Kinetik Holdings Inc. announced the appointment of William Ordemann to the Kinetik Board of Directors, effective April 3, 2024. Mr. Ordemann was also appointed to serve as a member of the Governance and Sustainability Committee and to replace Ms. Laura Sugg as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Sugg remains on the Board and continues to serve on the Compensation Committee and the Governance and Sustainability Committee.

Mr. Ordemann holds thirty-eight years of energy industry experience, with twenty-five years focused on natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products, and petrochemicals. From 1999 until his retirement in 2019, Mr. Ordemann served in numerous executive positions at Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and its affiliates, including serving as an Executive Vice President. Throughout his tenure, he held various positions across the commercial, business development, engineering, operations, environmental, health, and safety and supply chain organizations.

Prior to joining Enterprise, he held senior positions at Shell Midstream Enterprises, LLC and Tejas Natural Gas Liquids, LLC. He previously served on the boards of the general partner of Oiltanking Partners, L.P. and GPA Midstream Association. Mr. Ordemann holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Additionally, coinciding with Apache?s full exit from its shareholding position in Kinetik, Ben Rodgers resigned from the Board of Directors effective April 3, 2024. Mr. Ordemann will replace Mr. Ben Rodgers, and the Board will continue to consist of eleven independent directors. On April 3, 2024, Ben Rodgers notified the Board of Directors of the Company that he would be resigning as a member of the Board, effective immediately.

Mr. Rodgers expressed no disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company?s operations, policies or practices.