Sásabe-Guaymas Gas Pipeline

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The Sásabe-Guaymas Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline in Mexico. Together with the adjoining Guaymas-El Oro Pipeline, it is also known as the Sonora pipeline or Gasoducto Sonora.

Location

The pipeline runs north-south through Mexico's Sonora state. Starting at a connection with the Samalayuca-Sásabe Gas Pipeline near Sásabe on the Arizona-Sonora border, it reaches Mexico's Pacific coast at Puerto Libertad, then continues south to the coastal city of Guaymas, where it links up with the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline.

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Project Details

• Operator: IEnova
• Owner: IEnova (100%)
• Parent Company: Sempra Energy (100%)
• Current capacity: 770 million cubic feet per day
• Length: 505 km
• Diameter: 36 inches
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2014
• Associated Infrastructure:
  • Samalayuca-Sásabe Gas Pipeline
  • Guaymas-El Oro Gas Pipeline
  • Sierrita Gas Pipeline

Background

The pipeline is operated by IEnova and owned by Sempra Energy. Commercial operations began in December 2014, upon completion of the construction of the pipeline's first section between Sásabe and Puerto Libertad; the second section from Puerto Libertad to Guaymas was finished in December 2015. The pipeline currently supplies gas to the 770 MW Empalme I power station and may eventually also feed the proposed AMIGO LNG Terminal in Puerto Libertad.

Opposition

The Sásabe-Guaymas Gas Pipeline and the connecting Guaymas-El Oro pipeline have generated opposition from an indigenous Yaqui group in Loma de Bácum, Sonora state, whose members say they never agreed to construction of a nine-mile section of pipeline that crosses their land. In an August 2017 protest, members of the community used a backhoe to remove a 25-foot section of the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline, disrupting operations and perpetuating an ongoing legal battle with IEnova.