The pipeline’s entire capacity is held under a 25-year contract with state-owned electric company Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE).
The 30-inch-diameter pipeline connects to an LNG regasification facility near Manzanillo in the Mexican state of Colima and will transport 500 million cubic feet of gas per day to a nearby CFE-owned power plant.
The pipeline will also transport 320 million cubic feet of gas per day to the Pemex-owned national pipeline system near Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco.
TransCanada president and CEO Russ Girling said the Guadalajara pipeline represents key infrastructure that will allow CFE to continue developing a natural gas-fired electricity generation fleet in the rapidly growing central region of Mexico.
