Regulatory

Throughout the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a main grievance of energy sector members has centered on the inability to obtain proper permitting to continue or complete projects, such as natural gas pipelines or power plants, in a timely fashion.  Much of the delays had to do with López Obrador’s dramatic overhaul…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said its temporary pause on new LNG export authorizations would not affect pending extension requests for projects’ existing export licenses. “To be clear, this pause does not affect that process,” DOE Deputy Secretary David M. Turk said during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Thursday. The…

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…

In the days since the Biden administration’s decision to review the process for approving more U.S. LNG export capacity, speculation has swirled about what a temporary pause of Department of Energy (DOE) authorizations means for the industry. NGI has compiled a brief primer with answers to some of the largest questions looming over the U.S.…

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. On the last day of January, Mexico’s Supreme Court delivered a verdict that could potentially end President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s efforts…

Mexico’s nascent LNG market could be impacted by the Biden administration’s decision to pause U.S. export licenses while regulators review the process for approving them. The liquefied natural gas export projects planned in Mexico, which amount to about  6 Bcf/d, would use U.S. natural gas as feedstock. As such, they require U.S. Department of Energy…

Mexico’s nascent LNG market could be impacted by the decision of U.S. authorities to pause export licenses as they review methodology and guidelines. The liquefied natural gas export projects planned in Mexico, which amount to as much as 6 Bcf/d, would use U.S. natural gas as feed stock. As such, they require U.S. Department of…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) pause on new export project permits is not expected to impact the bottom lines of LNG equipment manufacturers in the mid-term, but others across the value chain are still assessing the temporary suspension’s potential effects. Following last week’s decision by the Biden administration to pause DOE approval of worldwide…