Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) Tops Q1 EPS by 13c, Revenues Beat

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) reported Q1 EPS of $0.61, $0.13 better than the analyst estimate of $0.48. Revenue for the quarter came in at $9.16 billion versus the consensus estimate of $7.07 billion.

“The value of Enterprise’s diversified and integrated midstream system was exhibited again during a volatile first quarter of 2021,” said A. J. “Jim” Teague, co-chief executive officer on Enterprise’s general partner. “Our propylene, NGL, refined products and natural gas businesses benefited from greater demand associated with the early stages of an economic recovery, winter demand and higher commodity prices. This was offset by plant and pipeline disruptions and lower volumes attributable to the impacts of two back-to-back major winter storms, Uri and Viola, and turnarounds at our PDH and octane enhancement facilities.”

“During the winter storms, from February 15 through February 19, most of our Texas assets went offline at some point either from us voluntarily reducing our power requirements by shutting down certain facilities, our participation in ERCOT’s Load Resources program, which redeploys industrial power supplies to human need, or from power blackouts. In addition, our Texas Intrastate natural gas pipeline, natural gas processing plants and storage facilities were impacted by rolling blackouts. The economic impact of lost revenues from these disruptions, higher power and natural gas costs, as well as losses on natural gas hedges, were mitigated by sales of natural gas to electricity generators, natural gas utilities and industrial customers to assist them in meeting their needs. Our system was also impacted by lower volumes due to many of our producer, petrochemical and refinery customers experiencing disruptions both during and following the storms as repairs were made to freeze-damaged facilities. I want to thank our employees for their tireless, around-the-clock actions to schedule and keep natural gas flowing on our pipeline system and troubleshooting and restarting assets during the historic frigid conditions,” stated Teague.

“We continue to see stronger demand for crude oil, NGLs, primary petrochemicals and refined products as the United States and the rest of the world begin to unevenly emerge from COVID-related lockdowns, restart manufacturing facilities and as excess inventories of crude oil, NGLs and refined products are reduced. On the Texas and Louisiana gulf coast, petrochemical plants and refineries are increasing utilization rates after completing repairs due to damage from the winter storms and in response to better indicative profit margins. This has led to higher commodity prices, which has supported an increase in producer drilling and completion activities, especially in the Permian Basin. At the current level of activities, we are more confident in our most recent forecasts of U.S. crude oil and NGL production,” continued Teague.

“We continue to be ‘on schedule’ to complete the expansion of our Acadian Gas system to Gillis, Louisiana to serve LNG markets, the expansion of our ethylene and propylene pipeline systems and the construction of our natural gasoline hydrotreater during the second half of 2021,” said Teague.

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