Sur de Texas-Tuxpan (Marino) Gas Pipeline

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Sur de Texas-Tuxpan (Marino) Gas Pipeline (also known as South Texas-Tuxpan Gas Pipeline) is an operating natural gas pipeline in the United States and Mexico.

Location

The pipeline would run from the Gulf of Mexico near Port of Brownsville, Texas, to Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Project Details

• Operator: TransCanada, IEnova, Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG)
• Parent: IEnova and IMG are subsidiaries of Sempra Energy
• Current capacity:
• Proposed capacity: 2600 Million cubic feet per day
• Length: 497 miles / 800 km
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2019

Background

The proposed South Texas-Tuxpan Gas Pipeline is a joint venture between TransCanada (60%) and Sempra Energy’s Mexican unit IEnova (40%), also known as Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG), which is building the pipeline. The $3.1bn project is being developed by the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) of Mexico, and will become the country’s first undersea pipeline upon completion. Construction began in the port of Altamira, Mexico, in May 2017, and is scheduled to be complete by late 2018.

The pipeline began service in early 2019.

Opposition

In August 2017, members of the Yaqui tribe in the town of Loma de Bacum used a backhoe truck to remove a 25-foot segment from the 30-inch-thick pipeline, effectively halting production. Loma de Bacu had previously previously refused to grant its consent to the pipeline.