or substantially all of our assets

Unit majority in certain circumstances. Please read “—Merger, Consolidation, Conversion, Sale or Other Disposition of Assets.”

 

Dissolution of our partnership

Unit majority. Please read “—Termination and Dissolution.”

 

Continuation of our business upon dissolution

Unit majority. Please read “—Termination and Dissolution.”

 

Withdrawal of the general partner

Under most circumstances, the approval of unitholders holding at least a majority of the outstanding common units, excluding common units held by our general partner and its affiliates, is required for the withdrawal of our general partner prior to September 30, 2022 in a manner that would cause a dissolution of our partnership. Please read “—Withdrawal or Removal of the General Partner.”

 

Removal of the general partner

Not less than 66 2/3% of the outstanding units, voting as a single class, including units held by our general partner and its affiliates. Please read “—Withdrawal or Removal of the General Partner.”

 

Transfer of the general partner interest

Our general partner may transfer any or all of its general partner interest in us without a vote of our unitholders. Please read “—Transfer of General Partner Units.”

 

Transfer of incentive distribution rights

Our general partner may transfer any or all of the incentive distribution rights without a vote of our unitholders. Please read “—Transfer of Incentive Distribution Rights.”

 

Reset of incentive distribution levels

No unitholder approval required.

 

Transfer of ownership interests in our general partner

No unitholder approval required. Please read “—Transfer of Ownership Interests in the General Partner.”

 

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Limited Liability

Assuming that a limited partner does not participate in the control of our business within the meaning of the Delaware Act and that he otherwise acts in conformity with the provisions of the partnership agreement, his liability under the Delaware Act will be limited, subject to possible exceptions, to the amount of capital he is obligated to contribute to us for his common units plus his share of any undistributed profits and assets. If it were determined, however, that the right, or exercise of the right, by the limited partners as a group:

 

   

to remove or replace the general partner;

 

   

to approve some amendments to the partnership agreement; or

 

   

to take other action under the partnership agreement;

constituted “participation in the control” of our business for the purposes of the Delaware Act, then the limited partners could be held personally liable for our obligations under the laws of Delaware, to the same extent as the general partner. This liability would extend to persons who transact business with us who reasonably believe that the limited partner is a general partner. Neither the partnership agreement nor the Delaware Act specifically provides for legal recourse against the general partner if a limited partner were to lose limited liability through any fault of the general partner. While this does not mean that a limited partner could not seek legal recourse, we know of no precedent for this type of a claim in Delaware case law.

Under the Delaware Act, a limited partnership may not make a distribution to a partner if, after the distribution, all liabilities of the limited partnership, other than liabilities to partners on account of their limited partner interests and liabilities for which the recourse of creditors is limited to specific property of the partnership, would exceed the fair value of the assets of the limited partnership. For the purpose of determining the fair value of the assets of a limited partnership, the Delaware Act provides that the fair value of property subject to liability for which recourse of creditors is limited shall be included in the assets of the limited partnership only to the extent that the fair value of that property exceeds the non-recourse liability. The Delaware Act provides that a limited partner who receives a distribution and knew at the time of the distribution that the distribution was in violation of the Delaware Act shall be liable to the limited partnership for the amount of the distribution for three years. Under the Delaware Act, a substituted limited partner of a limited partnership is liable for the obligations of his assignor to make contributions to the partnership, except that such person is not obligated for liabilities unknown to him at the time he became a limited partner and that could not be ascertained from the partnership agreement.

Our subsidiaries conduct business in several states and we may have subsidiaries that conduct business in other states in the future. Maintenance of our limited liability as a limited partner of our operating subsidiaries may require compliance with legal requirements in the jurisdictions in which our operating subsidiaries conduct business, including qualifying our subsidiaries to do business there.

Limitations on the liability of limited partners or members for the obligations of a limited partnership or limited liability company have not been clearly established in many jurisdictions. If, by virtue of our limited partner interest in our operating company or otherwise, it were determined that we were conducting business in any state without compliance with the applicable limited partnership or limited liability company statute, or that the right or exercise of the right by the limited partners as a group to remove or replace the general partner, to approve some amendments to the partnership agreement, or to take other action under the partnership agreement constituted “participation in the control” of our business for purposes of the statutes of any relevant jurisdiction, then the limited partners could be held personally liable for our obligations under the law of that jurisdiction to the same extent as the general partner under the circumstances. We will operate in a manner that the general partner considers reasonable and necessary or appropriate to preserve the limited liability of the limited partners.

 

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Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests

Our partnership agreement authorizes us to issue an unlimited number of additional partnership interests for the consideration and on the terms and conditions determined by our general partner without the approval of the unitholders.

It is possible that we will fund acquisitions through the issuance of additional common units, subordinated units or other partnership interests. Holders of any additional common units we issue will be entitled to share equally with the then-existing holders of common units in our distributions of available cash. In addition, the issuance of additional common units or other partnership interests may dilute the value of the interests of the then-existing holders of common units in our net assets.

In accordance with Delaware law and the provisions of our partnership agreement, we may also issue additional partnership interests that, as determined by our general partner, may have special voting rights to which the common units are not entitled. In addition, our partnership agreement does not prohibit the issuance by our subsidiaries of equity interests, which may effectively rank senior to the common units.

Upon issuance of additional limited partner interests (other than the issuance of common units upon exercise by the underwriters of their option, or the expiration of the option, to purchase additional common units, the issuance of common units in connection with a reset of the incentive distribution target levels or the issuance of common units upon conversion of outstanding partnership interests), our general partner will be entitled, but not required, to make additional capital contributions up to the amount necessary to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest in us. Our general partner’s 2.0% interest in us will be reduced if we issue additional units in the future and our general partner does not contribute a proportionate amount of capital to us to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest. Moreover, our general partner will have the right, which it may from time to time assign in whole or in part to any of its affiliates, to purchase common units, subordinated units or other partnership interests whenever, and on the same terms that, we issue those interests to persons other than our general partner and its affiliates, to the extent necessary to maintain the percentage interest of the general partner and its affiliates, including such interest represented by common units and subordinated units, that existed immediately prior to each issuance. The other holders of common units will not have preemptive rights to acquire additional common units or other partnership interests.

Amendment of the Partnership Agreement

General

Amendments to our partnership agreement may be proposed only by our general partner. However, our general partner will have no duty or obligation to propose any amendment and may decline to do so free of any duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, including any duty to act in the best interests of us or the limited partners, other than the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. In order to adopt a proposed amendment, other than the amendments discussed below, our general partner is required to seek written approval of the holders of the number of units required to approve the amendment or call a meeting of the limited partners to consider and vote upon the proposed amendment. Except as described below, an amendment must be approved by a unit majority.

Prohibited Amendments

No amendment may be made that would:

 

   

enlarge the obligations of any limited partner without its consent, unless such is deemed to have occurred as a result of an amendment approved by at least a majority of the type or class of limited partner interests so affected; or

 

 

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enlarge the obligations of, restrict in any way any action by or rights of, or reduce in any way the amounts distributable, reimbursable or otherwise payable by us to our general partner or any of its affiliates without its consent, which consent may be given or withheld at its option.

The provisions of our partnership agreement preventing the amendments having the effects described in any of the clauses above can be amended upon the approval of the holders of at least 90.0% of the outstanding units voting together as a single class (including units owned by our general partner and its affiliates). Upon completion of this offering, our general partner and its affiliates will own approximately     % of the outstanding common and subordinated units.

No Unitholder Approval

Our general partner may generally make amendments to our partnership agreement without the approval of any limited partner to reflect:

 

   

a change in our name, the location of our principal office, our registered agent or our registered office;

 

   

the admission, substitution, withdrawal or removal of partners in accordance with our partnership agreement;

 

   

a change that our general partner determines to be necessary or appropriate to qualify or continue our qualification as a limited partnership or a partnership in which the limited partners have limited liability under the laws of any state or to ensure that neither we nor any of our subsidiaries will be treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes;

 

   

an amendment that is necessary, in the opinion of our counsel, to prevent us or our general partner or its directors, officers, agents or trustees from in any manner being subjected to the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisors Act of 1940, or “plan asset” regulations adopted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or ERISA, whether or not substantially similar to plan asset regulations currently applied or proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor;

 

   

an amendment that our general partner determines to be necessary or appropriate for the authorization or issuance of additional partnership interests;

 

   

any amendment expressly permitted in our partnership agreement to be made by our general partner acting alone;

 

   

an amendment effected, necessitated or contemplated by a merger agreement that has been approved under the terms of our partnership agreement;

 

   

any amendment that our general partner determines to be necessary or appropriate to reflect and account for the formation by us of, or our investment in, any corporation, partnership or other entity, in connection with our conduct of activities permitted by our partnership agreement;

 

   

a change in our fiscal year or taxable year and any other changes that our general partner determines to be necessary or appropriate as a result of such change;

 

   

conversions into, mergers with or conveyances to another limited liability entity that is newly formed and has no assets, liabilities or operations at the time of the conversion, merger or conveyance other than those it receives by way of the conversion, merger or conveyance; or

 

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any other amendments substantially similar to any of the matters described in the clauses above.

In addition, our general partner may make amendments to our partnership agreement without the approval of any limited partner if our general partner determines that those amendments:

 

   

do not adversely affect in any material respect the limited partners considered as a whole or any particular class of partnership interests as compared to other classes of partnership interests;

 

   

are necessary or appropriate to satisfy any requirements, conditions or guidelines contained in any opinion, directive, order, ruling or regulation of any federal or state agency or judicial authority or contained in any federal or state statute;

 

   

are necessary or appropriate to facilitate the trading of limited partner interests or to comply with any rule, regulation, guideline or requirement of any securities exchange on which the limited partner interests are or will be listed or admitted to trading;

 

   

are necessary or appropriate for any action taken by our general partner relating to splits or combinations of units under the provisions of our partnership agreement; or

 

   

are required to effect the intent expressed in this prospectus or the intent of the provisions of our partnership agreement or are otherwise contemplated by our partnership agreement.

Opinion of Counsel and Unitholder Approval

For amendments of the type not requiring unitholder approval, our general partner will not be required to obtain an opinion of counsel to the effect that an amendment will not affect the limited liability of any limited partner under Delaware law. No other amendments to our partnership agreement will become effective without the approval of holders of at least 90% of the outstanding units voting as a single class unless we first obtain such an opinion.

In addition to the above restrictions, any amendment that would have a material adverse effect on the rights or preferences of any type or class of partnership interests in relation to other classes of partnership interests will require the approval of at least a majority of the type or class of partnership interests so affected. Any amendment that would reduce the percentage of units required to take any action, other than to remove our general partner or call a meeting of unitholders, must be approved by the affirmative vote of limited partners whose aggregate outstanding units constitute not less than the percentage sought to be reduced. Any amendment that would increase the percentage of units required to remove our general partner must be approved by the affirmative vote of limited partners whose aggregate outstanding units constitute not less than 90% of outstanding units. Any amendment that would increase the percentage of units required to call a meeting of unitholders must be approved by the affirmative vote of limited partners whose aggregate outstanding units constitute at least a majority of the outstanding units.

Merger, Consolidation, Conversion, Sale or Other Disposition of Assets

A merger, consolidation or conversion of us requires the prior consent of our general partner. However, our general partner will have no duty or obligation to consent to any merger, consolidation or conversion and may decline to do so free of any duty or obligation whatsoever to us or the limited partners, including any duty to act in the best interest of us or the limited partners, other than the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

In addition, the partnership agreement generally prohibits our general partner without the prior approval of the holders of a unit majority, from causing us to, among other things, sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets in a single transaction or a series of related transactions. Our general partner may, however, mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or grant a security interest in all or substantially all of our assets without that approval. Our general partner may also sell any or all of our assets under a foreclosure or other

 

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realization upon those encumbrances without that approval. Finally, our general partner may consummate any merger with another limited liability entity without the prior approval of our unitholders if we are the surviving entity in the transaction, our general partner has received an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters, the transaction would not result in an amendment to the partnership agreement requiring unitholder approval, each of our units will be an identical unit of our partnership following the transaction, and the partnership interests to be issued by us in such merger do not exceed 20.0% of our outstanding partnership interests immediately prior to the transaction.

If the conditions specified in the partnership agreement are satisfied, our general partner may convert us or any of our subsidiaries into a new limited liability entity or merge us or any of our subsidiaries into, or convey all of our assets to, a newly formed entity if the sole purpose of that conversion, merger or conveyance is to effect a mere change in our legal form into another limited liability entity, our general partner has received an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters, and the general partner determines that the governing instruments of the new entity provide the limited partners and the general partner with the same rights and obligations as contained in the partnership agreement. The unitholders are not entitled to dissenters’ rights of appraisal under the partnership agreement or applicable Delaware law in the event of a conversion, merger or consolidation, a sale of substantially all of our assets or any other similar transaction or event.

Termination and Dissolution

We will continue as a limited partnership until dissolved and terminated under our partnership agreement. We will dissolve upon:

 

   

the election of our general partner to dissolve us, if approved by the holders of units representing a unit majority;

 

   

there being no limited partners, unless we are continued without dissolution in accordance with applicable Delaware law;

 

   

the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution of our partnership; or

 

   

the withdrawal or removal of our general partner or any other event that results in its ceasing to be our general partner other than by reason of a transfer of its general partner interest in accordance with our partnership agreement or withdrawal or removal followed by approval and admission of a successor.

Upon a dissolution under the last clause above, the holders of a unit majority may also elect, within specific time limitations, to continue our business on the same terms and conditions described in our partnership agreement by appointing as a successor general partner an entity approved by the holders of units representing a unit majority, subject to our receipt of an opinion of counsel to the effect that:

 

   

the action would not result in the loss of limited liability of any limited partner; and

 

   

neither our partnership nor any of our subsidiaries would be treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise be taxable as an entity for federal income tax purposes upon the exercise of that right to continue.

Liquidation and Distribution of Proceeds

Upon our dissolution, unless we are continued as a new limited partnership, the liquidator authorized to wind up our affairs will, acting with all of the powers of our general partner that are necessary or appropriate to liquidate our assets and apply the proceeds of the liquidation as described in “Provisions of Our Partnership Agreement Relating to Cash Distributions—Distributions of Cash Upon Liquidation.” The liquidator may defer liquidation or distribution of our assets for a reasonable period of time or distribute assets to partners in kind if it determines that a sale would be impractical or would cause undue loss to our partners.

 

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Withdrawal or Removal of the General Partner

Except as described below, our general partner has agreed not to withdraw voluntarily as our general partner prior to September 30, 2022 without obtaining the approval of the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding common units, excluding common units held by the general partner and its affiliates, and furnishing an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters. On or after September 30, 2022, our general partner may withdraw as general partner without first obtaining approval of any unitholder by giving 90 days’ written notice, and that withdrawal will not constitute a violation of our partnership agreement. Notwithstanding the information above, our general partner may withdraw without unitholder approval upon 90 days’ notice to the limited partners if at least 50.0% of the outstanding units are held or controlled by one person and its affiliates other than the general partner and its affiliates. In addition, the partnership agreement permits our general partner to sell or otherwise transfer all of its general partner interest in us without the approval of the unitholders. Please read “—Transfer of General Partner Units” and “—Transfer of Incentive Distribution Rights.”

Upon voluntary withdrawal of our general partner by giving written notice to the other partners, the holders of a unit majority may select a successor to that withdrawing general partner. If a successor is not elected, or is elected but an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters cannot be obtained, we will be dissolved, wound up and liquidated, unless within a specified period after that withdrawal, the holders of a unit majority agree to continue our business by appointing a successor general partner. Please read “—Termination and Dissolution.”

Our general partner may not be removed unless that removal is approved by the vote of the holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the outstanding units, voting together as a single class, including units held by our general partner and its affiliates, and we receive an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters. Any removal of our general partner is also subject to the approval of a successor general partner by the vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding common units voting as a separate class, and subordinated units, voting as a separate class. The ownership of more than 33 1/3% of the outstanding units by our general partner and its affiliates would give them the practical ability to prevent our general partner’s removal. At the closing of this offering, our general partner and its affiliates will own     % of the outstanding common and subordinated units.

Our partnership agreement also provides that if our general partner is removed as our general partner under circumstances where cause does not exist and units held by the general partner and its affiliates are not voted in favor of that removal:

 

   

the subordination period will end, and all outstanding subordinated units will immediately convert into common units on a one-for-one basis;

 

   

any existing arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units will be extinguished; and

 

   

our general partner will have the right to convert its general partner interest and its incentive distribution rights into common units or to receive cash in exchange for those interests based on the fair market value of those interests as of the effective date of its removal.

In the event of removal of a general partner under circumstances where cause exists or withdrawal of a general partner where that withdrawal violates our partnership agreement, a successor general partner will have the option to purchase the general partner interest and incentive distribution rights of the departing general partner for a cash payment equal to the fair market value of those interests. Under all other circumstances where a general partner withdraws or is removed by the limited partners, the departing general partner will have the option to require the successor general partner to purchase the general partner interest of the departing general partner and its incentive distribution rights for fair market value. In each case, this fair market value will be determined by agreement between the departing general partner and the successor general partner. If no agreement is reached, an independent investment banking firm or other independent expert selected by the

 

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departing general partner and the successor general partner will determine the fair market value. Or, if the departing general partner and the successor general partner cannot agree upon an expert, then an expert chosen by agreement of the experts selected by each of them will determine the fair market value.

If the option described above is not exercised by either the departing general partner or the successor general partner, the departing general partner will become a limited partner and its general partner interest and its incentive distribution rights will automatically convert into common units pursuant to a valuation of those interests as determined by an investment banking firm or other independent expert selected in the manner described in the preceding paragraph.

In addition, we will be required to reimburse the departing general partner for all amounts due the departing general partner, including, without limitation, all employee-related liabilities, including severance liabilities, incurred for the termination of any employees employed by the departing general partner or its affiliates for our benefit.

Transfer of General Partner Units

Our general partner may transfer all or any of its general partner units to an affiliate or a third party without the approval of our unitholders. As a condition of this transfer, the transferee must assume, among other things, the rights and duties of our general partner, agree to be bound by the provisions of our partnership agreement, and furnish an opinion of counsel regarding limited liability and tax matters.

Our general partner and its affiliates may at any time, transfer common units to one or more persons, without unitholder approval, except that they may not transfer subordinated units to us.

Transfer of Ownership Interests in the General Partner

At any time, Delek and its subsidiaries may sell or transfer all or part of their membership interest in our general partner to an affiliate or third party without the approval of our unitholders.

Transfer of Incentive Distribution Rights

At any time, our general partner may sell or transfer its incentive distribution rights to an affiliate or third party without the approval of our unitholders.

Change of Management Provisions

Our partnership agreement contains specific provisions that are intended to discourage a person or group from attempting to remove Delek Logistics GP, LLC as our general partner or otherwise change our management. If any person or group other than our general partner and its affiliates acquires beneficial ownership of 20.0% or more of any class of units, that person or group loses voting rights on all of its units. This loss of voting rights does not apply to any person or group that acquires the units from our general partner or its affiliates and any transferees of that person or group who are notified by our general partner that they will not lose their voting rights or to any person or group who acquires the units with the prior approval of the board of directors of our general partner.

Our partnership agreement also provides that if our general partner is removed as our general partner under circumstances where cause does not exist and units held by our general partner and its affiliates are not voted in favor of that removal:

 

   

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any existing arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units will be extinguished; and

 

   

our general partner will have the right to convert its general partner units and its incentive distribution rights into common units or to receive cash in exchange for those interests based on the fair market value of those interests as of the effective date of its removal.

Limited Call Right

If at any time our general partner and its affiliates own more than 80.0% of the then-issued and outstanding limited partner interests of any class, our general partner will have the right, which it may assign in whole or in part to any of its affiliates or to us, to acquire all, but not less than all, of the limited partner interests of such class held by unaffiliated persons as of a record date to be selected by our general partner, on at least 10 but not more than 60 days’ notice. The purchase price in the event of this purchase is the greater of:

 

   

the highest cash price paid by either of our general partner or any of its affiliates for any limited partner interests of the class purchased within the 90 days preceding the date on which our general partner first mails notice of its election to purchase those limited partner interests; and

 

   

the current market price calculated in accordance with our partnership agreement as of the date three business days before the date the notice is mailed.

As a result of our general partner’s right to purchase outstanding limited partner interests, a holder of limited partner interests may have his limited partner interests purchased at a price that may be lower than market prices at various times prior to such purchase or lower than a unitholder may anticipate the market price to be in the future. The tax consequences to a unitholder of the exercise of this call right are the same as a sale by that unitholder of his common units in the market. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Disposition of Common Units.”

Meetings; Voting

Except as described below regarding a person or group owning 20.0% or more of any class of units then outstanding, record holders of units on the record date will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, meetings of our limited partners and to act upon matters for which approvals may be solicited.

Our general partner does not anticipate that any meeting of unitholders will be called in the foreseeable future. Any action that is required or permitted to be taken by the unitholders may be taken either at a meeting of the unitholders or, if authorized by our general partner, without a meeting if consents in writing describing the action so taken are signed by holders of the number of units that would be necessary to authorize or take that action at a meeting where all limited partners were present and voted. Meetings of the unitholders may be called by our general partner or by unitholders owning at least 20.0% of the outstanding units of the class for which a meeting is proposed. Unitholders may vote either in person or by proxy at meetings. The holders of a majority of the outstanding units of the class or classes for which a meeting has been called represented in person or by proxy will constitute a quorum unless any action by the unitholders requires approval by holders of a greater percentage of the units, in which case the quorum will be the greater percentage.

Each record holder of a unit has a vote according to his percentage interest in us, although additional limited partner interests having special voting rights could be issued. Please read “—Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests.” However, if at any time any person or group, other than our general partner and its affiliates, a direct transferee of our general partner and its affiliates or a transferee of such direct transferee who is notified by our general partner that it will not lose its voting rights, acquires, in the aggregate, beneficial ownership of 20.0% or more of any class of units then outstanding, that person or group will lose voting rights on all of its units and the units may not be voted on any matter and will not be considered to be outstanding when sending notices of a meeting of unitholders, calculating required votes, determining the presence of a quorum or

 

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for other similar purposes. Common units held in nominee or street name account will be voted by the broker or other nominee in accordance with the instruction of the beneficial owner unless the arrangement between the beneficial owner and his nominee provides otherwise. Except as our partnership agreement otherwise provides, subordinated units will vote together with common units as a single class.

Any notice, demand, request, report or proxy material required or permitted to be given or made to record holders of common units under our partnership agreement will be delivered to the record holder by us or by the transfer agent.

Status as Limited Partner

By transfer of common units in accordance with our partnership agreement, each transferee of common units shall be admitted as a limited partner with respect to the common units transferred when such transfer and admission is reflected in our register. Except as described under “—Limited Liability,” the common units will be fully paid, and unitholders will not be required to make additional contributions.

Ineligible Holders; Redemption

Under our partnership agreement, an “Eligible Holder” is a limited partner whose (a) federal income tax status is not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the rates that can be charged by us on assets that are subject to regulation by FERC or an analogous regulatory body and (b) nationality, citizenship or other related status would not create a substantial risk of cancellation or forfeiture of any property in which we have an interest, in each case as determined by our general partner with the advice of counsel.

If at any time our general partner determines, with the advice of counsel, that one or more limited partners are not Eligible Holders (any such limited partner, an “Ineligible Holder”), then our general partner may request any limited partner to furnish to the general partner an executed certification or other information about his federal income tax status and/or nationality, citizenship or related status. If a limited partner fails to furnish such certification or other requested information within 30 days (or such other period as the general partner may determine) after a request for such certification or other information, or our general partner determines after receipt of the information that the limited partner is not an Eligible Holder, the limited partner may be treated as an Ineligible Holder. An Ineligible Holder does not have the right to direct the voting of his units and may not receive distributions in kind upon our liquidation.

Furthermore, we have the right to redeem all of the common and subordinated units of any holder that our general partner concludes is an Ineligible Holder or fails to furnish the information requested by our general partner. The redemption price in the event of such redemption for each unit held by such unitholder will be the current market price of such unit (the date of determination of which shall be the date fixed for redemption). The redemption price will be paid, as determined by our general partner, in cash or by delivery of a promissory note. Any such promissory note will bear interest at the rate of 5.0% annually and be payable in three equal annual installments of principal and accrued interest, commencing one year after the redemption date.

Indemnification

Under our partnership agreement, in most circumstances, we will indemnify the following persons, to the fullest extent permitted by law, from and against all losses, claims, damages or similar events:

 

   

our general partner;

 

   

any departing general partner;

 

   

any person who is or was an affiliate of a general partner or any departing general partner;

 

 

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any person who is or was a director, officer, managing member, manager, general partner, fiduciary or trustee of our subsidiaries, us or any entity set forth in the preceding three bullet points;

 

   

any person who is or was serving as director, officer, managing member, manager, general partner, fiduciary or trustee of another person owing a fiduciary duty to us or any of our subsidiaries at the request of our general partner or any departing general partner or any of their affiliates; and

 

   

any person designated by our general partner.

Any indemnification under these provisions will only be out of our assets. Unless it otherwise agrees, our general partner will not be personally liable for, or have any obligation to contribute or lend funds or assets to us to enable us to effectuate, indemnification. We will purchase insurance against liabilities asserted against and expenses incurred by persons for our activities, regardless of whether we would have the power to indemnify the person against such liabilities under our partnership agreement.

Reimbursement of Expenses

Our partnership agreement requires us to reimburse our general partner for all direct and indirect expenses it incurs or payments it makes on our behalf and all other expenses allocable to us or otherwise incurred by our general partner in connection with operating our business. These expenses include salary, bonus, incentive compensation and other amounts paid to persons who perform services for us or on our behalf and expenses allocated to our general partner by its affiliates. The general partner is entitled to determine in good faith the expenses that are allocable to us. Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Omnibus Agreement.”

Books and Reports

Our general partner is required to keep appropriate books of our business at our principal offices. The books will be maintained for financial reporting purposes on an accrual basis. For tax and fiscal reporting purposes, our fiscal year is the calendar year.

We will mail or make available to record holders of common units, within 105 days after the close of each fiscal year, an annual report containing audited financial statements and a report on those financial statements by our independent public accountants. Except for our fourth quarter, we will also mail or make available summary financial information within 50 days after the close of each quarter.

We will furnish each record holder of a unit with information reasonably required for tax reporting purposes within 90 days after the close of each calendar year. This information is expected to be furnished in summary form so that some complex calculations normally required of partners can be avoided. Our ability to furnish this summary information to unitholders will depend on the cooperation of unitholders in supplying us with specific information. Every unitholder will receive information to assist him in determining his federal and state tax liability and filing his federal and state income tax returns, regardless of whether he supplies us with information.

Right to Inspect Our Books and Records

Our partnership agreement provides that a limited partner can, for a purpose reasonably related to his interest as a limited partner, upon reasonable written demand stating the purpose of such demand and at his own expense, have furnished to him:

 

   

a current list of the name and last known address of each record holder;

 

   

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certain information regarding the status of our business and financial condition.

Our general partner may, and intends to, keep confidential from the limited partners, trade secrets or other information the disclosure of which our general partner determines is not in our best interests or that we are required by law or by agreements with third parties to keep confidential. Our partnership agreement limits the right to information that a limited partner would otherwise have under Delaware law.

Registration Rights

Under our partnership agreement, we have agreed to register for resale under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws any common units, subordinated units or other partnership interests proposed to be sold by our general partner or any of its affiliates or their assignees if an exemption from the registration requirements is not otherwise available. These registration rights continue for two years following any withdrawal or removal of Delek Logistics GP, LLC as general partner. We are obligated to pay all expenses incidental to the registration, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions. Please read “Units Eligible for Future Sale.”

 

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UNITS ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

After the sale of the common units offered hereby and assuming that the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional units, our general partner and its affiliates, including Delek, will hold an aggregate of              common units and              subordinated units. All of the subordinated units will convert into common units at the end of the subordination period. All of the common units and subordinated units held by Delek are subject to the lock-up restrictions described below. The sale of these units could have an adverse impact on the price of the common units or on any trading market that may develop.

Rule 144

The common units sold in this offering will generally be freely transferable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act other than any units purchased in this offering through the directed unit program, which will be subject to the lock-up restrictions described below. None of the directors or officers of our general partner own any common units prior to this offering; however, they may purchase common units through the directed unit program or otherwise. Please read “Underwriting—Reserved Common Units.” Assuming all of the units reserved for issuance under the directed unit program are sold to participants in the program,              common units will be held by persons who have contractually agreed not to sell such units for 180 days following the date of this prospectus. Additionally, any common units owned by an “affiliate” of ours may not be resold publicly except in compliance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act or under an exemption under Rule 144 or otherwise. Rule 144 permits securities acquired by an affiliate of the issuer to be sold into the market in an amount that does not exceed, during any three-month period, the greater of:

 

   

1.0% of the total number of the securities outstanding; and

 

   

the average weekly reported trading volume of the common units for the four calendar weeks prior to the sale.

Sales under Rule 144 are also subject to specific manner of sale provisions, holding period requirements, notice requirements and the availability of current public information about us. A person who is not deemed to have been an affiliate of ours at any time during the 90 days preceding a sale, and who has beneficially owned his common units for at least six months (provided we are in compliance with the current public information requirement) or one year (regardless of whether we are in compliance with the current public information requirement), would be entitled to sell those common units under Rule 144 without regard to the volume limitations, manner of sale provisions and notice requirements of Rule 144.

Our Partnership Agreement and Registration Rights

Our partnership agreement provides that we may issue an unlimited number of partnership interests of any type without a vote of the unitholders. Any issuance of additional common units or other equity interests would result in a corresponding decrease in the proportionate ownership interest in us represented by, and could adversely affect the cash distributions to and market price of, common units then outstanding. Please read “The Partnership Agreement—Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests.”

Under our partnership agreement, our general partner and its affiliates have the right to cause us to register under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws the offer and sale of any units that they hold. Subject to the terms and conditions of our partnership agreement, these registration rights allow our general partner and its affiliates or their assignees holding any units or other partnership securities to require registration by us of any of these units or other partnership securities and to include any of these units in a registration by us of other units, including units offered by us or by any unitholder. Our general partner will continue to have these registration rights for two years after it ceases to be our general partner. In connection with any registration of this kind, we will indemnify each unitholder participating in the registration and its officers, directors and

 

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controlling persons from and against certain liabilities under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws arising from the registration statement or prospectus. We will bear all costs and expenses incidental to any registration, excluding any underwriting discounts. Our general partner and its affiliates may also sell their units or other partnership interests in private transactions at any time, subject to compliance with applicable laws and the lock-up agreement described below.

