Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process.

Cenagas

The opinions and positions expressed by Prud’homme do not necessarily reflect the views of NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index.

In August, Cenagas celebrated its seventh birthday. The operator of Mexico’s Sistrangas natural gas pipeline network is a key entity in the vertical disintegration of the Mexican gas sector and is now responsible for a relevant fraction of the daily supply-demand balance of natural gas at the national level. In accordance with the provisions of the Hydrocarbons Law, Cenagas still has unfulfilled objectives. Among these, we can count the...