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ENRON GLOBAL POWER & PIPELINES REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 1997 EARNINGS PER SHARE OF $0.50 PER SHARE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, July 18, 1997
HOUSTON -- Enron Global Power & Pipelines L.L.C. (Ticker symbol: EPP) today reported second quarter 1997 earnings per share of $0.50 or net income of $13.0 million, which includes a one-time adjustment of $0.07 per share or $1.9 million (after-tax) for the reversal of an early completion bonus associated with construction of the Centragas natural gas pipeline in Colombia. Excluding this adjustment, earnings per share increased 19 percent to $0.57 per share compared to the prior year period. Net income for the second quarter of 1996 was $11.6 million or $0.48 per share.
For the first half of 1997, EPP's earnings per share increased 27 percent to $1.22 compared to earnings per share of $0.96 for the prior year period. Net income for the corresponding periods was $31.0 million and $23.1 million.
"EPP's assets were consistent performers in the second quarter of 1997, serving their growing markets with reliable energy supplies," said Rodney L. Gray, EPP chairman and chief executive officer. "In addition, Enron identified a proposed 116-megawatt, natural gas-fired power plant in Nowa Sarzyna, Poland, as a designated development project for the EPP project portfolio."
EPP and Enron also announced in May that Enron had submitted a formal merger proposal to EPP's Oversight Committee that calls for merging EPP into Enron in a transaction in which each EPP shareholder would receive $32 per share in Enron common stock. The Oversight Committee, along with outside legal and financial advisers, is evaluating that proposal.
EPP's assets consist of interests in two power plants in the Philippines, power plants in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic and natural gas pipeline systems in Argentina and Colombia. Enron Global Power & Pipelines, majority owned by Enron, is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol, "EPP."
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Carol Hensley
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