Mexico’s natural gas market has made tremendous strides in recent years, but more connectivity and independent price indexes are needed, according to some of the country’s most important pipeline operators and trading houses.

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NGI’s Christopher Lenton, senior editor for Mexico and Latin America, discussed the state of the Mexican market with a group of experts as part of a panel on Wednesday at the Industry Exchange LLC’s 6th Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum.

“We have to begin to develop the last mile” projects, said Fermaca’s Fernando Alonso Viñas, government relations director. “That is to say, more interconnections with distributors, more interconnections with clients, and more interconnections with other systems.”

Fermaca in September celebrated the...