Opinion

The Indian economy was not immune to the economic slowdown caused by the global pandemic in 2020. As in many countries, lockdowns led to a spike in unemployment and quick drops in most measures of economic activity.

CEO Paul Cicio of the Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) spends a lot of his time cautioning against exporting more U.S. LNG to customers overseas.   It’s a message that carries more weight as the nation is on track to exceed 22 Bcf/d of liquefied natural gas export capacity this decade when every project in…

When the Republic of India (ROI) embarked upon economic reform in the early 1990s, one of its highest profile moves was to permit the Dabhol Power Company (DPC), a partnership between Enron Corp., Bechtel Corp. and General Electric Co., to develop a 900 MW power plant on the west coast of India.

Mexico’s plans to re-export U.S. natural gas could make the country a major LNG hub, according to an industry analyst. “Mexico currently imports around 6 Bcf/d of natural gas, mostly for power generation and industrial use,” Sergio Chapa, senior LNG analyst at Poten & Partners, told NGI’s Mexico GPI. “The dozen liquefied natural gas export…

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 is in charge of managing the capacity on Mexico’s national pipeline grid, the Sistrangas. It also is meant to be a…

Editor’s Note: This column is part of a regular series by industry veteran Brad Hitch for NGI’s LNG Insight dedicated to addressing the complexities of the global natural gas market. One of the themes that has been touched upon is the increasing integration of the global gas market. This means U.S. integration with the rest…

A new government in Mexico in 2024 should reconsider its position regarding the importance of domestic natural gas in the energy mix, according to Erick Sánchez, vice president for Business Development in Mexico and Central America at Rystad Energy. “With all of the development in the southeast around the fields that everyone has identified as…

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. A recent investment agreement between steel giant ArcelorMittal SA and the Sistrangas pipeline operator Cenagas is big news in the Mexican natural…

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. Energy sector regulation is often unintelligible to the layman. Regulatory accounting, the rate of return on equity or the efficiency factor are…