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TransCanada Corp. announced Thursday that Mexico’s state-owned electric utility, the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), has awarded the company’s Mexican subsidiary a contract to build, own and operate a natural gas pipeline across the northern part of the country.

Western Canadian natural gas production is relocating, not dying, the nation’s top pipeline company has told the National Energy Board (NEB).

A Mexican federal district court hearing set for last Wednesday was postponed after the judge in the case removed himself from the proceeding involving Sempra Energy’s North Baja California liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal and a disgruntled adjacent landowner, a San Diego-based Sempra spokesperson told NGI.

A Korean-Japanese consortium of three companies has secured a contract with the Mexican government’s electricity commission to build and operate a 1 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal along the western mainline coast at Manzanillo, the group said. Mitsui & Co. Ltd. (37.5%), Samsung Engineering & Construction (37.5%) and Korea Gas Corp. (25%) secured the 20-year contract for the $900 million project.

To revive his stagnant reform agenda, Mexican President Vicente Fox has reshuffled his Cabinet and replaced Energy Minister Ernesto Martens with Felipe Calderon, a former leader of the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, which now controls Congress.

To revive his stagnant reform agenda, Mexican President Vicente Fox has reshuffled his Cabinet and replaced Energy Minister Ernesto Martens with Felipe Calderon, a former leader of the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, which now controls Congress.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) receipt terminal development along the Mexican and California coasts has spurred the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to take measures to create market diversity and stimulate LNG importation.

Mexican President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that Russia has agreed to supply his country with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East for up to four proposed terminals as part of a long-ranging plan to increase energy cooperation between the two countries.

In his fourth State of the Nation address earlier this month, Mexican President Vicente Fox said the state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will require $8.7 billion a year through 2010 to keep up with the country’s growing natural gas and electricity needs.