Enable Midstream Partners LP has chosen a WPX Energy executive to be its chief financial officer.<br /><br />Rodney J. Sailor will join the Oklahoma City-based partnership on April 1 as executive vice president and CFO. Sailor, 55, currently is senior vice president and CFO of WPX Energy, a Tulsa-based oil and natural gas producer.<br /><br />“I’m pleased to announce Rod’s addition to our senior leadership team,” Enable CEO Lynn Bourdon said. “His depth and breadth of financial, strategic and industry-related experience combined with his previous experience with master limited partnerships and the initial public offering process are crucial to our transition to a stand-alone, publicly traded company.”<br /><br />Sailor, a Tennessee native who earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Oklahoma State University, worked for the Williams Cos. Inc. for 27 years before moving to WPX.<br /><br />He was involved in Williams’ formation of two master limited partnerships, Williams Partners and Williams Pipeline Partners.<br /><br />WPX has named J. Kevin Vann to replace Sailor on an interim basis. Vann currently is the company’s vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.<br /><br />Enable was formed in May 2013 when OGE Energy Corp.’s Enogex midstream division combined with the interstate pipeline assets of Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc.<br /><br />Many of its leadership assignments were announced in July, although Bourdon did not join Enable until Feb. 1.<br /><br />Enable, which has about 1,700 employees, maintains offices in Oklahoma City and Houston.<br /><br />It has more than 7,800 miles of interstate pipelines and 2,300 miles of intrastate pipelines, as well as eight storage facilities and 11 processing plants.