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TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
Nature of Relationship with Related Parties
USD is engaged in designing, developing, owning and managing large-scale multi-modal logistics centers and other energy-related infrastructure across North America. USD is also the sole owner of USDG and the ultimate parent of our general partner. USD is owned by Energy Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs and certain members of its management.
USDG is the sole owner of our general partner and at December 31, 2021, owns 11,557,090 of our common units representing a 41.7% limited partner interest in us. As of December 31, 2021, a value of up to $10.0 million of these common units were pledged as collateral under USDG’s letter of credit facility. USDG also provides us with general and administrative support services necessary for the operation and management of our business.
USD Partners GP LLC, our general partner, currently owns all 461,136 of our general partner units representing a 1.7% general partner interest in us, as well as all of our incentive distribution rights. Pursuant to our partnership agreement, our general partner is responsible for our overall governance and operations. However, our general partner has no obligation to, does not intend to and has not implied that it would, provide financial support to or fund cash flow deficits of the Partnership.
USD Marketing LLC, or USDM, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of USDG organized to promote contracting for services provided by our terminals and to facilitate the marketing of customer products.
USD Terminals Canada II ULC, or USDTC II, is an indirect, wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of USDG, organized for the purposes of pursuing expansion and other development opportunities associated with our Hardisty Terminal, pursuant to the Development Rights and Cooperation agreement between our wholly-owned subsidiary USD Terminals Canada ULC, or USDTC, and USDG. USDTC owns the legacy crude oil loading facility we refer to as the Hardisty Terminal. USDTC II completed construction of the Hardisty South expansion, or Hardisty South, which commenced operations in January 2019. Hardisty South, which is owned and operated by USDTC II, added one and one-half 120-railcar unit trains of transloading capacity per day, or approximately 112,500 barrels per day, of takeaway capacity to the terminal by modifying the existing loading rack and building additional infrastructure and trackage.
USD Clean Fuels LLC, or USDCF, is a newly formed subsidiary of USD organized for the purpose of providing production and logistics solutions to the growing market for clean energy transportation fuels.
Omnibus Agreement
We are a party to an omnibus agreement with USD, USDG and certain of their subsidiaries, or the Omnibus Agreement, including our general partner that provide for the following:
our payment of an annual amount to USDG for providing certain general and administrative services by USDG and its affiliates and executive management services by officers of our general partner. We also
incur and pay additional amounts that are based on the costs actually incurred by USDG and its affiliates in providing the services;
our right of first offer, or ROFO, to acquire any Hardisty expansion projects, as well as other additional midstream infrastructure that USD and USDG may construct or acquire in the future;
our obligation to reimburse USDG for any out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by USDG in providing general and administrative services (which reimbursement is in addition to certain expenses of our general partner and its affiliates that are reimbursed under our partnership agreement), as well as any other out-of-pocket expenses incurred by USDG on our behalf; and
an indemnity by USDG for certain environmental and other liabilities, and our obligation to indemnify USDG and its subsidiaries for events and conditions associated with the operation of our assets that occur after October 15, 2014, and for environmental liabilities related to our assets to the extent USDG is not required to indemnify us. 
So long as USDG controls our general partner, the Omnibus Agreement will remain in full force and effect. If USDG ceases to control our general partner, either party may terminate the Omnibus Agreement, provided that the indemnification obligations will remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms.
Payment of Annual Fee and Reimbursement of Expenses
We pay USDG, in equal monthly installments, the annual amount USDG estimates will be payable by us during the calendar year for providing services for our benefit. The Omnibus Agreement provides that this amount, which included a fixed annual fee of $3.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, and $3.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, may be adjusted annually to reflect, among other things, changes in the scope of the general and administrative services provided to us due to a contribution, acquisition or disposition of assets by us, or our subsidiaries, or for changes in any law, rule or regulation applicable to us, which affects the cost of providing the general and administrative services. We also reimburse USDG for any out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred on our behalf in providing general and administrative services to us. This reimbursement is in addition to the amounts we pay to reimburse our general partner and its affiliates for certain costs and expenses incurred on our behalf for managing our business and operations, as required by our partnership agreement.
The total amounts charged to us under the Omnibus Agreement for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 was $6.8 million, $7.4 million and $8.1 million, respectively, which amounts are included in “Selling, general and administrative — related party” in our consolidated statements of operations. We had a payable balance of $1.4 million and $0.3 million with respect to these costs at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, included in “Accounts payable and accrued expenses related party” in our consolidated balance sheets.
