Christopher joined NGI as a Senior Editor for Mexico and Latin America in November, 2018. Prior to that, he was a Senior Editorial Manager at BNamericas in Santiago, Chile. Based out of Santiago, he has covered Latin American energy markets since 2009 as a reporter, editor and analyst. He has an MA in International Economic Policy from Columbia University and a BA in International Studies from Trinity College.
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Despite Midterm Blow, Mexico’s AMLO Still Aiming at Electric Power Reform
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said during his daily press conference on Tuesday that his government would work toward a constitutional reform in the electric power sector. “We need a reform so that domestic users, and the poor and middle class, don’t pay more for their electricity than big corporations,” he said. The president…
June 15, 2021
Pennsylvania Impact Fee Collections Down on Lower Natural Gas Prices
The impact fees paid by Pennsylvania’s unconventional natural gas producers in 2020 declined by $54 million year/year to about $146.3 million mainly because of lower natural gas prices, according to the state Public Utility Commision (PUC). Since the fees were enacted in 2012, operators have paid more than $2 billion to the PUC for distribution…
June 15, 2021
Mexico Natural Gas Market Spotlight: Midterm Elections Create ‘Optimistic Panorama’
Participants in Mexico’s natural gas and energy markets expressed their optimism for the future in the days following the midterm elections last Sunday (June 6). “The Mexican Congress now has a more balanced representation, which is an excellent opportunity for negotiation and to have a moderated agenda,” Mexico City energy consultant Casiopea Ramírez Melgar told…
June 10, 2021
Mexico’s Cenagas Focuses on Natural Gas Storage in New Consulta Pública
Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Control del Gas Natural (Cenagas) has launched its annual Consulta Pública process to assess natural gas demand in Mexico. The Consulta Pública, or public consultation process, runs through July 8 and is designed to measure actual and future gas demand in Mexico to help guide market and infrastructure development. Cenagas, which…
June 8, 2021
EU’s $21B Fund Designed to Mitigate Decarbonization Impacts
Member states of the European Union (EU) on Monday approved a $21.3 billion fund to help workers and companies transition away from carbon-intensive industries. The Just Transition Fund (JTF) would finance projects that would alleviate the socio-economic costs involved in achieving the EU’s goal of a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and…
June 8, 2021
Argentina’s Second LNG Import Terminal Starts Operations to Meet Winter Demand
Gas-rich Argentina is back to importing natural gas from two ports with the startup of Excelerate Energy LP’s Exemplar floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) at Bahía Blanca. The new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import option adds to the existing Excelerate FSRU now stationed at Escobar, also in Buenos Aires province. The Exemplar FSRU has…
June 4, 2021
Mexico Natural Gas Market Spotlight: U.S. Imports Strong as Temperature Heats Up
Mexico’s natural gas market continues to grow more intertwined with the United States as imports rise and domestic production stagnates. In April and May, Mexico imported 6.4 Bcf/d via pipeline from the United States, 36% higher than the same period last year, according to Wood Mackenzie estimates. The rise “reflects a sustained summer-over-summer recovery in…
June 3, 2021
NGI’s Hub & Flow Assesses Potential Impacts of Mexico Midterm Elections on Energy Sector — Listen Now
Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast in which NGI Mexico Senior Editor Christopher Lenton interviews Lourdes Melgar of the Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and MIT about the upcoming midterm elections in Mexico and the impact they could have on the natural gas market. The…
June 3, 2021
FERC Green Lights 1.7 Bcf/d Gulf Run Pipeline
Enable Midstream Partners LP has received FERC approval to construct and operate the 1.7 Bcf/d Gulf Run natural gas pipeline, designed in part to serve the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project being built by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum on the Texas coast. The $540 million pipeline project is backed by a 20-year commitment for…
June 2, 2021
Bechtel Snags Contract to Build Nacero’s Permian Natural Gas-to-Gasoline Plant
Houston-based Nacero Inc. has awarded engineering firm Bechtel Corp. a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a natural gas-to-gasoline manufacturing facility in Penwell, TX. The plant would be the first natural gas-to-gasoline plant in the United States, according to Nacero. The company’s 115,000 b/d plant near Odessa, TX, in the Permian Basin also would…
May 28, 2021