By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 27 -- El Paso Blue Atlantic US Inc. and Houston-based DKRW Energy LLC's LNG subsidiary Sonora Pacific Mexico agreed to lay a 350-mile pipeline in Sonora, Mex., to carry natural gas from the proposed 1.3 bcfd Sonora Pacific LNG facility at Puerto Libertad on the Gulf of California.
The system would transport 500 MMcfd of gas to replace residual fuel oil at electric power stations in Naco, Hermosillo, Guaymas, Ciudad Obregon, and Navojoa, and 800 MMcfd to an interconnection with El Paso Natural Gas Co.'s interstate pipeline system at the Mexico-US border.
Initial operations are targeted for 2008.
