Samalayuca-Sásabe Gas Pipeline
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Samalayuca-Sásabe Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in Mexico.
Location
The pipeline runs south of the US-Mexico border from from Samalayuca, Chihuahua to Pitiquito, Sonora.[1][2] At its western end it connects with the Sásabe-Guaymas Gas Pipeline, and at its eastern end it connects with the San Isidro-Samalayuca Gas Pipeline.[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Carso Energy[1][3][4][5]
- Owner: Carso Energy[1]
- Parent Company: Grupo Carso S.A.B. de C.V. (100%)[4][5]
- Capacity: 472 million cubic feet per day[3][6]
- Length: 625 km[3]
- Diameter: 36 inches[1][3][6]
- Status: Operating[7]
- Financing: US$240 million bridge financing provided by BBVA, CaixaBank, MUFG and Mizuho[8]
- Start Year: 2021[1][7][9]
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
The pipeline has a diameter of 36 inches and is owned and operated by Mexico's Grupo Carso.[5][6] In December 2018 the project's sponsor announced that construction had been delayed and would not be complete until the second half of 2019.[10] The pipeline was reportedly 78% complete as of the end of 2018.[11] In September 2019 Mexican President Andrew Manuel Lopez Obrador reached a deal with seven private pipeline operators including the Carso group in which the operators agree to take 30% less in profits in exchange for changing fee structures to a single flat rate.[12]
In September 2019 it was reported that the pipeline would be completed in May 2020.[12] As of July 2020, pipeline operators still expected the pipeline to be complete in either late 2020 or early 2021[9], although a September 2020 report from Mexico's SENER (Secretary of Energy) showed that the pipeline was still only 81% complete.[13][14]
In its Q3 report dated October 21, 2020, project owner Grupo Carso reported that construction of the Samalayuca-Sásabe Gas Pipeline was completed in the third quarter of 2020.[5][15] The pipeline began commercial operations in January 2021.[7]
Financing
In July 2016, US$240 million bridge financing for the development of the pipeline was provided by BBVA, CaixaBank, MUFG and Mizuho.[8] This was followed up in March 2017 by an additional lending facility of US$535 million from BBVA, CaixaBank, MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, with part of the proceeds going to repay the previous bridge financing.[16]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Descripción del Sistema de Transporte". Carso Energy. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "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) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "2023 Annual Report (p 107)" (PDF). Carso Energy. 2024-03-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Informe Anual 2022 (p 15)" (PDF). Grupo Carso. March 31, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Informe Consolidado Trimestre 3, Año 2020 (p 39)" (PDF). Grupo Carso S.A.B. de C.V. October 21, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "0767 CFE: Gasoducto Samalayuca – Sásabe". Proyectos México. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "New Pipelines Connect West Texas Natural Gas-Producing Areas to Demand Markets". Pipeline & Gas Journal. June 10, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 Samalayuca-Sasabe Natural Gas Pipeline (650KM) Bridge Facility, IJGlobal, accessed Aug. 18, 2020
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico set to rise with completion of the Wahalajara system, Oil & Gas 360, July 6, 2020
- ↑ Additional Mexico Pipe Delays to Prolong Bottlenecks for Permian, Genscape, Dec. 3, 2018
- ↑ Grupo Carso concluira gasoducto Samalayua-Sasabe, Opportimes, Jun. 17, 2019
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Deal on Mexican natural gas pipeline reached, Chamber Business News, Sep. 18, 2019
- ↑ "Segundo Informe de Labores (p 54)" (PDF). SENER (Secretaría de Energía). September 1, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Tienen 3 ductos mínimo avance". El Norte. September 24, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Espinosa, Claudia (October 28, 2020). "Mexico set for new Q4 natural gas import records despite headwinds". ICIS Explore.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Samalayuca-Sasabe Natural Gas Pipeline (650KM) Additional Facility, IJGlobal, accessed Aug. 18, 2020
