Roadrunner Pipeline

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Roadrunner Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline.

Location

The pipeline runs from Waha Hub, Texas to San Elizario, Texas.

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Project Details

Phase 1, Project Details

• Operator: Roadrunner Gas Transmission
• Owner: Fermaca (50%), ONEOK (50%)
• Capacity: 170 million cubic feet per day
• Length: 200 miles / 321.9 km
• Diameter: 30-inches
• Cost: US$133 million
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2016
• Financing: US$230 million loan from Citi, MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui

Phase 2, Project Details

• Operator: Roadrunner Gas Transmission
• Owner: Fermaca (50%), ONEOK (50%)
• Capacity: 440 million cubic feet per day
• Length: 0.0 new miles
• Diameter: 30 inches
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2016
• Cost: $313 million

Phase 3, Project Details

• Operator: Roadrunner Gas Transmission
• Owner: Fermaca (50%), ONEOK (50%)
• Capacity: 70 million cubic feet per day
• Length: 0.0 new miles
• Diameter: 30-inches
• Cost: US$55 million
• Status: On-hold/Shelved
• Start Year:

Background

ONEOK Partners entered into a 50-50 joint venture with a subsidiary of Fermaca Infrastructure B.V. (Fermaca), a Mexico City-based natural gas infrastructure company, to construct a pipeline that transports natural gas from the Permian Basin in West Texas to Mexico. The Roadrunner Pipeline project extends from ONEOK Partners’ ONEOK WesTex Transmission natural gas pipeline system at Coyanosa, Texas, west to a new international border-crossing connection at the U.S. and Mexico border near San Elizario, Texas, where it connects with Fermaca’s Tarahumara Gas Pipeline. The project is being developed in three phases.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there have been no development updates on Phase 3 since 2018 and the project is presumed to be on hold.

Financing

In September 2015, the project received a US$230 million loan from Citi and the three Japanese 'mega banks' MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui.