Regency Energy Partners (RGP) is an MLP specializing in the gathering and processing, contract compression, contract treating, transportation, fractionation and storage of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLS). RGP offers a full suite of these services to producers in the Haynesville, Eagle Ford, Barnett, Fayetteville and Marcellus shales, as well as in the Permian Basin.
Like its sister company and JV partner in Lone Star, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), RGP's common units have been languishing as of late. This has in large part been driven by minimal growth in RGP's per unit distributions for the past four years. RGP has not been able to grow its per unit distributions because of a certain...