Andrew joined NGI in 2018 to support coverage of Mexico’s newly liberalized oil and gas sector, and his role has since expanded to include the rest of North America. Before joining NGI, Andrew covered Latin America’s hydrocarbon and electric power industries from 2014 to 2018 for Business News Americas in Santiago, Chile. He speaks fluent Spanish, and holds a B.A. in journalism and mass communications from the University of Minnesota.
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Global Demand for U.S. Natural Gas Grows, Along with Climate Scrutiny
The U.S. natural gas industry is facing regulatory pressure on multiple fronts this year as global demand continues to rise.
January 20, 2022
Mexico’s CFE Set to Launch Natural Gas Pipeline Tenders
Mexican state power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is seeking private sector firms to build new natural gas infrastructure and utilize capacity on its existing pipelines, executives said Wednesday. Speaking at Industry Exchange LLC’s 7th Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum in Monterrey, Nuevo León, CFE Internacional (CFEi) operations director Carmen Serdán and CFEnergía operations director…
January 19, 2022
New York’s Hochul Aiming to End Natural Gas Hookups Statewide by 2027
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced plans to end fossil fuel hookups, including for natural gas, in new buildings statewide within five years and accelerate deployment of clean energy. In her first state of the state address as governor, Hochul said she would propose legislation to end on-site greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in…
January 7, 2022
Southwest Gas Completes Dominion Questar Acquisition Opposed by Icahn
Southwest Gas Holdings Inc. has completed its nearly $2 billion acquisition of Dominion Energy Questar Pipeline LLC, a move that activist investor Carl Icahn had attempted to thwart. Questar and its affiliates, which operate 2,160 miles of FERC-regulated interstate natural gas pipelines in the Rocky Mountain region, is to be rebranded as subsidiary MountainWest Pipelines…
January 4, 2022
Mexico’s Pemex Awards $1B Contract for Ixachi Natural Gas Conditioning Plant
A joint venture (JV) led by Malaysia’s Coastal Contracts Bhd has secured a roughly $1.06 billion contract from Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to build and operate a natural gas conditioning plant at the Ixachi onshore gas and condensate field in Veracruz state. The plant will have capacity to treat 300 MMcf/d of…
December 29, 2021
Lawsuit Said Imminent to Stop Peregrine Oil, Gas Project in Alaska’s NPR-A
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) said it intends to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) for insufficiently vetting the potential impacts of 88 Energy Ltd.’s Project Peregrine oil and gas development in Alaska on the Southern Beaufort Sea polar bear population. “With only about 900 bears remaining, the Southern Beaufort Sea population…
December 28, 2021
Mexico Private Sector Oil Output Surges to Record High as Bid Rounds Still Shelved
Private sector oil production in Mexico averaged 73,479 b/d in November, up from 51,907 b/d in November 2020, according to the latest figures from upstream regulator Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH). The 42% year/year increase marks the highest monthly average for non-state firms since the 2013 constitutional energy reform opened the upstream segment to private…
December 27, 2021
Duke’s Proposed Rate Hike in Florida Designed to Offset Natural Gas Price Volatility
Duke Energy Florida earlier this month proposed an electricity rate hike to mitigate the impact of volatile natural gas prices. The “fuel adjustment” would be tacked onto residential, commercial and industrial power bills from March through at least February 2023, the Duke Energy Corp. subsidiary said. The measure would translate to a $6.62 increase in…
December 27, 2021
South Jersey Industries, Rev LNG Team Up to Build Four Michigan RNG Facilities
Energy infrastructure holding company South Jersey Industries Inc. (SJI) and Rev LNG LLC have broken ground on renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities at four Michigan dairy farms, the firms said. Anaerobic digesters wold capture methane produced by cow manure at the Double Eagle, Roto-Z, Goma and Z-Star farms. The four facilities, expected to be operational…
December 27, 2021
Mexico’s AMLO Touts U.S. Approval of $596M Deer Park Refinery Purchase
Mexico president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that the U.S. Treasury Department has approved Shell plc’s sale of its 50.005% stake in the Deer Park, TX, oil refinery to Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). The 340,000 b/d refinery currently operates as Deer Park Refining LP, a joint venture between Shell and Pemex.…
December 22, 2021