Kinder Morgan CEO Steve Kean has released a video pitching KMI shares at an all to low price. Kean points out that those low prices are unreasonable due to the fee based nature of Kinder Morgans businesses. Kean points to numerous facts including the likelihood that new Kinder Morgan projects will not be cancelled during a period when the competition is seeing future projects being cancelled at an alarming rate.
Kean believes that the sell off in its stock price this year has been completely indiscriminate, which is creating a buying opportunity for investors. And insiders are backing up his opinion with their own money. Kinder Morgan has very little exposure to commodity prices as its cash flow is locked up while its growth is actually primarily driven by demand for inexpensive natural gas. That's why he remains confident that the company's current dividend is safe and so is the plan to grow the payout by 10% per year through 2020.
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Monday, December 23, 2013
Kinder Morgan Announces Acquisition of Jones Act Shipping Tankers
APT’s fleet consists of five medium range Jones Act qualified product tankers, each with 330,000 barrels of cargo capacity. With an average vessel age of approximately four years, the APT fleet is one of the youngest in the industry. Each of APT’s vessels is operating pursuant to long term time charters with high quality counterparties, including major integrated oil companies, major refiners and the U.S. Navy. These time charters have an average remaining term of approximately four years, with renewal options to extend the initial terms by an average of two years. APT’s vessels are operated by Crowley Maritime Corporation, which was founded in 1892 and is a leading operator and technical manager in the U.S. product tanker industry.
SCT has commissioned the construction of four medium range Jones Act qualified product tankers, each with 330,000 barrels of cargo capacity. The vessels are scheduled to be delivered in 2015 and 2016 and are being constructed by General Dynamics’ NASSCO shipyard. Upon delivery, the SCT vessels will be operated pursuant to long-term time charters with a major integrated oil company. Each of the time charters has an initial term of five years, with renewal options to extend the initial term by up to three years. Kinder Morgan will invest approximately $214 million to complete the construction of the SCT vessels.
“This is a strategic and complementary extension of our existing crude oil and refined products transportation business,” said John Schlosser, president of KMP’s Terminals segment. “Product demand is growing and sources of supply continue to change, in part due to the increased shale activity. As a result, there is more demand for waterborne transportation to move these products. We are purchasing tankers that provide stable fee based cash flow through multi-year contracts with major credit worthy oil producers.”
“Blackstone and Cerberus are pleased to have founded and built American Petroleum Tankers into a market leading Jones Act tanker company,” said Sean Klimczak, Senior Managing Director at Blackstone. “We have enjoyed our partnership with APT’s management team and wish them continued success with Kinder Morgan in this next phase of APT’s growth.”
The transaction, which is subject to standard regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, at which time it will be immediately accretive to cash available to KMP unitholders. APT currently generates about $55 million of annual EBITDA. After completion of construction of the four SCT vessels, KMP expects combined annual EBITDA of approximately $140 million, which is an EBITDA multiple of 8.4 times. The general partner of KMP, Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), has agreed to waive its incentive distribution amounts of $16 million in 2014 and $19 million in 2015 and $6 million in 2016 to facilitate the transaction.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) is a leading pipeline transportation and energy storage company and one of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in America. It owns an interest in or operates more than 54,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. The general partner of KMP is owned by Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI). Kinder Morgan is the largest midstream and the fourth largest energy company in North America with a combined enterprise value of approximately $105 billion. It owns an interest in or operates more than 82,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. Its pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, CO2 and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals and handle such products as ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel. KMI owns the general partner interests of KMP and El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EPB), along with limited partner interests in KMP and EPB and shares in Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR). For more information please visit www.kindermorgan.com.
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Heather Ingrassia: Kinder Morgan Energy Partners: A Few More Reasons Why I'm Staying Bullish
On Tuesday, November 12, a number of Deutsche Bank's MLP analysts pointed out several significant trends which indicate an improved outlook for the natural gas and MLP sectors. According to the analysts at Deutsche Bank, "the annualized rate of dividend growth among the natural gas companies rose to 13.9% from ~12% earlier this year, and the MLPs' annualized rate of distribution growth rose to 8.7% from a previous estimate of 7%".
