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More pipes, more cash flow dreams
Enbridge is acting like a kid who just can’t stop adding Lego bricks to the pipeline empire. The company agreed to buy Tallgrass Energy’s crude oil transportation business for $2.55 billion in cash, a move that gives it a bigger footprint across the Bakken, Powder River, and Denver-Julesburg basins and tighter access to Cushing, Oklahoma — basically one of the oil world’s biggest traffic circles.
The catch? You need a bigger wallet
To help fund the deal, Enbridge also launched a Canadian-dollar 2.6 billion equity offering, selling 38.9 million common shares at C$66.85 each. That’s the kind of headline that usually makes existing shareholders squint a little, even if the company says the money will also support its Salt Creek Midstream buy and preserve room for future growth.
- The Tallgrass deal includes a 75% stake in the 1,050-mile Pony Express Pipeline.
- It also brings in a 51% stake in Powder River Gateway and roughly 8.4 million barrels of storage.
- Enbridge says the acquisition should boost distributable cash flow per share in its first full year of ownership.
The bigger picture
The timing is a little awkward because the news also landed with a CEO transition: Greg Ebel is set to retire at the end of the year, and Michele Harradence will take over on Jan. 1, 2027. So Enbridge is expanding the map, refinancing the shopping cart, and changing drivers — all at once. Big picture: the company is trying to turn its North American energy infrastructure into an even more diversified cash machine, but the market is clearly side-eyeing the dilution and execution risk.