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Board of Directors 


Robert G. Gwin
Chairman of the Board

Robert G. Gwin has served as Chairman of the Board of our general partner since October 2009. Mr. Gwin also served as President of the general partner from August 2007 to September 2009 and as Chief Executive Officer of the general partner from August 2007 to January 2010 and has been a director of our general partner since August 2007.

Mr. Gwin serves as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Anadarko. He joined Anadarko in January 2006 as Vice President, Finance and Treasurer and became Senior Vice President in March 2008.

Prior to joining Anadarko, he served most recently as CEO of Community Broadband Ventures, LP and previously as Chairman, President and CEO of Prosoft Learning Corporation. Previously, Mr. Gwin spent 10 years at Prudential Capital Group in merchant banking roles of increasing responsibility, including serving as Managing Director with responsibility for the firm's energy investments worldwide and a $13 billion portfolio of debt, mezzanine and private equity investments at the time of his departure.

Mr. Gwin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.

He is a director of Storm Ventures International, a privately held energy company, and serves on the Board of Directors of Theatre Under the Stars.


Milton Carroll


Mr. Carroll has served as a director of our general partner since April 2008, and currently serves as Chairman of the special committee of the board of directors. He also currently serves as Chairman of Houston-based CenterPoint Energy, Inc., where he has been a director since 1992. Mr. Carroll is Chairman and founder of Instrument Products, Inc., an oil-tool manufacturing company in Houston, Texas. He also serves as Chairman of Health Care Services Corporation (a Chicago-based company operating through its Blue Cross and Blue Shield divisions in Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico) and is a director of Halliburton Company. Mr. Carroll holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Texas Southern University.


Anthony R. Chase


Mr. Chase has served as a director of our general partner since April 2008, and currently serves as a member of the special and audit committees of the board of directors. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ChaseSource, L.P., a Houston-based staffing firm. He is also a consultant to Crest Investment Company, a Houston-based private equity firm that develops business opportunities worldwide, and served as an Executive Vice President of Crest from January 2009 until December 2009. Prior to these positions, he had most recently served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ChaseCom, L.P., a global customer relationship management and staffing services company until its sale in 2007 to AT&T. Mr. Chase has also been a Professor of Law at the University of Houston since 1991. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Cornell Companies and AVI BioPharma, Inc. From July 2004 to July 2008, Mr. Chase served as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and also served as its Deputy Chairman from 2006 until his departure in July 2008. Mr. Chase holds Bachelor of Arts, Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctor degrees from Harvard University.


James R. Crane


Mr. Crane has served as a director of our general partner since April 2008, and currently as a member of the special and audit committees of the board of directors. He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crane Capital Group. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Crane Worldwide Logistics, a Houston-based single-source provider of global transportation and logistics services, since August 2008. Prior to that time, he was Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EGL, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed global transportation, supply chain management and information services company based in Houston, Texas, from 1984 until its sale in August 2007. Mr. Crane holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Safety from University of Central Missouri.


Charles A. Meloy


Charles A. "Chuck" Meloy has served as a director of our general partner since February 2009. He has also served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations for Anadarko since December 2006. He joined the company in August 2006 as Senior Vice President, Deepwater and International Operations.

Mr. Meloy brings over 20 years of offshore technical and leadership experience to this position. He had served since July 2005 as Vice President of Exploration and Production at Kerr-McGee Corporation, prior to its acquisition by Anadarko. Meloy was Vice President of Gulf of Mexico exploration, production and development from 2004 to 2005, was Vice President and Managing Director of North Sea operations from 2002 to 2004, and held several other deepwater Gulf of Mexico management positions at Kerr-McGee beginning in 1999.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Meloy held various planning, operations, deepwater and reservoir engineering positions with Oryx Energy Company and its predecessor, Sun Oil Company. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University. Mr. Meloy is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Texas Professional Engineers.


Robert K. Reeves


Mr. Reeves has served as a director of our general partner since August 2007. He has also served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Anadarko since February 2007. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Law and Chief Governance Officer beginning in 2004. He has also served as a director of Key Energy Services Inc., a publicly-traded oilfied services company, since October 2007. Prior to joining Anadarko, he served as Executive Vice President, Administration and General Counsel of North Sea New Ventures from 2003 to 2004 and as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Ocean Energy, Inc. and its predecessor companies from 1997 to 2003. Mr. Reeves holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a Juris Doctor degree from Louisiana State University.


Donald R. Sinclair
President and Chief Executive Officer

Donald R. Sinclair has served as President and a director of our general partner since October 2009. In January 2010, he was named Chief Executive Officer of our general partner.

Prior to joining our general partner, Mr. Sinclair was a founding partner and served as President of Ceritas Energy, LLC, a midstream energy company headquartered in Houston with operations in Texas, Wyoming and Utah from February 2003 to September 2009.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Sinclair was President of Duke Energy Trading and Marketing LLC, one of the nation's largest marketers of natural gas and wholesale electric power, and served as Chairman of the Energy Risk Committee for Duke Energy Corporation. Prior to joining Duke, Mr. Sinclair served as Senior Vice President of Tenneco Energy and as President of Tenneco Energy Resources. Previously, as one of the original principals and officers at Dynegy (formerly NGC Corporation), he served for eight years in various officer positions, including Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer where he was in charge of all risk management activities and commercial operations.


David J. Tudor


Mr. Tudor has served as a director of our general partner since April 2008, and currently serves as Chairman of the audit committee and as a member of the special committee of the board of directors. Since 1999, he has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of ACES Power Marketing, an Indianapolis-based commodity risk management company owned by 16 generation and transmission cooperatives throughout the United States. Prior to joining ACES Power Marketing, Mr. Tudor was the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of PG&E Energy Trading, where he managed commercial operations in the United States and Canada. He also currently serves as a director of Wabash Valley Power Association's Board Risk Oversight Committee. Mr. Tudor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from David Lipscomb University.


R.A. Walker


Al Walker is President and Chief Operating Officer of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, having joined the company in 2005 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Anadarko, he was a Managing Director for the Global Energy Group of UBS Investment Bank from 2003 to 2005. He is a director of Centerpoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP), Temple-Inland Inc. (NYSE: TIN) and Western Gas Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Anadarko and general partner to Western Gas Partners, LP. (NYSE: WES), having previously served as the Chairman of the Board of this company until 2009. Mr. Walker also serves on the Board of Trustees for the United Way of Greater Houston and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.