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Quintana Roo meets with representatives for Mayakán Energy pipeline project inclusion

Riviera Maya, Q.R. — The Governor of Quintana Roo has met with National CFE representatives to include the state in the Mayakán Energy pipeline project. Governor Mara Lezama says the state of Quintana Roo is in need of incorporation into the project that will see natural gas transported to the Peninsula doubled.

Lezama met with representatives of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) Friday to discuss the incorporation of Quintana Roo into the national project. The Mayakán Energy pipeline is an expansion project of the pipeline that currently runs from the Pemex natural gas processing center in Tabasco to power plants in Merida and Valladolid in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Two additional phases are proposed to begin in 2026 at a tune of around $2 billion USD. The proposed Phase I by parent company Engie would add 159 kilometers (99 miles) of pipeline with a capacity of 100 million cubic feet per day at a cost of $300 million USD.

The proposed Phase II would see a transport capacity increase to 317 million cubic feet per day. The proposed Phase I expansion known as Cuxtal-Mayakan Phase II, would extend the pipeline by 159 kilometers from Valladolid into Quintana Roo. The Mayakan project (Phase II) would increase capacity of both pipelines.

“We met with representatives of the National CFE with whom we raised the need to incorporate Quintana Roo in the Mayakán Energy Gas Pipeline project, which would double the capacity to transport natural gas to the Yucatan Peninsula with safe and affordable energy,” Lezama said.

“As part of the agreements, we will carry out the environmental impact statement, the environmental risk study and the program for the prevention of accidents. The transformation of the state advances with energy development for the benefit of the people of Quintana Roo.

“The gas pipeline would guarantee the supply of fuel for the growth of the productive infrastructure,” she said.