Mexican state power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and Sempra Infrastructure have signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects and complete the Guaymas-El Oro natural gas pipeline.

The LNG projects comprise the Vista Pacífico liquefaction terminal envisaged for Topolobampo, Sinaloa, and a regasification project in La Paz, Baja California Sur, said the subsidiary of San Diego, CA-based Sempra.

Guaymas-El Oro, part of Sempra’s Sonora pipeline system in northwestern Mexico, has been out of commission since 2017 amid a dispute with a local faction of the Yaqui Indigenous community.

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