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Sunoco LP

For the period ended Mar 31, 2026. Filed May 7, 2026.

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Mar 31, 2026 · Filed May 7, 2026

SUN$61.73+0.0%Stored close · as of Nov 6, 2026
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Recent Developments

Overview

As used in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, the terms “Partnership,” “we,” “us” or “our” should be understood to refer to Sunoco LP and its consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

We are a Delaware master limited partnership primarily engaged in energy infrastructure and distribution of motor fuels across 32 countries andterritories in North America, the Greater Caribbean and Europe. Our midstream operations include an extensive network of over 14,000 miles of pipeline and over 160 terminals. Our fuel distribution operations distribute over 15 billion gallons annually to approximately 11,000 Sunoco and partner branded locations, as well as independent dealers and commercial customers.

Recent Developments

TanQuid Acquisition

On January 16, 2026, the Partnership completed the previously announced acquisition of TanQuid for€206 million ($239 million ) and assumed debt with a fair value of€298 million ($346 million as of January 16, 2026). TanQuid owns and operates 15 fuel terminals in Germany and one fuel terminal in Poland. The transaction was funded using cash on hand and amounts available under the Partnership's Credit Facility.

Other Acquisitions

In the first quarter of 2026, the Partnership completed other acquisitions for total cash consideration of approximately $50 million, plus working capital. These transactions were accounted for as asset acquisitions.

Regulatory Update

OECD Pillar Two Global Minimum Tax

The acquisition of Parkland brought Sunoco into the scope of the Pillar Two global minimum tax regime. Several jurisdictions in which Sunoco now operates have enacted legislation implementing the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Pillar Two global minimum tax framework. These rules generally impose a 15% minimum top-up tax on the profits of large multinational enterprises. Sunoco estimates its Pillar Two global minimum tax expense to be immaterial in 2026 and has not accrued any current tax expense related to Pillar Two during the three months ended March 31, 2026.

On January 5, 2026, the OECD released new guidance that provides relief for U.S. parented multinationals and establishes a side-by-side framework for the U.S. tax system to coexist with Pillar Two global minimum tax. Effective for fiscal years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, U.S. parented multinationals would be exempt from the main charging provisions of Pillar Two. Sunoco will continue to estimate and potentially accrue Pillar Two global minimum tax until the relevant jurisdictions in which Sunoco operates enact the side-by-side framework into law.

Interstate Common Carrier Regulation

In December 2020, the FERC issued an order setting the indexed rate at PPI-FG plus 0.78% during the five-year period commencing July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2026. The FERC received requests for rehearing of its December 17, 2020 order and on January 20, 2022, granted rehearing and modified the oil index. Specifically, for the five-year period commencing July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2026, FERC-regulated liquids pipelines charging indexed rates were permitted to adjust their indexed ceilings annually by PPI-FG minus 0.21%. The FERC directed liquids pipelines to recompute their ceiling levels for July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, as well as the ceiling levels for the period July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, based on the new index level. Where an oil pipeline’s filed rates exceeded its ceiling levels, the FERC ordered such oil pipelines to reduce the rate to bring it into compliance with the recomputed ceiling level to be effective March 1, 2022. Some parties sought rehearing of the January 20, 2022 order with the FERC, which was denied by the FERC on May 6, 2022. Certain parties appealed the January 20 and May 6 orders. On July 26, 2024, the D.C. Circuit ruled in LEPA v. FERC that the FERC violated the Administrative Procedure Act because the January 20, 2022 order modified the index without following notice and comment. As a result, the D.C. Circuit vacated the January 20, 2022 order and on September 17, 2024, the FERC reinstated the index level established by its original December 17, 2020 order, directed pipelines to file an informational filing to show their recomputed ceiling levels reflecting the reinstated index level and stated that pipelines could file to prospectively increase their indexed rates to their recomputed levels. On October 17, 2024, the FERC issued a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Supplemental NOPR”) that proposed a reduction to the then- effective index by one percent.

On November 20, 2025, the FERC withdrew the Supplemental NOPR and confirmed that the PPI-FG-0.78% index established in its December 17, 2020 order will remain in effect through June 30, 2026. On the same day, the FERC issued an Order Denying Rehearing of the Reinstatement Order and Granting Remedial Relief (“Remedial Relief Order”), which granted remedial relief to liquids pipelines for the period of March 1, 2022 to September 17, 2024 (the “Locked-In Period”), when the lower index was effective under the order vacated by the D.C. Circuit in LEPA v. FERC, but only if such pipelines charged the maximum rate allowed under the applicable index ceiling during the relevant time period. Parties have since filed requests for clarification or rehearing, as well as court appeals, to determine whether pipelines may recover rate differences in other scenarios. Those requests and appeals remain pending.

Also on November 20, 2025, the FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the 2026 Five-Year Oil Pipeline Index (“2026 Index NOPR”), proposing to use the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods (PPI-FG) minus 1.42% as the index level beginning July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2031. The NOPR proceeded through the standard notice-and-comment process, with comments submitted in late 2025 and early 2026, and remains pending final Commission action.

On December 18, 2025, the FERC issued an Order Denying Petition for Emergency Relief (“Emergency Relief Order Denial”), which denied a petition requesting emergency relief from invoices issued by a liquid pipeline company to recover amounts of indexed rates for the Locked-In Period and explained that, consistent with the Remedial Relief Order, pipelines that charged the maximum rates permitted under the FERC’s now-vacated January 20, 2022 rehearing order during the Locked-In Period may invoice shippers to recover the amounts that would have been chargeable under the December 17, 2020 order.