Right of First Offer
In October 2014, we entered into the Omnibus Agreement with USD and USDG, pursuant to which we were granted a ROFO on any midstream infrastructure assets that they may develop, construct, or acquire for a period of seven years. In June 2021, we entered into an Amended and Restated Omnibus Agreement with USD, USDG and certain other of their subsidiaries, which amends and restates the Omnibus Agreement, dated October 15, 2014, to extend the termination date of the ROFO period as defined in the Omnibus Agreement, by an additional five years such that the ROFO Period will terminate on October 15, 2026 unless a Partnership Change of Control, as defined in the Omnibus Agreement, occurs prior to such date.
Under the Omnibus Agreement, prior to engaging in any negotiation regarding the sale, transfer or disposition of certain specified expansion projects at our Hardisty Terminal retained by USDG or any other midstream infrastructure assets that USD or USDG may develop, construct or acquire, USD or USDG is required to provide written notice to us setting forth the material terms and conditions upon which USD or USDG would sell or transfer such assets or businesses to us. Following the receipt of such notice, we will have 60 days to determine whether the asset is suitable for our business at that particular time and to propose a transaction with USD or USDG. We and USD or USDG will then have 60 days to negotiate in good faith to reach an agreement on such transaction. If we and USD or USDG, as applicable, are unable to agree on terms during such 60-day period, then USD or USDG, as
applicable, may transfer such asset to any third party during a 180-day period following the expiration of such 60-day period on terms generally no less favorable to the third party than those included in the written notice.
Our decision to make any offer will require the approval of the conflicts committee of the board of directors of our general partner. The consummation and timing of any acquisition by us of the assets covered by our ROFO will depend on, among other factors, USD or USDG’s decision to sell an asset covered by our ROFO, our ability to reach an agreement with USD or USDG on the price and other terms and our ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms. USD or USDG are under no obligation to accept any offer that we may choose to make.
Additionally, the approval of Energy Capital Partners is required for the sale of any assets by USD or its subsidiaries, including sales to or by USDG and us (other than sales in the ordinary course of business), acquisitions of securities of other entities that exceed specified materiality thresholds and any material unbudgeted expenditures or deviations from our approved budgets. Energy Capital Partners may make these decisions free of any duty to us and our unitholders. This approval would be required for the potential acquisition by us of any Hardisty expansion projects, as well as any other projects or assets that USD or USDG may develop or acquire in the future or any third-party acquisition we may intend to pursue jointly or independently from USD or USDG. Energy Capital Partners is under no obligation to approve any such transaction.
Indemnification
USDG indemnifies us for liabilities, subject to an aggregate deductible of $500,000 relating to:
the consummation of the transactions in connection with USDG’s initial contribution of assets to us in October 2014;
events and conditions associated with any assets retained by USDG; and
all tax liabilities attributable to the assets contributed to us that arose prior to the closing of USDG’s initial contribution of assets to us in October 2014.
Marketing Services Agreement Stroud Terminal
In connection with our purchase of the Stroud Terminal, we entered into a Marketing Services Agreement with USDM, or the Stroud Terminal MSA, in May 2017, whereby we granted USDM the right to market the capacity at the Stroud Terminal in excess of the original capacity of our initial customer in exchange for a nominal per barrel fee. USDM is obligated to fund any related capital costs associated with increasing the throughput or efficiency of the terminal to handle additional throughput. Upon expiration of our contract with the initial Stroud customer in June 2020, the same marketing rights now apply to all throughput at the Stroud Terminal in excess of the throughput necessary for the Stroud Terminal to generate Adjusted EBITDA that is at least equal to the average monthly Adjusted EBITDA derived from the initial Stroud customer during the 12 months prior to expiration. We also granted USDG the right to develop other projects at the Stroud Terminal in exchange for the payment to us of market-based compensation for the use of our property for such development projects. Any such development projects would be wholly-owned by USDG and would be subject to our existing ROFO with respect to midstream projects developed by USDG. Payments made under the Stroud Terminal MSA during the periods presented in this Report are discussed below under the heading “Related Party Revenue and Deferred Revenue.
