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Mexico’s Comision Reguladora de Energa (CRE) granted a permitto Transportadora de Gas Natural de Baja California, a subsidiarycompany of U.S.-based Sempra Energy International, for transportinggas to the Presidente Juarez thermoelectric station in Rosarito,Baja California. The pipeline is part of a ten-year gas supplycontract valued at close to a billion dollars. Enova and PacificEnterprises (now combined to form Sempra) won the bid for gas tosupply the generating station. The projected 30-inch diameterpipeline will span 23 miles and is designed to operate with acompression capacity of 810 MMcf/d and operative capacity of 270MMcf/d.