A shudder rolled though the U.S. midstream recently when Richard Kinder, co-founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), announced the consolidation of four of the Kinder Morgan family of companies into a $44 billion megacorporation. The merger will result in the creation of the largest midstream company in North America and the third-largest energy corporation in the U.S.
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