UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 30, 2015
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Pennsylvania | 001-06198 | 25-1411751 | ||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
| 15 Bradley Street Warren, Pennsylvania |
16365 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (814) 723-1500
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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| Item 1.01. | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On January 30, 2015, United Refining Company (the “Company”) and Kiantone Pipeline Corporation, a subsidiary of the Company (“Kiantone” and, together with the Company, the “Company Parties”) on the one hand, and Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. (“EEPL”) and Enbridge Inc. (“EPI” and, together with EEPL, the “Carriers”), on the other hand, entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to that certain letter agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) with respect to approximately 88.85 miles of pipeline owned by the Carriers, which transports crude oil from Canada to the Company’s Kiantone Pipeline in West Seneca, New York and serves the Company’s refinery in Warren, Pennsylvania (“Line 10”).
Pursuant to the Amendment, the date by which the Company and the Carriers will negotiate the terms and conditions of a put and call option agreement for Line 10 (the “Put and Call Agreement”) has been changed from on or before January 31, 2015 to on or before February 14, 2015. Pursuant to the Put and Call Agreement, the Company would have the right to purchase the Line 10 Pipeline from the Carriers at any time during the next approximately eleven years and the Carriers would have the right to require the Company to purchase the Line 10 Pipeline over a two year period starting at the later of approximately nine years or when all of the replacements are completed.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: February 3, 2015 | ||||||||
| UNITED REFINING COMPANY | ||||||||
| By: | /s/ James E. Murphy | |||||||
| Name: | James E. Murphy | |||||||
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||||||