Boxscore Construction Analysis
6/1/2015
A. Blume, Managing Editor Adrienne.Blume@GulfPub.com Mexico suffered years of gas shortages as US pipeline capacity failed to keep up with its growing industrial demand for gas, and as state energy firm Pemex focused on more profitable oil production. However, the country’s constitution was rewritten in 2013 to allow private investment in its oil and gas sector for the first time in eight decades, paving the way for US firms to provide more energy to its southern neighbor. Mexico is investing nearly $8 B to expand its 5,500-mi natural gas pipeline system, focusing on central and northern industrial cities (Fig. 1). The majority of this network will be filled by natural gas produced from US
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