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.

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It’s impossible to deny the positive aspects of the 1.3 Bcf/d Southeast Gateway Pipeline project announced by TC Energía in the first week of August. At a time when the Yucatán Peninsula faces great vulnerability in its electrical system, caused largely by the shortage of natural gas, the announcement was celebrated by businessmen and politicians in the region, but above all by the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE).

The extension of the 2.6 Bcf/d Sur de Texas-Tuxpan marine pipeline will have a tremendously positive effect on the availability of natural gas...