Lock-Up Agreements

We, Delek, our general partner and the directors and executive officers of our general partner as well as all participants in the directed unit program have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, with the underwriters not to sell or offer to sell any common units for a period of 180 days from the date of this prospectus. For a description of these lock-up provisions, please read “Underwriting.”

Registration Statement on Form S-8

We intend to file a registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act following this offering to register all common units issued or reserved for issuance under our long-term incentive plan. We expect to file this registration statement as soon as practicable after this offering. Common units covered by the registration statement on Form S-8 will be eligible for sale in the public market, subject to applicable vesting requirements and the terms of applicable lock-up agreements described above.

 

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MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

This section is a summary of the material tax considerations that may be relevant to prospective unitholders who are individual citizens or residents of the U.S. and, unless otherwise noted in the following discussion, is the opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P., counsel to our general partner and us, insofar as it relates to legal conclusions with respect to matters of U.S. federal income tax law. This section is based upon current provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), existing and proposed Treasury regulations promulgated under the Code (the “Treasury Regulations”) and current administrative rulings and court decisions, all of which are subject to change. Later changes in these authorities may cause the tax consequences to vary substantially from the consequences described below. Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this section to “us” or “we” are references to Delek Logistics Partners, LP and our operating subsidiaries.

The following discussion does not comment on all federal income tax matters affecting us or our unitholders. Moreover, the discussion focuses on unitholders who are individual citizens or residents of the U.S. and has only limited application to corporations, estates, trusts, partnerships and entities treated as partnerships for federal income tax purposes, nonresident aliens or other unitholders subject to specialized tax treatment, such as tax-exempt institutions, foreign persons, IRAs, real estate investment trusts (REITs), employee benefit plans or mutual funds. In addition, the discussion only comments, to a limited extent, on state, local, and foreign tax consequences. Accordingly, we encourage each prospective unitholder to consult, and depend on, his own tax advisor in analyzing the federal, state, local and foreign tax consequences particular to him of the ownership or disposition of common units.

All statements as to matters of law and legal conclusions, but not as to factual matters, contained in this section, unless otherwise noted, are the opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. and are based on the accuracy of the representations made by us.

No ruling has been or will be requested from the IRS regarding any matter affecting us or prospective unitholders. Instead, we will rely on opinions of Baker Botts L.L.P. Unlike a ruling, an opinion of counsel represents only that counsel’s best legal judgment and does not bind the IRS or the courts. Accordingly, the opinions and statements made herein may not be sustained by a court if contested by the IRS. Any contest of this sort with the IRS may materially and adversely impact the market for the common units and the prices at which common units trade. In addition, the costs of any contest with the IRS, principally legal, accounting and related fees, will result in a reduction in cash available for distribution to our unitholders and our general partner and thus will be borne indirectly by our unitholders and our general partner. Furthermore, the tax treatment of us, or of an investment in us, may be significantly modified by future legislative or administrative changes or court decisions. Any modifications may or may not be retroactively applied.

For the reasons described below, Baker Botts L.L.P. has not rendered an opinion with respect to the following specific federal income tax issues: (i) the treatment of a unitholder whose common units are loaned to a short seller to cover a short sale of common units (please read “—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Treatment of Short Sales”); (ii) whether our monthly convention for allocating taxable income and losses is permitted by existing Treasury Regulations (please read “—Disposition of Common Units—Allocations Between Transferors and Transferees”); and (iii) whether our method for depreciating Section 743 adjustments is sustainable in certain cases (please read “—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Section 754 Election” and “—Uniformity of Units”).

Partnership Status

A partnership is not a taxable entity and incurs no federal income tax liability. Instead, each partner of a partnership is required to take into account his share of items of income, gain, loss and deduction of the partnership in computing his federal income tax liability, regardless of whether cash distributions are made to him by the partnership. Pursuant to Code Section 731, distributions by a partnership to a partner are generally not taxable to the partnership or the partner unless the amount of cash distributed to him is in excess of the partner’s adjusted basis in his partnership interest.

 

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Section 7704 of the Code provides that publicly traded partnerships will, as a general rule, be taxed as corporations. However, an exception, referred to as the “Qualifying Income Exception,” exists with respect to publicly traded partnerships of which 90.0% or more of the gross income for every taxable year consists of “qualifying income.” Qualifying income includes income and gains derived from the transportation, storage, processing and marketing of crude oil, natural gas and other products thereof. Other types of qualifying income include interest (other than from a financial business), dividends, gains from the sale of real property and gains from the sale or other disposition of capital assets held for the production of income that otherwise constitutes qualifying income. We estimate that less than     % of our current gross income is not qualifying income; however, this estimate could change from time to time. Based upon and subject to this estimate, the factual representations made by us and our general partner and a review of the applicable legal authorities, Baker Botts L.L.P. is of the opinion that at least 90.0% of our current gross income constitutes qualifying income. The portion of our income that is qualifying income may change from time to time.

No ruling has been or will be sought from the IRS and the IRS has made no determination as to our status or the status of our operating subsidiaries for federal income tax purposes or whether our operations generate “qualifying income” under Section 7704 of the Code. Instead, we will rely on the opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. on such matters. It is the opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. that, based upon the Code, its regulations, published revenue rulings and court decisions and the representations described below that:

 

   

We will be classified as a partnership for federal income tax purposes; and

 

   

Each of our operating subsidiaries will be disregarded as an entity separate from us or will be treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes.

In rendering its opinion, Baker Botts L.L.P. has relied on factual representations made by us and our general partner. The representations made by us and our general partner upon which Baker Botts L.L.P. has relied are:

 

   

Neither we nor the operating subsidiaries has elected or will elect to be treated as a corporation; and

 

   

For every taxable year, more than 90.0% of our gross income has been and will be income of the type that Baker Botts L.L.P. has opined or will opine is “qualifying income” within the meaning of Section 7704(d) of the Code.

We believe that these representations have been true in the past and expect that these representations will continue to be true in the future.

If we fail to meet the Qualifying Income Exception, other than a failure that is determined by the IRS to be inadvertent and that is cured within a reasonable time after discovery (in which case the IRS may also require us to make adjustments with respect to our unitholders or pay other amounts), we will be treated as if we had transferred all of our assets, subject to liabilities, to a newly formed corporation, on the first day of the year in which we fail to meet the Qualifying Income Exception, in return for stock in that corporation, and then distributed that stock to the unitholders in liquidation of their interests in us. This deemed contribution and liquidation should be tax-free to unitholders and us so long as we, at that time, do not have liabilities in excess of the tax basis of our assets. Thereafter, we would be treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.

If we were taxed as a corporation for federal income tax purposes in any taxable year, either as a result of a failure to meet the Qualifying Income Exception or otherwise, our items of income, gain, loss and deduction would be reflected only on our tax return rather than being passed through to our unitholders, and our net income would be taxed to us at corporate rates. In addition, pursuant to Code Section 301, any distribution made to a unitholder would be treated as taxable dividend income, to the extent of our current and accumulated earnings and profits, or, in the absence of earnings and profits, a nontaxable return of capital, to the extent of the

 

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unitholder’s tax basis in his common units, or taxable capital gain, after the unitholder’s tax basis in his common units is reduced to zero. Accordingly, taxation as a corporation would result in a material reduction in a unitholder’s cash flow and after-tax return and thus would likely result in a substantial reduction of the value of the units.

The discussion below is based on Baker Botts L.L.P.’s opinion that we will be classified as a partnership for federal income tax purposes.

Limited Partner Status

Unitholders who are admitted as limited partners of Delek Logistics Partners, LP will be treated as partners of Delek Logistics Partners, LP for federal income tax purposes. Also, unitholders whose common units are held in street name or by a nominee and who have the right to direct the nominee in the exercise of all substantive rights attendant to the ownership of their common units will be treated as partners of Delek Logistics Partners, LP for federal income tax purposes.

A beneficial owner of common units whose units have been transferred to a short seller to complete a short sale would appear to lose his status as a partner with respect to those units for federal income tax purposes. Please read “—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Treatment of Short Sales.”

Income, gain, deductions or losses would not appear to be reportable by a unitholder who is not a partner for federal income tax purposes, and any cash distributions received by a unitholder who is not a partner for federal income tax purposes would therefore be fully taxable as ordinary income. These holders are urged to consult their own tax advisors with respect to the tax consequences of holding common units in Delek Logistics Partners, LP. The references to “unitholders” in the discussion that follows are to persons who are treated as partners in Delek Logistics Partners, LP for federal income tax purposes.

Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership

Flow-Through of Taxable Income

Subject to the discussion below under “—Entity-Level Collections,” we will not pay any federal income tax. Instead, each unitholder will be required to report on his income tax return his share of our income, gains, losses and deductions without regard to whether we make cash distributions to him. Consequently, we may allocate income to a unitholder even if he has not received a cash distribution. The income we allocate to unitholders will generally be taxable as ordinary income. Each unitholder will be required to include in income his allocable share of our income, gains, losses and deductions for our taxable year ending with or within his taxable year. Our taxable year ends on December 31.

Treatment of Distributions

Pursuant to Code Section 731, distributions by us to a unitholder generally will not be taxable to the unitholder for federal income tax purposes, except to the extent the amount of any such cash distribution exceeds his tax basis in his common units immediately before the distribution. Cash distributions made by us to a unitholder in an amount in excess of a unitholder’s tax basis generally will be considered to be gain from the sale or exchange of the common units, taxable in accordance with the rules described under “—Disposition of Common Units” below. Any reduction in a unitholder’s share of our liabilities for which no partner, including the general partner, bears the economic risk of loss, known as “nonrecourse liabilities,” will be treated as a distribution by us of cash to that unitholder. To the extent our distributions cause a unitholder’s “at-risk” amount to be less than zero at the end of any taxable year, Section 465 of the Code requires the recapture of any losses deducted in previous years. Please read “—Limitations on Deductibility of Losses.”

 

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A decrease in a unitholder’s percentage interest in us because of our issuance of additional common units will decrease his share of our nonrecourse liabilities under Section 752 of the Code, and thus will result in a corresponding deemed distribution of cash. This deemed distribution may constitute a non-pro rata distribution. A non-pro rata distribution of money or property may result in ordinary income to a unitholder, regardless of his tax basis in his common units, if the distribution reduces the unitholder’s share of our “unrealized receivables,” including depreciation recapture, depletion recapture and/or substantially appreciated “inventory items,” each as defined in the Code, and collectively, “Section 751 Assets.” To that extent, the unitholder will be treated as having been distributed his proportionate share of the Section 751 Assets and then having exchanged those assets with us in return for the non-pro rata portion of the actual distribution made to him. This latter deemed exchange will generally result in the unitholder’s realization of ordinary income, which will equal the excess of (i) the non-pro rata portion of that distribution over (ii) the unitholder’s tax basis for the share of Section 751 Assets deemed relinquished in the exchange.

Ratio of Taxable Income to Distributions

We estimate that a purchaser of common units in this offering who owns those common units from the date of closing of this offering through the record date for distributions for the period ending December 31, 2014, will be allocated, on a cumulative basis, an amount of federal taxable income for that period that will be     % or less of the cash distributed with respect to that period. However, the ratio of taxable income to distributions for any single year in the projection period may be higher or lower. Thereafter, we anticipate that the ratio of taxable income to cash distributions to the unitholders will increase. These estimates are based upon the assumption that earnings from operations will approximate the amount required to make the initial quarterly distribution on all units and other assumptions with respect to capital expenditures, cash flow, net working capital and anticipated cash distributions. These estimates and assumptions are subject to, among other things, numerous business, economic, regulatory, legislative, competitive and political uncertainties beyond our control. Further, the estimates are based on current tax law and tax reporting positions that we will adopt and with which the IRS could disagree. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that these estimates will prove to be correct. The actual ratio of taxable income to cash distributions could be higher or lower than expected, and any differences could be material and could materially affect the value of the common units. For example, the ratio of taxable income to cash distributions to a purchaser of common units in this offering will be higher, and perhaps substantially higher, than our estimate with respect to the period described above if:

 

   

gross income from operations exceeds the amount required to make minimum quarterly distributions on all units, yet we only distribute the minimum quarterly distributions on all units; or

 

   

we make a future offering of common units and use the proceeds of this offering in a manner that does not produce substantial additional deductions during the period described above, such as to repay indebtedness outstanding at the time of this offering or to acquire property that is not eligible for depreciation or amortization for federal income tax purposes or that is depreciable or amortizable at a rate significantly slower than the rate applicable to our assets at the time of this offering.

Basis of Common Units

A unitholder’s initial tax basis for his common units will be determined under Sections 722, 742 and 752 of the Code and will generally equal the amount he paid for the common units plus his share of our nonrecourse liabilities. That basis will be increased under Section 705 of the Code by his share of our income and by any increases in his share of our nonrecourse liabilities and decreased, but not below zero, by distributions from us, by the unitholder’s share of our losses, by any decreases in his share of our nonrecourse liabilities and by his share of our expenditures that are not deductible in computing taxable income and are not required to be capitalized. A unitholder will have no share of our debt that is recourse to our general partner to the extent of the

 

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general partner’s “net value,” as defined in Treasury Regulations under Section 752 of the Code, but will have a share, generally based on his share of profits, of our nonrecourse liabilities. Please read “—Disposition of Common Units—Recognition of Gain or Loss.”

Limitations on Deductibility of Losses

Under Sections 704 and 465 of the Code, the deduction by a unitholder of his share of our losses will be limited to the tax basis in his units and, in the case of an individual unitholder, estate, trust, or corporate unitholder (if more than 50.0% of the value of the corporate unitholder’s stock is owned directly or indirectly by or for five or fewer individuals or some tax-exempt organizations) to the amount for which the unitholder is considered to be “at risk” with respect to our activities, if that is less than his tax basis. A common unitholder subject to these limitations must recapture losses deducted in previous years to the extent that distributions cause his at-risk amount to be less than zero at the end of any taxable year. Losses disallowed to a unitholder or recaptured as a result of these limitations will carry forward and will be allowable as a deduction to the extent that his at-risk amount is subsequently increased, provided such losses do not exceed such common unitholder’s tax basis in his common units. Upon the taxable disposition of a unit, any gain recognized by a unitholder can be offset by losses that were previously suspended by the at-risk limitation but may not be offset by losses suspended by the basis limitation. Any loss previously suspended by the at-risk limitation in excess of that gain would no longer be utilizable.

In general, a unitholder will be at risk to the extent of the tax basis of his units, excluding any portion of that basis attributable to his share of our nonrecourse liabilities, reduced by (i) any portion of that basis representing amounts otherwise protected against loss because of a guarantee, stop loss agreement or other similar arrangement and (ii) any amount of money he borrows to acquire or hold his units, if the lender of those borrowed funds owns an interest in us, is related to another unitholder or can look only to the units for repayment. A unitholder’s at-risk amount will increase or decrease as the tax basis of the unitholder’s units increases or decreases, other than tax basis increases or decreases attributable to increases or decreases in his share of our nonrecourse liabilities.

In addition to the basis and at-risk limitations on the deductibility of losses, the passive loss limitations of Code Section 469 generally provide that individuals, estates, trusts and some closely-held corporations and personal service corporations can deduct losses from passive activities, which are generally defined as trade or business activities in which the taxpayer does not materially participate, only to the extent of the taxpayer’s income from those passive activities. The passive loss limitations are applied separately with respect to each publicly traded partnership. Consequently, any passive losses we generate will only be available to offset our passive income generated in the future and will not be available to offset income from other passive activities or investments, including our investments or a unitholder’s investments in other publicly traded partnerships, or salary or active business income. Passive losses that are not deductible because they exceed a unitholder’s share of income we generate may be deducted in full when he disposes of his entire investment in us in a fully taxable transaction with an unrelated party. The passive loss limitations are applied after other applicable limitations on deductions, including the at-risk rules and the basis limitation.

A unitholder’s share of our net income may be offset by any of our suspended passive losses, but it may not be offset by any other current or carryover losses from other passive activities, including those attributable to other publicly traded partnerships.

Limitations on Interest Deductions

Section 163 of the Code generally limits the deductibility of a non-corporate taxpayer’s “investment interest expense” to the amount of that taxpayer’s “net investment income.” Investment interest expense includes:

 

   

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our interest expense attributed to portfolio income; and

 

   

the portion of interest expense incurred to purchase or carry an interest in a passive activity to the extent attributable to portfolio income.

The computation of a unitholder’s investment interest expense will take into account interest on any margin account borrowing or other loan incurred to purchase or carry a unit. Net investment income includes gross income from property held for investment and amounts treated as portfolio income under the passive loss rules, less deductible expenses, other than interest, directly connected with the production of investment income, but generally does not include gains attributable to the disposition of property held for investment or (if applicable) qualified dividend income. The IRS has indicated in Notice 88-75, 1988-2 C.B. 386, that the net passive income earned by a publicly traded partnership will be treated as investment income to its unitholders. In addition, the unitholder’s share of our portfolio income will be treated as investment income.

Entity-Level Collections

If we are required or elect under applicable law to pay any federal, state, local or foreign income tax on behalf of any unitholder or our general partner or any former unitholder, we are authorized to pay those taxes from our funds. That payment, if made, will be treated as a distribution of cash to the unitholder on whose behalf the payment was made. If the payment is made on behalf of a person whose identity cannot be determined, we are authorized to treat the payment as a distribution to all current unitholders. We are authorized to amend our partnership agreement in the manner necessary to maintain uniformity of intrinsic tax characteristics of units and to adjust later distributions, so that after giving effect to these distributions, the priority and characterization of distributions otherwise applicable under our partnership agreement is maintained as nearly as is practicable. Payments by us as described above could give rise to an overpayment of tax on behalf of an individual unitholder in which event the unitholder would be required to file a claim in order to obtain a credit or refund.

Allocation of Income, Gain, Loss and Deduction

In general, under Section 704 of the Code, if we have a net profit, our items of income, gain, loss and deduction will be allocated among our general partner and the unitholders in accordance with their percentage interests in us. At any time that distributions are made to the common units in excess of distributions to the subordinated units, or incentive distributions are made to our general partner, gross income will be allocated to the recipients to the extent of those distributions. If we have a net loss, that loss will be allocated first to our general partner and the unitholders in accordance with their percentage interests in us to the extent of their positive capital accounts and, second, to our general partner.

Section 704(c) of the Code requires us to assign each asset contributed to us in connection with this offering a “book” basis equal to the fair market value of the asset at the time of this offering. Purchasers of units in this offering are entitled to calculate tax depreciation and amortization deductions and other relevant tax items with respect to our assets based upon that “book” basis, which effectively puts purchasers in this offering in the same position as if our assets had a tax basis equal to their fair market value at the time of this offering. In this context, we use the term “book” as that term is used in Treasury regulations under Section 704 of the Code. The “book” basis assigned to our assets for this purpose may not be the same as the book value of our property for financial reporting purposes.

Upon any issuance of units by us after this offering, rules similar to those of Section 704(c) described above will apply for the benefit of recipients of units in that later issuance. This may have the effect of decreasing the amount of our tax depreciation or amortization deductions thereafter allocated to purchasers of units in this offering or of requiring purchasers of units in this offering to thereafter recognize “remedial income” rather than depreciation and amortization deductions.

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recognition of ordinary income by some unitholders. Finally, although we do not expect that our operations will result in the creation of negative capital accounts, if negative capital accounts nevertheless result, items of our income and gain will be allocated in an amount and manner sufficient to eliminate the negative balance as quickly as possible.

An allocation of items of our income, gain, loss or deduction, other than an allocation required under the Section 704(c) principles described above, will generally be given effect for federal income tax purposes in determining a partner’s share of an item of income, gain, loss or deduction only if the allocation has “substantial economic effect.” In any other case, a partner’s share of an item will be determined on the basis of his interest in us, which will be determined by taking into account all the facts and circumstances, including:

 

   

his relative contributions to us;

 

   

the interests of all the partners in profits and losses;

 

   

the interests of all the partners in cash flows; and

 

   

the rights of all the partners to distributions of capital upon liquidation.

Baker Botts L.L.P. is of the opinion that, with the exception of the issues described in “—Section 754 Election”, “—Disposition of Common Units—Allocations Between Transferors and Transferees,” and “Uniformity of Units”, allocations under our partnership agreement will be given effect under Section 704 of the Code for federal income tax purposes in determining a partner’s share of an item of income, gain, loss or deduction.

Treatment of Short Sales

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, he 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. As a result, during this period:

 

   

any of our income, gain, loss or deduction with respect to those units would not be reportable by the unitholder;

 

   

any cash distributions received by the unitholder as to those units would be fully taxable; and

 

   

all of these distributions would appear to be ordinary income.

Because there is no direct or indirect controlling authority on the issue relating to partnership interests, Baker Botts L.L.P. has not rendered an opinion regarding the tax treatment of a unitholder whose common units are loaned to a short seller to cover a short sale of common units; therefore, 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 and loaning their units. The IRS has previously announced in the preamble to certain temporary regulations, 53 FR 34488-01, 1988-2 C.B. 346, that it is studying issues relating to the tax treatment of short sales of partnership interests. Please also read “—Disposition of Common Units—Recognition of Gain or Loss.”

Alternative Minimum Tax

Each unitholder will be required to take into account his distributive share of any items of our income, gain, loss or deduction for purposes of the alternative minimum tax. The current minimum tax rate for noncorporate taxpayers is 26.0% on the first $175,000 of alternative minimum taxable income in excess of the exemption amount and 28.0% on any additional alternative minimum taxable income. Prospective unitholders

 

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are urged to consult with their tax advisors as to the impact of an investment in units on their liability for the alternative minimum tax.

Tax Rates

Under current law, the highest marginal U.S. federal income tax rate applicable to ordinary income of individuals is 35% and the highest marginal U.S. federal income tax rate applicable to long-term capital gains (generally, capital gains on certain assets held for more than twelve months) of individuals is 15.0%. However, absent new legislation extending the current rates, beginning January 1, 2013, the highest marginal U.S. federal income tax rate applicable to ordinary income and long-term capital gains of individuals will increase to 39.6% and 20.0%, respectively. Moreover, these rates are subject to change by new legislation at any time.

Section 1411 of the Code will impose a 3.8% Medicare tax on certain net investment income earned by individuals, estates and trusts for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2012. For these purposes, net investment income generally includes a unitholder’s allocable share of our income and gain realized by a unitholder from a sale of units. In the case of an individual, the tax will be imposed on the lesser of (i) the unitholder’s net investment income or (ii) the amount by which the unitholder’s modified adjusted gross income exceeds $250,000 (if the unitholder is married and filing jointly or a surviving spouse), $125,000 (if the unitholder is married and filing separately) or $200,000 (in any other case). In the case of an estate or trust, the tax will be imposed on the lesser of (i) undistributed net investment income, or (ii) the excess adjusted gross income over the dollar amount at which the highest income tax bracket applicable to an estate or trust begins.

Section 754 Election

We will make the election permitted by Section 754 of the Code. That election is irrevocable without the consent of the IRS unless there is a constructive termination of the partnership. Please read “—Disposition of Common Units—Constructive Termination.” The election will generally permit us to adjust a common unit purchaser’s tax basis in our assets, or inside basis, under Section 743(b) of the Code to reflect his purchase price. This election does not apply with respect to a person who purchases common units directly from us, including a purchaser of units in this offering. The Section 743(b) adjustment belongs to the purchaser and not to other unitholders. For purposes of this discussion, the inside basis in our assets with respect to a unitholder will be considered to have two components: (i) his share of our tax basis in our assets, or common basis, and (ii) his Section 743(b) adjustment to that basis.

The timing of deductions attributable to a Section 743(b) adjustment to our common basis will depend upon a number of factors, including the nature of the assets to which the adjustment is allocable, the extent to which the adjustment offsets any Section 704(c) type gain or loss with respect to an asset and certain elections we make as to the manner in which we apply Section 704(c) principles with respect to an asset with respect to which the adjustment is allocable. Please read “—Allocation of Income, Gain, Loss and Deduction.” The timing of these deductions may affect the uniformity of our units. Please read “—Uniformity of Units.”

A Section 754 election is advantageous if the transferee’s tax basis in his units is higher than the units’ share of the aggregate tax basis of our assets immediately prior to the transfer. In that case, as a result of the election, the transferee would have, among other items, a greater amount of depreciation deductions and his share of any gain or loss on a sale of our assets would be less. Conversely, a Section 754 election is disadvantageous if the transferee’s tax basis in his units is lower than those units’ share of the aggregate tax basis of our assets immediately prior to the transfer. Thus, the fair market value of the units may be affected either favorably or unfavorably by the election. A basis adjustment is required regardless of whether a Section 754 election is made in the case of a transfer of an interest in us if we have a substantial built-in loss immediately after the transfer, or if we distribute property and have a substantial basis reduction. Generally a built-in loss or a basis reduction is substantial if it exceeds $250,000.

 

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The calculations involved in the Section 754 election are complex and will be made on the basis of assumptions as to the value of our assets and other matters. For example, the allocation of the Section 743(b) adjustment among our assets must be made in accordance with the Code. The IRS could seek to reallocate some or all of any Section 743(b) adjustment allocated by us to our tangible assets to goodwill instead. Goodwill, as an intangible asset, is generally nonamortizable or amortizable over a longer period of time or under a less accelerated method than our tangible assets. We cannot assure you that the determinations we make will not be successfully challenged by the IRS and that the deductions resulting from them will not be reduced or disallowed altogether. Should the IRS require a different basis adjustment to be made, and should, in our opinion, the expense of compliance exceed the benefit of the election, we may seek permission from the IRS to revoke our Section 754 election. If permission is granted, a subsequent purchaser of units may be allocated more income than he would have been allocated had the election not been revoked.

Tax Treatment of Operations

Accounting Method and Taxable Year

We use the year ending December 31 as our taxable year and the accrual method of accounting for federal income tax purposes. Each unitholder will be required to include in income his share of our income, gain, loss and deduction for our taxable year ending within or with his taxable year. In addition, a unitholder who has a taxable year ending on a date other than December 31 and who disposes of all of his units following the close of our taxable year but before the close of his taxable year must include his share of our income, gain, loss and deduction in income for his taxable year, with the result that he will be required to include in income for his taxable year his share of more than twelve months of our income, gain, loss and deduction. Please read “—Disposition of Common Units—Allocations Between Transferors and Transferees.”

Initial Tax Basis, Depreciation and Amortization

The tax basis of our assets will be used for purposes of computing depreciation and cost recovery deductions and, ultimately, gain or loss on the disposition of these assets. Under Section 704 of the Code, the federal income tax burden associated with the difference between the fair market value of our assets and their tax basis immediately prior to (i) this offering will be borne by our general partner and its affiliates, and (ii) any other offering will be borne by our general partner and all of our unitholders as of that time. Please read “—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Allocation of Income, Gain, Loss and Deduction.”

To the extent allowable, we may elect to use the depreciation and cost recovery methods, including bonus depreciation to the extent available, that will result in the largest deductions being taken in the early years after assets subject to these allowances are placed in service. Part or all of the goodwill, going concern value and other intangible assets we acquire in connection with this offering may not produce any amortization deductions because of the application of the anti-churning restrictions of Section 197 of the Code. Please read “—Uniformity of Units.” Property we subsequently acquire or construct may be depreciated using accelerated methods permitted by the Code.

If we dispose of depreciable property by sale, foreclosure or otherwise, all or a portion of any gain, determined by reference to the amount of depreciation previously deducted and the nature of the property, may be subject to the recapture rules under Section 1245 or Section 1250 of the Code and taxed as ordinary income rather than capital gain. Similarly, a unitholder who has taken cost recovery or depreciation deductions with respect to property we own will likely be required to recapture some or all of those deductions as ordinary income upon a sale of his interest in us. Please read “—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Allocation of Income, Gain, Loss and Deduction” and “—Disposition of Common Units—Recognition of Gain or Loss.”

The costs we incur in selling our units (called “syndication expenses”) must be capitalized under Section 709 of the Code and cannot be deducted currently, ratably or upon our termination. There are uncertainties regarding the classification of costs as organization expenses, which may be amortized by us, and as

 

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syndication expenses, which may not be amortized by us. The underwriting discounts and commissions we incur will be treated as syndication expenses.

Valuation and Tax Basis of Our Properties

The federal income tax consequences of the ownership and disposition of units will depend in part on our estimates of the relative fair market values, and the initial tax bases, of our assets. Although we may from time to time consult with professional appraisers regarding valuation matters, we will make many of the relative fair market value estimates ourselves. These estimates and determinations of basis are subject to challenge and will not be binding on the IRS or the courts. If the estimates of fair market value or basis are later found to be incorrect, the character and amount of items of income, gain, loss or deductions previously reported by unitholders might change, and unitholders might be required to adjust their tax liability for prior years and incur interest and penalties with respect to those adjustments.

Disposition of Common Units

Recognition of Gain or Loss

Gain or loss will be recognized on a sale of units equal to the difference between the amount realized and the unitholder’s tax basis for the units sold. A unitholder’s amount realized will be measured by the sum of the cash or the fair market value of other property received by him plus his share of our nonrecourse liabilities. Because the amount realized includes a unitholder’s share of our nonrecourse liabilities, the gain recognized on the sale of units could result in a tax liability in excess of any cash received from the sale.

Prior distributions from us that in the aggregate were in excess of cumulative net taxable income for a common unit and, therefore, decreased a unitholder’s tax basis in that common unit will, in effect, become taxable income if the common unit is sold at a price greater than the unitholder’s tax basis in that common unit, even if the price received is less than his original cost.

