Kinder Morgan Management, LLC - 2001 dated Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) was established in 1997 when a group of investors, led by co-founder Rich Kinder, acquired the general partner of a small publicly traded pipeline limited partnership originally known as Enron Liquids Pipeline, L.P. The partnership was subsequently renamed Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. Rich Kinder, who had previously served as president of Enron, left the company after being passed over for the role of chief executive officer in favor of Kenneth Lay. He then purchased Enron's interest in the partnership for $40 million. In 1999, Kinder Morgan expanded by conducting a reverse merger with KN Energy, a utility and pipeline company. This merger included the acquisition of the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL), which serves the Chicago market. As a result of this deal, KN Energy became Kinder Morgan's second publicly traded entity, renamed Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI).