Mexico’s AMLO Aiming for 500 MMcf/d Jaltipan-Salina Cruz Pipeline To Be Built Within a Year

Mexico’s president said Saturday he hopes for construction of the Jaltipán-Salina Cruz natural gas pipeline to be complete within a year at the most.

The proposed 500 MMcf/d pipeline would span the Tehuantepec Isthmus, from Chinameca, Veracruz, to Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, where the government is planning a 3 million metric tons/year floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal.

State power company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), which is overseeing both projects, still must obtain the necessary rights-of-way for the pipeline to go forward, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a speech in Salina Cruz.

Once the pipeline is in place, the government plans to conduct a tender for construction of the floating storage and production unit (FSRU), said...