Part I
As used in this Annual Report, unless the context requires otherwise, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” “TransMontaigne Partners,” “the Partnership,” or “the Company” are intended to mean, TransMontaigne Partners LLC, and our wholly owned and controlled operating subsidiaries. References to ‘ArcLight’ are intended to mean ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VI, L.P., its affiliates and subsidiaries, other than us and our subsidiaries.
ITEMS 1 AND 2. BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES
Overview
We are a terminaling and transportation company with assets and operations in the United States along the Gulf Coast, in the Midwest, in Houston and Brownsville, Texas, along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, in the Southeast and along the West Coast. We provide integrated terminaling, storage, transportation and related services for companies engaged in the distribution and marketing of light refined petroleum products, heavy refined petroleum products, renewable products, crude oil, chemicals, fertilizers and other liquid products. In addition, we sell refined and renewable products to major fuel producers and marketers in the Pacific Northwest at our terminal in Tacoma, Washington. Light refined products include gasolines, diesel fuels, heating oil and jet fuels. Heavy refined products include residual fuel oils and asphalt. Renewable products include ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel and relevant feedstocks. Our direct exposure to changes in commodity prices is limited to product sales out of our Tacoma, Washington terminal and the value of product gains and losses arising from terminaling services agreements with certain customers, which accounts for a small portion of our revenue.
We use our owned and operated terminaling facilities to, among other things: receive refined products and renewable products from the pipeline, ship, barge or railcar making delivery on behalf of our customers and transfer those products to the tanks located at our terminals; store the products in our tanks for our customers; monitor the volume of the products stored in our tanks; heat residual fuel oils and asphalt stored in our tanks; and distribute the products out of our terminals in vessels, railcars or truckloads using truck racks and other distribution equipment located at our terminals, including pipelines. We also continue to provide ethanol logistics services and other services to the growing renewable products market, as well as to engage in blending activities related to the throughput process.
We are 100% owned by TLP Finance Holdings, LLC (“TLP Finance”), an indirect controlled subsidiary of ArcLight. We are voluntarily filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the covenants contained in our outstanding 6.125% senior unsecured notes due 2026.
Contribution of Pacific Northwest assets. On November 17, 2021, Arclight contributed Pike West Coast Holdings, LLC (“Pike West Coast”), a portfolio company of ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VI, L.P. to the Company. Pike West Coast is an infrastructure company with significant operations across the renewable fuels supply chain in the United States Pacific Northwest (the “Pacific Northwest Contribution”).
Pike West Coast owns a 100% ownership interest in SeaPort Financing, LLC. SeaPort Financing, LLC owns a 100% ownership interest in SeaPort Sound Terminal, LLC (“SeaPort Sound”), which owns a refined and renewable products terminal in Tacoma, Washington, a 51% ownership interest in SeaPort Midstream Partners, LLC (“SeaPort Midstream”), which owns refined and renewable products terminals in both Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon, and a 30% ownership interest in Olympic Pipeline Company, LLC (“Olympic Pipeline Company”), which owns the Olympic Pipeline between Blaine, Washington and Portland, Oregon and a refined and renewable products terminal in Bayview, Washington.
The Pacific Northwest Contribution has been recorded at carryover basis as a reorganization of entities under common control. As such, all periods presented include the assets, liabilities, and results of operations of the Pacific Northwest Contribution.