Company: PAGP
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001581990-25-000013
Chunk: 177

Company: PLAINS GP HOLDINGS LP
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 177
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 and inflation;

•the use or availability of third-party assets upon which our operations depend and over which we have little or no control;

•the currency exchange rate of the Canadian dollar to the United States dollar;

•the deferral of current revenue recognition attributable to deficiency payments received from customers who fail to ship or move their minimum contracted volumes;

•significant under-utilization of our assets and facilities;

•increased costs, or lack of availability, of insurance;

•fluctuations in the debt and equity markets, including the price of PAA’s units at the time of vesting under its long-term incentive plans;

•risks related to the development and operation of our assets; and

•other factors and uncertainties inherent in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil, as well as in the processing, transportation, fractionation, storage and marketing of NGL.

Other factors described herein, as well as factors that are unknown or unpredictable, could also have a material adverse effect on future results. Please read “Risk Factors” discussed in Item 1A of our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Except as required by applicable securities laws, we do not intend to update these forward-looking statements and information.

Item 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK 

We are exposed to various market risks, including commodity price risk and interest rate risk. We use various derivative instruments to manage such risks and, in certain circumstances, to realize incremental margin during volatile market conditions. Our risk management policies and procedures are designed to help ensure that our hedging activities address our risks by monitoring our exchange-cleared and over-the-counter positions, as well as physical volumes, grades, locations, delivery schedules and storage capacity. We have a risk management function that has direct responsibility and authority for our risk policies, related controls around commercial activities and certain aspects of corporate risk management. Our risk management function also approves all new risk management strategies through a formal process. The following discussion addresses each category of risk.

Commodity Price Risk

We use derivative instruments to hedge price risk associated with the following commodities:

•Crude oil

We utilize crude oil derivatives to hedge commodity price risk inherent in our pipeline, terminalling and merchant activities. Our objectives for these derivatives include hedging changes in inventory positions associated with our lease gathering activities, anticipated purchases and sales, stored inventory and basis differentials. We manage these exposures with various instruments including futures, forwards, swaps and options.

•Natural gas

We