Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following question-and-answer (Q&A) column as part of a regular interview series with experts in the Mexican natural gas market.

This 36th Q&A in the series is with Daniel Salomón Sotomayor, an associate with the Mexico City-based legal firm Gonzalez Calvillo. Salomón has been involved for seven years in the Mexican energy industry and specializes in oil & gas, development of infrastructure projects, government procurement, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Salomón, who has been with Gonzalez Calvillo since 2019, worked previously at Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) as legal director of hydrocarbons regulation from 2017-2019. While in the...