Crestwood Midstream Partners LP (CMLP) announced that Crestwood's general partner, Crestwood Gas Services GP LLC, has named J. Heath Deneke as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer and Steven M. Dougherty as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Both of these positions will report to Robert G. Phillips, Crestwood's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Crestwood's general partner.

Prior to joining Crestwood, Mr. Deneke served in various management positions at El Paso Corporation for the past 16 years. Most recently he was Vice President, Project Development and Engineering within the pipeline group managing over $6.7 billion of pipeline, storage, compression and LNG terminal projects as well as an annual pipeline maintenance budget of more than $300 million. Previously, Mr. Deneke was Director of Marketing and Asset Optimization for Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Manager of Business Development and Strategy for Southern Natural Gas. Mr. Deneke earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University.

Mr. Dougherty was formerly Director of Corporate Accounting at El Paso Corporation since 2001. Prior to joining El Paso, Mr. Dougherty was a senior audit manager at KPMG LLP. Mr. Dougherty earned a Master of Public Accountancy degree from the University of Texas at Austin and is a Certified Public Accountant.