Crestwood Equity Partners LP and Crestwood Midstream Partners LP (collectively Crestwood) announced several promotions within Crestwood's senior management team, effective immediately. Additionally, Crestwood announced a new internal organizational structure forming a Pipeline Services Group and Supply and Logistics Group. The Pipeline Services Group will consist of all Crestwood's natural gas, crude oil and water gathering systems, pipelines and compression, processing plants and natural gas storage facilities in the US.

The Supply and Logistics Group will include all natural gas liquids (NGL) and crude oil marketing, terminals and fractionation facilities, crude oil and NGL transportation fleet assets, NGL storage and US Salt. Crestwood anticipates that it will continue to report financial and operating data in its existing three segment structure of Gathering and Processing, Storage and Transportation, and Crude and NGL Services. Heath Deneke, formerly President of the Natural Gas Business Unit, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer and Head of the Pipeline Services Group.

In his new role, Mr. Deneke will be responsible for the commercial development and operations of Crestwood's infrastructure assets serving the Marcellus, Bakken, PRB Niobrara, Delaware Permian, Barnett, Granite Wash, Fayetteville and Haynesville shale plays. Additionally, he will guide Crestwood's technical services, environmental, safety, regulatory compliance and supply chain teams. Mr. Deneke's previous experience includes a 17 year career at El Paso Corporation in a series of increasing executive roles including commercial and business development, project management and engineering, marketing and asset optimization. Brian Freed, formerly Vice President of Crude Logistics, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Western US Commercial Operations.

Mr. Freed has been with the Crestwood organization since December 2012. In his new role, Mr. Freed will have commercial responsibilities for all Crestwood's crude, natural gas, and water assets in the Western US Region including the Bakken, PRB Niobrara, and Delaware Permian shale plays. Mr. Freed brings 22 years of experience which includes senior leadership positions across multiple energy organizations, most recently with Rangeland Energy where he served as Vice President of Business Development and prior to that he founded and served as President and CEO of Entessa/Energy Solutions International before the successful sale of the company.

Mark Mitchell, formerly Senior Vice President of Natural Gas Business Unit, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Eastern US Commercial Operations. Mr. Mitchell has been with the Crestwood organization since October 2013 with commercial responsibilities for Crestwood's natural gas storage and transportation assets. In his new role, Mr. Mitchell will have commercial responsibilities for Crestwood's natural gas gathering, compression, and natural gas storage and transportation assets in the Eastern US Region and the Tres Palacios gas storage joint venture.

Mr. Mitchell brings 23 years of experience which includes various natural gas marketing and trading roles at Epoch Energy, El Paso Energy, Natural Gas Clearinghouse, and Coastal Corporation. Bill Gautreaux, formerly President of the Liquids & Crude Business Unit, has been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer and Head of the Supply and Logistics Group. Mr. Gautreaux has been with Crestwood and its predecessor companies since March 1999 and was a founding partner of Inergy LP.

In his new role, Mr. Gautreaux will be responsible for consolidating Crestwood's NGL and Crude marketing activities and leading its growth strategies around the Crestwood platform including the Marcellus Utica NGL supply region; Northeast US NGL market region; West Coast NGL assets; NGL and Crude trucking and transportation assets; and Crestwood's crude marketing focus in the Bakken, PRB Niobrara and Delaware Permian regions. Kevin Hall joined the Crestwood organization in April 2015 as the Vice President of Transportation. Mr. Hall brings over 28 years of experience serving most recently as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain & Continuous Improvement for Hostess Brands LLC.

In his new role, Mr. Hall will be responsible for Crestwood's fleet of NGL and crude oil trucking units and rail cars.