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Sempra, CFE sign MoU on

LNG, gas pipeline projects

SEMPRA Infrastructure, a division of US-based previous commitments to the Yaqui indigenous
Sempra, has signed a memorandum of under- community while also supplying gas to com-
standing (MoU) with the Federal Energy mercial, industrial and residential consumers on
Commission (CFE), Mexico’s national power Mexico’s Pacific coast and to the Vista Pacífico
provider, outlining plans for co-operation on LNG plant, as well as consumers in Baja Cali-
several major projects. fornia Sur.
In a statement, Sempra Infrastructure said “Through these combined actions, CFE con-
that the non-binding MoU called for the two tributes to strengthening the country’s energy
sides to work together on two LNG projects security and reaffirms its commitment with the
– namely, the proposed construction of the Mexican people, while Sempra Infrastructure
Vista Pacífico LNG gas liquefaction plant at agrees to continue to work to develop critical
Topolobampo, a port in Sinaloa State, and the new energy infrastructure in Mexico,” the state-
continued operation of the La Paz LNG regas- ment said.
ification facility in Baja California Sur State. It noted that the two companies had signed
Additionally, it said, the document provides for the MoU on January 31 at an event attended by
the partners to collaborate in bringing the Guay- CFE’s general director Manuel Bartlett Díaz and
mas-El Oro pipeline, which pumps natural gas Sempra Infrastructure’s president for Mexico
from Sonora to Sinaloa, back on stream. Tania Ortiz Mena. ™
The parties will negotiate definitive agree-
ments on all three projects, it reported.
Assuming that the LNG initiatives come to
fruition, they will allow CFE to optimise natu-
ral gas supplies and pipeline capacity between
the Texas-Mexico border and Topolobampo,
the statement said. This, in turn, will facilitate
gas deliveries to Baja California Sur, thereby
upholding Mexican President Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador’s pledge to ensure the state’s
access to supplies of electric power and low-car-
bon fuels, it stated.
Meanwhile, Sempra reported that it was
restarting the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline after
re-routing part of the link. The construction of a
bypass section will allow the company to uphold The MoU is designed to optimise natural gas supplies in the region (Image: EIA)

Aldana wins election as Pemex union

chief despite criticism from rivals

RICARDO Aldana has been elected as head 52,000 votes after 72,000 members registered to
of the union representing workers at Mexico’s participate in the election. (Other sources put
national oil company (NOC) Pemex. the number closer to 45,000 but said that the
In videos posted on social media sites on second-place candidate had only won about
January 31, union representatives reported that 4,500 votes.)
Aldana, who currently serves as the union’s Maldonado, for his part, noted that the offi-
treasurer, had won in a landslide against 25 cial results were still being processed but named
other candidates. Aldana as the victor. “But I am going to get
One of the representatives, named as Car- ahead, the winner is ... Ricardo Aldana,” he was
los Maldonado, stated that Aldana had drawn quoted as saying by the Reforma newspaper.

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