Western Midstream Partners, LP
Business
Western Midstream Partners, LP is a master limited partnership that owns, operates, and invests in midstream energy infrastructure focused on gathering, processing, treating, compressing, and transporting hydrocarbons and produced water. It provides natural-gas processing and marketing services and gathers, stabilizes, treats, and transports condensate, NGLs, and crude oil, and gathers and disposes of produced water. Operations are reported as a single operating segment comprising gathering systems, processing and treating plants, pipelines, and disposal facilities. Its assets serve producers across Texas, New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming) and select other U.S. basins via pipeline, terminal, storage, and third-party delivery networks.
Summary from filing dated 2025-02-26
Financials
Consolidated Statement of Income
| Concept | Trend | FY 2025 2025-12-31 | FY 2024 2024-12-31 | FY 2023 2023-12-31 | FY 2022 2022-12-31 | FY 2021 2021-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenues and other | 3,843 | 3,605 | 3,106 | 3,252 | 2,877 | |
| Equity income, net related parties | 86 | 112 | 153 | 183 | 205 | |
| Cost of product | 207 | 172 | 165 | 421 | 322 | |
| Operation and maintenance | 916 | 881 | 763 | 655 | 581 | |
| General and administrative | 399 | 272 | 233 | 194 | 196 | |
| Property and other taxes | 69 | 63 | 56 | 79 | 64 | |
| Depreciation and amortization | 711 | 650 | 601 | 582 | 552 | |
| Long-lived asset and other impairments | 15 | 6 | 53 | 21 | 31 | |
| Total operating expenses | 2,317 | 2,044 | 1,870 | 1,951 | 1,746 | |
| Gain (loss) on divestiture and other, net | −11 | 297 | −10 | 104 | 44,000 | |
| Operating income (loss) | 1,601 | 1,971 | 1,380 | 1,588 | 1,336 | |
| Interest expense | −390 | −379 | −348 | −334 | −377 | |
| Gain (loss) on early extinguishment of debt | 0 | 5 | 15 | 91,000 | −25 | |
| Other income (expense), net | 17 | 32 | 6 | 2 | −623,000 | |
| Income (loss) before income taxes | 1,228 | 1,629 | 1,052 | 1,256 | 934 | |
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 15 | 18 | 4 | 4 | −10 | |
| Net income (loss) | 1,212 | 1,611 | 1,048 | 1,251 | 944 | |
| Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests | 31 | 38 | 26 | 34 | 28 | |
| Net income (loss) attributable to Western Midstream Partners, LP | 1,181 | 1,574 | 1,022 | 1,217 | 916 | |
| General partner interest in net (income) loss | −26 | −37 | −24 | −28 | −20 | |
| Limited partners' interest in net income (loss) | 1,154 | 1,537 | 999 | 1,190 | 896 | |
| Net income (loss) per common unit - basic | 2.99 | 4.04 | 2.61 | 3.01 | 2.18 | |
| Net income (loss) per common unit - diluted | 2.98 | 4.02 | 2.6 | 3 | 2.18 | |
| Weighted-average common units outstanding - basic | 386 | 380 | 383 | 395 | 411 | |
| Weighted-average common units outstanding - diluted | 388 | 382 | 384 | 396 | 412 |
Consolidated Balance Sheet
| Concept | Trend | FY 2025 2025-12-31 | FY 2024 2024-12-31 | FY 2023 2023-12-31 | FY 2022 2022-12-31 | FY 2021 2021-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 819 | 1,090 | 273 | 287 | 202 | |
| Accounts receivable, net | 773 | 702 | 667 | 554 | 437 | |
| Other current assets | 64 | 55 | 53 | 60 | 46 | |
| Total current assets | 1,657 | 1,847 | 992 | 900 | 685 | |
| Cost | 17,648 | 15,510 | 14,945 | 13,366 | 12,846 | |
| Less accumulated depreciation | 6,427 | 5,795 | 5,290 | 4,824 | 4,333 | |
| Net property, plant, and equipment | 11,221 | 9,715 | 9,655 | 8,542 | 8,513 | |
| Goodwill | 353 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Other intangible assets | 914 | 650 | 681 | 713 | 745 | |
| Equity investments | 505 | 541 | 905 | 945 | 1,167 | |
| Other assets | 349 | 387 | 233 | 167 | 159 | |
| Total assets | 15,000 | 13,100 | 12,500 | 11,272 | 11,273 | |
| Accounts and imbalance payables | 319 | 313 | 362 | 361 | 326 | |
| Short-term debt | 449 | 1,011 | 618 | 216 | 506 | |
