TransCanada Corp., an operator of North American energy infrastructure — including natural gas and liquids pipelines, power generation and gas storage facilities — has announced its Topolobampo Pipeline project has been placed into service in northern Mexico, providing capacity for 670 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets in the states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa. The project represents an investment of approximately $1.2 billion and provides the upstream interconnection with the company’s Mazatlan Pipeline.
The project involved the construction of approximately 348 miles of 30-inch diameter pipeline from El Encino, near the city of Chihuahua, to Topolobampo, near the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Combined, the Topolobampo and Mazatlan pipelines form a system that adds more than 540 miles of critical energy infrastructure that will play a fundamental role in providing natural gas to power plants, industrial and urban markets for the economic development of the northwest region of Mexico.
TransCanada’s presence in Mexico dates back to the mid-1990s with the construction of the first two privately owned pipelines in the country. The company’s natural gas pipelines in Mexico — either in operation or under construction — now total more than 1,982 miles, with a capacity of 7.1 billion cubic feet per day and an investment of approximately $5.6 billion.