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Acquisitions and Divestitures American Petroleum Tankers and State Class Tankers Acquisition (Details) (USD $)
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3 Months Ended | 0 Months Ended | 0 Months Ended | 0 Months Ended | |||||||||
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Mar. 31, 2014
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Mar. 31, 2013
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Dec. 31, 2013
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Mar. 31, 2014
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member]
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Dec. 31, 2013
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member]
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Jan. 17, 2014
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member]
APT acquisition [Member]
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Jan. 17, 2014
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member]
American Petroleum Tankers [Member]
bbl
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Mar. 31, 2014
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member]
American Petroleum Tankers [Member]
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Jan. 17, 2014
Dynamics NASSCO shipyard [Member]
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member]
State Class Tankers [Member]
bbl
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Mar. 31, 2014
Dynamics NASSCO shipyard [Member]
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. [Member]
State Class Tankers [Member]
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Jan. 17, 2014
Plan for 2014 [Member]
Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. [Member]
APT acquisition [Member]
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Jan. 17, 2014
Plan for 2015 [Member]
Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. [Member]
APT acquisition [Member]
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Jan. 17, 2014
Plan for 2016 [Member]
Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. [Member]
APT acquisition [Member]
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| Business Acquisition [Line Items] | |||||||||||||
| Incentive Distribution Amounts Waived | $ 13,000,000 | $ 19,000,000 | $ 6,000,000 | ||||||||||
| Number of Vessels | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Tanker Capacity | 330,000 | 330,000 | |||||||||||
| Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment | 845,000,000 | 598,000,000 | 214,000,000 | ||||||||||
| KMP's preliminary purchase price allocation [Abstract] | |||||||||||||
| Current assets | 2,000,000 | ||||||||||||
| Property, plant, and equipment | 887,000,000 | ||||||||||||
| Goodwill | 24,563,000,000 | 24,504,000,000 | 6,606,000,000 | 6,547,000,000 | 68,000,000 | ||||||||
| Other assets | 3,000,000 | ||||||||||||
| Total assets acquired | 960,000,000 | ||||||||||||
| Cash consideration | $ 960,000,000 | ||||||||||||