Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. Expected Operating Income Impact Due to Hurricane Harvey

Houston, Sept. 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. SHLX today announced all pipelines owned by the Partnership have been returned to service after a comprehensive assessment of the asset integrity of each system.  The Partnership expects outages and repairs related to Hurricane Harvey to have an impact of approximately $15 million on its third quarter 2017 operating income.  The majority of the impact is due to outages on the Zydeco system following severe flooding along the Texas Gulf Coast.  On Thursday, September 14th, the final segment of Zydeco was returned to service following the successful testing of the system. 

Shell Midstream Partners' primary focus continues to be the safety of employees and the protection of the environment. 

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About Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.
Shell Midstream Partners, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a fee-based, growth-oriented midstream master limited partnership formed by Royal Dutch Shell to own, operate, develop and acquire pipelines and other midstream assets. Shell Midstream Partners' assets consist of interests in entities that own crude oil and refined products pipelines serving as key infrastructure to transport onshore and offshore crude oil production to Gulf Coast and Midwest refining markets and to deliver refined products from those markets to major demand centers, as well as interests in entities that own natural gas and refinery gas pipelines which transport offshore natural gas to market hubs and deliver refinery gas from refineries and plants to chemical sites along the Gulf Coast.

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