Pipe dreams still alive for select few in US energy rout
New York
AN energy-market rout has ravaged fortunes from Texas to North Dakota and hit thousands of small investors, but some tycoons are still coining it in thanks to a piece of financial engineering that has tilted the playing field in their favour.
US pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren, for example, has pocketed over US$300 million in cash payouts from his company Energy Transfer Equity since the price of oil started to crater in mid-2014, according to a Reuters analysis based on filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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