Kinder Morgan is one of the largest pipeline transportation and energy storage companies in North America with approximately 37,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. We transport, store and handle energy products like natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, ethanol, coal and carbon dioxide (CO2). These products are essential for generating electricity, heating homes, powering cars and much more. Almost all of our assets are owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP), the largest publicly traded pipeline master limited partnership with an enterprise value of more than $29 billion. In most of our businesses, we operate like a giant toll road, receiving a fee for our services and providing connectivity for our customers. We are currently investing billions of dollars to construct new and expand existing infrastructure to help meet future energy demands in growing markets across North America.

Kinder Morgan owns or operates approximately 37,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals in North America. Our companies include Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP), Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR) and Kinder Morgan, Inc., a private company which owns the general partner of KMP. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) keeps energy on the move throughout the US. The company holds stakes in or more than 28,000 miles of natural gas and petroleum product pipelines and owns 170 bulk terminals and rail transloading facilities that handle more than 87 million tons of coal, petroleum coke, and bulk products annually. KMP transports refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) through 8,300 miles of pipelines and stores the products in 60 terminals in the US. Through its CO2 subsidiary, KMP transports carbon dioxide. Knight owns 13.9% of KMP, and through its Kinder Morgan Management unit, acts as general partner.

This can get Kinder complicated: Kinder Morgan Management (KMM) was created in 2001 by pipeline operator Knight (formerly Kinder Morgan, Inc., or KMI), to become general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP). KMM oversees KMP's business segments: pipelines that transport refined petroleum products (including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and natural gas liquids); natural gas pipelines; pipelines that transport carbon dioxide for oil field use; bulk terminals that handle coal, petroleum coke, and other products; and liquids terminals that handle refined petroleum products and chemicals. Knight controls KMM and, indirectly, KMP.

Navigating the midstream energy markets, Magellan Midstream Holdings owns and controls Magellan GP, LLC, the general partner of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., which is engaged in the transportation, storage, and distribution of refined petroleum products. Magellan Midstream Partners' portfolio includes 29 inland terminals, and 1,100 miles of ammonia pipeline, 9,400 miles of refined petroleum pipeline, and 50 distribution terminals in the US Midwest. The partnership also owns seven marine terminal facilities with a combined usable storage capacity of 22 million barrels.

Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) is a publicly traded partnership formed to own, operate and acquire a diversified portfolio of energy assets. Our primary business is the transportation, storage and distribution of refined petroleum products. Since going public in 2001, Magellan has acquired $2 billion in strategic assets while delivering consistently strong performance. Our current asset portfolio includes over 80 petroleum products terminals, a 9,500-mile petroleum products pipeline system and an 1,100-mile ammonia pipeline system.

Nederlandse Gasunie treats the Dutch to a steady supply of natural gas. The company transports natural gas throughout the Netherlands and Northern Germany through its 15,000-km. gas transmission it network. In 2007 its natural gas throughput totaled more than 95.9 billion cu. meters. Gasunie also provides research and engineering services. The company split off its gas wholesale trading arm as Gasunie Trading & Supply, (now GasTerra) in mid-2005. When the change occurred, the Dutch government's ownership stake in Gasunie went from 50% to 100%. (Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell still each indirectly hold 25% of GasTerra.)

Northern Natural Gas (NNG) keeps the pipes gassed up. The company operates 15,140 miles of pipeline stretching from the Permian Basin in Texas to the Great Lakes in the Midwest. It also provides transportation and storage services (five natural gas storage facilities) to some 75 utilities and a variety of other customers in the Upper Midwest. NNG has a 5.3 billion cu. ft. per day market area peak capacity. Dynegy took over NNG in 2002 from the pipeline unit's former parent, bankrupt energy giant Enron. The deal was part of Dynegy's proposed acquisition of Enron, which was called off. To strengthen its own balance sheet, Dynegy sold NNG to MidAmerican Energy Holdings later that year.

Starting in the southwest, Northwest Pipeline pipes up the gas. The company operates a 3,900-mile-long pipeline system which carries natural gas to customers located between New Mexico and Washington. It also operates 41 gas transmission compressor stations and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility in Plymouth, Washington. Northwest Pipeline's customers include Puget Sound Energy (20% of Northwest Pipeline's 2007 sales) and Northwest Natural Gas (11% of sales). The company is a part of The Williams Companies' natural gas pipeline and transportation division.

NuStar Energy L.P.’s history has been filled with dramatic growth and success, rising from humble beginnings in 2001 to become the rising star of the energy industry today. The partnership made its successful initial public offering (IPO) on April 16, 2001, with one of the best one-day performances of any master limited partnership IPO ever. On its first day, the partnership, then known as Shamrock Logistics L.P. and part of the former Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp., sold 5.175 million partnership units at $24.50, nearly twice the expected price range for this IPO. The partnership was soon renamed Valero L.P. after Valero Energy Corp. acquired UDS later in 2001. And since that time, the partnership has had outstanding results and demonstrated how a limited partnership can have unlimited potential.

NuStar GP Holdings, LLC (NYSE: NSH) owns general partner and limited partner interests in NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE: NS), one of the nation's largest asphalt refiners and marketers and operators of petroleum product terminals and petroleum liquids pipelines. The general partner manages the business affairs of NuStar Energy L.P., which is a master limited partnership based in San Antonio, with 8,417 miles of pipeline, 82 terminal facilities and four crude oil storage facilities. It has assets strategically located in major U.S. markets and in the Netherlands Antilles, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. NuStar Energy L.P.'s asphalt refineries, refined product terminals, petroleum and specialty liquids storage and terminaling operations, and crude oil storage tank facilities are predominantly located on waterways that are easily accessible by barge or vessel. Altogether, these facilities have over 91 million barrels of storage capacity. NuStar Energy L.P.'s crude oil and refined products pipeline systems largely serve growing markets in the Mid-Continent, Southwest and Texas-Mexico border region of the United States.

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