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The Mexican energy regulator plans to publish prices for six natural gas trading regions, with the first report due later this month.

Natural gas trading volumes reported to the Mexican energy regulator in August more than doubled over the previous month.

Mexico marketers sold natural gas at an average of price $4.10/MMBtu in July, the first month since the country implemented its capacity reservation regime.

Marketers in Mexico sold natural gas at an average of price $4.10/MMBtu in July, the first month since the country implemented its capacity reservation regime.

The number and volume of natural gas transactions — according to FERC Form 552 submissions from up to 680 respondents — were in decline during 2008 to 2014 and flattened in 2015. However, that trend has improved somewhat in 2016, executives with two price reporting agencies (PRA) said in Houston on Tuesday.

Higher prices for oil and natural gas, as well as increased drilling activity, drove the Oklahoma Energy Index to its fastest increase in more than five years, according to the providers of the index.

Inter-dealer broker Tullett Prebon and Singapore Exchange (SGX) said Monday they will launch a spot pricing index for the Middle East and Indian liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets.

Energy firm activity accelerated in the final three months of 2016 and the “future activity outlook also improved considerably” across the Midcontinent, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Fed) said Friday.

A tariff change that was approved by FERC on Jan. 9 and went into effect on Jan. 10 granting ISO-New England (ISO-NE) permission to base certain price thresholds on Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Algonquin Gas Transmission (AGT) Citygates Non-G pricing hub, rather than on the ICE AGT Citygates pricing hub, brought to light the issue of non-liquidity and its impact on daily business.