Cuxtal Gas Pipeline

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Cuxtal Gas Pipeline is an operating gas pipeline in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico.

Location

The pipeline runs from the Nuevo Pemex processing center in Tabasco state, Mexico to the Cactus processing center in Chiapas, Mexico.

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Project Details

• Operator: Engie
• Parent company: Engie
• Capacity: 240 MMcf/d
• Length: 16 km
• Diameter: 36 inches
• Cost: US $25 million
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2020
• Financing:
• Related infrastructure:
  • Energía Mayakan Pipeline
  • Sistema Nacional de Gasoductos

Background

The Cuxtal gas pipeline is a 16-kilometer (10-mile) spur pipeline connecting the Energia Mayakan Pipeline with Mexico's national Sistrangas pipeline system. The pipeline forms part of a much larger natural gas pipeline system, anchored at its northern end by the Sur de Texas-Tuxpan Pipeline, that connects Texas's Permian Basin with the Yucatán peninsula, a region that has long suffered from some of Mexico's highest energy prices.

Construction of the US$ 25 million project began in January 2020, with an anticipated completion date of August. As of June 2020, the pipeline was already 80% complete, according to a report from Mexico's SENER (Secretary of Energy. Mexico's natural gas agency Cenagas announced that construction was completed in September of the same year, with pre-operational tests beginning immediately thereafter. The pipeline began commercial operations in late 2020.

Proposed Expansion of Capacity

A proposed two-phase expansion of the adjacent Energía Mayakan pipeline, aimed at supplying natural gas to the proposed Mérida and Riviera Maya combined cycle power stations, would increase capacity of the Cuxtal-Mayakan pipeline system to at least 500 MMcf/d. Phases I and II of the Energía Mayakan expansion project (also known as Cuxtal-Mayakan expansion Phase II and Phase III) are expected to take two to three years to complete.

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