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Steven J. Kean is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), 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 one of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in America and owns or operates more than 27,000 miles of pipelines and approximately 145 terminals. Its pipelines transport more than 2 million barrels/day of gasoline and other petroleum products and up to 9 billion cubic feet/day of natural gas; and, its terminals handle over 80 million tons of coal and other bulk materials annually and have a liquids storage capacity of about 70 million barrels for petroleum products and chemicals. KMP is also the leading provider of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery projects in the United States.
The general partner of KMP is owned by Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), one of the largest energy transportation, storage and distribution companies in North America. Combined, the two companies have an enterprise value of more than $35 billion.
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. | 