Federal regulators said Wednesday they’re taking comment on Oneok’s recent request for three more years to finish a 1,000-foot segment of a longer natural gas pipeline where it would cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Saguaro Connector project seeks to ship natural gas from West Texas to the Mexico border, where it would then connect with another pipeline on the Mexican side — ultimately bound for a liquefied natural gas export facility on Mexico’s west coast. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s authorization order in 2024 gave three years for the project to be placed into service, or February 2027.
In a brief notice Wednesday, FERC announced a 15-calendar day intervention and comment period on Oneok’s time extension request, saying the agency will address “all arguments relating to whether the applicant has demonstrated there is good cause to grant the extension.”
But FERC won’t take up arguments that “re-litigate the issuance of the certificate order,” which the commission issued for the Saguaro Connector pipeline in February 2024.
