Place Southern California renewable diesel hub in service

Delivered after the deadline (3 days after the deadline)

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Announced: 20 Apr 2022
Due: 31 Mar 2023
Delivered: 3 Apr 2023

Deadline
Met
Late
Not met
Today

What the company said

“With an anticipated in-service date in the first quarter of 2023, this will be the first movement of pure renewable diesel by pipeline in the country.”

SourceKinder Morgan Form 8-K press release, 2022-04-20
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedthe first quarter of 2023
Deadline used31 Mar 2023, the last day of the stated period
TypeFacility
Permanent referenceKI-C-2022-KMI-009474
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2022-KMI-009474/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

The company announced an anticipated in-service date of Q1 2023, but the Southern California renewable diesel hub was actually placed in commercial operation on April 3, 2023, shortly after the deadline.

A
Kinder Morgan 8-K filed 2023-04-19 Regulatory filing · published 19 Apr 2023 · retrieved 15 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC
“KMI’s Southern and Northern California RD hubs were placed in commercial operation on April 3, 2023.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved -1.4% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (18 Apr 2023 to 21 Apr 2023). What this measures

Checked 15 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.

Language weakened: expected → aspirational
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 20 Apr 2022

Deadline 31 Mar 2023 (“the first quarter of 2023”) · wording expected
Version 2 · stated 20 Jul 2022

Deadline 31 Mar 2023 (“first quarter of 2023”) · wording aspirational

“KMI’s Southern California renewable diesel hub is on target to be in service in the first quarter of 2023.”
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: In service
Indicative materiality: High rules
Action: Place
Deliverable: Southern California renewable diesel hub
Where: Southern California
Language: Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control: High
Specificity: High
Conditional: Yes: anchored by customer commitments
Depends on: Customer

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: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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