SUNOCO LOGISTICS PARTNERS L.P. ANNOUNCES PUBLIC OFFERING OF COMMON UNITS

PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 2009 -

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL),that it has commenced a public offering of 2,000,000 common units pursuantbarclaysprospectus@broadridge.com, or UBS Investment

announced

to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed with the

Securities and Exchange Commission. The underwriters have been granted an option to

purchase up to 300,000 additional common units. The Partnership intends to use the net

proceeds from this offering to reduce the indebtedness outstanding under its whollyowned

subsidiary, Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations L.P.’s, $400 million revolving

credit facility and for general partnership purposes.

Citi, UBS Investment Bank and Barclays Capital are acting as joint book-running

managers for the common unit offering.

A copy of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus related to

this offering may be obtained from Citi, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Attention: Prospectus

Delivery Dept., 140 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11220, or by calling Citi toll-free at (800)

831-9146, or Barclays Capital, c/o Broadridge Integrated Distribution Services, 1155

Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY, 11717, or by calling Barclays Capital toll-free at

(888) 603-5847 or by e-mail at

Bank, Prospectus Dept., 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10171, or by calling UBS

Investment Bank toll-free at (888) 827-7275.

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 an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to

registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. The

offering may be made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement.

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL), headquartered in Philadelphia, is a

master limited partnership formed to acquire, own and operate refined product and crude

oil pipelines and terminal facilities. The Eastern Pipeline System consists of

approximately 2,300 miles of primarily refined product pipelines located in the

Northeastern and Midwestern United States, the recently acquired MagTex Pipeline

System, and interests in four refined products pipelines, consisting of a 9.4 percent

interest in Explorer Pipeline Company, a 31.5 percent interest in Wolverine Pipe Line

Company, a 12.3 percent interest in West Shore Pipe Line Company and a 14.0 percent

interest in Yellowstone Pipe Line Company. The Terminal Facilities consist of

approximately 9.7 million shell barrels of refined products terminal capacity and

approximately 21.2 million shell barrels of crude oil terminal capacity (including

approximately 17.8 million shell barrels of capacity at the Texas Gulf Coast Nederland

Terminal). The Western Pipeline System consists of approximately 3,700 miles of crude

oil pipelines, located principally in Oklahoma and Texas, a 55.3 percent interest in Mid-

Valley Pipeline Company, a 43.8 percent interest in the West Texas Gulf Pipe Line

Company and a 37.0 percent interest in the Mesa Pipe Line System.

Note: Although Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. believes that the assumptions

underlying these statements are reasonable, investors are cautioned that such forwardlooking

statements are inherently uncertain and necessarily involve risks that may affect

the Partnership’s business prospects and performance causing actual results to differ from

those discussed in the foregoing release. Such risks and uncertainties include, by way of

example and not of limitation: whether or not the transactions described in the foregoing

news release will be cash flow accretive; increased competition; changes in demand for

crude oil and refined products that we store and distribute; changes in operating

conditions and costs; changes in the level of environmental remediation spending;

potential equipment malfunction; potential labor issues; the legislative or regulatory

environment; plant construction/repair delays; nonperformance by major customers or

suppliers; and political and economic conditions, including the impact of potential

terrorist acts and international hostilities. These and other applicable risks and

uncertainties have been described more fully in the Partnership’s Form 10-K filed with

the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 24, 2009. The Partnership

undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in this release,

whether as a result of new information or future events.