HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) announced today that the board of directors of its general partner declared an increase in the quarterly cash distribution rate paid to partners to $0.62 per common unit, or $2.48 per unit on an annualized basis. The quarterly distribution will be paid on Thursday, February 9, 2012, to unitholders of record as of close of business on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. This distribution rate, which represents a 5.1 percent increase over the $0.59 per unit distribution rate declared with respect to the fourth quarter of 2010, is the 39th distribution increase since EPD’s initial public offering in 1998 and the 30th consecutive quarterly increase.
Enterprise will announce its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, before the New York Stock Exchange opens for trading. Following the announcement, the company will host a conference call at 9 a.m. CST with analysts and investors to discuss fourth quarter earnings. The call will be broadcast live on the Internet and may be accessed at the company’s website, www.enterpriseproducts.com.
To listen to the webcast, participants should access the “Investors” section of the company’s website at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the conference call to download and install any necessary audio software. A replay of the webcast will be available for one week following the conference call and can be accessed one hour after the completion of the call.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. The partnership’s assets include approximately: 50,000 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines; 192 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, refined products and crude oil; and 8 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity. Services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage, and import and export terminaling; offshore production platform services; crude oil and refined products transportation, storage and services; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems and in the Gulf of Mexico. For additional information, visit www.enterpriseproducts.com.
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein that address activities, events, developments or transactions that Enterprise expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including anticipated benefits and other aspects of such activities, events, developments or transactions, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including required approvals by regulatory agencies, the possibility that the anticipated benefits from such activities, events, developments or transactions cannot be fully realized, the possibility that costs or difficulties related thereto will be greater than expected, the impact of competition and other risk factors included in the reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Enterprise. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates. Except as required by law, Enterprise does not intend to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.