Kinder Morgan expects demand for natural gas to increase palpably over the next six years the company said at the release of its first-quarter financial results. In it, the company reported a 10% increase in its earnings per share, even though these came a bit below analyst expectations, and an annual increase in net profit from $679 million in the first quarter of 2023 to $746 million this year. Income from Kinder Morgan’s gas pipeline played a big role in its first-quarter performance, the company said in its report, along with…