| Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Increases Quarterly Distribution to $0 ...
HOUSTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) today increased its quarterly cash distribution per common unit to $0.92 from $0.88. Payable on Feb. 14, 2008, to unitholders of record as of Jan. 31, 2008, the distribution represents an 11 percent increase over the fourth quarter 2006 cash distribution per unit of $0.83. KMP has increased the distribution 31 times since current management took over in February of 1997. In total, KMP declared cash distributions for 2007 of $3.48 per unit, exceeding its published annual budget of $3.44, and 7 percent higher than declared cash distributions in 2006 of $3.26 per unit. The excess of distributable cash flow before certain items above distributions for 2007 was approximately $40 million. KMP reported record quarterly distributable cash flow before certain items of $242 million, up 21 percent from $200 million for the fourth quarter of 2006.
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