On September 5, 2019, Brian L. Melton informed Blueknight Energy Partners G.P., L.P. (the “General Partner”) of Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. (the “Partnership”), of his intent to resign as Chief Commercial Officer of the General Partner effective September 20, 2019, and accept a position with another company. Mr. Melton’s resignation is not due to any disagreements with the Partnership or the General Partner.

Upon Mr. Melton’s departure, Mark A. Hurley, Chief Executive Officer, will continue to oversee the commercial function and play an active role in the commercial operations and growth of the business.

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.