Shawcor wins Tuxpan pipeline job
Thursday 14 July 2016
Canada-based Shawcor has won a pipe-coating contract from TransCanada affiliate Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG) for work on a subsea pipeline that would carry natural gas from the US state of Texas across the border to Mexico.
Under the "conditional" contract, which is worth about C$300 million (US$231.3 million), Shawcor will provide pipeline coating solutions to the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) Sur de Texas - Tuxpan gas pipeline project.
The pipeline will transport gas subsea in the Gulf of Mexico, from South Texas to Tuxpan, Veracruz.
It will supply natural gas to the CFE's power generation plants in multiple regions of the country.
The contract involves coating about 690 kilometres of 42-inch pipe and supplying of 5000 sacrificial anodes for installation.
Coating is expected to start at the beginning of 2017 and be completed by the end of the year.
Shawcor will execute the work at its new coating facility in Altamira, Tampico, Mexico, which was developed to serve offshore projects in the Western Hemisphere from Mexico.
Development started in January, 2016 and will be fully mobilised and functional by the third quarter of 2016.
IMG is a Mexican company majority-owned by TransCanada and partially owned by IEnova.