The Amigo liquefaction project planned in western Mexico has been positively impacted by the Biden administration’s pause on new U.S. LNG export permits, according to LNG Alliance CEO Mutthu Chezhian.

LNG Alliance is developing the Amigo LNG project at the port of Guaymas in Sonora on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The Amigo project would include a liquefaction terminal and export 3.9 million metric tons/year (mmty) from its first train, with the potential to add a second train of 3.9 mmty to be shipped to primarily Asian markets.

“In late January we started getting a number of phone calls from Asian buyers asking about the validity of our export permits,” Chezhian told NGI Mexico’s GPI. “Within six weeks, we had six new queries, which was comparable to all that we had...