In the wake of Deutsche Bank's findings, I wanted to highlight a number of the reasons why I remain long on shares of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP), especially since the MLP is considered to be a top pick at DB.
Recent Performance & Trend Behavior
On Wednesday shares of KMP, which currently possess a market cap of $35.09 billion, a beta of 0.39, a forward P/E ratio of 29.32, and a current dividend yield of 6.69% ($5.40), settled at a price of $80.67/share.
Based on their closing price of $80.67/share, shares of KMP are trading 0.56% below their 20 day simple moving average, 1.40% above their 50 day simple moving average, and 2.02% below their 200 day simple moving average. These numbers would normally indicate a short term and long term downtrend for the stock and generally translate into a moderate selling mode for most near term traders and some longer term investors.
That being said, and as a long term investor, I plan on highlighting a number of reasons why I think investors should buck the current trend and establish a long term position at current levels.....Read "A Few More Reasons Why I'm Staying Bullish"
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Chairman and CEO Richard D. Kinder said, “KMP had a strong second quarter as our stable and diversified assets continued to grow and produce incremental cash flow. Our five business segments produced approximately $1.337 billion in segment earnings before DD&A and certain items, up 39 percent from the second quarter of 2012. Growth was spearheaded by the drop downs from Kinder Morgan, Inc. associated with its acquisition of El Paso Corporation last year, contributions from the midstream assets we recently acquired in the Copano Energy transaction, strong oil production in our CO2 segment and good results at our Products Pipelines business.
Looking forward, we see exceptional growth opportunities across all of our business segments, as there is a need to build additional midstream infrastructure to move or store oil, gas and liquids from the prolific shale plays in the United States and the oilsands in Alberta, along with increasing demand for CO2, which is used for enhanced oil recovery. We currently have identified approximately $13 billion in expansion and joint venture investments at KMP and we are pursuing customer commitments for additional projects.”
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Proposed KMI and El Paso Merger Would Create Largest U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Company
The proposed merger of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) and El Paso Corp. (El Paso) announced on October 16, 2011 would create the nation's largest natural gas pipeline company. If approved by state and federal regulatory officials, the combined company would operate about 67,000 miles of natural gas pipelines (see the blue and red lines in the map), or about 22% the U.S. natural gas pipeline network. Upon closing, the proposed $38 billion transaction would be one of the biggest natural gas pipeline mergers in United States history.
El Paso's natural gas pipeline network complements Kinder Morgan's natural gas system. By adding El Paso's network to its own, KMI increases its access to natural gas markets in the Southwest, Southeast, Northwest, and Northeast. El Paso has been extending its reach into these markets. In 2011, El Paso completed three major pipeline projects: Ruby Pipeline, Florida Gas Transmission Phase VIII, and Tennessee Gas Pipeline 300 Line, in total adding around 1,200 miles and 2.6 billion cubic feet per day of capacity to its network.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on SNL Financial.
Note: The labeled brown bars represent the four largest deals since 1996. Total transaction value only includes completed and pending deals based on the announcement year.
*Pending transaction
As measured by total dollars, 2011 has been a significant year so far for mergers and acquisitions in the natural gas transmission sector compared with previous years. The proposed merger between Kinder Morgan and El Paso could be the largest U.S. pipeline related merger and acquisition since 1996, representing about 54% of the total transaction value of proposed or concluded mergers so far in 2011, according to SNL Financial.
On June 15, 2011, Energy Transfer Equity agreed to acquire Southern Union for $9.2 billion, making it the second largest pending natural gas pipeline-related deal in 2011. Since 1996, three natural gas transmission mergers and acquisitions deals over $20 billion were concluded according to data from SNL Financial: a $22 billion deal between El Paso and Coastal Corp in 2000; a $21 billion leveraged buyout deal of Kinder Morgan by a group of private investors in 2006; and a $20 billion deal between Enterprise Products Partners and Enterprise GP Holdings in 2010.
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