Except as noted below, gain or loss recognized by a unitholder, other than a “dealer” in units, on the sale or exchange of a unit will generally be taxable as capital gain or loss. Capital gain recognized by an individual on the sale of units held for more than twelve months will generally be taxed at a maximum U.S. federal income tax rate of 15.0% through December 31, 2012 and 20.0% thereafter (absent new legislation extending or adjusting the current rate). However, a portion of this gain or loss, which will likely be substantial, will be separately computed and taxed as ordinary income or loss under Section 751 of the Code to the extent attributable to assets giving rise to depreciation recapture or other “unrealized receivables” or to “inventory items” we own. The term “unrealized receivables” includes potential recapture items, including depreciation recapture. Ordinary income attributable to unrealized receivables, inventory items and depreciation recapture may exceed net taxable gain realized upon the sale of a unit and may be recognized even if there is a net taxable loss realized on the sale of a unit. Thus, a unitholder may recognize both ordinary income and a capital loss upon a sale of units. Capital losses may offset capital gains and no more than $3,000 of ordinary income each year, in the case of individuals, and may only be used to offset capital gains in the case of corporations.

The IRS ruled in Rev. Rul. 84-53,1984-1 C.B. 159, that a partner who acquires interests in a partnership in separate transactions must combine those interests and maintain a single adjusted tax basis for all those interests. Upon a sale or other disposition of less than all of those interests, a portion of that tax basis must be allocated to the interests sold using an “equitable apportionment” method, which generally means that the tax basis allocated to the interest sold equals an amount that bears the same relation to the partner’s tax basis in his entire interest in the partnership as the value of the interest sold bears to the value of the partner’s entire interest in the partnership. Treasury Regulations under Section 1223 of the Code allow a selling unitholder who can identify common units transferred with an ascertainable holding period to elect to use the actual holding period of the common units transferred. Thus, according to the ruling discussed above, a common unitholder will be unable to select high or low basis common units to sell as would be the case with corporate stock, but, according

 

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to the Treasury Regulations, he may designate specific common units sold for purposes of determining the holding period of units transferred. A unitholder electing to use the actual holding period of common units transferred must consistently use that identification method for all subsequent sales or exchanges of common units. A unitholder considering the purchase of additional units or a sale of common units purchased in separate transactions is urged to consult his tax advisor as to the possible consequences of this ruling and application of the Treasury Regulations.

Section 1259 of the Code can affect the taxation of some financial products and securities, including partnership interests, by treating a taxpayer as having sold an “appreciated” partnership interest, one in which gain would be recognized if it were sold, assigned or terminated at its fair market value, if the taxpayer or related persons enter(s) into:

 

   

a short sale;

 

   

an offsetting notional principal contract; or

 

   

a futures or forward contract;

in each case, with respect to the partnership interest or substantially identical property.

Moreover, if a taxpayer has previously entered into a short sale, an offsetting notional principal contract or a futures or forward contract with respect to the partnership interest, the taxpayer will be treated as having sold that position if the taxpayer or a related person then acquires the partnership interest or substantially identical property. The Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to issue regulations that treat a taxpayer that enters into transactions or positions that have substantially the same effect as the preceding transactions as having constructively sold the financial position.

Allocations Between Transferors and Transferees

In general, our taxable income and losses will be determined annually, will be prorated on a monthly basis and will be subsequently apportioned among the unitholders in proportion to the number of units owned by each of them as of the opening of the applicable exchange on the first business day of the month, which we refer to in this prospectus as the “Allocation Date.” However, gain or loss realized on a sale or other disposition of our assets other than in the ordinary course of business will be allocated among the unitholders on the Allocation Date in the month in which that gain or loss is recognized. As a result, a unitholder transferring units may be allocated income, gain, loss and deduction realized after the date of transfer.

Although simplifying conventions are contemplated by the Code and most publicly traded partnerships use similar simplifying conventions, the use of this method may not be permitted under existing Treasury Regulations as there is no direct or indirect controlling authority on this issue. Recently, however, the Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued proposed Treasury Regulations under Section 706 of the Code that provide a safe harbor pursuant to which a publicly traded partnership may use a similar monthly simplifying convention to allocate tax items among transferor and transferee unitholders, although such tax items must be prorated on a daily basis. Nonetheless, the proposed regulations do not specifically authorize the use of the proration method we have adopted. Existing publicly traded partnerships are entitled to rely on these proposed Treasury Regulations; however, they are not binding on the IRS and are subject to change until final Treasury Regulations are issued. Accordingly, Baker Botts L.L.P. is unable to opine on the validity of this method of allocating income and deductions between transferor and transferee unitholders because the issue has not been finally resolved by the IRS or the courts. If this method is not allowed under the Treasury Regulations, or only applies to transfers of less than all of the unitholder’s interest, our taxable income or losses might be reallocated among the unitholders. We are authorized to revise our method of allocation between transferor and transferee unitholders, as well as unitholders whose interests vary during a taxable year, to conform to a method permitted under future Treasury Regulations.

 

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A unitholder who disposes of units prior to the record date set for a cash distribution for any quarter will be allocated items of our income, gain, loss and deductions attributable to the month of sale but will not be entitled to receive that cash distribution.

Notification Requirements

A unitholder who sells any of his units is generally required by regulations under Section 6050K of the Code to notify us in writing of that sale within 30 days after the sale (or, if earlier, January 15 of the year following the sale). A purchaser of units who purchases units from another unitholder is also generally required under Section 743 of the Code to notify us in writing of that purchase within 30 days after the purchase. Upon receiving such notifications, we are required to notify the IRS of that transaction and to furnish specified information to the transferor and transferee. Failure to notify us of a sale may lead to the imposition of penalties under Section 6723 of the Code. However, these reporting requirements do not apply to a sale by an individual who is a citizen of the U.S. and who effects the sale or exchange through a broker who will satisfy such requirements.

Constructive Termination

We will be considered under Section 708 of the Code to have terminated our tax partnership for federal income tax purposes upon the sale or exchange of our interests that, in the aggregate, constitute 50% or more of the total interests in our capital and profits within a twelve-month period. Immediately following this offering, Delek will indirectly own more than 50% of the total interests in our capital and profits. Therefore, a transfer by Delek of all or a portion of its interests in us could result in a termination of our partnership for federal income tax purposes. For purposes of measuring whether the 50% threshold is reached, multiple sales of the same interest are counted only once. A constructive termination results in the closing of our taxable year for all unitholders. In the case of a unitholder reporting on a taxable year other than a fiscal year ending December 31, the closing of our taxable year may result in more than twelve months of our taxable income or loss being includable in his taxable income for the year of termination. A constructive termination occurring on a date other than December 31 will result in us filing two tax returns (and unitholders could receive two Schedules K-1 if the relief discussed below is not available) for one fiscal year and the cost of the preparation of these returns will be borne by all common unitholders. We would be required to make new tax elections after a termination, including a new election under Section 754 of the Code, and a termination would result in a deferral of our deductions for depreciation. A termination could also result in penalties if we were unable to determine that the termination had occurred. Moreover, a termination might either accelerate the application of, or subject us to, any tax legislation enacted before the termination. The IRS has recently announced in an Industry Director Communication, LMSB-04-0210-006, a relief procedure whereby if a publicly traded partnership that has technically terminated requests publicly traded partnership technical termination relief and the IRS grants such relief, among other things, the partnership will only have to provide one Schedule K-1 to unitholders for the year notwithstanding two partnership tax years.

Uniformity of Units

Because we cannot match transferors and transferees of units, we must maintain uniformity of the economic and tax characteristics of the units to a purchaser of these units. In the absence of uniformity, we may be unable to completely comply with a number of federal income tax requirements, both statutory and regulatory. Any non-uniformity could have an impact upon the value of our units. The timing of deductions attributable to Section 743(b) adjustments to the common basis of our assets with respect to persons purchasing units from another unitholder may affect the uniformity of our units. Please read “—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Section 754 Election.”

For example, some types of depreciable assets are not subject to the typical rules governing depreciation (under Section 168 of the Code) or amortization (under Section 197 of the Code). If we were to acquire any assets of that type, the timing of a unit purchaser’s deductions with respect to Section 743(b) adjustments to the

 

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common basis of those assets might differ depending upon when and to whom the unit he purchased was originally issued. We do not currently expect to acquire any assets of that type. However, if we were to acquire a material amount of assets of that type, we intend to adopt tax positions as to those assets that will not result in any such lack of uniformity. Any such tax positions taken by us might result in allocations to some unitholders of smaller depreciation deductions than they would otherwise be entitled to receive. Baker Botts L.L.P. has not rendered an opinion with respect to those types of tax positions. Moreover, the IRS might challenge those tax positions. If we took such a tax position and the IRS successfully challenged the position, the uniformity of our units might be affected, and the gain from the sale of our units might be increased without the benefit of additional deductions. Please read “—Disposition of Common Units—Recognition of Gain or Loss.”

Tax-Exempt Organizations and Other Investors

Ownership of units by employee benefit plans, other tax-exempt organizations, non-resident aliens, foreign corporations and other foreign persons raises issues unique to those investors and, as described below to a limited extent, may have substantially adverse tax consequences to them. If you are a tax-exempt entity or a non-U.S. person, you should consult your tax advisor before investing in our common units.

Employee benefit plans and most other organizations exempt from federal income tax, including individual retirement accounts and other retirement plans, are subject to federal income tax under Section 511 of the Code on unrelated business taxable income. Virtually all of our income allocated to a unitholder that is a tax-exempt organization will be unrelated business taxable income and will be taxable to it. Please read “Investment in Delek Logistics Partners, LP by Employee Benefit Plans.”

Non-resident aliens and foreign corporations, trusts or estates that own units will be considered under Section 875 of the Code to be engaged in business in the U.S. because of the ownership of units. As a consequence, they will be required to file federal tax returns to report their share of our income, gain, loss or deduction and pay federal income tax at regular rates on their share of our net income or gain. Moreover, under rules applicable to publicly traded partnerships, we will withhold at the highest applicable effective tax rate from cash distributions made quarterly to foreign unitholders. Each foreign unitholder must obtain a taxpayer identification number from the IRS and submit that number to our transfer agent on a Form W-8BEN or applicable substitute form in order to obtain credit for these withholding taxes. A change in applicable law may require us to change these procedures.

In addition, because a foreign corporation that owns units will be treated as engaged in a U.S. trade or business, that corporation may be subject to the U.S. branch profits tax under Section 884 of the Code at a rate of 30%, in addition to regular federal income tax, on its share of our income and gain, as adjusted for changes in the foreign corporation’s “U.S. net equity,” which is effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business. That tax may be reduced or eliminated by an income tax treaty between the U.S. and the country in which the foreign corporate unitholder is a “qualified resident.” In addition, this type of unitholder is subject to special information reporting requirements under Section 6038C of the Code.

A foreign unitholder who sells or otherwise disposes of a common unit will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on gain realized from the sale or disposition of that unit to the extent the gain is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of the foreign unitholder. Under Rev. Rul. 91-32, 1991-1 C.B. 107, interpreting the scope of “effectively connected income,” a foreign unitholder would be considered to be engaged in a trade or business in the U.S. by virtue of the U.S. activities of the partnership, and part or all of that unitholder’s gain would be effectively connected with that unitholder’s indirect U.S. trade or business. Moreover, under the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act, a foreign common unitholder generally will be subject to U.S. federal income tax upon the sale or disposition of a common unit if (i) he owned (directly or constructively applying certain attribution rules) more than 5.0% of our common units at any time during the five-year period ending on the date of such disposition and (ii) 50.0% or more of the fair market value of all of our assets consisted of U.S. real property interests at any time during the shorter of the period during which such unitholder held the common units or the

 

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five-year period ending on the date of disposition. Currently, more than 50.0% of our assets consist of U.S. real property interests and we do not expect that to change in the foreseeable future. Therefore, foreign unitholders may be subject to federal income tax on gain from the sale or disposition of their units.

Administrative Matters

Information Returns and Audit Procedures

We intend to furnish to each unitholder, within 90 days after the close of each taxable year, specific tax information, including a Schedule K-1, which describes his share of our income, gain, loss and deduction for our preceding taxable year. In preparing this information, which will not be reviewed by counsel, we will take various accounting and reporting positions, some of which have been mentioned earlier, to determine each unitholder’s share of income, gain, loss and deduction. We cannot assure you that those positions will yield a result that conforms to the requirements of the Code, Treasury Regulations or administrative interpretations of the IRS. Neither we nor Baker Botts L.L.P. can assure prospective unitholders that the IRS will not successfully contend in court that those positions are impermissible. Any challenge by the IRS could negatively affect the value of the units.

The IRS may audit our federal income tax information returns. Adjustments resulting from an IRS audit may require each unitholder to adjust a prior year’s tax liability, and possibly may result in an audit of his return. Any audit of a unitholder’s return could result in adjustments not related to our returns as well as those related to our returns.

Partnerships generally are treated as separate entities under Section 6221 of the Code for purposes of federal tax audits, judicial review of administrative adjustments by the IRS and tax settlement proceedings. The tax treatment of partnership items of income, gain, loss and deduction are determined in a partnership proceeding rather than in separate proceedings with the partners. The Code requires that one partner be designated as the “Tax Matters Partner” for these purposes. Our partnership agreement names our general partner as our Tax Matters Partner.

The Tax Matters Partner has made and will make some elections on our behalf and on behalf of unitholders. In addition, the Tax Matters Partner can extend the statute of limitations for assessment of tax deficiencies against unitholders for items in our returns. The Tax Matters Partner may bind a unitholder with less than a 1.0% profits interest in us to a settlement with the IRS unless that unitholder elects, by filing a statement with the IRS, not to give that authority to the Tax Matters Partner. The Tax Matters Partner may seek judicial review, by which all the unitholders are bound, of a final partnership administrative adjustment and, if the Tax Matters Partner fails to seek judicial review, judicial review may be sought by any unitholder having at least a 1.0% interest in profits or by any group of unitholders having in the aggregate at least a 5% interest in profits. However, only one action for judicial review will go forward, and each unitholder with an interest in the outcome may participate.

A unitholder must file a statement with the IRS pursuant to Section 6222 of the Code identifying the treatment of any item on his federal income tax return that is not consistent with the treatment of the item on our return. Intentional or negligent disregard of this consistency requirement may subject a unitholder to substantial penalties.

Additional Withholding Requirements

Under recently enacted legislation, the relevant withholding agent may be required to withhold 30% of any interest, dividends and other fixed or determinable annual or periodical gains, profits and income from sources within the United States (“FDAP Income”) or gross proceeds from the sale of any property of a type which can produce interest or dividends from sources within the United States paid to (i) a foreign financial institution (for which purposes includes foreign broker-dealers, clearing organizations, investment companies, hedge funds and certain other investment entities) unless such foreign financial institution agrees to verify, report

 

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and disclose its U.S. accountholders and meets certain other specified requirements or (ii) a non-financial foreign entity that is a beneficial owner of the payment unless such entity certifies that it does not have any substantial U.S. owners or provides the name, address and taxpayer identification number of each substantial U.S. owner and such entity meets certain other specified requirements or otherwise qualifies for an exemption from this withholding. Although this legislation currently applies to payments made after December 31, 2012, the Department of the Treasury and the IRS have issued administrative guidance indicating that they plan to issue Treasury Regulations that will delay the effective date of the withholding regime so that withholding will only apply to payments of FDAP Income which are made after December 31, 2013, and to payments of relevant gross proceeds which are made after December 31, 2014. In addition, proposed Treasury Regulations have been issued which, if finalized, would confirm the extension of the effective dates for withholding. Non U.S. and U.S. Holders are encouraged to consult their own tax advisors regarding the possible implications of this legislation on their investment in our common units.

Nominee Reporting

Persons who hold an interest in us as a nominee for another person are required under Section 6031 of the Code to furnish to us:

 

   

the name, address and taxpayer identification number of the beneficial owner and the nominee;

 

   

a statement regarding whether the beneficial owner is:

 

   

a person that is not a U.S. person;

 

   

a foreign government, an international organization or any wholly owned agency or instrumentality of either of the foregoing; or

 

   

a tax-exempt entity;

 

   

the amount and description of units held, acquired or transferred for the beneficial owner; and

 

   

specific information including the dates of acquisitions and transfers, means of acquisitions and transfers, and acquisition cost for purchases, as well as the amount of net proceeds from sales.

Brokers and financial institutions are required under Section 6031 of the Code to furnish additional information, including whether they are U.S. persons and specific information on units they acquire, hold or transfer for their own account. A penalty of $100 per failure, up to a maximum of $1.5 million per calendar year, is imposed by Section 6722 of the Code for failure to report that information to us. The nominee is required to supply the beneficial owner of the units with the information furnished to us.

Accuracy-Related Penalties

An additional tax equal to 20.0% of the amount of any portion of an underpayment of tax that is attributable to one or more specified causes, including negligence or disregard of rules or regulations, substantial understatements of income tax and substantial valuation misstatements, is imposed under Section 6662 of the Code. No penalty will be imposed, however, for any portion of an underpayment if it is shown that there was a reasonable cause for that portion and that the taxpayer acted in good faith regarding that portion.

For individuals, a substantial understatement of income tax in any taxable year exists if the amount of the understatement exceeds the greater of 10.0% of the tax required to be shown on the return for the taxable year or $5,000 ($10,000 for most corporations). The amount of any understatement subject to penalty generally is reduced if any portion is attributable to a position adopted on the return:

 

   

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as to which there is a reasonable basis and the pertinent facts of that position are disclosed on the return.

If any item of income, gain, loss or deduction included in the distributive shares of unitholders might result in that kind of an “understatement” of income for which no “substantial authority” exists, we must disclose the pertinent facts on our return. In addition, we will make a reasonable effort to furnish sufficient information for unitholders to make adequate disclosure on their returns and to take other actions as may be appropriate to permit unitholders to avoid liability for this penalty. More stringent rules apply to “tax shelters,” which we do not believe includes us, or any of our investments, plans or arrangements.

A substantial valuation misstatement exists if (a) the value of any property, or the adjusted basis of any property, claimed on a tax return is 150.0% or more of the amount determined to be the correct amount of the valuation or adjusted basis, (b) the price for any property or services (or for the use of property) claimed on any such return with respect to any transaction between persons described in Section 482 of the Code is 200.0% or more (or 50.0% or less) of the amount determined under Code Section 482 to be the correct amount of such price, or (c) the net Section 482 transfer price adjustment for the taxable year exceeds the lesser of $5 million or 10.0% of the taxpayer’s gross receipts.

No penalty is imposed unless the portion of the underpayment attributable to a substantial valuation misstatement exceeds $5,000 ($10,000 for most corporations). If the valuation claimed on a return is 200.0% or more than the correct valuation or certain other thresholds are met, the penalty imposed increases to 40.0%. We do not anticipate making any valuation misstatements.

In addition, the 20.0% accuracy-related penalty also applies to any portion of an underpayment of tax that is attributable to transactions lacking economic substance. To the extent that such transactions are not disclosed, the penalty imposed is increased to 40.0%. Additionally, there is no reasonable cause defense to the imposition of this penalty to such transactions.

Reportable Transactions

If we were to engage in a “reportable transaction,” we (and possibly you and others) would be required under Treasury regulations under Section 6011 of the Code and related provisions to make a detailed disclosure of the transaction to the IRS. A transaction may be a reportable transaction based upon any of several factors, including the fact that it is a type of tax avoidance transaction publicly identified by the IRS as a “listed transaction” or that it produces certain kinds of losses for partnerships, individuals, S corporations, and trusts in excess of $2 million in any single year, or $4 million in any combination of 6 successive tax years. Our participation in a reportable transaction could increase the likelihood that our federal income tax information return (and possibly your tax return) would be audited by the IRS. Please read “—Information Returns and Audit Procedures.”

Moreover, if we were to participate in a reportable transaction with a significant purpose to avoid or evade tax, or in any listed transaction, you may be subject to the following provisions of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004:

 

   

accuracy-related penalties with a broader scope, significantly narrower exceptions, and potentially greater amounts than described above at “—Accuracy-Related Penalties”;

 

   

for those persons otherwise entitled to deduct interest on federal tax deficiencies, nondeductibility of interest on any resulting tax liability; and

 

   

in the case of a listed transaction, an extended statute of limitations.

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State, Local, Foreign and Other Tax Considerations

In addition to federal income taxes, you likely will be subject to other taxes, such as state, local and foreign income taxes, unincorporated business taxes, and estate, inheritance or intangible taxes that may be imposed by the various jurisdictions in which we do business or own property or in which you are a resident. We will initially own property or conduct business in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas. Arkansas and Louisiana impose a personal income tax on individuals, and each of the four states imposes an income or similar tax on corporations and certain other entities. Moreover, we may also own property or do business in other states in the future that impose income or similar taxes on nonresident individuals. Although an analysis of those various taxes is not presented here, each prospective unitholder should consider their potential impact on his investment in us. A unitholder may be required to file income tax returns and to pay income taxes in many of these jurisdictions in which we do business or own property and may be subject to penalties for failure to comply with those requirements. In some jurisdictions, tax losses may not produce a tax benefit in the year incurred and may not be available to offset income in subsequent taxable years. Some of the jurisdictions may require us, or we may elect, to withhold a percentage of income from amounts to be distributed to a unitholder who is not a resident of the jurisdiction. Withholding, the amount of which may be greater or less than a particular unitholder’s income tax liability to the jurisdiction, generally does not relieve a nonresident unitholder from the obligation to file an income tax return. Amounts withheld will be treated as if distributed to unitholders for purposes of determining the amounts distributed by us. Please read “—Tax Consequences of Unit Ownership—Entity-Level Collections.” Based on current law and our estimate of our future operations, our general partner anticipates that any amounts required to be withheld will not be material.

It is the responsibility of each unitholder to investigate the legal and tax consequences, under the laws of pertinent jurisdictions, of his investment in us. Accordingly, each prospective unitholder is urged to consult, and depend upon, his tax counsel or other advisor with regard to those matters. Further, it is the responsibility of each unitholder to file all state, local and foreign, as well as U.S. federal tax returns, that may be required of him. Baker Botts L.L.P. has not rendered an opinion on the state, local or foreign tax consequences of an investment in us.

 

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INVESTMENT IN DELEK LOGISTICS PARTNERS, LP BY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

An investment in us by an employee benefit plan is subject to additional considerations because the investments of these plans are subject to the fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA. restrictions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code, and provisions under any federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that are similar to such provisions of the Code or ERISA (collectively, “Similar Laws”). For these purposes, the term “employee benefit plan” includes, but is not limited to, qualified pension, profit-sharing and stock bonus plans, Keogh plans, simplified employee pension plans and tax deferred annuities or individual retirement accounts or annuities (“IRAs”) established or maintained by an employer or employee organization and entities whose underlying assets are considered to include “plan assets” of such plans, accounts, and arrangements. Among other things, consideration should be given to:

 

   

whether the investment is prudent under Section 404(a)(1)(B) of ERISA and any other applicable Similar Laws;

 

   

whether in making the investment, that plan will satisfy the diversification requirements of Section 404(a)(1)(C) of ERISA and any other applicable Similar Laws; and

 

   

whether the investment will result in recognition of unrelated business taxable income by the plan and, if so, the potential after-tax investment return. Please read “Material Federal Income Tax Consequences—Tax-Exempt Organizations and Other Investors”; and

 

   

whether making such an investment will comply with the delegation of control and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable Similar Laws.

The person with investment discretion with respect to the assets of an employee benefit plan, often called a fiduciary, should determine whether an investment in us is authorized by the appropriate governing instrument and is a proper investment for the plan or IRA.

Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code prohibit employee benefit plans, and also IRAs that are not considered part of an employee benefit plan, from engaging in specified transactions involving “plan assets” with parties that are “parties in interest” under ERISA or “disqualified persons” under the Code with respect to the plan unless an exemption is available. A party in interest or disqualified person who engages in a non-exempt prohibited transaction may be subject to excise taxes and other penalties and liabilities under ERISA and the Code. In addition, the fiduciary of the ERISA plan that engaged in such a non-exempt prohibited transaction may be subject to penalties and liabilities under ERISA and the Code.

In addition to considering whether the purchase of common units is a prohibited transaction, a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan should consider whether the plan will, by investing in us, be deemed to own an undivided interest in our assets, with the result that the general partner would also be a fiduciary of such plan and our operations would be subject to the regulatory restrictions of ERISA, including its prohibited transaction rules, as well as the prohibited transaction rules of the Code, ERISA, and any other applicable Similar Laws.

The Department of Labor regulations provide guidance with respect to whether the assets of an entity in which employee benefit plans acquire equity interests would be deemed “plan assets” under some circumstances. Under these regulations, an entity’s assets would not be considered to be “plan assets” if, among other things:

(1) the equity interests acquired by employee benefit plans are publicly offered securities (i.e., the equity interests are widely held by 100 or more investors independent of the issuer and each other, freely transferable and registered under certain provisions of the federal securities laws);

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(3) there is no significant investment by benefit plan investors, which is defined to mean that less than 25% of the value of each class of equity interest (disregarding certain interests held by our general partner, its affiliates, and certain other persons) is held by the employee benefit plans referred to above, and IRAs that are subject to ERISA and/or Section 4975 of the Code.

With respect to an investment in our common units, we believe that our assets should not be considered “plan assets” under these regulations because it is expected that the investment will satisfy the requirements in (1) and (2) above.

The foregoing discussion of issues arising for employee benefit plan investments under ERISA, the Code, and applicable Similar Laws is general in nature and is not intended to be all-inclusive, nor should it be construed as legal advice. Plan fiduciaries contemplating a purchase of common units should consult with their own counsel regarding the consequences under ERISA, the Code and other Similar Laws in light of the complexity of these rules and the serious penalties that may be imposed on persons who engage in prohibited transactions or other violations.

 

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UNDERWRITING

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Barclays Capital Inc. are acting as representatives of each of the underwriters named below. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in an underwriting agreement among us and the underwriters, we have agreed to sell to the underwriters, and each of the underwriters has agreed, severally and not jointly, to purchase from us, the number of common units set forth opposite its name below.

 

Underwriter    Number of
Common Units

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated

  

Barclays Capital Inc.

  
  

 

Total

  
  

 

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the underwriting agreement, each of the underwriters have agreed, severally and not jointly, to purchase all of the common units sold under the underwriting agreement if any of these common units are purchased. If an underwriter defaults, the underwriting agreement provides that the purchase commitments of the nondefaulting underwriters may be increased or the underwriting agreement may be terminated.

We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect of those liabilities.

The underwriters are offering the common units, subject to prior sale, when, as and if issued to and accepted by them, subject to approval of legal matters by their counsel, including the validity of the common units, and other conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, such as the receipt by the underwriters of officer’s certificates and legal opinions. The underwriters reserve the right to withdraw, cancel or modify offers to the public and to reject orders in whole or in part.

Commissions and Discounts

The representatives have advised us that the underwriters propose initially to offer the common units included in this offering to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus and to dealers at that price less a concession not in excess of $         per common unit. After the initial offering, the public offering price, concession or any other term of the offering may be changed.

The following table shows the public offering price, underwriting discount and proceeds before expenses to us. The information assumes either no exercise or full exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional common units.

 

     Per
Common Unit
   Without Option    With Option

Public offering price

   $    $    $

Underwriting discount

   $    $    $

Proceeds, before expenses, to Delek Logistics Partners, LP

   $    $    $

We will also pay to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Barclays Capital Inc. an aggregate structuring fee equal to     % of the gross proceeds of this offering for the evaluation, analysis and structuring of our partnership.

 

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The expenses of the offering, not including the underwriting discount, are estimated at $4.0 million and are payable by us.

Option to Purchase Additional Common Units

We have granted an option to the underwriters, exercisable for 30 days after the date of this prospectus, to purchase up to                      additional common units at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount. If the underwriters exercise this option, each will be obligated, subject to conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, to purchase a number of additional common units approximately proportionate to that underwriter’s initial amount reflected in the above table. Any common units issued or sold under the option will be issued and sold on the same terms and conditions as the other common units that are the subject of this offering.

Reserved Common Units

At our request, the underwriters have reserved for sale, at the initial public offering price, up to                      common units offered by this prospectus for sale to some of our directors, officers, employees and related persons. If these persons purchase reserved common units, the purchased units will be subject to a 180-day lock-up restriction and the purchased units will reduce the number of common units available for sale to the general public. Any reserved common units that are not so purchased will be offered by the underwriters to the general public on the same terms as the other common units offered by this prospectus.

Lock-Up Restrictions

We, Delek, certain of its subsidiaries, our general partner and our general partner’s executive officers and directors have agreed not to sell or transfer any common units or securities convertible into, exchangeable for, exercisable for, or repayable with common units, for 180 days after the date of this prospectus without first obtaining the written consent of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Barclays Capital Inc. Specifically, we and these other persons have agreed, with certain limited exceptions, not to directly or indirectly

 

   

offer, pledge, sell or contract to sell any common units,

 

   

sell any option or contract to purchase any common units,

 

   

purchase any option or contract to sell any common units,

 

   

grant any option, right or warrant for the sale of any common units,

 

   

lend or otherwise dispose of or transfer any common units,

 

   

request or demand that we file a registration statement related to the common units, or

 

   

enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic consequence of ownership of any common units whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of common units or other securities, in cash or otherwise.

This lock-up provision applies to common units and to securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or repayable with common units. It also applies to common units owned now or acquired later by the person executing the agreement or for which the person executing the agreement later acquires the power of disposition. In the event that either (x) during the last 17 days of the lock-up period referred to above, we issue an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to us occurs or (y) prior to the expiration of the lock-up period, we announce that we will release earnings results or become aware that material news or a

 

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material event will occur during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the lock-up period, the restrictions described above shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event.

New York Stock Exchange Listing

We intend to apply to list our common units on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DKL.” In order to meet the requirements for listing on that exchange, the underwriters have undertaken to sell a minimum number of common units to a minimum number of beneficial owners as required by that exchange.

Before this offering, there has been no public market for our common units. The initial public offering price for the common units will be determined through negotiations between us and the representatives. In addition to prevailing market conditions, the factors to be considered in determining the initial public offering price are

 

   

the valuation multiples of publicly traded companies that the representatives believe to be comparable to us,

 

   

our financial information,

 

   

the history of, and the prospects for, our partnership and the industry in which we compete,

 

   

an assessment of our management, its past and present operations, and the prospects for, and timing of, our future revenues,

 

   

the present state of our development, and

 

   

the above factors in relation to market values and various valuation measures of other companies engaged in activities similar to ours.

An active trading market for the common units may not develop. It is also possible that after the offering the common units will not trade in the public market at or above the initial public offering price.

The underwriters do not expect to sell more than 5% of the common units in the aggregate to accounts over which they exercise discretionary authority.

