Place the remaining six liquefaction units into service
Delivered after the deadline
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- Announced
- 22 Jan 2020
- Due
- 30 Jun 2020
- Delivered
- August 2020
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The remaining six units are scheduled to be placed in service during the first half of 2020.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company failed to place all six remaining liquefaction units into service by the first half of 2020, as the final units were not completed until August 2020.
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A Kinder Morgan 8-K filed 2020-07-22
“The remaining three units are expected to be placed in service before the end of this summer.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Kinder Morgan 10-K filed 2021-02-05
“The remaining seven units were placed in service during January through August 2020.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -4.3% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (21 Jul 2020 to 24 Jul 2020). 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 +84 days
- Language weakened: firm → expected
- 3 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 22 Jan 2020
Deadline 30 Jun 2020 (“first half of 2020”) · wording firm
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Version 2 · stated 22 Apr 2020
Deadline 30 Sep 2020 (“during the spring and summer of this year”) · wording expected
“The remaining four units are expected to be placed in service during the spring and summer of this year”
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Version 3 · stated 22 Jul 2020
Deadline 22 Sep 2020 (“before the end of this summer”) · wording expected
“The remaining three units are expected to be placed in service before the end of this summer.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- In service
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Place
- Deliverable
- six liquefaction units
- Language
- Firm (“will”, “on track to”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
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 “Partly met”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the recorded outcome.
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