Kinder Morgan, which owns or operates 37,000 miles of pipelines and roughly 180 terminals through its various investments, filed on Tuesday with the SEC to raise up to $1.5 billion in an initial public offering. The Houston, TX-based company, which was founded in 1992 and booked $8.2 billion in sales for the 12 months ended September 30, plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol KMI. Key shareholders include Goldman Sachs Group, Carlyle Group and Highstar Capital. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital are the lead underwriters on the deal, for which pricing terms and timing were not disclosed.
