Transcanada affiliate Transportadora de Gas Natural de la Huasteca beat out a $418.4 million offer from Spanish player Enagas Internacional.
A proposal from IEnova, a Mexican affiliate of the giant Sempra, was disqualified for failing to meet the technical guidelines from the country's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).
The 36-inch pipeline pipeline is to be 420 kilometres long, improving gas supplies to the central and western areas of the country and spanning the states of Hidalgo, Queretaro, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosi.
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