The negative outlook on LOOP reflects a continuing changing U.S. crude production environment that has reduced throughput volume. Import and storage volumes are expected to remain low in 2019 due to market conditions and outages for regulatory maintenance, leading to debt to EBITDA of approximately 4.6x in 2019. We anticipate leverage returning in 2020 to between 3x and 3.25x as export volumes rise. We could downgrade LOOP if the competitive position continues to deteriorate while leverage remains above 3.5x. This could happen if import volumes continue to decrease without a material offset from export volumes due to strong domestic crude production and completion of new U.S. export facilities. We could revise the outlook to stable if leverage approaches 3x in
...(Editor's Note: On Aug. 4, 2020, we republished this article, originally published Sept. 18, 2019, to correct an incorrect group credit profile. It is '##-'. A corrected version follows.)...
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