Jesus Soto Jr., the current vice president for operations services at El Paso Corps.’ pipeline group, will become Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) senior vice president for gas transmission, operations, engineering and pipeline integrity beginning May 29. At El Paso, Soto deals with providing technical services and support to pipeline field operations covering measurement, compression, reserve/pipeline systems, federal Department of Transportation compliance and risk management. Soto previously worked for ANR Pipeline, Colorado Interstate Gas, Southern Natural Gas and Tennessee Gas Pipeline for onshore and offshore facilities. He holds a civil engineering degree from the University of Texas-El Paso and a master’s in engineering from Texas A&M.
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Mexico Defines Another Distribution Zone
Mexico’s energy regulatory commission (CRE) defined the gasdistribution geographic zone of North Bajio to includemunicipalities Aguascalientes-Jesus Maria-San Francisco de losRomo, Aguascalientes; San Luis Potosi-Soledad de Graciano Sanchez,San Luis Potosi; and Zacatecas-Guadalupe, Fresnillo, Calera andMorelos, Zacatecas. About $35 million will be needed to develop thedistribution network, the CRE said. Belgian company Tractebel issaid to be interested in developing the distribution system. Theregion has more than 1.6 million residents and 342,000 homes 86% ofwhich are equipped with running water and liquefied propane gasinstallations. The homes consume about 16.2 MMcf/d of propane.