Mexico’s CFE International LLC (CFEi) reported a 7% year/year increase in natural gas sales transactions during the first quarter, according to NGI’s Top North American Natural Gas Marketers ranking.

CFEi, a fuel procurement and marketing arm of state-owned power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), transacted 3.54 Bcf/d of gas in the first quarter, up from 3.31 Bcf/d in the same quarter last year. That made it the continent’s 13th largest marketer by volume, according to the survey.

CFE has sought to continue expanding its natural gas import capacity from the United States in order to supply its gas-fired power plants and grow its domestic gas marketing business through subsidiary CFEnergía.

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