Mexico

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a new package of 20 constitutional reforms on Monday evening. They include plans to scrap autonomous regulators such as competition watchdog Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (Cofece) and energy regulator Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE). CRE oversees natural gas regulations and permitting. It also publishes the IPGN monthly…

Mexican presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez on Monday applauded a recent Supreme Court ruling that invalidated one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s most controversial energy policies.  Mexico’s high court deemed unconstitutional a set of modifications to Mexico’s electricity industry law (LIE) that sought to prioritize the dispatch of electricity from power plants owned by state…

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow, which spotlights the latest developments in Mexico’s natural gas market. At a recent energy conference in the booming border town of Monterrey, NGI Mexico Senior Editor Christopher Lenton was among panelists exploring the changing dynamics of the Mexico natural gas market. In…

Mexican states are working to lure nearshoring investment from international firms, and access to natural gas is pivotal, officials said at an energy conference in Monterrey, Nuevo León. “Natural gas is here to completely change our state,” general director Carlos Adrián Garcia of Campeche state’s energy agency said at the 9th Mexican Infrastructure Projects Forum.…

Representatives from some of Mexico’s most important natural gas supply, transport and storage companies are optimistic that the national industry is poised to continue to grow.Mexico natural gas demand is set to expand 4.6% annually during the next decade, according to forecasts by national pipeline system operator Cenagas.  “I think natural gas is probably in…

Esentia Energy Systems is planning to offer capacity on its network of natural gas pipelines that stretch from Waha in West Texas to the industrial hub of Guadalajara in central Mexico. “We are going to run an open season for capacity on our pipes for natural gas out of Waha,” Esentia commercial vice president Jorge…

If elected, Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum would seek to increase the country’s renewable electricity generation to as much as 50% of the national grid by the conclusion of her term in 2030, industry members familiar with the plans told NGI’s Mexico GPI. The ambitious goal for renewable energy generation would represent a dramatic shift…

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. The recent completion of the open season by Cenagas, the operator of Mexico’s integrated gas pipeline network Sistrangas, marks a pivotal moment…

Mexico’s reliance on imported U.S. natural gas to keep its lights on and industry running was spotlighted this week, but in the end fears of weather-related disruptions proved overblown. Pipeline operator Cenagas and power operator Cenace both had issued statements following frigid temperatures that warned of possible disruptions to Mexico natural gas flows. Mexico imports…