The recent launch of an open season by Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Control del Gas Natural (Cenagas) is encouraging news for Mexico’s natural gas market, according to René Castellanos, a Mexico City-based gas trader and scheduler.

Cenagas

Cenagas is gauging the interest of shippers in securing 22.1 MMcf/d of firm transport capacity on the 275-mile Valtierra-Cárdenas pipeline in central-southwestern Mexico.

The pipeline is part of Mexico’s Sistrangas national pipeline network, of which Cenagas is the operator. 

The open season would be the first conducted since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018.

The news is a positive signal not only because of the capacity on offer, “but because this can give us clues about the possible execution of open seasons...