Price Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids

Until the distribution of the common units is completed, SEC rules may limit underwriters and selling group members from bidding for and purchasing our common units. However, the representatives may engage in transactions that stabilize the price of the common units, such as bids or purchases to peg, fix or maintain that price.

In connection with the offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell our common units in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, purchases on the open market to cover positions created by short sales and stabilizing transactions. Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of common units than they are required to purchase in the offering. “Covered” short sales are sales made in an amount not greater than the underwriters’ option to purchase additional common units described above. The underwriters may close out any covered short position by either exercising their option to purchase additional common units or purchasing common units in the open market. In determining the source of common units to close out the covered short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of common units available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase common

 

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units through the option granted to them. “Naked” short sales are sales in excess of such option. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing common units in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of our common units in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering. Stabilizing transactions consist of various bids for or purchases of common units made by the underwriters in the open market prior to the completion of the offering.

The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter repays to the underwriters a portion of the underwriting discount received by it because the representatives have repurchased common units sold by or for the account of such underwriter in stabilizing or short covering transactions.

Similar to other purchase transactions, the underwriters’ purchases to cover the syndicate short sales may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market price of our common units or preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of our common units. As a result, the price of our common units may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. The underwriters may conduct these transactions on the New York Stock Exchange, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.

Neither we nor any of the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common units. In addition, neither we nor any of the underwriters make any representation that the representatives will engage in these transactions or that these transactions, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.

Electronic Distribution

In connection with the offering, certain of the underwriters or securities dealers may distribute prospectuses by electronic means, such as e-mail.

Conflicts of Interest

Affiliates of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Barclays Capital Inc. will be lenders under our new credit agreement and, accordingly, will receive a portion of the proceeds from this offering. Affiliates of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated are lenders under Delek’s revolving credit facility and Delek Refining’s asset-backed revolving credit facility.

FINRA

Because the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, is expected to view the common units offered hereby as interests in a direct participation program, this offering is being made in compliance with Rule 2310 of the FINRA rules. Investor suitability with respect to the common units should be judged similarly to the suitability with respect to other securities that are listed for trading on a national securities exchange.

Other Relationships

Some of the underwriters and their affiliates have engaged in, and may in the future engage in, investment banking and other commercial dealings in the ordinary course of business with us or our affiliates. They have received, or may in the future receive, customary fees and commissions for these transactions.

In addition, in the ordinary course of their business activities, the underwriters and their affiliates may make or hold a broad array of investments and actively trade debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities) and financial instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of their customers. Such investments and securities activities may involve securities and/or instruments of ours or our affiliates. The underwriters and their affiliates may also make investment recommendations and/or publish or

 

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express independent research views in respect of such securities or financial instruments and may hold, or recommend to clients that they acquire, long and/or short positions in such securities and instruments.

Notice to Prospective Investors in the European Economic Area

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”), other than Germany, with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant Implementation Date”), no offer of securities described in this prospectus may be made to the public in that Relevant Member State other than:

A. to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive;

B. to fewer than 100 or, if the Relevant Member State has implemented the relevant provision of the 2010 PD Amending Directive, 150, natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive), as permitted under the Prospectus Directive, subject to obtaining the prior consent of the relevant Dealer or Dealers nominated by us for any such offer; or

C. in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive,

provided that no such offer of securities shall require us or any underwriter to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 16 of the Prospectus Directive.

Each person in a Relevant Member State who initially acquires any common units or to whom any offer is made will be deemed to have represented, acknowledged and agreed that (A) it is a “qualified investor” within the meaning of the law in that Relevant Member State implementing Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive, and (B) in the case of any common units acquired by it as a financial intermediary, as that term is used in Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive, the common units acquired by it in the offering have not been acquired on behalf of, nor have they been acquired with a view to their offer or resale to, persons in any Relevant Member State other than “qualified investors” as defined in the Prospectus Directive, or in circumstances in which the prior consent of the representatives has been given to the offer or resale. In the case of any common units being offered to a financial intermediary as that term is used in Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive, each such financial intermediary will be deemed to have represented, acknowledged and agreed that the common units acquired by it in the offer have not been acquired on a non-discretionary basis on behalf of, nor have they been acquired with a view to their offer or resale to, persons in circumstances which may give rise to an offer of any common units to the public other than their offer or resale in a Relevant Member State to qualified investors as so defined or in circumstances in which the prior consent of the representatives has been obtained to each such proposed offer or resale.

We, the representatives and their affiliates will rely upon the truth and accuracy of the foregoing representation, acknowledgement and agreement.

This prospectus has been prepared on the basis that any offer of common units in any Relevant Member State will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Directive from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of common units. Accordingly any person making or intending to make an offer in that Relevant Member State of common units which are the subject of the offering contemplated in this prospectus may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for us or any of the underwriters to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive in relation to such offer. Neither we nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of common units in circumstances in which an obligation arises for us or the underwriters to publish a prospectus for such offer.

 

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For the purpose of the above provisions, the expression “an offer to the public” in relation to any of any common units in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the common units to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the common units, as the same may be varied in the Relevant Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in the Relevant Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including the 2010 PD Amending Directive, to the extent implemented in the Relevant Member State) and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State. The expression “2010 PD Amending Directive” means Directive 2010/73/EU.

We have not authorized and do not authorize the making of any offer of securities through any financial intermediary on their behalf, other than offers made by the underwriters with a view to the final placement of the securities as contemplated in this prospectus. Accordingly, no purchaser of the securities, other than the underwriters, is authorized to make any further offer of the securities on behalf of us or the underwriters.

Notice to Prospective Investors in the United Kingdom

In addition, in the United Kingdom, this document is being distributed only to, and is directed only at, and any offer subsequently made may only be directed at persons who are “qualified investors” (as defined in the Prospectus Directive) (i) who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19 (5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the “Order”) and/or (ii) who are high net worth companies (or persons to whom it may otherwise be lawfully communicated) falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). This document must not be acted on or relied on in the United Kingdom by persons who are not relevant persons. In the United Kingdom, any investment or investment activity to which this document relates is only available to, and will be engaged in with, relevant persons.

We may constitute a “collective investment scheme” as defined by section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FSMA”) that is not a “recognized collective investment scheme” for the purposes of FSMA (“CIS”) and that has not been authorized or otherwise approved. As an unregulated scheme, our common units cannot be marketed in the United Kingdom to the general public, except in accordance with FSMA. This prospectus is only being distributed in the United Kingdom to, and are only directed at (i) investment professionals falling within the description of persons in Article 14(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Promotion of Collective Investment Schemes) Order 2001, as amended (the “CIS Promotion Order”) or Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the “Financial Promotion Order”) or (ii) high net worth companies and other persons falling with Article 22(2)(a) to (d) of the CIS Promotion Order or Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Financial Promotion Order, or (iii) to any other person to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made, (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). The common units are only available to, and any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire such common units will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this document or any of its contents.

Notice to Prospective Investors in Switzerland

The common units may not be publicly offered in Switzerland and will not be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (“SIX”) or on any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in Switzerland. This document has been prepared without regard to the disclosure standards for issuance prospectuses under art. 652a or art. 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or the disclosure standards for listing prospectuses under art. 27 ff. of the SIX Listing Rules or the listing rules of any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in Switzerland. Each copy of this document is addressed to a specifically named recipient and may not be copied, reproduced, distributed or passed on to third parties. Neither this document nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the common units or the offering may be publicly distributed or otherwise made publicly available in Switzerland.

 

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Neither this document nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the offering, the partnership or the common units have been or will be filed with or approved by any Swiss regulatory authority. In particular, this document will not be filed with, and the offer of common units will not be supervised by, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA (“FINMA”), and the offer of common units has not been and will not be authorized under the Swiss Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes (“CISA”). The investor protection afforded to acquirers of interests in collective investment schemes under the CISA does not extend to acquirers of common units.

Notice to Prospective Investors in Germany

This document has not been prepared in accordance with the requirements for a securities or sales prospectus under the German Securities Prospectus Act (Wertpapierprospektgesetz), the German Sales Prospectus Act (Verkaufsprospektgesetz), or the German Investment Act (Investmentgesetz). Neither the German Federal Financial Services Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht—BaFin) nor any other German authority has been notified of the intention to distribute the common units in Germany. Consequently, the common units may not be distributed in Germany by way of public offering, public advertisement or in any similar manner and this document and any other document relating to the offering, as well as information or statements contained therein, may not be supplied to the public in Germany or used in connection with any offer for subscription of the common units to the public in Germany or any other means of public marketing. The common units are being offered and sold in Germany only to qualified investors which are referred to in Section 3, paragraph 2 no. 1 in connection with Section 2 no. 6 of the German Securities Prospectus Act, Section 8f paragraph 2 no. 4 of the German Sales Prospectus Act, and in Section 2 paragraph 11 sentence 2 no.1 of the German Investment Act. This document is strictly for use of the person who has received it. It may not be forwarded to other persons or published in Germany.

The offering does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation or an offer to buy the common units in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful.

Notice to Prospective Investors in the Netherlands

The common units may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, in the Netherlands, other than to qualified investors (gekwalificeerde beleggers) within the meaning of Article 1:1 of the Dutch Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht).

 

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VALIDITY OF THE COMMON UNITS

The validity of the common units will be passed upon for us by Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, Texas. Certain legal matters in connection with the common units offered hereby will be passed upon for the underwriters by Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., Washington, D.C.

EXPERTS

The combined financial statements of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor at December 31, 2011 and 2010, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011, appearing in this prospectus and in the registration statement have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their report thereon appearing elsewhere herein, and are included in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

The combined balance sheet of the Contributed Lion Oil Assets, a predecessor entity of Delek Logistics Partners, LP, at April 28, 2011, and the related combined statements of operations, division equity and cash flows for the periods ended April 28, 2011 and April 30, 2010, appearing in this prospectus and in the registration statement have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their report thereon appearing elsewhere herein, and are included in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

The statements of income and cash flows of Paline Pipeline Company, LLC, a predecessor entity of Delek Logistics Partners, LP, for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011, appearing in this prospectus and in the registration statement have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their report thereon appearing elsewhere herein, and are included in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

The balance sheet of Delek Logistics Partners, LP as of July 9, 2012 included in this prospectus and in the registration statement has been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their report thereon appearing elsewhere herein, and is included in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement on Form S-l regarding the common units. This prospectus does not contain all of the information found in the registration statement. For further information regarding us and the common units offered by this prospectus, you may desire to review the full registration statement, including its exhibits and schedules, filed under the Securities Act. The registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, including its exhibits and schedules, may be inspected and copied at the public reference room maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. Copies of the materials may also be obtained from the SEC at prescribed rates by writing to the public reference room maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the public reference room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.

The SEC maintains a web site on the Internet at www.sec.gov. Our registration statement, of which this prospectus constitutes a part, can be downloaded from the SEC’s web site and can also be inspected and copied at the offices of the NYSE Euronext, 11 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005.

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not, and the underwriters have not, authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not, and the underwriters are not, making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where an offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that

 

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the information appearing in this prospectus is accurate as of the date on the front cover of this prospectus only. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.

Upon completion of this offering, we will file with or furnish to the SEC periodic reports and other information. These reports and other information may be inspected and copied at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC or obtained from the SEC’s website as provided above. Our website on the Internet is located at www.                    .com and we make our periodic reports and other information filed with or furnished to the SEC available, free of charge, through our website, as soon as reasonably practicable after those reports and other information are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. Information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus and does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

We intend to furnish or make available to our unitholders annual reports containing our audited financial statements and furnish or make available to our unitholders quarterly reports containing our unaudited interim financial information, including the information required by Form 10-Q, for the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of the information in this prospectus may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations, contain projections of results of operations or of financial condition, or forecasts of future events. Words such as “could,” “will,” “may,” “assume,” “forecast,” “position,” “predict,” “strategy,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “project,” “budget,” “potential,” or “continue,” and similar expressions are used to identify forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus include our expectations of plans, strategies, objectives, growth and anticipated financial and operational performance, including revenue projections, capital expenditures and tax position. Forward-looking statements can be affected by assumptions used or by known or unknown risks or uncertainties. Consequently, no forward-looking statements can be guaranteed.

A forward-looking statement may include a statement of the assumptions or bases underlying the forward-looking statement. We believe that we have chosen these assumptions or bases in good faith and that they are reasonable. However, when considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in this prospectus. Those risk factors and other factors noted throughout this prospectus could cause our actual results to differ materially from those disclosed in any forward-looking statement. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. You should also understand that it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors and should not consider the following list to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Delek Logistics Partners, LP Pro Forma

  

Introduction

     F-2   

Pro Forma Combined Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2012 (Unaudited)

     F-3   

Pro Forma Combined Statement of Income for the Three Months ended March 31, 2012 (Unaudited)

     F-4   

Pro Forma Combined Statement of Income for the Year Ended December 31, 2011 (Unaudited)

     F-5   

Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements

     F-6   

Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     F-10   

Historical Combined Financial Statements:

  

Combined Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2010 and 2011

     F-11   

Combined Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011

     F-12   

Combined Statements of Division Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011

     F-13   

Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011

     F-14   

Notes to Combined Financial Statements

     F-15   

Historical Condensed Combined Financial Statements (unaudited):

  

Condensed Combined Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012

     F-35   

Condensed Combined Statements of Income for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2011 and 2012

     F-36   

Condensed Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2011 and 2012

     F-37   

Notes to Condensed Combined Financial Statements

     F-38   

Contributed Lion Oil Assets

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     F-46   

Historical Combined Financial Statements:

  

Combined Balance Sheet as of April 28, 2011

     F-47   

Combined Statements of Operations for the Years Ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011

     F-48   

Combined Statements of Division Equity for the Years Ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011

     F-49   

Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011

     F-50   

Notes to Combined Financial Statements

     F-51   

Paline Pipeline Company, LLC

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     F-59   

Financial Statements:

  

Statement of Operations for the Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011

     F-60   

Statement of Cash Flows for the Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011

     F-61   

Notes to Financial Statements

     F-62   

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     F-66   

Financial Statements:

  

Balance Sheet as of July 9, 2012

     F-67   

Note to the Balance Sheet

     F-68   

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor

Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements

Introduction

Set forth below are the unaudited pro forma combined balance sheet of Delek Logistics Partners, LP (the Partnership) as of March 31, 2012 and the unaudited pro forma combined statements of operations of the Partnership for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and the year ended December 31, 2011. References to “we,” “us” and “our” mean the Partnership and its combined subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires. References to “Delek” mean Delek US Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries other than us and our combined subsidiaries and our general partner. The pro forma combined financial statements for the Partnership have been derived from the historical combined financial statements of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor, our predecessor for accounting purposes (the Predecessor), set forth elsewhere in this prospectus and are qualified in their entirety by reference to such historical combined financial statements and related notes contained therein. The pro forma combined financial statements have been prepared on the basis that the Partnership will be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The unaudited pro forma combined financial statements should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes and with the historical combined financial statements and related notes set forth elsewhere in this prospectus.

The Partnership will own and operate the businesses of the Predecessor effective with the closing of the Partnership’s initial public offering (the offering). The contribution of the Predecessor’s business to us will be recorded at historical cost as it is considered to be a reorganization of entities under common control. The pro forma combined financial statements give pro forma effect to the matters set forth in the notes to these unaudited pro forma combined financial statements.

The pro forma balance sheet and the pro forma statements of operations were derived by adjusting the historical combined financial statements of the Predecessor. The adjustments are based upon currently available information and certain estimates and assumptions; therefore, actual adjustments will differ from the pro forma adjustments. However, management believes that the assumptions provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects of the contemplated transactions and that the pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions and are properly applied in the pro forma combined financial information.

The unaudited pro forma combined financial statements may not be indicative of the results that actually would have occurred if the Partnership had assumed the operations of the Predecessor on the dates indicated or that would be obtained in the future.

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Pro Forma Combined Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2012 (Unaudited)

(In thousands)

 

     Predecessor
Historical
    Transaction
Adjustments
    Partnership
Pro Forma
 

Assets

      

Current assets:

      

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 26      $ 135,000   (a)    $ 39,072   
       90,000   (b)   
       (9,500 ) (c)   
       (4,000 ) (d)   
       (2,310 ) (e)   
       (31,044 ) (f)   
       (49,100 ) (f)   
       (90,000 ) (g)   

Accounts receivable

     31,040        (31,040 )  (j)        

Accounts receivable from related party

     5,862        (5,862 )  (j)        

Prepaid inventory

     1,917        (1,917 )  (i)        

Inventory

     15,682        (9,270 )  (i)      6,412   

Deferred tax assets

     1,145        (1,145 ) (h)        

Other current assets

     733               733   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     56,405        (10,188     46,217   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment:

      

Property, plant and equipment

     169,258               169,258   

Less: accumulated depreciation

     (13,166            (13,166
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment, net

     156,092               156,092   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Goodwill

     7,499               7,499   

Intangible assets, net

     9,759               9,759   

Other non-current assets

     125        2,310  (e)      2,435   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 229,880      $ (7,878   $ 222,002   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and equity

      

Current liabilities:

      

Accounts payable

   $ 33,865      $ (10,183 )  (i)    $ 23,692   
       10    (j)   

Accounts payable to related parties

            2,134    (j)      2,134   

Current portion of long-term debt

     49,100        (49,100 ) (f)        

Interest payable

     22               22   

Fuel and other taxes payable

     4,680               4,680   

Accrued employee costs

     437               437   

Current portion of environmental liabilities

     37               37   

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     2,280               2,280   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     90,421        (57,139     33,282   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Non-current liabilities:

      

Long-term revolving credit facility

            90,000   (b)      90,000   

Asset retirement obligations

     1,367               1,367   

Deferred tax liabilities

     21,644        (21,644 ) (h)        

Other non-current liabilities

     7,260               7,260   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total non-current liabilities

     30,271        68,356        98,627   

Equity:

      

Division equity

     109,188       
20,499
  (h) 
      
       (1,004 ) (i)   
       (39,046 ) (j)   
       (89,637 ) (k)   

Common unitholders—public

            135,000   (a)      121,500   
       (9,500 ) (c)   
       (4,000 ) (d)   

Common unitholders—Delek

            (31,044 ) (f)      (101,738
       (90,000 ) (g)   
       19,306   (k)   

Subordinated unitholders—Delek

            67,573   (k)      67,573   

General partner

            2,758   (k)      2,758   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total equity

     109,188        (19,095     90,093   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and equity

   $ 229,880      $ (7,878   $ 222,002   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to unaudited pro forma combined financial statements

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Pro Forma Combined Statement of Income

for the three months ended March 31, 2012 (Unaudited)

(in thousands, except unit and per unit data)

     Predecessor
Historical
     Transaction
Adjustments
    Partnership
Pro Forma
 

Net sales

   $ 239,083       $ 5,697   (l)    $ 199,211   
        (45,569 ) (n)   

Operating costs and expenses:

       

Cost of goods sold

     225,409         (44,481 ) (n)      180,928   

Operating expenses

     4,210         111   (o)      4,362   
        41    (r)   

General and administrative expenses

     2,407         (425 ) (o)      1,749   
        (233 ) (p)   

Depreciation and amortization

     2,134         153    (r)      2,287   

Loss on sale of assets

     5                5   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating costs and expenses

     234,165         (44,834     189,331   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income

     4,918         4,962        9,880   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Interest expense, net

     488         383   (q)      871   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

     4,430         4,579        9,009   

Income tax expense

     1,920         (1,920 ) (s)        
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income

   $ 2,510       $ 6,499      $ 9,009   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

General partner’s interest in net income

       

Limited partners’ interest in net income

       

Net income per limited partner unit:

       

Common units

       

Subordinated units

       

Weighted average number of limited partner units outstanding:

       

Common units (basic and diluted)

       

Subordinated units (basic and diluted)

       

See accompanying notes to unaudited pro forma combined financial statements

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Pro Forma Combined Statement of Income

for the year ended December 31, 2011 (Unaudited)

(in thousands, except unit and per unit data)

 

     Predecessor
Historical
    Transaction
Adjustments
    Partnership
Pro Forma
 

Net sales

   $ 744,079      $ 15,623   (l)    $ 765,842   
       13,116   (m)   
       (6,976 ) (n)   

Operating costs and expenses:

      

Cost of goods sold

     700,505        (5,710 ) (n)      694,795   

Operating expenses

     12,940        627   (o)      19,125   
       5,558   (r)   

General and administrative expenses

     5,795        (438 ) (o)      6,380   
       284   (p)   
       739   (r)   

Depreciation and amortization

     4,820        4,527   (r)      9,347   

Gain on sale of assets

     (2            (2
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating costs and expenses

     724,058        5,587        729,645   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income

     20,021        16,176        36,197   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Interest expense, net

     2,011        1,558   (q)      3,569   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

     18,010        14,618        32,628   

Income tax expense

     5,363        (5,363 ) (s)        
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income

   $ 12,647      $ 19,981      $ 32,628   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

General partner’s interest in net income

       $     

Limited partners’ interest in net income

       $     

Net income per limited partner unit:

      

Common units

       $     

Subordinated units

       $     

Weighted average number of limited partner units outstanding:

      

Common units (basic and diluted)

      

Subordinated units (basic and diluted)

      

See accompanying notes to unaudited pro forma combined financial statements

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements

1. Basis of Presentation, the Offering and Other Transactions

The historical combined financial information is derived from the historical combined financial statements of the Predecessor. The pro forma adjustments have been prepared as if the transactions to be effected at the closing of the offering had taken place as of March 31, 2012, in the case of the pro forma balance sheet, and as of January 1, 2011, in the case of the pro forma statements of operations.

The pro forma combined financial statements give pro forma effect to:

 

   

Delek’s contribution of all of the Predecessor’s initial assets and operations to us (excluding those described in notes 2(h), 2(i) and 2(j) below), including those assets and operations it acquired in its acquisitions of interests in the Contributed Lion Oil Assets of Lion Oil Company on April 29, 2011, Paline Pipeline Company, LLC on December 19, 2011, the Nettleton pipeline on January 31, 2012 and the Big Sandy terminal on February 7, 2012;

 

   

our execution of multiple long-term commercial agreements, primarily with Delek, and the recognition of incremental revenues under those agreements that were not recognized by the Predecessor;

 

   

our execution of an omnibus agreement, and our general partner’s execution of operation and management services agreement, with Delek;

 

   

the consummation of this offering and our issuance of                     common units to the public,                     general partner units and the incentive distribution rights to our general partner and                     common units and                     subordinated units to Delek and certain of its subsidiaries;

 

   

the application of the net proceeds of this offering, together with the proceeds from borrowings under our revolving credit facility, as described under “Use of Proceeds” in the prospectus; and

 

   

the effect of the transactions on certain of our historical general and administrative expenses, resulting in total pro forma general and administrative expenses of $6.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 and $1.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012.

Upon completion of this offering, the Partnership anticipates incurring incremental annual general and administrative expense of approximately $2.0 million per year as a result of being a separate publicly traded partnership, including costs associated with annual and quarterly reports to unitholders, financial statement audit, tax return and Schedule K-1 preparation and distribution, expenses associated with listing on the New York Stock Exchange, independent auditor fees, legal fees, investor relations activities, registrar and transfer agent fees, incremental director and officer liability insurance premiums, independent director compensation and incremental employee benefit costs. The unaudited pro forma combined financial statements do not reflect these incremental general and administrative expenses.

2. Pro Forma Adjustments and Assumptions

(a) Reflects the assumed gross offering proceeds to the Partnership of $135.0 million from the issuance and sale of                     common units at an assumed initial public offering price of $            per common unit.

(b) Reflects the borrowing of $90.0 million under our new revolving credit facility.

 

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Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements

 

(c) Reflects the payment of the estimated underwriting discount and a structuring fee totaling $9.5 million, which will be allocated to the public common units.

(d) Reflects $4.0 million for estimated expenses associated with the offering relating to legal and consulting services, audit expenses, printing charges, filing fees and other costs.

(e) Represents $2.3 million of debt issuance costs incurred in connection with entering into our new revolving credit facility.

(f) Reflects the distribution to Delek of $31.0 million in proceeds from the offering, in part to reimburse it for certain capital expenditures, after the paydown of Predecessor debt of $49.1 million.

(g) Reflects an additional cash distribution of $90.0 million to Delek funded with a borrowing under our new revolving credit facility, as described in footnote (b).

(h) Represents elimination of current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities which will be retained by Delek. The Partnership is a non-taxable entity.

(i) Delek will retain the balances associated with biofuel, jet fuel and petroleum coke activity, as these activities will not be a part of the ongoing operations of the Partnership.

(j) Delek will retain certain of the accounts receivable balances of the Predecessor at closing of the offering.

(k) Represents the conversion of the adjusted equity of the Predecessor of $         from division equity to common and subordinated limited partner equity of the Partnership and the general partner’s interest in the Partnership. The conversion is as follows:

 

   

$         for             common units;

 

   

$         for             subordinated units; and

 

   

$         for the general partner interest.

(l) The pro forma revenues reflect recognition of affiliate revenues for pipelines and terminals contributed to us that have not been previously recorded in the historical financial records of the Predecessor. Product volumes used in the calculations are historical volumes transported on or terminalled in facilities included in the Predecessor’s financial statements. Service fees were calculated using the rates and fees in the commercial agreements to be entered into primarily with Delek at the closing of this offering.

(m) Reflects the additional revenues related to assets and entities acquired during 2011 as if those assets and entities were acquired as of January 1, 2011. Does not reflect revenues under the third-party agreement for 100% of the southbound capacity of the Paline Pipeline System that will be effective upon completion of the reversal of the Nederland to Longview, Texas portion of the Paline Pipeline System, which is expected to be completed by September 2012. Also does not reflect revenues under our agreement with Delek for dedicated terminalling services at the Big Sandy terminal. The revenues also do not include activity for the Big Sandy terminal because it remains idle.

(n) Reflects the removal of biofuel activity and throughput fees related to the sales of jet fuel and petroleum coke and the corresponding amounts reflected in cost of goods sold. Following the completion of this offering, these activities will not be a part of the Partnership’s ongoing operations.

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements

 

(o) The pro forma operating expenses primarily reflect $1.2 million per year ($0.3 million per quarter), an increase relative to historical amounts of $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012, for business interruption, property and pollution liability insurance premiums that the Partnership expects to incur based on estimates from the Partnership’s insurance broker, and incremental employee-related expenses of $0.2 million per year related to Delek personnel who have been identified to be assigned to manage the Partnership’s day-to-day operations after the closing of the offering.

(p) Reflects the difference between the management fees paid by the predecessor and the annual service fee of $2.7 that we will pay Delek under the terms of our omnibus agreement for performing certain corporate services.

(q) Reflects interest expense on our new $175.0 million revolving credit facility. The facility bears interest based on predetermined pricing grids that allow us to choose between Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Rate Loans. The weighted average rate on the $90.0 million of borrowings is approximately 2.5%. This adjustment also reflects an estimated 0.30% commitment fee for the unutilized portion of the facility and fees at 2.13% of letters of credit totaling $10.0 million, as well as the related 5-year amortization of debt issuance costs incurred with entering into the facility. The annualized impact of a hypothetical one percent change in interest rates associated with this floating rate borrowing would be to change interest expense by $1.1 million.

(r) Reflects the additional operating, general and administrative, and depreciation expenses related to entities and assets acquired during 2011, and additional operating and depreciation expenses related to entities acquired in 2012 as if those entities and assets were acquired as of January 1, 2011.

(s) Reflects exclusion of income taxes as following the initial public offering of the Partnership, our operations will be treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, with each partner being separately taxed on its share of the taxable income.

3. Pro Forma Net Income Per Unit

The Partnership computes income per unit using the two-class method. Net income available to common and subordinated unitholders for purposes of the basic income per unit computation is allocated between the common and subordinated unitholders by applying the provisions of the partnership agreement as if all net income for the period had been distributed as cash. Under the two-class method, any excess of distributions declared over net income shall be allocated to the partners based on their respective sharing of income specified in the partnership agreement. For purposes of pro forma calculation, we have assumed that distributions were declared for each common and subordinated unit equal to the minimum quarterly distribution for each quarter during 2011 and the quarter ended March 31, 2012.

Pro forma basic net income per unit is determined by dividing the pro forma net income available to common and subordinated unitholders of the Partnership by the number of common and subordinated units expected to be outstanding at the closing of the offering. For purposes of this calculation, the number of common and subordinated units outstanding was assumed to be              units and              units, respectively. All units were assumed to have been outstanding since January 1, 2011.

Pursuant to the partnership agreement, the general partner is entitled to receive certain incentive distributions that, when applying the provisions of the partnership agreement as if all net income for the period had been distributed as cash, will result in less net income allocable to common and subordinated unitholders provided that the net income exceeds certain targets. The incentive distribution rights are a separate equity interest and represent participating securities. No cash distributions would have been declared to the incentive

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements

 

distribution rights during any of the periods, based upon the assumption that distributions were declared equal to the minimum quarterly distribution.

4. Commercial Agreements with Delek

In connection with the closing of this offering, we will enter into various long-term, fee-based commercial agreements with Delek under which we will provide various logistics and marketing services. Each of these agreements will include minimum volume commitments and will have fees indexed to inflation, provided that the fees will not be decreased below the initial amount. These commercial agreements with Delek will include:

 

   

A 10-year marketing agreement under which Delek will pay us fees for providing marketing services for 100% of the refined products output of the Tyler refinery, other than jet fuel and petroleum coke;

 

   

A 5-year pipeline and tankage agreement under which Delek will pay us fees for storing crude as well as transporting crude oil to the Tyler refinery through our East Texas Crude Logistics system;

 

   

A 5-year pipeline and storage facilities agreement under which Delek will pay us fees for transporting crude oil to the El Dorado refinery through our Lion Pipeline System, gathering crude oil on the SALA Gathering System and transporting refined products from the El Dorado refinery to the Enterprise TE Products Pipeline;

 

   

Two 5-year terminalling services agreements under which Delek will pay us fees for providing terminalling services for Delek at our Memphis and Big Sandy terminals, as well storing product at our Big Sandy terminal;

In addition, we will enter into the following agreements with Delek:

 

   

An omnibus agreement under which we will pay Delek a fixed fee for providing certain centralized corporate services and reimburse Delek for other expenses incurred on our behalf; and

 

   

An operation and management services agreement under which Delek will operate the assets of the Partnership on our behalf, and we will reimburse Delek for the costs of services performed.

