The United States accounted for all of the world’s new liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity last year, as exports grew despite challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the 12th annual World LNG Report by the International Gas Union (IGU). Cameron, Freeport and Elba Island LNG added 20 million tons (Mt) of annual…
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‘Unique’ Circumstances Bode Well for Improving U.S., Mexico Trade Relationship
There has been considerable friction between Mexico’s government and U.S. investors in the energy sector recently, but conditions are in place for booming trade between the two nations according to a new analysis by Washington, DC, think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). “The next four years present a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the…
Latest NGI Hub & Flow Podcast Spotlights Mexico Natural Gas: Listen Now
Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast in which NGI senior editor Christopher Lenton talks about what the U.S. election might mean for the Mexican natural gas market. The outcome of the U.S. presidential election will have wide-ranging impacts across the United States and its energy sector. But…
Q&A with José Francisco Pastrana on Mexico’s Natural Gas Market Development
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 35th Q&A in the series is with José Francisco Pastrana, General Director of the Port of Tuxpan…
Column: All the Right Things Were Said, and Much was Omitted, on AMLO’s Trip to Washington
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. Prud’homme was central to the development of Cenagas, the nation’s natural gas pipeline operator, an entity formed in 2015 as part of…
USMCA Launches Amidst Frayed Relationship Between Mexico Government, Private Sector
Officials in Mexico celebrated the launch of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on Wednesday, as the revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) treaty took effect after years of negotiations. “This is going to be one of the motors of the relaunch of the Mexican economy,” Mexican Finance Minister Arturo Herrera said in a virtual address.…
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More Lower 48 LNG Landing in China, but Pandemic Clouds Trade as Tensions Rise
U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries to China are steadily increasing following a preliminary agreement earlier this year to ease trade tensions, but the deal is now seen in jeopardy given the economic impacts of Covid-19 and the pandemic’s role in souring diplomatic relations between the countries.
Trump Signs USMCA into Law Amid Record Natural Gas Exports
Amid surging exports of pipeline natural gas from the United States to Mexico, and tension between the oil and gas industry and Mexico’s government, President Trump on Wednesday signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into law.
Trump Signs USMCA into Law Amid Record Natural Gas Exports
Amid surging exports of pipeline natural gas from the United States to Mexico, and tension between the oil and gas industry and Mexicos government, President Trump on Wednesday signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into law.
Led by U.S., Non-OPEC Oil Output Seen Comfortably Supplying Softer Global Demand
Plentiful oil production growth from countries that are not members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) should adequately supply “any likely level” of demand through 2020, helping to contain prices for consumers in a “vulnerable” global economy, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).