Diaco Aviki will serve as a member of the board of directors upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Aviki is currently a director at Pinon. Mr. Aviki joined Crestwood in 2017 as Chief Operating Officer, Business Development and Commercial Operations for the Gathering and Processing Division, located in Houston, Texas. In this role, Mr. Aviki led Crestwood’s gathering and processing business development activities and strategy development. Crestwood was sold to Energy Transfer at a valuation of $7.1 billion in November 2023. Mr. Aviki began his career with ExxonMobil in 1995, where he held various domestic and international positions in their downstream, chemicals, and gas marketing business units. Mr. Aviki led the ExxonMobil gas marketing team involved with the commissioning of the ExxonMobil Golden Pass LNG Terminal where it successfully completed a re-gassified LNG send-out (a process of sending LNG at high-pressure to an onshore pipeline) prior to joining BHP. At BHP, Mr. Aviki initially served as the Atlantic Basin Marketing Manager, integrating the shale acquisitions from Petrohawk Energy Corporation and Chesapeake Energy Corporation. Prior to joining Crestwood, Mr. Aviki served as the President of various midstream assets at BHP and led their commercial efforts. Mr. Aviki has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University and has an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas. He is an advisory board member for the Engineering College and Chemical Engineering Department at Auburn University. We believe Mr. Aviki’s years of experience and first-hand knowledge of the energy industry qualify him to bring valuable and needed skills to our board of directors.

Tyler Crabtree will serve as a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Crabtree has 25 years of experience in finance, investments and operations primarily focused on energy and commodities industries. He currently is the CEO of CarbonPath, a company offering industrial credit solutions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions within the energy and industrial sectors. Prior to forming CarbonPath, he launched, grew and sold Bruin, a North American focused upstream oil and gas operator with over 400 operated wells in North Dakota between 2015 – 2021, where he served on the executive team as Chief Financial Officer. At Bruin, he was responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting including business strategy and planning, financial modeling and reporting, capital raising, midstream commercial operations, insurance, and commodity and interest rate risk management. Prior to Bruin, Mr. Crabtree served as CFO of Ursa Resources Group II LLC, an upstream oil and gas company focused on oil exploration in the East Texas Eagle Ford shale and natural gas production in western Colorado, from 2010 until 2015. Before his time in leadership at Ursa, Mr. Crabtree worked at Denham Capital, an energy and commodity focused private equity firm, where he focused on energy services, commodity processing and midstream investments. He began his energy career as an associate at El Paso Corporation in 2001 before joining Jefferies, Randall & Dewey Ltd as an investment banker in 2004. During that time, he worked on the San Fernando Pipeline JV between Petroleos Mexicanos and El Paso Corporation and on numerous power investments in Alberta Canada. Mr. Crabtree holds a bachelor’s degree in History of Science from Princeton University. We believe Mr. Crabtree’s extensive experience in the energy industry, as well as his past executive leadership and management roles, brings valuable skills to our board of directors.

Lynn A. Peterson will serve as a member of the board of directors upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Peterson is a seasoned industry professional with more than 40 years of experience in the oil and gas sector. Mr. Peterson held the position of Executive Chairman of the Board at Chord Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHRD) from July 2022 through December 2023. He served as a director of Denbury Inc. (“Denbury”) from 2017 until its acquisition by ExxonMobil in November 2023 and as a director of PDC Energy (Nasdaq: PDCE), prior to its merger with Chevron Corporation. Mr. Peterson brought valuable insights to the different company’s operations, strategy, and business management. As a former CEO of an oil and gas company, Mr. Peterson’s brings extensive industry knowledge and leadership skills to our board of directors. Mr. Peterson previously served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Whiting Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: WLL) from September 2020 until its merger with Oasis Petroleum, Inc. in July 2022, forming Chord Energy Corporation. Prior to Whiting, Mr. Peterson was Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of SRC Energy from 2015 to 2020, until the closing of its merger with PDC Energy. Before SRC, Mr. Peterson was a co-founder of Kodiak Oil & Gas Corporation, serving as a director from 2001 to 2014; President and Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2014; and Chairman of the Board from 2011 to 2014 until its acquisition by Whiting Petroleum Corporation in December 2014. Mr. Peterson graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. We believe his expertise will assist our board in making informed decisions focused on sustainable growth and success.