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Pipeline Financing Discussion. Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority. August 25, 2003. Discussion Topics. Economics Drive Project Viability What Does a Basic Transaction Structure Look Like? Various Levels of State Involvement – From Facilitator to Capacity Owner - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Pipeline Financing Discussion
Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority
August 25, 2003
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Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority
Discussion Topics
Economics Drive Project Viability
What Does a Basic Transaction Structure Look Like?
Various Levels of State Involvement – From Facilitator to Capacity Owner
Key Credit Factors, Regardless of Structure
Case Study: Alliance Pipeline
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Project viability will be driven by gas price differentials, capital costs, and interest rates
Treasury Yields(b)
(b) Source: Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs Global Economic Forecast.
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Basic Pipeline Transaction Framework
Shippers Wyoming Natural Gas
Pipeline Company, L.L.C.
ConstructionConsortium
WNGPA(or designee issuer)
Investors
ProducersOthers
Debt Service$
Loan PaymentsLoan Proceeds
Equity Returns~ 30%
$ Equity
Ship-or-Pay Contracts
Transportation Capacity
Project Design &Construction
Progress Payments
Partners
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Transaction Framework
Partners – Most likely Pipeline Companies and Producers in Wyoming fields. The Partners provide initial equity and take risks and benefits of ownership. Not allowed for WNGPA.
Shippers – Any entity that makes a long-term commitment to the Pipeline via Ship-or-Pay contracts. Each Partner will be a primary shipper. Other shippers will include gas companies/marketers who wish to have reserved transportation capacity for gas they may purchase from producers. WNGPA (on behalf of State) could be a shipper.
Ship-or-Pay Contracts – Long-term contract requiring payment regardless of whether gas is shipped. Key underlying security for Pipeline debt.
Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority – Serves as a passive conduit issuer. Will issue bonds on behalf of the project and lend proceeds to project company in consideration for entering into a loan agreement which obligates project company to make loan payments in amount equal to debt service on the bonds.
Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Company LLC – The project company formed by the equity partners. Company would have primary responsibility to develop and operate the project.
Construction Consortium – Group of engineering, design, and construction firms engaged via contract(s) to develop the physical asset.
Investors – Secured by project revenues and/or assets. State can be investor.
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What techniques can Wyoming use to add value to Pipeline development?
Financial involvement and support
Contractual/physical involvement and support
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Conduit
Senior Bond Holder
Junior Bond Holder
Moral Obligation
What financial techniques can Wyoming use to add value to Pipeline development?
Low
High
Technique
Sta
te In
volv
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t
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Lending the State’s Conduit Issuance Ability to the Credit
The State, through WNGPA, can act as the nominal issuer of the bonds.
Without other tangible credit support does not change credit.
May open marketing channels to “taxable municipal investors.”
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Conduit Financing: Alaska Pipeline Terminal Revenue Bonds
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Investing in Senior Securities of the Project
Benefit: Core investor, sponsorship
Revenues
O&M
Equity
State asInvestor
Bond MarketInvestors
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Investing in Junior Securities of the Project
Benefit: Enhance position of senior securities – higher rating, higher expected default recovery
Revenues
O&M
Bond MarketSenior Bondholders
State asJunior Bondholder
Equity
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Gaining Authority for Moral Obligation Bonds
Revenues
O&M
Equity
Bondholders Reserve
StateLegislature
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Moral Obligations Are Commonly Used In Resource Development Projects
Moral Obligation of the State
The Act requires that the Chairman of the Authority, at least annually, but not later than January 2 of each year, certify in writing to the Governor and the State Legislature the sum, if any, required to restore the Capital Reserve Fund to the Capital Reserve Requirement. The Bond Resolution requires the Chairman to make such certification whenever the Trustee transfers funds from the Capital Reserve Fund to pay principal of or interest on the Bonds. The State Legislature may, but is not obligated to, appropriate to the Authority the sum certified by the Chairman of the Authority. Under the Alaska Constitution, appropriations passed by the State Legislature are subject to line item veto by the Governor. The Authority required to deposit in the Capital Reserve Fund any amounts so appropriated during the then current Fiscal Year.
