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Pipeline natural gas flows from the United States to Mexico have averaged an estimated 6.2 Bcf/d so far in September, up from 5.5 Bcf/d in full-month September 2019, according to Genscape inc.

“Barring backward revisions from any of the major pipelines we monitor, this figure already sets a new historical record in monthly volumes,” Genscape’s Ricardo Falcón, Mexico natural gas analyst, told NGI’s Mexico GPI.

Even amid a still-raging pandemic and severe economic slowdown in Mexico, Falcón said the resiliency of Mexico’s gas imports has mainly been driven by “still-strong Mexican demand in both the power and industrial sectors, especially during the first half of September.”

Mexico’s imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), meanwhile, “remain largely...