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The Isthmus Interoceanic Corridor will require millions of cubic feet of natural gas

Alejandro Alegría

The 10 industrial parks that will be installed in the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will require more than 11 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, which will be transported through the pipeline owned by Cenagas.

Mexico City. The 10 industrial parks that will be installed in the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) will require more than 11 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, which will be transported through the pipeline owned by the National Gas Control Center of Mexico (Swamps).

In an interview with La Jornada within the framework of the Cenagas consultative forum, Abraham David Alipi Mena, general director of the organization in charge of managing the energy transport and storage network in the country, commented that almost five years after the current administration "the The system has become more efficient because we have not had to go out to auction gas, buy gas, to balance the system”.

Aldo Silva Cortés, general coordinator of Planning and Design of Development Strategies at CIIT, commented that the first estimates of demand required for the Well-being Development Poles indicate that it will be 11.31 million cubic feet per day.

Data from the Corridor indicate that in synergy with Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Industrial Transformation, it is expected to provide molecules to the industries that are established in the 10 industrial parks.

Alipi Mena told La Jornada that Cenagas is not the supplier of the molecule, because it is not the owner, but it is the operator of the 12-inch pipeline that runs through Coatzacoalcos and connects both the Minatitlán refinery with the Salina refinery. Cross.

“The 10 parks are located on that line, which means those parks will have a connection to the main gas line to have a fuel supply,” he said.

The agency's director indicated that "the system has been balancing in a very excellent way" in the almost five years of the current administration. “However, storage systems are required, because in colloquial terms it is like having a road and not having parking,” he said.

"We are going well, we are going well, everything has been planned so that we are not going to leave unfinished projects, the projects are going to be finished and they will be delivered before the end of the administration," he stressed.

“Storage of a strategic type is required, we already have the operational one and what we want to start working on is commercial storage, this with the idea that the end user can have the guarantee of the molecule without interruptions and avoid what happened in February 21 and December of last year, that there were problems with the supply of imported gas from the United States”, he noted.

"With these schemes what we want to do is better balance the system so that the service is not interrupted, he insisted."

He explained that there are three storage technologies, one is to use depleted deposits, another is saline caverns, such as those found in the deep Coatzacoalcos area, near Pemex, and the last is liquefied Natural Gas in surface stations, which would be built near the ports, such as the projects that are already underway in Puerto Altamira, Tamaulipas.

He noted that public policy establishes a storage of 45 billion cubic feet per day, which is equivalent to around five days and the one that is operating is in liquefied natural gas terminals.

"Traditionally in Mexico the same packaging was used, the same pipeline as storage, because this pipeline has an estimated capacity of around, for example, 9 billion cubic feet per day and currently 6 are moving," he said.

“Now with the increase in production in the southeast and with the demand, which is part of this exercise that we are doing, well, we have to start looking at other schemes, because it would no longer be enough to store in the pipeline, they will already be required. other support systems to be able to continue guaranteeing the gas supply”, he pointed out.

He stressed that the national production of Natural Gas has preference over imports. "This is part of the president's (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) policy, that is, the national part always has preference over an imported one," he said.

"Here we want what we tried to do, it is good to place or try to place that increase in national production," he added.

When participating in the Forum, which was not attended by the head of the Secretary of Energy (Sener), Rocío Nahle García, the director of Cenagas commented that the space seeks to know where and when fuel is required throughout the country.

“Thus, we will identify the projects that will be proposed to Sener, previously presented to the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) for the issuance of its technical opinion to be part of the fourth annual review of the five-year plan for the Expansion of the National Transportation and Storage System. Integrated Gas 2020-2024”, he indicated.

https://www.jornada.com.mx/notas/2023/06/07/economia/parques-industriales-del-ciit-requieren-11-mil-millones-de-pies-cubicos-de-gas-natural/