Open Season

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. A recent investment agreement between steel giant ArcelorMittal SA and the Sistrangas pipeline operator Cenagas is big news in the Mexican natural…

Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Control del Gas Natural (Cenagas) has launched its first open season for firm natural gas transport capacity since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018. Cenagas, the independent operator of Mexico’s Sistrangas national pipeline network, is offering shippers 22.1 MMcf/d of uninterruptible capacity on the existing Valtierrilla-Cárdenas natural gas…

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. Recently, officials at CFEnergía, the trading arm of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), announced plans to create a secondary market for natural…

Mexican energy regulator Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) has granted TC Energía permits to hold open seasons to gauge demand interest on its pipelines. TC Energía is the Mexico subsidiary of Canada’s TC Energy Corp. The company sees “a wealth of untapped demand” for natural gas in Mexico to be unlocked over the next decade,…

Mexican energy regulator Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) has granted TC Energía permits to hold open seasons to gauge demand interest on its pipelines. TC Energía is the Mexico subsidiary of Canada’s TC Energy Corp. The company sees “a wealth of untapped demand” for natural gas in Mexico to be unlocked over the next decade,…

A Targa Resources Corp. unit on Thursday launched an open season to test support for natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline transportation capacity from southern Oklahoma to the Mont Belvieu hub. Targa NGL Pipeline Co. LLC is gauging interest through Dec. 17 for capacity from a planned interconnection with upstream pipeline facilities in Oklahoma’s Stephens and…

NGL Energy Partners LP on Friday launched a binding open season lasting through Aug. 9 for transport capacity on its 550-mile Grand Mesa Pipeline LLC crude oil conduit. From its starting point in Weld County, CO, Grand Mesa connects oil supply from the Denver-Julesburg Basin with the NGL Crude Cushing LLC storage terminal at Cushing,…

Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline LLC has launched a binding open season to gauge interest from crude oil shippers in securing expansion capacity on a section of the 830-mile pipeline. Pony Express has a capacity of roughly 400,000 b/d, and sources crude from the Williston, Denver Julesburg and Powder River basins. The system stretches from Guernsey,…

Tellurian Inc. subsidiary Driftwood Pipeline LLC (DWPL) is holding a binding open season through Friday (April 2) to test support for up to 4.6 Bcf/d on the proposed Line 200 and Line 300 expansion project in Louisiana. The expansion of the 4 Bcf/d Driftwood pipeline is part of a larger system network planned by Tellurian…