Marketing Services Agreement - West Colton Terminal
In June 2021, we entered into a new terminalling services agreement with USDCF that is supported by a minimum throughput commitment to USDCF from an investment-grade rated, refining customer as well as a performance guaranty from USD. The terminalling services agreement provides for the inbound shipment of renewable diesel on rail at our West Colton Terminal and the outbound shipment of the product on tank trucks to local consumers. The new terminalling services agreement has an initial term of five years and commenced on December 1, 2021. We have modified our existing West Colton Terminal so that it now has the capability to transload renewable diesel in addition to the ethanol that it has been transloading.
In exchange for the new terminalling agreement at our West Colton Terminal with USDCF discussed above, we also entered into a Marketing Services Agreement in June 2021, or the West Colton MSA, with USDCF pursuant to which we agreed to grant USDCF marketing and development rights pertaining to future renewable diesel
opportunities associated with the West Colton Terminal in excess of the initial renewable diesel terminalling services agreement simultaneously executed in June 2021 between us and USDCF. These rights entitle USDCF to market all additional renewable diesel opportunities at the West Colton Terminal during the initial term of the USDCF agreement, and following the initial term of that agreement, all renewable diesel opportunities at the West Colton Terminal in excess of the throughput necessary to generate Adjusted EBITDA for the West Colton Terminal that is at least equal to the average monthly Adjusted EBITDA derived from the initial USDCF agreement during the 12 months prior to expiration of that agreement’s initial five-year term. Pursuant to the West Colton MSA, USDCF will fund any related capital costs associated with increasing the throughput or efficiency of the terminal to handle additional renewable diesel opportunities. In addition, we granted USDCF the right to develop other renewable diesel projects at the West Colton Terminal in exchange for a per barrel fee covering our associated operating costs. Any such development projects would be wholly-owned by USD and would be subject to the ROFO with respect to midstream infrastructure developed by USD. There have been no payments made under the West Colton MSA during the periods presented in this Report.
Hardisty Terminalling Services Agreement
We entered into a terminalling services agreement with USDTC II in 2019, whereby Hardisty South will provide terminalling services for a third-party customer of our Hardisty Terminal for contracted capacity that exceeds the transloading capacity currently available. We incurred $8.1 million, $8.3 million and $5.0 million of expenses pursuant to the arrangement for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively, which amounts are included in “Operating and maintenance expense related party” in our consolidated statements of operations. These costs represent the same rate, on a per barrel basis, that we received as revenue from our third-party customer, which is included in “Terminalling Services” revenue in our consolidated statements of operations. Additionally, in conjunction with the agreement, we recorded a contract asset of $2.5 million and $1.7 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, on our consolidated balance sheet in “Other current assets — related party” and “Other non-current assets — related party,” representing prepaid expense associated with this agreement due to tiered billing provisions in the related terminalling services agreements.
Hardisty Shared Facilities Agreement
USDTC facilitates the provision of services on behalf of USDTC II pursuant to the terms of a shared facilities agreement, which includes all subcontracted railcar loading, operating, maintenance, pipeline and management services for the entire Hardisty Terminal, including Hardisty South owned by USDTC II. USDTC passes through a proportionate amount of the cost of such services to USDTC II. Our financial statements only reflect the cost incurred by USDTC.
Related Party Revenue and Deferred Revenue
We have agreements to provide terminalling and fleet services for USDM with respect to our Hardisty Terminal and terminalling services with respect to our Stroud Terminal, which also include reimbursement to us for certain out-of-pocket expenses we incur, discussed in more detail below. Additionally, as previously discussed, we also entered into a new terminalling services agreement at our West Colton Terminal with USDCF that became effective December 1, 2021.
USDM assumed the rights and obligations for terminalling capacity at our Hardisty Terminal from another customer in June 2017 to facilitate the origination of crude oil barrels by the Stroud customer from our Hardisty Terminal for delivery to the Stroud Terminal. As a result of USDM assuming these rights and obligations and in order to accommodate the needs of the Stroud customer, the contracted term for the capacity held by USDM at our Hardisty Terminal was extended from June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020. The terms and conditions of these agreements were similar to the terms and conditions of agreements we have with other parties at the Hardisty Terminal that are not related to us. USDM’s agreement with the third-party customer was renewed and extended, effective July 1, 2020, and USDM subsequently assigned its terminalling services agreement with the third-party customer directly to us and is therefore no longer a customer at our Hardisty Terminal. USDM controlled approximately 25% of the available monthly capacity of the Hardisty Terminal through June 30, 2020.
