MEXICALI

Due to Mexicali’s privileged geographic location, it is one on the few cities in the Mexico-U.S. border region that has a USA pipe network for Natural Gas distribution. This pipeline brings the low cost, contaminant free commodity from the U.S and allows its delivery to over 150 industrial and commercial users. Ecogas, a fully owned subsidiary of Sempra Energy is the privately owned utility that operates the distribution.

Being an open pipeline system, any company has the option to connect to the city’s backbone system, and most industrial parks already have connections available within their properties.

Some Industrial Parks with active Gas Connections are:

CACHANILLA
EL COLORADO
MARAN
PALACO
CALAFIA
EX XXI
MARGAR
PIMSA I, II, III and IV
CUCAPAH
NELSON
VIGIA I, II
PROGRESO I, II
LAS CALIFORNIAS

Through this distribution network, Ecogas can provide service to industrial and commercial customers in the region. For instance, leading manufacturing sites like Thomson (CRT), Fábrica de Papel San Francisco (paper manufacturer), FEVISA (glass bottle manufacturer), Zahori (construction product manufacturer), Domex (CRT), Maseca (food) and Sidek (iron producer) located in the heavy industry corridor, among dozens of other industries.

Before Natural Gas reaches our City’s System, it is transported to our “citygate” by the most modern and complex gas distribution system in the world. The Mexicali system is linked to the U.S. and Canada’s network. Immediately preceding our system, the commodity is transported by the Socal Gas Network that is the main line feeding Mexicali just south of El Centro, CA.

The Natural Gas distribution network within the city is composed of over 260 kilometers of pipeline that covers the near-border industrial areas to the North, reaching the industrial corridors along the exit to Tijuana in the West and in it’s southernmost points reaches Sidek’s steel mill and FEVISA. The network has the capacity by design to expand, and is constantly doing so upon request of new customers. Pipe width is robustly calculated to allow the system to cover not only the current demand, but also the demands that the future growth of the area require. For both industrial and commercial, as well as residential use.

MEXICALI CITY NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

For more detailed information please go directly to
http://www.ecogas.com.mx/Pages/Mexicali/Mexicali.html?title=Mexicali

TIJUANA

Natural Gas for industrial use is now available in Tijuana. Two high capacity pipelines (Transportadora de Gas Natural (TGN) and Gasoducto Bajanorte) that run through the east and south of Tijuana are accesible for most major industrial parks. Both TGN and Bajanorte are subsidiaries from San Diego based, Sempra Energy.

Transportadora de Gas Natural (TGN) is 30" diameter and 23-mile pipeline that goes from San Diego, California to Otay Mesa in Tijuana and later on to Playas de Rosarito. This pipeline supplies natural gas to CFE's Presidente Juarez thermo-electrical plant. Gasoducto Bajanorte pipeline is a 30" pipeline, 130-miles long and transports Natural Gas from Erenbergh, Arizona to Tijuana. The Bajanorte pipeline, which started operations in 2002, crosses the southeast border of California and the State of Baja California to interconnect with the TGN system in Tijuana. Bajanorte pipeline currently provides Natural Gas to two power plants in Mexicali, as well as industrial facility such as Toyota in Tijuana.

For more detailed information please go directly to
http://www.sempraenergy.com/index_es.htm