Quest Midstream Names Independent Directors.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Quest Midstream Partners, L.P. has named Kevin R. Collins and Duke R. Ligon to its board of directors effective Jan. 12, 2007.

Collins, 50, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Evergreen Energy Inc. (NYSE Arca: EEE), brings more than 25 years of experience in finance, accounting and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Evergreen in 2005, he was managing director of Evergreen Energy Company, LLC from 2004 to 2005 and was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Evergreen Resources, Inc serving in increasing roles of responsibility from 1995 to 2004. He became a certified public accountant in 1983. Collins also serves on the board of directors of Delta Petroleum Corporation (NASDAQ:DPTR). He received a Bachelor of Science in business administration and accounting from the University of Arizona.

Ligon, 65, currently senior vice president and general counsel for Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE:DVN), brings more than 35 years of legal expertise in corporate securities, litigation, governmental affairs and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Ligon has announced his retirement from Devon effective January 31, 2007. Prior to joining Devon in 1997, he practiced law for 12 years and last served as a partner at the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt in New York City. In addition, he was senior vice president and managing director for investment banking at Bankers Trust Co. in New York City for 10 years. Ligon received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Westminster College and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.

In addition to Collins and Ligon, the Quest Midstream board consists of four additional directors.

- Jerry D. Cash, 43, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Quest Resource Corporation, (NASDAQ:QRCP) serves as chairman of the board. Cash has been active in the oil & gas exploration and development business for more than 25 years. In 1987, he formed STP, Inc., a predecessor to Quest Resource, and directed that company in the successful identification and realization of numerous oil, gas and coal bed methane exploration projects.

- Gabriel A. Hammond, 27, a managing partner at Alerian Capital Management, LLC since 2004, brings extensive expertise in the structuring and management of master limited partnerships. Previously he covered the broader Energy and Power sector in Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Investment Research group, specializing in the master limited partnership midstream energy space and advised Goldman Sachs, & Co. Asset Management with portfolio allocation, short-term trading, and tax-advantaged specialty applications. Hammond also serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, with Honors in Economics.

- Richard A. (Randy) Hoover, 50, president and chief operating officer of Quest Midstream Partners, has more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry concentrated in the midstream sector. Prior to joining Quest Resource in 2006, he was senior vice president of Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. Hoover received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Oklahoma.

- Daniel L. Spears, 34, is a managing director with Swank Capital, LLC. Prior to joining Swank in 2006, Spears was a principal at Banc of America Securities LLC within the Natural Resources Group where he worked from 1998 to 2006. He was with Salomon Smith Barney in the Global Energy and Power Group from 1995 to 1998. He has more than 12 years experience providing financial and strategic advice to public and private companies in all sectors of the natural resources industry. Spears received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Quest Midstream Partners, L.P. is a limited partnership that operates more than 1,500 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines in the Cherokee Basin located in 15 counties of southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. This pipeline network provides a market outlet for natural gas in a region of approximately 1,000 square miles and has connections to both intrastate and interstate delivery pipelines.

Alerian Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor that manages portfolios exclusively focused on energy master limited partnerships in both the private and public equity markets. In conjunction with Standard & Poor's and the New York Stock Exchange, the firm launched the Alerian MLP Index (NYSE:AMZ), the broadly accepted benchmark for the MLP asset class. For more information, visit www.alerian.com.

Swank Capital, LLC is a niche investment manager that focuses exclusively on three unique sectors; Master Limited Partnerships, Global Resources and Energy Production assets. Swank Capital, located in Dallas, has one of the premier franchises in Master Limited Partnership investing. The firm currently manages approximately $1.2 billion of assets.