Business Acquisition, Percent Acquired

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Miles Of Pipeline

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Terminals owned

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Amount of direct costs of the business combination including legal, accounting, and other costs incurred to consummate the business acquisition.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 323

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 3

-Subparagraph (a)(1)

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Percentage investment held by the managing member or general partner of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 272

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 3

-Subparagraph (b)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70478-108055

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The number of units or percentage investment held by one or more members or limited partners of the LLC or LP.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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The number of units or percentage investment held in the subsidiary by the limited liability company or limited partnership.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 22

-Article 12

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General (Details) (USD $) In Billions, unless otherwise specified	6 Months Ended				6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2014 segment mi	Mar. 01, 2013 EPNG and EP Midstream [Member]	Mar. 01, 2013 EPNG [Member]	Aug. 01, 2012 El Paso Natural Gas Company and El Paso Midstream Investment Company LLC [Member]	Jun. 30, 2014 El Paso LLC [Member]	Jun. 30, 2014 Kinder Morgan Management, LLC [Member]	Jun. 30, 2014 Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member] Kinder Morgan, Inc. [Member]
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Miles of pipe	52,000
Number of pipeline terminals owned interest in and or operated	180
Number of Reportable Segments	5
Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Partnership (LP), Members or Limited Partners, Ownership Interest						28.40%	11.40%
Subsidiary of Limited Liability Company or Limited Partnership, Ownership Interest					39.60%
Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Partnership (LP), Managing Member or General Partner, Ownership Interest					2.00%
Business Acquisition, Percent Acquired		50.00%
Business Acquisition, Transaction Costs			$ 1.7
Ownership interest				50.00%