Slim's Grupo Carso wins US$471 mln contract for gas duct in Mexico

Mexican conglomerate Grupo Carso, which is controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, said on Friday that it won a US$471 million dollar contract to build and operate a gas duct in northern Mexico.

Grupo Carso, said in a stock exchange filing that its subsidiary Carso Electric won the contract from Mexico's state-run power company CFE for the gas duct, in Chihuahua and Sonora.