Mexico’s CFEinternacional (CFEi) reported a 13% year/year increase in marketed natural gas volumes during the third quarter, according to the latest NGI Top North American Natural Gas Marketers ranking.

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CFEi, the international fuel marketing arm of state power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), transacted 3.77 Bcf/d during 3Q, up from 3.33 Bcf/d in the same period last year.

To ensure fuel supply for its growing fleet of gas-fired power plants, CFE has commissioned a massive buildout of natural gas pipelines over the last decade to import gas sourced from the United States amid stagnant production by state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, aka Pemex. 

TC Energy Corp., whose pipelines in Mexico transport about 25% of the gas consumed in the country, expects...