Please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions” for a detailed description of these agreements.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors of

Delek US Holdings, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying combined balance sheets of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor (the “Predecessor”) as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the related combined statements of operations, division equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Predecessor’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Predecessor’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Predecessor’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the combined financial position of Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor at December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the combined results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Nashville, Tennessee

July 11, 2012

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor

Combined Balance Sheets

(In thousands)

 

     December 31,  
     2010     2011  

Assets

    

Current assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $      $ 35   

Accounts receivable

     19,728        22,577   

Accounts receivable from related party

            5,618   

Inventory

     8,317        18,859   

Deferred tax assets

     15        733   

Other current assets

     457        629   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     28,517        48,451   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment:

    

Property, plant and equipment

     35,482        144,980   

Less: accumulated depreciation

     (7,548     (11,300
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment, net

     27,934        133,680   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Goodwill

     7,499        7,499   

Intangible assets, net

     7,531        10,025   

Other non-current assets

     350        172   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 71,831      $ 199,827   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and division equity

    

Current liabilities:

    

Accounts payable

   $ 16,269      $ 26,386   

Accounts payable to related parties

     6,634          

Current portion of revolving credit facility

            30,300   

Interest payable

     19        17   

Fuel and other taxes payable

     4,035        4,234   

Accrued employee costs

     72        226   

Current portion of environmental liabilities

     37        37   

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     432        2,804   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     27,498        64,004   

Non-current liabilities:

    

Revolving credit facility

     29,000          

Asset retirement obligations

     1,039        1,342   

Deferred tax liabilities

     2,089        19,498   

Other non-current liabilities

            7,261   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total non-current liabilities

     32,128        28,101   

Commitments and contingencies

    

Division equity

     12,205        107,722   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and division equity

   $ 71,831      $ 199,827   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor

Combined Statements of Operations

(In thousands)

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2009      2010      2011  

Net sales

   $ 374,420       $ 504,408       $ 744,079   

Operating costs and expenses:

        

Cost of goods sold

     349,493         476,678         700,505   

Operating expenses

     2,643         2,920         12,940   

General and administrative expenses

     5,740         4,247         5,795   

Depreciation and amortization

     2,804         2,810         4,820   

Gain on sale of assets

                     (2
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating costs and expenses

     360,680         486,655         724,058   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating income

     13,740         17,753         20,021   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Interest expense, net

     2,173         2,564         2,011   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

     11,567         15,189         18,010   

Income tax expense

     4,059         5,102         5,363   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net income

   $ 7,508       $ 10,087       $ 12,647   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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Combined Statements of Division Equity

(In thousands)

 

Balance at January 1, 2009

   $ 22,611   

Net income

     7,508   

Stock-based compensation expense

     190   

Tax expense from exercise of stock-based awards

     (7

Capital distributions

     (28,270
  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2009

     2,032   

Net income

     10,087   

Stock-based compensation expense

     86   
  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2010

     12,205   

Net income

     12,647   

Stock-based compensation expense

     64   

Tax benefit from exercise of stock-based awards

     20   

Non-cash contribution of Paline and Contributed Lion Oil Assets opening net assets from Delek

     80,327   

Capital contributions

     2,459   
  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2011

   $ 107,722   
  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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Combined Statements of Cash Flows

(In thousands)

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2009     2010     2011  

Cash flows from operating activities:

      

Net income

   $ 7,508      $ 10,087      $ 12,647   

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

      

Depreciation and amortization

     2,804        2,810        4,820   

Amortization of deferred financing costs

     173        169        208   

Accretion of asset retirement obligations

     61        73        91   

Deferred income taxes

     599        258        (4,328

Stock-based compensation expense

     190        86        64   

Changes in assets and liabilities:

      

Accounts receivable

     (6,679     (6,063     (2,628

Inventories and other current assets

     777        (4,239     (10,707

Accounts payable and other current liabilities

     4,183        5,160        9,254   

Accounts payable to related parties

     (3,281     5,111        (12,252

Non-current assets and liabilities, net

     (749     (31     (28
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

     5,586        13,421        (2,859
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

      

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

     (1,607            (885
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities:

     (1,607            (885
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

      

Proceeds from revolving credit facility

     159,416        164,100        197,300   

Payments on revolving credit facility

     (135,716     (177,600     (196,000

Tax (expense) benefit from exercise of stock options

     (7            20   

Capital (distribution) contribution

     (28,270            2,459   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

     (4,577     (13,500     3,779   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     (598     (79     35   

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year

     677        79          
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year

   $ 79      $      $ 35   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:

      

Cash paid during the year for:

      

Interest

   $ 1,884      $ 2,512      $ 1,807   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income taxes

   $ 72      $ 1      $ 56   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

1. General

Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor consists of the assets, liabilities and results of operations of certain crude oil and refined product pipeline, storage, wholesale marketing and terminalling assets of Delek US Holdings, Inc. (Delek), operated and held by Delek Marketing & Supply, Inc. (Marketing), Paline Pipeline Company, LLC (Paline), and Lion Oil Company (Lion Oil), each a wholly owned subsidiary of Delek, to be contributed to Delek Logistics Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership formed in April 2012 (the Partnership) in connection with its proposed initial public offering. Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor (the Predecessor) is the predecessor to the Partnership for accounting purposes. As used in this report, the terms “we”, “our”, “us”, or like terms refer to the Predecessor. References in this report to “Delek” refer collectively to Delek and its consolidated subsidiaries, other than Delek Logistics Partners, LP, its combined subsidiaries and its general partner. The accompanying financial statements include the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the assets to be contributed by Lion Oil to the Partnership in connection with its proposed initial public offering, other than Paline, for all periods after April 28, 2011. The assets, liabilities and results of operations of Paline are included in the accompanying financial statements for all periods after December 19, 2011, the date of the acquisition of Paline by Delek. For all periods prior to April 29, 2011, Paline is included in the assets, liabilities and results of operations of the assets of Lion Oil.

Marketing sells unbranded refined products on a wholesale basis in West Texas through company-owned and third-party operated terminals. Marketing also manages, through company-owned and leased pipelines, the transportation of crude oil to, and provides storage of crude oil for, Delek’s refinery located in Tyler, Texas (the Tyler refinery). Marketing also provides marketing services to the Tyler refinery in the sales of its products through wholesale and contract sales. All of the assets of Marketing are being contributed to the Partnership.

Paline owns and operates a 185-mile pipeline that runs between Port Neches and Longview, Texas and an approximately seven-mile idle pipeline between Port Neches and Port Arthur, Texas (collectively, the Paline Pipeline). On December 19, 2011, Delek acquired all of the equity interests in Paline (the Paline Acquisition) from a subsidiary of Ergon Inc. (Ergon). The equity interests in Paline are being contributed to the Partnership.

Lion Oil is engaged in petroleum refining and related lines of business and owns the following assets: an 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery (the El Dorado refinery), an industrial construction and engineering business, a gasoline and diesel terminal, and an asphalt distribution terminal located in El Dorado, Arkansas (the assets of the aforementioned businesses are not being contributed to the Partnership); the 77-mile Magnolia crude oil transportation system that runs between Shreveport, Louisiana and the Magnolia crude terminal (the Magnolia Pipeline System); the 28-mile El Dorado crude oil transportation system that runs from the Magnolia terminal to the El Dorado refinery, as well as two associated product pipelines (the El Dorado Pipeline System); a crude oil gathering system with approximately 600 miles of operating pipeline (the SALA Gathering System); and light product distribution terminals located in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. The El Dorado refinery is the only customer for the Magnolia Pipeline System and the El Dorado Pipeline System and accounts for substantially all of the capacity of the SALA Gathering System. The distribution terminals located in Tennessee supply refined products to some of Delek’s convenience stores in the Memphis and Nashville markets. The distribution terminal located in Memphis is used to market Lion Oil products; the distribution terminal located in Nashville is supplied by independent third parties. In 2007, Delek acquired approximately 34.6% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Lion Oil. In April 2011, Delek acquired an additional 53.7% of Lion Oil’s common stock from Ergon, bringing Delek’s interest in Lion Oil to 88.3% (the Lion Oil Acquisition). On October 7, 2011, Delek acquired the remaining 11.7% minority equity interests in Lion Oil held by a consortium of private investors. Upon acquiring a majority equity ownership position in Lion Oil in April 2011, Delek assumed operational management of the El Dorado refinery and its related assets. Delek now reports Lion Oil as part of its

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

consolidated group. We refer to the Magnolia Pipeline System, the El Dorado Pipeline System, the pipeline assets of the SALA Gathering System, and the Memphis and Nashville terminals collectively as the “Contributed Lion Oil Assets.”

Delek is a controlled company, under the rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange, where its shares are traded under the symbol DK. As of December 31, 2011, approximately 68.5% of Delek’s shares are beneficially owned by Delek Group Ltd., a conglomerate that is domiciled and publically traded in Israel.

2. Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying financial statements and related notes present our combined financial position, results of operations, cash flows and division equity. The combined financial statements include financial data at historical cost as the contribution of assets is considered to be a reorganization of entities under common control. The combined financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) applied on a consistent basis. All significant intercompany transactions and account balances have been eliminated.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Segment Reporting

We are an energy business focused on crude oil and refined product pipeline, storage, wholesale marketing and terminalling activities. We report our assets and operating results in two reportable segments: our Pipelines and Transportation segment and our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment. Decisions concerning the allocation of resources and assessment of operating performance are made based on this segmentation. Management measures the operating performance of each of its reportable segments based on the segment contribution margin. Segment contribution margin is defined as net sales less cost of sales and operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

We maintain cash and cash equivalents in accounts with large, national financial institutions. All highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less are considered to be cash equivalents.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable primarily consists of trade receivables generated in the ordinary course of business. We perform on-going credit evaluations of our customers and generally do not require collateral on accounts receivable. All accounts receivable amounts are considered to be fully collectible. Accordingly, no allowance has been established as of December 31, 2010 and 2011.

Two customers accounted for approximately 34.1% and 33.2% of the accounts receivable balance as of December 31, 2010 and 2011, respectively. One customer accounted for more than 10% of net sales for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011. The amount of revenues from this customer were $58.0 million,

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

$68.6 million and $154.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011, respectively, and are included in our Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling segment.

Inventory

Inventory consists of refined products which are stated at the lower of cost or market on a first-in, first-out (FIFO) basis.

Property, Plant and Equipment

Assets acquired in conjunction with acquisitions are recorded at estimated fair market value in accordance with the purchase method of accounting as prescribed in Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 805, Business Combinations (ASC 805). Other acquisitions of property and equipment are carried at cost.

Betterments, renewals and extraordinary repairs that extend the life of an asset are capitalized. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred.

Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over management’s estimated useful lives of the related assets, except for automotive equipment, which is depreciated using a declining-balance method. The estimated useful lives are as follows:

 

     Years

Building and building improvements

   15-40

Pipelines and terminals

   15-40

Asset retirement obligations assets

   15-50

Other equipment

   3-15

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets consist of long-term supply contracts and indefinite-lived rights of way. We amortize the definite-lived long-term supply contracts on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of 11.5 years. The amortization expense is included in depreciation and amortization in the accompanying combined statements.

Property, Plant and Equipment and Intangibles Impairment

Property, plant and equipment and definite life intangibles are evaluated for impairment whenever indicators of impairment exist. In accordance with ASC 360, Property, Plant and Equipment and ASC 350, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other, we evaluate the realizability of these long-lived assets as events occur that might indicate potential impairment. In doing so, we assess whether the carrying amount of the asset is unrecoverable by estimating the sum of the future cash flows expected to result from the asset, undiscounted and without interest charges. If the carrying amount is more than the recoverable amount, an impairment charge must be recognized based on the fair value of the asset.

Goodwill and Potential Impairment

Goodwill in an acquisition represents the excess of the aggregate purchase price over the fair value of the identifiable net assets. Our goodwill is recorded at original fair value and is not amortized. Goodwill is subject to annual assessment to determine if an impairment of value has occurred and we perform this review annually in the fourth quarter. We could also be required to evaluate our goodwill if, prior to our annual assessment, we experience disruptions in our business, have unexpected significant declines in operating results,

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

or sustain a permanent market capitalization decline. If an asset’s carrying amount exceeds its fair value, the impairment assessment leads to the testing of the implied fair value of the asset’s goodwill to its carrying amount. If the implied fair value is less than the carrying amount, a goodwill impairment charge is recorded. Our annual assessment of goodwill did not result in an impairment charge during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 or 2011.

Derivatives

We record all derivative financial instruments, including forward fuel contracts, at estimated fair value in accordance with the provisions of ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging (ASC 815). Changes in the fair value of the derivative instruments are recognized in operations, unless we elect to apply the hedging treatment permitted under the provisions of ASC 815 allowing such changes to be classified as other comprehensive income. We validate the fair value of all derivative financial instruments on a monthly basis, utilizing valuations from third party financial and brokerage institutions. During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011, we did not elect to apply hedging treatment to our derivative positions and, therefore, all changes in fair value are reflected in the statements of operations.

Our policy under the guidance of ASC 815-10-45, Derivatives and Hedging—Other Presentation Matters (ASC 815-10-45), is to net the fair value amounts recognized for multiple derivative instruments executed with the same counterparty and offset these values against the cash collateral arising from these derivative positions.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The fair values of financial instruments are estimated based upon current market conditions and quoted market prices for the same or similar instruments. Management estimates that the carrying value approximates fair value for all of our assets and liabilities that fall under the scope of ASC 825, Financial Instruments (ASC 825).

We apply the provisions of ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosure (ASC 820), in our presentation and disclosures regarding fair value, which pertain to certain financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value in the statement of position on a recurring basis. ASC 820 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about such measurements that are permitted or required under other accounting pronouncements. See Note 11 for further discussion.

We apply the provisions of ASC 825 as it pertains to the fair value option. This standard permits the election to carry financial instruments and certain other items similar to financial instruments at fair value on the balance sheet, with all changes in fair value reported in earnings. By electing the fair value option in conjunction with a derivative, an entity can achieve an accounting result similar to a fair value hedge without having to comply with complex hedge accounting rules. As of December 31, 2010 or 2011, we did not make the fair value election for any financial instruments not already carried at fair value in accordance with other standards.

Self-Insurance Reserves

We are covered under Delek’s insurance programs. Delek is primarily self-insured for employee medical, workers’ compensation and general liability costs, with varying limits of per claim and aggregate stop loss insurance coverage that management considers adequate. We maintain an accrual for these costs based on claims filed and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported. Differences between actual settlements and recorded accruals are recorded in the period identified.

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

Environmental Expenditures

We have historically accrued environmental and clean-up related costs of a non-capital nature when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. Environmental liabilities represent the current estimated costs to investigate and remediate contamination at our properties. This estimate is based on internal and third-party assessments of the extent of the contamination, the selected remediation technology and review of applicable environmental regulations, typically considering estimated activities and costs for the next 15 years, unless a specific longer range estimate is practicable. Accruals for estimated costs from environmental remediation obligations generally are recognized no later than completion of the remedial feasibility study and include, but are not limited to, costs to perform remedial actions and costs of machinery and equipment that are dedicated to the remedial actions and that does not have an alternative use. Such accruals are adjusted as further information develops or circumstances change. We discount environmental liabilities to their present value if payments are fixed and determinable. Expenditures for equipment necessary for environmental issues relating to ongoing operations are capitalized. Estimated recoveries of costs from other parties are recorded on an undiscounted basis as assets when their realization is deemed probable.

Asset Retirement Obligations

We recognize liabilities which represent the fair value of a legal obligation to perform asset retirement activities, including those that are conditional on a future event, when the amount can be reasonably estimated. These obligations are related to the required cleanout of our pipelines and terminal tanks, and removal of certain above-grade portions of our pipelines situated on right-of-way property.

The reconciliation of the beginning and ending carrying amounts of asset retirement obligations is as follows (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
 
     2010      2011  

Beginning balance

   $ 966       $ 1,039   

Liabilities acquired

             212   

Accretion expense

     73         91   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Ending balance

   $ 1,039       $ 1,342   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

In order to determine fair value, management must make certain estimates and assumptions including, among other things, projected cash flows, a credit-adjusted risk-free rate and an assessment of market conditions that could significantly impact the estimated fair value of the asset retirement obligations.

Other Non-current Liabilities

We recognized an estimated $4.4 million liability associated with a customer contract in the Paline Acquisition and assumed an estimated $2.9 million of non-current tank and pipeline inspection liabilities in the Lion Oil Acquisition, both of which were outstanding as of December 31, 2011.

Revenue Recognition

Revenues for products sold are recorded at the point of sale upon delivery of product, which is the point at which title to the product is transferred, and when payment has either been received or collection is reasonably assured. Service revenues are recognized as crude oil and refined products are shipped through, delivered by or stored in our pipelines, terminals and storage facility assets, as applicable. We do not recognize product sales

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

revenues for these services, as title on the product never passes to us. All revenues are based on regulated tariff rates or contractual rates.

Cost of Goods Sold and Operating Expenses

Cost of goods sold includes all costs of refined products, additives and related transportation. We do not recognize product cost of sales related to our shipping, delivering and storage services, as title to the product never passes to us. Operating expenses include the costs associated with the operation of owned terminals, terminalling expense at third-party locations and pipeline maintenance costs.

Sales, Use and Excise Taxes

Our policy is to exclude sales, use and excise taxes from revenue when we are an agent of the taxing authority, in accordance with ASC 605-45, Revenue Recognition—Principal Agent Considerations.

Deferred Financing Costs

Deferred financing costs are included in other non-current assets in the accompanying balance sheets and represent expenses related to issuing a note payable. These amounts are amortized ratably over the remaining term of the respective financing and are included in interest expense in the accompanying combined financial statements.

Operating Leases

We lease certain equipment and have surface leases under various operating lease arrangements, most of which provide the option, after the initial lease term, to renew the leases. None of these lease arrangements include fixed rental rate increases.

Lease expense for all operating leases totaled $0.1 million, $0.1 million, and $0.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011, respectively.

Income Taxes

Our operations are currently included in Delek’s consolidated federal income tax return. Income taxes are accounted for under the provisions of ASC 740, Income Taxes (ASC 740). This statement generally requires us to record deferred income taxes for the differences between the book and tax bases of its assets and liabilities, which are measured using enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. Deferred income tax expense or benefit represents the net change during the year in our deferred income tax assets and liabilities.

ASC 740 also prescribes a comprehensive model for how companies should recognize, measure, present and disclose in their financial statements uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken on a tax return and prescribes the minimum recognition threshold a tax position is required to meet before being recognized in the financial statements. Finally, ASC 740 requires an annual tabular roll-forward of unrecognized tax benefits.

We do not file a separate U.S. federal income tax return. Our results of operations are currently included in the consolidated return of Delek. However, the provisions of ASC 740 have been followed as though each member of the reporting group were a separate filer.

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

Stock-Based Compensation

ASC 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation (ASC 718) requires the cost of all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the income statement and establishes fair value as the measurement objective in accounting for share-based payment arrangements. ASC 718 requires the use of a valuation model to calculate the fair value of stock-based awards. We use the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model to determine the fair value of stock-based awards.

Restricted stock units (RSUs) are measured based on the fair market value of the underlying stock on the date of grant. Vested RSUs are not issued until the minimum statutory withholding requirements have been remitted to us for payment to the taxing authority. As a result, the actual number of shares accounted for as issued may be less than the number of RSUs vested, due to any withholding amounts which have not been remitted.

Instruments granted to our employees are shares in Delek. However, the provisions of ASC 718 require that the compensation expense associated with these grants be recorded in our statements of operations. We generally recognize compensation expense related to stock-based awards with graded or cliff vesting on a straight-line basis over the vesting period. It is Delek’s practice to issue new shares when stock-based compensation is exercised.

Comprehensive Income

Comprehensive income for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011 was equivalent to net income.

New Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2011, the FASB issued guidance requiring the disclosure of information about offsetting and related arrangements to enable users of financial statements to understand the effect of these arrangements on financial position. The guidance requires the disclosure of both gross information and net information about both instruments and transactions eligible for offset in the balance sheet and instruments and transactions subject to an agreement similar to a master netting arrangement. This guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning on January 1, 2013. The adoption of this guidance will not affect our business, financial position or results of operations, but may result in additional disclosures.

3. Acquisition of Pipeline Assets

On March 31, 2009, Marketing purchased certain pipeline and storage assets from Delek Refining, Inc. (Refining), a related party under common control, for total cash consideration of approximately $29.3 million, net of liabilities assumed of $0.4 million. The pipeline and storage assets were transferred at a book value of $1.4 million. The remaining proceeds of $28.3 million were recorded as a capital distribution to Refining due to the related party nature of the transaction.

4. Inventory

Carrying value of inventory consisted of $8.3 million and $18.9 million of refined petroleum products as of December 31, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

5. Property, Plant, and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment, at cost, consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2010     2011  

Land and land improvements

   $ 711      $ 905   

Building and building improvements

     602        815   

Pipelines and terminals

     33,759        142,218   

Other equipment

     410        1,042   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     35,482        144,980   

Less: accumulated depreciation

     (7,548     (11,300
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
   $ 27,934      $ 133,680   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011 was $1.7 million, $1.8 million, and $3.8 million, respectively.

6. Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the aggregate purchase price over the fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired. Goodwill acquired in a purchase business combination is recorded at fair value and is not amortized. Our goodwill relates to the West Texas assets contributed by Marketing.

We perform an annual assessment of whether goodwill retains its value. This assessment is done more frequently if indicators of potential impairment exist. We performed our annual goodwill impairment review in the fourth quarter of 2009, 2010, and 2011. We performed a discounted cash flows test, using a market participant weighted average cost of capital, and estimated minimal growth rates for revenue, gross profit, and capital expenditures based on history and our best estimate of future forecasts. We also estimated the fair values using a multiple of expected future cash flows such as those used by third party analysts. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, the annual impairment review resulted in the determination that no impairment of goodwill had occurred. Goodwill remained at $7.5 million from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2011.

7. Intangible Assets

Our identifiable intangible assets are as follows (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2010     2011  

Supply contracts with 11.5 years useful life

   $ 12,227      $ 12,227   

Rights-of-way assets not subject to amortization (indefinite life)

            3,557   

Accumulated amortization

     (4,696     (5,759
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
   $ 7,531      $ 10,025   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Amortization of intangible assets was $1.1 million, $1.0 million, and $1.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively, and is included in depreciation and amortization on the accompanying combined statements of operations. Amortization expense is estimated to be approximately $1.1 million per year for the years ended 2012 through 2016.

 

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Notes to Combined Financial Statements

 

8. Revolving Credit Facility

We have a revolving credit facility with Fifth Third Bank (Fifth Third Revolver) that carries a credit limit of $75.0 million, including a $35.0 million sub-limit for letters of credit. As of December 31, 2011, we had $30.3 million outstanding borrowings under the facility, as well as letters of credit issued of $10.5 million. Borrowings under the Fifth Third Revolver are secured by substantially all of the assets of Marketing. The Fifth Third Revolver matures on December 19, 2012. The Fifth Third Revolver bears interest based on predetermined pricing grids that allow us to choose between Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Rate Loans. At December 31, 2011, the weighted average borrowing rate was approximately 3.9%. Additionally, the Fifth Third Revolver requires us to pay a quarterly fee of 0.50% per year on the average available revolving commitment. Amounts available under the Fifth Third Revolver as of December 31, 2011 were approximately $34.2 million. We are required to comply with certain usual and customary financial and non-financial covenants under the terms of this revolver. We believe we were in compliance with all covenant requirements as of December 31, 2011.

9. Stock-Based Compensation

The Delek US Holdings, Inc. 2006 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended (the Plan), allows Delek to grant stock options, stock appreciation rights (SARs), RSUs and other stock-based awards of up to 5,053,392 shares of Delek’s common stock to certain directors, officers, employees, consultants and other individuals who perform services for Delek or its affiliates. Stock options and stock SARs granted under the Plan are generally granted at market price or higher. The vesting of all outstanding awards is subject to continued service to Delek or its affiliates except that vesting of awards granted to certain executive employees could, under certain circumstances, accelerate upon termination of their employment and the vesting of all outstanding awards could accelerate upon the occurrence of an Exchange Transaction (as defined in the Plan). Most new awards granted under the Plan will vest ratably over a period of four years. In the second quarter of 2010, Delek’s Board of Directors and its Incentive Plan Committee began using stock-settled SARs, rather than stock options, as the primary form of appreciation award under the Plan. Certain Delek employees supporting our operations were granted stock awards.

Option and SAR Assumptions

The table below provides the assumptions used in estimating the fair values of stock options and SARs granted to our employees. For all options granted, Delek calculated volatility using historical volatility and implied volatility of a peer group of public companies using weekly stock prices. All calculations used in the valuation of options attributed to us are based on these assumptions.

 

    2009 Grants
(Graded Vesting)
3-4 Years
  2009 Grants
(Cliff Vesting)
4 Years
  2010 Grants
(Graded Vesting)
4 Years
  2011 Grants
(Graded Vesting)
4 Years

Expected volatility

  34.73%-37.78%   35.31%-37.22%   33.01%-60.88%   58.58%-60.54%

Dividend yield

  1.00%   1.00%   1.00%   1.00%

Expected term

  6.0-6.25 years   7.0 years   6.25 years   6.25 years

Risk free rate

  0.06%-3.53%   0.06%-3.53%   0.06%-3.33%   0.00%-3.37%

Fair value

  $2.66   $0.98   $3.51   $6.59

 

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Stock Option Activity

The following table summarizes the stock option and SAR activity for our employees for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

 

     Number of
Options
    Weighted-
Average

Exercise
Price
     Weighted-
Average

Contractual
Term (years)
     Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value (in
thousands)
 

Options outstanding, December 31, 2008

     97,725      $ 20.92         

Granted

     62,320      $ 9.17         

Exchanged

     (95,025   $ 20.96         

Forfeited

     (2,700   $ 19.39         
  

 

 

         

Options outstanding, December 31, 2009

     62,320      $ 9.17         

Granted

     38,200      $ 6.72         
  

 

 

         

Options outstanding, December 31, 2010

     100,520      $ 8.24         

Granted

     44,100      $ 13.89         

Exercised

     (34,730   $ 9.14         

Transferred

     (75,433   $ 10.22         
  

 

 

         

Options outstanding, December 31, 2011

     34,457      $ 10.22         7.8       $ 134   
  

 

 

         

Options exercisable, December 31, 2011

     9,032      $ 8.78         7.6       $   
  

 

 

         

Delek issues new shares of its common stock upon exercise or vesting of stock options.

Restricted Stock Units

The fair value of RSUs is determined based on the closing price of Delek’s common stock on the grant date.

The following table summarizes the RSU activity for our employees for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011:

 

     Number of
RSUs
    Weighted-
Average Grant
Price
 

Non-vested RSUs at December 31, 2008 and 2009

     4,500      $ 20.22   

Granted

     5,000        6.60   

Vested

     (3,000     20.22   
  

 

 

   

Non-vested RSUs at December 31, 2010

     6,500      $ 9.74   

Vested

     (2,750     14.03   

Transferred

     (3,750     6.60   
  

 

 

   

Non-vested RSUs at December 31, 2011

          $   
  

 

 

   

 

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Compensation Expense Related to Equity-based Awards

Delek recognized compensation expense for equity-based awards of $4.0 million ($2.7 million, net of taxes), $3.1 million ($2.0 million, net of taxes) and $2.7 million ($1.8 million, net of taxes) for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively. These amounts are included in general and administrative expenses in Delek’s consolidated statements of operations. Delek recognized a total income tax benefit for equity-based awards of $2.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, of which a nominal amount related to our employees. There was a nominal income tax benefit for equity-based awards for the year ended December 31, 2009 and no tax benefit for the year ended December 31, 2010.

Of the total Delek stock-based compensation expense of $4.0 million, $3.1 million and $2.7 million, approximately $0.2 million, $0.1 million, and $0.1 million related to our employees for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively, and was recorded as compensation expense and additional paid-in capital. We recognized an additional $0.6 million, $0.6 million, and $0.5 million in compensation expense related to stock-based compensation awards to other related party employees for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively, for allocated related party services, an allocation for RSUs, and an allocation of directors and executive officers stock-based compensation.

As of December 31, 2011, there was $0.1 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested share-based compensation arrangements at Delek for our employees. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of two years.

10. Segment Data

We report our assets and operating results in two reportable segments: pipelines and transportation, and wholesale marketing and terminalling. Decisions concerning the allocation of resources and assessment of operating performance are made based on this segmentation. Management measures the operating performance of each of its reportable segments based on the segment contribution margin. Segment contribution margin is defined as net sales less cost of sales and operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization.

Our pipelines and transportation segment provides crude oil gathering, transportation and storage services to Delek’s refining operations.

Our wholesale marketing and terminalling segment provides marketing and terminalling services to Delek’s refining operations and to independent third parties.

 

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The following is a summary of business segment operating performance as measured by contribution margin for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (in thousands):

 

     For the Year Ended December 31, 2009  
     Pipelines and
Transportation
     Wholesale
Marketing and
Terminalling
     Total  

Net sales

   $ 6,633       $ 367,787       $ 374,420   

Operating costs and expenses:

        

Cost of goods sold

             349,493         349,493   

Operating expenses

     1,419         1,224         2,643   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Segment contribution margin

   $ 5,214       $ 17,070         22,284   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

General and administrative expenses

           5,740   

Depreciation and amortization

           2,804   
        

 

 

 

Operating income

           13,740   
        

 

 

 

Capital spending (excluding business combinations)

   $ 516       $ 24       $ 540   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     As of and For the Year Ended December 31, 2010  
      Pipelines and
Transportation
     Wholesale
Marketing and
Terminalling
     Total  

Net sales

   $ 9,451       $ 494,957       $ 504,408   

Operating costs and expenses:

        

Cost of goods sold

             476,678         476,678   

Operating expenses

     1,955         965         2,920   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Segment contribution margin

   $ 7,496       $ 17,314         24,810   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

General and administrative expenses

           4,247   

Depreciation and amortization

           2,810   
        

 

 

 

Operating income

         $ 17,753   
        

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 1,793       $ 70,038       $ 71,831   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Capital spending

   $       $       $   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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     As of and For the Year Ended December 31, 2011  
      Pipelines and
Transportation
     Wholesale
Marketing and
Terminalling
     Total  

Net sales

   $ 21,878       $ 722,201       $ 744,079   

Operating costs and expenses:

        

Cost of goods sold

             700,505         700,505   

Operating expenses

     9,530         3,410         12,940   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Segment contribution margin

   $ 12,348       $ 18,286         30,634   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

General and administrative expenses

           5,795   

Depreciation and amortization

           4,820   

Gain on sale of assets

           (2
        

 

 

 

Operating income

         $ 20,021   
        

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 111,564       $ 88,263       $ 199,827   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Capital spending

   $ 267       $ 618       $ 885   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

11. Fair Value Measurements

We apply the provisions of ASC 820, which defines fair value, establishes a framework for its measurement and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. ASC 820 applies to our commodity derivatives that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The standard also requires that we assess the impact of nonperformance risk on our derivatives. Nonperformance risk is not considered material at this time.

