Gas transportation company Kinder Morgan Inc. will purchase Houston rival El Paso Corporation in a $38 billion deal, including debt, that will create the nation’s fourth largest energy company with 80,000 miles of gas pipeline.

EP shareholders will receive $26.87 per EP share in cash, stock and warrants, a 37 percent premium over the company’s Oct. 14 closing price. When the deal closes, expected in the second quarter of next year, KMI shareholders will own 68 percent of the combined company, and EP shareholders the remaining 32 percent.

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