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Steven J. Kean is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Knight Inc. (f/k/a Kinder Morgan, Inc.), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) and Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR) and a member of the Office of the Chairman. He is responsible for coordinating the company's efforts to achieve operational excellence. He joined the company in January of 2002 as Vice President of Strategic Planning for the Natural Gas Pipeline group. Immediately prior to assuming his current duties, Mr. Kean served as Executive Vice President,Operations and is the former President of KMP's Intrastate Pipeline group, a position from which he led the successful integration of the Tejas and Kinder Morgan Texas natural gas pipeline systems.
Mr. Kean has worked in the energy industry for nearly 20 years in various legal, regulatory and commercial positions, primarily in the wholesale energy and pipeline sectors. Before joining Kinder Morgan, he worked for Enron, Utilicorp and El Paso Natural Gas.
Mr. Kean holds a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and a law degree from the University of Iowa.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP)is a leading energy transportation and storage company in North America. KMP owns an interest in or operates more than 26,000 miles of pipelines and 150 terminals. Its pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, CO2 and other products and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals and handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. KMP is also the leading provider of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery projects in North America. One of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in America, KMP has an enterprise value of approximately $20 billion.
Knight Inc. (f/k/a Kinder Morgan, Inc.) owns the general partner interest of KMP. Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR) is a limited liability company, and its only significant assets are the partnership units it owns in KMP. KMR shareholders receive distributions in the form of additional shares equivalent in value to the cash distributions received by KMP common unitholders. | 