Sásabe-Guaymas Gas Pipeline
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The Sásabe-Guaymas Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline in Mexico.[1] Together with the adjoining Guaymas-El Oro Pipeline, it is also known as the Sonora pipeline or Gasoducto Sonora.[2][3]
Location
The pipeline runs north-south through Mexico's Sonora state. Starting at a connection with the Samalayuca-Sásabe Gas Pipeline near Sásabe on the Arizona-Sonora border[4], it reaches Mexico's Pacific coast at Puerto Libertad, then continues south to the coastal city of Guaymas, where it links up with the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline.[5]
Project Details
- Operator: IEnova[3]
- Owner: IEnova (100%)[6]
- Parent Company: Sempra Energy (100%)[3][7]
- Current capacity: 770 million cubic feet per day[3]
- Length: 505 km[3][7]
- Diameter: 36 inches[2][3]
- Status: Operating[7]
- Start Year: 2014[6]
- Associated Infrastructure:
Background
The pipeline is operated by IEnova and owned by Sempra Energy. Commercial operations began in December 2014[6], upon completion of the construction of the pipeline's first section between Sásabe and Puerto Libertad; the second section from Puerto Libertad to Guaymas was finished in December 2015.[8] The pipeline currently supplies gas to the 770 MW Empalme I power station and may eventually also feed the proposed AMIGO LNG Terminal in Puerto Libertad.[9]
Opposition
The Sásabe-Guaymas Gas Pipeline and the connecting Guaymas-El Oro pipeline have generated opposition from an indigenous Yaqui group in Loma de Bácum, Sonora state, whose members say they never agreed to construction of a nine-mile section of pipeline that crosses their land. In an August 2017 protest, members of the community used a backhoe to remove a 25-foot section of the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline, disrupting operations and perpetuating an ongoing legal battle with IEnova.[10][11]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Subieron la luz y la gasolina, pero en CFE y Pemex siguen las pérdidas, La Opinión de Poza Rica, March 2, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Informe Anual Financiero 2013 (p 36)". IEnova. April 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Beyond Energy: Our Sustainability and Financial Report (pp 232, 365)"" (PDF). IEnova. 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Manifestación de Impacto Ambiental, Modalidad Regional "Proyecto Samalayuca - Sásabe" (pp 5, 6 & 11)" (PDF). SEMARNAT (Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales). 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Estatus de la Infraestructura de Gas Natural" (PDF). SENER (Secretaría de Energía). October 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Annual Report 2021 (p 139)". IEnova (Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.P.I. de C.V.). April 25, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Natural Gas Infrastructure - Sempra LNG". Sempra Infrastructure. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
- ↑ "Estatus de la Infraestructura de Gas Natural (pp 8-9)" (PDF). SENER (Secretaría de Energía de México). October 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Lenton, Christopher (August 29, 2022). "Amigo LNG Looks to Leverage Offtake Interest, Pipeline Capacity to Fast-Track Mexico Project". NGI (Natural Gas Intelligence).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Protesters Turn to Vandalism to Delay IEnova’s Mexico NatGas Pipeline,", Natural Gas Intel, December 26, 2017
- ↑ "Problems in the pipeline for Sempra's subsidiary in Mexico,", San Diego Union-Tribune, February 7, 2018