ASC 820 requires disclosures that categorize assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the observability of the inputs employed in the measurement. Level 1 inputs are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 inputs are observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly through market-corroborated inputs. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability reflecting our assumptions about pricing by market participants.

OTC commodity swaps and physical commodity purchase and sale contracts are generally valued using industry-standard models that consider various assumptions, including quoted forward prices, time value, volatility factors and contractual prices for the underlying instruments, as well as other relevant economic measures. The degree to which these inputs are observable in the forward markets determines the classification as Level 2 or 3. Our contracts are valued using quotations provided by brokers based on exchange pricing and/or price index developers such as Platts or Argus. These are classified as Level 2.

Our financial assets and liabilities accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis were nominal as of December 31, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

The derivative values are based on analysis of each contract as the fundamental unit of account as required by ASC 820. Derivative assets and liabilities with the same counterparty are not netted where the legal right of offset exists. This differs from the presentation in the financial statements which reflects our policy under the guidance of ASC 815-10-45, wherein we have elected to offset the fair value amounts recognized for multiple derivative instruments executed with the same counterparty. As of December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2011, a nominal amount of net derivative positions are included in other current assets (liabilities), respectively, on the accompanying combined balance sheets. As of December 31, 2011, $0.2 million of cash collateral is held by counterparty brokerage firms and has been netted with the net derivative positions with each counterparty.

 

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12. Derivative Instruments

Forward Fuel Contracts

From time to time, we enter into forward fuel contracts with major financial institutions that fix the purchase price of finished grade fuel for a predetermined number of units at a future date and have fulfillment terms of less than 90 days. We recognized gains (losses) of $(2.1) million, $0.6 million, and $0.7 million during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively, which are included as an adjustment to cost of goods sold in the accompanying combined statements of operations. There were nominal unrealized gains (losses) related to these forward fuel contracts held on the combined balance sheets as of both December 31, 2010 and 2011.

13. Income Taxes

Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.

Significant components of our deferred tax assets and liabilities, reported separately in the accompanying combined financial statements, as of December 31, 2010 and 2011, are as follows (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2010     2011  

Current Deferred Taxes:

    

Accrued reserves

   $ 15      $ 60   

Tank and pipeline inspection liabilities

            113   

Contingent liabilities

            632   

Valuation allowance

            (72
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current deferred tax assets

     15        733   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Non-Current Deferred Taxes:

    

Depreciation and amortization

     (2,851     (17,011

Net operating loss carryforwards

            626   

Stock-based compensation

     261        237   

Asset retirement obligations

     164        280   

ASC 815 derivatives

     9        (6

Deferred Revenue

     343        343   

Tank and pipeline inspection liabilities

            1,145   

Contingent liabilities

            1,684   

State bonus depreciation

     1        129   

Other

     (16     (11

Valuation allowance

            (6,914
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total non-current deferred tax liabilities

     (2,089     (19,498
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net deferred tax liabilities

   $ (2,074   $ (18,765
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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The difference between the actual income tax expense and the tax expense computed by applying the statutory federal income tax rate to income before income taxes is attributable to the following (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2009     2010     2011  

Provision for federal income taxes at statutory rate

   $ 4,048      $ 5,316      $ 6,304   

State income taxes, net of federal tax provision

     19        32        255   

Valuation allowance

                   (1,145

Permanent differences

     12        (218     15   

Other items

     (20     (28     (66
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income tax expense

   $ 4,059      $ 5,102      $ 5,363   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income tax expense is as follows (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2009      2010      2011  

Current

   $ 3,460       $ 4,844       $ 9,691   

Deferred

     599         258         (4,328
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 4,059       $ 5,102       $ 5,363   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Deferred income tax expense above is reflective of the changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities during the current period.

In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and tax planning strategies in making this assessment. Based upon a stand-alone entity approach, the level of historical taxable income and projections for future taxable income over the periods for which the deferred tax assets are deductible, management believes it is more likely than not we will not realize all of the benefits of these deductible differences. As a result, a valuation allowance has been established for those deferred tax assets that management believes will not be realized. Subsequently recognized tax benefit or expense relating to the valuation allowance for deferred tax assets will be reported as an income tax benefit or expense in the consolidated statement of operations.

Delek files a consolidated federal income tax return and our current income tax payments are paid by Delek. Therefore, any current income tax payable is included in accounts payable to related parties. As of December 31, 2010, income taxes payable of $7.0 million were included in accounts payable to related parties in the accompanying combined balance sheet. As of December 31, 2011, income taxes receivable of $0.3 million were included in accounts receivable from related parties in the accompanying balance sheet. Taxes that are determined on a combined basis apply the benefits for loss allocation method; thus, tax attributes are realized when used in the combined tax return to the extent that they have been subject to valuation allowance.

Our state net operating losses are set to expire between 2014 and 2026.

We are jointly and severally liable with Delek for U.S. federal income taxes, in accordance with a tax sharing arrangement. Delek is no longer subject to U.S. federal income tax examinations by tax authorities for years through 2004. The Internal Revenue Service has examined Delek’s income tax returns through the tax year

 

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ending 2006. Delek carried back its 2009 federal tax net operating loss to the 2005 and 2006 tax years, thus reopening those years for examination up to the amount of the refund claimed. The Joint Committee on Taxation is currently examining Delek’s 2009 carryback claim.

We recognize accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as an adjustment to the current provision for income taxes. There are no uncertain tax positions recorded as of December 31, 2010 or 2011 and there were no interest or penalties recognized related to uncertain tax positions for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 or 2011. We have examined uncertain tax positions for any material changes in the next 12 months and none are expected.

14. Commitments and Contingencies

Litigation

In the ordinary conduct of our business, we are from time to time subject to lawsuits, investigations and claims, including environmental claims and employee-related matters. Although we cannot predict with certainty the ultimate resolution of lawsuits, investigations and claims asserted against us, including civil penalties or other enforcement actions, we do not believe that any currently pending legal proceeding or proceedings to which we are a party will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Self-Insurance

We are covered under Delek’s insurance programs. Delek is self-insured for certain employees’ medical claims up to $0.2 million per employee per year. Delek is self-insured for workers’ compensation claims up to $1.0 million on a per accident basis. Delek self-insures for general liability claims up to $4.0 million on a per occurrence basis. Delek self-insures for auto liability up to $5.0 million on a per accident basis. Delek has umbrella liability insurance in an amount determined reasonable by management.

Rate Regulation of Petroleum Pipelines

The rates and terms and conditions of service on certain of our pipelines may be subject to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA) or by the state regulatory commissions in the states in which we transport crude oil and refined products, including the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and the Arkansas Public Service Commission. We are evaluating the extent to which our pipelines are subject to such regulation. To the extent we determine that the rates and terms and conditions of service of our pipelines are subject to regulation, we intend to file tariffs with FERC or the appropriate state regulatory commissions, or, in certain cases, to seek waiver of the requirement to file tariffs, and to comply with all regulatory requirements imposed by those agencies.

The FERC regulates interstate transportation under the ICA, the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) and the rules and regulations promulgated under those laws. The ICA and its implementing regulations require that tariff rates for interstate service on oil pipelines, including pipelines that transport crude oil and refined products in interstate commerce (collectively referred to as “petroleum pipelines”), be just and reasonable and non-discriminatory and that such rates and terms and conditions of service be filed with FERC. Under the ICA, shippers may challenge new or existing rates or services. FERC is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of a challenged rate for up to seven months, though rates are typically not suspended for the maximum allowable period.

While FERC regulates rates for shipments of crude oil or refined products in interstate commerce, state agencies may regulate rates and service for shipments in intrastate commerce. We own pipeline assets in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In Texas, a pipeline, with some exceptions, is required to operate as a common carrier

 

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by publishing tariffs and providing transportation without discrimination. In Louisiana, all pipelines conveying petroleum from a point of origin within the state to a destination within the state are declared common carriers. The Louisiana Public Service Commission is empowered with the authority to establish reasonable rates and regulations for the transport of petroleum by a common carrier, mandating public tariffs and providing of transportation without discrimination.

Environmental Health and Safety

We are subject to various federal, state and local environmental and safety laws enforced by agencies including the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Transportation / Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, OSHA, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation as well as other state and federal agencies. Numerous permits or other authorizations are required under these laws for the operation of our refinery, terminals, pipelines, and related operations, and may be subject to revocation, modification and renewal.

These laws and permits raise potential exposure to future claims and lawsuits involving environmental and safety matters which could include soil and water contamination, air pollution, personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by substances which we manufactured, handled, used, released or disposed, or that relate to pre-existing conditions for which we have assumed responsibility. We believe that our current operations are in substantial compliance with existing environmental and safety requirements. However, there have been and will continue to be ongoing discussions about environmental and safety matters between us and federal and state authorities, including notices of violations, citations and other enforcement actions, some of which have resulted or may result in changes to operating procedures and in capital expenditures. While it is often difficult to quantify future environmental or safety related expenditures, we anticipate that continuing capital investments and changes in operating procedures will be required for the foreseeable future to comply with existing and new requirements as well as evolving interpretations and more strict enforcement of existing laws and regulations.

Contracts and Agreements

Under the terms of a supply contract (the Abilene Contract) with Noble Petro, Inc. (Noble Petro), we can purchase up to 20,350 barrels per day of light products at the Abilene, Texas terminal for sales and exchange at the Abilene and San Angelo, Texas terminals. We lease the Abilene and San Angelo terminals to Noble Petro, under a separate Terminal and Pipeline Lease and Operating Agreement, with a term that runs concurrent with that of the Abilene Contract. The Abilene Contract expires on December 31, 2017. There are no options to renew the contract.

Under the terms of a supply contract (the East Houston Contract) with Magellan Asset Services, L.P. (Magellan) we can purchase up to an additional 7,000 barrels per day of light products into the Magellan pipeline system in East Houston. This contract currently expires on December 15, 2015. While the primary purpose of the East Houston Contract is to supply products at Magellan’s Aledo, Texas terminal, the agreement allows us to redirect products to other terminals along the Magellan pipeline.

Noble Petro and Magellan supplied 99%, 96% and 97% of the petroleum products we purchased for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively. Due to the volume of transactions with Noble Petro, we were required to maintain a letter of credit as security against accounts payable. The amount of the letter of credit is calculated in accordance with the terms of the Abilene Contract. As of December 31, 2011, the letter of credit outstanding in favor of Noble Petro totaled $10.5 million.

 

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15. 401(k) Plan

Delek sponsors a voluntary 401(k) Employee Retirement Savings Plan for eligible employees administered by Fidelity Management Trust Company. Employees must be at least 21 years of age and have 60 days of service to be eligible to participate in the plan. Employee contributions are matched on a fully-vested basis up to a maximum of 6% of eligible compensation. Eligibility for the matching contribution begins on the first of the month following one year of employment. For each of the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, we recognized 401(k) expense of $0.1 million.

16. Related Party Transactions

Costs related specifically to us have been identified and included in the statements of operations. Historically, we were not allocated certain corporate costs from Lion Oil. For purposes of these carved-out financial statements, these costs have been allocated as described further below. In the opinion of management, the methods for allocating these costs are reasonable. It is not practicable to estimate the costs that would have been incurred by us if we had been operated on a stand-alone basis.

MAPCO Express, Inc. (Express) provides general and administrative support for us, including services such as corporate management, accounting and payroll. In exchange for these services, we pay Express a monthly management fee. Total management fees paid to Express for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were $1.1 million, $0.8 million, and $0.7 million, respectively, which is recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying combined statements of operations.

Payroll expenses for certain employees of Delek are transferred to us. In the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, $1.6 million, $1.3 million and $1.0 million, respectively, in payroll expenses were reclassified to us from Delek and are included in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying combined statement of operations.

Lion Oil provides general and administrative support for us, including services such as corporate management, insurance, accounting and payroll. The property and liability insurance costs that were allocated to us based on a percentage of property and equipment cost were $0.5 million and the remaining shared services costs that were allocated based on a percentage of salaries expense were $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, which are recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying combined statements of operations.

J. Christy Construction Inc., a subsidiary of Lion Oil, provided certain repairs, maintenance and other contract services to us totaling $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, which are recorded in operating expenses in the accompanying combined statements of operations.

We had revenues from Lion Oil related to the SALA Gathering and Lion Pipeline Systems totaling $9.8 million and related to the Nashville terminal totaling $0.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2011. In addition, we had pipeline maintenance services revenue of $1.4 million from Paline for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011 (the period it was owned by Ergon.) Historically, we participated in Lion Oil’s centralized cash management program under which cash receipts and cash disbursements were processed through Lion Oil’s cash accounts with a corresponding credit or charge to an affiliate account. The affiliate account is included in division equity. Following its initial public offering, the Partnership will maintain separate cash accounts.

 

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We entered into a service agreement with Delek effective October 1, 2006, which among other things, required Delek to pay service fees to us based on the number of gallons sold at the Tyler refinery and a sharing of a portion of the marketing margin achieved in return for providing marketing, sales and customer services. Service fees income received from Delek Refining for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were $11.0 million, $10.6 million and $12.2 million, respectively, and are recorded in net sales in the accompanying combined statements of operations.

We and Delek have a service agreement which among other things requires Delek to pay us throughput and storage fees based on the amount of the crude transported and/or stored. This fee equates to $0.35 per barrel transported into the refinery, plus $0.3 million per month for storage, or $0.7 million, whichever is greater. Additionally, Delek pays us a quarterly fee of approximately $0.2 million to compensate us for the tax consequences resulting from the depreciation expense that will not be incurred by us due to the accounting treatment of the acquisition of the pipeline assets discussed in Note 3. Total fees paid to us in conjunction with pipeline storage fees were $6.6 million, $9.5 million and $10.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively, and are recorded as a reduction of operating expenses in the accompanying combined statements of operations. Total fees paid to us related to tax depreciation were $0.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2009 and $0.8 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2011 and are recorded as a reduction of general and administrative expenses in the accompanying combined statements of operations.

During the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011, Delek sold finished product to us in the amounts of $5.4 million, $15.6 million and $12.8 million, respectively.

We recognized $0.6 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2010 and $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 in compensation expense related to stock-based compensation awards to related party employees, for allocated related party services and an allocation of director and executive officer equity-based compensation.

17. Subsequent Events

Nettleton Acquisition

On January 31, 2012, we completed the acquisition (the Nettleton Acquisition) of an approximately 36-mile long, eight- and ten-inch pipeline system (the Nettleton Pipeline) from Plains Marketing, L.P. (Plains). The purchase price, including our reimbursement of certain costs incurred by Plains, was approximately $12.3 million.

The Nettleton Pipeline is used exclusively to transport crude oil from our tank farms in and around Nettleton, Texas to the Bullard Junction in Tyler, Texas, at the Tyler refinery. During the year ended December 31, 2011, more than half of the crude oil processed at the Tyler refinery was supplied through the Nettleton Pipeline. The remainder of the crude oil was supplied through the McMurrey Pipeline System, which also begins at our tank farms in and around Nettleton, Texas and then runs roughly parallel to the Nettleton Pipeline. Prior to the Nettleton Acquisition, we leased the Nettleton Pipeline under the terms of a pipeline capacity lease agreement with Plains. As a condition to the closing of the Nettleton Acquisition, this lease was terminated.

 

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Big Sandy Acquisition

On February 7, 2012, we purchased (i) a light petroleum products terminal located in Big Sandy, Texas (the Big Sandy Terminal), the underlying real property, and other related assets from Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. and (ii) the eight and five-eighths inch diameter Hopewell—Big Sandy Pipeline originating at Hopewell Junction, Texas and terminating at the Big Sandy Station in Big Sandy, Texas from Sunoco Pipeline L.P. The purchase price was approximately $11.0 million.

The Big Sandy Terminal had previously been supplied by the Tyler refinery but has been idle since November 2008.

 

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Condensed Combined Balance Sheets

(In thousands)

 

     December 31,
2011
    March 31,
2012
    Supplemental
Pro Forma
March 31,
2012
 
           (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  

Assets

      

Current assets:

      

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 35      $ 26      $ 26   

Accounts receivable

     22,577        31,040        31,040   

Accounts receivable from related parties

     5,618        5,862        5,862   

Prepaid inventory

            1,917        1,917   

Inventory

     18,859        15,682        15,682   

Deferred tax assets

     733        1,145        1,145   

Other current assets

     629        733        733   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     48,451        56,405        56,405   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment:

      

Property, plant and equipment

     144,980        169,258        169,258   

Less: accumulated depreciation

     (11,300     (13,166     (13,166
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment, net

     133,680        156,092        156,092   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Goodwill

     7,499        7,499        7,499   

Intangible assets, net

     10,025        9,759        9,759   

Other non-current assets

     172        125        125   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 199,827      $ 229,880      $ 229,880   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and division equity

      

Current liabilities:

      

Accounts payable

   $ 26,386      $ 33,865      $ 33,865   

Current portion of revolving credit facility

     30,300        49,100        49,100   

Interest payable

     17        22        22   

Fuel and other taxes payable

     4,234        4,680        4,680   

Accrued employee costs

     226        437        437   

Current portion of environmental liabilities

     37        37        37   

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     2,804        2,280        2,280   

Distribution payable to related parties

                   121,044   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     64,004        90,421        211,465   

Non-current liabilities:

      

Asset retirement obligations

     1,342        1,367        1,367   

Deferred tax liabilities

     19,498        21,644        21,644   

Other non-current liabilities

     7,261        7,260        7,260   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total non-current liabilities

     28,101        30,271        30,271   

Commitments and contingencies

      

Division equity

     107,722        109,188        (11,856
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and division equity

   $ 199,827      $ 229,880      $ 229,880   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to condensed combined financial statements

 

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(In thousands)

 

      Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2011      2012  

Net sales

   $ 159,096       $ 239,083   

Operating costs and expenses:

     

Cost of goods sold

     149,809         225,409   

Operating expenses

     1,003         4,210   

General and administrative expenses

     1,147         2,407   

Depreciation and amortization

     690         2,134   

Loss on sale of assets

             5   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating costs and expenses

     152,649         234,165   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating income

     6,447         4,918   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Interest expense, net

     467         488   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income before income tax expense

     5,980         4,430   

Income tax expense

     2,223         1,920   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net income

   $ 3,757       $ 2,510   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

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(In thousands)

 

      Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2011     2012  

Cash flows from operating activities:

    

Net income

   $ 3,757      $ 2,510   

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

    

Depreciation and amortization

     690        2,134   

Amortization of deferred financing costs

     46        47   

Accretion of asset retirement obligations

     20        25   

Deferred income taxes

     6        1,734   

Loss on sale of assets

            5   

Stock-based compensation expense

     14        16   

Changes in assets and liabilities:

    

Accounts receivable

     (5,839     (8,463

Inventories and other current assets

     (5,274     1,156   

Accounts payable and other current liabilities

     9,447        7,617   

Accounts payable to related parties

     (7,228     (244

Non-current assets and liabilities, net

            (1
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities

     (4,361     6,536   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

    

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

            (1,013

Business combinations—Nettleton and Big Sandy

            (23,272
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities:

            (24,285
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

    

Proceeds from revolving credit facility

     43,900        83,100   

Payments on revolving credit facility

     (39,500     (64,300

Tax benefit from exercise of stock options

            1   

Capital distribution

            (1,061
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

     4,400        17,740   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents

     39        (9

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year

            35   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year

   $ 39      $ 26   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:

    

Cash paid during the year for:

    

Interest

   $ 431      $ 436   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

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1. Organization and Basis of Presentation

Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor consists of the assets, liabilities and results of operations of certain crude oil and refined product pipeline, transportation, wholesale marketing and terminalling assets of Delek US Holdings, Inc. (Delek) operated and held by Delek Marketing & Supply, Inc. (Marketing), Paline Pipeline Company, LLC (Paline), and Lion Oil Company (Lion Oil), each wholly-owned subsidiaries of Delek, to be contributed to Delek Logistics Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership formed in April 2012 (the Partnership), in conjunction with its proposed initial public offering. Delek Logistics Partners, LP Predecessor (the Predecessor) is the predecessor to the Partnership for accounting purposes. As used herein, the terms “we”, “our”, “us”, or like terms refer to the Predecessor. References in this report to “Delek” refer collectively to Delek and its consolidated subsidiaries, other than Delek Logistics Partners, LP, its combined subsidiaries and its general partner. Paline and the assets to be contributed by Lion Oil (the Contributed Lion Assets) are included in the condensed combined financial statement as of December 31, 2011 and for the period ended March 31, 2012, but are not included for the period ended March 31, 2011 as Paline and Lion Oil had not yet been acquired by Delek.

Delek is a controlled company, under the rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange, where its shares are traded under the symbol DK. As of March 31, 2012, approximately 68.3% of Delek’s shares are beneficially owned by Delek Group Ltd., a conglomerate that is domiciled and publicly traded in Israel.

The accompanying financial statements and related notes present our condensed combined financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. The condensed combined financial statements include financial data at historical cost as the contribution of assets is considered to be a reorganization of entities under common control. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) have been condensed or omitted, although management believes that the disclosures herein are adequate to make the financial information presented not misleading. Our unaudited condensed combined financial statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis with those of the annual audited financial statements included in this prospectus. These unaudited condensed combined financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited combined financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2011 included in this prospectus.

In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position and the results of operations for the interim periods have been included. All significant intercompany transactions and account balances have been eliminated in the combination. All adjustments are of a normal, recurring nature. Operating results for the interim period should not be viewed as representative of results that may be expected for any future interim period or for the full year.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In the first quarter of 2012, we adopted guidance issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board related to the presentation of other comprehensive income in our financial statements. Comprehensive income for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012 was equivalent to net income.

2. Acquisitions

Nettleton Acquisition

On January 31, 2012, we completed the acquisition of an approximately 36-mile long, eight- and ten-inch pipeline system (the Nettleton Pipeline) from Plains Marketing, L.P. (Plains) for approximately $12.3

 

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million, which has been preliminarily allocated to property, plant and equipment. The property, plant and equipment valuation is subject to change during the purchase price allocation period.

The Nettleton Pipeline is used exclusively to transport crude oil from our tank farms in and around Nettleton, Texas to the Bullard Junction in Tyler, Texas, at the Tyler refinery. During the year ended December 31, 2011, more than half of the crude oil processed at the Tyler refinery was supplied through the Nettleton Pipeline. The remainder of the crude oil was supplied through the McMurrey Pipeline System, which also begins at our tank farms in and around Nettleton, Texas and then runs roughly parallel to the Nettleton Pipeline. Prior to the acquisition of the Nettleton Pipeline, we leased the Nettleton Pipeline from Plains under the terms of the Pipeline Capacity Lease Agreement dated April 12, 1999, as amended (the Plains Lease). The Plains Lease was terminated in conjunction with the acquisition of the Nettleton Pipeline.

Big Sandy Acquisition

On February 7, 2012, we purchased (i) a light petroleum products terminal located in Big Sandy, Texas, the underlying real property, and other related assets from Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. (the Big Sandy Terminal) and (ii) the 19-mile, eight-inch diameter Hopewell to Big Sandy Pipeline originating at Hopewell Junction, Texas and terminating at the Big Sandy Station in Big Sandy, Texas from Sunoco Pipeline L.P. The purchase price was approximately $11.0 million, which has been preliminarily allocated to property, plant and equipment. The property, plant and equipment valuation is subject to change during the purchase price allocation period.

The Big Sandy Terminal has previously been supplied by the Tyler refinery but has been idle since November 2008. The prior owner made significant capital improvements to the light petroleum products terminal prior to the acquisition.

3. Inventory

Carrying value of inventory consisted of $18.9 million and $15.7 million of refined petroleum products as of December 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012, respectively.

4. Revolving Credit Facility

We have a revolving credit facility with Fifth Third Bank (Fifth Third Revolver) that carries a credit limit of $75.0 million, including a $35.0 million sub-limit for letters of credit. As of March 31, 2012, we had $49.1 million outstanding borrowings under the facility, as well as letters of credit issued of $12.0 million. Borrowings under the Fifth Third Revolver are secured by substantially all of the assets of Marketing. The Fifth Third Revolver matures on December 19, 2012. The Fifth Third Revolver bears interest based on predetermined pricing grids that allow us to choose between Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Rate Loans. At March 31, 2012, the weighted average borrowing rate was approximately 3.9%. Additionally, the Fifth Third Revolver requires us to pay a quarterly fee of 0.50% per year on the average available revolving commitment. Amounts available under the Fifth Third Revolver as of March 31, 2012 were approximately $13.9 million.

5. Stock-Based Compensation

Delek recognized compensation expense for equity-based awards of $0.4 million ($0.3 million, net of taxes) and $1.2 million ($0.8 million, net of taxes), for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, respectively. These amounts are included in general and administrative expenses in the Delek condensed consolidated statements of operations.

 

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Of the total Delek stock-based compensation expense of $0.4 million and $1.2 million, a nominal amount related to our employees for both the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, and was recorded as compensation expense and additional paid-in capital. An additional $0.1 million in compensation expense was recognized by us related to stock-based compensation awards to other related party employees for both the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, for allocated related party services, an allocation for restricted stock units, and an allocation of directors and executive officers stock-based compensation.

As of March 31, 2012, there was $0.1 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested share-based compensation arrangements at Delek for our employees. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.9 years.

6. Segment Data

We report our assets and operating results in two reportable segments: pipelines and transportation and wholesale marketing and terminalling. Decisions concerning the allocation of resources and assessment of operating performance are made based on this segmentation. Management measures the operating performance of each of its reportable segments based on the segment contribution margin. Segment contribution margin is defined as net sales less cost of sales and operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization.

The pipelines and transportation segment provides crude oil gathering, transportation and storage services to Delek’s refining operations.

The wholesale marketing and terminalling segment provides marketing and terminalling services to Delek’s refining operations and to independent third parties.

The following is a summary of business segment operating performance as measured by contribution margin for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012 (in thousands):

 

     For the Three Months Ended
March 31, 2011
 
     Pipelines and
Transportation
     Wholesale
Marketing and
Terminalling
     Total  

Net sales

   $ 2,440       $ 156,656       $ 159,096   

Operating costs and expenses:

        

Cost of goods sold

             149,809         149,809   

Operating expenses

     573         430         1,003   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Segment contribution margin

   $ 1,867       $ 6,417         8,284   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

General and administrative expenses

           1,147   

Depreciation and amortization

           690   
        

 

 

 

Operating income

         $ 6,447   
        

 

 

 

Capital spending

   $       $       $   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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     As of and For the three months ended
March 31, 2012
 
     Pipelines and
Transportation
     Wholesale
Marketing and
Terminalling
     Total  

Net sales

   $ 6,680       $ 232,403       $ 239,083   

Operating costs and expenses:

        

Cost of goods sold

             225,409         225,409   

Operating expenses

     3,278         932         4,210   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Segment contribution margin

   $ 3,402       $ 6,062         9,464   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

General and administrative expenses

           2,407   

Depreciation and amortization

           2,134   

Loss on sale of assets

           5   
        

 

 

 

Operating income

         $ 4,918   
        

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 110,632       $ 119,248       $ 229,880   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Capital spending (excluding business combinations)

   $ 376       $ 637       $ 1,013   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

7. Fair Value Measurements

The fair values of financial instruments are estimated based upon current market conditions and quoted market prices for the same or similar instruments. Management estimates that the carrying value approximates fair value for all of our assets and liabilities that fall under the scope of ASC 825, Financial Instruments.

We apply the provisions of ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements (ASC 820), which defines fair value, establishes a framework for its measurement and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. ASC 820 applies to our commodity derivatives that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The standard also requires that we assess the impact of nonperformance risk on our derivatives. Nonperformance risk is not considered material at this time.

ASC 820 requires disclosures that categorize assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the observability of the inputs employed in the measurement. Level 1 inputs are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 inputs are observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly through market-corroborated inputs. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability reflecting our assumptions about pricing by market participants.

OTC commodity swaps and physical commodity purchase and sale contracts are generally valued using industry-standard models that consider various assumptions, including quoted forward prices, time value, volatility factors and contractual prices for the underlying instruments, as well as other relevant economic measures. The degree to which these inputs are observable in the forward markets determines the classification as Level 2 or 3. Our contracts are valued using quotations provided by brokers based on exchange pricing and/or price index developers such as Platts or Argus. These are classified as Level 2.

Our financial assets (liabilities) accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis were a nominal amount and $(1.4) million as of December 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012, respectively. The derivative values above are based on analysis of each contract as the fundamental unit of account as required by ASC 820. Derivative assets and liabilities with the same counterparty are not netted where the legal right of offset exists. This differs from the

 

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presentation in the financial statements which reflects our policy under the guidance of ASC 815-10-45, wherein we have elected to offset the fair value amounts recognized for multiple derivative instruments executed with the same counterparty. As of December 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012, a nominal amount and $0.4 million of net derivative positions are included in other current assets on the accompanying condensed combined balance sheets.

Our policy under the guidance of ASC 815-10-45, Derivatives and Hedging—Other Presentation Matters (ASC 815-10-45), is to net the fair value amounts recognized for multiple derivative instruments executed with the same counterparty and offset these values against the cash collateral arising from these derivative positions. As of March 31, 2012, $1.8 million of cash collateral is held by counterparty brokerage firms and has been netted with the net derivative positions with each counterparty.

