Executives at midstreamer Oneok Inc. said they are looking at the midpoint of this year to make a final investment decision (FID) on a pipeline that would transport gas from Texas to Mexico’s west coast.

Chief commercial officer Kevin Burdick said “we’re still early in the process from the pipeline’s perspective. It would be an intrastate pipeline. So we wouldn’t need other FERC approvals as it relates to actually building the pipeline.” He added it “would just be part of that entire pipeline service that would get gas…to the West Coast of Mexico.”

In December, Oneok’s Saguaro Connector Pipeline subsidiary filed a Presidential Permit application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission “to construct and operate facilities for the exportation of natural gas...