In January 2026, multiple shippers have filed petitions for review at the D.C. Circuit challenging the FERC’s November 20, 2025 orders, including, the (i) Remedial Relief Order, (ii) Order Terminating Supplemental NOPR, and (iii) Emergency Relief Order Denial. These appeals are pending.

Separately, on December 15, 2022, the FERC issued a Proposed Policy Statement on Oil Pipeline Affiliate Committed Service, which addresses whether a contract for committed transportation service complies with the Interstate Commerce Act (“ICA”) where the only shipper to obtain the committed service is an affiliate of the regulated entity. If adopted, the proposed policy statement would create a rebuttable presumption that affiliate contracts are unduly discriminatory and not just and reasonable in certain circumstances and require a pipeline to produce additional evidentiary support for affiliate contracts rates and terms. This follows a trend of increased scrutiny by the FERC on affiliated contracts across all industries regulated by the FERC. The FERC has taken no further action on the proposed policy statement.

Regulation of Intrastate Crude Oil and Products Pipelines

In addition to federally regulated body oversight, various states, including Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, North Dakota and Texas, maintain commissions focused on the rates and practices of common carrier pipelines offering services within their borders. Although the applicable state statutes and regulations vary, they generally require that intrastate pipelines publish tariffs setting forth all rates, rules and regulations applying to intrastate service, and generally require that pipeline rates and practices be just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory.

Shippers may challenge tariff rates, rules and regulations on our pipelines. In most instances, state commissions have not initiated investigations of the rates or practices of pipelines in the absence of shipper complaints. There are no pending challenges or complaints regarding our tariffs or tariff rates.

In addition, as noted above, the rates, terms and conditions for shipments of crude oil or petroleum products on Sunoco’s pipelines could be subject to regulation by the FERC under the ICA and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (“EPAct of 1992”) if the crude oil or petroleum products are transported in interstate or foreign commerce whether by its pipelines or other means of transp ortation. Since Sunoco does not control the entire transportation path of all crude oil or petroleum products shipped on our pipelines, FERC regulation could be triggered by our customers’ transportation decisions.

Regulation of Interstate Ammonia Pipelines

Our ammonia pipeline is subject to regulation by the Surface Transportation Board (the “STB”) pursuant to the ICA applicable to such pipelines (which differs from the ICA applicable to interstate liquids pipelines). Under that regulation, the ammonia pipeline’s rates, classifications, rules and practices related to the interstate transportation of anhydrous ammonia must be reasonable and, in providing interstate transportation, the ammonia pipeline may not subject a person, place, port or type of traffic to unreasonable discrimination. Similar to the crude and refined products pipelines, the rates for transportation services on the ammonia pipeline are required to be in a tariff which is posted publicly on Sunoco’s website, however, that tariff is not required to be on file with the STB. The STB does not prescribe an indexing approach similar to the EPAct of 1992 but rates under the STB must be reasonable and the pipeline may not subject a person, place, port or type of traffic to unreasonable discrimination.

Key Measure Used to Evaluate and Assess Our Business

Adjusted EBITDA, as used throughout this document, is defined asnet income before net interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation, amortization and accretion expense, non-cash compensation expense, gains and losses on disposal of asset, non-cash impairment charges, losses on extinguishment of debt, unrealized gains and losses on commodity derivatives, inventory valuation adjustments, certain foreign currency transaction gains and losses and certain other operating expenses reflected in net income that we do not believe are indicative of ongoing core operations. Inventory valuation adjustments that are excluded from the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA represent changes in lower of cost or market reserves on the Partnership's inventory; these amounts are unrealized valuation adjustments applied to fuel volumes remaining in inventory at the end of the period.

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. For a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to net income, which is the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, read “Key Operating Metrics and Results of Operations” below.

We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance because:

Adjusted EBITDA is used as a performance measure under our Credit Facility;

securities analysts and other interested parties use Adjusted EBITDA as a measure of financial performance; and

our management uses Adjusted EBITDA for internal planning purposes, including aspects of our consolidated operating budget and capital expenditures.

Adjusted EBITDA is not a recognized term under GAAP and does not purport to be an alternative to net income as a measure of operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and one should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations include:

it does not reflect interest expense or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments on our Credit Facility or senior notes;

although depreciation, amortization and accretion are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated, amortized and accreted will often have to be replaced in the future, and Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect cash requirements for such replacements; and

as not all companies use identical calculations, our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

Adjusted EBITDA reflects amounts for the unconsolidated affiliates based on the same recognition and measurement methods used to record equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates. Adjusted EBITDA related to unconsolidated affiliates excludes the same items with respect to the unconsolidated affiliates as those excluded from the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA, such as interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, accretion and other non-cash items. Although these amounts are excluded from Adjusted EBITDA related to unconsolidated affiliates, such exclusion should not be understood to imply that we have control over the operations and resulting revenues and expenses of such affiliates. Sunoco does not control its unconsolidated affiliates; therefore, Sunoco does not control the earnings or cash flows of such affiliates. The use of Adjusted EBITDA or Adjusted EBITDA related to unconsolidated affiliates as an analytical tool should be limited accordingly.

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