HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) announced today that the partnership was ranked as the top company in the Natural Gas and Master Limited Partnership sector of Institutional Investor magazine’s 2011 All-America Executive Team survey. In addition, Michael A. Creel, president and chief executive officer; W. Randall “Randy” Fowler, executive vice president and chief financial officer; and John R. “Randy” Burkhalter, vice president of investor relations were ranked on the 2011 All-America Executive Team for their respective categories. The Institutional Investor rankings reflect the opinions of nearly 1,300 analysts and investment professionals at more than 550 firms.
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| Natural Gas & Master Limited Partnership Sector | Side | Side | |||||||||||||
| Best Investor Relations Company | EPD | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||||
| Best CEO | Creel | 2nd Tie | 3rd | ||||||||||||
| Best CFO | Fowler | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||||
| Best IR Professional | Burkhalter | 3rd Tie | 3rd | ||||||||||||
“We sincerely appreciate and are humbled by this recognition from the investors and analysts that follow the natural gas and publicly traded partnership sector,” said Michael A. Creel, president and chief executive officer of Enterprise. “This acknowledgement reflects the efforts of the entire Enterprise organization and its 6,500 employees in responsibly managing and growing the value of our partnership.”
The 2011 All-America Executive Team was included in the recently published January 2011 issue of Institutional Investor. In determining the results, analysts were invited to nominate up to four chief executive officers, chief financial officers, IR professionals and companies in each sector. All votes were weighted by place and aggregated to produce two distinct rankings (buy side and sell side) for Best CEO, Best CFO, Best IR Professional and Best IR Company.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is the largest publicly traded 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. Enterprise’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 storage, transportation and terminaling; offshore production platform; 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. Additional information is available at www.epplp.com.