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Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using this web site. By accessing and browsing this web site, you agree to these Terms of Use with Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. and/or its subsidiaries (collectively "PAA" or "Plains"). If you do not agree to all of these Terms of Use, please exit from this web site immediately. PAA may revise and update these Terms of Use at any time without notice. Please periodically review the Terms of Use posted at this site.

No Solicitation

The information provided through this web site is intended solely for the general knowledge of visitors to this web site and does not constitute an offer or a solicitation of an offer for the purchase or sale of any units or other securities of PAA.

Forward-Looking Statements

All statements included on this website, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements identified by the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “plan,” “intend” and “forecast,” and similar expressions and statements regarding our business strategy, plans and objectives of our management for future operations. The absence of these words, however, does not mean that the statements are not forward-looking. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events, based on what we believe are reasonable assumptions. Certain factors could cause actual results to differ materially from results anticipated in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to:

 

failure to implement or capitalize on planned internal growth projects;

 

 

 

the success of our risk management activities;

 

 

 

 

environmental liabilities or events that are not covered by an indemnity, insurance or existing reserves;

 

 

 

 

maintenance of our credit rating and ability to receive open credit from our suppliers and trade counterparties;

 

 

 

 

abrupt or severe declines or interruptions in outer continental shelf production located offshore California and transported on our pipeline systems;

 

 

 

 

shortages or cost increases of power supplies, materials or labor;

 

 

 

 

the availability of adequate third party production volumes for transportation and marketing in the areas in which we operate, and other factors that could cause declines in volumes shipped on our pipelines by us and third-party shippers;

 

 

 

 

fluctuations in refinery capacity in areas supplied by our mainlines, and other factors affecting demand for various grades of crude oil, refined products and natural gas and resulting changes in pricing conditions or transportation throughput requirements;

 

 

 

 

the availability of, and our ability to consummate, acquisition or combination opportunities;

 

 

 

 

our access to capital to fund additional acquisitions and our ability to obtain debt or equity financing on satisfactory terms;

 

 

 

 

successful integration and future performance of acquired assets or businesses and the risks associated with operating in lines of business that are distinct and separate from our historical operations;

 

 

 

 

unanticipated changes in crude oil market structure and volatility (or lack thereof);

 

 

 

 

the impact of current and future laws, rulings and governmental regulations;

 

 

 

 

the effects of competition;

 

 

 

continued creditworthiness of, and performance by, our counterparties;

 

 

 

 

interruptions in service and fluctuations in tariffs or volumes on third-party pipelines;

 

 

 

 

increased costs or lack of availability of insurance;

 

 

 

 

fluctuations in the debt and equity markets, including the price of our units at the time of vesting under our long-term incentive plans;

 

 

 

 

the currency exchange rate of the Canadian dollar;

 

 

 

 

weather interference with business operations or project construction;

 

 

 

 

risks related to the development and operation of natural gas storage facilities;

 

 

 

 

general economic, market or business conditions; and

 

 

 

 

other factors and uncertainties inherent in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil, refined products and liquefied petroleum gas and other natural gas related petroleum products.

 

Other factors described elsewhere in this website, or factors that are unknown or unpredictable, could also have a material adverse effect on future results. For additional information, please read PAA's annual report and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Disclaimer

The information published on PAA's web site is provided without charge as a convenience to be used for informational purposes only. Although PAA has made reasonable efforts to provide accurate information, there may inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical errors. PAA does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained on or accessed through PAA's web site, and PAA expressly disclaims liability for errors or omissions in these materials, and use or interpretation by others of any information presented here or contained on any linked sites, or on any other site accessed by or through PAA's web site, or any site from which any person may have accessed PAA's web site. PAA reserves the right to make changes and corrections at any time, without notice. Reference in PAA's web site to any products, services, processes, hypertext links, or other information, by trade name, trade mark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply PAA's endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation.

THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ON PAA'S WEB SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. PAA MAKES NO COMMITMENT TO UPDATE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE.

Visitors to PAA's web site assume all responsibility and risk for the use of PAA's web site. PAA expressly disclaims all liability for the use or interpretation by others of information contained in this web site. Decisions based on information contained in PAA's web site are the sole responsibility of the visitor, and in exchange for using PAA's web site the visitor agrees to hold PAA and its affiliates harmless against any claims for damages arising from any decisions that the visitor makes based on such information. Nothing contained in PAA's web site constitutes investment advice, or an invitation to invest or otherwise deal in units PAA.

By providing any information (such as feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, plans, or ideas) to PAA, the visitor agrees that all such information shall be non-confidential and that PAA shall have unlimited rights to use (or not use), distribute (or not distribute), reproduce (or not reproduce), and disclose (or not disclose) such information worldwide as PAA deems appropriate, without compensation or acknowledgment of its source. PAA's rights of ownership in such information shall extend to, and PAA shall be free to use, any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information a visitor provides PAA through PAA's web site, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing, and marketing products or services incorporating or otherwise based on such information.

PAA AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO INFORMATION ACCESSED FROM OR VIA PAA's WEB SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS. IN NO EVENT SHALL PAA BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF WHATSOEVER KIND RESULTING FROM WHATEVER CAUSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION UNDER THEORIES OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, OR STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION ON, OR ACCESSED THROUGH, PAA's WEB SITE.

Third Party Links

Any third party links included in this web site are not under the control of PAA. PAA is not responsible for and makes no representations or warranties concerning the contents of any third party linked site or any link contained in a third party linked site. PAA provides third party links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement, investigation or verification by PAA or the third party linked site.

Copyright and Trademarks

The trademarks, logos and service marks, including but not limited to "Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.," "Plains Marketing, L.P.," "Plains Pipeline, L.P.," "PAA," "Plains" and other names, logos and icons identifying products and services (collectively, "Trademarks") displayed on the site are registered and unregistered Trademarks of PAA, its affiliates, suppliers and others. Certain portions of the web site may be identified as being the subject of a specific copyright held by an entity other than PAA and, as such, may not be copied without the permission of the holder of the copyright. For the remainder of the web site, PAA hereby authorizes you to copy information published by PAA on this web site solely for non-commercial use within your organization provided you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the content and you do not modify the content. You may not copy or display for redistribution to third parties or for commercial purposes any portion of the content. Note that any product, process or technology described in the document may be the subject of other intellectual property rights reserved by PAA, its subsidiaries or affiliates and are not licensed hereunder.