NuStar Energy L.P. announced that the company's Board of Directors approved five senior executive promotions and the addition of a new senior executive. The company's four most senior officers, Brad Barron, Steve Blank, Rick Bluntzer and Mary Rose Brown, have all been promoted from Senior Vice President to Executive Vice President, and Tom Shoaf, Vice President and Controller, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Controller. The company also announced that Doug Comeau has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning. Barron serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel and oversees all aspects of the company's legal division, assures compliance with securities laws, oversees health, safety and environmental compliance, and manages the real estate, right-of-way and customs and trade compliance groups. Blank serves as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer, and he supervises the Controller and oversees corporate finance, external reporting, investor relations, risk management and treasury. Bluntzer serves as Executive Vice President of Operations and oversees company's extensive international pipeline, terminal and asphalt and fuels refining operations in eight different countries. Brown serves as Executive Vice President of Administration and is responsible for the company's corporate communications, government relations, human resources, corporate services and aviation departments. She is also responsible for overseeing company's charitable contributions through the NuStar Foundation. Shoaf oversees company's accounting and tax groups, and he recently took on added responsibility for the budgeting, forecasting, credit, cash management and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance functions.