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| Processing volumes were up 5% year-over-year, primarily from higher volumes in the Marcellus and Permian, driven by increased customer demand and our investment in Permian processing capacity |
| Focusing in on the Marcellus, by far, our largest basin of operations, we saw year-over-year volume increases of 4% for gathering and 5% for processing, driven by increased customer demand and fractionation volumes grew 10%, primarily due to increases to our fractionation capacity to meet in-basin demand for ethane |
| We are confident in our growth opportunities and ability to generate strong cash flows |
| Our L&S business set a new record for crude pipeline throughput and saw strong terminal throughputs, demonstrating the value of our relationship with MPC |
| So again, really pleased with both those long-haul strategic pipelines |
| And we feel very confident that at the end of the day, our cash flow generation is showing a consistent pattern that we think investors should find appealing |
| As an example, we had record crude throughput it's not sexy to come out and say we added a pump here or something along those lines, but where you can deploy small amounts of capital and get large returns, we think those are really great opportunities for us |
| As MPLX pursues its growth opportunities, we believe the value of this strategic relationship will continue to be enhanced |
| Again, very happy where the balance sheet is |
| The growth of our cash flows and our strong balance sheet, including a quarter end cash balance of $960 million and leverage of 3.4 times, provides us with financial flexibility to optimize capital allocation |
| We remain confident in our ability to grow the partnership and our focus on executing the strategic priorities of strict capital discipline, fostering a low-cost culture and optimizing our asset portfolio, all of which are foundational to the continued growth of MPLX's cash flows |
| As you can see on Slide 5, MPLX has a strong history of growing its cash flows by executing the strategic priorities Mike just highlighted |
| So as I think about the investment opportunity for people, our yield plus growth should give a pretty strong opportunity for people to invest in the equity |
| Whistler's expansion, the 2.5 billion cubic feet per day was completed at the end of the third quarter, and we're seeing strong demand for the natural gas pipeline |
| So yes, we have seen growth single-digit low to medium single-digit across most of the basins, and that's been really good to see |
| And then we look at the growth and try and put ourselves in a position that we offer the market a good total return opportunity |
| In our G&P business, we saw record throughput in our processing and fractionation operations driven mainly by our assets in the Permian and Marcellus basins |
| Our integrated footprint in these basins position the partnership with a steady source of growth opportunities |
| We are well positioned to optimize return of capital given the strength of the business and our balance sheet |
| Crude pipeline volumes were up 9% and represent a new quarterly record for the partnership as we grew crude oil throughputs through expansion and debottlenecking activities |
| So we're excited to start to see some growth again in the Utica and volumes pick up there |
| Terminal volumes were up 7% due to higher customer demand, including effects from Marathon's refinery turnarounds in both quarters |
| The Utica is an area that had strong growth early on, along with the Marcellus and then some of the rigs moved from there more of the Marcellus now with sustainable crude prices and good levels |
| Earlier today, we reported third quarter adjusted EBITDA of $1.6 billion and distributable cash flow of $1.4 billion, each set a new quarterly record for MPLX with both increasing over 8% year-over-year |
| For the second year in a row, based on the strength and continued growth of our cash flows, last week, we announced a 10% increase in the partnership's distribution, which now stands at $3.40 per unit on an annualized basis |
| So again, we remain really bullish the Permian |
| As Mike discussed, based on our confidence in the continued growth of our cash flows, we increased the base distribution 10% to $0.85 per common unit while maintaining strong coverage of 1.6 times |
| And I think that shows that people are still very - producers are still bullish on where pricing is going with the LNG plants that are going to come online over the next couple of years |
| Total gathered volumes were up 3% year-over-year due to increased production in the Permian and the Marcellus |
| The L&S segment reported its third consecutive quarter with $1 billion of adjusted EBITDA |
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| Product pipeline volumes were down 9%, driven by less favorable market dynamics and effects from Marathon's refinery downtime |
| Looking ahead to the fourth quarter, we do expect some headwinds of approximately $30 million to $40 million to sequential L&S segment results from lower throughput volumes as a result of MPC's planned turnaround activity, as well as higher operating expenses due to the timing of maintenance projects |
| We've also seen - I think if we look at third quarter, growth CapEx came in a little lighter than we would have been than we expected |
| For the quarter, NGL prices averaged $0.68 per gallon as compared to $1.01 in the third quarter of 2022, resulting in a $32 million unfavorable effect |
| And a lot of the forecast was built around some expectation of that as the prices came down, we did see some slowing of growth in terms of rig activity and bringing new pads on |
| So it's not hurting us real bad |
| And really, the production - drilling and production costs have come down as the producers are drilling longer laterals |
| What has disappeared a little bit from the market is the volatility in the unit price |
| We do have already deployed capital there and we have excess capacity |
| We just have been surprised at how much tighter the equity price is traded |
| And it's not aspirational |
| And I think previously discussed Capline as a potential midstream asset within the MPC portfolio that could kind of be dropped down |
| And in that way, we'll create a little bit of value |
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