PBF Logistics Increases Quarterly Distribution to $0.37 per Unit and Announces Second Quarter 2015 Earnings Results

PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PBF Logistics LP (NYSE:PBFX, the “Partnership”) announced today second quarter 2015 net income of $19.6 million, or $0.58 per limited partner unit. During the second quarter, the Partnership generated earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”) of $26.4 million and distributable cash flow of $22.1 million. Included in our results for the second quarter are $0.7 million, or $0.02 per unit, of non-cash expenses related to unit-based compensation.

“Our assets performed well during the quarter, including the newly-acquired Delaware City Products Pipeline and Truck Rack, and we are pleased to announce an increase in our quarterly distribution to $0.37. In May, we successfully closed an upsized senior notes offering of $350 million which enabled us to fund a portion of the cash consideration for the Delaware City Products Pipeline and Truck Rack acquisition and repay a portion of the outstanding balance on the Partnership’s revolving credit facility,” said PBF Logistics GP LLC Chief Executive Officer, Tom Nimbley. “With a long-term capital structure in place and ample liquidity, PBF Logistics is well positioned to further grow the Partnership and create additional value for our unitholders.”

In the second quarter, PBFX and its wholly-owned subsidiary, PBF Logistics Finance Corporation, successfully executed a senior notes offering of $350 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.875% senior notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”) at par. This represents an increase of $50 million over the initially announced aggregate principal amount. The initial purchasers in the offering agreed to purchase approximately $330.1 million aggregate principal amount of 2023 Notes and certain of PBF Energy Inc.’s officers and directors and their affiliates and family members agreed to purchase the remaining $19.9 million aggregate principal amount of 2023 Notes in a separate private placement transaction. The offering closed on May 12, 2015.

The Delaware City Products Pipeline and Truck Rack are located at PBF Energy’s Delaware City Refinery and supply refined petroleum products to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast markets. The pipeline has a capacity in excess of 125,000 barrels per day and connects the Delaware City refinery to critical distribution facilities in Pennsylvania and New York State. The Truck Rack is a 15-lane loading rack with a capacity of 76,000 barrels per day. The acquisition of the Delaware City Products Pipeline and Truck Rack is supported by ten-year term agreements with subsidiaries of PBF Energy containing minimum volume throughput commitments. The acquisition was finalized on May 14, 2015.

As of June 30, 2015, the Partnership had $6.7 million in cash and cash equivalents and access to an additional $298.5 million under its existing revolving credit facility. The Partnership intends to use its financial resources to fund organic growth projects at the Partnership and future drop-down and third-party acquisitions.

PBF Logistics Announces Increased Quarterly Distribution

The Board of Directors of PBF Logistics GP LLC, the Partnership’s general partner, declared a regular quarterly cash distribution of $0.37 per unit. The distribution is payable on August 31, 2015, to unitholders of record at the close of business on August 14, 2015.

This release is intended to be a qualified notice to nominees under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1446-4(b). All of the Partnership’s distributions to foreign investors are attributable to income that is effectively connected with a United States trade or business. Accordingly, the Partnership’s distributions to foreign investors are subject to federal income tax withholding at the highest effective tax rate.

Non-GAAP Measures

This earnings release, and the discussion during the management conference call, may include references to measures not prescribed by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“non-GAAP”) including, but not limited to, EBITDA and distributable cash flow. PBFX’s management believes that non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about the Partnership’s operating performance, financial results and the amount of cash generated by the Partnership’s operations and the amount available for distribution to its unitholders. However, these measures have important limitations as analytical tools and should not be viewed in isolation or considered as alternatives for, or superior to, comparable GAAP financial measures. PBFX’s non-GAAP financial measures may also differ from similarly named measures used by other companies. See the accompanying tables and footnotes in this release for additional information on the non-GAAP measures used in this release and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Conference Call Information

The Partnership’s senior management will host a conference call and webcast regarding earnings results and other business matters on Thursday, July 30, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. ET. The call can also be heard by dialing (800) 862-9098 or (785) 424-1051, conference ID: PBFXQ215. The audio replay will be available two hours after the end of the call through August 15, 2015, by dialing (800) 695-1624 or (402) 530-9026. The call is being webcast and can be accessed at PBF Logistics’ website, http://www.pbflogistics.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined under the federal securities laws) made by the Partnership and its management. Such statements are based on current expectations, forecasts and projections, including, but not limited to, anticipated financial and operating results, plans, objectives, expectations and intentions that are not historical in nature. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and may not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by which, such performance or results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time, and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including risks relating to the securities markets generally, the impact of adverse market conditions impacting PBFX’s logistics and other assets and other risks inherent in PBFX’s business. For more information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or forecasted, see PBFX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including the Form 10-K. Forward-looking statements reflect information, facts and circumstances only as of the date they are made. PBFX assumes no responsibility or obligation to update forward-looking statements except as may be required by law.

