HAYS COUNTY —The route of Kinder Morgan’s Permian ˙Highway Pipeline is about 99 percent mechanically complete’ through the Texas Hill Country and is on track to be carrying natural gas from West Texas to near Houston early next year.

Company  VP Allen Fore told the Hays Free Press/News Dispatch that the negotiations with landowners concerning a slight re-route of the pipeline’s path in order to avoid the Blanco River are now complete and involved nine landowners and ...