Western Gas Partners, LP (WES) and Western Gas Equity Partners, LP ("WGP" and collectively the "Partnerships") announced that effective November 15, 2018 Robin H. Fielder has been named President of the Partnerships. She will succeed Benjamin M. Fink, who has been appointed Chairman of the Board of the Partnerships, replacing Robert G. Gwin who will continue to serve on the Partnerships' boards of directors. Fielder will also succeed Fink as CEO of the Partnerships effective Jan.

1, 2019. Fielder will also join the Partnerships' boards of directors, along with Mitch Ingram, Anadarko's Executive Vice President, International, Deepwater and Exploration. Ingram will replace Bobby Reeves, who has resigned his position as a director of both entities, consistent with his intent to retire from Anadarko at the end of 2018.

Fink has more than 25 years of financial and operational experience and joined Anadarko in 2007. He has served as a director and President and CEO of the general partners of Western Gas Partners, LP and Western Gas Equity Partners, LP since February 2017. Fielder has more than 15 years of midstream, upstream and financial experience in the oil and natural gas industry, beginning her career with Anadarko in 2002.

She has held a variety of positions with the company, including most recently as Vice President, Investor Relations, and previously as Midstream Business Advisor, General Manager of East Texas and North Louisiana, Worldwide Operations Business Advisor and various exploration and operations engineering positions in both the U.S. onshore and the Gulf of Mexico. Mitch Ingram is Anadarko's Executive Vice President, International, Deepwater and Exploration, overseeing Anadarko's international and deepwater operations, including Global LNG, exploration and project-management.