Project Profile

Estimated value: US$650 million
Location:  Puerto Libertad, Sonora coast, Mexico
Capacity: 1.3 bcf/d
Construction start-up: 2005
Operation start-up: 2022

Sonora Pacific LNG, a subsidiary of Houston-based development company DKRW Energy, had signed an agreement with Mexico\'s Sonora state government to build a 1.3 billion cubic feet a day liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal at Puerto Libertad on the Sonora coast. The project includes the terminal, two 160,000 cubic metre storage terminals at Puerto Libertad, gas pipeline infrastructure in Sonora, possibly extending to the neighboring Sinaloa state, and a 36-inch export pipeline through Nogales to interconnect with the El Paso Pipeline system east of Tucson. Construction was set to begin in mid-2005 and operations were projected for mid-2008. The Sonora Terminal and Pipeline project includes an LNG receipt, storage and regasification facility and a gas pipeline system that will provide gas to the State of Sonora as well as the southwestern United States.  In 2004, El Paso and DKRW agreed to develop up to 350 miles of gas pipeline within Sonora by 2008. Land was secured for the LNG facilities in August 2004 following an agreement for development with the Sonoran government. In December 2015, DKRW Energy LLC and a subsidiary of Houston-based El Paso Corp. had received three environmental permits for their proposed joint venture liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and 1 Bcf/d pipeline facilities in Sonora, Mexico. Permits obtained include environmental authorisations issued by the Mexican Federal Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) for the project\'s terminal and pipelines and a land-use permit for the terminal issued by SEMARNAT and the National Forest Commission.

Operators:

DKRW Energy Sonora Holding

Aecom Capital