Blueknight Srs A Uts (BKEPP)

Description:

Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. was formed in February 2007 as a Delaware master limited partnership. The Company provides crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminalling services for companies engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of crude oil and liquid asphalt cement. It manages its operations through three operating segments: crude oil terminalling and storage services; crude oil gathering and transportation services; and asphalt services. The Company provides crude oil terminalling and storage services at its terminalling and storage facilities located in Oklahoma and Texas. It currently owns and operates an aggregate of approximately 8.7 million barrels of storage capacity. Of this storage capacity, approximately 6.7 million barrels are located at its terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma. The Company owns and operates two pipeline systems, the Mid-Continent system and the Longview system, collectively consisting of approximately 1,150 miles of pipelines that gather crude oil for its customers and transport it to refiners, to common carrier pipelines for ultimate delivery to refiners or to terminalling and storage facilities owned by it and others. Its pipeline gathering and transportation system located in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, which it refers to as the Mid-Continent system, has a combined length of approximately 820 miles. Its second pipeline gathering and transportation system located in East Texas, which it refers to as the Longview system, consists of approximately 330 miles of tariff-regulated crude oil gathering pipeline. In addition to its pipelines, the Company uses its approximately 200 owned or leased tanker trucks to gather crude oil in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado for its customers at remote wellhead locations generally not connected to pipeline and gathering systems and transport the crude oil to aggregation points and storage facilities located along pipeline gathering and transportation systems. It provides two types of trucking services: crude oil transportation services and producer field services. The Company's 46 asphalt cement terminals are located in 23 states and as such are well positioned to provide asphalt services in the market areas they serve throughout the continental United States. With its approximately 7.4 million barrels of total asphalt product and residual fuel oil storage capacity, the Company is able to provide its customers the ability to effectively manage their asphalt product storage and processing and marketing activities. The Company is subject to competition from other crude oil gathering, transportation, terminalling and storage operations that might be able to supply its customers with the same or comparable services on a more competitive basis. It competes with national, regional and local gathering, storage and pipeline companies and liquid asphalt cement storage and processing companies, including the major integrated oil companies, of widely varying sizes, financial resources and experience. The Company's midstream crude oil gathering, transportation, terminalling and storage operations, together with the asphalt assets that it acquired from the Private Company, are subject to stringent federal, state, and local laws and regulations relating to the discharge of materials into the environment or otherwise relating to protection of the environment.