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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMI) (KMEP) is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. The company, which is classified as an oil and gas master limited partnership (MLP), owns or operates petroleum product, natural gas, and carbon dioxide pipelines, related storage facilities, terminals, power plants and retail natural gas in the United States and Canada.2 It was founded in 1997.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1997Founded1
  • Industrypetroleum industry1
  • Listed onNew York Stock Exchange1

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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMI) (KMEP) is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. The company, which is classified as an oil and gas master limited partnership (MLP), owns or operates petroleum product, natural gas, and carbon dioxide pipelines, related storage facilities, terminals, power plants and retail natural gas in the United States and Canada.2

Corporate structure

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is part of a group headed by Kinder Morgan. 301 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Kinder Morgan Houston, Texas, United States
    • Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
    • Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America Subsidiary
    • American Petroleum Tankers II LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers III LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers IV LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers IX LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers Parent LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers V LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers VI LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers VII LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers VIII LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers X LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Petroleum Tankers XI LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • ANR Real Estate Corporation Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • APT Florida LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • APT Intermediate Holdco LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • APT New Intermediate Holdco LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • APT Pennsylvania LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • APT Sunshine State LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Arlington Storage Company, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Banquete Hub LLC (50%) Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Battleground Oil Specialty Terminal Company LLC (55%) Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Betty Lou LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Calnev Pipe Line LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • and 275 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

How it started

History

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, headquartered at One Allen Center in Houston, Texas, was co-founded by Richard Kinder and William Morgan. The company began in 1997, when Kinder, a former Enron executive, and Morgan purchased the liquid pipeline assets of Enron for $40 million. It has since employed many former Enron employees, including former Enron whistleblower Jordan Mintz.

Kinder Morgan is credited for bucking the trend in MLPs that traditionally deliver low double-digit total return to investors. It has produced a 26 percent compound growth rate from its founding to May 2009.

On March 1, 2002, Shares of Kinder Morgan Inc., fell to a 15-month low on concern that the company faced competition for assets and on investor wariness about its partnership arrangements. On March 1, 2002, Nova Chemicals Corp. sold its 20-per-cent share of the Cochin pipeline, and the sale, for $64 million (U.S.), is subject to right of first refusal by the other Cochin owners, which include subsidiaries of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP.

In May 2013, the company acquired Copano Energy LLC (NASDAQ:CPNO, closed), which is now assigned under the company's Natural Gas Pipeline section as well as under Product Pipeline section. On August 10, 2014, Kinder Morgan announced it was moving to full ownership of along with two other partly owned companies, Kinder Morgan Management, and El Paso Pipeline Partners, in a deal worth $71 billion. Kinder Morgan announced its completion of the acquisition on November 26, 2014. The combined entity became the largest midstream energy company in North America.

From Wikipedia’s article on Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Timeline

  1. 1997Founded Founded1

Sources

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