Tallgrass Energy Announces Plans for New Terminal in Key Colorado Oil Complex; Terminal to Interconnect with the Saddle Butte Oil Gathering System

LEAWOOD, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (NYSE:TEP), through its subsidiaries
Tallgrass Terminals, LLC (Tallgrass Terminals) and Tallgrass Pony
Express Pipeline, LLC (Pony Express), today announced an agreement with
Saddle Butte Pipeline to develop the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal. The
terminal will be located strategically in the heart of the Platteville,
Colo., oil terminal complex and will interconnect with Saddle Butte’s
Denver-Julesburg Basin crude oil gathering system.

Pending the successful conclusion of the Pony Express Pipeline’s
recently announced open season, the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal will
serve as a new pipeline origin for the Pony Express Platteville
Extension. The Platteville Extension is expected to have an ultimate
takeaway capacity of at least 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day and is
expected to be in service Q2 2018.

Saddle Butte’s Milton Terminal also will serve as an origin point on
Pony Express, allowing Pony Express to offer direct refinery and Cushing
terminal connections to Saddle Butte’s producer customers in the near
term while the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal is developed. The Milton
Terminal will continue as an origin point when the terminal is
operational. Tallgrass Terminals will wholly own and operate the
Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal when it is completed. Consistent with the
Pony Express Pipeline’s current operations, the Tallgrass Grasslands
Terminal will offer batching service for several common streams sourced
from multiple gathering system interconnects.

“The proposed Platteville Extension and Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal,
together with our existing Buckingham Terminal and Northeast Colorado
Lateral, give Pony Express and Tallgrass Terminals an unrivaled
footprint in the D-J and provide meaningful benefits to producers,” said
Doug Johnson, Vice President and General Manager of Tallgrass Pony
Express Pipeline. “Via its direct connections to refineries and six
final-destination terminals in Cushing, Pony Express provides customers
a broad range of delivery options and improved netbacks versus other
alternative transport options.

“Saddle Butte has been great to work with, and our collaboration has
enabled us to accelerate the development of our Platteville Extension by
at least six months,” Johnson added. “We look forward to a mutually
beneficial relationship with Saddle Butte as we continue our mission to
make Pony Express the pipeline of choice for shippers in the D-J, Bakken
and Powder River Basin.”

Parties interested in details of the Platteville Extension open season
should contact Kyle Quackenbush, 303.763.3319, or Dean Dick,
307.232.4430. The open season is expected to conclude on July 17, 2017.

About Tallgrass Energy

Tallgrass Energy is a family of companies that includes publicly traded
partnerships Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: TEP) and Tallgrass
Energy GP, LP (NYSE: TEGP), and privately held Tallgrass Development,
LP. Operating across 10 states, Tallgrass is a growth-oriented midstream
energy operator with transportation, storage, terminal and processing
assets that serve some of the nation’s most prolific crude oil and
natural gas basins.

To learn more, please visit our website at www.tallgrassenergy.com.

Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking
Statements

Disclosures in this press release contain forward-looking statements.
All statements, other than statements of historical facts included in
this press release that address activities, events or developments that
management expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the
future are forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, forward-looking statements contained in this press
release specifically include the potential Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal
and Pony Express Platteville Extension, the expected takeaway capacity
and in-service date of the Pony Express Platteville Extension, and the
anticipated services to be offered by Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal.
Such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and
uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of Tallgrass
Terminals and Pony Express, which may cause actual results to differ
materially from those implied or expressed by the forward-looking
statements, and other important factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those projected. Any forward-looking statement
applies only as of the date on which such statement is made and
Tallgrass Terminals and Pony Express do not intend to correct or update
any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

Contacts

Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP
Investor and Financial
Inquiries

Nate Lien, 913-928-6012
[email protected]
or
Media
and Trade Inquiries

Phyllis Hammond, 303-763-3568
[email protected]