CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (Unaudited) (USD $) In Millions, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2013	Mar. 31, 2012
Revenues
Natural gas sales	$ 735	$ 584
Services	1,188	761
Product sales and other	738	503
Total Revenues	2,661	1,848
Operating Costs, Expenses and Other
Cost of Sales	957	580
Operations and maintenance	384	306
Depreciation, depletion and amortization	328	239
General and administrative	134	107
Taxes, other than income taxes	74	50
Total Operating Costs, Expenses and Other	1,877	1,282
Operating Income	784	566
Other Income (Expense)
Earnings from equity investments	83	65
Amortization of excess cost of equity investments	(2)	(2)
Interest expense	(199)	(135)
Gain on sale of investments in Express pipeline system	225	0
Other, net	4	1
Total Other Income (Expense)	111	(71)
Income from Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes	895	495
Income Tax (Expense) Benefit	(101)	(15)
Income from Continuing Operations	794	480
Discontinued operations (Note 1 and 2)
Income from operations of FTC Natural Gas Pipelines disposal group	0	50
Loss on remeasurement of FTC Natural Gas Pipelines disposal group to fair value	(2)	(322)
Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations	(2)	(272)
Net Income	792	208
Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests	(9)	(2)
Net Income Attributable to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.	783	206
Attributable to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.:
Income from Continuing Operations	785	475
Pre-acquisition income from operations of drop-down asset group allocated to General Partner	(19)	0
Drop-down severance expenses allocated to General Partner	2	0
Less: General Partner’s Interest	(402)	(321)
Limited Partners’ Interest	366	154
Add: Limited Partners’ Interest in Discontinued Operations	(2)	(266)
Limited Partners’ Interest in Net Loss	$ 364	$ (112)
Limited Partners’ Net Income (Loss) per Unit:
Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations	0.97	0.46
Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations	0.00	(0.79)
Net Income (Loss) - Basic and Diluted	0.97	(0.33)
Weighted Average Number of Units Used in Computation of Limited Partners’ Net Income (Loss) per Unit	376	338
Per Unit Cash Distribution Declared (usd per share)	$ 1.30	$ 1.20