Mexican steel pipe producer Tubacero is seeking to provide about 1,500 km of tubes for more natural gas projects in Mexico, as the country’s Los Ramones Phase 2 project concludes, an executive said.
Tubacero said it expects to participate in a public tender to be one of the providers for the Texas-Tuxpan gas pipeline, which is expected to have 800 km steel pipes. The maritime pipeline will connect Texas’ south region, in the US, to Tuxpan, in the state of Veracruz.
As demand for tubes have increased, the company needed to nearly duplicate its taskforce, which now reaches about 2,000 people, the company’s general manager, Teodoro Garza, said.
In addition to the Texas-Tuxpan gas pipeline, Tubacero said it expects to provide steel tubes for the following projects: Samalayuca-Sásabe, Tuxpan-Tula, Villa de Reyes-Aguascalientes-Guadalajara and the El Encino-La Laguna gas pipeline.
The company also said it invested $40 million at its pipe coatings plant in the city of Salinas Victoria, near its steel complex located in the city of Monterrey.