Best Industrial Disributor Companies To Buy For 2015

Best Industrial Disributor Companies To Buy For 2015: Dominion Resources Inc. (D)

Dominion Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing and transporting energy in the United States. It operates in three segments: DVP, Dominion Generation, and Dominion Energy. The DVP segment includes regulated electric transmission and distribution operations that serve residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in Virginia and North Carolina. This segment also involves in non regulated retail energy marketing of electricity and natural gas. The Dominion Generation segment includes the electricity generation through coal, nuclear, gas, oil, and renewables; and related energy supply operations. It also comprises generation operations of the company?s merchant fleet and energy marketing, and price risk management activities for these assets. The Dominion Energy segment includes the company?s Ohio and West Virginia regulated natural gas distribution companies, regulated gas transmission pipeline and storage operations, natural gas gathering and by-products extraction activities, and regulated LNG import and storage operations. It also provides producer services, which aggregates natural gas supply; engages in natural gas trading and marketing activities; and involves in natural gas supply management. The company?s portfolio of assets includes approximately 27,615 MW of generation; 6,100 miles of electric transmission lines; 56,800 miles of electric distribution lines; 11,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering, and storage pipeline; and 21,800 miles of gas distribution pipeline. Dominion Resources, Inc. also owns approximately 947 bcf of storage capacity of natural gas and serves retail energy customers in 14 states. In addition, it sells electricity at wholesale prices to rural electric cooperatives, municipalities, and into wholesale electricity markets. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Advisors' Opi! nion:

• [By Justin Loiseau]

  Dominion's downsize
  Dominion (NYSE: D  ) announced this week that it has shut down its 556 MW Wisconsin nuclear station after nearly 40 years of service. According to Dominion Nuclear President David Heacock, "This decision was based purely on economics" and was due primarily to a lack of scale and inopportune timing for purchase agreement renewals.

• [By Richard Stavros]

  For the past few years, Dominion Resources Inc (NYSE: D) has enjoyed a substantially higher valuation than other utilities thanks to its exposure to the US shale boom. The companys operations in this area consist of midstream assets, including natural gas storage and transportation, as well as a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility.

• [By Arjun Sreekumar]

  New infrastructure additions
  The first of those facilities the expanded Natrium processing plant in Marshall County, W.V., built by Blue Racer Midstream, a joint venture between Dominion (NYSE: D  ) and Caiman Energy came on line earlier this month, reporting recent flows at more than 80% of its 200,000 Mcfpd capacity, accordingto data from Bentek Energy, while the second facility a processing complex in Columbiana and Harrison counties is expected to open midyear.

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