BLUEKNIGHT ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P. (NASDAQ:BKEP) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On March 18, 2019, James R. Griffin informed Blueknight Energy Partners G.P., L.L.C. (the “General Partner”), the general partner of Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. (the “Partnership”), of his intent to resign as Chief Accounting Officer and interim Chief Financial Officer of the General Partner effective April 16, 2019. Mr. Griffin’s resignation is not due to any disagreements with the Partnership or the General Partner.
On March 21, 2019, Mr. Michael McLanahan, age 36, was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer of the General Partner and will serve as the General Partner’s principal accounting officer. The Board of Directors of the General Partner has approved the appointment of Mr. McLanahan as Chief Accounting Officer of the General Partner effective April 1, 2019.
Mr. McLanahan joined the Partnership in May 2011 and has served in various accounting roles, including as Corporate Controller since February 2014. Mr. McLanahan previously served as an audit manager for the public accounting firm of Ernst and Young, LLP. Mr. McLanahan received his Bachelor of Administration in accounting from Ouachita Baptist University and is a certified public accountant in the state of Oklahoma.
About BLUEKNIGHT ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P. (NASDAQ:BKEP)
Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. is a master limited partnership company. The Company provides integrated terminalling, storage, gathering and transportation services for companies engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of crude oil and liquid asphalt cement. It operates in four segments: asphalt terminalling services, which provides asphalt product and residual fuel terminalling, storage and blending services at its terminalling and storage facilities; crude oil terminalling and storage services, which provides crude oil terminalling and storage services at its terminalling and storage facilities; crude oil pipeline services, which owns and operates pipeline systems, the Mid-Continent system, the East Texas system and Eagle North system, that gather crude oil purchased by its customers and transports it to refiners, and crude oil trucking and producer field services, which uses its owned and leased tanker trucks to gather crude oil for its customers.