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Conduit
Aggregator
Owner
Operating Support Techniques
Low
High
Technique
Sta
te In
volv
emen
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Acting as Aggregator for Smaller Producers
MajorProducers
BBB
ChicagoLDCs
A
WNGPA
X
Y
Z
Pipeline Co.15 Years300 mcfd
15 Years300 mcfd
15 Years300 mcfd
10 Years100 mcfd
5 Years50 mcfd
8 Years75 mcfd
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Acting as Capacity Owner for RIK Gas
RIKGas
State ofWyoming WNGPA
Constructorsor
PipelinesPipeline
750 mcfdContract
$
$ D/S
Bondholders
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Construction Risk Mitigation
Usual Standard forProject Finance
100% turnkey construct, fixed price
Performance and delay liquidated damages
Alliance Pipeline
Stone & Webster opined that a full fixed price EPC contract not feasible due to size and complexity
87% of expenses were fixed or capped
If remaining 13% costs rose, sponsor equity returns dropped; some pass through to users, some contractor absorption
Stone & Webster said 5% contingency fund enough; 6.2% used
100% turnkey should be achievable
If not, need to maximize fixed price procurement and minimize construction risks
Bond holders will demand that other parties (producers, shippers or State) bear bulk of construction risk
Wyoming Gas Pipeline
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Operating Risk Mitigation
Investors looking for high degree of certainty that the following will be covered – Debt Service, O&M, allowances for future capital and maintenance, and equity returns
65% of capacity constructed for investment grade parties
1-year LOCs for lower rated shippers
Transportation rates step down sharply at 15 years so that pipeline looks very economic once 15-year contracts are over
In Alliance, which was privately owned, sponsor group contributed cash equity on which it earned an 11% return
Alliance Example
Firm transportation ship-or-pay contracts from investment grade parties (approximately sufficient to service debt)
Credit support for non-investment grade parties. WNGPA could provide.
Sufficient debt amortized during term of ship-or-pay contracts
Adequate quasi-equity contribution – combination of shipper prepayments and State investment
Wyoming Pipeline
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Alliance Pipeline—Example of Project Financed Pipeline
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Alliance Pipeline Structure
ConstructionConsortium
Sponsors/Equity Owners Fort Chicago Energy
Partners West Coast Energy Inc. Enbridge Inc. Williams Companies El Paso Corp.
Shippers(a)
35 Companies including producers, pipeline companies, aggregations, end users
(a) Includes Sponsors.
Investors
Trustee
ProgressPayments
ProceedsDebt
Service
Equity Returns
Pipeline Capacity
Physical Completion
Alliance Pipeline Companies
(US and Canada)
Revenue
Ship or Pay $
Construction Contract
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Ship-or-Pay Contracts from Variety of Shipper Credits
Example from Alliance Pipeline:
“All of the 1.325 b.c.f.d. of firm transportation capacity of the System has been contracted by the shippers. . . .”
Contracts require payment regardless of pipeline use
72.5% of shippers have investment grade rating
14.9% were not investment grade, but accepted by lenders
12.6% were required to post letters of credit
Contracts were 15 years in length
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Flexibility in Evolving Group of Shippers
1998(Initial Rating)
1999(First $300 MnBond Issue)
2001(Second CapitalMarkets Issue
EquitySponsors
Shippers
18 equity sponsors, almost all upstream
Canadian oil and gas companies.
Six equity sponsors. Five are investment grade companies that are themselves, or are
associated with large energy companies. One
(Fort Chicago Energy Partners) is not, but
provided LOCs.
Five Sponsors. Williams bought PanEnergy share. El Paso was successor to Coastal, after a merger.
60% of ship-or-pay contracts were with the 18 companies who were
also equity sponsors.
By time of first financing only 39% was contracted to parties who are equity
sponsors or their affiliates.
By second financing down to 36% contracted
to equity sponsors or their affiliates.