Enterprise Products Partners Onshore Natural Gas Pipelines And Services — Variable operating costs and expenses decreased by 33.3% to $14.00M in Q4 2025 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric declined by 26.3%, from $19.00M to $14.00M. Over 3 years (FY 2022 to FY 2025), Onshore Natural Gas Pipelines And Services — Variable operating costs and expenses shows an upward trend with a 12.6% CAGR. This is a positive signal — lower values indicate better performance for this metric.
An increase is expected during periods of high volume, but a disproportionate rise relative to throughput may signal operational inefficiencies.
These are the operating expenses for the natural gas segment that fluctuate directly with the volume of throughput or ac...
Standard operational metric for pipeline operators; peers track these as part of their overall operating and maintenance (O&M) expenses.
epd_segment_natural_gas_pipelines_services_variable_operating_costs_and_expenses| Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | |
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| Value | 13.5M | 13.5M | 13.5M | 13.5M | 14.8M | 14.8M | 14.8M | 14.8M | 15M | 24M | 15M | 19M | 22M | 20M | 21M | 14M |
| QoQ Change | — | +0.0% | +0.0% | +0.0% | +9.3% | +0.0% | +0.0% | +0.0% | +1.7% | +60.0% | -37.5% | +26.7% | +15.8% | -9.1% | +5.0% | -33.3% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | +9.3% | +9.3% | +9.3% | +9.3% | +1.7% | +62.7% | +1.7% | +28.8% | +46.7% | -16.7% | +40.0% | -26.3% |