Filing pursuant to
                                                        Rule 424(b)(2) 
                                                        relating to Registration
                                                        Statement 333-25997


             Prospectus Supplement to Prospectus dated June 26, 1997



                              150,000 COMMON UNITS
                     Representing Limited Partner Interests

                       KINDER MORGAN ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P.






     Kinder Morgan Energy Partners,  L.P., a Delaware  limited  partnership (the
"Partnership"),  is directly  offering  150,000  Common Units to  affiliates  of
Conseco Capital Management,  Inc. at a purchase price of $65.50 per Common Unit.
The sale of the Common  Units is subject to approval for listing by the New York
Stock  Exchange,  Inc.  The net  proceeds to the Company  will be  approximately
$9,815,000.

     Each purchaser will be required to agree that, except for offers,  sales or
dispositions  to  affiliates  of such  purchaser,  for a period  of 90 days from
August 7, 1997, it will not,  without the  Partnership's  prior written consent,
offer, sell,  contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any of the Common Units
purchased pursuant to this Prospectus  Supplement.  After the expiration of such
90 day period and prior to August 7, 1998,  each  purchaser  will be required to
agree that,  except for offers,  sales or  dispositions  to  affiliates  of such
purchaser,  it will not, without the Partnership's prior written consent, offer,
sell,  contract to sell,  or otherwise  dispose of, on any trading day more than
that number of Common  Units equal to  one-third  of the average  daily  trading
volume of the  Common  Units on the New York Stock  Exchange  for the 30 trading
days preceding such trading day.



















                   Prospectus Supplement dated August 7, 1997