NuStar Energy L.P. Announces Pricing of Common Units in Equity Offering

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE:NS) announced the pricing of an offering of 6,200,000 common units at a public offering price of $48.94 per unit. The partnership has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 930,000 additional common units. In the offering, the partnership expects that 490,000 common units will be sold to William E. Greehey, the Chairman of the board of directors of NuStar GP, LLC. The offering is scheduled to close Monday, September 10, 2012. The partnership currently intends to use the net proceeds from the offering, including the general partner’s proportionate capital contribution and any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units, for general partnership purposes, including repayment of outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility, working capital purposes and to finance potential future acquisitions.

UBS Investment Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets and Wells Fargo Securities are acting as joint book-running managers of the offering. Goldman, Sachs & Co., Raymond James, BB&T Capital Markets and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities are acting as co-managers of the offering.

This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement.

A copy of the prospectus supplement and the prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained from any of the underwriters, including:

UBS Investment Bank

299 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10010

Attn: Prospectus Department

Telephone: [phone]

Barclays

c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions

1155 Long Island Avenue

Edgewood, NY 11717

Telephone: [phone]

Credit Suisse

One Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10010

Attn: Prospectus Department

Telephone: [phone]

Deutsche Bank Securities

60 Wall Street

New York, New York 10005

Attn: Prospectus Department

Telephone: [phone]

J.P. Morgan Securities

c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions

1155 Long Island Avenue

Edgewood, NY 11717

Telephone: [phone]

Morgan Stanley

180 Varick Street

Second Floor

New York, NY 10014

Attention: Prospectus Department

Telephone: [phone]

RBC Capital Markets

277 Front St. W.

5th Floor

Toronto, Ontario M5V 2X4

Attn: Distribution Centre

Fax: [phone]

Wells Fargo Securities

375 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10152

Attn: Equity Syndicate Dept.

Telephone: [phone]

You may also obtain these documents for free when they are available by visiting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov.

NuStar Energy L.P. is a publicly traded limited partnership based in San Antonio, with 8,433 miles of pipeline; 84 terminal and storage facilities that store and distribute crude oil, refined products and specialty liquids; and two asphalt refineries and a fuels refinery with a combined throughput capacity of 118,500 barrels per day. The partnership’s combined system has approximately 96 million barrels of storage capacity. One of the largest asphalt refiners and marketers in the U.S. and the second largest independent liquids terminal operator in the nation, NuStar has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, including St. Eustatius in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and Turkey.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding future events. All forward-looking statements are based on the partnership's beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the partnership. These statements reflect the partnership’s current views with respect to future events and are subject to various risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These risks, uncertainties and assumptions are discussed in NuStar Energy L.P.’s 2011 annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.