- Western Gas Equity Partners (WGP -8.2%) tumbles following Anadarko Petroleum's (APC -0.5%) plans, announced late yesterday, for a secondary offering of 2M WGP common equity units.
- APC also said it will concurrently sell 6.5M of its tangible equity units at $50 a piece, with each consisting of a prepaid equity purchase contract and a senior amortizing note.
- WGP is an APC subsidiary that was formed to hold partnership interests in Western Gas Partners (WES -2.8%), another APC subsidiary that owns and operates pipeline and other midstream energy assets; APC owns 193.4M WGP units, or 88.3% of its outstanding stock, which would fall to ~87.4% after the upcoming offering is completed.