Sistrangas

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. On February 13, Sistrangas operator Cenagas opened the 2023 contract renewal process on the national pipeline system. The timing of the announcement…

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. Natural gas volumes inside a pipeline system flow from a high pressure section to a low pressure section. Processing centers and production…

Prices of North American natural gas continued to soften this week with U.S. storage levels set to build healthily for the upcoming winter. After recently barreling toward $10/MMBtu, the 2 Bcf/d available to the North American market following the Freeport liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal shutdown in Texas, is loosening supply and bringing down prices.…

The spring of 2017 promised a change in the natural gas industry in Mexico. An open season to allocate capacity on the Sistrangas national pipeline system, together with an auction of capacity in the main gas entry pipeline into the country, paved the way for private traders to offer supply proposals to Mexican consumers. At the time, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was barely able to meet half of national demand through its production. Energy regulator Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) and Energy Ministry Sener knew that depending on Pemex as the only intermediary capable of importing gas was not the best practice to benefit users.

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. At the end of June, numerous capacity contracts for the transport of natural gas on a firm basis on the national Sistrangas…

Mirage Energy Corp. is working to address two of the main impediments to a competitive natural gas market in Mexico: a lack of access to cross-border pipeline capacity for private sector shippers, and a lack of natural gas storage capacity generally.

The operator of Sistrangas, Mexico’s main gas transmission network, has tendered a $38 million contract for a compressor station project intended to help shore up the supply of natural gas in southern Mexico.

Mexico said it plans to tender its first strategic storage project at a depleted natural gas reservoir in Veracruz state.

Mexico’s largest natural gas transport network, the Sistrangas, is set to overhaul its pipeline tariff regime later this year, according to energy regulators.