Sunoco LP Delays Construction of Mariner East 2 Pipeline
On a quarterly analyst phone call yesterday, Sunoco Logistics Partners CEO Mike Hennigan admitted applying for and receiving "hundreds of permits" has delayed construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline. There is no worry that the project won't happen--it will. It's just that the timetable for when construction begins (and ends) has changed from a year ago when they first announced the project. In prepared remarks, and then later under questioning from several analysts, we have discovered that Sunoco LP will not make a definitive go/no go decision on whether to build a second pipeline as part of the Mariner East 2 project, until the backhoes begin to dig for the original Mariner East 2 pipeline. When will that be? Hennigan was hard to pin down. One analyst made a reference to ME2 being ready in either first or second quarter 2017--but Hennigan would not verify that timeline. Below are select portions of the phone call transcript where Hennigan and others are talking about Mariner East 1, 2, 2X and the Marcus Hook refinery...
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