Securities Lawyers Blog
The investment attorneys with Gana Weinstein LLP continue to report on investor related losses in oil and gas and commodities related investments. Investors may have potential legal remedies due to unsuitable recommendations by their broker to invest in this speculative and volatile area.
Among the MLPs that have suffered significant declines is EnLink Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:ENLK). EnLink Midstream Partners has plummeted in value by about 71% in value over the last year. According to the company’s website, EnLink Midstream Partners has expansive gathering, processing, fractionation, transportation, and logistics assets located in the Barnett, Permian Basin, the Gulf Coast, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Cana-Woodford, Arkoma-Woodford, Utica, and the Marcellus areas. The company has more than 9,200 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines, 17 processing plants with 3.6 billion cubic feet of net processing capacity, and seven fractionators with 280 million barrels per day of net fractionation capacity. Since the company’s formation in 2014, it has executed approximately $4.3 billion of acquisitions and growth projects.
As a background, The MLP sector had totaled $600 billion in assets at its peak before collapsing to about $300 billion now. According to the Associated Press, investors have lost an astonishing $8 of every $10 they had invested since 2014. The research does not include losses from $37 billion of bonds sold by the partnerships in the five years since 2010 or losses from private placement partnerships. However, banks like Citigroup, Barclays, and Wells Fargo made an estimated $1.1 billion in fees for selling these products to investors.