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Mexico Presidential Frontrunner Sheinbaum Promises Dominant CFE, Pemex if Elected

Mexico Presidential Frontrunner Sheinbaum Promises Dominant CFE, Pemex if Elected

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s presidential candidate for the ruling Morena Party, seeks continuity for the national energy sector.  In a March 18 speech to commemorate the anniversary of state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Sheinbaum said her administration would follow the path of the Andrés Manuel López Obrador government and continue to prioritize the dominant role…

March 27, 2024
Tellurian Courting Natural Gas Producers Seeking LNG Exposure Through Driftwood

Tellurian Courting Natural Gas Producers Seeking LNG Exposure Through Driftwood

Tellurian Inc. is looking to join the wave of Gulf Coast LNG developers partnering with exploration and production (E&P) companies on tolling agreements to raise international exposure, executive chairman Martin Houston said Tuesday. In a letter to shareholders, the Houston-based company’s co-founder said Tellurian’s marketing team had spent last week meeting with potential customers and…

March 27, 2024
EQT Eyeing Data Center ‘Gold Rush’ for Natural Gas-Fired Power, Unleashing More LNG

EQT Eyeing Data Center ‘Gold Rush’ for Natural Gas-Fired Power, Unleashing More LNG

EQT Corp., the No. 1 natural gas producer in the United States, isn’t resting on its laurels. The gas giant is continuing to eye a potential East Coast LNG project, but it’s venturing into the artificial intelligence (AI) market, to gain a slice of the data center power market. Executive Vice President Rob Wingo, who…

March 26, 2024
Mexico Natural Gas Production Dips as Pipeline Imports Surge

Mexico Natural Gas Production Dips as Pipeline Imports Surge

Mexico’s natural gas production averaged 4.05 Bcf/d in February 2024, compared to 4.29 Bcf/d in the same month a year ago.  State oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) supplied 3.84 Bcf/d or 95% of the total, down from 4.07 Bcf/d in February 2023, data from upstream regulator Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) show.  Associated gas tied…

March 25, 2024
NGI’s 4Q2023 North American Natural Gas Supply and Demand Analyst Takeaways

NGI’s 4Q2023 North American Natural Gas Supply and Demand Analyst Takeaways

North American natural gas prices dropped dramatically in 2023 as producers maintained robust production levels in no small part because of drilling efficiencies. At the same time, midstreamers touted the need for more gas egress capacity while the Biden administration’s LNG authorization pause threw a wrench in the outlook for some export capacity projects. Read…

March 25, 2024
Mexico Elections Pit Energy Continuity Against Return to Open Auction Era, Expert Says

Mexico Elections Pit Energy Continuity Against Return to Open Auction Era, Expert Says

Expanding the use of natural gas tapped from Mexico’s abundant reserves would help to reduce the carbon intensity throughout many areas of the economy, said Jeremy Martin, vice president of Energy & Sustainability at the Institute of Americas. During the upcoming elections, however, Mexicans will decide whether they want more of the same or a…

March 22, 2024
Haynesville Down Four Rigs in Latest Baker Tally as Natural Gas Count Drops

Haynesville Down Four Rigs in Latest Baker Tally as Natural Gas Count Drops

The U.S. natural gas patch dropped four rigs for the week ended Friday (March 22), including a notable reduction in drilling numbers for the gassy Haynesville Shale, according to the latest figures from Baker Hughes Co. (BKR). The United States ended the period with 112 active natural gas-directed rigs, down from 162 in the year-earlier…

March 22, 2024
Is U.S. Natural Gas Rig Count Rebound Unfolding? Look to Second Half of ‘24, Say Experts

Is U.S. Natural Gas Rig Count Rebound Unfolding? Look to Second Half of ‘24, Say Experts

Energy operators were cautiously optimistic during their recent quarterly conference calls that Lower 48 natural gas activity would improve in anticipation of increasing LNG demand, but the startup of more export projects is not yet a certainty, according to some analysts. Evercore ISI’s James West, senior managing director, said the U.S. gas rig count jumped…

March 22, 2024
How Would a Gálvez Presidency Impact Mexico’s Natural Gas Sector? – Listen Now to NGI’s Hub & Flow

How Would a Gálvez Presidency Impact Mexico’s Natural Gas Sector? – Listen Now to NGI’s Hub & Flow

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub and Flow, in which NGI’s Chris Lenton, senior editor of Mexico and Latin America, sits down with Rosanety Barrios, who heads the energy team for Mexican presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez.  Barrios details how Mexico’s energy sector, including state companies Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE)…

March 21, 2024
Jones Cowboys Up Another $100M to Gain Two-Thirds Control of Haynesville Giant Comstock

Jones Cowboys Up Another $100M to Gain Two-Thirds Control of Haynesville Giant Comstock

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, already majority shareholder in Haynesville Shale pure-play Comstock Resources Inc., has agreed to invest an additional $100.5 million into the company. Two Jones entities agreed to acquire 12.5 million shares of common stock in the private placement at $8.036/share. The price represents the average closing prices for the five trading…

March 21, 2024