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“Bid rounds, including farmouts, can bring new investment, new ideas and new technology while creating diversity in energy resources and supply options. Of course, it is Mexico’s full right to develop its energy resources as it chooses,” Chris Sladen, a decorated executive of the international energy industry, told NGI’s Mexico GPI. “I also think there…

Labor unions’ decision to partially stop work last week at the Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG export facilities in Western Australia spurred a significant rally in the European natural gas market, once again shining a light on the increasingly sensitive links between regional gas markets.

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. As New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE) prepares to start operations on its floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit offshore Tamaulipas, Mexico is…

“The entire energy industry — including the electricity and oil industry — is capital intensive,” Carlos de Regules Ruíz-Funes, expert in the Mexican energy industry and former Executive Director of the National Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment of Mexico (ASEA), told NGI Mexico’s GPI.  “Access to that capital requires meeting higher environmental standards and…

The Australian LNG industry has drawn a great deal of attention in the last year, which is no small achievement when considering the war in Ukraine and the anxiety currently surrounding the Chinese economy. 

“One of the most important goals in Mexico is to reach energy security,” Carlos Alberto Boone de Nova, director of business intelligence and public affairs at Énestas México, told NGI’s Mexico GPI. “To achieve that, we must increase our storage capacity — which currently is estimated at only 2.4 days — as well as expand…

Without easily accessible real-time storage or demand data, the LNG world often tries to interpret the health of Asian natural gas demand through the lens of public cargo tenders.

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. Cenagas, the operator of Mexico’s national pipeline system known as Sistrangas, has published the results of the public consultation held weeks ago. …

Asian natural gas consumption is the foundation upon which the LNG industry has been built.