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KMR
Kinder Morgan Management, LLC

5/25/2013, 6:17 PM ET
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Sector: Basic Materials
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Country: United States

We are a limited liability company, formed in Delaware in February 2001, which has elected to be treated as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes. Our shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “KMR.” Our voting shares are owned by Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc., of which Kinder Morgan, Inc. (formerly Knight Inc.) owns all the outstanding common equity. Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. is the general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (“Kinder Morgan Energy Partners”). Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. has delegated to us, to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law and the Kinder Morgan Energy Partners partnership agreement, all of its rights and powers to manage and control the business and affairs of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and its subsidiary operating limited partnerships and their subsidiaries, subject to Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc.’s right to approve specified actions.

Our consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Kinder Morgan Management, LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Kinder Morgan Services LLC. All material intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions. These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

On May 30, 2007, Kinder Morgan, Inc. merged with a wholly owned subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Holdco LLC (formerly Knight Holdco LLC), with Kinder Morgan, Inc. continuing as the surviving legal entity. The purchase price of Kinder Morgan, Inc. has been “pushed-down” and allocated to the assets and liabilities of its subsidiary companies, including us. As a result of this transaction, we have adopted a new basis of accounting for our assets and liabilities. Therefore, in the accompanying financial information, transactions and balances prior to the closing of the Going Private transaction reflect the historical basis of accounting for our assets and liabilities, while the amounts subsequent to the closing reflect the push-down of Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s new accounting basis to our financial statements.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is one of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in the United States in terms of market capitalization, and is a leading pipeline transportation and energy storage company in North America. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners owns an interest in or operates approximately 28,000 miles of pipelines and approximately 180 terminals. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals and handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is also the leading provider of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery projects in North America.

We are a limited partner in Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and manage and control its business and affairs pursuant to a delegation of control agreement. Our success is dependent upon our operation and management of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, and its resulting performance. Therefore, we have included Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 in this filing as Exhibit 99.1. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the accompanying financial statements and related notes and the financial statements of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, which is included in this filing as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporate such Form 10-K herein by reference.

Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. has delegated to us, to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ limited partnership agreement, all of its rights and powers to manage and control the business and affairs of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners subject to Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc.’s right to approve specified actions.

We have no properties. Our assets consist of a small amount of working capital and the i-units that we own.

We have no employees. For more information, see Note 4 of the accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, which is incorporated herein by reference.

We make available free of charge on or through our Internet website, at http://www.kindermorgan.com, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information contained on or connected to our Internet website is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this or any other report that we file with or furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission.