POWER OF ATTORNEY
CLAIR SCOTT SMITH

With respect to holdings of and transactions in securities issued
by JP Energy Partners LP (the "Company"), the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints the individuals named on Schedule A
attached hereto and as may be amended from time to time, or any of
them signing singly, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, to act as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

1.prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the
undersigned's behalf, and submit to the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including
amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or
appropriate to obtain and/or regenerate codes and passwords
enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC
of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

2.execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, Forms 3, 4, and 5
in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder;

3.do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any
amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with
the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

4.take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may
be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by,
the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed
by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to
this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain
such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in
his or her discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the
exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do
if personally present, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorneys-in-fact substitute
or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of
this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact,
in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are
not assuming, nor is any Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5
with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 15th day of September, 2014.

/s/ Clair Scott Smith
Clair Scott Smith






Schedule A

Individuals Appointed as Attorney-in-Fact with Full Power of
Substitution and Resubstitution

1.  Jeremiah J. Ashcroft III
2.  J. Patrick Barley
3.  Patrick Joseph Welch