Prosperidad Gas Pipeline

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Prosperidad Gas Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas in southern Mexico.

Location

The pipeline would run from Ixtepec, Oaxaca to Tapachula, Chiapas.

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Project Details

• Operator: Comisión Federal de Electricidad
• Owner: Comisión Federal de Electricidad
• Parent Company: Comisión Federal de Electricidad
• Proposed capacity: 60 to 95 million cubic feet per day
• Length: 359 km
• Diameter: 16 to 20 inches
• Status: Proposed
• Start Year:
• Cost: 283.35 million USD
• Associated Infrastructure:
  • Interoceanic Corridor Gas Pipeline
  • Mexico-Northern Central America Gas Pipeline

Background

The Prosperidad pipeline was originally proposed in November 2020 by the Mexican Secretary of Energy (SENER), which included the pipeline in its national integrated gas plan for 2020-2024. The pipeline would run from a junction with the Jáltipan-Salina Cruz Gas Pipeline in Ixtepec, Oaxaca state to Tapachula, Chiapas near the Mexico-Guatemala border. Two versions of the new pipeline were originally proposed, a larger 24- to 30-inch version with a capacity of 145 mmcf/d and a smaller 20-inch version with a capacity of 95 mmcf/d. The pipeline was projected to be 355 kilometers in length. SENER estimated that the project would require capital expenditures of US$ 261 million, which could potentially be provided by a private investor.

A revised version of the integrated gas plan, released in December 2022, estimated a reduced capacity and a slightly increased length for the pipeline. The project was now proposed to extend for 359 km instead of 355 km, and to have a capacity of 60 to 95 mmcf/d, depending on whether its diameter was 16 or 20 inches. Cost estimates for the project had been increased to $283 million.

If constructed, the Prosperidad project would become a key component of a gas transport system stretching all the way from the United States to Central America.

A March 2021 Mexican government report noted that the Prosperidad pipeline project presented higher-than-average levels of risk and environmental impact and lower-than-average benefits, that both the construction start date and development time frame for the pipeline's development remained undefined, and that construction of the pipeline remained contingent on completion of the Interoceanic Corridor Gas Pipeline (a planned expansion of the existing Jáltipan-Salina Cruz Gas Pipeline).

In March 2022, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated the Mexican government's pledge to build a pipeline through southeastern Mexico to the Guatemalan border, while noting that the project was contingent on completion of the Interoceanic Corridor Gas Pipeline, which would bring larger quantities of fossil gas into the region.

Throughout 2023 and 2024, various sources continued to mention the Prosperidad pipeline as a future project, but without identifying any clear time frame for its execution.