Madrid, 27 October 2011.- Elecnor will construct the gas pipeline that will allow natural gas to be transported from the state of Tlaxcala to Morelos, in Mexico’s central region. The project fits within the contract granted following the corresponding tender by Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). Within the framework of this contract, Elecnor will provide the CFE gas transmission services via the new gas pipeline for a period of 25 years.  

The project denotes an investment in the gas pipeline of over 270 million dollars (around 200 million euros). The pipeline will run for approximately 160 kilometres. It will connect the current gas pipeline system owned by the Mexican company Pemex Gas Petroquímica Básica in Tlaxcala with numerous electricity generation power plants soon to be developed in the Mexican state of Morelos. The start-up shall take place in two stages, the first in October 2012 and the second in June 2013. 

Elecnor breached the Mexican market in the early ‘90s, and since then it has helped develop electric, telecommunications, information system, gas and oil infrastructures, among others. As a recent milestone, in 2010, Elecnor was granted the design, construction, equipment supply and start-up of the “Agua Prieta II” combined cycle power plant in the Mexican state of Sonora, with an installed generational capacity of 400 MW.