Summit Midstream Corporation Completes Acquisition of Tall Oak Midstream III By Investing.com

HOUSTON, Dec. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ —Summit Midstream (NYSE:) Corporation (NYSE: SMC) (“Summit”, “SMC” or the “Company”) announced today that it and its wholly owned subsidiary, Summit Midstream Partners, LP (the “Partnership”), received shareholder approval and has completed the previously announced acquisition of Tall Oak Midstream Operating, LLC and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Tall Oak” or “Tall Oak Midstream III”) from an affiliate of Tailwater Capital LLC (“Tailwater Capital“) for $155 million of cash, 7.5 million common units of the Partnership and associated 7.5 million shares of SMC Class B Common Stock (the “Equity Consideration”), and up to $25 million contingent consideration in cash over certain measurement periods through March 31, 2026. This strategic acquisition marks a significant milestone in Summit’s growth strategy, rebalancing its portfolio to approximately 50% natural gas-oriented drilling activities and increasing scale in a credit and value accretive manner. Pro forma for the transaction, SMC’s total leverage ratio, as of September 30, 2024, is approximately 3.8x.

On November 29, 2024, SMC held a virtual special meeting of its stockholders via live audio webcast to vote on the proposed equity to be issued for the acquisition (the “Special Meeting”). Approximately 76.7% of the shares of common stock entitled to vote as of the record date for the Special Meeting were represented in person or by proxy at the Special Meeting, and approximately 99.8% of the total votes cast were in favor of the proposal.

About Summit Midstream Corporation

SMC is a value-driven corporation focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental United States. SMC provides , and produced water gathering, processing and transportation services pursuant to primarily long-term, fee-based agreements with customers and counterparties in five unconventional resource basins: (i) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in North Dakota; (ii) the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; (iii) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in Texas; (iv) the Arkoma Basin, which includes the Woodford and Caney shale formations in Oklahoma; and (v) the Piceance Basin, which…