In connection with our purchase of the Stroud Terminal, we also entered into a Marketing Services Agreement with USDM, as discussed above. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, we receive a fixed amount per barrel from USDM in exchange for marketing the additional capacity available at the Stroud Terminal. Effective August 2021, upon the commencement of the contract changes associated with the successful completion of the diluent recovery unit, or DRU project, the existing customer elected to fully terminate the volume commitments attributable to USDM at the Stroud Terminal, and therefore effective August 2021, we are no longer receiving a fixed fee payment from USDM. However, the MSA is still effective for any future customer contracts obtained by USDM at the Stroud Terminal.
We include amounts received pursuant to these arrangements as revenue in the table below under “Terminalling services — related party” in our consolidated statements of operations.
Additionally, we received revenue from USDM for the lease of 200 railcars pursuant to the terms of an existing agreement with us, which is included in the table below under “Fleet leases — related party” and “Fleet Services — related party” and in our consolidated statements of operations.
Our related party revenue from USD and affiliates are presented below in the following table for the indicated periods:
For the Years Ended December 31,
202120202019
(in thousands)
Terminalling services — related party
$2,753 $10,031 $19,580 
Fleet leases — related party
3,935 3,935 3,935 
Fleet services — related party
910 910 910 
Freight and other reimbursables — related party
— 66 238 
$7,598 $14,942 $24,663 

We had the following amounts outstanding with USD and affiliates on our consolidated balance sheets as presented below in the following table for the indicated periods:
December 31,
20212020
(in thousands)
Accounts receivable — related party $2,953 $2,460 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses — related party (1)
$63 $64 
Other current and non-current assets — related party (2)
$2,487 $1,721 
Other current liabilities — related party (3)
$64 $— 
Deferred revenue — related party (4)
$— $410 
    
(1)Does not include amounts payable to related parties associated with the Omnibus Agreement, as discussed above.
(2)Includes a contract asset associated with the Hardisty Terminalling Services Agreement with USDTC II, as discussed above. Also includes a contract asset associated with a lease agreement with USDM, Refer to Note 4. Revenues for further discussion.
(3)Represents a contract liability associated with a lease agreement with USDM and cumulative revenue that has been deferred due to tiered billing provisions. Refer to Note 4. Revenues for further discussion.
(4)Represents deferred revenues associated with our fleet services agreements with USD and affiliates for amounts we have collected from them for their prepaid leases.
Cash Distributions
We paid the following aggregate cash distributions to USDG as a holder of our common units and with respect to the February 2020 payment date and dates before, the sole owner of our subordinated units and to USD Partners GP LLC as sole holder of our general partner interest and IDRs.
For the Year Ended December 31, 2021
Distribution Declaration DateRecord DateDistribution
Payment Date
Amount Paid to
 USDG
Amount Paid to
USD Partners GP LLC
(in thousands)
January 28, 2021February 10, 2021February 19, 2021$1,283 $51 
April 22, 2021May 5, 2021May 14, 20211,312 52 
July 21, 2021August 4, 2021August 13, 20211,341 53 
October 21, 2021November 3, 2021November 12, 20211,370 55 
$5,306 $211 
For the Year Ended December 31, 2020
Distribution Declaration DateRecord DateDistribution
Payment Date
Amount Paid to
 USDG
Amount Paid to
USD Partners GP LLC
(in thousands)
January 30, 2020February 10, 2020February 19, 2020$4,276 $372 
April 23, 2020May 5, 2020May 15, 20201,283 51 
July 23, 2020August 4, 2020August 14, 20201,283 51 
October 22, 2020November 3, 2020November 13, 20201,283 51 
$8,125 $525 
For the Year Ended December 31, 2019
Distribution Declaration DateRecord DateDistribution
Payment Date
Amount Paid to
 USDG
Amount Paid to
USD Partners GP LLC
(in thousands)
January 31, 2019February 11, 2019February 19, 2019$4,161 $285 
April 26, 2019May 7, 2019May 15, 20194,189 308 
July 24, 2019August 6, 2019August 14, 20194,218 329 
October 24, 2019November 4, 2019November 14, 20194,247 351 
$16,815 $1,273