Mexican state power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is seeking private sector firms to build new natural gas infrastructure and utilize capacity on its existing pipelines, executives said last week.

Speaking at Industry Exchange LLC’s 7th Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum in Monterrey, Nuevo León, CFE Internacional (CFEi) operations director Carmen Serdán and CFEnergía operations director Gerardo de la Torre said CFE expects to launch multiple tenders over the coming weeks. CFEi and CFEnergía are the company’s international and domestic fuel procurement arms, respectively. 

CFEi will launch a two-phase tender for the construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline to supply gas sourced from the United States to existing and planned combined-cycle...