North America

Canada-U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines

The 1998 expansion of the Northern Border and TransCanada natural gas pipelines has added 1.1 Bcf per day, or 15%, to Canada’s export capacity.

South America

Bolivia-Brazil Natural Gas Pipeline

The $2.1 billion, 1,970 mile (3,150 km) pipeline transports gas from southern Bolivia to Brazil. The first part of the pipeline, which connects the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra with the city of Campinas in Sao Paulo, was completed in February 1999.

Gas-Andes Natural Gas Pipeline

A pipeline is in operation carrying natural gas from the Neuquen basin in Argentina to greater Santiago Chile. The pipeline transports 320 Mcf per day. Its capacity is expected to more than double.

Argentina-Uruguay Gas Pipeline

The first natural gas pipeline connecting Argentina to Uruguay was inaugurated in late 1998, running from Entre Rios, Argentina to Paysandu, western Uruguay.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION / PLANNED

North America

Canada-U.S. Alliance Pipeline

The $2.5 billion 1,445-mile pipeline, which is scheduled for completion in October 2000, will run from northeastern British Colombia and Alberta directly to Chicago, and will add an additional 1.3 Bcf per day (Bcf/d) of capacity.

Canada-U.S. Millenium Project

The proposed $650 milllion, 700 Mmcf/d pipeline would connect western Canada to the northeastern United States.

Maritimes and Northeast Gas Pipeline

Now 70% complete, by November 1999 the 440-Mmcf/d pipeline will transport gas from Canada’s Sable Island to the U.S. Northeast.

U.S.-Mexico

El Paso Natural Gas Company plans to build a 95-mile pipeline to the Arizona/Mexico border. The pipeline would serve power generation customers in the Mexican state of Sonora. Service is scheduled to start in January 2001.

U.S.-Mexico

KN Energy, Inc., plans to build a $50 million 108-mile, 24-inch natural gas pipeline connecting KN’s MidCon Texas intrastate pipeline to Monterrey, Mexico. Completion is expected in the second quarter of 2000.

U.S.-Mexico

US firm Penn Octane and Pemex have agreed to a liquefied petroleum gas pipeline and a gasoline/diesel pipeline between Brownsville and Matamoros.

U.S.-Mexico

Sempra Energy International of San Diego, California is constructing a $35-million, 23-mile pipeline to deliver natural gas across the border to Rosarito.

Central America

Mexico-Guatemala Pipeline

The construction of a natural gas pipeline between southern Mexico and Guatemala, which may eventually extend to Panama, currently is under consideration. The pipeline, whose gas would be used to fuel electricity generation, would extend 347 miles (560 kilometers) from the southern Mexican city of Minatitlan to Guatemala City, and would follow existing paths of roads and railways. It would be capable of carrying 65 million cubic feet (Mmcf) of natural gas per day. The estimated cost of the Mexico-Guatemala project is $200 million while the entire Mexico-Panama project would be about $1.2 billion.

South America

Argentina-Atacama, Chile Gas Pipelines

Two separate consortiums, led by Tractabel of Belgium and Endesa of Chile are close to completing two natural gas ducts together worth about $1.5 billion, to feed power plants in the mining areas in northern Chile.

“Southern Cross” Argentina-Brazil

A $400 million joint venture between British Gas and PanAmerican Energy will construct a pipeline carrying 20 million cubic meters of natural gas per day from Argentina via Uruguay to Brazil. Construction will be concluded in 2001.