| Accrued ad valorem taxes | 60 | 38 | 61 | 73 | 45 | |
| Accrued liabilities | 408 | 329 | 263 | 255 | 263 | |
| Total current liabilities | 1,236 | 1,692 | 1,304 | 904 | 1,140 | |
| Long-term debt | 8,195 | 6,927 | 7,284 | 6,570 | 6,401 | |
| Deferred income taxes | 111 | 30 | 15 | 14 | 12 | |
| Asset retirement obligations | 428 | 370 | 359 | 290 | 298 | |
| Other liabilities | 865 | 751 | 480 | 386 | 326 | |
| Total long-term liabilities | 9,599 | 8,078 | 8,138 | 7,260 | 7,037 | |
| Total liabilities | 10,835 | 9,770 | 9,442 | 8,164 | 8,177 | |
| Common units (408,141,366 and 380,556,643 units issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, respectively) | 4,017 | 3,225 | 2,894 | 2,970 | 2,967 | |
| General partner units (9,060,641 units issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024) | 5 | 11 | 3 | 2 | −9 | |
| Total partners' capital | 4,021 | 3,236 | 2,897 | 2,972 | 2,958 | |
| Noncontrolling interests | 142 | 140 | 132 | 136 | 138 | |
| Total equity and partners' capital | 4,163 | 3,375 | 3,029 | 3,108 | 3,096 | |
| Total liabilities, equity, and partners' capital | 14,998 | 13,145 | 12,472 | 11,272 | 11,273 | |
| Common units issued | 408 | 381 | 380 | 384 | 403 | |
| Common units outstanding | 408 | 381 | 380 | 384 | 403 | |
| General partner units issued | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |
| General Partners' Capital Account, Units Outstanding | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
| Concept | Trend | FY 2025 2025-12-31 | FY 2024 2024-12-31 | FY 2023 2023-12-31 | FY 2022 2022-12-31 | FY 2021 2021-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-cash equity-based compensation expense | 51 | 38 | 32 | 28 | 28 | |
| Deferred income taxes | 4 | 14 | 1 | 2 | −10 | |
| Accretion and amortization of long-term obligations, net | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | |
| Distributions from equity-investment earnings related parties | 91 | 111 | 155 | 186 | 214 | |
| Other | 303,000 | 248,000 | 442,000 | 510,000 | 260,000 | |
| (Increase) decrease in accounts receivable, net | 36 | −43 | −78 | −116 | 16 | |
| Increase (decrease) in accounts and imbalance payables and accrued liabilities, net | −4 | −22 | −68 | −8 | 115 | |
| Change in other items, net | 174 | 175 | 68 | 35 | 50 | |
| Net cash provided by operating activities | 2,223 | 2,137 | 1,661 | 1,701 | 1,767 | |
| Capital expenditures | −728 | −834 | −735 | −487 | −314 | |
| Contributions to equity investments - related parties | 0 | −10 | −1 | −10 | −4 | |
| Distributions from equity investments in excess of cumulative earnings related parties | 31 | 31 | 39 | 64 | 41 | |
| (Increase) decrease in materials and supplies inventory and other | −20 | −18 | −32 | −9 | 11 | |
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | −1,085 | −39 | −1,607 | −218 | −258 | |
| Borrowings, net of debt issuance costs | 1,184 | 789 | 2,449 | 1,389 | 480 | |
| Repayments of debt | −1,081 | −144 | −1,968 | −1,519 | −1,433 | |
| Commercial paper borrowings (repayments), net | 0 | −610 | 610 | 0 | 0 | |
| Increase (decrease) in outstanding checks | −8 | −6 | 4 | 2 | −22 | |
| Distributions to Partnership unitholders | −1,431 | −1,246 | −978 | −736 | −534 | |
| Unit repurchases from Occidental | 0 | 0 | −135 | −488 | −217 | |
| Other | −41 | −33 | −19 | −14 | −11 | |
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | −1,408 | −1,280 | −68 | −1,399 | −1,752 | |
| Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | −271 | 818 | −14 | 85 | −243 | |
| Interest paid, net of capitalized interest | 381 | 361 | 327 | 355 | 375 | |
| Accrued capital expenditures | 80 | 64 | 100 | 82 | 35 | |
| Income taxes paid (reimbursements received) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 912,000 | 938,000 | |
| Acquisition-related issuance of common units | 1,005 | 0 | 0 | — | — | |
| Asset retirement cost additions and revisions, net | 41 | 10 | 59 | — | — |