{"id":39778,"date":"2015-02-23T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=39778"},"modified":"2015-02-23T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:35:09","slug":"west-texas-to-mexico-pipelines-on-track-for-2017-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2015\/02\/23\/west-texas-to-mexico-pipelines-on-track-for-2017-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"West Texas to Mexico Pipelines On Track for 2017 Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39779\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Two planned pipelines would export natural gas from the Permian Basin across the border to Mexico. (Energy Transfer Partners)\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2015\/02\/pipeline-map.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39779\" alt=\"Two planned pipelines would export natural gas from the Permian Basin across the border to Mexico. (Energy Transfer Partners)\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2015\/02\/pipeline-map-300x203.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2015\/02\/pipeline-map-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2015\/02\/pipeline-map.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">(Energy Transfer Partners)<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two planned pipelines would export natural gas from the Permian Basin across the border to Mexico. (Energy Transfer Partners)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Dallas-based company looking to build two sizable natural gas pipelines from Far West Texas to Mexico says it plans to have both pipelines built and operating by early 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Transfer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saladeprensa.cfe.gob.mx\/boletines\/show\/8205\/\" target=\"_blank\">won a contract<\/a>\u00a0from Mexico\u2019s electricity commission to build the manage the pipeline\u2019s construction. It\u2019s estimated the two 42\u2033 lines could carry a combined 2.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.<\/p>\n<p>In an earnings call this week, the company\u2019s CEO Kelcy Warren \u2013 also the owner of the Lajitas Golf Resort near Big Bend National Park \u2013 said the company\u2019s making progress on meeting that timeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about our business south to Mexico,\u201d Warren said. \u201cThe next two projects that we were winners on, we\u2019re looking at both of them to come on in the first quarter of 2017, and we are finalizing negotiations and everything is on track to that timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One of the pipelines would stretch from near the towns of Monahans and Pecos south through the Marfa area to Presidio. The other would travel from the same area west to the border near El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Some West Texans are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bigbendconservationalliance\" target=\"_blank\">worried<\/a>\u00a0about how the pipeline\u2019s construction would impact roads and the environment, while some people across the border are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marfapublicradio.org\/blog\/mexico-energy-reform-border-pipeline-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">wary of selling their land for development<\/a>\u00a0on the Mexican side.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/1672330-etp-11-18-2014-analyst-presentation-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">looking to expand<\/a>\u00a0its holdings in South Texas and other parts of the Permian Basin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dallas-based company looking to build two sizable natural gas pipelines from Far West Texas to Mexico says it plans to have both pipelines built and operating by early 2017. Energy Transfer\u00a0won a contract\u00a0from Mexico\u2019s electricity commission to build the manage the pipeline\u2019s construction. It\u2019s estimated the two 42\u2033 lines could carry a combined 2.8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39786,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39778\/revisions\/39786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}