Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
14 May 2026debt financing▲ GoodMajor
Par Pacific completed a major refinancing: $500 million of new 7.375% unsecured senior notes due 2034, alongside a new $1.8 billion asset-based credit facility (expandable to $2.3 billion) replacing its 2023 ABL and running to 2031 -- a much larger, cheaper and longer-dated capital structure than the company had even a few years earlier.
Par Pacific's term loan cost was cut by another 50 basis points, and its Hawaii renewable fuels joint venture added a $25 million letter-of-credit facility with Wells Fargo to help pay its feedstock suppliers.
The Mitsubishi/ENEOS renewable fuels joint venture officially closed: Par Pacific's Hawaii Renewables Holdings retains 63.5% ownership and board control (3 of 4 director seats), Alohi holds 36.5% with a downside put right, and Alohi funded its $100 million contribution.
Par Pacific's new Hawaii renewable fuels venture set up a commodity-swap and prepayment financing framework with Wells Fargo to help fund its soybean oil and crude feedstock purchases.
Par Pacific agreed to form a joint venture with Mitsubishi and ENEOS (via their Alohi Renewable Energy entity) to build and run a renewable fuels plant next to the Kapolei, Hawaii refinery -- expected to produce about 61 million gallons a year of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and related products by the end of 2025. Alohi will fund $100 million for a 36.5% stake; Par Pacific contributes the site and existing assets plus up to $21 million more.
Par Pacific received lender commitments to increase its term loan by $100 million, to $650 million aggregate initial principal ($641.75 million outstanding). The amendment was expected to be executed around November 25, 2024, with proceeds for general corporate purposes.
Par Pacific let its long-standing Supply and Offtake Agreement with J. Aron for the Hawaii refinery expire on its own terms after more than six years, replacing it with a new Inventory Intermediation Agreement with Citigroup Energy -- along with terminating the related MUFG/Macquarie letter-of-credit facility, since Par Hawaii Refining now has direct access to the company's own asset-based credit facility.
On April 8, 2024, Par Pacific amended its February 2023 term loan, cutting the margin by 50 basis points to base rate plus 2.75% or SOFR plus 3.75%. The amendment also eliminated the 10 basis point Term SOFR adjustment.
Par Pacific's asset-based revolver was expanded again, to a total commitment of $1.4 billion, and the amendment also teed up bringing Par Hawaii Refining onto the ABL facility as part of a plan to replace its remaining Hawaii intermediation arrangement.
Par Pacific wound down and fully terminated U.S. Oil & Refining's long-running Merrill Lynch Commodities intermediation arrangement (in place since 2016 and extended more than two dozen times), bringing USOR directly onto the company's own asset-based credit facility instead -- which was simultaneously expanded to $900 million. This closes out years of routine third-party intermediation financing that the company had outgrown.
Par Hawaii Refining set up a new uncommitted letter-of-credit facility (up to $120 million, expandable to $350 million) with MUFG and Macquarie to help finance crude purchases, including support for bidding on Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases.
Par Hawaii Refining amended its Supply and Offtake Agreement with J. Aron on June 21, 2023, replacing LIBOR with a SOFR-based rate (Compounded SOFR plus 0.26161%). The change takes effect July 1, 2023.
1 June 2023asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
Par Pacific closed its purchase of the 63,000 barrel-per-day Billings, Montana refinery and related logistics assets from ExxonMobil for about $638 million: a $310 million base price, about $290 million for inventory and about $38 million for working capital and other adjustments. The base price was paid from cash on hand and the inventory was mainly financed by about $215 million drawn on the Billings Incremental Facility.
Par Pacific replaced its revolver with a new Asset-Based Revolving Credit Agreement led by Wells Fargo: a $150 million initial facility plus up to $450 million more (a "Billings Incremental Facility") specifically earmarked to help fund the pending ExxonMobil Montana refinery purchase.
Par Pacific refinanced with a new $550 million Wells Fargo-led term loan (maturing 2030), using the proceeds to retire its existing term loan and repurchase both its 2025 and 2026 senior secured notes -- including the expensive 12.875% pandemic-era notes -- meaningfully simplifying and lowering the cost of its debt stack.
Par Pacific agreed to buy ExxonMobil's 63,000 bpd Billings, Montana refinery, plus associated logistics assets and a cogeneration company, for a $310 million base price before inventory and working-capital adjustments. The deal was expected to lift Par's total throughput capacity to about 218,000 bpd.
U.S. Oil & Refining's Merrill Lynch Commodities intermediation arrangement switched its benchmark rate from LIBOR to SOFR, part of the industry-wide LIBOR phase-out.
A technical amendment to the J. Aron supply agreement raised the share of eligible receivables that can come from Hawaiian Electric-affiliated customers, from 40% to 50%.
The discretionary draw facility under Par Hawaii's J. Aron supply agreement was increased from $165 million to $215 million, with a higher hydrocarbon-inventory borrowing base -- more working-capital capacity amid strong 2022 refining margins.
Par Pacific replaced its asset-based revolver with a new $105 million facility (up from $85 million) with Bank of America, maturing 2025, plus a $50 million accordion option.
U.S. Oil & Refining's Merrill Lynch Commodities intermediation arrangement was extended again, to December 2022 (with an automatic bump to March 2023).
Par Hawaii signed a Second Amended and Restated Supply and Offtake Agreement with J. Aron, extending the Hawaii refinery's crude supply/product offtake arrangement to May 2024 and adding a new discretionary draw facility of up to $165 million -- a multi-year renewal of one of the company's most important financing relationships.
Par Pacific's supply and offtake agreement with J. Aron for the Hawaii refinery got a short one-month extension to June 2021, bridging to a bigger renewal.
Par Pacific raised about $75.7 million in a public stock offering (5 million shares) to pay down debt and fund general corporate needs -- a deleveraging move as the post-pandemic recovery took hold.
The sale-leaseback closed on 21 of the 22 properties for about $109.4 million, with roughly $51.7 million of proceeds used to pay off the Bank of Hawaii mortgage on those properties; the last property was expected to close separately shortly after.