PBF Logistics LP

PBF Logistics LP, headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, is a fee-based, growth-oriented master limited partnership formed by PBF Energy Inc. to own or lease, operate, develop and acquire crude oil and refined petroleum products terminals, pipelines, storage facilities and similar logistics assets.

Results of Operations (Unaudited)

Factors Affecting Comparability

The following tables present EBITDA (as defined below) and related operational information of PBF Logistics LP (“PBFX” or the “Partnership”) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015 and 2014. The financial information presented contains the financial results of PBF MLP Predecessor (the “Predecessor”), our predecessor for accounting purposes, for periods presented through May 13, 2014. The Predecessor includes the financial results of a light crude oil rail unloading terminal at PBF Energy Inc.’s Delaware City refinery (which we refer to as the “DCR Rail Terminal”), and a crude oil truck unloading terminal at the PBF Energy Inc.’s Toledo refinery (which we refer to as the “Toledo Truck Terminal”) which were acquired from subsidiaries of PBF Energy Inc. (“PBF Energy”) during our initial public offering, completed on May 14, 2014 (the “Offering”).

The financial information contained herein of the Predecessor and PBFX has been retrospectively adjusted to include the historical results of a heavy crude oil rail unloading terminal at PBF Energy’s Delaware City refinery (which we refer to as the “DCR West Rack”) prior to its acquisition by PBFX on September 30, 2014, a tank farm and related facilities located at PBF Energy’s Toledo refinery, including a propane storage and loading facility (which we collectively refer to as the “Toledo Storage Facility”) prior to its acquisition by PBFX on December 11, 2014, and a products pipeline (the “Delaware City Products Pipeline”), truck rack and related facilites located at PBF Energy’s Delaware city refinery (which we collectively refer to as the “Delaware City Products Pipeline and Truck Rack”) prior to its acquisition by PBFX on May 14, 2015. The DCR West Rack, Toledo Storage Facility, and Delaware City Products Pipeline and Truck Rack were acquired from subsidiaries of our indirect parent company, PBF Energy (the acquisitions are collectively referred to as the “Acquisitions from PBF”). The results of the DCR Rail Terminal, Toledo Truck Rack, DCR West Rack, the propane loading facility at the Toledo Storage Facility and the Delaware City Products Pipeline and Truck Rack are included in the Transportation and Terminaling segment. The tank farm and related facilities at the Toledo Storage Facility are included in the Storage segment.

Our Predecessor generally recognized only the costs and did not record revenue for transactions with PBF Energy prior to completion of the Offering and Acquisitions from PBF, with the exception of the Delaware City Products Pipeline. Affiliate revenues have been recorded for all of our assets subsequent to the commencement of the commercial agreements with PBF Energy upon completion of the Offering and Acquisitions from PBF. As a result, the information included in the following tables is not necessarily comparable on a year-over-year basis.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We define EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense. We define distributable cash flow as EBITDA plus non-cash unit-based compensation expense, less net cash paid for interest, maintenance capital expenditures and income taxes. Distributable cash flow will not reflect changes in working capital balances. Distributable cash flow and EBITDA are not measures prescribed by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).

While EBITDA and distributable cash flow are not measures prescribed by U.S. GAAP (“non-GAAP”), they are supplemental financial measures that management and external users of our consolidated financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies, may use to assess:

• our operating performance as compared to other publicly traded partnerships in the midstream energy industry, without regard to historical cost basis or, in the case of EBITDA, financing methods;
• the ability of our assets to generate sufficient cash flow to make distributions to our unitholders;
• our ability to incur and service debt and fund capital expenditures; and
• the viability of acquisitions and other capital expenditure projects and the returns on investment of various investment opportunities.

We believe that the presentation of EBITDA provides useful information to investors in assessing our financial condition and results of operations. EBITDA and distributable cash flow should not be considered alternatives to net income, operating income, cash from operations or any other measure of financial performance or liquidity presented in accordance with GAAP. EBITDA and distributable cash flow have important limitations as analytical tools because they exclude some but not all items that affect net income and net cash provided by operating activities.

We believe that the presentation of distributable cash flow provides useful information to investors as it is a widely accepted financial indicator used by investors to compare partnership performance, as it provides investors with an enhanced perspective of the operating performance of our assets and the cash our business is generating. EBITDA and distributable cash flow are reconciled to their most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.

These non-GAAP financial metrics should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Our definitions of these non-GAAP financial metrics may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other partnerships, because they may be defined differently by other partnerships in our industry, thereby limiting their utility.