US Pipeline Exports to Mexico Surge Toward 7 Bcf/d

摘要

Texas producers have seen exports of their gas to Mexico approach a record 7 billion cubic feet per day as pipeline infrastructure continues to be built out and new gas-fired capacity comes on line south of the border.The trend illustrates a fuller buy-in by the leftist administration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to supply ever-greater gas-fired capacity with cheap US supply."It is not political,it is practical,"energy analyst Eduardo Prudhomme told Energy Intelligence.A nearly 1 Bcf/d rise in volumes since late February simply reflects growing gas-fired capacity and the green light state-run power company CFEnergia has to use it."We are seeing a better usage of the capacity entitled to CFE.Basically they are learning how to operate CFE's contracts"(NGWNov.18'19).