Kinder Morgan history

In June 1998 KMP acquired a 24 percent interest in Plantation Pipe Line, paying $110 million to Equilon.

In February 1999 Sempra Energy of San Diego, California, made a tentative deal to purchase KN Energy for $1.9 billion, but by June the deal was off, scuttled by KN Energy's $3.3 billion in long-term debt.

In December 2000 KMP began adding external businesses.

In 2001, Kinder Morgan's third publicly traded company, Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (KMR) was formed to facilitate institutional ownership of KMP equity.

On August 28, 2006, Kinder Morgan announced that it would be taken private in a management-led leveraged buyout totaling approximately $22 billion.

In October 2011, Kinder Morgan Inc. agreed to buy El Paso Corp. (EP) for $21.1 billion and gave the combined company 67,000 miles (107,000 kilometers) of gas lines, eclipsing Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD) as the biggest United States pipeline operator.

2013: In May, KMP completes an approximately $5 billion acquisition of Copano Energy, which enables the company to significantly expand its midstream services footprint and offer a wider array of services to its customers.

On August 10, 2014, Kinder announced it was moving to full ownership of its partially owned subsidiaries Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, Kinder Morgan Management, and El Paso Pipeline Partners in a deal worth $71 billion.

2018: In August, the Government of Canada indirectly acquires the Trans Mountain Pipeline System and the Trans Mountain Expansion Project from KML through the Trans Mountain Corporation (a subsidiary of the Canada Development Investment Corporation) for a cash consideration of $4.5 billion.