Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. (Blueknight Energy Partners) provides integrated terminalling, storage, processing, gathering and transportation services for companies engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of crude oil and asphalt product. It provides services for the customers, and its only inventory consists of pipeline linefill and tank bottoms necessary to operate the assets. It has four operating segments: crude oil terminalling and storage services, crude oil pipeline services, crude oil trucking and producer field services, and asphalt services. Charlesbank Capital Partners (Charlesbank) and Vitol Holding B.V (Vitol) control the Company�s operations. On November 12, 2010, Charlesbank acquired a 50% ownership interest in the entity that owns its General Partner and 50% of the Company�s outstanding subordinated units from Vitol.