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HOUSTON, Oct 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) today announced a reorganization of the Operations and Environmental, Health, Safety & Training (EHS&T) groups as part of its ongoing efforts to help ensure these key areas continue to be effectively managed as the company carries out its growth initiatives. Operations is now divided into two separate groups: Gas Pipeline/Plant Operations and Liquid Pipelines Operations. EHS&T is now comprised of the Safety & Training and Environmental & Technical Services groups.
"This reorganization reflects our strong commitment to safety, environmental stewardship and operational excellence," said Bill Ordemann, Enterprise Executive Vice President, who oversees the engineering, operations, environmental, health, safety and training functions within the partnership. "We seek to continually improve our performance in these critical areas to enable us to safely and efficiently manage our business and capitalize on new opportunities. These changes will help us achieve that goal."
Terry Hurlburt, Senior Vice President, will head the new Gas Pipeline/Plant division, which is comprised of the Houston/Mont Belvieu, South Texas/Eagle Ford, North Texas/Permian, Eastern Gulf Coast/Offshore, Louisiana Gas and San Juan/Northern Rockies regions. He is also responsible for the existing Measurement & Material Balance and Mechanical Reliability & Maintenance Optimization groups. In conjunction with the reorganization of these assets, Tony Auld has been promoted to Vice President, South Texas/Eagle Ford region and Rod Nielsen has been promoted to Vice President, San Juan/Northern Rockies region.
Kevin Bodenhamer has been promoted to Senior Vice President and will head the new Liquid Pipelines division, which includes the MAPL/Seminole/Chaparral, Enterprise TE Products Pipeline/Terminals, Onshore Crude Oil and Dixie Pipeline assets. In addition, he will oversee the Pipeline Control Center and the Pipeline Compliance group. Mr. Bodenhamer previously served as Vice President of EHS&T.
With the reorganization of the EHS&T division, Safety & Training is now headed by Ivan Zirbes, who has been promoted to Senior Director, and Environmental & Technical Services is the responsibility of Matt Marra, who has also been promoted to Senior Director. Further emphasizing the partnership's firm commitment to safe and responsible operations, as well as protecting the public, employees and the environment, both of these posts will report directly to Mr. Ordemann.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is the largest publicly traded energy partnership and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. The partnership's assets include: 49,100 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines; approximately 195 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, refined products and crude oil; and 27 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity. Services include: natural gas transportation, gathering, processing and storage; NGL fractionation, transportation, storage, and import and export terminaling; crude oil and refined products; offshore production platform services; petrochemical transportation and storage; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems and in the Gulf of Mexico. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is managed by its general partner, Enterprise Products GP LLC, which is wholly owned by Enterprise GP Holdings L.P. (NYSE:EPE). For more information on Enterprise GP Holdings L.P., visit www.enterprisegp.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein that address activities, events or developments or transactions that Enterprise expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including anticipated benefits and other aspects of such activities, events, developments or transactions, are forward-looking statements.These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including required approvals by regulatory agencies, the possibility that the anticipated benefits from such activities, events, developments or transactions cannot be fully realized, the possibility that costs or difficulties related thereto will be greater than expected, the impact of competition and other risk factors included in the reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Enterprise.Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.Except as required by law, Enterprise does not intend to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
SOURCE: Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Investor Relations Randy Burkhalter, 713-381-6812 or 866-230-0745 or Media Relations Rick Rainey,713-381-3635
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