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RECENT INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Recent Investment Activity

NOTE 3. ACQUISITION AND INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

We discuss our investments in unconsolidated entities in Note 4.

Sempra South American Utilities

Chilquinta Energía S.A. (Chilquinta Energía) and Luz del Sur S.A.A. (Luz del Sur)

On April 6, 2011, Sempra South American Utilities acquired from AEI its interests in Chilquinta Energía in Chile and Luz del Sur in Peru, and their subsidiaries. Prior to the acquisition, Sempra South American Utilities and AEI each owned 50 percent of Chilquinta Energía and approximately 38 percent of Luz del Sur and accounted for the investments under the equity method. Upon completion of the acquisition and a public tender offer to the minority shareholders of Luz del Sur, Sempra South American Utilities owned 100 percent of Chilquinta Energía and approximately 80 percent of Luz del Sur, with the remaining shares of Luz del Sur held by institutional investors and the general public. As part of the transaction, Sempra South American Utilities also acquired AEI's interests in two energy-services companies, Tecnored S.A. (Tecnored) and Tecsur S.A. (Tecsur). We provide additional information about Sempra South American Utilities' acquisition of Chilquinta Energía and Luz del Sur and the public tender offer in Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the Updated Annual Report.

Our results for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 include a $277 million gain (both pretax and after-tax) related to the remeasurement of equity method investments, included as Remeasurement of Equity Method Investments on our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations. We discuss the calculation of the gain in Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the Updated Annual Report.

Our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations include 100 percent of the acquired companies' revenues, net income and earnings of $1.1 billion, $155 million and $135 million, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, including revenues, net income, and earnings of $356 million, $56 million and $49 million, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2012. Net income and earnings include holding companies reported in Parent and Other. Revenues, net income and earnings from the date of acquisition were $706 million, $108 million and $92 million, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and $345 million, $60 million and $52 million, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2011. These amounts do not include the remeasurement gain.

Following are pro forma revenues and earnings for Sempra Energy had the acquisition occurred on January 1, 2010, which primarily reflect the changes to revenues and earnings from our increased ownership and consolidation of the entities acquired. Although some short-term debt borrowings may have resulted from the actual acquisition in 2011, we have not assumed any additional interest expense in the pro forma impact on earnings below, as the amounts would be immaterial due to the low interest rates available to us on commercial paper. The pro forma amounts do not include the impact of the increased ownership in Luz del Sur resulting from the tender offer completed in September 2011 discussed above and in Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the Updated Annual Report.

 

  Three months ended Nine months ended 
(Dollars in millions)September 30, 2011 September 30, 2011 
Revenues$ 2,576 $ 7,775 
Earnings(1)  289   794(2)
(1)As adjusted for the retrospective effect of change in accounting principle as we discuss in Note 1. 
(2)Excludes the $277 million gain related to remeasurement of equity method investments. 

Sempra Natural Gas

Willmut Gas Company

In May 2012, Sempra Natural Gas acquired 100 percent of the outstanding common stock of Willmut Gas Company (Willmut Gas), a regulated natural gas distribution utility serving approximately 20,000 customers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in order to expand Sempra Natural Gas' service area in the Southeast United States. Willmut Gas was purchased for $19 million in cash and the assumption of $10 million of liabilities. Included in the acquisition was $17 million in net property, plant and equipment. As a result of the acquisition, we recorded $10 million of goodwill.

The results of operations for Willmut Gas are included in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Cash Flows beginning from the date of acquisition and include revenues of $5 million and negligible earnings for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and revenues of $3 million and negligible earnings for the three months ended September 30, 2012.