Sunoco Logistics: A Good Long-Term Play?

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By Sol Palha:Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P (KMP) does not drill, refine or explore for natural gas and oil. Instead, it provides the companies that do with means to get their product to the market. Many of the companies that do drill, explore and refine natural gas or oil would have a hard time getting their product to the market without KMP.

By Sol Palha:Enterprise Products Partners L.P. provides midstream energy services to business and consumers in North America. EPD has 52,000 miles of pipelines, 192 million barrels of storage capacity for Natural gas liquids, crude oil and refined products. In addition to this it also has 27 billion cubic feet of natural-gas storage capacity. All its business is conducted through a subsidiary (Enterprise Operating LLC).

Zacks.com submits: Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (SXL) – a master limited partnership (MLP) − announced significantly weaker-than-expected first quarter 2010 results, hurt by lower refined products volumes due to the permanent shutdown of a refinery as well as refinery maintenance. Earnings were also pulled down by a significant fall in crude oil pipeline operating income.

Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P. (SXL) Q1 2013 Earnings Call May 9, 2013, 2013 8:30 am ET Executives Mike Hennigan - President & CEO Pete Gvazdauskas - VP, Finance Martin Salinas - CFO, ETP General Partner Mackie McCrea - Chairman, SXL, and President & COO - ETP General Partner Analysts Gabe Moreen - Bank of America Brian Zarahn - Barclays

Avi Morris submits:Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) is the leading provider of midstream energy services: natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. EPD transports natural gas, NGLs, crude oil and refined products through 48,700 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines. With the acquisition of TEPPCO last year, EPD has become the largest MLP. Key assets include:

By David White:Sunoco Logistics Partners LP Co. (SXL) is a pipeline company that pays a great 4.26% dividend. It has the advantage that pipelines are expensive to build, and few want to build a competing pipeline that is at risk of going partially or fully unused. Therefore pipeline companies are often near monopolies.

By Mike Maher:Sunoco (SUN) has announced that it plans to exit the refining business, intending to focus on its Retail Marketing business and the Logistics business. In addition, the company has hired Credit Suisse (CS) t