Natural Gas From Texas To Mexico "Skyrocketing" -- Forbes -- August 3, 2015

 Updates

August 4, 2015: Bloomberg/Rigzone has article on same subject. 

Later, 3:48 p.m. Central Time: intermittent energy company buys seven natural gas pipelines in Texas for $2.1 billion.

Later, 2:23 p.m. Central Time: see first comment. To those pipelines in the original post, add this one:

• NET Mexico Pipeline, 120 miles; as of December, 2014; 2.1 Bcf/d; from the Agua Dulce Hub, Nueces County, Texas, to a point near Rio Grande City, Texas. 

Original Post

 

This is another must-read from Forbes magazine, covering: three (3) existing pipelines and six (6) proposed pipelines with combined capacity of 6.5 Bcf/d and representing capital budgets in excess of $7 billion.

Texas has 300,000 miles of pipe; Mexico has about 9,000 miles of pipe.

Existing:

• Sierrita, Kinder Morgan, on-line last year, 1.9 Bcf/day, 60 miles from Tucson to Sasabe, AZ,estimates: 4.6 Bcf/d by 2024
• KM Tejas system, Morgan Border Pipeline, Kinder Morgan, 97 miles, Hidalgo County, TX, to King Ranch, Kleburg County, Texas, 300 million cubic feet/day, bidirectional capability
• Mier-Monterrey Pipeline, KMI, Starr County, TX, to Monterrey, Mexico, 375 million cubic feet/day

Newly announced:

• Nueva Era Pipeline, Howard Midstream Energy Partners, 200 miles, Webb County Hub to Escobedo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on-line July, 2017; 600 mcf/day
• South Texas-Tuxpan Pipeline, largest proposed natural gas pipeline project in South Texas; 497 miles under the Gulf of Mexico from South Texas to Tuxpan; 2.6 Bcf/day; start date, June, 2018
• Hidalgo-Reynosa Pipeline, Houston Pipe Line, Hidalgo County, TX, to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 140 mcf/day
• Trans Pecos Pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners and others, Pecos, TX, to Presidio; 1.4 bcf/day, but local opposition may impede construction
• Comanche Trail Pipeline, 192 miles, Waha hub at San Elizario, just south of El Paso; Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man is part owner; 1.1 Bcf/day
• Roadrunner Gas Transmission Pipeline, ONEOK, Coyanose, TX, to San Elizario, TX; on-line 1Q16; 170 MMcf/d; second phase will increase that to 570 MMcf/d, to be completed by 1Q17; third and final phase will increase that to 640 MMcf/d, to be completed in 2019

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