Mexico’s dependency on the United States for natural gas supplies is expected to continue to rise and hit record levels during the country’s next presidential administration from 2024-2030, according to Adrián Duhalt, a research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

Mexico’s natural gas imports via pipeline have averaged 6.08 Bcf/d year-to-date through April 24, up 497 MMcf/d from the same period last year, Wood Mackenzie data show.  

That trend is expected to continue during Mexico’s next presidential administration, which will take office on Oct. 1. The country is expected to hold elections on June 2 and is poised to elect its first female president, either Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena Party or Xóchitil Gálvez of the opposition...