DBRS Morningstar Assigns Rating of BBB (high) with Stable Trends to Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s New Issues of CAD 500 Million Medium Term Notes

DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) assigned ratings of BBB (high) with Stable trends to Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s CAD 100 million Medium Term Notes, Series 5 due February 3, 2025 (reopening), CAD 100 million Medium Term Notes, Series 6 due June 15, 2027 (reopening), and CAD 300 million Medium Term Notes, Series 19 due June 22, 2026 (collectively, the MTNs).

The ratings being assigned to the MTNs above are based upon the ratings on already-outstanding series of the above-mentioned debt instruments.

ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, GOVERNANCE CONSIDERATIONS
There were no Environmental/Social/Governance factors that had a significant or relevant effect on the credit analysis.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar considers ESG factors within the DBRS Morningstar analytical framework can be found in the DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Approach to Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk Factors in Credit Ratings at https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/396929 (May 17, 2022).

Notes:
All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.

DBRS Morningstar applied the following principal methodologies:
-- Global Methodology for Rating Companies in the Pipeline and Midstream Energy Industry (November 3, 2022; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/404917)

-- DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Preferred Share and Hybrid Security Criteria for Corporate Issuers (October 20, 2022; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/404252/)

The credit rating methodologies used in the analysis of this transaction can be found at:
https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/about/methodologies.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar analyzes corporate finance transactions and how the methodologies are collectively applied can be found at: https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/397223/interplay-of-global-corporate-finance-rating-methodologies-when-analyzing-corporate-finance-transactions.

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This is a solicited credit rating.

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