Kinder Morgan Inc. is one of the largest natural gas transmission and storage companies in North America. After going private in May 2007, it went public again in February 2011 via a $3.3 billion initial public offering. Following a late 2014 consolidation of its former operating entities, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., Kinder Morgan Management, and El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P., the newly consolidated company no longer has a master limited partnership structure, under which the former limited partners paid incentive distribution rights (IDRs) to KMI as their general partner. Through its various operating businesses, KMI operates a diverse set of assets, including 70,000 miles of pipelines and 152 terminals. Its pipelines transport natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, carbon dioxide, and other products, and its terminals store products such as petroleum, chemicals, ethanol, coal, coke and steel. The company is a leading provider of carbon dioxide, which is used for enhanced oil recovery projects in North America. KMI also owns a 20% equity interest in NGPL Pipe Co. LLC, a major interstate natural gas pipeline and storage system.

Enterprise Products Partners is a master limited partnership that transports and processes natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products, and petrochemicals. It is one of the largest midstream companies, with operations servicing most producing regions in the Lower 48 states. Enterprise is particularly dominant in the NGL market and is one of the few MLPs that provide midstream services across the full hydrocarbon value chain.

Kinder Morgan is one of the largest midstream energy firms in North America, with an interest in or an operator on about 83,000 miles in pipelines and 140 storage terminals. The company is active in the transportation, storage, and processing of natural gas, crude oil, refined products, natural gas liquids, and carbon dioxide. The majority of Kinder Morgan's cash flows stem from fee-based contracts for handling, moving, and storing fossil fuel products.

Newmont is the world's largest gold miner. It bought Goldcorp in 2019, combined its Nevada mines in a joint venture with competitor Barrick later that year, and also purchased competitor Newcrest in November 2023. Its portfolio includes 17 wholly or majority owned mines and interests in two joint ventures in the Americas, Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea. The company is expected to produce roughly 7.3 million ounces of gold in 2023 pro forma for Newcrest on an annualized basis. Newmont also produces material amounts of copper, silver, zinc, and lead as byproducts from its various gold mines. It had about two decades of gold reserves along with significant byproduct reserves after acquiring Newcrest.