“The development of a secondary market for transport capacity will require that regulatory agencies comply with what they’ve already said they were going to do,” Norberto Catalán, Director of Trading and Origination at Énestas, an electricity and natural gas boutique trading shop located in Mexico City, told NGI’s Mexico GPI. 

“If we really want to have an open market for natural gas, it can’t just be the sale of excess natural gas as a molecule. We need the development of a secondary market for transport so that, in a coordinated way, we can create a much more competitive market,” he said. 

Catalán, who has headed the Énestas trading team since last year, has 19 years of experience in Mexico’s natural gas industry, which includes 13 years at state oil...