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DCP Midstream Partners purchases certain MEG assets from general partner for $165 million
DENVER, May 21, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- DCP Midstream, LLC today announced an agreement to acquire the stock of Momentum Energy Group Inc. (MEG) for $635 million, subject to closing adjustments. MEG is a portfolio company of investment firms including Yorktown Energy Partners LLC, Banc of America Capital Investors and Lehman Brothers MLP Partners, L.P. Contingent upon the closing of the transaction between DCP Midstream and MEG, DCP Midstream Partners (NYSE: DPM), or the Partnership, will acquire certain subsidiaries of MEG from DCP Midstream for $165 million, subject to closing adjustments. DCP Midstream, LLC owns the general partner of the Partnership. Both transactions are expected to close during the third quarter of this year. These transactions mark the combined enterprise's entry into three prominent producing basins: Fort Worth, Piceance and Powder River.