Kinder Morgan, a Houston based company, has decided to merge all of its group of gas pipeline and storage companies. This agreement will reform the fiscal structure of the oil and gas pipeline company.
After this amalgamation the company would be the U.S’s fourth biggest energy company since it would be of worth $140 million. This deal will unite all the three companies Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, Kinder Morgan Management and El Paso Pipeline under the roof of Kinder Morgan Inc. since kinder Morgan Inc. will soon buy all the shares of these three companies.
Till Friday the market value of all these companies was almost $92 billion, whereas Kinder Morgan has proclaimed that it would buy these companies at the monetary of $72 billion with the debt of approximately $27 billion. Due to this fusion the Kinder Morgan Inc. has to call off its unusual corporate partnership structure which lead the way to a great advantage. The Master Limited Partnership was the name of that beneficial corporate structure. MPL saved Kinder Morgan from all the Tax bills since it distribute most of company’s profit to the senior investors and collaborators. MPL has gained a lot of popularity among investors since it pays back a large sum of money to its shareholders. This enthusiasm made it easier for the MPl to raise money to purchase pipelines.
According to Richard Kinder, the company’s founder and chief executive, Kinder Morgan are a big name now and the structure of MPL is restricted therefore this one unit idea will provide the company an opportunity to develop its projects.