Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI)
Natural gas and products pipelines, terminals, CO2. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 8 of the 26 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
11,028
Leading staffing pattern
Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202731%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203037%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 59%
- Becomes checking a model's work 33%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
Kinder Morgan states 11,028 full-time personnel at December 31, 2025, 867 of them hourly under collective bargaining agreements, and counts no employees by segment, so the natural gas pipelines, the products pipelines, the terminals and the CO2 business take their revenue shares (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% desk work, 11% people work and 52% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 59% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 33% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
11,028 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes U.S. pipelines, terminals and CO2 operations with a small Mexico business; the data service's geography shows the United States at 100%; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “We employed 11,028 full-time personnel at December 31, 2025, including approximately 867 full-time hourly personnel at certain terminals and pipelines covered by collective bargaining agreements that expire between 2026 and 2029.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas | 65% | The Natural Gas Pipelines segment is 65% of revenue and the filing counts no employees by segment, so the gas transmission, storage and gathering work takes that share by revenue (c). |
| Other Pipeline Transportation | 16% | The Products Pipelines segment, refined products and crude pipelines, is 16% of revenue with no employee count, so it takes that share by revenue (c). |
| Warehousing and Storage | 12% | The Terminals segment, liquids and bulk terminals, is 12% of revenue with no employee count, so it takes that share by revenue at the group that holds bulk storage (c). |
| Oil and Gas Extraction | 7% | The CO2 segment, oil production with carbon dioxide flooding and CO2 supply, is 7% of revenue with no employee count, so it takes that share by revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 11,028 full-time personnel; approximately 867 full-time hourly personnel at certain terminals and pipelines are covered by collective bargaining agreements (8%); the count is of full-time personnel only.
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names generative AI among the new technologies it or its counterparties rely on that may not be maintained properly, and as a source of regulatory scrutiny and intellectual property uncertainty.
- “Rocky Mountains; changes in laws or regulations, third-party relations and approvals, and decisions of courts, regulators, and governmental bodies that may increase our compliance costs, restrict our ability to provide or reduce demand for our services, or otherwise adversely affect our business; 2 interruptions of operations at our facilities due to natural disasters, damage by third parties,...”
- “Custom or new technology (including potential generative artificial intelligence) that is heavily relied upon by us or our counterparties may not be maintained and updated appropriately due to resource restraints, or other factors, which could cause technology failures or give rise to additional operational or security risks.”
- “Generative artificial intelligence or other new technology could also create additional regulatory scrutiny and generate uncertainty around intellectual property ownership and/or licensing or use.”
- “Technology (including artificial intelligence) is also subject to intentional misuse (by criminals, terrorists, or other bad actors).”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20234median 1
- Fiscal 20244median 4
- Fiscal 20254median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 11,028 | 2026-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 10,933 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 10,891 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 10,525 | 2023-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 10,529 | 2022-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 10,524 | 2021-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 11,086 | 2020-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 11,012 | 2019-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 10,897 | 2018-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 11,121 | 2017-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 11,290 | 2016-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 11,535 | 2015-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 11,075 | 2014-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 10,685 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2012-02-22 | 8,120 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 8,142 | 2011-03-02 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the four shares are by segment revenue (c).
- The U.S. share rests on the filing's description and the data service's geography, not a stated count.
- The filing counts full-time personnel only.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001506307-26-000011, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Kinder Morgan, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Kinder Morgan, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Kinder Morgan, Inc. employ?
- 11,028 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Kinder Morgan, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas; by those patterns the work is about 37% desk work, 11% people work and 52% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Kinder Morgan, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 4 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 4, 4 and 4 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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