8. Derivative Instruments

Forward Fuel Contracts

From time to time, we enter into forward fuel contracts with major financial institutions that fix the purchase price of finished grade fuel for a predetermined number of units at a future date and have fulfillment terms of less than 90 days. During the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, we did not elect to apply hedging treatment to our derivative positions and, therefore, all changes in fair value are reflected in the statements of operations. We recognized gains (losses) of $0.6 million and $(0.1) million on forward fuel contracts during the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, respectively, which are included as an adjustment to cost of goods sold in the accompanying condensed combined statements of operations. There were nominal unrealized gains held on the condensed combined balance sheet as of December 31, 2011. There were unrealized losses related to these forward fuel contracts of $1.4 million held on the condensed combined balance sheet as of March 31, 2012.

9. Commitments and Contingencies

Litigation

In the ordinary conduct of our business, we are from time to time subject to lawsuits, investigations and claims, including environmental claims and employee-related matters. Although we cannot predict with certainty the ultimate resolution of lawsuits, investigations and claims asserted against us, including civil penalties or other enforcement actions, we do not believe that any currently pending legal proceeding or proceedings to which we are a party will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Self-Insurance

We are covered under Delek’s insurance programs. Delek is self-insured for certain employees’ medical claims up to $0.2 million per employee per year. Delek is self-insured for workers’ compensation claims up to $1.0 million on a per accident basis. We self-insure for general liability claims up to $4.0 million on a per occurrence basis. We self-insure for auto liability up to $4.0 million on a per accident basis. Delek has umbrella liability insurance in an amount determined reasonable by management.

Rate Regulation of Petroleum Pipelines

The rates and terms and conditions of service on certain of our pipelines may be subject to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA) or by the state regulatory commissions in the states in which we transport crude oil and refined products, including the Railroad

 

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Commission of Texas, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and the Arkansas Public Service Commission. We are evaluating the extent to which our pipelines are subject to such regulation. To the extent we determine that the rates and terms and conditions of service of our pipelines are subject to regulation, we intend to file tariffs with FERC or the appropriate state regulatory commissions, or, in certain cases, to seek waiver of the requirement to file tariffs, and to comply with all regulatory requirements imposed by those agencies.

The FERC regulates interstate transportation under the ICA, the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) and the rules and regulations promulgated under those laws. The ICA and its implementing regulations require that tariff rates for interstate service on oil pipelines, including pipelines that transport crude oil and refined products in interstate commerce (collectively referred to as “petroleum pipelines”), be just and reasonable and non-discriminatory and that such rates and terms and conditions of service be filed with FERC. Under the ICA, shippers may challenge new or existing rates or services. FERC is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of a challenged rate for up to seven months, though rates are typically not suspended for the maximum allowable period.

While FERC regulates rates for shipments of crude oil or refined products in interstate commerce, state agencies may regulate rates and service for shipments in intrastate commerce. We own pipeline assets in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In Texas, a pipeline, with some exceptions, is required to operate as a common carrier by publishing tariffs and providing transportation without discrimination. In Louisiana, all pipelines conveying petroleum from a point of origin within the state to a destination within the state are declared common carriers. The Louisiana Public Service Commission is empowered with the authority to establish reasonable rates and regulations for the transport of petroleum by a common carrier, mandating public tariffs and providing of transportation without discrimination.

Environmental Health and Safety

We are subject to various federal, state and local environmental and safety laws enforced by agencies including the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Transportation / Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, OSHA, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation as well as other state and federal agencies. Numerous permits or other authorizations are required under these laws for the operation of our refinery, terminals, pipelines, and related operations, and may be subject to revocation, modification and renewal.

These laws and permits raise potential exposure to future claims and lawsuits involving environmental and safety matters which could include soil and water contamination, air pollution, personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by substances which we manufactured, handled, used, released or disposed, or that relate to pre-existing conditions for which we have assumed responsibility. We believe that our current operations are in substantial compliance with existing environmental and safety requirements. However, there have been and will continue to be ongoing discussions about environmental and safety matters between us and federal and state authorities, including notices of violations, citations and other enforcement actions, some of which have resulted or may result in changes to operating procedures and in capital expenditures. While it is often difficult to quantify future environmental or safety related expenditures, we anticipate that continuing capital investments and changes in operating procedures will be required for the foreseeable future to comply with existing and new requirements as well as evolving interpretations and more strict enforcement of existing laws and regulations.

Contracts and Agreements

Under the terms of a supply contract with Noble Petro, Inc. (Noble Petro) (the Abilene Contract), we can purchase up to 20,350 barrels per day of petroleum products at the Abilene, Texas terminal, which we own,

 

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for sales and exchange at Abilene and San Angelo. We lease the Abilene and San Angelo, Texas terminals to Noble Petro, under a separate Terminal and Pipeline Lease and Operating Agreement, with a term that runs concurrent with that of the Abilene Contract. The Abilene Contract expires on December 31, 2017. There are no options to renew the contract.

Under the terms of our contract with Magellan (the East Houston Contract), we can purchase up to an additional 7,000 barrels per day of refined products into the Magellan pipeline system in East Houston. This contract currently expires on December 15, 2015. While the primary purpose of the East Houston Contract is to supply products at Magellan’s Aledo, Texas terminal, the agreement allows us to redirect products to other terminals along the Magellan pipeline.

10. Related Party Transactions

Costs related specifically to us have been identified and included in the statements of operations. Historically, we were not allocated certain corporate costs from Lion Oil. For purposes of these carved-out financial statements, these costs have been allocated as described further below. In the opinion of management, the methods for allocating these costs are reasonable. It is not practicable to estimate the costs that would have been incurred by us if we had operated on a stand-alone basis.

MAPCO Express, Inc. (Express), a related party, provides general and administrative support for us, including services such as corporate management, accounting and payroll. In exchange for these services, we pay Express a monthly management fee. Total management fees paid to Express for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012 were $0.2 million and $0.3 million, respectively, which is recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed combined statements of operations.

Payroll expenses for certain employees of Delek are transferred to us. In the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, $0.4 million and $0.5 million, respectively, in payroll expenses were reclassified to us from Delek and are included in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed combined statement of operations.

Lion Oil provides general and administrative support for us, including services such as corporate management, insurance, accounting and payroll. The property and liability insurance costs that were allocated to us based on a percentage of property and equipment cost of $0.4 million and the remaining shared services costs that were allocated based on a percentage of salaries expense of $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012 are recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed combined statements of operations.

J. Christy Construction Inc., a subsidiary of Lion Oil, provided certain repairs, maintenance, and other contract services to us totaling $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012 which are recorded in operating expenses in the accompanying condensed combined statements of operations.

We had pipeline tariff revenues from Lion Oil related to the SALA Gathering and Lion Pipeline Systems totaling $3.7 million and Nashville terminalling revenue from Lion Oil totaling $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012. Historically, we participated in Lion Oil’s centralized cash management program under which cash receipts and cash disbursements were processed through Lion Oil’s cash accounts with a corresponding credit or charge to an affiliate account. The affiliate account is included in division equity. Following its initial public offering, the Partnership will maintain separate cash accounts.

 

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Notes to Condensed Combined Financial Statements (Unaudited)

 

We entered into a service agreement with Delek effective October 1, 2006, which among other things, required Delek to pay service fees to us based on the number of gallons sold at the Tyler refinery and a sharing of a portion of the margin achieved in return for providing marketing, sales and customer services. Service fees income received from Delek for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012 were $2.6 million and $2.8 million, respectively, and are recorded in net sales in the accompanying condensed combined statements of operations.

We and Delek have a service agreement which among other things requires Delek to pay us throughput and storage fees based on the amount of the crude transported and/or stored. This fee equates to $0.35 per barrel transported into the refinery, plus $0.3 million per month for storage, or $0.7 million, whichever is greater. Additionally, Delek pays us a quarterly fee of approximately $0.2 million to compensate for the tax consequence resulting from the depreciation expense that will not be incurred by us due to the accounting treatment of a past related party sale. Total fees paid to us in conjunction with pipeline transportation and storage fees were $2.4 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, and are recorded as a reduction of operating expenses in the accompanying condensed combined statements of operations. Total fees paid to us related to tax depreciation were $0.2 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, respectively, and are recorded as a reduction of general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed combined statements of operations.

During the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, Delek sold finished product to us in the amounts of $8.0 million and $4.7 million, respectively.

We recognized $0.1 million in compensation expense related to stock-based compensation awards to related party employees for both the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2012, for allocated related party services and an allocation of director and executive officer equity-based compensation.

11. Income Taxes

Our effective income tax rate increased to 43.3% in the first quarter of 2012 compared to 37.2% in the first quarter of 2011. The effective tax rate for the first quarter of 2012 increased primarily due to an increase in the valuation allowance in the first quarter of 2012.

12. Supplemental Pro Forma Information (Unaudited)

Unaudited supplemental pro forma balance sheet and net loss per unit have been presented in accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 1.B.3. The supplemental pro forma balance sheet gives effect to the distribution of approximately $121.0 million to Delek to be paid upon completion of the initial public offering. The distribution is comprised of $80.1 million from the proceeds of the initial public offering of common units and $90.0 million to be funded with a planned borrowing under a revolving credit facility, net of the payoff of the Predecessor’s current revolving credit facility of $49.1 million.

 

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors of

Delek US Holdings, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying combined balance sheet of the Contributed Lion Oil Assets as of April 28, 2011, and the related combined statements of operations, division equity, and cash flows for the years ended April 28, 2011 and April 30, 2010. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the combined financial position of the Contributed Lion Oil Assets at April 28, 2011, and the combined results of their operations and their cash flows for the years ended April 28, 2011 and April 30, 2010, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Nashville, Tennessee

July 11, 2012

 

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Combined Balance Sheet

(In thousands)

 

     April 28,
2011
 

Assets

  

Current assets:

  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 18   

Accounts receivable

     272   

Deferred tax asset

     51   

Other current assets

     7   
  

 

 

 

Total current assets

     348   
  

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment

     17,467   
  

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 17,815   
  

 

 

 

Liabilities and equity

  

Current liabilities:

  

Accounts payable

   $ 248   

Property and other taxes payable

     251   

Accrued employee costs

     316   

Other current liabilities

     367   
  

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     1,182   

Non-current liabilities:

  

Asset retirement obligations

     212   

Deferred tax liabilities

     378   

Other non-current liabilities

     2,891   
  

 

 

 

Total non-current liabilities

     3,481   

Division equity

     13,152   
  

 

 

 

Total liabilities and division equity

   $ 17,815   
  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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Combined Statement of Operations

(In thousands)

 

     Year Ended
April 30, 2010
    Year Ended
April 28, 2011
 

Net sales

   $ 15,952      $ 18,675   

Operating costs and expenses:

    

Operating expenses

     11,020        12,136   

Impairment of property and equipment

            29,014   

General and administrative expenses

     1,524        1,862   

Depreciation

     3,591        3,597   

Gain on sale of assets

     (6       
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating costs and expenses

     16,129        46,609   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating loss

     (177     (27,934
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Interest expense, net

     25          
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income tax benefit

     (202     (27,934

Income tax benefit

     (48     (3,256
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (154   $ (24,678
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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Combined Statements of Division Equity

(In thousands)

 

Balance at May 1, 2009

   $ 44,438   

Net loss

     (154

Capital distributions

     (2,744
  

 

 

 

Balance at April 30, 2010

     41,540   

Net loss

     (24,678

Capital distributions

     (3,710
  

 

 

 

Balance at April 28, 2011

   $ 13,152   
  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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Combined Statements of Cash Flows

(In thousands)

 

     Year Ended
April 30, 2010
    Year Ended
April 28, 2011
 

Cash flows from operating activities:

    

Net loss

   $ (154   $ (24,678

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

    

Depreciation

     3,591        3,597   

Impairment of property and equipment

            29,014   

Deferred income taxes

     563        (3,496

Gain on sale of assets

     (6       

Changes in assets and liabilities:

    

Accounts receivable

     (12     (241

Inventories and other current assets

     61        (1

Accounts payable and other current liabilities

     (360     22   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

     3,683        4,217   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

    

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

     (971     (513

Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment

     20        5   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities:

     (951     (508
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

    

Capital distribution

     (2,744     (3,710
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in financing activities

     (2,744     (3,710
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

     (12     (1

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period

     31        19   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period

   $ 19      $ 18   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:

    

Cash paid, net during the year for:

    

Interest

   $ 25      $   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to combined financial statements

 

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1. General

The Contributed Lion Oil Assets include the assets, liabilities and results of operations of certain crude oil and refined product pipeline, transportation, and terminalling assets operated and held by Lion Oil Company (Lion Oil). Lion Oil is incorporated in the State of Arkansas and was a majority owned subsidiary of Ergon, Inc. (Ergon). As used in this report, the terms “we,” “our,” “us,” or like terms refer to the Contributed Lion Oil Assets. References in this report to “Delek” refer collectively to Delek US Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

Lion Oil is engaged in petroleum refining and related lines of business and owns the following assets: an 80,000 bpd refinery, an industrial construction and engineering business, a gasoline and diesel terminal, and an asphalt distribution terminal located in El Dorado, Arkansas (the assets of the aforementioned businesses are not part of the Contributed Lion Oil Assets); the 77-mile Magnolia crude oil transportation system that runs between Shreveport, Louisiana and the Magnolia crude terminal (the Magnolia Pipeline System); the 28-mile El Dorado crude oil transportation system that runs from the Magnolia terminal to the El Dorado refinery, as well as two associated product pipelines (the El Dorado Pipeline System); a crude oil gathering system with approximately 600 miles of operating pipeline (the SALA Gathering System); the 185-mile Paline pipeline that runs between Port Neches and Longview, Texas and an approximately seven-mile operating pipeline between Port Neches and Port Arthur, Texas (collectively, the Paline Pipeline); and light product distribution terminals located in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. The El Dorado refinery is the only customer for the Magnolia Pipeline System and the El Dorado Pipeline System and for substantially all of the capacity of the SALA Gathering System. The distribution terminals located in Tennessee supply products to some of Delek’s convenience stores in the Memphis and Nashville markets. The distribution terminal located in Memphis is used to market Lion Oil products; the distribution terminal located in Nashville is supplied by independent third parties.

In 2007, Delek acquired approximately 34.6% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Lion Oil. On April 29, 2011, Delek acquired an additional 53.7% of Lion Oil’s common stock from Ergon, bringing Delek’s common stock holdings in Lion Oil to 88.3%. On October 7, 2011, Delek acquired the remaining 11.7% minority equity interests in Lion Oil held by a consortium of private investors. Upon acquiring a majority equity ownership position in Lion Oil on April 29, 2011, Delek assumed operational management of Lion Oil and its related assets. Delek now reports Lion Oil as part of its consolidated group.

Delek is a controlled company under the rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange, where its shares are traded under the symbol DK. As of April 28, 2011, approximately 73.0% of Delek shares were beneficially owned by Delek Group Ltd., a conglomerate that is domiciled and publicly traded in Israel.

We refer to the Lion Pipeline System, the pipeline assets of the SALA Gathering System, the Paline Pipeline and the Memphis and Nashville terminals collectively as the “Contributed Lion Oil Assets.” These financial statements include the historical “carve-out” financial statements of the Contributed Lion Oil Assets prior to Delek’s acquisition of a majority interest in Lion Oil on April 29, 2011. The Contributed Lion Oil Assets are being contributed to Delek Logistics Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership formed in April 2012 (the Partnership) in connection with its proposed initial public offering.

2. Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying financial statements and related notes present the combined financial position, results of operations, cash flows and division equity of the Contributed Lion Oil Assets before Delek’s acquisition of a majority interest in Lion Oil and do not consider any of the closing transactions on April 29,

 

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2011. The combined financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) applied on a consistent basis. All significant intercompany transactions and account balances have been eliminated.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Lion Oil maintains cash and cash equivalents in accounts with large, national financial institutions. All highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less are considered to be cash equivalents.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable primarily consists of trade receivables generated in the ordinary course of business. Lion Oil performs on-going credit evaluations of its customers and generally does not require collateral on accounts receivable. All accounts receivable amounts are considered to be fully collectible. Accordingly, no allowance has been established as of April 28, 2011.

A receivable from an insurance company related to Nashville area flood claims accounted for approximately 79% and one customer accounted for approximately 15% of the accounts receivable balance as of April 28, 2011. Net sales were primarily to related parties (see Note 7). One non-related party customer accounted for more than 10% of net sales for the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011.

Property, Plant and Equipment

Purchases of property and equipment are carried at cost, unless indicators of impairment exist, at which time impaired assets are adjusted to fair value.

Betterments, renewals and extraordinary repairs that extend the life of an asset are capitalized. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred.

Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over management’s estimated useful lives of the related assets, except for automotive equipment, which is depreciated using a declining-balance method. The estimated useful lives are as follows:

 

     Years  

Building and building improvements

     7-39   

Pipelines and terminals

     2-30   

Other equipment

     5-10   

Property, Plant and Equipment Impairment

Property, plant and equipment are evaluated for impairment whenever indicators of impairment exist. In accordance with ASC 360, Property, Plant and Equipment, we evaluate the realizability of these long-lived assets as events occur that might indicate potential impairment. In doing so, we assess whether the carrying amount of the asset is unrecoverable by estimating the sum of the future cash flows expected to result from the asset, undiscounted and without interest charges. If the carrying amount is more than the recoverable amount, an

 

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impairment charge must be recognized based on the fair value of the asset. As a result of the acquisition of a majority interest in Lion Oil discussed in Note 1 and Note 8, we recorded an impairment charge of $29.0 million on April 28, 2011.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The fair values of financial instruments are estimated based upon current market conditions and quoted market prices for the same or similar instruments. Management estimates that the carrying value approximates fair value for all of our assets and liabilities that fall under the scope of ASC 825, Financial Instruments (ASC 825).

Lion Oil also applies the provisions of ASC 825 as it pertains to the fair value option. This standard permits the election to carry financial instruments and certain other items similar to financial instruments at fair value on the balance sheet, with all changes in fair value reported in earnings. By electing the fair value option in conjunction with a derivative, an entity can achieve an accounting result similar to a fair value hedge without having to comply with complex hedge accounting rules. As of April 28, 2011, we did not make the fair value election for any financial instruments not already carried at fair value in accordance with other standards.

Self-Insurance Reserves

Lion Oil is primarily self-insured for employee medical costs, with limits of per claim and aggregate stop loss insurance coverage that management considers adequate. Lion Oil purchased high deductible policies, which act as a form of stop loss insurance, for workers’ compensation and general liability claims. We maintain an accrual for these costs based on claims filed and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported. Differences between actual settlements and recorded accruals are recorded in the period identified.

Environmental Expenditures

It is Lion Oil’s policy to accrue environmental and clean-up related costs of a non-capital nature when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. The Contributed Lion Oil Assets did not have any environmental liabilities during or at the end of the reporting period.

Asset Retirement Obligations

Lion Oil recognizes liabilities which represent the fair value of a legal obligation to perform asset retirement activities, including those that are conditional on a future event, when the amount can be reasonably estimated. These obligations are related to the required cleanout of the pipeline and terminal tanks, and removal of certain above-grade portions of the pipeline situated on right-of-way property. The carrying amount of asset retirement obligations was $0.2 million as of both April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011.

In order to determine fair value, management must make certain estimates and assumptions including, among other things, projected cash flows, a credit-adjusted risk-free rate and an assessment of market conditions that could significantly impact the estimated fair value of the asset retirement obligations.

Revenue Recognition

Service revenues are recognized as crude oil and refined products are shipped through, delivered by or stored in our pipelines, terminals and storage facility assets, as applicable. We do not recognize product sales revenues for these services, as title of the product never passes to us. All revenues are based on regulated tariff rates or contracted rates.

 

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Operating Expenses

Operating expenses include the costs associated with the actual operation of owned terminals and pipeline maintenance costs.

Operating Leases

Lion Oil leases certain equipment and has surface leases under various operating lease arrangements, most of which provide the option, after the initial lease term, to renew the leases. None of these lease arrangements include fixed rental rate increases.

Lease expense for all operating leases totaled $0.2 million for each of the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011.

Income Taxes

Income taxes are accounted for under the provisions of ASC 740, Income Taxes (ASC 740). This statement generally requires us to record deferred income taxes for the differences between the book and tax bases of our assets and liabilities, which are measured using enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. Deferred income tax expense or benefit represents the net change during the year in our deferred income tax assets and liabilities.

ASC 740 also prescribes a comprehensive model for how companies should recognize, measure, present and disclose in their financial statements uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken on a tax return and prescribes the minimum recognition threshold a tax position is required to meet before being recognized in the financial statements. Finally, ASC 740 requires an annual tabular roll-forward of unrecognized tax benefits.

We do not file a separate U.S. federal income tax return. Our results of operations were included in the consolidated federal income tax return of Ergon. However, the provisions of ASC 740 have been followed as if we were a stand-alone entity. Historically, we participated in Ergon’s centralized cash management program under which cash receipts and cash disbursements, including those related to income taxes, were processed through Ergon’s cash accounts with a corresponding credit or charge to an affiliate account. The affiliate account is included in division equity. Taxes that are determined on a combined basis apply the benefits for loss allocation method; thus, tax attributes are realized when used in the combined tax return to the extent that they have been subject to valuation allowance.

3. Property, Plant, and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     April 28, 2011  

Land and land improvements

   $ 370   

Building and building improvements

     75   

Pipelines and terminals

     16,050   

Other equipment

     665   

Construction in progress

     307   
  

 

 

 
   $ 17,467   
  

 

 

 

Due to the Delek acquisition (see Note 1), we performed an impairment analysis of property and equipment. We evaluated our property, plant and equipment using two methods, the comparable sales approach

 

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and the income approach. We utilized the April 29, 2011 Delek acquisition transaction in determining value under the comparable sales approach. This evaluation resulted in the recognition of an impairment charge of $29.0 million on April 28, 2011. Since we had recorded property and equipment at estimated fair value based on an independent appraisal, there was no accumulated depreciation at April 28, 2011.

Depreciation expense for both the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011 was $3.6 million.

4. Income Taxes

Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.

Significant components of Lion Oil’s deferred tax assets and liabilities, reported separately in the accompanying combined financial statements, as of April 28, 2011, are as follows (in thousands):

 

     April 28, 2011  

Current Deferred Taxes:

  

Tank and pipeline inspection liabilities

   $ 139   

Valuation Allowance

     (88
  

 

 

 

Total current deferred tax assets

     51   

Non-Current Deferred Taxes:

  

Depreciation and amortization

     5,666   

Tank and pipeline inspection liabilities

     1,272   

Asset retirement obligations

     64   

Net operating loss carryforwards

     275   

Valuation allowance

     (7,655
  

 

 

 

Total non-current deferred tax liabilities

     (378
  

 

 

 

Total net deferred tax liabilities

   $ (327
  

 

 

 

The difference between the actual income tax expense and the tax expense computed by applying the statutory federal income tax rate to income before income taxes is attributable to the following (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended  
     April 30, 2010     April 28, 2011  

Provision for federal income taxes at statutory rate

   $ (71   $ (9,777

State income taxes, net of federal tax provision

     (12     (677

Valuation allowance

     23        7,088   

Permanent differences

     7        8   

Other items

     5        102   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income tax benefit

   $ (48   $ (3,256
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income tax expense is as follows (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended  
     April 30,
2010
    April 28,
2011
 

Current

   $ (611   $ 240   

Deferred

     563        (3,496
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
   $ (48   $ (3,256
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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Deferred income tax expense above is reflective of the changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities during the current period.

In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and tax planning strategies in making this assessment. Based upon a stand-alone entity approach, the level of historical taxable income, and projections for future taxable income over the periods for which the deferred tax assets are deductible, management believes it is more likely than not we will not realize all of the benefits of these deductible differences. As a result, a valuation allowance has been established for those deferred tax assets that management believes will not be realized. Subsequently recognized tax benefit or expense relating to the valuation allowance for deferred tax assets will be reported as an income tax benefit or expense in the consolidated statement of operations.

Our state net operating losses are set to expire between 2014 and 2026.

Lion Oil carried back the April 30, 2010 federal tax net operating loss to the April 30, 2006, 2007 and 2008 tax years, thus reopening those years for examination up to the amount of the refund claimed. The Internal Revenue Service is currently examining this April 30, 2010 carryback claim.

We recognize accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as an adjustment to the current provision for income taxes. There are no uncertain tax positions recorded as of April 28, 2011 and there were no interest or penalties recognized related to uncertain tax positions for the years ended April 30, 2010 or April 28, 2011. Uncertain tax positions have been examined for any material changes in the next 12 months and none are expected.

5. Commitments and Contingencies

Litigation

In the ordinary conduct of business, Lion Oil is from time to time subject to lawsuits, investigations and claims, including environmental claims and employee-related matters. Although we cannot predict with certainty the ultimate resolution of lawsuits, investigations and claims asserted against us, including civil penalties or other enforcement actions, we do not believe that any currently pending legal proceeding or proceedings to which we are a party will have a material adverse effect on the Contributed Lion Oil Assets’ business, financial condition or results of operations.

Self-Insurance

We were covered under Lion Oil’s insurance programs. Lion Oil was self-insured for certain employees’ medical claims up to $0.2 million per employee per year. Lion Oil had deductibles workers’ compensation and general/auto liability claims up to $0.1 million on a per occurrence basis. Lion Oil maintained umbrella and excess liabilities insurance in an amount determined reasonable by management.

Rate Regulation of Petroleum Pipelines

The rates and terms and conditions of service on certain of our pipelines may be subject to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA) or by the state regulatory commissions in the states in which we transport crude oil and refined products, including the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and the Arkansas Public Service Commission.

 

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We are evaluating the extent to which our pipelines are subject to such regulation. To the extent we determine that the rates and terms and conditions of service of our pipelines are subject to regulation, we intend to file tariffs with FERC or the appropriate state regulatory commissions, or, in certain cases, to seek waiver of the requirement to file tariffs, and to comply with all regulatory requirements imposed by those agencies.

The FERC regulates interstate transportation under the ICA, the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) and the rules and regulations promulgated under those laws. The ICA and its implementing regulations require that tariff rates for interstate service on oil pipelines, including pipelines that transport crude oil and refined products in interstate commerce (collectively referred to as petroleum pipelines), be just and reasonable and non-discriminatory and that such rates and terms and conditions of service be filed with FERC. Under the ICA, shippers may challenge new or existing rates or services. FERC is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of a challenged rate for up to seven months, though rates are typically not suspended for the maximum allowable period.

While FERC regulates rates for shipments of crude oil or refined products in interstate commerce, state agencies may regulate rates and service for shipments in intrastate commerce. We own pipeline assets in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In Texas, a pipeline, with some exceptions, is required to operate as a common carrier by publishing tariffs and providing transportation without discrimination. In Louisiana, all pipelines conveying petroleum from a point of origin within the state to a destination within the state are declared common carriers. The Louisiana Public Service Commission is empowered with the authority to establish reasonable rates and regulations for the transport of petroleum by a common carrier, mandating public tariffs and providing of transportation without discrimination.

Environmental Health and Safety

We are subject to various federal, state and local environmental and safety laws enforced by agencies including the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Transportation / Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, OSHA, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation as well as other state and federal agencies. Numerous permits or other authorizations are required under these laws for the operation of our terminals, pipelines, and related operations, and may be subject to revocation, modification and renewal.

These laws and permits raise potential exposure to future claims and lawsuits involving environmental and safety matters which could include soil and water contamination, air pollution, personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by substances which we manufactured, handled, used, released or disposed, or that relate to pre-existing conditions for which we have assumed responsibility. We believe that our current operations are in substantial compliance with existing environmental and safety requirements. However, there have been and will continue to be ongoing discussions about environmental and safety matters between us and federal and state authorities, including notices of violations, citations and other enforcement actions, some of which have resulted or may result in changes to operating procedures and in capital expenditures. While it is often difficult to quantify future environmental or safety related expenditures, we anticipate that continuing capital investments and changes in operating procedures will be required for the foreseeable future to comply with existing and new requirements as well as evolving interpretations and more strict enforcement of existing laws and regulations.

6. Defined Contribution Plan

Lion Oil had a qualified defined contribution profit sharing and 401(k) plan covering substantially all permanent full-time employees. Lion Oil made matching annual contributions to the profit sharing plan in amounts determined by its board of directors. Lion Oil matched employee 401(k) contributions based upon a

 

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stipulated percentage determined by the board of directors. During the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011, the expense associated with the plan we recognized was approximately $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively. The profit sharing contribution approved by Lion Oil’s board of directors was 3% and 6% for the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011, respectively.

7. Related Party Transactions

Costs related specifically to us have been identified and included in the statements of operations. Historically, we were not allocated certain corporate costs from Lion Oil. For purposes of these carved-out financial statements, these costs have been allocated as described further below. In the opinion of management, the methods for allocating these costs are reasonable. It is not practicable to estimate the costs that would have been incurred by us if we had been operated on a stand-alone basis.

Ergon provides general and administrative support for us, including services such as corporate management, insurance, accounting and payroll. The property and liability insurance costs of $0.4 million that were allocated to us based on a percentage of property and equipment cost and the remaining shared services costs of $1.1 million that were allocated based on a percentage of salaries expense for the year ended April 30, 2010 are recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying combined statements of operations. The corresponding amounts for the year ended April 28, 2011 were $0.8 million and $1.0 million, respectively. Ergon did not allocate a management fee to Lion Oil during the year ended April 28, 2011 and, therefore, no management fee was allocated to us for that period. We estimate that the expense associated with this general and administrative support would have been an additional $0.2 million if we had been a stand-alone entity, based on allocations by Delek, subsequent to its ownership of us. Historically, we participated in Ergon’s centralized cash management program under which cash receipts and cash disbursements were processed through Ergon’s cash accounts with a corresponding credit or charge to an affiliate account. The affiliate account is included in division equity.

J. Christy Construction Inc., a subsidiary of Lion Oil, provided certain repairs, maintenance, and other contract services to us totaling $0.1 million for both the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011, which are recorded in operating expenses in the accompanying combined statements of operations.

We had pipeline tariff revenues from Lion Oil related to the SALA Gathering and Lion Pipeline Systems totaling $13.7 million and $15.9 million for the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011, respectively. Our Nashville terminalling revenue from Lion Oil totaled $1.3 million for both the years ended April 30, 2010 and April 28, 2011.

