Reuters states that the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a presidential permit to Energy Transfer’s Houston Pipe Line Co, which will allow the company to build the pipeline across the federal border.
This is one of several projects proposed by energy companies in the United States to export some of the nation’s gas supplies from shale fields to Mexico and elsewhere.
In the order, FERC said Houston Pipe Line filed in October 2013 to build and operate the pipeline to export or import gas across the international boundary between Hidalgo County in Texas and the city of Reynosa in Tamaulipas state in Mexico, Reuters said.
Reuters reports that Houston Pipe Line wants to build a 37 km extension of its existing Edinburg Lateral that will cross the border under the Rio Grande River and will have a 24 inch diameter. The pipeline will have a design capacity of approximately 140 MMcf/d.
The pipeline will connect into the Pemex Pipeline system on the Mexican side of the border and will primarily supply mostly Texas-sourced gas to fuel gas-fired power plants and potential industrial customers in northern Mexico, according to the order.