Business Combinations

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Business Combinations [Abstract]

Business Combinations

Business Combinations

Merey Sweeny, L.P. (MSLP) is a limited partnership that owns a delayed coker and related facilities at the Sweeny Refinery. In February 2017, we began accounting for MSLP as a consolidated subsidiary because the exercise of a call right triggered by certain defaults by the co-venturer, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), with respect to supply of crude oil to the Sweeny Refinery ceased to be subject to legal challenge. The purchase price for PDVSA’s 50 percent ownership interest was determined by a contractual formula. As the distributions PDVSA received from MSLP exceeded the amounts it contributed to MSLP, the contractual formula required no cash consideration for the acquisition. 

Based on a third-party appraisal of the fair value of MSLP’s net assets, utilizing discounted cash flows and replacement costs, the acquisition of PDVSA’s 50 percent interest resulted in our recording a pre-tax gain of $423 million in the first quarter of 2017.  This gain was included in the “Other income” line on our consolidated statement of income. The fair value of our original equity interest in MSLP immediately prior to the deemed acquisition was $145 million. As a result of the transaction, we recorded $318 million of restricted cash, $250 million of properties, plants and equipment (PP&E) and $238 million of debt, as well as a net $93 million for the elimination of our equity investment in MSLP and net intercompany payables. Our acquisition accounting was finalized in the first quarter of 2017.

The results of MSLP were included in our Refining segment until October 2017, when we contributed our 100 percent interest in MSLP to Phillips 66 Partners LP (Phillips 66 Partners), which is included in our Midstream segment.