Place the second Gulf Coast southbound expansion project in service

Delivered after the deadline

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Announced: 17 Apr 2019
Due: 30 Jun 2021
Delivered: October 2021

Deadline
Met
Late
Not met
Today

What the company said

“is expected to be placed into service in the first half of 2021 pending appropriate regulatory approvals.”

SourceKinder Morgan Form 8-K press release, 2019-04-17
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedin the first half of 2021
Deadline used30 Jun 2021, the last day of the stated period
TypeProject
Permanent referenceKI-C-2019-KMI-009425
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2019-KMI-009425/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

The company announced the second Gulf Coast southbound expansion project would be in service by the first half of 2021, but it was actually placed in service in October 2021.

A
Kinder Morgan 10-K filed 2022-02-07 Regulatory filing · published 7 Feb 2022 · retrieved 13 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint a3c5efbd87f2
“NGPL Gulf Coast Southbound Expansion (second phase)Expansion project increases southbound capacity on NGPL’s Gulf Coast System by approximately 300,000 Dth/d serving Corpus Christi Liquefaction. ... Placed in service October 2021.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved -1.8% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (4 Feb 2022 to 9 Feb 2022). What this measures

Checked 13 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

Deadline drift +2191 days
3 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 17 Apr 2019

Deadline 30 Jun 2021 (“in the first half of 2021”) · wording expected
Version 2 · stated 21 Oct 2020

Deadline 31 Mar 2021 (“first quarter of 2021”) · wording expected

“The approximately $203 million project (KMI’s share: $101.5 million) ... is expected to be placed into service the first quarter of 2021.”
Source for this version
Version 3 · stated 21 Jan 2026

Deadline 30 Jun 2027 (“in the first half of 2027”) · wording expected

“NGPL expects the project facilities to be placed in service in the first half of 2027”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Project other
Indicative materiality: Low rules
Action: Place
Deliverable: second Gulf Coast southbound expansion project
Language: Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control: Medium
Specificity: High
Conditional: Yes: pending appropriate regulatory approvals
Depends on: Regulatory

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “Met”.
Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the second check.

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