Copano Energy, L.L.C. is a national natural gas distributor and supplier in

the U.S. The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

The company operates over 6,800 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines, with 2.7 billion cubic feet of

natural gas processing Natural-gas processing is a range of industrial processes designed to purify raw natural gas by removing impurities, contaminants and higher molecular mass hydrocarbons to produce what is known as ''pipeline quality'' dry natural gas. Natural gas ...

capability, and 10 natural gas plants, with 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas processing capability. The served areas of the company include many states including Texas,

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

and Wyoming. In 2013, the total assets of the company was acquired by

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP () (KMEP) is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. The company, which is classified as an oil and gas master limited partnership (MLP), owns or operates petroleum product, natural gas, and carbon dioxide pipelines, r ...

, LP, (KMP) at the price of $5 billion. On August 5, 2013, the company announced that it and its wholly owned subsidiary Copano Energy Finance Corporation would redeem for cash $178,500,000. Driven by the acquisition of the Company as well as drop down assets that KMP acquired from parent company Kinder Morgan Inc in 2012, KMP's certain items rise to around $665 million.

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External links

Kinder Morgan.com: official Copano Energy website
Natural gas companies of the United States Natural gas pipeline companies Kinder Morgan Companies based in Houston Petroleum in Texas