8. Subsequent Events

On April 29, 2011, Delek acquired an additional 53.7% of Lion Oil from Ergon, bringing Delek’s interest in Lion Oil to 88.3%. On October 7, 2011, Delek acquired the remaining 11.7% minority equity interests in Lion Oil held by a consortium of private investors. Upon acquiring a majority equity ownership position in Lion Oil on April 29, 2011, Delek assumed operational management of Lion Oil and its related assets. Delek now reports Lion Oil as part of its consolidated group.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors of

Delek US Holdings, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying statements of operations and cash flows of Paline Pipeline Company, LLC, for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the results of operations and cash flows of Paline Pipeline Company, LLC for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Nashville, Tennessee

July 11, 2012

 

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Paline Pipeline Company, LLC

Statement of Operations

(In thousands)

 

    

For the

period from
April 29 through
December 19,

 
     2011  

Net sales

   $ 1,031   

Operating costs and expenses:

  

Operating expenses

     1,093   

General and administrative expenses

     46   

Depreciation

     1,936   
  

 

 

 

Total operating costs and expenses

     3,075   
  

 

 

 

Loss before income tax benefit

     (2,044

Income tax benefit

       
  

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (2,044
  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to the financial statements

 

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Paline Pipeline Company, LLC

Statement of Cash Flows

(In thousands)

 

    

For the

period from
April 29 through
December 19,

 
     2011  

Cash flows from operating activities:

  

Net loss

   $ (2,044

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

  

Depreciation

     1,936   

Changes in assets and liabilities:

  

Accounts receivable

     50   

Accounts payable and other current liabilities

     793   
  

 

 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

     735   
  

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

  

Purchases of right of way intangibles

     (51

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

     (3,615
  

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities:

     (3,666
  

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

  

Capital contribution

     2,931   
  

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

     2,931   
  

 

 

 

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents:

  

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period

       
  

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period

       
  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to the financial statements

 

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Paline Pipeline Company, LLC

Notes to Financial Statements

The Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011

1. General

Paline Pipeline Company, LLC (Paline) is a Texas limited liability company established on April 29, 2011, whose sole member was Ergon Terminaling, Inc. (Ergon) during the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011. Delek US Holdings, Inc. (Delek) subsequently acquired Paline on December 19, 2011 (see Note 5). Paline owns and operates a 185-mile pipeline that runs between Port Neches and Longview, Texas and an approximately seven-mile idle pipeline between Port Neches and Port Arthur, Texas (collectively, the Paline Pipeline). On December 19, 2011, Delek acquired all of the equity interests in Paline from a subsidiary of Ergon Inc. (Ergon) (the Paline Acquisition). All of the assets of Paline are being contributed to Delek Logistics Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership formed in April 2012 (the Partnership) in connection with its proposed initial public offering.

2. Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) applied on a consistent basis.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Paline does not maintain any cash accounts. All operating cash activities are funded by Ergon.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable primarily consists of trade receivables generated in the ordinary course of business. Paline performs on-going credit evaluations of its customers and generally does not require collateral on accounts receivable. All accounts receivable amounts are considered to be fully collectible. Accordingly, no allowance has been established as of December 19, 2011. During the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011, Paline had one customer.

Property, Plant and Equipment

Purchases of property and equipment are carried at cost. Betterments, renewals and extraordinary repairs that extend the life of an asset are capitalized. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred.

Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over management’s estimated useful lives of the related assets. During the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011, Paline primarily had pipeline facility assets with a useful life of 15 years. Depreciation expense for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011 was $1.9 million.

Property, plant and equipment are evaluated for impairment whenever indicators of impairment exist. In accordance with ASC 360, Property, Plant and Equipment, Paline evaluates the realizability of these long-lived assets as events occur that might indicate potential impairment. In doing so, Paline assesses whether the carrying amount of the asset is unrecoverable by estimating the sum of the future cash flows expected to result from the

 

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Paline Pipeline Company, LLC

Notes to Financial Statements

The Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011

 

asset, undiscounted and without interest charges. If the carrying amount is more than the recoverable amount, an impairment charge must be recognized based on the fair value of the asset.

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets consist of indefinite-lived rights of way.

Environmental Expenditures

It is Paline’s policy to accrue environmental and clean-up related costs of a non-capital nature when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. Paline did not have any environmental liabilities during or at the end of the reporting period.

Revenue Recognition

Service revenues are recognized as crude oil is shipped through our pipelines. We do not recognize product sales revenues for these services, as title of the product never passes to us. All revenues are based on regulated tariff rates or contracted rates.

Operating Expenses

Operating expenses include the costs associated with the actual operation of the pipeline, such as contract services (primarily those with Lion Oil Trading and Transportation, Inc., a former related party, which was purchased by Delek on April 28, 2011), electricity and other maintenance costs.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses primarily include corporate costs allocated from Ergon (see Note 4).

Income Taxes

Our operations were included in Ergon’s consolidated federal income tax return. Since Ergon was the sole member of Paline prior to its acquisition by Delek, all applicable taxes were reported at the consolidated level, including income taxes accounted for under the provisions of ASC 740, Income Taxes. Therefore, we have excluded income taxes from these financial statements.

Comprehensive Loss

Comprehensive loss for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011 was equivalent to net loss.

3. Commitments and Contingencies

Litigation

In the ordinary conduct of its business, Paline is from time to time subject to lawsuits, investigations and claims.

Although we cannot predict with certainty the ultimate resolution of lawsuits, investigations and claims asserted against us, including civil penalties or other enforcement actions, we do not believe that any currently pending legal proceeding or proceedings to which we are a party will have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

 

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Paline Pipeline Company, LLC

Notes to Financial Statements

The Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011

 

Rate Regulation of Petroleum Pipelines

The rates and terms and conditions of service on our pipelines may be subject to regulation by the state regulatory commissions in Texas, including the Railroad Commission of Texas. We are evaluating the extent to which our pipelines are subject to such regulation. To the extent we determine that the rates and terms and conditions of service of our pipelines are subject to regulation, we intend to file tariffs with the appropriate state regulatory commissions, or, in certain cases, to seek waiver of the requirement to file tariffs, and to comply with all regulatory requirements imposed by those agencies.

We own pipeline assets in Texas. In Texas, a pipeline, with some exceptions, is required to operate as a common carrier by publishing tariffs and providing transportation without discrimination. The Texas commission has generally not investigated the rates or practices of petroleum pipelines in the absence of shipper complaints. Complaints to the Texas commission have been infrequent and are usually resolved informally.

Environmental Health and Safety

We are subject to various federal, state and local environmental and safety laws enforced by agencies including the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Transportation / Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Railroad Commission. Numerous permits or other authorizations are required under these laws for the operation of our pipeline and related operations, and may be subject to revocation, modification and renewal.

These laws and permits raise potential exposure to future claims and lawsuits involving environmental and safety matters which could include soil and water contamination, air pollution, personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by substances which we handled, used, released or disposed, or that relate to pre-existing conditions for which we have assumed responsibility. We believe that our current operations are in substantial compliance with existing environmental and safety requirements. However, there have been and will continue to be ongoing discussions about environmental and safety matters between us and federal and state authorities, including notices of violations, citations and other enforcement actions, some of which have resulted or may result in changes to operating procedures and in capital expenditures. While it is often difficult to quantify future environmental or safety related expenditures, we anticipate that continuing capital investments and changes in operating procedures will be required for the foreseeable future to comply with existing and new requirements as well as evolving interpretations and more strict enforcement of existing laws and regulations.

4. Related Party Transactions

Costs related specifically to Paline have been identified and included in the statements of operations. Historically, Paline was not allocated certain corporate costs from Ergon, primarily property insurance.

Ergon provided general and administrative support for Paline, including services such as corporate management, insurance, and accounting. Shared services costs of $0.2 million that were allocated to us based on a percentage of salary expense for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011, were recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying statement of operations. Ergon did not allocate a management fee to us related to property and liability insurance costs for the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011. We estimate that the expense associated with property and liability insurance costs would have been an additional $0.5 million if we had been a stand-alone entity, based on allocations by Delek, subsequent to its ownership of us. Historically, Paline participated in Ergon’s centralized cash management

 

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Paline Pipeline Company, LLC

Notes to Financial Statements

The Period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011

 

program under which cash receipts and cash disbursements were processed through Ergon’s cash accounts with a corresponding credit or charge to an affiliate account.

As discussed in Note 2, Ergon files a consolidated federal income tax return and current income tax payments for Paline are paid by Ergon.

Pursuant to a transition services arrangement entered into at the time of Delek’s purchase of Lion Oil Company (Lion Oil) in April 2011, Paline paid Lion Oil Transportation and Trading (LOTT), a subsidiary of Lion Oil, $1.4 million in fees during the period from April 29, 2011 through December 19, 2011. These fees are recorded as a component of operating expenses. Although not a related party during the period covered by these financial statements, LOTT is included in the assets being contributed to Delek Logistics Partners LP.

5. Subsequent Events

On December 19, 2011, Delek acquired all of the outstanding membership interests of Paline from Ergon. Under the Ergon ownership, Paline had been used to transport Gulf Coast and offshore crude oil north into Longview; however, Delek is nearly finished with a project that will reverse the flow of crude on the pipeline. Paline has an agreement with a major oil company to ship crude oil that expires in 2014. Delek acquired Paline and all related assets for a purchase price of $50.0 million, consisting of $25.0 million cash and a three-year, $25.0 million note payable to Ergon.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors of

Delek Logistics GP, LLC

We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Delek Logistics Partners, LP (the Partnership) as of July 9, 2012. This balance sheet is the responsibility of the Partnership’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this balance sheet based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the balance sheet referred to above presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Delek Logistics Partners, LP as of July 9, 2012, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Nashville, Tennessee

July 11, 2012

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Balance Sheet as of July 9, 2012

Assets

  

Cash

   $
1,000
  
  

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 1,000   
  

 

 

 

Liabilities

  

Total liabilities

   $   
  

 

 

 

Partners’ equity

  

Limited partner

     980   

General partner

     20   
  

 

 

 

Total partners’ equity

   $ 1,000   
  

 

 

 

Total liabilities and partners’ equity

   $ 1,000   
  

 

 

 

 

See accompanying note to the balance sheet

 

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Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Note to the Balance Sheet

1. Nature of Operations

Delek Logistics Partners, LP (the Partnership) is a Delaware limited partnership formed on April 24, 2012. Delek Logistics GP, LLC (the General Partner) is a Delaware limited liability company formed on April 24, 2012 to become the general partner of the Partnership. On July 9, 2012, Delek US Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation contributed $980 to the Partnership in exchange for a 98.0% limited partner interest and the General Partner contributed $20 to the Partnership in exchange for a 2.0% general partner interest. There have been no other transactions involving the Partnership as of July 11, 2012.

 

 

 

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Appendix A—Form of Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership

of Delek Logistics Partners, LP

[To Be Filed By Amendment]

 

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Appendix B—Glossary of Terms

adjusted operating surplus: Adjusted operating surplus is intended to reflect the cash generated from operations during a particular period and therefore excludes net drawdowns of reserves of cash established in prior periods. Adjusted operating surplus for a period consists of:

 

   

operating surplus generated with respect to that period (excluding any amounts attributable to the item described in the first bullet point in the definition of operating surplus); less

 

   

any net increase in working capital borrowings with respect to that period; less

 

   

any net decrease in cash reserves for operating expenditures with respect to that period not relating to an operating expenditure made with respect to that period; plus

 

   

any net decrease in working capital borrowings with respect to that period; plus

 

   

any net decrease made in subsequent periods to cash reserves for operating expenditures initially established with respect to that period to the extent such decrease results in a reduction in adjusted operating surplus in subsequent periods; plus

 

   

any net increase in cash reserves for operating expenditures with respect to that period required by any debt instrument for the repayment of principal, interest or premium.

available cash: Available cash generally means, for any quarter, all cash and cash equivalents on hand at the end of that quarter:

 

   

less, the amount of cash reserves established by our general partner to:

 

   

provide for the proper conduct of our business (including reserves for our future capital expenditures and anticipated future debt service requirements subsequent to that quarter);

 

   

comply with applicable law, any of our debt instruments or other agreements; or

 

   

provide funds for distributions to our unitholders and to our general partner for any one or more of the next four quarters (provided that our general partner may not establish cash reserves for distributions if the effect of the establishment of such reserves will prevent us from distributing the minimum quarterly distribution on all common units and any cumulative arrearages on such common units for the current quarter);

 

   

plus, if our general partner so determines, all or any portion of the cash on hand on the date of determination of available cash for the quarter resulting from working capital borrowings made subsequent to the end of such quarter.

barrel or bbl: One barrel of petroleum products equal to 42 U.S. gallons.

bpd: Barrels per day.

capital account: The capital account maintained for a partner under the partnership agreement.

capital surplus: Capital surplus is defined in our partnership agreement as any distribution of available cash in excess of our cumulative operating surplus. Accordingly, except as described above, capital surplus would generally be generated by:

 

   

borrowings other than working capital borrowings;

 

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sales of our equity and debt securities; and

 

   

sales or other dispositions of assets, other than inventory, accounts receivable and other assets sold in the ordinary course of business or as part of ordinary course retirement or replacement of assets.

common carrier pipeline: A pipeline engaged in the transportation of petroleum as a public utility and common carrier for hire.

condensate: A natural gas liquid with a low vapor pressure, mainly composed of propane, butane, pentane and heavier hydrocarbon fractions.

contribution margin: Net sales less cost of goods sold and operating expenses.

current market price: For any class of limited partner interests as of any date, the average of the daily closing prices per limited partner interest of such class for the 20 consecutive trading days immediately prior to that date.

EBITDA: Net income (loss) before net interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense.

Eligible Holder: A limited partner whose (a) federal income tax status is not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the rates that can be charged by us on assets that are subject to regulation by FERC or an analogous regulatory body and (b) nationality, citizenship or other related status would not create a substantial risk of cancellation or forfeiture of any property in which we have an interest, in each case as determined by our general partner with the advice of counsel.

expansion capital expenditures: Cash expenditures incurred for acquisitions or capital improvements that we expect will increase our operating income or operating capacity over the long term.

feedstock: Raw material required for an industrial process.

GAAP: Generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

incentive distribution right: A non-voting limited partner partnership interest issued to the general partner. The partnership interest will confer upon its holder only the rights and obligations specifically provided in the partnership agreement for incentive distribution rights.

incentive distribution: The distributions of available cash from operating surplus initially made to the general partner that are in excess of the general partner’s aggregate 2% general partner interest.

interim capital transactions: The following transactions:

 

   

borrowings, refinancings or refundings of indebtedness (other than working capital borrowings and items purchased on open account or for a deferred purchase price in the ordinary course of business) and sales of debt securities;

 

   

sales of equity securities; and

 

   

sales or other dispositions of assets, other than sales or other dispositions of inventory, accounts receivable and other assets in the ordinary course of business and sales or other dispositions of assets as part of normal asset retirements or replacements.

 

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investment capital expenditures: Capital expenditures that are neither maintenance capital expenditures nor expansion capital expenditures.

maintenance capital expenditures: Cash expenditures (including expenditures for the construction or development of new capital assets or the replacement, improvement or expansion of existing capital assets) made to maintain, over the long-term, our operating capacity or operating income.

operating expenditures: All of our cash expenditures, including, but not limited to, taxes, reimbursements of expenses of our general partner and its affiliates, director and employee compensation, debt service payments, payments made in the ordinary course of business under interest rate hedge contracts and commodity hedge contracts (provided that payments made in connection with the termination of any interest rate hedge contract or commodity hedge contract prior to the expiration of its settlement or termination date specified therein will be included in operating expenditures in equal quarterly installments over the remaining scheduled life of such interest rate hedge contract or commodity hedge contract and amounts paid in connection with the initial purchase of a rate hedge contract or a commodity hedge contract will be amortized at the life of such rate hedge contract or commodity hedge contract), maintenance capital expenditures, and repayment of working capital borrowings; provided, however, that operating expenditures will not include:

 

   

repayments of working capital borrowings where such borrowings have previously been deemed to have been repaid;

 

   

payments (including prepayments and prepayment penalties) of principal of and premium on indebtedness other than working capital borrowings;

 

   

expansion capital expenditures;

 

   

investment capital expenditures;

 

   

payment of transaction expenses (including taxes) relating to interim capital transactions;

 

   

distributions to our partners;

 

   

repurchases of partnership interests (excluding repurchases we make to satisfy obligations under employee benefit plans); or

 

   

any other expenditures or payments made using the proceeds of this offering.

operating surplus: We define operating surplus as:

 

   

$         million; plus

 

   

all of our cash receipts after the closing of this offering, excluding cash from interim capital transactions, provided that cash receipts from the termination of a commodity hedge or interest rate hedge prior to its specified termination date shall be included in operating surplus in equal quarterly installments over the remaining scheduled life of such commodity hedge or interest rate hedge; plus

 

   

working capital borrowings made after the end of a quarter but on or before the date of determination of operating surplus for that quarter; plus

 

   

cash distributions (including incremental distributions on incentive distribution rights) paid in respect of equity issued, other than equity issued in this offering, to finance all or a portion of expansion capital expenditures in respect of the period from the date that we enter into a binding obligation to commence the construction, development, replacement, improvement, or expansion of a capital asset and ending on the earlier to occur of the date the capital asset commences commercial service and the date that it is abandoned or disposed of; plus

 

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cash distributions (including incremental distributions on incentive distribution rights) paid in respect of equity issued, other than equity issued in this offering, to finance the expansion capital expenditures referred to in the prior bullet; less

 

   

all of our operating expenditures after the closing of this offering; less

 

   

the amount of cash reserves established by our general partner to provide funds for future operating expenditures; less

 

   

all working capital borrowings not repaid within twelve months after having been incurred, or repaid within such twelve-month period with the proceeds of additional working capital borrowings; less

 

   

any cash loss realized on disposition of an investment capital expenditure.

shell capacity: The maximum amount of liquid volumes of product that a storage tank can hold.

subordination period: Except as described below, the subordination period will begin on the closing date of this offering and will extend until the first business day following the distribution of available cash in respect of any quarter beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2015, that each of the following tests are met:

 

   

distributions of available cash from operating surplus on each of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units equaled or exceeded $         per unit (the annualized minimum quarterly distribution), for each of the three consecutive, non-overlapping four-quarter periods immediately preceding that date;

 

   

the adjusted operating surplus (as defined below) generated during each of the three consecutive, non-overlapping four-quarter periods immediately preceding that date equaled or exceeded the sum of $         per unit (the annualized minimum quarterly distribution) on all of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units during those periods on a fully diluted basis; and

 

   

there are no arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distribution on the common units.

In addition to the tests outlined above, the subordination period will end only in the event that our conflicts committee, or the board of directors of our general partner based on the recommendation of our conflicts committee, reasonably expects to satisfy the tests set forth under the first and second bullet points above for the succeeding four-quarter period without treating as earned any shortfall payments that would be paid under our existing commercial agreements with Delek (or similar fees to be paid by Delek under future contracts) expected to be received during such period. For a more detailed discussion of shortfall payments that would be paid by Delek under our existing commercial agreements, please read “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Agreements Governing the Transactions—Commercial Agreements with Delek.”

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the subordination period will automatically terminate on the first business day following the distribution of available cash in respect of any quarter beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2013, that each of the following tests are met:

 

   

distributions of available cash from operating surplus on each of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units equaled or exceeded $         (150% of the annualized minimum quarterly distribution), for the four-consecutive-quarter period immediately preceding that date;

 

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the adjusted operating surplus (as defined below) generated during the four-quarter period immediately preceding that date equaled or exceeded the sum of (i) $         per unit (150% of the annualized minimum quarterly distribution) on all of the outstanding common units, subordinated units and general partner units during that period on a fully diluted basis and (ii) the corresponding distributions on the incentive distribution rights; and

 

   

there are no arrearages in payment of the minimum quarterly distributions on the common units.

In addition to the tests outlined above, the subordination period will end only in the event that our conflicts committee, or the board of directors of our general partner based on the recommendation of our conflicts committee, reasonably expects to satisfy the tests set forth under the first and second bullet points above for the succeeding four-quarter period without treating as earned any shortfall payments that would be paid under our existing commercial agreements with Delek (or similar fees to be paid by Delek under future contracts) expected to be received during such period.

terminalling: The temporary storage of refined products in a facility connected to a refined product pipeline.

throughput: The volume of refined product transported or passing through a pipeline, plant, terminal or other facility.

turnaround: A periodically required standard procedure to refurbish and maintain a refinery that involves the shutdown and inspection of major processing units and occurs every three to five years and typically lasts 30 to 60 days.

units: Refers to both common units and subordinated units.

working capital borrowings: Borrowings incurred pursuant to a credit facility, commercial paper facility or similar financing arrangement that are used solely for working capital purposes or to pay distributions to the partners; provided that when such borrowings are incurred it is the intent of the borrower to repay such borrowings within twelve months from the date of such borrowings other than from additional working capital borrowings.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI): A type of crude oil commonly used as a price benchmark.

 

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Until                     , 2012 (25 days after the date of this prospectus), all dealers that buy, sell or trade our common units, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealers’ obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

LOGO

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Common Units

Representing Limited Partner Interests

 

 

P R O S P E C T U S

BofA Merrill Lynch

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 13.     Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

Set forth below are the expenses (other than underwriting discounts and the structuring fee) expected to be incurred in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities registered hereby. With the exception of the SEC registration fee, the FINRA filing fee and the NYSE listing fee, the amounts set forth below are estimates.

 

SEC registration fee

   $ 15,471   

FINRA filing fee

     20,750   

NYSE listing fee

     *   

Printing and engraving expenses

     *   

Fees and expenses of legal counsel

     *   

Accounting fees and expenses

     *   

Transfer agent and registrar fees

     *   

Miscellaneous

     *   
  

 

 

 

Total

     *   
  

 

 

 

 

* To be filed by amendment.

Item 14.     Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

Subject to any terms, conditions or restrictions set forth in the partnership agreement, Section 17-108 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act empowers a Delaware limited partnership to indemnify and hold harmless any partner or other person from and against any and all claims and demands whatsoever. The section of the prospectus entitled “The Partnership Agreement—Indemnification” discloses that we will generally indemnify officers, directors and affiliates of our general partner to the fullest extent permitted by the law against all losses, claims, damages or similar events and is incorporated herein by reference.

The underwriting agreement to be entered into in connection with the sale of the securities offered pursuant to this registration statement, the form of which will be filed as an exhibit to this registration statement, provides for indemnification of Delek Logistics Partners, LP and our general partner, their officers and directors, and any person who controls our general partner, including indemnification for liabilities under the Securities Act.

Delek Logistics GP, LLC

Subject to any terms, conditions or restrictions set forth in the limited liability company agreement, Section 18-108 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act empowers a Delaware limited liability company to indemnify and hold harmless any member or manager or other person from and against any and all claims and demands whatsoever.

Under the limited liability agreement of our general partner, in most circumstances, our general partner will indemnify the following persons, to the fullest extent permitted by law, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities (joint or several), expenses (including legal fees and expenses), judgments, fines, penalties, interest, settlements or other amounts arising from any and all claims, demands, actions, suits or proceedings (whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative):

 

   

any person who is or was an affiliate of our general partner (other than us and our subsidiaries);

 

   

any person who is or was a member, partner, officer, director, employee, agent or trustee of our general partner or any affiliate of our general partner;

 

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any person who is or was serving at the request of our general partner or any affiliate of our general partner as an officer, director, employee, member, partner, agent, fiduciary or trustee of another person; and

 

   

any person designated by our general partner.

Our general partner will purchase insurance covering its officers and directors against liabilities asserted and expenses incurred in connection with their activities as officers and directors of our general partner or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries.

Item 15.     Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.

On July 9, 2012, in connection with our formation, we issued to (i) our general partner a 2.0% general partner interest in us in exchange for $20 and (ii) Delek US Holdings, Inc. a 98.0% limited partner interest in us in exchange for $980. These transactions were exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act.

Item 16.     Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

The following documents are filed as exhibits to this registration statement:

 

Number

      

Description

  1.1*      Form of Underwriting Agreement
  3.1      Certificate of Limited Partnership of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
  3.2*      Form of Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
  3.3      Certificate of Formation of Delek Logistics GP, LLC
  3.4*      Form of Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Delek Logistics GP, LLC
  5.1*      Opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. as to the legality of the securities being registered
  8.1*      Opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. relating to tax matters
10.1*      Form of Contribution, Conveyance and Assumption Agreement
10.2*      Form of Omnibus Agreement
10.3*      Form of Operation and Management Services Agreement
10.4*      Form of Revolving Credit Agreement
10.5*      Form of Long-Term Incentive Plan of General Partner
10.6*      Form of Marketing Agreement
10.7*      Form of Pipelines and Tankage Agreement (East Texas Crude Logistics System)
10.8*      Form of Terminalling Services Agreement (Big Sandy)
10.9*      Form of Pipelines and Storage Facilities Agreement (Lion Pipeline System and SALA Gathering System)
10.10*      Form of Terminalling Services Agreement (Memphis)
21.1*      List of Subsidiaries of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2*      Consent of Baker Botts L.L.P. (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
23.3*      Consent of Baker Botts L.L.P. (contained in Exhibit 8.1)
24.1      Powers of Attorney (contained on the signature page to this Registration Statement)

 

* To be filed by amendment

 

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Item 17.     Undertakings.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriters at the closing specified in the underwriting agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to this offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to this offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to this offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in this offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:

(1) For the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

(2) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and

 

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contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

(3) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

The undersigned registrant undertakes to send to each common unitholder, at least on an annual basis, a detailed statement of any transactions with Delek, our general partner, or any of their affiliates, and of fees, commissions, compensation and other benefits paid, or accrued to Delek, our general partner, or any of their affiliates for the fiscal year completed, showing the amount paid or accrued to each recipient and the services performed.

The registrant undertakes to provide to the common unitholders the financial statements required by Form 10-K for the first full fiscal year of operations of the registrant.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brentwood, State of Tennessee, on July 11, 2012.

 

Delek Logistics Partners, LP

By:

  Delek Logistics GP, LLC
  its general partner

By:

 

/s/ Ezra Uzi Yemin

  Ezra Uzi Yemin
  Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Each person whose signature appears below appoints Ezra Uzi Yemin and Mark B. Cox, and each of them, any of whom may act without the joinder of the other, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and any Registration Statement (including any amendment thereto) for this offering that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute and substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and the dates indicated.

 

Name

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Ezra Uzi Yemin

Ezra Uzi Yemin

  

Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Chairman

 

  July 11, 2012

/s/ Mark B. Cox

Mark B. Cox

  

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting
Officer) and Director

 

  July 11, 2012

/s/ Assaf Ginzburg

Assaf Ginzburg

  

Director

 

  July 11, 2012

/s/ Frederec C. Green

Frederec C. Green

  

Director

 

  July 11, 2012

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBIT

 

Number

 

Description

  1.1*   —Form of Underwriting Agreement
  3.1   —Certificate of Limited Partnership of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
  3.2*   —Form of Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
  3.3   —Certificate of Formation of Delek Logistics GP, LLC
  3.4*   —Form of Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Delek Logistics GP, LLC
  5.1*   —Opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. as to the legality of the securities being registered
  8.1*   —Opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. relating to tax matters
10.1*   —Form of Contribution, Conveyance and Assumption Agreement
10.2*   —Form of Omnibus Agreement
10.3*   —Form of Operation and Management Services Agreement
10.4*   —Form of Revolving Credit Agreement
10.5*   —Form of Long-Term Incentive Plan of General Partner
10.6*   —Form of Marketing Agreement
10.7*   —Form of Pipelines and Tankage Agreement (East Texas Crude Logistics System)
10.8*   —Form of Terminalling Services Agreement (Big Sandy)
10.9*   —Form of Pipelines and Storage Facilities Agreement (Lion Pipeline System and SALA Gathering System)
10.10*   —Form of Terminalling Services Agreement (Memphis)
21.1*   —List of Subsidiaries of Delek Logistics Partners, LP
23.1   —Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
23.2*   —Consent of Baker Botts L.L.P. (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
23.3*   —Consent of Baker Botts L.L.P. (contained in Exhibit 8.1)
24.1   Powers of Attorney (contained on the signature page to this Registration Statement)

 

* To be filed by amendment.

 

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Dates Referenced Herein   and   Documents Incorporated by Reference

This ‘S-1’ Filing    Date    Other Filings
6/30/29
9/30/22
12/31/1710-K,  5
12/31/1510-K
12/15/15
9/30/1510-Q
12/31/1410-K
12/31/1310-K
12/19/13
9/30/1310-Q
8/1/138-K
6/30/1310-Q
1/1/13
12/31/1210-K,  5
12/19/12
9/30/1210-Q
Filed as of:7/12/12
Filed on:7/11/12
7/9/12
7/1/12
4/24/12
4/17/12
3/31/12
3/12/12
2/7/12
1/31/12
1/3/12
12/31/11
12/21/11
12/19/11
12/13/11
12/2/11
10/18/11
10/7/11
5/5/11
4/29/11
4/28/11
4/1/11
3/31/11
1/1/11
12/31/10
12/21/10
7/21/10
4/30/10
3/31/10
12/31/09
12/21/09
5/18/09
5/17/09
5/1/09
3/31/09
1/1/09
12/31/08
11/21/08
11/20/08
4/30/08
12/31/07
4/30/07
10/1/06
4/30/06
4/12/99
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12 Subsequent Filings that Reference this Filing

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 2/28/24  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      10-K       12/31/23  101:18M
 9/07/23  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      S-3                    7:499K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA
 3/01/23  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      10-K       12/31/22  119:22M
 9/23/22  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      10-K/A     12/31/21  104:11M
 4/14/22  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      S-3                    6:506K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA
 2/25/22  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      10-K       12/31/21  107:16M
 6/10/21  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      S-8         6/10/21    5:227K
 3/01/21  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      10-K       12/31/20  104:14M
 8/20/20  Delek Logistics Partners, LP      S-3                    7:738K
10/24/12  SEC                               UPLOAD10/21/17    1:164K Delek Logistics Partners, LP
10/11/12  SEC                               UPLOAD10/21/17    1:162K Delek Logistics Partners, LP
 8/13/12  SEC                               UPLOAD10/21/17    1:183K Delek Logistics Partners, LP
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