Private investors have  bid to take oil pipeline company, Kinder Morgan, private.  Richard Kinder, former Enron executive, owns 20% of the shares and has rallied support of other company executives as well as a cadre of private equity firms including Goldman Sachs, American International Group and Carlyle and Riverstone.

Shares notched up almost 20% today to 100.90 following Kinder’s current bid which represented $100.00 per share. The current bid at $13.4 billion (over $20 billion including debt) is anticipated to move yet hire. Some analysts speculate that interests such as TransCanada and Enbridge may offer competing bids.