Harvest Oil & Gas (HRST) CORRESP Correspondence with SEC

September 25, 2006

Via Edgar and Facsimile (202) 772-9368

Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attn: H. Roger Schwall

Re: EV Energy Partners, L.P.
Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed May 15, 2006, as amended
File No. 333-134139

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     EV Energy Partners, L.P. (the“Partnership”) requests that the effective date of the above-captioned Registration Statement be accelerated so that such Registration Statement will be declared effective at 4:00 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on Monday, September 25, 2006, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

     The Partnership hereby acknowledges that:

• should the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing;

• the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Partnership, from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and

• the Partnership, may not assert this action as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

Very truly yours,

EV ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P.

By:	EV Energy GP, L.P., its general partner
	By:	EV Management, L.L.C. its general partner
	By:	/s/ Michael E. Mercer
		Michael E. Mercer Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President