WES Investor Presentation National Association of Publicly-Traded Partnerships May 25, 2011
WES Overview Owner and operator of gathering, processing, and transportation assets serving seven basins Sponsor-based MLP Designed to acquire, over time, midstream assets from both Anadarko and Third Parties Natural Gas = Business…
Public Ownership of WES Anadarko Anadarko Petroleum Petroleum Corporation Corporation (NYSE: APC) (NYSE: APC) 100% Interest 44.3% Limited Partner Interest Public Western Western Gas Gas Holdings, Holdings, LLC LLC…
WES History 8/2010 8/2010 3/2011 3/2011 100 100 MM MM Accordion Accordion 133 133 MM MM Equity Equity Issuance Issuance 250 250 MM MM Term Term Loan Loan 800 800 MM MM Revolver Revolver 12/2009 12/2009 5/2010…
YTD Highlights Closed First Major Third Party Acquisition 303MM Platte Valley Acquisition from Encana Increased Quarterly Distribution to 0.39/Unit Eighth consecutive quarterly increase Generated Quarterly Distribution Coverage…
The WES Asset Portfolio Current Assets / Investments 12 natural gas gathering systems 7 natural gas treating facilities 7 processing facilities 1 natural gas pipeline 1 NGL pipeline 1 crude oil pipeline 1Q11 Throughput…
Strong APC Drilling Economics Minimum Gas Price for a 10% Before-Tax Rate of Return1 4.00 = Rockies basin in which WES owns midstream assets 3.50 3.50 3.20 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.40 2.50 NYMEX /Mcf 2.12 2.00 1.50 1.50…
Liquids-Rich Basins 1Q11 Gross Margin High gross margin assets; Lower gross continued Liquids-Rich Dry Gas margin assets; drilling as producers seek Basins Basins cash flow protection to capture high NGL prices, 70% 30% through…
Wattenberg/Platte Valley/White Cliffs - DJ Basin COLORADO APC ACREAGE APC LAND GRANT 25 miles WATTENBERG FIELD Description and Overview 2,814 mile gathering system 526 mile oil pipeline (10% interest) 2,630 receipt points…
Granger Green River Basin (Moxa/Jonah/Pinedale) WYOMING PINEDALE Description and Overview MOXA 815 mile gathering system ARCH WAMSUTTER Two cryogenic trains (200 MMcf/d capacity) Two refrigeration Trains (100 Mmcf/d…
Hilight and Newcastle Powder River Basin (East) WYOMING GILLETE Description and Overview 1,282 mile gathering system Two refrigeration processing plants in service Hilight delivers gas to MIGC (owned by WES), Newcastle to…
Chipeta/NGL Pipeline Uintah Basin (Greater Natural Buttes) UTAH APC ACREAGE Description and Overview 51% Ownership of Chipeta Processing, LLC 24% owned by APC, 25% owned by Ute Energy Chipeta Processing Plant 240 Mmcf/d…
WES Strategic Principles Minimize Maximize Liquidity Commodity Risk Maintain Capital Demonstrate Maturity Sponsor Support 14
Minimal Commodity Risk Long-Term Fee-Based Contracts and Fixed-Price Agreements Sponsor has Retained Commodity Price Risk Related to Dropdown Assets Gross Margin Last Twelve Months 3/31/2011 98% Fee-Based and Fixed-Price 2%…
Accretive Dropdowns 8.1X 8.2X 7/2009 8/2010 8/2010 7/2009 107 498 498 MM MM 107 MM MM 5/2008 5/2008 Chipeta Wattenberg Wattenberg Chipeta IPO IPO Drop Drop Drop Drop 2008 2009 2010 12/2008 12/2008 1/2010 1/2010…
Strong Financial Results Coverage Coverage Ratio Ratio Reported Reported EBITDA EBITDA 2.00x 60.0 1.80x : 57 % 50.0 GR 1.60x CA 1.40x 40.0 1.20x Millions 1.00x 30.0 0.80x 20.0 0.60x 0.40x 10.0 0.20x 0.00x 0.0…
Growth Strategy 1 More Dropdowns Midstream Asset Overview* Anadarko Western Gas Gathering systems 18 12 Processing & treating facilities 9 14 Interstate gas pipelines -- 1 NGL/Crude oil pipelines 2 2 Miles of pipeline 5,900 8,800…
Growth Strategy 2 Strategic Expansions Chipeta Train III Underwritten by Anadarko volume commitment Base Case IRR of 18-25% Platte Valley Assets Completing expansion project begun by Encana Expanding capacity from 84 to 100…
Growth Strategy 3 Equity Options White Cliffs Case Study APC Negotiates Equity Option Uses negotiating leverage in committing firm transportation WES Acquires Option from APC Subsequent exercise Immediate accretion Potential…
2011 Outlook ( in millions) Full-Year 2011 Adjusted EBITDA 230 250 Total Capex 97 112 Maint. Capex as % of Adj. EBITDA 11 - 14% 22
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Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation (in thousands) Reconciliation of Net Income to Adjusted EBITDA (1) 3Q08 4Q08 1Q09 2Q09 3Q09 4Q09 1Q10 2Q10 3Q10 4Q10 1Q11 Net income 17,396 20,113 16,958 18,124 17,048 19,278 22,914 23,411 31,481…